It's all ok now - my 1800 front line workers are getting a badge!

Will that be inside their wage packet, including tangible bonus ?

You could of been protecting your staff so much sooner because the badge was first made available last year. This is clearly a dereliction of the duty of care on your part.

We've put all our front line staff pay rates up by 20% for the duration of the pandemic - but I'm sure the badge will overshadow that.

If you think Boris and The Tories are doing a great job of running the country, a 99 year old man shouldn’t have to be raising funds for the NHS.

He isn't.

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you know that, I know that, but it doesn't suit the narrative for a number of posters. I doubt many of them actually know who Cpt. Tom is raising funds for, or why. £18m and rising.

His "just giving" page, suggests that the funds are for the NHS ??

Even the lefties/Boris bashers on here can't suggest that the government isn't prepared to put whatever money is needed right now into the NHS - are you?

They are throwing plenty of money and resource at the problem, absolutely no doubt about it.
Does that mean they are getting everything right, does it hell AND they are systematically twisting the truth to try and cover their own backsides and this is the gripe that I have with them.

Our ruling government were happy to tell lies before taking office and seem happy to do the same now - there is a huge trust issue.
There is also an issue with competence, although, for me, this stems from not trusting them.

NOT ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT MINISTERS HAS ACCEPTED ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR HOW THIS IS UNFOLDING and instead, blame those that are risking their lives.
The rest of the country are taking pay cuts, being furloughed etc but, these clowns say that they are working hard, once again, being "in this together", is sounding very, very hollow.

Not to mention my favourite subject of freezing the pay for the very people that we have all now come to rely on

Nope, theyve done very well for the last 4 weeks.
Just for not doing it for the last 10 years (as well as making cuts in other areas such as social care/sure start etc. etc. etc. etc. that directly affected the NHS).

Perhaps if they hadn't inherited the mess they did then this situation would have been unnecessary?

A bit unoriginal for a Captain of Industry like yourself.
Your an innovator mate, come on, you can do better than that.

I wondered how long it would be until 2008 got a mention. It's been over a decade. Change the record.

A VERY wise man once wrote, "The thing to remember about Socialists is, they are only half as intereated in the plight of those they deem to be treated unfairly, as they are in vilifying the rich"