Captain Tom Moore

Where's the link to your just giving page?

 

An old Marine goes to the village pub every day early doors, he is always dressed in a shirt and tie and V smart, I asked him once at what age do I have to start dressing like that, he said "You wont, you always stay in the style of clothes you wore in your 30s" He explained that the way he dressed was trendy then.

 

Blimey how olds he then? ... or you are really young I only wear my medals on my blazer ... once a year in November, a friend has told me if I am going to march with the vets again then I should also be wearing a beret ...

 

The fellow's an inspiration. What a change from the doom-mongers.

 

Anyone know where the money goes?

If it goes to many of the 'organised charities' then I'd be appalled that they slice their usual 35%+ admin fees on donations.

Same it if goes to NHS Procurement.

It's brilliant, this gentleman's efforts (he's raised 12% of what Live Aid managed) - but everyone that's given will want to ensure it isn't sliced and diced on the journey by organisations that have contributed bobbins.

 

My thinking on any charitable organisations as well. Either they take a cut or are more dedicated to political posturing (but not in this case).

Hopefully, none of it will go to Public Health England, who have proved themselves to be utterly incompetent. Private companies queuing up to offer testing by the millions, and they don't get their calls returned. Typical "not invented here". With luck, most of them will be sacked once this is all over, but I won't hold my breath...

 

Ah - this is going to sound counter intuitive.

I did a bit of research on some of the 'offers'. Many of the labs aren't accredited to work with Government - imagine the repercussions if the government procured a service from a non accredited lab and their work was found to be off is some way. The government get sued.

I imagine labs etc are in the same space as IT - companies are registered on frameworks, and can be inspected etc. Surely labs and medicare stuff has far more scrutiny, and that takes time. Possibly, by bringing labs in, those on framework would have a legal issue?

Its the usual challenge with inertia and government (they have to demonstrate value for money, transparency etc), but on this one I can kind of see the governments point - though I can see that if Labs are accredited to trade in the private sector, how hard can it be to flip them?

 

I will be honest I don't normally give to huge organisations with huge office building and to many staff. most of my donations go to smaller ones (Brad's) is a fine example of doing right. But I put my hand in my pocket for this guy as he has inspired me to be young and stop moaning.
Hat doffed to him

 

Over £17M this morning

 

It’s brilliant what he’s done, and the donations are amazing!

But I can’t help wondering.....
How much money do you think he could have raised, if he did it, when there was no Covid 19?

Just askin’....

 

Why would he be doing it in the absence of Covid-19 though?

 

Dunno, I didn’t ask that...

 

BBC Radio 2 Zoe Ball breakfast show, Tom Moore is scheduled to speak with Zoe shortly.

 

Dunno, it’s just an open ended question. Also, it’s probably good that his family are caring for him and he’s not in a nursing home.
Just sayin...