#CashNotClaps say protesters as Tory call to applaud NHS is ignored
Boris Johnson has the clap: but his show of appreciation for NHS staff never went any further than a photo opportunity outside 10 Downing Street.
The Tory relaunch of ‘Clap for Heroes’ has fallen flat, with streets quiet at 8pm yesterday while residents took to the internet to demand fair pay for National Health Service workers instead.
This Writer never took part in the weekly ritual, that ran for 10 weeks during the first lockdown last year. I knew it was nothing but a sop for struggling doctors, nurses and support workers who were being forced to work long hours on very low pay after 10 years of Tory underfunding.
I knew that clapping doesn’t help. In fact, it may undermine the NHS by giving working the sense that we think putting our hands together on our doorsteps once a week is somehow a reasonable substitute for a well-resourced and capable health service with a decent standard of living for its staff.
Boris Johnson knows the NHS is struggling, but his government refused to provide a reasonable pay rise to NHS workers last year. Instead he splurged billions of pounds on fake companies run by spoilt friends of his ministers or Tory donors, who then failed to provide the equipment they had been contracted to make or find.
His demand for you to stand on your doorstep in the cold and clap your hands like a performing seal is an appeal for complicity. By clapping, you agree with him that the NHS doesn’t need decent pay.
No wonder so many people didn’t bother.
It is far better to tweet, email, and write to our MPs, demanding that they provide a decent living wage – not just to the NHS but to all frontline, key and essential workers.
That’s why I support comments like these.
I’ll acknowledge tonight’s clap for heroes by adding #CashNotClaps to a tweet or two at 8pm.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) January 7, 2021
Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 Give them a pay rise 👏🏻 #CashNotClaps
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) January 7, 2021
Claps don’t put food on the table nor do they pay the bills.
Give people a pay rise. Now. @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak
— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) January 7, 2021
#CashNotClaps @BorisJohnson @MattHancock
Pay rise for NHS heroes NOW
Just once do what’s right!
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) January 7, 2021
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The NHS is just a shadow of itself there are very many private contractors that bleed from the NHS monies it was a pity our doctors and nurses didn’t say much about this privitising of our NHS sadly they use this the Tory’s to tell us it’s better if we follow the yanks way of hospitals unum waiting to sell you that policy ouch
I never clapped last time, I voted for a party that would end privatisation and fully fund the NHS which I’m sure would be far more use if everyone else did too instead of listening to Tory lies.