Thread: Election 2019 - Week 5
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Old 10-12-2019, 10:04   #97
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Re: Election 2019 - Week 5
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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Indeed, there is a lot of social media chatter about it.

https://trending-uk.com/hashtag/leedshospital

And the activists organising a rabble

https://order-order.com/2019/12/09/h...ospital-visit/

It seems to me, that the boy was taken to A&E, he was seen and triaged and found to be neither an accident or an emergency. Whether he was initially given a bed or not, who knows. Rather than being held by his mother he was laid on the floor, not ideal, but if he didn’t “need” a bed then he didn’t need one.

This has been seized upon by a Labour activist, all power to the, as it has worked. But I think you’ll find this story disappears quickly as it is found to be fake.

What was real, and very poor, was Johnson’s handling of it.
Having seen the footage, it looks like Boris froze because he realised he was being pulled into a trap. He wanted to explain what he was doing about the NHS before looking at the photograph. I think most people will see through this for what it was - a political stunt, and shame on the mother for using her son in this way.

A nurse appeared on Radio 5 Live this morning to report that through her contacts with other nurses at the hospital, the staff were furious about this and said they would never place the child on the floor- that is not how they were trained. The child was not on a bed, in line with the claim made, but was on a trolley. The mother took him off the trolley, laid him on a pile of coats on the floor and took a photo, then put it out there.

How cynical can you get? Judging by the calls to the radio station that I heard (I had to turn off after 5 minutes), the public have sussed this out for what it is. Clearly, the Labour Party is getting desperate now.
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