Is this the last hurrah for clap for carers?

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Is tonight's clap for carers - the weekly event to celebrate those working on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic - the last one?

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This evening many of us in the UK will grab our pots and pans, scoop up the dog, and nervously look out of the window to make sure our neighbours are doing the same.

"Even though I have lived here 17 years I have got to know people I never would have met," Andrea Dawson says.Reuters Frank Chalmers, of the Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association, said the weekly ritual has been"very good for the community" and promised to"go out with a bang this evening". Mr Chalmers said as a result of the weekly clap there were now plans to hold regular concerts with local children performing, and to celebrate the local community, as well as sharing a weekly newsletter.

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Let's hope

I fucking hope so

Ok, they got the message. What about now every Thursday standing outside and shouting “more pay, more respect for key workers”. This message aimed at the government.

The weekly clap to break the lockdown rules

The weekly clapping should have been replaced by a payrise for the NHS frontline to show appreciation for what they do and cope with on a daily basis!Their jobs are hard with limited resources for some and they are overworked constantly.The Govt should be utterly ashamed!!!!!!!

The people who are really caring are those at home,the forgotten carers,the ones looking after ill friends & disabled family. My nurse friend states hospitals are all but empty. She stated she's being paid to do nothing.

Carers should have final say.

Thank feck for that I was ready for chucking a pan at them

Never have never will

Thank fuck for that!

Yes let’s finish the clapping and get back to normal

BBCScotlandNews I take a shit every Thursday at 8.00pm

No don’t stop until we are out of lockdown completely and there are no more infected. Then make an annual event. Too soon to stop.

Hopefully. Starting to get tedious in afraid.

Then it’s back to Bojo’s Nhs cuts!

Boo for Boris should continue

Only for AnnemariePlas who doesn’t consider it fitting to clap for our NHS any more despite there still being many people in hospital with Covid, many people still dying. Everyone including this lady has the choice of whether to clap or not. No one person can call it to an end.

Wear black 2 minutes silence then sing....'and I would drive 300 miles and I would drive 300 more to get to durham and bring covid to your door.... ha ha Haha....ha ha haha' ....

BBCPolitics If the last let's make it a good one!

I would like a minutes silence next week to remember those we have have lost.

Hope so it's not needed now we all know how we love the NHS

I hope so. Talk about flogging a dead horse! Instead, we can all show our appreciation for the NHS by not wasting their time in A&E with absolute shit such as, I hurt my finger, I've banged my knee, I've got a splinter, or the best one, I've had 2 pints & punched a wall.

I dont really understand why we clap for careers? Thinking of how empty hospitals are? They dancing on corridors? Are they really fighting for our lives? I dont think so. And why they must sign letter of confidentiality?

Why when it was said in this 'people have become concerned about the politicisation of this' did you gotstraight to footage of the leader of the opposition?

If the people we clap for have, in the main, had enough then fair enough. But I don't plan stopping because the BBC (& Govt?) plus a few cynics tell me I should ... however sick I feel with Johnson doing it.

I hope so. Can’t believe people are clapping the NHS workers ability to produce Tik Tok videos at an astronomical rate on a weekly basis.

Nope I stopped

BBCScotlandNews Tonight's clap is for the slippery Dominic Cummings

It should be boo for Boris.

BBCPolitics Good, it's cringe as f00k

Time for phase two BooForBoris

I stopped when the Tik toks started

I’m clapping for Cummings

BBCScotlandNews It should be. I was never in favour of it as I thought that it gave government a distraction from the shocking state of the service that they have allowed it to become. Going back decades.

Can we do a clap 4 Cummings ?

Never clapped and my partner is a key worker. NHS have been trained its their job you can't pick and choose what illness you treat same as when you sign up for the army you know any time you could go to war. But they need the correct PPE

Hopefully. It’s been done to death by now.

Not just bloody clapping though is it. Enough is enough

A slow clap for Boris tonight.

The Tories only clap for Cummings

Hope so.

I stopped when the racist BAME stepped in with their diatribe a few weeks ago.

It died weeks ago, only if you have a film crew on your street people go out. The whole in this together game is over!

I hope so!

BBCPolitics I think the government has killed it - and the thought of our useless liar pm clapping for the nhs quite frankly turns the stomach

End of an era

BBCScotlandNews I’m not clapping. ToriesLiePeopleDie ToriesLieDemocracyDies

BBCScotlandNews Hopefully the last Hancock's half hearted hour but 💖 NHS

Bloody hope so

BBCScotlandNews Not for me. There wasn’t a 1st I respect EVERYBODY doing a difficult job in difficult circumstances. As ex HM Forces I never expected/received a clap. Single mums working 2 jobs & bussing between them, no clap Clapping for parts of the state is too NORTH KOREAN for me

Let's not clap the NHS.... Let's fund it properly instead.

Just become attention seeking behaviour. Many who clap are happily spreading the virus the rest of the week

I gave up by week 2. This doesn't actually help anyone.

Continue to show we will continue to support as long as they continue in the front lines. Together.

Yes. Thank god...

BBCScotlandNews I hope so. Stop clapping and stop voting against the NHS. We need action, not a feel-good signal that does nothing to actually help care workers.

We stop clapping, they stop Tiktok dancing videos. Deal?

Might clap tonight to say thanks to the clappers who’ve been clapping for millennia ! Any way what happened to the JAZZ hands brigade Bet they’ve been out clapping like the other clapped out clappers,now give yourselves a round of applause 👏

Kind of agree with the woman who originally started it all off. It's become too politicised (i.e: Politicians who voted to cut NHS budgets clapping) and too competitive and over the top (i.e: People trying to outdo one another with speakers and confetti and whatever.)

It should be. Done to death now

I say continue. Just because people hate Boris or Cummings, does not mean that the NHS and Carers do not deserve a round of applause.

50,000 plus dead sorry I won't be clapping

I’m not doing it. Looking forward to seeing the fat school bully outside No10 chortling and clapping like a badly dressed walrus tonight.

If they stop the clap for carers and essential workers on Thursday nights then I'll start doing boo for Johnson and Cummings on Tuesday nights at 8pm instead.

I am going to make it my last one. It has lost its focus.

I hope it is the last. It has terrified my rabbits every week. I believe it contributed to the death of one of them.

Hopefully. First time it was right but has become an exercise in virtue signalling by the very people who have voted for parties that denied health workers pay rises and emasculated the service through austerity cuts

Angry all week then on Thursday folk are cheering. It is actually the most obvious form of propaganda i have seen yet. But this has been happening for a while now. Anyone that is speaking truth has been technically ignored and/or attacked with ad hominem propaganda for time.

Yeah now it's jeer Johnson or boo Boris

No point my neighbour's use it as an excuse to go visit each other after to get hammered

Yes

If it was the last one, we should clap for BorisJohnson and DominicCumins too. I am sure all NHS colleagues will be happy with that too. LockdownEnd UnitedAgainstCoronavirus England NHSclap COVID19 ThursdayMotivation

Let it be!

Maybe replace it with a pay rise.

Let's hope so!

Everyone is out in our street getting their eyes tested.

Tonight, let's clap for those that have been forging death certificates.

Yes, time to end it. Its just a govt mind trick now. We all are thankful to those on front line & NHS, always have been, covid or no covid. In fact I've been told about NHS staff mis using the extra privileges given to them like flashing the ID to travel 5hrs to collect curtains

Hope so .... our road has the clapping police

Its fizzled out here

no CLAP. FOR.THE.SACK. replacing it.

CLAP.FOR.THE.SACK. every Thurs, 8pm, till CUMMINGS is SACKED out of respect for our NHS, Care and Frontline staff, heroes. 🏥❤️

I'm not one of these

It’s just patronising at this point

Maybe it's time to start shouting against this awful government

No, because we want to give our NHS the support it deserves!😊👏

I think the country has patronised them long enough! It should never of been about clapping but more about giving thm the protection thy required & the wage they deserve that they won’t get thanks to the charlatan 10DowningStreet & his inept nimrod minority/majority government!

Please

Yes, just clap now for the countdown to Christmas and BREXIT, if you will.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The time is right to call a halt. To continue will only allow it to gradually fade away. The point has been well made. Time for the government to act on pay.

GET OUT THERE AND CLAP LIKE A MONKEY 😷

Oh yes please

BooForBoris instead!

I think it’s time. It’s kinda sad but it can’t go on forever.

How about a Out,Out for Demonic Cummings instead, the Belgium medics turned their backs on their prime minister, the goverment are using the NHS to form their agenda they don’t give two fucks about them,and before the Tory supporters have a go,ALL politicians are the same ✊🏻💦

The people clap as their freedoms are stripped during their indoctrination into the 'new normal' - Death certificates being faked, according to MANY doctors, to spike the flu virus numbers. Say NO to track and trace, say NO to lockdown.

a lot of them breached the rules anyway

Its clap for Cummings tonight....what the Leftwaffe put that poor man and his family through.

I have done this every week. Tonight will be my last night. I used to be a nurse and know how difficult it can be, so that's why i have done this. Now is the time to stop. Too many 2 faced people out there who clap and don't social distance...

BBCLondonNews i think as its 10 weeks thats good enough and people who live near me and work at the local hospital think so too. just do not show any footage of the PM clapping as that will just be an insult

Yeah..only 412 people died from COVID19 yesterday.. no need to clap.. FFS who's side r u on?

I clap for those who have continued to work hard during difficult times, the ones whose efforts meant others could sit on their arses doing nothing while still being paid out of my taxes and moan about MPs etc who have kept the roof over their heads and food on their tables.

Lets hope loads of people film themselves trying to feel relevant

It’s not a government ploy lol. But I do think it can die down now. The NHS was indeed saved, and coped very well. Bravo to all! ❤️

Oh I hope so. Neighbours up the ante every week. Clapping, then banging pans, then car horns and last week was fireworks. Even NHS staff are saying to stop clapping. It’s patronising (their words not mine)

I thought it was now booforboris?

The clap should continue as the fight continues!

The replies to this sum up Twitter. A nice variety of horrible people from all political persuasions showing their vileness as if it were a badge of honour.

BBCPolitics I heard its to be the last!

Is that because BorisJohnson, MattHancock and DominicCummings have made a mockery of it!? We become the country with the highest deaths, they drop the slide. cummings break the rules but it is OK. They follow the science, not they didn't...the list goes on!

Let's hope so, my monkey's getting píssed off that he's left on the doorstep every Thursday.

Hope so. It’s patronising to clap with one hand and vote Tory with the other

No, my last one was two weeks ago....helping the NHS in more practical ways now....😊 if you want to campaign for a booforboris evening , I am up for that ?

Peace and quiet at last! Thank Fook the lefties are claiming all the benefits and not working. I might indulge in a kebab tonight or beat a fox with a bat to celebrate.... SupportOurLefty

Bloody hope so.

We should move on to a review of NHS performance during the pandemic.

BBCPolitics A nation that handed a majority to a party that's spent the last decade shitting on the NHS and its staff never had any business clapping the NHS anyway. Fuck carers anyway. I'm going to drive north and spread more virus for them to deal with and then get officially pardoned.

I really hope not. It is a great way to bring communities together and show our continued support and thanks to the NHS and other key workers.

Only the brainwashed will clap.🐏

This should always have been about the fallen and the people who put their lives on the line.

Should be, it’s got boring now They know we appreciate them

BBCPolitics I'm NHS staff but I think it's time to move on. It was lovely to hear my neighbours' support every week but there are also plenty of other key workers out there who deserve regular public recognition too. Thanks to everyone who has 'clapped for carers' though!

Please

No one is clapping

Never started, empty gesture, my neighbor does it religiously every Thursday and has ignored the rules from day one and lied to his boss about his Mrs shielding so he hasn't worked for 10 weeks ,his Mrs has been doing mobile hairdressing since lockdown because her salon closed

BBCPolitics Call it a day: The Govt NHS policy makers are laughing their socks off at a gullible public manipulated by them into this pointless charade every week!

I think it should be the last. People are getting clap shamed for now not turning up! Clap becuase you want to. Not because you have too.

No clapping for me tonight, not in a bloody mood

We are not clapping tonight as it is equal to clapping this government of rich Tories covering their backs with no care for the public

All I can say is thank god for that ! If you want to clap, hit pans etc and make a noise fine. But at least now those idiots amongst you will stop setting fire works off and frightening my dogs.

I hope the only ones clapping are the hypocritical politicians. Everyone else should boo.

I hope so

Some of the replies... Jesus Christ

Think we've given the country enough clap.

Clap for maitlis.

Ive never clapped yet

I hope so!

Hey is that Dom Cummings on the left? Let's clap for him getting his eyesight back

I’ll happily clap for it being the last one 😊👌🙏

ClapForCummings 👏🇬🇧

I won’t be clapping it’s just an excuse to cover up the disastrous government.

Well the government is spitting in their faces. Dunno

Please let it be that least one ....

Thank God for that, Bloody idiots..

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