How A WWII Veteran's Family Scammed An Entire Country (Captain Tom)
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
- During the height of the pandemic WW2 veteran Captain Tom raised millions of pounds for the NHS but how did his family taint his legendary legacy?....
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00:00 - 00:47 - Intro
00:48 - 01:52 - Who Was Captain Tom?
1:53 - 3:47 - Becoming A Hero
3:48 - 5:32 - Barbados Trip & Captain Tom's Passing
5:33 - 7:13 - Captain Tom Foundation
7:14 - 9:40 - The Controversy
9:41 - 10:52 - Conclusion - Розваги
so we all in agreement that we would all try and benefit somehow from this position if this happened to our own family?….Tell em to bring me my money
You are joking surely
i look forward to your video on the 65 billion that was stolen from the NHS at the same time captain sir TOM was collecting 34 million ...that money raised was stolen as well. The only thing that has not been said is that the NHS is not a charity .......
What about Tony The little disabled lad who also raised money walking on his prosthetic legs to raise funds for the hospital who treated him, not heard much about what happened to that money.
Top comment, Absolutely bought me to tears when he was on the telly. Haven't seen his family craving for attention.@@lparky4409
Yes Most of the Big Money go,s to all these Invisible Helpers and how much Help did his Blood Kin Get .?
Takes years to build a legacy. Takes a greedy bugger to ruin it overnight
Captain Tom will be remembered fondly.
There is/ was no legacy. You just got swept up in the media manipulation. Gullible
It makes me so angry that his family could taint his legacy by being so greedy
So what if they used some of the money for themselves. You would given half of the chance.
@@MasterBlaster3545 "You would given half of the chance." Please don't make assumptions about someone you don't know.
@@MasterBlaster3545 seriously dumb answer. That says more about you
LOL you naive people make me laugh. I give you a hint the apple does not fall far from the tree. The old codger was in on it.
He tainted his own legacy. He turned nothing down. Some charitable gesture. 😡
One fact that made me so angry was she got £18.000 for a charity appearance and the charity got £2000 WTF 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Just shows what a total SCAM it all was .
The woman is a disgrace not only to her father but this entire country.
You could be talking about our Mps too
How dare you call our MPS they do plenty for us like,like,like oh dear I'm sure I'll think of something 🤔
@@stevenwade7466 Lol yes i have been thinking on it too. I reached the same conclusion, Oh dear Oh dear Oh dear.
Still they do say they do their best for us so i suppose they must know something we don't. They rob us blind, maybe that's it, they consider that their job, and their certainly good at it, that and telling lies!
WHAT A GRUBBY FAMILY!
You limeys love your charities, don't you? The old guy was a disgrace too. He should have just cut it off at one thousand pounds, said "Thank you," and then proceeded to say, "If you feel like giving, give to the NHS." He had the clout to make sure they got paid more, but that wasn't Lt. Moore's thing, was it?
No matter how noble this gentleman and his intentions were, his name and image were quickly hijacked by the greedy and manipulative. And not just his family.
He wouldn't have got covid and died if the travel company, under government encouragement, hadn't given him a free holiday to "prove" international travel was safe. It was while in Spain he caught it.
So, what is wrong with that?
Yup. The right wing ‘adopted’ him and sold it to the gullible. We shouldn’t be raising money for the NHS - our taxes should fund it.
@@mariemccann5895 Say What??
@@mariemccann5895 nice attitude 🙄
Bruh their Grandfather would be turning in his grave shame on them big time
They'd use the energy created to heat their pool.
@@Joeyisatimelord hahaha! That is SAVAGE mate!
@@Joeyisatimelord DAMNNNNNN
If he was they'd be selling tickets to see it
Well would he , he said he wanted the profits of the books to sit in club nook , did she have a good teacher 🤔
The really sad thing is that many genuine charity's will now suffer because of this .
Who are the "GENUINE" Charities? What defines a "genuine" charity?
@@mikeneill6813 Ones were when the money is used it is used soley for the Charity ,minus the £90,000 run about the charity boss needs . A boss that dosent go for the optional heated gear nob upgrade which would cost £2000 pounds extra .
There are no genuine charities, they only have to donate around 30% to the cause the rest they can say they use as admin purposes if you want to help someone help them directly.
For some charities, only 1 percent of the money actually goes to people in need.
@@tomhaskett5161 and I thought only 30% was disgusting enough 😯 I'm not surprised though when I was 25 a woman told me I should get into charity work because it's so profitable she bought her first 2 houses on it, my answer to her was you're a thief. Needless to say I never give to charity.
To hear that his family were allowed to be by his bedside in his last hours yet everyone else who died in hospital at the time, died alone without their loved ones as the nhs wouldn’t allow it. How was that ever fair?
Thats a very goid point. I wonder why the media didnt highlight it at the time?
A scam from the word go..
Yes I wasn't allowed to see my mum in hospital while she was dying
@@annwurch9651 I’m so sorry x
@@duncanb4835 you got it brother. A shameless con fuelled by the media. I’m sure Tom was genuine but he was the only one.
Its disgusting what they've done in and against his name! All for personal gain. They are nothing more than leeches feeding on their fathers legacies. I hope all the money donated is recovered and those involve spend time behind bars
should be made to return every penny they took
MONEY TALKS !
He was in on the scam. Slimey old devil.
I was absolutely shocked when I first found out that MANY modern so called "charities" actually are run with paid people. If you dig deep, you may find that the MAJORITY of charities are staffed by people who won't work for free. They all take their payments and by the end of it, some of them pay just 1 percent of the income they receive to the needy
When all this Captain Tom stuff came out in the media, I just thought "this isn't unusual for a charity in modern England". The system is literally built this way
I will never ever give a charity any money again,that family should be in prison for fraud
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU.🏴🏴🏴
I agree with you,behind every charity there's a fat cat,I no longer give to ANY charity
@@geraldbrookes3666 and Me
I wouldn't let it put me off donating to decent charities. I always look to see how much their CEO'S are paid and decide with that information. No, I don't expect all staff to work for free. Volunteers often behave as though volunteering is a hobby and they are unreliable, so it's neccesary to pay people who need to earn a living. However, there is a limit to what is reasonable.
I totally agree with you, it’s absolutely disgusting how much money that charities siphon off to pay themselves
The first time I saw Capt Tom, my thoughts were "someone is going to make a lot of money out of this charity."
Your right ; they did !
Lots of us had grandfather's who fought in wwii, it's disgusting that these people were able to abuse our countries pride and gratitute for that generation. His kids and grandkids never fought for anyone and should never have seen a penny
& yet you say nothing about the government official charity's that is just tax dodging by our so called officials, Hypocrite !
Takes two to Tango.
Plenty of us had fathers who fought in WWII ;my own father was one of them andI know people whose parents fought in WW1
You didn't catch us forcing our grandfather/father up and down the garden in the hopes of fame.
@@beingsshepherd: interesting emoji care to explain why you think that…..and no I’m not being aggressive I just want to know why you think that…..
What a despicable family, really think this horrible woman was behind him with a big stick when he was walking
I don't think that but lots of oap's HAVE to walk to the shops and scrimp and save just to survive re food and heating, he never had to do these things.................
Wouldn't surprise me if she thought the whole scam up!😱
yep and when he served his purpose took him off on holiday to catch covid and finish him off
@@freespeechoneeach ah...forgot about the free holiday 🙂
Greedy daughters just your above average scammers
Just because he appeared as a sweet old man doesnt mean he was innocent in it all.
There are elderly perverts living amongst, don't view every white haired elderly as sweet lol
Yeah if only people knew the true history of many of these sweet little old men and their respectful attire and silly little uniforms .
Wtf r u talking about dudes a war hero what u done 4 the world n yh old men where once young men n may have made mistakes great but the money he raised 4 charity alone makes him a great man in my book his fM got greedy
Never understood how he became so popular for just walking up and down his garden during the pandemic, I had to go to work!
How old are you? You went to work - he went to war. Clown.
Yeah , I work in the water industry. ….no time off at all . No applause for a very important industry.
Well basically , 75% of the world population are complete simpletons unable to think for themselves and are suckers for the B.S .
You should get a knighthood!
Hell yeah , in a sewer covered in two Bob bit . You damn right .
If this doesn't sum up how far we've fallen as a culture from the WW2 generation, I don't know what does
There was assholes back then as well. Tho your kinda right we're kinda shit now adays
I would like to think that there are people out there that would not 'put their shouts in' and behave like a decent person.
Don't romanticise older times. During the Middle Ages, people would gather in European towns squares to see cats being skinned. During the 1950s (when the WW2 generation were running the society) were bleak years for women.
As someone else said in the comments, there have always been good and not good people in every society. It is that nowadays because of social media and main stream media we hear about them more
@@moj1338 Ah, the good old modernist in the comments with the signalling about > muh dark ages and > muh women
@@G96Saber Well, if it is true.
As you can see from the aerial photographs, the family estate was HUGE by most people's standards, but the media at the time seem to have been careful not to show this. They said he was "doing laps of his garden", whereas in reality, he was doing laps of his patio- possibly something he did for exercise every day already.
The full shabang was a farce ,PR garbage.
People don't want to hear the truth that his daughter embellished what he got up too during WW2. A motorbike courier in Burma for the first year of the war and then a tank instructor at Aldershot until 1948. How dare anybody question what he got them medals and stripes for, same thing when you see them on the royal family. They've never been anywhere near the front line fighting. last 3 and half years as shown how gullible the general public are.
@@JimmyJenks But walking on the Zimmer frame looked pretty dangerous!
He was a fkn con man, who witnessed him doing it, yeah he was jetting off here there and everywhere
Tbh I always found the whole thing utterly bizarre anyway. Like it's sweet that he wanted to do something despite his age, and disabilities, but walking round your garden 100 times is hardly fucking impressive even for an elderly person. And him being a veteran has nothing to do with anything, basically all men of his generation are/were.
They didn't do it by choice and they certainly wern't all good men .
Christmas 2020 when the nation was locked in their homes and kept away from family, CPT Tom &his family were on holiday in the Caribbean living it up
My life never changed , I went where i wanted , when i wanted , never got the vaccine.
@@tabularasa7775 neither did mine but the majority of the nation wasn't aware of the darkness the Oligarchs will go too ,in order to have control &submittamce
The whole thing stank from the start. Timing was everything during the entire “we are all in this together” charade
Do you think he was in on it?
@@lmaio6362 personally no, I don’t think he was. I think he believed he was helping raise money for a “good cause”. It’s his greedy daughter and co who is at fault and have tarnished his honour.
Captain Tom put his life on the line to rid India and Burma of the Japanese scourge and then, at the age of 99, raised £33 million for the NHS. He's a true British national hero. And then compare what he did to what his family has done since his death. It's heartbreaking and sickening.
Im always suspicious when the media gets its claws into something and hypes it up out of all proportion. Its just one of many reasons I don't watch any tv or read any mainstream media.
Something that nobody has mentioned, it broke my heart when you said it was when "he had his family around him when he died" personal story but my girlfriends auntie was in the same hospital as the captain, bedford hospital, and he was definitely given special treatment, and multiple families, including myself and girlfriend, and cousins, complained because he was allowed family around him while my auntie wasn't, same with other families, this was during covid and we had restrictions, we complained to the hospital and I was told unofficially by someone that the daughter had threatened to go to the media about mistreatment of the captian, couldn't tell you which daughter as there was 3 of them I believe, but the hospital did let alot go after the fact to make it fair for all the families to see loved ones, after enough complaining. I personally contacted the bbc and the sun, while I know other families contacted different newspapers and news outlets, with nothing being mentioned as they didn't want to publish anything negative to do with the family. It was a horrible time, he was lucky to have family round him, many didn't and she used his status and celebrity to get unfair special treatment, this will never make the news, but on my kids lives, it is what happened
I'm not a fan of the press, but it's maybe worth trying to publish the story now!? While I think very highly of captain Tom, that doesn't mean preferential treatment
during that restrictive period, especially in an NHS hospital. Sure at the time the press didn't care, against the narrative, but now the family are very much out of favour, they'll probably bite at it! I understand it probably won't have the same impact for you personally, or families in similar situations now as it would've at the time, but it's better to get the truth out in the end. So sad it's come to all this though. My condolences to you though
I think the sun would love this story now
I was fortunate enough that when my father passed away during Covid we did all get to see him because at the time, he was only supposed to have one person visit and only that person could visit. The nurses were really sweet and we did all get to see him though not for long. I hate that I wasn't there at the end because of all the restrictions but I will forever be grateful the hospital weren't unsympathetic.
Thank you for sharing your story
Two daughters. I am sure a newspaper would be interested in this story now. Go for it!
Not to mention he was allowed to travel abroad with his family on holiday whilst the rest of us were arrested for just going out. And his family were with him in hospital when he died. Nobody else could do that or even go to funerals. Just sayin’!
Yeah that was convenient.
The damage this family and Oxfam have done is incalculable given the break in trust with charities as a whole. People give their money in trust and good faith to help others, only to see it being spent to subsidise the comfortable lifestyles of the trustees.
As ashamed to say it, this is why I stopped giving to charity unless I bought something at a charity shop. I simply don't trust the system enough to think my money will actually go to the frontline.
Charity only exists because people are greedy. It exists to give tax breaks. Realistically, taxes should exist to solve the issue that charity tries too fix, but instead taxes go towards making more issues like bombing people and stupid pomp & ceremony. Two things Captain Tom represents.
It was dodgy from the start
But people still keep falling for it😂😂😂
Not the first and won't be last😂😂
Oxfam have always been about themselves.
I had it on information on OXFAM from an ex Oxfam administration ,only ten pence in the pound reach people in need ,the rest goes to wages for managers company cars and administration costs etc ,some like save the children are 75p in the pound and so on and on ,dont donate ,buy a homeless person a McDonalds keep it at home where charity belongs ms cdf xx
It is like the Rspb once a charity becomes a certain size it is no longer a charity it is a moneymaking machine for the executives and people who are running the charity.
Captain Tom a principled ex WW2 vet. Walked round his garden using his Zimmer Frame for charity. A nice good thing to do but bloody hell did it warrant all the bleeding fuss.
You really need to learn about how you are ruled and coerced into doing things you normally would not do.
I'm not British, but I do admire when British people get behind something or someone, it's never with low effort. It's sad that the family exploited the British people's generosity and took the path of greed for their own financial gain.
The NHS is a taxpayer public service.. it's not a charity for crying out loud... it shouldn't need pensioners doing sponsored walks to pay for it...
But it has to cope with thousands of people coming here,wanting expensive free treatment, in spite of not paying towards it, check out how much the Lagos shuttle cost us all before some one had the guts to stop it,people bringing I sick relatives and dropping them off at hospitals near Heathrow
But the sheeple fall for it every time, the people who do these scams know most people are stupid n will believe in anything, eg Clot Shots, Climate Change, Ukrainian war etc. 👍
The money went towards welfare of staff not the actual NHS.
@@lparky4409 The NHS doesn't need old men doing sponsored walks to pay for it.. We pay for it with taxes... If the money is going somewhere else where is it going?
@@russthebiker Run along kid, it's a school day tomorrow and you know how much your mum hates it when you play with her phone. The NHS is run by people from other countries, always has been, the British are too thick to sort it on their own.
The whole thing was clearly dodgy from the get go. The media hype around the story was almost cult like.
The worst thing is that absolutely nothing will come of this, yet if someone much poorer committed a similar act they'd be in prison.
It was certainly very strange.
Everything during Covid became cult like especially the NHS and doctors and nurses who bizarrely forgot all their training on how viruses work! But could dance up a storm in empty hospital corridors.
Family got away with that?
100% agree..
@@db44491 Thought everything was above board. Wasn't he Knighted for his work? Like I said family will take from you in a heartbeat.
Stevie Wonder could see it was a scam from the start. Glad I didn’t donate to them wheeling him out every day
It reflects badly on us all. Too many love to follow media driven "celebrities" who generally have done nothing worthy at all. Instead look for the real heros who go above and beyond to help their neighbours and the unfortunate.
Well said. My thoughts exactly.
And what good is that exactly?
Especially if they're part of some group? (The cops, The Emergency Services, the NHS, etc.) They do one wrong move and everyone goes after them entirety like sharks. When they do good? Nothing! Nothing at all!
Not trying to disparage Captain Tom, but how does a 100 year old man write 3 books?
During his retirement. A retired mechanical engineer who lived to 105, Dr Ronald Fitch, also wrote three books, including a PhD at 92.
He didn't write the books, he recounted it to a ghost writer, Do you think people like Boris write their biographies themselves? NO, professional Ghost writers do all the hard work and get well paid for it!
@@iamrocketray I read a book by Bogis it was the worst book I ever read it made Jeffrey Archoler look like Hemingway ...
They're still churning them out, as I've counted 7 different books about him.
A man sits across from him and writes down his stories
I actually had no idea this went on behind the scenes. Maybe I live under a rock lol, but appreciate you putting this on the channel :)
It's a very recently publicised development, he was as fast as the news with this one 😂
@@slayingroosters4355 ahhh that makes sense. sad what money does to people. phat memer is very much on trend though haha
I will give you a clue I worked for a charity and they were flying business class and buying the most expensive kit without any due diligence. Hardly anything goes to those in need.
its natural it was kept under the rocks, as thy were drinking whiskey on the rocks, lol
This has been in the press for months.
The sociopath had the WW2 relic walking about like that on his Zimmer frame as a nice little earner.
It's known as a 'confidence trickster'.
Or a scammer 😅
Did Tom Moore see any active combat? He’s family’s behaviour has caused me to disbelieve any achievement
Yes. Burma.
Absolutely disgusting how that family turned something so heart warming which everyone in the nation applauded and exploited it for their own greed. I hope they get what they deserve
Lol Everyone certainly didn't back these grifters, Pretty typical behaviour for so called Charities they are all at it.
Only morons believed that rubbish. Also they made a good point about the clapping like seals for an NHS that has failed their customers. Makes me laugh.
Don't judge, you probably would do it too, it's crazy how people who think themselves righteous suddenly change spirit when it's them, and big money is involved, and when there are justifications that convince you it's ok to dip into the charity, e.g. "I should be paid a salary for running it" etc, especially when it's others who decide what your salary should be, like that 60 grand that was decided for her initial salary.
It's TOO EASY to judge.
@@motherofallemailsi don't think that's a fair comment whatsoever. You'd be assuming that everyone would be as blind as they are also and just assume no one would realise. Building a spa in your back garden is a ballsy move which gets noticed
They ran his charity like a business and the media milked it to death .
The shocking thing for me is that the family live in a huge grade 2 listed mansion. They are already much better off than most of us. I feel sorry for their children mostly.
Just hope that the children haven't been 'home schooled' although they may have picked up bad habits even if they aren't.
That was my thoughts no child deserves starting out in life with this tied round the neck I don’t know how they’re coping with it it’s so not fair. If I were the family I would emigrate to New Zealand or Australia where they are not know they’re not short Half a Bob ortwo.
If I could say just one other thing not condoning what they done was right morally it probably wasn’t. I don’t think they’re bad people not like Gerry and Kate McCann leaving the children all alone while they went out on the piss. They had opened up their home looked after their father in their own home for 13 years and by the look of the children they were making a good job of bringing them up. Yes that made some mistakes but do they deserve all this criticism people trying to ruin their lives.
Yes. If it had been a poor family living on a council estate , they would most likely be given a prison sentence. They probably use his captain status to get her children a scholarship to top private schools.
The more money people have,the more they want.GREED
Jimmy Savile used to do these charity walks, he died, so Captain Tom filled the void that we didn't realise was left.
This always, always smelt wrong from the beginning but I honestly couldn't tell you how. Always trust your gut
It's never wrong .
If you want to know who a person truly is, give them money, give them power.
So True , and a very painful and valuable lesson for anyone attached to one of these shitsters.
I was just waiting for it when i found out they were prominent local tories.
Which I why most honest and good people shy away from seeking it for fear of becoming tainted by it.
Sadly true.
I'm glad you mentioned that the old boy was not just a cash cow for his greedy heartless daughter but was also propagandised by media and government in the usual 'don't worry about what we're up to, look at a very old man walking for charity'.
The queue to get aboard Captain Tom's cash wagon must have been quite long?
He was played like a two Bob banjo by the government by the government,
Normie is easy to fool...very easy..
Bit like the greedy heartless government? Just saying!
Captain Tom didn't write those books, let's be real. It was a scam from the get go.
ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL.
Why you saying " get go" silly saying! American not sensible English. Talk property....from the beginning!
@@zzgeneralsearch1070 Jolly oh old chap. My most dearest and most humble apologies for using such an incorrect practise of English.
@TheJonesdude he'd have made a better point if he'd used "properly" properly 😂
@@19hadley74 oh yea hahahahahaha
I'm sure I'm not the only one who was never taken in by the Capt Tom hysteria. I thought the whole thing was suspicious from the start. Also, the NHS isn't supposed to be a charity.
It was being raised for NHS charities, not the NHS itself. Although that all seems a little ambiguous
Had every privilege possible during the war, my working class relatives had a very different experience
He was an inspirational figure, |'m still proud of him. He was so stoked to be knighted and I'm glad he got that recognition. His family are scum, thankfully he never found out how corrupt they were. They are shameless...
'An inspirational figure.' One thinks not!
@@alexanderv7702I'm sorry but who appointed you as speaker for man kind?
You should read up on all the kids with disabilities who were blown away by Capt Tom. Lots of them have gone on to raise money for charities themselves. Google it love, open your mind...
@@Autisticwanderer I must say I was an officer in the British army for 39 years, and to hear a fellow brit insult one of the ruling classes as you have done, makes me wonder was it worth fighting the Nazis are killing Paddy's in Ulster...shame on you....
@@goalltheway-pm8xs
Are you for real?
To write 3 books in a few months would be a feat for anyone let alone a 100 year old man....
What upsets me most about all this is his memory has been trashed by the greed of his daughter and family, I’m glad he isn’t alive to see what’s happening.
I'm in financial difficulties and this video's been inspirational. My Dad an inspirational Ex St Johns Ambulance vet is in training for the next pandemic
Brilliant 😂
This serves as a lesson learned to all the naive fools who gave money to this 'charity'.
same as people who give money to the church
I didn't donate but I was very proud of him. His family did that to him?? Robbed him of the money he raised??😠
Any charity, when UK ministers finish their time in office they are taken to one side & offered a charity & they then run that charity but everything they buy from that moment on is for the "charity" cuz it's all tax free !
Do wot Guv?
Was JUST thinking of this gentleman! Watch out for family I found that out !! All the work that man has done 😡😠
This whole saga and deceit by his family is not a good time for charities. They need to be scrutinised more closely.
I thought he was walking for the NHS and staff during covid this was just a scam and his family should be arrested for fraud but they probably have rich Tory friends bim glad I didn't give these crooks a penny!!!
I'm in the UK and had no idea any of this was going on lol (I spent lockdown either at work or on my PS4 lmao, more important things). but it sounds like they took advantage of people's emotions in an emotional time, any big thing that happens you can guarantee someone will try and make a scam out of it and you can guarantee it will work to an extent, at least for a while.
I think the media and the government benefitted from this more than the family ever did though, they got a feel-good story in bad times AND a distraction from the fact the government were failing their country all while having their little illegal lockdown parties. Someone else in the comments said this but ffs the NHS is a tax payer-funded public service!! it should not need 100-year-olds walking around their garden for health workers to receive basic equipment. these "feel-good" media stories do nothing but expose a broken system and the only thing they should be making people feel is pure rage. if these cnts did their jobs and funded their services properly there wouldn't be a gap these shady "charities" try to fill by emotionally blackmailing gullible folks into giving them money, and we would have a country that actually functions even in a crisis. This government has completely gutted this country, nothing but bunch of criminals and wannabe fascists. can't wait til they're out, not that the other bunch of wankers are much better. we need actual good change.
Piers Morgan is no better either, odious little man.
You couldn't be more right at the end there. I wish people would think for themselves rather than eating up whatever slop the media feed to them, and I *don't* mean that in a conspiracy theory way, I mean that in a ~for fck sake please learn critical thinking~ way.
My grandma literally did die alone in a run-down care home (not our choice she was transferred there from hospital because they didn't have room), died alone because we weren't allowed to see her. All while the government partied. Christmas 2020, and we were far from the only ones with that experience. What a sick fcking joke, we should riot.
Sorry for going off on one in the comments, shit like this makes me turn into my dad. I am right tho
The whole thing was a minor psyop.
I totally agree with you.this odious prime minister could fund the NHS with some of his families spare change.we need to be like the French and fucking riot.the only authority is YOURSELF.keep angry and keep safe.
Stark honesty makes for the best docos, exposés, and critiques. Keep it stark.
The entire thing was ridiculous from the start with a media circus building a game old boy up into a national hero just for walking around his garden.
I can't understand how he was knighted !
@@johnw2758 It's a "sword on shoulders" thing , innit?
You're right. It was during a time of collective media induced insanity, where people were convinced that locking everyone up at home and destroying the economy was a sensible action to take in response to a virus with the same mortality rate as the flu. A lot of people have thankfully woken up since then but a lot are still under the media brainwashing.
If the media are pushing it, it's bent. Captain Tom was a distraction.
@@johnw2758 = But they'll Knight some $hitty actress or actor & that's ok, is it ?
What about some poncy overpaid footballer - one of just 22 "kicking a bladder around the pitch" ??
Capt' Tom did "MOORE" (pun intended) than all those other wankers put together, yet YOU begrudge him
To my mind, I'd rather ALL the "Forgetten Army " 14th Army vet's been Knighted, for serving 7,000 miles away in Mosquito infested Jungles & "bayonet dancing" with the Japanese - (i.e, Look up Imphal & Kohima)
Next time some poncy wanker novelist or 'influencer' gets a fucking Knighthood, I'll think of YOU
It is my understanding that there was a woman in Scotland that climbed her stairs. However, she never got the publicity as Captain Tom.
The media made this non event into something!
@alexanderv7702 And as I understand it Hanna more was a media expert, I bet the whole thing was her idea, and she got the newspapers interested.
There were a few people doing the same thing before Tom, but the mass media took no interest in them.
I've always climbed our stairs. Sometimes I've also come down them. But have the media (local or national) ever expressed an interest in this? Answers on a postcard.
My cat went up and down the stairs for 😷 but The 🌞 wasn't interested. 😒
@@momeara7482 im in bed with flu but your comment made me laugh. Thanks.
I have become very suspicious of charities in general, but especially those that are set up "in memory" of someone who has performed unpaid charitable work or suffered illness or disaster. Sometimes, but not always, a family member or local dignitary does quite nicely out of it with very big salaries and/or knighthoods/honours etc. before any support is passed to actual deserving causes. The Charities Commission needs to work faster, because these scams must stop.
This family sealed their fate with this episode. We were conned.
I knew that from the get go..vile 🤢
Speak for yourself . I wasn't conned
A long prison sentence is required plus any and all money and property seized.
oh poo! What property? It was already their home BEFORE any of this occurred. The family was already quite well off although they did have financial problems.
property purchased via their laundered money, that is what property.@@mediterraneanworld
My Grandad was at Dunkirk with the Royal Leicestershire light infantry,he was a gunner,before he died they made a bed for him in a downstairs room,as he couldn’t make the stairs,one day my nanny rang the social security office in Melton Mowbray to see if she could get some financial help,even though my nanny told the lady on the phone what a sorry state he was in,they insisted he came down to sign papers,they got him ready,shoes slipping on his feet,as he’d lost so much weight,they got him in a taxi and took him down,the same woman that had spoke to my nan said “oh mrs Baker if we knew he was that bad we wouldn’t have asked you to bring him down”,to which my Nan replied “I bloody well told you what he was like”,she was that annoyed she threw the benefits book at them and said “Here keep your bloody money”,they got him in a taxi and took him home,he died soon after in 1980 aged 61,he did his National service which included 4 years in North Africa,then Dunkirk wading out to the ducks up to his neck in seawater to get off the beach 10 mins before the Germans bombed it,he died potless,just like so many soldiers in ww1 and ww2,they were forgotten by the system,they fought so we could have what we’ve got,and the government continue to give the taxpayers money away to people who have done nothing for this country,There’s still veterans of the Falklands in shop doorways,disgusting considering what they’ve done for us to live free in this so called Green and pleasant land!!!!,that’s being gradually taken over,shame on Captain Toms family,greed wins over all with them,I’m just glad he doesn’t know.
I am indeed very sorry to hear your grandfather's story . It must have been extremely hurtful to have been treated like that. May he be at peace now and in a better place .
Thankyou John,he died in 1980 when I was 10 yrs old,it was definately a blessing for him,he’d been poorly quite a while,I hope Toms family can live with themselves now they’ve been found out.
I am so sorry that your grandfather was treated like that. My father was captured at Dunkirk. He was a POW for the rest of the war and couldnt cross the road when he returned. His nerves were shattered. My father, your grandfather and many others were the true heroes and they were never knighted.
@@lizzieh5284 Sorry to hear that Lizzie,that was awful,my Nan said there were German and Italian pow’s walking round leicester in the war,and people like your dad were cruelly treated like your dad,Sit down cup of tea is the English way,civilised,not like the crowts!!!!
" Hey Dad ive got a great idea - lets get you walking round the garden and see what happens ........."
As a working man, I used to enjoy donating to charity, but I stopped donating to all charities about 20 years ago, when a "charity" worker knocked on my door and signed me up for monthly donations. I later discovered the "charity" worker was employed by an international corporation, based in Australia and making 20 million profits after tax.
They didn't fool me. I said from Day One they were using him. I was pilloried for saying so but I was right. I could see how that daughter of his manipulated and cajoled Tom every step of the way, always by his side on tv, coaching him and answering for him. Shame on the family, I hope they will all be ruined.
And I am sorry, but even though the money raised for NHS charities was laudible, nobody deserves a Knighthood for doing a hundred laps of his garden. Total overkill.
It was all very fishy, especially as Tom himself had apparently appeared on TV some years ago.
@@davidmccann9811 I saw a clip of him on Blankety Blank from decades back.
@davidmccann9811 Old Tom Wasn't As Docile As He Looked, He Was The Ring Leader, Checking His Bank Balance On Line at Every Ten Minutes Shouting, easy Money! Out of Sight Of The Media Camera's He'd Walk Up and Down His Garden On His Hands Singing WE'RE IN THE MONEY! 👀!..
I said the exact same thing,No harm to the ol boy but I said to folk I work with he was being used,How everyone else couldn’t see it is mental,,
@@alanjames4991 That is harsh and rather unfair. All blame lies at the feet of his dreadful daughter and her husband.
What REALLY annoys me is that Piers didnt get to confront them for lying about the book sales!
The prologue he wrote stated:
"Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name," the extract reads.
So maybe they are all a bunch of deplorables.
If you read that prologue you quoted carefully, it doesn't directly state the money from the sale of the book will go to charity.... The careful and misleading wording shows, in retrospect, that the family were in it to con people from the start...it wasn't an afterthought... it was planned all along
And Piers missed the key point that a certain (David) Colin Ingram-Moor is at the top of the list of the three trustees of the foundation. A flag-waving, nationalistic, exploitational exercise in abject greed. Charity law is very lax in Britain, so these terrible people have probably just been immoral rather than criminal.
Deplorables 2 is better. Dolph Lungren in it too 👍🏽
Piers is a controlled opposition maggot
Scammer from a family of scammers .
Not sure which nhs service treated him over the last few yesrs of his life. It could not have been the one that abandoned thousands upon thousands of vulnerable people from the point of lockdown.
captain Tom had no idea how bad his family were,conjuring up a scam to rip off the entire family of ordinary people discussing how low can you get
Unfortunately so many charities do this. A local charity I worked with for free lost 1.5 million in shares and said it needed to get back the money. It sold 6 houses and kicked the people out it was meant to help. Meanwhile the main fundraiser asked for freebies and got them, plus pay rise and perks.
All charities are a scam!! ... all of them!
Seconded, this story isn’t unique. Many charities are now profit making businesses that pay its Board a big salary.
and they wonder why donations to charities are dropping.
@@ianstewart119 solution, if they were honest they would have a simple open accounting system. People could see where their money went, would they ever want to do that...I think I've got more chance of seeing a unicorn.
Apparently, most charity shops have to give just 25% of what they earn to the charities they "represent".
Also worth noting that, based on FOI requests and public ally available info, the money he raised was enough to keep the lights for just 20 days in the NHS, and that’s literally just the electric bill, if you took all expenses it costs to run the NHS into account, it paid the bills for less than a hour. He was completely exploited and elevated way above his stature.
To be fair it was more of a symbolic gesture than anything practical, nevertheless his family are greedy sods
@@cuprashoe yeah but I know people who still think the money he raised had a significant impact and was a massive help.
@testpilotian3188 Their either naive or stupid
Or, to put it another way- it's about 1.5% of the amount the NHS pays out every year in clinical negligence claims.
Well said, a rare bit pf common sense. It seems to me this whole thing was emotionally driven (which is ok I guess if that’s what people want, not for me) and that driver caused many to buy into it way more than they should have. Then, when a ‘family member’ falls way, way, short of the expectations out comes the rage and wanting retribution. I think the guy who pit out the video, his summing up, was also right on the money😂
THANK YOU!!!! I'm a military historian and I always say that the majority of the first world war veterans died in abject poverty,it was only when a hundred of so were left they got wheeled out by the political parties to show they appreciated their "sacrifice".
And now,guess what,as the last of the world war two veterans are dying off ,again those few that have not already died in poverty, the red carpets and politicians were out again.
I am 44, my grandfather died when I was 17,he served from 1940 till 1945. Normandy,through France and then germany. He took part in the liberation of Bergen Belsen and his then only child died around that same time back in Scotland. No,he did not get leave on bereavement grounds.
He didn't want to join the army,but when called up he went,even became an N.C.O. Then at wars end it was "bugger off,we don't need you now". He and my grandmother still worked in the fields until just a few years before they died to get a little more money. They scarce could pay for a burial plot never mind own a house.
I completely agree with you. I have nothing but admiration for your father. A true hero.My father was captured at Dunkirk, POW for the rest of the war. Couldnt cross a road when he returned. His nerves were shattered. He was in the TA from 1936. Your father and mine and many others were the true heoes.No knighthoods for them,
I can't believe that his daughter has stolen all the money and getting away with it
She isn't getting away with it
I pay tax and national health contributions which pay for the NHS, why should there be any need to raise charity money for it. Was always open to a fiddle like most charities and I am glad I never donated a penny
Because many working in the NHS have got greedy, we import illegals and it’s mismanaged!
Well said...the NHS is not a charity, so the whole idea was stupid from the outset. People and their money are soon parted. British taxpayers provide the funds for the NHS.....so why send money to an unnecessary
'charity'.
The daughter saw pound signs and filled her boots . Nasty , horrible people. I could smell a rat when he was carted off to Barbados , when he was not well .
Just an easy way to get your hands on an early inheritance plus the perks of getting your hands in the till early as it were .
My mum is 92 in January, besides her full time job as a civil servant she was a Samaritan for 12 years and worked voluntarily for various other Christian groups. I have been trying to teach her to do keepy uppies in the back garden so I can raise enough cash to build my own personal spa to look after my “privates” Please donate freely.
I remember saying at the time that family were behind it all and everyone thought I was my usual pessimistic self but I’m never wrong when I get that feeling
I am a crook and I lie awake at night dreaming of being head of a charity
Hannah Ingram Moore has totally wrecked her father's legacy. Shame on her. Despicable
Just a scammer family all round .
I totally agree she's a greedy aul witch
If you think this is upsetting, think of all the charities that get away with this greedy behaviour.
Just remember the £39 million Captin tom raised all went to where it was meant to go. This is all about what his daughter did AFTER he died. But never forgot how much he raised for the NHS.
If you hear the word scam nowadays, the first thing that comes to mind are the words “captain Tom”
Tom with his funny handshake was in on it. The whole operation was planned in advance. The daughter was a cold and creepy character.
100% it was all odd when he started walking the whole family are trash
This is the most honest portrayal. In Sept 1999 his son in law went bankrupt. They used his name to sell memorabilia & ignored his written desire that book royalties go to charity. His family cynically used his legacy to start new businesses & benefit their lives, deliberately blurring the commercial & the charitable. He was marketed by his daughter who reaped the rewards. He was a willing participate as he gained attention for walking around his garden, he obviously walked around outside. The honour received just for walking is astonishing. Ironically the last gift which he requested killed him. His family have no shame in exploiting sentimentality of a gullible nation for their own gain.
Anything that captain Tom done will be over shadowed by the greed of his family. Shame on them that mans memory will be forever tainted.
But it was a total scam - they were all in on it from the start .
@@johnreed8336 I don't think he was.
That old codger always wound me up anyway.
He said some pretty nasty shit about his first wife
He was in on it for sure!
Years ago was on blanket blank
@@daviddowns8068
What? 😂😂
@@davidmccann9811 he appeared on blankety blank in the eighties I think
thank you for a concise reading of the events and the total con that his daughters appear to have made it.
My Dad passed during covid. I was not allowed to visit. When i got the call we rushed to the hospital. They kept asking my Dads name and birthdate. We were showed into a room with a dead body. It was not my Dad. Staff statement "I am going to get into trouble for this". We were then showed to a consultant. All this time we thought my Dad was still alive. The consultant asked if we had ever seen a dead body before. Thats how he told my son and i my Dad was dead.
My Dad had to have an autopsy and a year later an inquest. It was awful.
I am sorry for your loss . I am sure it could have been handled in a much more dignified and professional manner .
Does not please me to say but I saw this coming from day 1 and did not donate to their “charity”, it was very obvious that his daughter Hannah Moore was very media savvy, I donated to NHS myself and also to the young boy Tony Hudgell who I felt on his walking challenge struggled more than “Sir” Tom but carried on. There’s been nothing mentioned about their all paid for first class trip to Richard Brandon’s island over Covid time and Sir Tom then dying of Covid February 21.
The NHS was sold to SERCO in 1998. Fact. It is a private corporation paid for by the public.
@@angr3819 What has this to do with my comment please?
Same here
His family really done a number on him after he passed. They should be made to feel the full force of the law and bring this generation into line. Veterans never put their lives on the line to have their memories tainted and tarnished like this. His family should be ashamed of themselves. I'm so angry that a man like this has to have his fantastic selfless memory abused in this way. God forgive them, I cannot.
How do you know he wasn’t in on it?
Stop with the cult of the veteran already. He was a conscript who was given a cushy position out in India. What was so fantastic about his life? We need to move on from the myth of WW2 and not allow ourselves to be hookwinked by sentimentality.
@@viron6734 He was a game old boy who tried to raise a few quid by walking around his garden. The media took hold of it and made it into a ridiculous heroism story which is easy to do because so many people are stupid and gullible.
Exactly, he did not volunteer at the outbreak of war as my father and many, many others did.@@viron6734
It wasn't just his family that dishonoured his legacy - the NHS pissed his money away on pet projects, including an 'anti-racism manager' at £100,000 a year - I would have expected a Captain Tom wing or treatment facility, but no - there is nothing left to remember his sacrifice and selflessness ... it's a cruel world.
Why haven't they been put away for fraud
I worked for a charity and they sent a group of us on a train to Cardiff. About 200 miles in distance rather than somewhere closer. All paid for by the charity.
So you're complicit , well done , how does that feel ?
Such a sad ending to this story
You didnt even watched the video m8
@chanendlerbong lol , might have already read or seen another video on this topic . Don't be that guy and jump to conclusions
'Charity' really is a dirty word nowadays. Good analysis, by the way.
unless they confiscate the money from the greedy family and jail them for years there is no justice
Poor old Captain Tom must be spinning in his grave, bless him. Not his fault but what a horrible family.
He was probably in on it
He created that family
he was in on it
@@Eliot95don't know if he was but goddamn he raised his daughters bruh. You don't really have a superhero parents and then superevil greedy kids, just doesn't work like that unless parents are horribly incompetent despite their best intentions.
Then again when it comes to the book situation i wouldn't be surprised if he was like "yeah let's help a bit but keep most for yourself".
@@michaelward2082died on 2nd February, Day number 33 freemason number 🤔
Speak for yourself, I never succumb to this "emotional blackmail" kind of charity or indeed any big charity like the people trafficking RNLI or the BHF, the biggest furniture retailers in GB!
Me neither. All charities are greed and corrupt
Me neither. Brought up to be a bit wise about people asking for money.
Of course if the NHS was properly managed and didn't waste money on things like over 8000 "equality & diversity" managers we would have a world class health service that wouldn't need these kinds of appeals.@@angr3819
I give only to small charities. No chief exec to pay and usually all volunteers. Your money then goes to exactly what you gave it for.
I could accept a salary for the bigger ones handling millions but no one should get more than the PM for running a charity, I would say an absolute max. of £60kpa,@@ChoppingtonOtter
The sad thing is that every charity takes a percentage of your donations as “ admin fees , etc “ I think it’s usually about 70%
Not always. I support one charity whose admin fees are about 0.01% and none of their staff or volunteers are paid anything. So 99.99% of money given goes to the intended recipients. Just £50 pa for website hosting fees.
Seventy percent? Try between 80 and 90%.
It's wrong to blame Captain Tom for the actions of his family. He was a hero who lived a long life. The blame should soundly be laid at the feet of his greedy and seemingly unrepentant daughter Hannah and her horrible husband Colin.
You didn't even know him , his history or what / who he truly was . Lets just leave it at that
It sounds to me like me they should sell their house to get the money back they have used what disgusting people they are.
He didn’t bring joy and hope to me. I never understood what the big deal was. He was used by the Government for PR and he took EVERYTHING offered to him. I only supported the NHS once, clapping like an idiot on a Thursday evening, then realised how manipulated I had been. I was disgusted by the dancing TikTok nonsense, especially while people were dying and there was a shortage of PPE. Captain Tom was part of the whole propaganda campaign.
Bloody well said, I totally agree
I'm glad you said that I thought I was the only one who felt that way.
@@stormywindmill
No, there are a lot who didn't clap like SEALS. 👏👏👏👏👏👏🏴🏴🏴🏴
I couldn't agree with you more. God bless him but all he did was walk around his garden, like any other elderly man of his age, albeit prodded and cajoled along by his obnoxious daughter. For that, he was turned into a national hero, and knighted by the Queen. The ludicrous clapping and pot-banging served only as a timely reminder, of how easily the public can influenced by a bit of political propaganda.
Would it be fair to say that the NHS gave you "the CLAP".?
Brilliant video, well put together, liked and subscribed.
Thanks and welcome
Unfortunately, a lot of people do very well out of charities. I'm a lawyer, and I always advise people making wills NEVER to leave there money to the big national charities. Have a look at their accounts - six figure salaries, and headquarters in the most expensive areas of London, so the trustees won't have far to travel to the Savoy or the Ritz for a slap up meal on expenses.
Instead, I advise my clients to give to the small, local charities, often run entirely by volunteers, and for whom a legacy of a few thousand or even a few hundred is a fantastic bonus, and achieves real good instead of just being swallowed up in expenses.