The Captain Tom grift continues

[Icehaven]

Sorry if there's already a thread about this but I couldn't find one. Now they've used the charity name and possibly its money to build themselves a private spa despite also being refused planning permission.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66100178

The old geezer would be so proud of the ongoing investigation into their finances.

[BlodwynPig]

It was mentioned in original thread but good to start a new one.

I reckon Tom was in on the grift.

Im also hoping this will be a wake up call for the rotten minded English public

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Has there ever been a more obvious grift? Springfield Monorail tier from the very start.

[shoulders]

Under his breath the whole time:

Haha.. Wankers. Wankerssssssss.

[hamfist]

jesus christ

[Icehaven]

It was mentioned in original thread but good to start a new one.

Oh so it was, sorry! Much like Covid itself I'd almost forgotten the Remain Indoors board existed but it's still lurking in the background like death in Lonely Water.

[BlodwynPig]

Oh so it was, sorry! Much like Covid itself I'd almost forgotten the Remain Indoors board existed but it's still lurking in the background like death in Lonely Water.

More like the lift scene in the original Dark Water

[Replies From View]

Terminally slow yet grinding tenaciously ever-forwards without need for sleep or sustenance, Captain Tom Moore is in many ways the death that will consume us all.  His daughter merely facilitates the inevitable.

[Jockice]

He'd be turning in his grave if he knew what was going on. Or at least walking round it a hundred times.

[Huxleys Babkins]

One in eight young people have never seen a Captain Tom in real life.

[Alberon]

Has anyone? Beginning to doubt he ever actually existed.

[Butchers Blind]

That person who threw shit at old Tom was right.

[Jittlebags]

Not many people know that Captain Tom was the original Bungle.

[non capisco]

If all else fails Hannah can always start a Sopranos dining experience with her playing Janice.

[touchingcloth]

Can't wait for the Behind the Bastards about this Nazi war bastard and his entire family of sub bastards.

[Sebastian Cobb]

[jobotic]

I'd not be shocked to my core to find out there was an element of elder abuse in this sorry tale. Not an accusation of course.

[Senior Baiano]

Glad Russ Abbott killed him now

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

abbot's just said as much on good morning britain.

[Ron Superior]

Hahaha, absolute cunts.

[Butchers Blind]

"When my father died, I fashioned his body into an armchair and every night I release hot eggy grunters on him."

[Jumblegraws]

Sooz Kempner tweeted game footage from Tomb Raider 2 where the player locks the butler in the meat locker, joking that it was video of Capt Tom's daughter dealing with him, and I had a "THAT'S who he reminds me of!" moment

[Ferris]

I'd not be shocked to my core to find out there was an element of elder abuse in this sorry tale. Not an accusation of course.

His "auto" biography deal included a requirement for 1,000 signed copies (RRP £50 each +p&p). I wonder how enthused he was aged 100 with months left to live to spend that time in a room signing his own name a thousand times for the profit of others.

Spoiler alert

Happily it didn't come to pass because after a few (one? Ten? A hundred?) he complained of being "tired". Rather than miss out on fifty quid a shout for a hastily written book (or, horror of horrors reduce the price), the rest of the run were stamped with his signature by person or persons unknown.

This is all public record, and articles were published at the time detailing this. The UK press reaction to this bit of misrepresentation was a collective shrug.

I suspect they thought Magic Grandad made them untouchable whether it's flogging books, making hooky charity payments or building non-permitted swimming pools in their massive house. Who knows what else was going on?

Though of course I wouldn't want to speculate and am making no allegations here.

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[Better Midlands]

If all else fails Hannah can always start a Sopranos dining experience with her playing Janice.

[daf]

He'd be turning in his grave if he knew what was going on.

This is Ground Control to Captain Tom
You've really made the grave
And the papers want to know what shits they were
Robbing money to build a swimming pool, without a care

This is Captain Tom to Ground Control
I'm turning in my grave
And I'm spinning in a most peculiar way
And the dirt looks very different today

For he-e-e-e-e-e-re
Am I rotating in my wood box
Fa-a-a-a-r beneath the world
Reputation - it's been screwed
And there's nothing I can do

[idunnosomename]

It's not continuing, this is it. It's finished.

Their big error was to fundraise without having thought of anything to actually spend on. A little bit more caution and I'm sure she could've made her late father into a Pudsey Bear for the elderly. Alas, he will only ever be associated with the mania of the pandemic.

It's been a ride though, from his first wife running off with their sex councillor all the way to a young woman nearly getting a draconian prison sentence for pouring a caravan blackwater canister over his silhouette.

If Billie had shagged the boring old Tory cunt it all never would've happened. Makes you think.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Astonished to read that they've only just wound up accepting donations, in spite of being under investigation for over a year. Who the fuck was still giving money to these people?

[Senior Baiano]

Oh yeah, what happened to the shit pouring woman?

[idunnosomename]

Oh yeah, what happened to the shit pouring woman?

the judge gave her a suspended sentence because at the end of the day it was only a bit of runny shit and did not cost much to clean up

She was told to complete 30 rehabilitation days and must pay £200 compensation for the work needed to repair the statue, a £154 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

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I'd quite like to find out to what extent our government pushed this supposed feel-good story turned typical tale of upper class British grifting. They were given such a publicity blitz in comparison to other tales of people pulling together in trying circumstances during covid.

I read that story not long ago about how we have a whole load of feelgood, 'uplifting' hashtags ready to go should a terrorist incident happen, in order to correctly manage the public's response to such things and pondered if the good Captain and his tale was seized upon as a pandemic equivalent. 'Don't spend time pondering how your government fucked up its pandemic response to such a staggering degree, focus instead on this doddering old fucker trundling around his giant garden. Heartwarming innit?'