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TheDevil | 15:00 Tue 10th Dec 2019 | ChatterBank
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Can anyone point me in the direction of discussion regarding the Tory lie that they hoped would distract from the boy on the floor photo
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It's around the corner in the next corridor; however, make sure you don't trip over the stooping mother busily taking pictures; or get entangled in the disconnected IV lines; or trip over the not-in-use oxygen mask.
Odd how several different folk are good friends with a nurse at the hospital and wrote very similar posts on social media, claiming the nurse said the photo had been staged.
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"Do you mean this?"

No, that thread is about the boy on the floor and Johnson putting a phone in his pocket.

The discussion I wish to have is the Tories attempt at diverting attention away from this political blunder.

I was told by the editorial team that discussion was already in place else where. So, I am asking... Where??
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TheCorbyLoon, I have proven on the thread that Mamy has linked to that this photo was very real and the circumstances that lead to this photo being taken.
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"in the disconnected IV lines"

Was the boy even on Intravenous therapy? I'm not sure that's been mentioned. AFAIK the IV looking cable is the boys oxygen.
TD I'm not doubting the photograph but clearly there has been a concerted effort to dismiss it as a stunt.
https://tinyurl.com/qvpu9zb


Oxygen line, no IV evident.

Of course there has been concerted efforts across the wider media to dismiss it.

TD, I haven't seen another thread on the subject, sorry.

The issue has been poorly handled by almost all involved in it.
No IV evident? Then what's that contraption consisting of a bag and attached line? (although it's not attached to the boy). And show me an oxygen-mask or nasal-catheters hooked-up to the boy.
Doesn't appear to be hooked up in that photo, there is another picture on site showing him connected to oxygen.
This was the other posted on an earlier thread.

https://i0.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/PRI_108004897-e1575965891253.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=540%2C628&ssl=1

I said earlier too, any Mum would make a nest of coats whilst an ailing child was waiting for diagnosis or admission, nothing at all unusual in that.

Staff cannot magic a bed from nowhere.
The sequence of events is here:

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50717606
Jack was taken into Leeds General Infirmary last week after being ill for six days, his mother told the Mirror.

His mother said he had been seen as soon as he arrived and given a bed and oxygen, but a few hours later the bed had to be given to another patient and Jack was left without one for more than four hours.

His mother said she then made a makeshift bed for her son with coats and took the picture.
As most of us would in the same situation, by going public with the picture it has opened it up to the world and his wife to tear it apart.

Badly handled by almost all involved.
I agree with Mamyalynne at 15:44 Tue. It's something any mother would do. I don't, however, believe that many mothers would take a picture and send it to the press.
I wouldn't dream of it.
There are two parallel issues.

The first issue is that the mother shared an image, that got picked up by the press, she lost control of the situation and her son became a political football. "In a formal complaint to press regulator IPSO, she said she had initially given permission to two newspapers to use her son Jack's image but - after the story was widely reported across other news outlets - she now wanted to prevent any further publication of the picture or his details."

The second issue, and the one more relevant to all of us voters, is the fact that the boy's case happened at all (claims vs reality over NHS support after 9 years of Tory Gov), and in particular Boris Johnson's reaction to questions about it (refusing to look at the photo, taking the journalist's phone and putting it in his pocket, repeating Conservative pledges for the NHS rather than discuss the actual case in front of him). It reminded me of Gordon Brown's "bigoted woman" moment.

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