That's broadly what happened, yeah

it's the way it was handled after that that prompted the outrage, mainly Boris's ludicrous phone snaffling and dreadful attempts to bring the boy's situation back round to Brexit.

And then the co-ordinated social media attacks claiming it was faked by people claiming to be nurses with identical Tweets. That's the really f**ked up part of it.

I worked in NHS comms and one party or the other making political capital out of patients suffering is entirely routine. I once got a bollocking for accusing an MP on the radio of using us a political pawn, haha. I was right, but I wasn't allowed to actually say it.

Posted By: duke of york, Dec 10, 10:04:21