Ah, a politician. We should trust him? The BBC used to do some of the finest TV dramas in the World. Consummate story-tellers. You know - back before the EU bought the Corporation and started whoring it out.
That is unlikely and I'm a big fan of it. But you do like to label... Sorry I don't fit in those boxes.
I wouldn't go so far as to say staged. I know with my own grandson in recent events, kids do have their own version of a&e being the Paediatric Emergency Department. I know as probably most of you will, a&e will prioritise and a child with suspected pnuemonia brought in by an ambulance on blue light would have been seen quicksmart, top of the queue and once assessed would have been allowed to remain in the assessment room, unless the next emergency to assess came in and in that case you would be moved to a different place as seems to have happened here I can't understand why anyone other than for political opportunism, would think nhs staff would put a child with suspected pnuemonia on oxygen and put them on the floor. I think the lady clears this up in the yorkshire post article when she raises when the emergency room was needed they put her and the boy in a clinical room and still on oxygen but the boy was tired and wanted to lay down and he couldn't do that on chairs. So she, not the nhs staff, laid the boys coat down for the boy to sleep on the floor
The stories and statements are a mess. Didnt go in via A&E, but was assessed by GP and sent directly to hospital with suspected pneumonia. At hospital he was diagnosed with tonsillitis and kept in overnight for observations, having a pediatric bed for over 13 hours. Due to a more pressing need for the bed it was needed for a child that was really ill. The little boy had been told he could GO HOME.... His mum (a teachers assistant) took the photo and sent it to the Yorkshire post. Loads of NHS in crisis diatribe. ..... end of. What sort of a mum takes so many photos of her son in this situation!
So. Perfect optics with which to damn The Hated Tories AND NOT ONLY THAT ... a great fall-back story, very plausible, if people start to smell a rat. What a time to be alive!
Although tempting to say he was in a pizza express in Woking, I'm pretty sure Boris doesn't run the Paediatric Emergency Department and there might just be several levels of management before it gets to him within that particular hospital and that particular trust
You would have thought who ever thought this was a story, that when claiming a 4 year old was forced to sleep on the floor as there were no beds, would have cropped the picture to hide the bed less than a a few inches away from him.
