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This "clapping" thing does sound a bit 1984-like, a ritual to remember that others are watching you and so you should conform to the social norm. Did the clapp

• pgalvin 3y ago
  It was intended to send a message of “we support you”. However, most healthcare workers are paid incredibly poorly and the NHS is generally in an extremely poor state, in part due to mismanagement and underfunding by successive governments. Many healthcare workers feel their lives could be made much better at the voting booth, rather than by people clapping at their door and continuing to vote for a party that has a history of (justly or not) battling against even below-inflation pay-rises. As ever, other factors are at play and the issue is almost certainly not as simple as blaming the government. Nonetheless, there is a general feeling that the Conservative-led government policies since 2010 have reduced the standard of living for many, especially healthcare workers. The UK is poised to have a change in governing party for the first time in 14 years, at least, but the clapping was seen by many at the time as hypocritical of the voting public.