Unlike others who've quoted this, I don't think John's so stupid that he doesn't know of the ignoble history of "all my political opponents are mentally ill" statements. He knows what he's doing. This is malicious, not stupid.

As someone who has a relative with FLD and supported people with it - go fuck yourself John you absolute gobshite.

Another Labour centrist "everyone I disagree with is mentally ill" dickhead. They will never understand why 80% of the country despise them.

The whole point of the Starmer project was to grind home once and for all that Britain can never be better than this, and anyone who tries to improve society somewhat will be *fucking annihilated* by all these people, together. It’s shit, it’s supposed to be shit and if you don’t like it, fuck off.

I’d like to remind people that a frontal lobe injury can ruin someone’s life beyond repair. It’s often permanent. This disgusting ghoul here shows zero regard for the welfare or suffering these people face as he tries to paint Labour critics as brain damaged. This should be career ending.

Yikes. This is some pretty shocking ableism. This is how the Labour government thinks too: they hate the unwell and people who can’t fight back

Wow. This is one of the most appalling things I've seen in a while on here. Is it a trait that all Labour outriders despise the sick and unwell like this monster?

It's lines like this, from Labour defenders and Labour politicans, that's one of many reasons why Labour will lose the next election. These horrible people just hate the vulnerable, they can't hide their disdain for the weak in our society

Labour have attacked vulnerable people with their policies, those with brain injuries will have been badly affected by Labour (I have a family member affected). John, you either remove this disgusting and bigoted post of yours or I’m contacting your employer. Enjoy employment while it lasts.

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It's funny watching Labour types saying that they'd be fine if only they were a completely different party with different policies and different values but called Labour

The "excessively irate replies" are just people calmly explaining how this Labour government is taking active steps to make their lives harder. I find it incredibly callous that those concerns are mocked as inconsequential. It's not about impatience. It's about extra damage being inflicted now.

Another one to help Rentoul understand what it looks like when you use civility to mask a politics of cruelty.

Starmer tried to make me, a disabled person live on £3.76 a week. I think I've earned the right to be excessively irate Jim.

We could all send our polite protestions to the FT letters page in our best handwriting, Jim, but Starmer would still be a lying bigoted bastard

Vote Green.

Filthy racist Paul Ovenden out here acting like he’s a serious person. Like anyone still associated with or backing Labour he is a clown. A clown who has the self awareness of a goldfish.

Anyone still planing on voting Labour or backing Labour is out of their mind. Voting Labour now looks as selfish as voting Tory previously. They’ve just assumed the same position.

I think it’s an exaggeration to say that all of the new fascist right leaders are sexual harassers or other forms of sex offenders, wildly radicalised by Me Too creating at least a bit of accountability. But it’s not a *wild* exaggeration, is it? It’s true enough to be acceptable.

It is imperative that the Labour party is not just defeated, but destroyed, humiliated. Pasok should be looking at them and thinking "oof, that looks pretty bad." The zombie Blairism of the Labour right must be fully repudiated or there is no way back from here.

Labour Party offers nothing but slow decline into a dilapidated racist sewer, say voters.

marginalised communities who the Labour Party have attacked: it's because his party is attacking us journalists: why does everyone hate him! I just can't work it out!

in the uk he has lord glasman's ear and glasman is the man behind starmer.

The number one thing for Labour and Labour fans is to stop being so bloody stubborn and arrogant. You’re in the shit. You need to change. That means, just for once, listen to the critics rather than telling us we’re wrong.

Blackpool is a Labour ran council Demolishing 400 homes and evicting 800 people - to build 230 new homes This is social cleansing. Who are Labour for? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Worst idea of the year has already dropped

The few remaining Labour members’ hearts sink at the worst possible news for what’s left of their party. 2026 is suddenly looking even brighter for the Greens and the hangovers haven’t even started, much less cleared.

Main character arrived early. This person clearly couldn't care less about refugees, immigrants, disabled people, trans folk etc etc.

Starmer, the ultra gaslighter, showing us his one and only skill: gaslighting. “Division caused by others” he said. It’s division caused by YOU Starmer and your atrocious Labour Party. Reform, Trump, Musk and YOU. No wonder Starmer is so hated.

I’m a *lot* fed up with the constant gaslighting about what this Labour government has been like. I’d love a good Labour government. I’d be right behind it - if it stopped the xenophobic bollocks, started treating disabled people with respect etc etc. Currently, Starmer is Farage’s best recruiter

Trump is to Putin as Mussolini was to Hitler.

So he’s resigning?

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

This shit needs to be burned to the ground, as any kind of response to stunts and marches the resurgent far right. “The largest fascist mobilisation since before WWII” is an emergency. Anyone who reacts like this is pandering and seeking their approval.

Jesus Christ, if they remove 100 million people from the US where would your economy go? Down the toilet. Your economy would twirl down the fucking toilet. Your state infrastructure would cease to exist. The logic behind those Nazis is that there is no logic. AI has cooked their brains.

It shouldn’t be a mystery considering Starmer is a cunt. You can’t lead a Labour Party and be hostile towards trans people, disabled people and immigrants. Like what the fuck.

I can’t wait until the “Labour” party gets absolutely obliterated in the upcoming elections. Vote Green! 💚✊

Starmer has killed hope. When the Tories were the nasty party, we could at least hope for something better. Now that Labour are the nasty party, we must dread an opposition that's even worse.

Happy New Year all. As we go into 2026 remember that the Labour Party must be fully destroyed. 🥰

I hate all AI I see From Claude to ChatGPT No they'll never make a user out of me

We're challenging a broken, failed economic model, and the people defending it have no answer other than just to continue with what is broken. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

starmer is unpopular because he is not meaningfully different than the tories. labour voters want labour policies, not tory policies. mystery solved

Why did it take me 14 years to watch Moneyball? Maybe because I have no clue about baseball. Either way, excellent film.

Keir Starmer's expression is always that of a dog making eye contact while it's having a poo.

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In case you won’t believe it from disabled people, this is what someone at the very top of a charity - someone who the government themselves wanted to honour - rejecting that honour because of how horrifically disabled people have been treated under Labour.

“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.” Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me. So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I don't understand the lack of understanding. There seems clearly three large tribes of hatred (by size): - The right stirred into further radicalised hatred of the left - Progressives who've watched them burn their values wholesale - Some from Labour who hate them leading them into oblivion

I find this utterly baffling. Does @duncanweldon.bsky.social not know any disabled people? Any LGBTQ people? Women retirees? Non white people? Immigrants? Utility bill payers? Starmer & Reeves have harmed a lot of people. After promising not to. The hatred is rational, personal & ideological.