Cummings , Johnson , Hancock , Gove , Patel

[lardy]

Hypothetically speaking... How much worse could they have possibly been?

This type of whataboutery is common and I just don't see the purpose.

[Heisenberg]

This type of whataboutery is common and I just don't see the purpose.

I think the purpose is to desperately clutch at straws.

We know exactly how poor this Govt. have been but we have no idea how a Corbyn Govt. would have been.

Could they have been shite? Of course. Would they have definitely been shite? Absolutely not.

As you say, this sort of "whataboutery" is absolutely rife in political discussion now - it just deflects the argument rather than focussing on it.