The comments about wets reminds me a lot of Corbynites deriding moderates as Blairites and impure centrists. The Corbynisation of Tory members continues.
Hardly ridiculous. It even has a Wiki article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism. It is irrelevant finger wagging to deflect from criticism of yourself or a side you support. As for that, I have reservations about Starmer on some things, though I can vote Labour with him (unlike before with Corbyn), but it’s brave to try and claim he’d be anywhere near as bad as this shambles. All he has to do is last greater than 45 days, and he’d be better. He’s been LOTO for much longer, and with greater unity than with Truss (no, this does not mean I am unaware of the idiotic element causing trouble at times, but they are comparatively sparing), so it wouldn’t take much to be less chaotic.