I don't find it flippant or inappropriate. The austerity measures imposed on the UK by an extreme neoliberal Tory government have resulted in 120,000 excess deaths, possibly as many as 200,000 by the end of 2020. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deaths-study-report-people-die-social-care-government-policy-a8057306.html Tom Watson, acting on behalf of the oligarchy that is behind this less headline-grabbing mass murder, is using a fraudulent smear campaign to subvert the one leader who might end these atrocities. So I see the dark humour in psingh's comment...he's not making light of the tragedy, but highlighting Watson's grotesque hypocrisy.