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Well he would say that, wouldn’t he.

He's only joined Palantir so nobody notices that he's put all the weight back on.

Correct. It’s about the biggest bribe.

Due process would be a good place to start

Gríma Wormtongue says what !

Oh Tom, we're not at the mob rule stage yet, we're still at fuck off you massive cunt stage, you'll know when we're at the mob rule stage, when the orange glow from our torches, on the horizon, starts to get closer to you.

No, it should be corporate million(/billion)aire rule obviously

I don’t think it’s a mistake. It’s a deliberate concatenation.

Clearly democratic processes arent working.. so..

That’s a funny way of spelling ‘democracy’

Mob leader warns about dangers of mob rule...

Jesus.

But Palantir receives direct awards without procurement. And experts/governments are supposed to be transparent, not just go with the buddies of their mate Tom Watson. Please dont get so easily distracted from the material reality by the slightest, most superficial argument.

Fitting that Watson is displaying a huge price-tag in the photo. Epitomises the man's principles- for sale to the highest bidder.

If our government stands for anything then it should stand for morality in its dealings. And financing Peter Thiel and his fellow right-wing nutjobs should not be part of that.

That this man used to be deputy leader of the Labour Party is an utter disgrace!

For 'mob rule' read 'democratic campaigning and protest'.

Mob rule either dictates the government contracts or it dictates the mob's response to it. There's no escaping it, Wom Tatson

We all know who "the mob" and "the terrorist" is and it isn't us the people www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/p...

Mob rule is the justice he should be fearing for selling people out to these monsters, not the bit where you get pushback for propping up a fascist tech project

He's such an odious piece of shit

These people believe democracy is incompatible with their warped idea of 'freedom' (meaning freedom for them to exploit and abuse people). www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg7Y...

No no. Back room deals, back handlers, revolving door lobbyists & the dis-elected-turned-spokesperson must dictate how much public money Palantir gets, says Palantir lobbyists.

..by "mob rule", I think he means democracy ... 🤷‍♀️

What a dick he turned out to be, another genocide cheerleader ghoul. Labour and Tories are the same party now, same policies, same BS.

Story of British politics at the moment.

No, it allegedly should pass the “Makerfield test” & I doubt very much it would.

A former "Labour" politician?? Has he noticed that Reform incite mobs.

How I hate the Guardian! Its published loads of articles today trashing the Greens , but happily quotes the absolutely foul Tom Watson!

He spelt electorate wrong, the government is elected to represent us not dictate to us

No… brown envelopes do that

What if the government is run by a mobster?

Mob rule= public opinion?

Mob rule? Does he mean Democracy?

Considering it is OUR money paying for things, then mob rule will always rule Mr Tom. Ffs.

Counter view: if we were a democracy, public opinion on the awarding of multimillion pound contracts should matter.

Tom 'Sellout Motherfucker' Watson.

The little person mustn’t be allowed to get in the way of big tech getting their hands on our data and tying our Government into extortionate contracts, eh? Fuck him.

I think a good look at Watson's history should remove any surprise on this matter. The man is a true scumbag and always has been

Well at least its an opportunity to learn something and be a little more skeptical of "sensible moderates" in the future. Dubious many are going to take the opportunity though.

Tom Watson supports genocide and ICE.

He seems to be working very hard for his new employer. He should be booted out of politics, the HoL title removed permanently.

Transphobic Guardian gives free PR for transphobic mouthpiece of Palantir owned by the transphobic Peter Thiel. Small world at the top, eh?

Why are you acting as a mouthpiece for this evil yank corpo shit? Watson is a fucking worm. Why be party to his treason?

OK but he's just saying this because he's paid to, he doesn't even think this, why even report it?

Someone needs to ask him how it feels to have sold his soul.

Jeez, what happens to these people, or were they always like that?? 🤬🤬

Very, very on brand from a leading light of the Fabian Society.

Radicalised? Bought, and way back before he stood down as an MP. Few seem to be able to put two and two together though. Mandelsons ally in the Labour leadership of 2015-19, surely a good guy the entire time right? This is why we cant make things better.

Just as his wallet got fuller & heavier

In other words the wishes of the people MUST be ignored so he can make lots of money.

A properly slimey wee jobby.

Check Tom's bank account, soul's do not come cheap.

Scumbag.

By "mob rule" does he mean "the electorate?"

I feel Tom Watson has found his spiritual home and calling.

One person's mob rule is another's public scrutiny and accountability. Reform and Palantir - what could possibly go wrong?

What a disgusting little man. I used to have quite a bit of respect for him but it turns out he’s just a filthy money-grubbing shitbag who happily sold his soul to a deeply unpleasant company.

Love the headline, 'Palantir's Tom Watson says'.... spot on, he lost his political role and any credibility he may once have had as soon as he accepted the job.

What’s Toms salary ? Sounds like he’s been bought.

Palantir's Tom Watson is a cunt

Watson works for Plantir now? I guess that at least clearly answers any lingering questions there might still have been regarding his character.

We’ll stop “mob rule” dictating such things when government stops letting cunts dictate them.

It actually should, because that is what democracy is supposed to be. The people deciding what is best for themselves.

Tom Watson is not unfamiliar with mob rule. He championed a malign fantasists allegations of paedophilia that encouraged a pile-on of innocent public figures including Lord Brittan, a man that Watson pursued through a painful cancerous death and beyond. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wat...

Quite an interesting comment from Watson given US conglomerates are throwing so many $ around the UK to allow them to mob rule….

All the more reason to get Palantir out of Britain. They are the invader we need to repel.

Palantir is evil.

Youd hope Guardian readers might put two and two together here about how reliable Tom Watson was 2015-19, and whether he was ever sincere. But the Guardian isnt goijg to spell it out. They blacklisted one of their journalists for writing a mildly critical column about a guy laughing at all of you.

Who’s the mob here?

I'm NOT a mob. But I want Palantir to be thrown out.

Says the guy who literally sold the remanents of his soul to a company operating on similar principles

'Mob Rule' says Tom Watson, yet another greedy & bought political. For Watson's information, the 'mob rule' to which he refers, is people exercising their democratic right of expression. If he doesn't believe in this & just wants to enrich himself, he should resign from the House of Lords now.

He surely can’t wait to take out the „mob“ (us people).

Nor should any lobbying carried out privately and without public scrutiny

"Shill for fascist billionaire wants gov't to give his boss lots of money" news

If the mob are excluded from dictating govt. contracts, then the Tufton St. cabal of advisors & influencers, all funded by corporate vested interests, should be ousted also. They've been in the driving seat of Worstminster action now for 47 years, with elected MP's reduced to puppets on strings.

This man lol

Dawn Foster was right about this charlatan. And the Guardian sacked her for it

The learning part puts you in a minority (at least of those who hadnt already clocked Watson when he was an obviously hostile deputy leader).

Nether should bought politicians

He got fat again.

Eh, they'll never go after Tom but perhaps some of the gullible might finally learn that hes always been full of shit. Sadly the comments show people still determined that Tom was somehow a different, trustworthy person in the past, rather than they were his useful idiots.

Fuck off Tom. Really. Fuck off this time. You not wanted here.

especially the Epstein mob

Isn’t “mob rule” another way of saying “democracy”?

The government acting, broadly, in accordance with the wishes of the electorate is not mob rule, it’s democracy.

(financial) elite rule

"Watson told the podcast he would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if the situation arose, saying: “We don’t actually work in that sector, but yes, of course we would.”" A reprehensible dickhead

Fuck of Tom Watson you fascist cunt who works for another fascist cunt - Mosley..

His sabotaging of Labour came from the same place as this.

I’m confused, what was it that he pointed out?

Yes, youre determined not to learn a fucking thing. Everyone has pointed out the obvious to you about Tom Watson to you for years, and you're incapable of seeing it even now. Were in an unenviable situation because people like you will never do the right thing, too in love with superficiality.

No mate he was always a tosser Just because on the odd occasion you may agree with him doesn't mean he wasn't self serving tosser too I agree with Farage and Polanksi about the odd thing...both are grifting tossers

Same. This is just proves all the haters right after all. 🤐

Just because someone used to be a politician, you don't have to report their views and opinions from their fancy private sector job as news.

Tax the rich

Oh hell no!

Yet another example of mercenaries that entered the political sphere for 1 reason only - themselves. Like Blair, Hunt, Mandelson, Johnson, Jenrick, 30p Lee, Farage, Starmer, Nandy, Cooper, & many, many others. For Tories & Reform it Is a ' given'. For Labour, Unions & CLPs, why don't they stop it?

Free market capitalists, usually seems to mean free to tilt it solely in their favour

Mob Rule? Is that same thing as majority votes in a democracy?

Everything this man says merely confirms that Palantir does not belong in the UK

You might, I certainly don't

Yeh! Bribery of politicians is the British way clearly

Boo to 'mob rule' says peer of the realm.

Unless it's to the company he's lobbying for?

He's an evil wee shit.

Obviously, rule of capital must dictate it, like it dictates Tom Watson's choices and moral compass/lack thereof.

It's the smug, imperious arrogance that annoys me more than anything. A thoroughly unpleasant ideologue sheltered by power and money, now speaking with the zeal of the converted as he takes tainted coin from fucking Palantir.

Which mob is he thinking of? Cos us plebs thinking we should have a say in who runs our public services is democracy. Whereas the AI mafia telling us they’re the only supplier we’re allowed to buy from, isn’t.

Warns against mob rule but would work with Reform. Lost me there son