Lisa Nandy is being ripped to shreds for Covid-19 platitudes

Lisa Nandy shared some trite words on the government’s Covid-19 Day of Reflection. And rightly, disabled people ripped her to fucking shreds.

Covid Day of Reflection: lockdown through rose-tinted specs

According to the government, on March 8:

the nation will reflect and come together to remember those that lost their lives and to honour the tireless work and acts of kindness shown by many during the pandemic.

Of course, what actually happened was a few bullshit words and brushing the fact that COVID-19 still exists under the carpet.

Case in point, Lisa Nandy tweeted:

Today marks the national Covid-19 Day of Reflection.

Every one of us was impacted. My thoughts are with people who experienced loss and still carry the effects of the pandemic.

We also honour the dedication of our NHS staff, key workers and volunteers who helped us through.

Every March now, disabled people experience untold anger at the way “the pandemic years” are portrayed through rose-tinted glasses by politicians, the media, and even a lot of the general public.

They reminisce about banging pots and pans for the NHS instead of the government actually giving healthcare workers extra funding.

They laugh over socially distanced street parties while families couldn’t even hug at funerals. And get misty-eyed over Zoom games nights, talking about being “trapped” indoors.

When disabled people, who were actually abandoned in their homes, are ignored and still to this day derided.

Even though we know just how many of our community died and how many more disabled people Covid-19 is still creating.

Lisa Nandy ripped to shreds

A lot of hatred was rightly heaped onto the Tories for their handling of 2020, but it’s the way Labour is treating disabled people now that should also be in the spotlight.

Which is why Lisa Nandy’s tweet hit a nerve:

Today marks the national Covid-19 Day of Reflection.

Every one of us was impacted. My thoughts are with people who experienced loss and still carry the effects of the pandemic.

We also honour the dedication of our NHS staff, key workers and volunteers who helped us through.

— Lisa Nandy MP (@lisanandy) March 8, 2026

She’s correct in saying every one of us was impacted, but some of us far more than others. Nandy’s vast, wide-ranging hypocrisy was swiftly pointed out in the quote tweets.

Nandy turned off comments. Judging by the amount of anti-vaxxers in the quotes, this almost makes sense. But it also sent a clear message to disabled people that Labour don’t want your outlook either.

Some pointed out that COVID has not gone away, and Labour are doing nothing to stop it

You can catch Covid TODAY and get long term health effects from that infection starting NOW and UK Labour have done nothing to address airborne infection control backsliding in hospitals or run public health campaigns. You’re a joke https://t.co/ofRtYuvw9G

— null space (@null_nullspace) March 9, 2026

People are STILL losing their lives to Covid & others becoming disabled every day, including children. We need prevention; ventilation, filtration in all public buildings. Until then, 😷 @UKLabour have failed us, at least @TheGreenParty have an against covid policy. https://t.co/tPtKO8Lzfw

— Lara – Covid is Airborne (@fillthewhole) March 8, 2026

What are you doing TODAY for people catching covid, dying from it, and having long covid from past or recent infections? Presenting the pandemic is over is not a strategy. https://t.co/03TMGMmFhy

— Biology – 🧬 🔬 (@BiologyAwesome) March 9, 2026

But others, angry at the Labour planned cuts, pointed out just how dangerous Nandy’s party are for disabled people since COVID-19 started

What are you doing TODAY for people catching covid, dying from it, and having long covid from past or recent infections? Presenting the pandemic is over is not a strategy. https://t.co/03TMGMmFhy

— Biology – 🧬 🔬 (@BiologyAwesome) March 9, 2026

Labour want to slash benefits of people struggling with long term COVID. This MP has played lip service to the COVID struggle and blocked replies. Why bother being on here if you can’t take criticism? https://t.co/ZhPo5FBH8O

— McBea (@Mcbeath_on_sea) March 9, 2026

This, from a former NHS key worker, is heartbreaking:

I was one of those key workers.

Since COVID left me Disabled, @UKLabour have made me feel like a burden and a scrounger, even though I lost my health working hard to look after others.

Now you plan to slash benefits for people like me, while letting C19 rip.

Reflect harder. https://t.co/Q9aJZrEltl

— Nico Reznick 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🌍 (@NicoReznick) March 8, 2026

This is who the Labour Party really is

For all their platitudes about ‘honouring’ key workers and protecting people, they don’t give a fuck about disabled people. If they did, the DWP wouldn’t be trying to make it harder to claim PIP and slashing Universal Credit for new claimants.

At the end of the day, if successive governments hadn’t spent years demonising disabled people, it wouldn’t have been so easy for people to accept so many disabled deaths by COVID-19.

And that is the uncomfortable truth Labour needs to live with. Enough of the bullshit, politicians caused all these deaths. Now they get to have them on their conscience.

Featured image via the Canary