Writer HARRY BAILEY : "Jack displays what has been termed a 'negative solidarity', a displaced and aggressively enraged sense of injustice. His self-loathing is committed to the idea that, because he must endure increasingly austere working or living conditions (a menial job, poor wages, loss of benefits, increasing career precarity, etc, having lost his job as a teacher) then everyone else must too, making life hell for everyone else. Negative solidarity is actively and aggressively anti-aspirational, utterly negative and destructive in the most childish fashion, and drives a blatant "race-to-the bottom". Negative solidarity operates under the invisible, though clearly contradictory and self-refuting, assumption of reflexive impotence (actively going to extremes to 'prove' that one is impotent to do anything). Jack then actively endeavours to make life a total misery for everyone else, resorting to racism, sexism, and child abuse."