Jacob Rees-Mogg has just resigned.

[GonnaGetGoingReturns]

Damn... he's DB's IL's local MP - and has just resigned...

Thank you, god.

*Jacob Rees-Mogg, I meant! Not his father, William...

I've forgotten which of the crises this picture came from. Early Partygate?

@CloudPop
It was one of the Brexit debates, I think.

Perfectly put. Well done!

@GonnaGetGoingReturns
But at least he's not Business Secretary talking about topics he knows zilch about

He DOES know about business though. He has this very contrived persona which gives the impression that he is an aristocratic unworldly Victorian gentleman who lies around reading the classics all day. He deliberately cultivates this persona to cover up who he is.In fact his background is not aristocratic at all and his MO is Machiavellian strategising to make himself as rich as possible. He knows exactly how business works and he uses that knowledge to make himself (and his friends) rich. He is very far from the aristocratic gentleman who is out of step with the real world.

Read the biography of him by Michael Ashcroft. It reveals him to be a cut throat businessman (and the book is written by a Tory).

Yes, I'm sure he does know about business in real life... however, he cannot relate to the common people as it were, so he was never going to be any use as Business Secretary.

I'll ask DB's IL's next time I see them.... however a lot of North Somerset locals appear to be Tory central.

Yes of course, once forgets - parliament has been largely paralysed since well before partygate

@BustyDisplay

Good Lord, I have no words...

Good. He won't be missed.

@GonnaGetGoingReturns
he cannot relate to the common people as it were, so he was never going to be any use as Business Secretary

Agreed

Perhaps there is a god after all 🤔

Let’s hope Rishi clears more of the right wing crap out.

Good.

Can't stand him.

I want to know who actually votes for these people. I mean, who would actually stand in the voting booth and put an X next to Rees-Mogg's name?

He is actually an MP for North East Somerset and although most people on here don’t like him he is a very conscientious constituency MP and considerably better than the previous labour MP who didn’t have any answers for a group of A level students.

Amen!!

Vile man.
Pretentious twat and like something from a Giles cartoon.
Stuck in the 1950’s.
A schoolmaster comes to mind.

Utter prick! I see gerbil faced braverman is now Home Secretary.
I hope this shitshow of a government collapses soon!!

@55larry so do you honestly think that a Labour MP who couldn't answer some A level students' questions (when? what does that actually mean? what questions?) is worse than JRM? I am sure JRM is 'conscientious' with constituents. That consists of making sure you answer communications and are generally charming. I have experience of what constituency work involves. But surely you can't ignore what he actually votes for and believes in though. He is a Machiavellian shit with a veneer of Downtown Abbey noblesse oblige. Surely nobody is stupid enough to fall for his schtick. Are they?

@Newcatbrowntail eh, nope. He’s doing the exact opposite!

Hopefully this is the start of a return to a less vicious and less cuntish form of Tory politics - the damage this lot have done to the country defies belief.

Actually DB’s ILs do admit through gritted teeth that he’s helped them out when they’ve contacted him but the thing is they’ve never voted for him nor would they ever vote for him or another Tory MP.