Jacob Rees-Mogg has just resigned.

[GonnaGetGoingReturns]

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

@SirChenjins
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

Braverman is back as Home Secretary though!

I did say 'less' - they've got a while to go yet (if ever) before they are completely devoid of viciousness and cuntishness

WHO VOTES FOR HIM?

I don’t understand?
I guess if the Tories pinned a blue rosette on the contents of my cat’s litter tray, it would get voted in in some constituencies?
What is wrong with people, surely MPs should at least be human?

They always get sacked, it's just convention to say they resigned. It was not his choosing

You've got to be kidding me????!!!!

I have friends in his constituency. They loathed him and certainly didn't vote for him.

My mother voted for JRM for years, until he voted for the bedroom tax which she considered to be immoral, and she wrote him a stinging letter telling him why she'd never vote for him again. (Before you ask why that was her breaking point, I've no idea. We rarely discussed politics)

As other people here have said, she believed him to be a good and conscientious constituency MP. I personally know several people who would never, ever vote for him because he's a Tory, but who have stories of the way he has helped them when other avenues failed.

If your view of politics is that you want your constituency MP to work directly and effectively for you when you need that, then he's <grits teeth> great, apparently.

Maybe he can get back to that now.

Oh great. 🙁

I think it'll be a reference to the battle of Agincourt (25/10/1415)

Henry V he isn't. He is, however, a knob.

Isn't dating a letter with the saint's day just a Catholic thing? Or even anglo-catholic/high church? I'm sure I had elderly relatives who used to do it.

He may understand finance but he certainly doesn't understand energy and climate change which as business and energy secretary was a disaster. He was showing worrying signs of a love affair with fracking - where even fracking businesses were saying fracking in the UK makes no business sense - and hydrogen for home heating, which is just insane.

I - and many folks in decarbonisation - am soooooo relieved to see him go from BEIS.

He’s our local mp aswell. Just hope he resigns completely.
he walks around our town like he owns the place!

Yes, I live in his constituency, and yes I do exactly that! I'd rather rip my own head off than vote for him. My DH went to see him in his surgery about something, I said I'd better not come with you I couldn't stop myself from punching him. I'm a 67 year old woman and five foot three of a fairly mild disposition, but I would find it hard not to...

You could well be right but he wibbled on about the anniversary of Agincourt "annoying the French" last year so I doubt the date has escaped him. All part of the affectation.

100% agree. He is such a prick.

Ah, yes I've just remembered my best JRM factoid. My mother - a dead spit of the Dowager Duchess in Downton Abbey in both appearance and behaviour - owned some holiday cottages back in the 1980s (before holiday cottages were a regrettable plague).

A very young JRM once rented one for a weekend (visiting some friends in a nearby university). In due course she - a 40 year old Dowager Duchess in waiting - received 'Darling, the most patronising thank you letter I have ever received from anyone, let alone a 19 year old.'

I think the broad gist of the thank you letter was that young JRM had been grateful for the opportunity to live among the Ordinary Folk for a short while and reflect on his advantages in life.

But sadly mum didn't keep it.

I abhor that arsehole - so pleased he's gone !!

Christ. Remind me never to go there then. Idiots.

I loathe him.

Why are you saying "Damn"? Surely it's nothing but a cause for celebration.

He looks like he'd look the part doing creepy tours in haunted houses, glad he's off to creep about the back benches

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 the same way that Johnson uses the bumbling affability of the class clown to hide his vile, vindictive, greed and cruelty.

It's the Tory way.

I think the battle of Agincourt was on St Crispin's Day or the day after. It was on 25th October, as indeed was Wellington's birthday. (No, not the duke.)

Anyone in Britain who has any learning is usually regarded as a useless fucker, and has to be jeered at. There is a lot of pride about being as thick as shit.

I think one of the reasons why Jacob Rees-Mogg is hated is that he is a Roman Catholic, but people aren't really allowed to say that out loud nowadays.

When he was on Question Time he said he'd voted against HS2 and that he thought that money could much better be spent on small improvements to railway lines already existing in the country.

Not a normal catholic thing, no.

Good!