AIBU to hope Jacob Rees Mogg never gets back up?

[Butchyrestingface]

Is anyone watching this? Caroline Lucas has torn into him. 😵😵😵

This tweet [not by Caroline Lucas] gave me a laugh:

“Shoutout to the 28,992 absolute yokels in north east Somerset who voted for Jacob Rees Mogg and inflicted this effete pipe cleaner on the rest of us, when better options were available, such as blasting your own flesh off with a Karcher pressure washer. Or the Labour candidate.”

Disgust Show of contempt.

Also awful was all the MPs who were talking during other’s speeches and even worse, playing with their phones. IT’S SO RUDE!

In fact, most of them don’t seem to take Brexit as seriously as the public. Bercrow seems to think it’s all so funny.

They are all an embarrassment to the country.

The “haunted Victorian pencil” description had me sniggering even while I was trying to get to sleep last night. Comedy gold.

He will live forever in the form of a graph with a downward trajectory or as Ophelia.
He must be so proud.

He takes man-spreading to a whole new level, doesn't he?!

Oh god🤢
This is man spreading but not as we know it. Even when the creature is
reclining, his repulsive legs are crossed.

Well, I am no fan of JRM and didn't vote tory. However, I imagine those people voted for JRM for a variety of reasons:

1. they always vote tory regardless

2. they were terrified of Jeremy Corbyn getting into no.10

3. they like JRM

I don't think it's OK to call them names because of the above. We all have a vote and are entitled to use it how we wish. Personally I put mine in the bin because all of the alternatives were monsters with different coloured ribbons on.

Larry5 so did you actually vote for him?!

I cannot understand that at all! Even if the labour MP was useless was there really not a decent lib dem or other candidate?

Because JRM is horrific! And I really can't imagine even if he SEEMS to engage with constituents that he's actually been of real use.

His voting record is appalling, particularly on welfare benefits, job creation, voted basically FOR privatisation of the Nhs, for increased uni fees, against assistance for students, for cuts to council funding, against more powers for councils (how's your local council doing?!), for the govt to have more rights to see and hold private communications, for secret court session "in the interests of national security", against green policies, against preventing rising train fares, for the privatisation of Royal Mail, for restrictions to legal aid...

Does none of that bother you?!

Jacob Rees-Mogg's behaviour was unacceptable. He should have known better, as no-one in the 17th century would have behaved like that at all.

Of course, the mysogynist Boris Johnson could have appointed Angela Leadsom, who was a reasonable good Leader of the House, but that would have been too sensible. All the women in the cabinet have the thankless tasks, posts where you can never please almost anyone.

This is Rees Mogg campaigning in Scotland with his nanny! Seriously - this Tory Party has been insulting us with this man for far too long.

Nanny would not have been impressed... was he asleep?

Worth noting, Rees-Mogg received just 9 per cent of the votes in Central Fife. No new Conservative MPs were elected in Scotland that year, with the Tories suffering their worst electoral defeat since 1906. The party lost all its seats in Scotland.

Great days.

About to be repeated, I suspect.

Just the sound of his plummy voice makes my skin crawl.

I liked on here someone described him as a Victorian stick insect. But I read a report today that although he opposes abortion a pharmaceutical company he's invested in sells a drug for stomach ulcers that is used for back street abortions in Indonesia. Hypocrite and making money of the subjugation of vulnerable women.

Don't know him so obviously can't hate him, neither can any one else🙄

Don't know him so obviously can't hate him, neither can any one else🙄

You don’t reckon he’s showing people who he is with his behaviour?

I’m all for agreeing there can be public and private difference and there can be those who we hate certain things about but love others etc. I do think there are some about whom we know sufficient to say of them ‘I hate him - his politics, his business ethics, his character etc’ I’d place him in this category. I am happy to say I loathe trump and Johnson. I don’t need to meet them to be certain I feel this way and for good evidence-based reasons.

His body language says it all..

Thanks for that incisive political insight, @littlemeitslyn.

‘A haunted lamppost’ is my favourite description of him.

He’s what would have become of Bertie Wooster if Hitler had given up on the whole fascism thing and become a butler instead.

JRM are like minor characters in a novel. They're too insubstantial to take centre stage. They sort of work as buffoons on the sidelines but look very shabby and inadequate as the main focus.

I personally don't want them to go anywhere soon. Let them be accountable for this farce and go down in history as liars and cheats.

Someone I know vaguely did some work at his house/mansion/castle a while back.
One of his kids answered the door and asked if help was needed carrying equipment into the house (to do the work with).
Friend said yes and kid disappeared, closing the door. Which was opened again by...the butler.
Btw, equipment wasn't heavy, just bulky.
Apparently JRM was home but wouldn't lower himself to talk to a mere tradesperson.

Regardless of what you think of him, the comments about him lounging in this image show that you don't have any idea of the context.
It is a common thing in parliament that MPs, particularly tall ones are unable to hear from the speakers which are set at the back of the benches without reclining. JRM is laying like this precisely so he can hear and pay attention to the orator, not to show contempt.
Fair enough if you think he's awful but it doesn't do the cause any favours to bitch about something without understanding the actual situation rather than the one the MSM wants you to believe.

Wasn’t he sitting at the front though? I’ve seen politicians squidged down in their seats to listen but he really did look like he was having a nap.

It obviously isn’t a common occurance or Caroline Lucas wouldn’t have called him out on it.

Every so and often there is a story of someone being asleep - but they are just squishing down on the bench to listen (you can see the brass speakers in the backs of the benches).