Is Jacob Rees-Mogg actually on glue?

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Jacob Rees-Mogg is now claiming that the current economic meltdown is not at all caused by the recent mini budget. Oh no. He blames 'interest rates' and er, 'global factors' and the Bank of England obvs. Oh, and the BBC for daring to ask him questions.

Even given the IQ of the shit show that is the current Conservative Government, who on Earth thought it was a good idea to wheel out this farcical, deluded, mad fucker?

I thought they had firmly sealed Rees-Mogg into a box after his last outburst when he blamed the Grenfell Tower victims for dying because they were stupid. It seems they have let him out.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-63228024

Love it -

Boris Johnson received a standing ovation after his first speech on the lucrative US lecture circuit to an audience of several hundred insurance brokers...

He had the audience in Colorado laughing at stories including one in which he stole away with the then German chancellor Angela Merkel at the Cop26 climate summit last year to share a bottle of President Macron’s “very fancy” French wine.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-gets-a-standing-ovation-after-150-000-speech-in-us-3pw9w572z

At this rate Boris Johnson will be back in Number 10 before we know it.

Clav,

Do you not ever, when you look at Truss and the cabinet that stands around her, think…

Oh this is actually a load of old bollocks now. It’s really not working and real damage is being done now because of incompetence.

That’s how the vast majority of the country now see it.

That’s how the markets see it.

I can’t see the reason you’d vociferously deny this harsh reality unless there’s something in it for you. You come across as an employee, or press officer to be precise.

Lonelycrab
Clav
Do you not ever, when you look at Truss and the cabinet that stands around her, think…
Oh this is actually a load of old bollocks now. It’s really not working

Not yet no.

You come across as an employee, or press officer to be precise

Definitely not.

Not yet no

Ahh ok Thanks. So there’s a line of crapness and incompetence that hasn’t yet been crossed yet. Right ho

Adam Payne
2h
Like others I hear that the mood at tonight’s 1922 was very bad. I’m told MPs were “utterly shocked” by the PM’s performance. “From delusion to devastation — writ large on her face.” Feels like, if anything, her situation has worsened.
Extraordinary statement from a Conservative MP who attended the 1922:
“After tonight most Tory MPs accept that our current leader, given the decisions she took with the Fiscal Statement, can never provide the reassurance needed to arrest the loss of market confidence…
“She should never be trusted with a financial statement ever again. It is a bit like asking the gas engineer who has just blown up your house to come back and have another go.”

twitter.com/adampayne26/status/1580280661944201222

Lonelycrab
So there’s a line of crapness and incompetence that hasn’t yet been crossed yet

I was swayed by the news only yesterday that the IMF are forecasting that Germany and Italy will have lower growth than the UK next year.

Like others I hear that the mood at tonight’s 1922 was very bad. I’m told MPs were “utterly shocked” by the PM’s performance

I thought Liz Truss did quite well against Keir Starmer today - is Starmer losing his touch again?

Squirrel Clav.

This thread is about Mogg, not other European economies.

No, but he is from a different century and taxidermy may or may not have been involved.

Southwig22 · Today 16:42
The electorate voted these people in. Just remember that, people had a choice, and this is what they chose.“

Technically, no. The electorate voted in Boris Johnson and his clown troupe.
this latest travesty was voted in by 160,000 hard boiled tories, mostly in the Home Counties.

Mogg wanted Brexit as the EU were clamping down on offshore tax-wangles. Conservatives don't expect or want to win the next election. Hence KK and LT using their long-standing links with Odey Asset Management to asset-strip the UK by flooring the pound.

He's known as the haunted pencil here too. If only someone would put him on glue, somewhere dark, dank and distant... then we wouldn't have to hear from him again.

Nobody except Liz Truss thinks growth is the be-all and end-all.

If your pension fund goes bankrupt, or your mortgage payments go up by £700 per month, or you can’t afford to feed your children, or the NHS collapses, will you think “oh it’s ok, our GDP only fell by 0.3% while Germany’s fell by 0.4%”?

Even the IMF has a bigger picture view of the economy. The Tories seem unable to see any further than the performance of their donors’ investment portfolios. Still at least Crispin Odey has made some money out of this, so mission accomplished Liz.

I'm sure I read somewhere that MFI thought she was doing well... yep, she has all the charm and wit of chipboard

Mishal Hussein is amazeballs. I want to have her babies.
I wonder how bemused Simon Jack felt this morning.

Agree he's not stupid. His father wrote books on how to profit from disaster capitalism. He was born for this role.

www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1583/columnists?fbclid=IwAR3hjkvsa_otxfTYb94cYHezhtfk7ntcJS4k0gMEMokwp1RVK9DV3sKmJwI

Corruption in plain sight.

NEW business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg's political career and that of his long-time business partner, Dominic Johnson, are on the rise, at least for now, just as the City fund manager they founded, Somerset Capital Management, seems heading for a cut-price takeover or management buyout, writes Slicker.

Last month Johnson announced he was stepping down as CEO of Somerset Capital. Now we know why: the former Tory party vice-chairman and donor – to the tune of more than £300,000 – has been made a peer and appointed a minister in the Cabinet Office as well as for the Department for International Trade. Somerset Capital's recent performance is hardly a resounding recommendation.Somerset Capital funds have performed badly this year, following on from a poor Covid-impacted 2021 and 2022. Funds under management have reportedly halved to $5bn as clients pulled their money, cutting fee income.

We are interlinked - so if European economies have issues, then so do we.

Germany has been hit by the energy crisis. German issues will affect us as well. We are not an island. Ask not for the whom bell tolls and all that.

Has anyone added this yet? Pretty much sums it up. 😁

Brillant as ever love the JOE channel.

Although nannies who cover more than one generation are rare, those like Veronica Crook - who looked after me and now looks after my four children - are pearls of great price. They provide a continuity and stability for a family that is of inestimable value for the child and, indeed, the man.
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Rees Mogg is an utterly amoral human being. Dressed as a Victorian mill owner, he clearly thinks like one too. He has no grip on the reality of pressures the majority of the population face. He is, like so many of his fellow Tories, devoid of a conscience. Does he and his ilk really imagine we are all inane fools?

They didn't just let him out, they made him the Business Secretary!!!

The mind boggles. He's as mad as a box of frogs and and has the brainpower of a starfish.

The conservatives are finished - JRM suits are absurd, like Johnson's hair. They serve the same purpose

The description I heard of him was "a barmaid's idea of a gentleman". Sexist, but got him exactly. He rarely deals with anyone who can fillet his arguments well.

He was considered pompous at Eton- against strong competition

You could just as easily be describing Kwarteng as Grease-Smug.

Both are arrogant cockwombles that get snippy and condescending when questioned over their fuck ups.

I was swayed by the news only yesterday that the IMF are forecasting that Germany and Italy will have lower growth than the UK next year

Now this will not do! We need a full cut and paste from the original article…