Meet the Rees-Moggs

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Anyone seen this on Prime 😳

I'm sort of intrigued but am refusing to watch on principle because I don't want to line his awful, prejudice, backward, immoral pockets.

He was lovely to his daughter at the pony club competition when she was upset.

Christ what's WRONG with me? I'm feeling empathy towards him!

It's more empathy than he'd give us.

This is the man who voted against abortion rights for women including the choice to end a pregnancy in cases of incest or rape. I just can't get past that. I sort of want to watch but haven't got Prime anyway so moral dilemma solved through lack of choice.

He has got Plans. Big Plans. That's why he's doing this.

He wants to emulate the Boris 'ho ho look at my quirky buffoonery' style of distraction from his core values which are abhorrent.

Apparently a very personable and charming character in real life - but I utterly oppose what he stands for.

I started watching it, I thought it was good, it's on Discovery + which is free with Sky packages. Not sure I would subscribe extra to watch but as I had the channel anyway I gave it a go.

I don’t pay for anything like Prime or Netflix so I won’t be watching it.

No but I will do. I thought it was only on discovery plus. Excited now 😁

Semi good watch for 1 episode. Kids are def NOT a “handful”! They are just typical young boys their age. The older ones seem really well adjusted and none are spoilt little fuckers smothered in presents and materialism. He seems eccentric obviously and getting his ducks in a row to eventually join Farage hoping to become DPM.

Don't. He doesn't have any for you.

I thought the kids were all genuinely lovely - the youngest two weren’t a handful in my opinion - just typical boys and very funny at times. Helena comes across very well too and shows that despite having lots of help it’s still pretty full on managing 6 kids and 2 houses!
Also fascinating to watch their life which is like something from the 1920s with all the staff and the candlelit black tie dinners etc.

But no matter how lovely his family, I’ll still fundamentally disagree with JRM’s politics and I don’t think this reality show is making him seem any more relatable - it just confirms what we all suspected - he’s super rich and out of touch with ordinary life.

Also he has mashed potato and cabbage with nearly every dinner. He's a massively picky eater and has a "nursery"'palate. The Nanny stuff is actually real too.

His staff are just regular folk and not downtonesque. Shaun isn't Carter! Absolutely no forelock tugging. They seem to be laughing at him.

He's definitely marketing himself during this time in the political wilderness. He's got a longer term plan.

I only watched because he was our local MP and I wanted to see if I recognised any of the places he visited in the constituency (he went along our local high street and into Greggs).
I have seen him a couple of times in RL. Once at the Remembrance Sunday parade in Keynsham a few years ago and once with one of the mini Moggs canvassing at a stall in the High Street during the 2017 election. The lad was quite sweet.

Watched the first one tonight. I agree this is a deliberate ploy to let the public fall for quirky toffery…. He definitely Has Plans

I didn’t find him as engaging as I thought I might…

I'm looking forward to this, just not had time to watch yet.

I read a while back that Matt Hancock gave a talk at Eton in which he said something derogatory about JRM. Rees-Mogg's son challenged this and pointed out "he managed to remain loyal to his wife" which struck me as a very mature and clever response for a schoolboy to make to a politician
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-reesmogg-teenage-son-matt-hancock-eton-peter-reesmogg-b1142455.html

The show reveals the adorability and down to earth-ness of the family so Dad can use that to veil his politics, which are anything but.

He’s a very clever boy, which makes this decision weird. Not his usual quirky cute weird schtick, just a mistake.

Who exactly does Jacob think will fall for it?

The only other person who’d misfire this badly is Meghan Markle. Maybe the series will be harmless, at best.

Does anyone know why the previous thread on this was deleted by MN?

This is the man who voted against abortion rights for women including the choice to end a pregnancy in cases of incest or rape.

I keep reading this point, but when did he vote?? We still have the 1967 Abortion Act and that's not been changed!
He's entitled to his personal views which is that life begins at the moment of conception. He's not forcing them on anyone else.

Exactly, he's a staunch Catholic hence his views.

I think he comes across as a lovely man, a genuine English gent, something lacking these days.

Matt Hancock, has he ever heard the phrase people who live in glass houses?

That man is a prize rotten turnip. Not a RM fan by any stretch but I like his son's style. Fancy insulting RM when I am guessing he probably knew the son was there.

Does he wear a tie & jacket in every scene, at all times?
He's such an affected eccentric.
I imagine I'd like Helena a lot & am intrigued what she sees in JRM.

Lol. And you think that if the opportunity arose to snatch that right away so the laws align with his 'opinion' he wouldn't take it? Pull the other one.