Criminally Negligent: What Jacob Rees Mogg Said! ?

He should never be an MP, only followed on because of his Dad's old boys club. The worst example of the male of the species

MissAdventure

A load of mass debaters.

lemongrove

Calm down Cossy and stop shouting.
You have your opinion and and I have mine, just as every poster on GN also does.

Is that you Jacob? Sorry, Mr Rees-Mogg Sir?

Alegrias ???

Sorry that’s arse about face…

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

lemongrove

kali I shall continue to say what I think...regardless of what you or any other posters say, thanks.
Rees Mogg can speak for himself and do whatever he wants to.
Politicians always will do, just as the general public will do.
he's talking about friends and colleagues not spending the night in a crowded bar, but if he wanted to do that as well, then so be it.There is far too much easy censoring going on.
far too much 'oooh, look what so and so is saying\doing now', at least he was being honest.

Oh, that’s okay then

Callistemon

Jacob Rees-Mogg is the MP for NE Somerset

Not sure what to say about that Callistemon but thank you for posting that information. You'd think he'd care more, wouldn't you?

icanhandthemback

^I’m not being aggressive here but how come Tory voters just relentlessly excuse condone and agree with everything any Tory MP says ? ^

Nope, as a Conservative voter in the last election, I certainly don't agree with everything they say. I am firmly of the belief that they should be modelling safe behaviour around Covid and I think to come out with the claptrap JRM spouted shows a complete misunderstanding of his role. I don't think he is stupid, he is arrogant and that is worse than being stupid. Stupid people can't help themselves, he can.
I don't understand why this Government don't make masks mandatory for the time being in public spaces. Increased incidence of Covid infection in my grandaughter's school has meant they are back in bubbles so the problem is still huge.
I don't want to see us back in lockdown, particularly in care homes where it has the most damaging effects but this virus is unrelenting so the Government needs to be the same in its efforts to tackle it.
The saddest thing is that when it comes to re-election, I still don't see an alternative yet.

That's a very well balanced post icanhandthemback, thank you.

Jacob Rees-Mogg is the MP for NE Somerset

tickingbird
Wales Online 22nd October 2021

The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales based on the cases for every 100,000 people (seven days up to October 17) now stands at 681.9 – the highest rate ever and a sharp rise from the 651.9 reported on Thursday. Wales' infection rate is now the fourth-highest in the world.

ITV News 20 October 2021:

Bath and North East Somerset is the worst-hit local authority area in England - with a case rate of 877.5 per 100,000 - prompting a warning from health officials to "be alert" to the virus.

The council is asking people who live in the Bath area to meet outdoors where possible to help slow the spread of the virus.

^Somerset West and Taunton - which has gone from 365.5 cases per 100,000 to 872.5 - has the second highest Covid-19 case rate in the UK.

# last offering to Baggs btw.

Excellent post Callistemon.

Are we to assume that you admire this idiot? Poor you, never been withing sniffing distance of real humour? Shame...

tickingbird

I heard on some talk show/podcast - can’t remember, that wearing of masks in Wales is still mandatory and yet they have one of the highest infection rates in the world!

Would any of our Welsh members like to elaborate on this?

I, personally, still wear a mask 80% of the time when in a crowded indoor space. When I don’t it’s because I’ve forgotten to take one with me. I tend to do as I’m instructed by the government but also go by what I’m comfortable with.

Yes, I will.

It is more complicated than it would appear. The West country has one of the highest rates in the country, far higher than Wales. Many people work in Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Cheltenham and live in Wales. Cross-border traffic is extremely busy.

Geographically and demographically South Wales and the West Country have more links than do South and North Wales with commuter traffic being constant.

So the figures are misleading.

Mask wearing is generally enforced in Wales but not in England so people may follow the rules according to their location at any one time. The sensible thing to do would be for the whole of the UK to introduce compulsory mask wearing.

Add to that the fact that Welsh and West Country PCR tests were sent off to the Immensa laboratory and positive Covid tests were reported as negative so people went about their business, children went back to school therefore it is no wonder that cases are rising.

Scones, bones, cones, gnomes. When this happens I think DIM - Does It Matter. Its good to think DIM over a lot of issues!

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Oh, that's interesting.

I say scone as in bone, but the place with the stone is skoon

MissAdventure

A load of mass debaters.

Oh that would be wonderful- to have a proper debate rather than just getting slogans and soundbites or attacks back.

Scones

Scones as in bones

Apparently the correct way is dons. Common as muck me.

I believe half of Scotland would agree with your prononciation, Scones, and say the other was the wrong one.

The other half certainly rhymes scones with dons, as my Scottish relations did, but we talked about the stone of Scone and rhymed Scone with bone in that context.

MissAdventure

A load of mass debaters.

Ooh, you are awful!
But I like you ???

icanhandthemback

^I’m not being aggressive here but how come Tory voters just relentlessly excuse condone and agree with everything any Tory MP says ? ^

Nope, as a Conservative voter in the last election, I certainly don't agree with everything they say. I am firmly of the belief that they should be modelling safe behaviour around Covid and I think to come out with the claptrap JRM spouted shows a complete misunderstanding of his role. I don't think he is stupid, he is arrogant and that is worse than being stupid. Stupid people can't help themselves, he can.
I don't understand why this Government don't make masks mandatory for the time being in public spaces. Increased incidence of Covid infection in my grandaughter's school has meant they are back in bubbles so the problem is still huge.
I don't want to see us back in lockdown, particularly in care homes where it has the most damaging effects but this virus is unrelenting so the Government needs to be the same in its efforts to tackle it.
The saddest thing is that when it comes to re-election, I still don't see an alternative yet.

Thank you for that post. Very refreshing to see a conservative voter displaying critical ability and not automatically agreeing with everything the government does .

Since the beginning of the pandemic there have been those who have just done their own thing. Next door chikdminder, adults had to stop on doorstep with children delivering and collecting but okay to have mobile hairdresser in house fir a couple of hours. Once better weather arrived and able to meet outdoors childminder set up 2 feet diameter table and chairs in garden fir all and sundry to sit round. Of course the parents all knew one another so they wouldn't catch Covid. Can see where JRM gets his theory from; the general public.

Believe it or not, we were taught to be critical and debate at my very rough comprehensive school

MissAdventure

A load of mass debaters.