Criminally Negligent: What Jacob Rees Mogg Said! ?

Being an Oxford educated historian
Should mean that he might know something about plagues, quarantine etc
www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200421-dubrovnik-the-medieval-city-designed-around-quarantine

Breda If I were a cynic, I would say it's because there are those who don't care that much about those who have died/are dying. After all, they're nearly old and have underlying health conditions, so will die soon anyway. Covid has affected certain groups of people more severely than others - and they're those who are least likely to vote Conservative.

As for the NHS waiting lists, I don't suppose they care much about them. After all, it's always possible to jump the queue and pay for private health care. In any case, it's more money for the likes of Sikora, who was bleating on about people not getting cancer treatment until his private clinic was awarded a significant sum of taxpayers' money.

Good job I'm not a cynic!

Baggs

Gabrielle56

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

Nice to see someone does understand debating cut and thrust and is using it in the same way as JRM was.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Rees Mogg renowned for his filibustering as a means of stopping important bills getting through parliament (probably the sort of bills that are there to protect the riff raff of society). Not something that I find very admirable. Still I suppose he learned how to do it at his public school debating societies.

My impression of JRM is that he sees it all as a big joke. His carefully manufactured image as an upper class twat allows him to get away with it.

Thank you Callistemon. To be honest I’m fed up of the whole thing. I’ll continue wearing my mask for the foreseeable as I see fit regardless of JRM or anyone else.

Twat. Comes from another planet.

MayBee70

Baggs

Gabrielle56

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

Nice to see someone does understand debating cut and thrust and is using it in the same way as JRM was.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Rees Mogg renowned for his filibustering as a means of stopping important bills getting through parliament (probably the sort of bills that are there to protect the riff raff of society). Not something that I find very admirable. Still I suppose he learned how to do it at his public school debating societies.

I daresay your knowledge is correct, MB70. I know nothing of JRM's renown. I've only become aware of him in the last very few years and have not been interested enough to 'follow' him in social media parlance. What little I have encountered doesn't suggest he has anything against what you call riff raff.

My school was a state school, btw, although also old and the oldest buildings had a Hogwartian look according to my Potter mad DD.

I think I'll look up some other renowned filibusters. I forget in which historical political context I first heard of the practice except that it was in a school history lesson – probably of the Gladstone and Disraeli era.

Well, that is the area that Rees Mogg belongs in imo

I suggest you check out his voting record when it comes to supporting the peasants as well….

Rees Moggs and the rest of the government are idiots. If you and your partner are vaccinated get out of the house and enjoy yourselves. This life is very short, and staying in the house all the time is bad for mental health. I went out EVERY day for longer than an hour during the lockdowns as I live alone. Masks do not protect. I am not putting up with any more draconian laws now we have the vaccine. One rule for them and another for the plebs.

My doctors have not yet received any booster jabs, so no-one is able to get this. Going online its impossible to find anywhere that have them locally.

This government has loss its ability to lead us through the rest of this pandemic I think.

songstress, have you actually been reading this thread???

We are not talking about not going out... we are talking about wearing masks in crowded public indoor spaces.

And Rees Mogg has been advocating against!

I'm sure if he worked in a food processing factory with his friends he would want to wear a mask and for his friends to wear a mask too.

It is well documented that poverty has been a factor in how people recover from Covid (or not )

Kali2

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.

Wouldn’t it though!
And think you missed the humour of MissA post btw.

Alegrias1 A PowerPoint indeed. What a condescending superior person you are. Don’t speak to me as though I’m completely stupid and ignorant of the situation.
Everyone has their own opinion you know, it’s not just your opinion that’s obviously the right one.

I always think JRM is unfailingly polite to people. He listens, doesn’t interrupt and is courteous. Unlike many.

Shall we have the truth kali? Rees Mogg did not advocate against mask wearing.Did you watch the clip?
He was answering an SNP question about why he and other Conservatives in the House were not wearing them.It was an almost empty HOC and the few Conservatives on the benches were not wearing them.The SNP in Westminster always wear theirs in line with Scottish rules on mask wearing indoors
( they could hardly not do it, as on tv.) There are no mandatory rules on mask wearing at the moment in England.
He made a light hearted comment about it.He may be an eccentric, but is a well thought of constituency MP.
On Wednesday, at PMQ’s ( it was packed) neither side of the House were wearing masks, apart from a very few.Which is their choice.You may think that all MP’s there should wear masks, but that’s another matter, at the moment it is up to them, as it is to the rest of us in England.

tickingbird

Thank you Callistemon. To be honest I’m fed up of the whole thing. I’ll continue wearing my mask for the foreseeable as I see fit regardless of JRM or anyone else.

Yes, me too.

And me. ?

They do hide the wrinkles.

?Yes, Callistemon I look years younger in mine, and in Winter it keeps me warm on cold walks.

growstuff

My impression of JRM is that he sees it all as a big joke. His carefully manufactured image as an upper class twat allows him to get away with it.

I dont think it is carefully manufactured, growstuff, I think that is just how he is, perhaps similar to his father?

William Rees-Mogg was born in 1928. His father was a Somerset landowner, and his mother an American actor. From a young age William, like Jacob, combined fogeyishness – he loved double-breasted suits and old books – with a modern expertise at self-promotion. A high-profile undergraduate at Oxford, he told an interviewer from the student magazine Isis that he read the Financial Times every morning

chris8888

My doctors have not yet received any booster jabs, so no-one is able to get this. Going online its impossible to find anywhere that have them locally.

This government has loss its ability to lead us through the rest of this pandemic I think.

Near here is a centre you can just turn up….if you qualify.

Those dappies that excuse this kind of behaviour from those we chose (well, not me, not ever me) is a massive part of what is wrong with the world today.

Wearing a mask has been long proven to help, it could have stopped so many cases, I might still have my 41 year old friend around if some weren't so selfish about wearing a mask...I despise this useless govt and all that back it up. They have serious problems mentally.

Now we have the majority of Tories supporting the sewage being dumped in the rivers, but hey, according to some, at least they're being true to themselves, utter filth.