Momentum are getting stronger

So dj your only reply to my post was to comment on whether a man took someone campaigning with him.

Sunseeker, read the Huffpost again.

Did he really TAKE his nanny campaigning with him?

Rees-Mogg.
"Yes, of course I did!"

Can't be plainer.
Tying yourself up in knots there.

Who is envious, Annie?
That's just laughable.

So much envy, horrible.

Good post sunseeker, when we have a Momentun government they are going to borrow billions

She may have campaigned FOR him but the inference was that he had taken her with him. The Labour candidate who started the rumour (who seems to have sunk without a trace) admitted it was something he had made up.

So, as Anniebach says lets get back to Momentum. Their intentions are:

Redistributes wealth and power from the few to the many;

Does this include the leaders of various unions who "earn" more in a week than most of their members earn in a month.

Puts people and planet before profit and narrow corporate interests;

Very laudable but doesn't give any idea of how they intend to do this

Builds a society free from all types of discrimination;

Unless of course you disagree with their ideology in which case you will be hounded out of the job you were elected to do by your constituents

Invests to create high-quality jobs and infrastructure;

Where is the money coming from to do this? "Tax the rich" is the usual mantra. I believe France tried that and all "the rich" left the country and there was no-one to tax

Reverses the privatisation of railways, the energy sector and public services;

Again where is the money coming from to do this or do they plan to take it over without compensating the shareholders - most of which are pension companies which pay the pensions of retired workers.

Provides protection at work and strong collective bargaining to end workplace injustices;

Are there not protections already in place

Provides decent homes for all in both the public and private sector.

Again very laudable however how will this be paid for.

' Did he really take his nanny campaigning with him in Fife?

“Yes of course I did!” he said. “I am very proud of nanny. She has worked for my family for 49-years, that’s not bad going. She is part of the family. Almost all my family came.” '

Huffpost.
You get the idea.

Monica You will just confuse people with your link to a fact about Rees-Mogg and his MiL's ancestral home, though I couldn't read the details without subscribing. You should know by now that the monopoly on "true fact" sites was taken up by A N Other long ago, and anything posted by anyone else is suspect.

The house has changed hands several times since RM's mother-in-law's father died in 1948.

From wikipedia -
" . . . from 1949 to 1979, the house was home to the Lady Mabel College of Physical Education, which trained female physical education teachers. The college later merged with Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University), which eventually gave up the lease in 1988 due to high maintenance costs.

By 1989, Wentworth Woodhouse was in a poor state of repair. With the polytechnic no longer a tenant, and with the family no longer requiring the house, the family trustees decided to sell it and the 70 acres (280,000 m2) surrounding it, but retained the Wentworth Estate's 15,000 acres (61 km2) of land. The house was bought by locally born businessman Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie, who started a programme of restoration. However a business failure caused it to be repossessed by a Swiss bank and put back on the market in 1998. Clifford Newbold (July 1926 – April 2015), an architect from Highgate, bought it for something over £1.5 million. Newbold progressed with a defined programme of renovation/restoration as evidenced in Country Life magazine dated 17 and 24 February 2010. The surrounding parkland is owned by the Wentworth Estates.

In 2014, the house was informally offered for sale by Newbold, with no price specified, but a figure of around £7 million was thought to be sought according to The Times. The house was reported to need works of around £40 million. Following the death of Mr. Newbold, the house was formally advertised for sale in May 2015 via Savills with an asking price of £8 million. In March 2017, the house was sold to the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust for £7 million after a sale to the Hong Kong-based Lake House Group fell through.

Rees-Mogg's mother-in-law is a trustee of the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, which raised £7million to acquire the house.

"This is because he brought his faithful nanny along with him as he battled to be a elected in the working class and staunchly Labour seat of Central Fife."

The Sun, yesterday.
You are going to be busy correcting all these right wing newspapers, although you could just contact Murdoch and get it put right. I know he doesn't own the Telegraph but I bet he is best friends with the owners.

"In one, Miss Crook, who once famously campaigned with Mr Rees Mogg in his mother’s Mercedes, is seen at the centre of the family group holding the newborn."

In today's Mail on Line.

I think you have some correcting to do, Sunseeker.

But let's get back to momentum , stay in topic ?

Good for him, praising a servant employed by his parents,

Jacob Rees-Mogg: My nanny made me the man I am
Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, who took his nanny canvassing with him, writes in defence of a British institution

Headline in the Telegraph of an article written by Rees-Mogg.

dj I am not attempting to defend Rees-Moggs voting record I merely wanted to rectify some misinformation

It is Baggs, and Corbyn started the campaign to bring them back into the party since the eighties .

All these jibes and sneers at the likes of Rees-Mogg and others is no more than inverted snobbery, simple as.

But he did vote to cut disabled people's money by £30, didn't he?

I know you are all interested in facts and not rumour so can I clarify a couple of inaccuracies about Rees-Mogg.

He did not take his nanny on his campaign - this was a lie put about by a desperate Labour candidate.

He has not received a grant to renovate his family home. A building once owned by his wife's grandfather is now owned by a charity. That charity has received a grant to renovate it as they and the local authority want to turn it into a tourist attraction.

New wave Militant Tendency is how I see it, annie.

Always have done Baggs, but since Momentun took over the party this has changed, hit list, de-selection etc, all momentum's new party,

well, have just had a holiday!

His daughter's called Mary, btw. A good Catholic goddess kind of name. Go, Mary!

roses, I admire your stamina.

I think it's possible to make some assessment of Momentum without going to any meetings. Have you been to any Tory Party meetings, jen?

durhamjen....... you may ( and do) criticise the Conservatives generally or any individual MP within it, and Rees Mogg is no exception, and we are all free to do that about any political party or MP, one of the glories of living in a free democratic country.

Hear, hear, roses. Philosophical Labour people have always criticised things within the Party as well as political stances outside it that they disliked. I grew up surrounded by such people. It strengthens the Labour movement rather than weakening it. It is only weakness that fears criticism.