Jacob Rees-Mogg Moves For Conservative Party Leadership.

Seems isn’t does

mostlyharmless, I believe that JRM is now "within striking distance" of becoming the Conservative Party Leader. He seems to have strong backing among the membership and also strong support from within the Conservative Parliamentary Bow Group.

However, if he does become leader, whether the Tories can sell that "personally" to the wider British public in a General Election would be another matter.

Remember what happened to Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

I must take a look, thank you Nicenanny

Never say never who would have thought Corbyn would still be leader of the Labour Party. Jacob Rees Mogg has a large following especially on YouTube.

Tony Blair lived in number 11 because he had three, then four, children (and Gordon Brown didn’t have any until later), but Mogg is heading towards seven it seems plus nanny of course. (As she is apparently in her seventies she probably has staff to help her as well.)

But I can’t believe he will ever be PM.
He’s known as “Honourable Member for the 18th century!” Prime Minister - that’s a joke..... (well hopefully).

I'd vote for Jacob Rees Mogg but not Ruth Davidson no chance.

Nothing is wrong with being wealthy and left wing, anymore than there is in being wealthy and right wing! People who are right wing seem to get much more stick though!!

Nothing wrong with having a nanny , unless it’s JRM , then it’s soooo wrong. Harold Wilson had Marcia ?

There is still a fishing industry (just) but I am afraid that it has been decimated over the last years. Hence other businesses have failed as they depended on the fishing industry too.

The nanny doesn't bother me one bit although I know I made a joke about jam-making; my DM was a nanny although, of course, she married and had her own family but kept in touch with the family she was with for the longest. And a couple of the younger members of our family have had nannies for their children.

If she is there to look after 6 (soon to be 7) children, what time should she have had to go canvassing with the prolific father?

Seems the nanny in the JRM household troubles some, most strange, nothing unusual in a family who can afford childcare in their own home do so.

Lectures about the evils of capitalism from people (Lansman included) who dabble in socialism, whilst racking up huge amounts of cash from their own capitalism ventures, should not be taken seriously.....people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Mogg is being pushed in the media in the same way Farage was...lets all hope they dont make him into someone the public will vote for ...the ENGLISH public that is .Ther isn't a cats chance in hell he would get voted in here.As for his remarks about Ruth ,he would have done better to attack her deplorable record re her surgeries...ONE that she has actually turned up at since 2015 ,while her neighbouring SNP MSP has worked at over 179 .She's always moaning about SNP not doing the "day job" maybe she could try it herself instead of Bake off and other TV shows and her innumerable photo shoots .Hopefully she'll find motherhood more fulfilling than she does day to day working as an MSP !Beware Ilovecheese Ruth likes to tell stories ...ones that are easily identified and proven to be lies

What’s wrong with being wealthy ( whatever that means) and being left wing?

I think it's seen as 'class betrayal', maryeliza by the deeply conservative working classes who seem to feel uncomfortable if people don't conform to the stereotype of their class.

Since when, nellie, was there a rule that says everyone in the Labour Party has to be poor?

Or are you just confirming that no rich person has a social conscience?

But not both number 10 and number 11. So no need to patronize anniebach
There are suggestions that Michael Gove might be throwing his hat in the ring, but you are right lemongrove there is no ring yet. Ruth Davidson is another.

What’s wrong with being wealthy ( whatever that means) and being left wing?

There are of course some extremely wealthy people on the left of the Labour party, Jon Lansman I understand isn't short of a bob or two and has property worth several million! but then of course that for some curious reason is perfectly ok. That's one thing about the left, they're master's of the double think!!

Some are unaware that several PM’s have lived in No 11 , to be fair to new labour members and Momentum members they quite possibly wouldn’t know this

Aren’t some of you putting the cart well before the horse
he isn’t PM, is unlikely to ever be PM and there isn’t a ring yet for him to even throw his hat into.

Grandad1943 I felt fishing was one of the strongest cards Britain held in the leave negotiations, but this incompetent government and its negotiators have just thrown that advantage away for some far off deal involving the London finance industry.
Those Brexit voting fishing communities and Ukippers should note that fishing accounts for no more than 0.07-0.2% UK GDP, whereas the service sector accounts for 80% ; financial services 20% - so which sector should we be protecting? London finances much of the rest of the country - 22% GDP generated in London ( it has 12.5% population and pays about 1/3 of all the tax collected in the UK.) So don't dismiss the importance of London's contribution to the UK economy.

And 2 salaries Grandad1943 which will help with his child care expenses! Although actually I think he will dump children and nanny at Cowley street and decamp to Downing Street, popping back occassionally of course to see all is well.

Arrogance is in the eye of the beholder

mostlyharmless, being prime minister and being a finance expert JRM will also undoutedly appoint himself Chancellor of the Exchequer. That way he will have the flat at number eleven as well for family accommodation.

He certainly has the arrogance for that.