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Jacob Rees-Mogg Moves For Conservative Party Leadership.

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Grandad1943 Wed 23-May-18 17:49:55

With an open attack on Theresa Mays handling of the Brexit negotiations many in the media believe that Jacob Rees-Mogg has made his first open move in a bid to become Conservative party leader and Britain's next Prime Minister.

Rees-Mogg in yet another of his ongoing interviews with the media lambasted "weak" Theresa May for preparing the UK for "Brexit failure". Rees-Mogg stated that with The British negotiators going into each set of negotiations with an attitude of "we will kowtow before you, Mr Barnier in every way you possible throughout these talks" there is no hope of success for the UK. The foregoing are undoubtedly harsh words indeed even from an arch hard line Brexitier, but many believe that there is far more to Rees-Moggs words than just Brexit.

It may well be that this hard line right wing politician has witnessed the way that Jeremy Corbyn has moved the Labour party to the left and now feels he could carry out the same in the Conservative party with the exception of that move being in the opposite direction in regards to political ground.

Evidence to the above can be seen in Rees-Moggs attack on Scottish Conservative Leader Ruth Davison, for in the same interview he stated that Davison should not be allowed to marry her longtime same sex partner as planned. However, same sex marriage legislation was put before parliament and passed in 2013 under the David Cameron coalition government.

In making the above comment Rees-Mogg is undoubtedly looking to damage Ruth Davison, who also is seen as a possible next leader of the Conservative party. That stated, it is also being seen as a move against centre ground Concervatives in parliament.

In the above can be seen shades of Momentum's original moves against centre Blairite MPs in the Labour party.

Anniebach Sun 03-Jun-18 20:57:53

Maw, what a lovely surprise, thank you so much X

lemongrove Sun 03-Jun-18 20:54:11

Does anyone watch Tracey Breaks The News?
Hilarious! grin
The best bits last night were the Gove sketch and the Corbyn one.

MawBroon Sun 03-Jun-18 20:49:21

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kl6u6rIbPo

Specially for you Anniebach by Charles Asnovoice (only joking!) ? ? ? for cover grin

Oldwoman70 Sun 03-Jun-18 20:48:54

Annie you are lucky to find a public loo - my local Labour council have closed all ours!

Anniebach Sun 03-Jun-18 20:45:02

lemon, it is a mile to the public loo ?

muffinthemoo Sun 03-Jun-18 20:44:02

Please excuse a newbie observation.

Does GN not have a facility whereby users can block/ignore/hide posts from another user?

These are quite common on other forums and could help posters enjoy the forums with a bit less personal aggro sad

Anniebach Sun 03-Jun-18 20:41:29

Thank you Maw, Jalima.

I do ask I am not referred to as she, only Charles Aznavour does that , thank you .

Ilovecheese Sun 03-Jun-18 20:41:23

One of the Conservatives backers wants Michael Gove to take over from Theresa May.

Does anyone think that is a good idea?

In my opinion he lost any credibility when as minister for education he said that he wanted every child to be above average.

lemongrove Sun 03-Jun-18 20:39:03

grin
I thought you were a long time!

lemongrove Sun 03-Jun-18 20:38:16

Well said Maw
Annie may post all day long that she dislikes Corbyn, just as you seem to post continually about how you dislike JRM.
Furthermore Annie or any other poster doesn’t have to account for their politics on here.
Get off the subject of another poster Grandad43 and back to politics.

Anniebach Sun 03-Jun-18 20:36:28

Back from the loo, not constipation, I go to the public loos, saves my water bill ?

MawBroon Sun 03-Jun-18 20:29:33

She does not post on anything she likes, she posts on one topic Jeremy Corbyn criticism

Goodness how rude Grandad!
Wash your mouth out with soap and water.
Have you never been taught not to say she in isolation, or heard the saying

“Who’s she? The cat’s mother?”

FYI anniebach is a long standing member whom many of us have read over a considerable time and who posts on a variety of other threads - Jeremy Corbyn is not mentioned once!
This is in danger of developing into a witch ?‍♀️ hunt and you need to rein in those personal attacks.

Anniebach Sun 03-Jun-18 19:59:42

I only post on Corbyn ? Ok who is using my name on all the other threads and on the games, own up ?

So when I leave the forum for some reason I should inform everyone ? Ok

I have to leave you now, need the loo, be back with you all later ?

Grandad1943 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:52:33

She does not post on anything she likes, she posts on one topic Jeremy Corbyn criticism.

And that as a member of the party. Some may find that rather strange.

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:38:18

And Anniebach can post as much as she likes about whatever she likes - it's up to GNHQ to police the thread.

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:37:10

If it upsets you why do you respond continually Grandad?

This is not a facetious comment, I am just curious.

Grandad1943 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:35:19

Jalima1108, anniebach remains on this forum throughout almost every day raising one subject, that being her hatred of Jeremy Corbyn. However, she states that she is a long-standing member of the Labour party and in that she has the ability to continually raise issues in regard to Corbyn at her local party, district or even regional level if she brings that about in the correct manner.

For her nothing will be accomplished by moaning about Jeremy Corbyn on this forum day after day as being the current Labour leadership would seem to mean so much to her.

maryeliza54 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:07:45

For me it’s not about voting intention but about comment on specific policies

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:05:48

Nothing was ever accomplished by moaning about any matter on forums such as this.
so why are you posting Grandad?
confused

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:04:41

some may vote Lib Dem.
and would vote Labour again when Momentum loses its grip.

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:04:10

You have some strange Tory bedfellows as your fans on here
And not just posters who vote Tory - some may vote Lib Dem.

The one thing everyone does seem to have in common is that they dislike bullying.

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Jun-18 19:01:14

So, both together now anniebach:-
Moggy, Moggy, Moggy, Oy, Oy, Oy

It is half-term folks!
Is there an INSet day tomorrow as well?

Jalima1108 Sun 03-Jun-18 18:57:57

anniebatch,
been batch baking again Anniebach?

Nothing was ever accomplished by moaning about any matter on forums such as this.
I agree Grandad - and all your wishing on this forum will not make Jacob Rees-Mogg into Prime Minister.

Grandad1943 Sun 03-Jun-18 18:54:29

Yes anniebatch, if you on occasion were to post in support some Labour policies or some trade union action I believe many would feel that you had at least some affiliation to the Labour movement.

However, you link everything to Jeremy Corbyn and he is not the entire Labour movement. If you do not like Corbyn as leader of the Parliamentary party fight for change from within, if as you claim you have a fifty year membership of that party.

Nothing was ever accomplished by moaning about any matter on forums such as this.

maryeliza54 Sun 03-Jun-18 16:15:07

And WTF do you mean about the difference between LP members and the C/M Party?