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Jacob Rees Mogg

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oldbatty Wed 12-Sept-18 13:43:48

I don't think it was fair to target his children but they don't really seem like ordinary folk do they?

GrannyGravy13 Fri 05-Oct-18 09:05:15

It's not nice Anniebach, especially as this is mainly an anonymous site, and unless posters disclose personal details, others are quick to assume.

Anniebach Fri 05-Oct-18 09:01:33

Which ever GrannyGravy, it’s vicious

GrannyGravy13 Fri 05-Oct-18 08:57:45

I feel that if a poster owns up to being "financially comfortable" they are immediately "picked on" for being - alright jack, uncaring /empathetic to people who have less.

I am not sure if this is because of class hatred or just envy.

lemongrove Fri 05-Oct-18 08:36:38

Oh, the outraged innocence! grin
Just scroll back and read all the comments on this thread.
Sometimes other threads too....jura wasn’t it you who made the comment plums in their mouths what is that but class hatred?

MaizieD Fri 05-Oct-18 08:22:56

It's neither class envy nor class hatred, POGS.

I thought better of you than to join in at the level of making unfounded accusations.

POGS Fri 05-Oct-18 01:34:06

It isn't so much ' Class Envy as ' Class Hatred'.

Jalima1108 Thu 04-Oct-18 23:29:51

grin

jura2 Thu 04-Oct-18 23:26:20

Yes please.

MaizieD Thu 04-Oct-18 22:49:11

Rubbish, lemon. I've read nothing from either side of the political divide on here that suggests 'class envy'.

If you don't agree perhaps you'd like to post some examples?

lemongrove Thu 04-Oct-18 22:31:40

Tell that to the delightful Ian Bone Maizie and perhaps anyone else for whom the cap fits.

Anniebach Thu 04-Oct-18 22:30:56

Wrong Maizie , it can be found in posts every day .

MaizieD Thu 04-Oct-18 22:27:42

This class hatred is unpleasant.Somehow it’s fine to howl at MP’s and make fun of them if they are perceived to be upper class but can you imagine the outrage if upper class protesters howled at perceived lower class MP’s.

The 'class hatred' is a complete figment of your imagination, lemon.

Anniebach Thu 04-Oct-18 22:06:04

It’s more than unpleasant, it’s nasty. We have a new nasty party

Bridgeit Thu 04-Oct-18 22:02:27

Absolutely agree Lemongrove, sadly ‘twas always thus ‘

lemongrove Thu 04-Oct-18 21:54:25

This class hatred is unpleasant.Somehow it’s fine to howl at MP’s and make fun of them if they are perceived to be upper class but can you imagine the outrage if upper class protesters howled at perceived lower class MP’s.
If some rich oik camped outside their door and yelled at their children about how awful their Father was.
Think about it!

Bridgeit Thu 04-Oct-18 21:47:26

Sadly they can be Annibach,but not of a true Christian faith.

Anniebach Thu 04-Oct-18 21:21:00

Gay bashing? What rubbish . You believe thugs who attack gays are people of faith?

trisher Thu 04-Oct-18 20:58:58

Your prejudices are your prejudices Annie whatever their source. Faith has over the years been used to justify many things including the domination of women and the persecution of Jews. Neither of which are now acceptable and neither is gay bashing.

Anniebach Thu 04-Oct-18 20:51:48

So people must forfeit their faith ? May seem unacceptable to atheists not to people whose faith guides them

trisher Thu 04-Oct-18 20:26:34

Baggs do you really think What does it matter what the JRMs of the UK think about gay rights, or how they vote on such subjects?
Do you not think that such beliefs feed into the prejudice and thoughts of extremists and that the fact that gay people are still physically and verbally abused is partly due to people like JRM who make unacceptable prejudice seem harmless. And that by dismissing such opinions as harmless you are saying gay preudice is acceptable. Could you imagine making the same comments about racist opinions?

Ilovecheese Thu 04-Oct-18 20:05:00

There seems to be an assumption that if a person who is disliked happens to be rich, then those that dislike them are somehow envious or an inverted snob.

This assumption appears to me to be a ploy to discredit the views of a poster with a different opinion

Ilovecheese Thu 04-Oct-18 19:58:35

I also think he is a very good manipulator, he knows that his good manners impress, and that all he has to do is keep his temper and he will win support. I think he deliberately adopts his old fashioned image, in order to make himself noticable, not just another back bencher.

I don't think anyone has supported the actions of this Ian Bone, but JRM keeping his children in the doorway was unpleasant and unkind.

Jalima1108 Thu 04-Oct-18 18:50:02

Anniebach grin

Anniebach Thu 04-Oct-18 18:04:09

As the OP said, they don’t really seem like ordinary people, children ?

POGS Thu 04-Oct-18 17:45:10

Maizie d

"That nasty Mr Bone has got to be in the wrong because he shouts and rants and loses his self control while that nice Mr Rees Mogg does all he can to calm the situation. "
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That nasty Mr Bone was in the wrong because he was an adult who should know better than aim his class warfare diatribe at young children!

I bet if Mr Bone had spoken to another MP and his/her children from any party that was not Tory he would be called what he is ' a nasty person' by those he seem to see him as some sort of class warrior, a fellow traveller. Maybe I am mistaken and this sort of behaviour is quite normal, rational even to some!

Bone and his apologists are cementing the point that keeps being made about the rise of open ' Nasty Politics'
we are witnessing over the past 2/3 years being an acceptable activity and politicians are ' fair game' and their families too.

It is one thing to criticize an MP of any colour but to harass their family in the way Jacob Rees Moggs family have been subjected to most certainly no ' fair game'!