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Rees Mogg lying down.

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Lessismore Wed 04-Sept-19 11:56:20

I am livid to see this and well done to Caroline Lucus for calling him out on it.

I wonder how his fans here regard this behaviour?

Imagine a female, possibly even an overweight one ( !) behaving in such a manner or a left winger or Diane Abbott or just about anybody really!! It is quite unbelievable.

blueskies Thu 05-Sept-19 15:14:17

Boos gran Jeremy Corbyn is a decent honourable man who doesn’t do personal. There aren’t many like that. If you feel you have to criticise him please spell out your reason. Please not just something you’ve read in a rag of a newspaper.tell us exactly what you disagree with in his manifesto so we know where you are coming from.

4allweknow Thu 05-Sept-19 15:16:13

It didn't look like it, but sometimes MP, Lords look as if they are asleep as they are listening through the speakers sunk into the back of the seats. Who wouldn't be semi recumbent listening to the drivel currently spouted in the House of Commons.

Day6 Thu 05-Sept-19 15:18:09

Jeremy Corbyn is a decent honourable man who doesn’t do personal

I think you'll find he DOES. He walks out on Jewish MPs and mouths "Stupid woman" at the Conservative bench in full view of the camera,

That's just for starters.

geeljay Thu 05-Sept-19 15:45:29

I think he was like the rest of us, bored with the nonsense going on in parliament at present.

Lessismore Thu 05-Sept-19 15:50:15

I think he was like the rest of us, bored with the nonsense going on in parliament at present

I am sitting at home, bored with nonsense.

He is being paid, he has been chosen represent people, he has been promoted to Leader of the House.

blueskies Thu 05-Sept-19 16:02:00

DAy 6 explain when and where he walked out on Jewish MPS Please. And the rest...?

Sleepygran Thu 05-Sept-19 16:08:41

Ther was something in Lady Chatterleys Lover when her husband found out about her affair he said something like I'd rather you'd been with an animal than a person from the lower order.JRM seems to me to hold the opinion that persons from the lower order aka all of us,don't deserve respect.He sees himself above everyone,or so it seems to me.

knickas63 Thu 05-Sept-19 16:11:50

JRM is a disgrace - nothing else to say about him. As for the Corbyn bashing? I am constantly astonished at the blindness of people. Vowing never to vote for him and quoting made up nonsense. Spouting complete vitriol. What I really want to know is what part of his actual politics and policies do you disagree with. How much of it is gleaned from right wing editorials rather than fact about the policies? I looked up the policies of both parties on the BBC - who I am firmly convinced have a R Wing bias. You only have to look at the language they use to lay out these policies - but still, the Labour manifesto make so much more civilised sense to me.

knickas63 Thu 05-Sept-19 16:26:46

Increase in personal tax allowance/Cut in corp tax IR an increase to 45% for those 80K and over? Pursue tax evasion, end to Zero hours contracts/No tribunal fees for disputes OR ..Nothing?
Scrap Bedroom Tax/Stop sanctions/no rise in pension age/bus passes/winter fuel OR Means tested winter fuel allowance?
Uni Grants/Childcare for 2 year olds free school meals for primary children OR scrapping lunches and making unis contribute to school funding?
30Bil in extra NHS Funding/no more cutting of MH Budgets OR an increase in NHS Spending, charging 'foreigners' for care (we already do) and increasing privatisation?
1 million more homes - half of which rented or social/ Guarantee help to buy/Ban letting agency fees OR Half rough sleepers/High Density homes
Nationalise Rail, Energy and water/Invest in renewable energy.Ban fracking OR Develop Shale industry, Invest in Wind power>
Respect referendum and build relationship with Europe/Keep workers rights/Protect food quality OR Leave Europe/ Change workers rights/Chlorinated chicken?

pinkquartz Thu 05-Sept-19 16:30:57

I agree with Grandad1943.
Rees-Mogg is an example of the worst type of MP. All privilege and no empathy or compassion or wisdom.

Day6 Thu 05-Sept-19 16:34:55

blueskies, google it. Do your own research.

Day6 Thu 05-Sept-19 16:42:47

Keep workers rights/Protect food quality OR Leave Europe/ Change workers rights/Chlorinated chicken?

Hahaha Knickers.

For a start, every EU law which served us and protected rights and standards has been enshrined in British law - that legal transfer happened ages ago and is on-going.

You promote the UK as being malleable if it leaves the EU.

Brussels lets us go and all of a sudden the only choice is chlorinated chicken?

Stop scaremongering. We have millions of chickens and chicks born daily. We will not have to import stuff that is chlorinated - unless people demand it, of course! There is an opportunity there for UK chicken farmers too! smile

We did not need the EU to civilise us either.

We have led the way in human rights and worker's rights legislation. We are concerned about sweat shops around the world, are we not?

It's not either/or is it?

EU or apocalypse is your point of view.

jura2 Thu 05-Sept-19 16:43:10

His behaviour, body language, contempt and arrogance was wrong - simples. Anyone even attempting to make excuses for him shares the description.

knickas63 Thu 05-Sept-19 16:48:44

Day6 - just did - nothing. Lots of ill founded rubbish about antisemitism in general, but nothing about him 'walking out on Jewish MP's'

Also - I was actually a Brexiteer. I wanted out - but the thought of being out under the Tories terrifies me! By the way. worked since I was 16, own my own home, have a private pension and have 3 kids and 5 grandkids. I am extremely concerned about their future - or any future under the Tories. I have no faith or trust in them at all. Self serving backstabber to a man. I am not an I'm alright Jack sort of person.

jenni123 Thu 05-Sept-19 17:06:58

This might help !!!

Whitewavemark2 Thu 05-Sept-19 17:10:44

day6 are just posting stuff that is popping up in your head? There is a lot of stuff that is either wrong or unsubstantiated.

Whitewavemark2 Thu 05-Sept-19 17:11:01

are you

LondonMzFitz Thu 05-Sept-19 17:16:01

Back to the original post 7 pages ago .... JRM was lying across 3 seats while listening to Independent MP's on the issue of Brexit, there's video of him complete with eyeroll while Caroline Lucas (Green, Brighton) speaks. www.theargus.co.uk/news/17879684.contempuous-jacob-rees-mogg-lambasted-caroline-lucas/ Rude behaviour that should not be excused by "tall", "tired" "hard of hearing" excuses.

I've never voted Conservative. I've voted before on policies and I've never felt that the Conservative party have had the policies I feel strongly about on their agenda. I voted Labour for many years, then LibDem until they "sold out" and jumped in with the Conservatives in 2010. Within an hour of Boris Johnson becoming PM I became a card carrying member of the Green Party.

Lessismore Thu 05-Sept-19 17:29:50

tall is the funniest.

Aspen Thu 05-Sept-19 17:29:54

Remember JRM and Boris went to Eton where manners do not seem to matter. I was horrified at that photo of Boris putting his feet on the coffee table while speaking to Macron.

Grannyrebel Thu 05-Sept-19 18:12:48

Boosgran - Jeremy Corbyn did not say "Stupid woman". He said "Stupid people". Neither is he a Marxist. He just wants a fair society and you never hear of him slagging anyone off. He's an honourable politician unlike most. I am so tired of people and the press insulting him especially the Daily Mail.

westendgirl Thu 05-Sept-19 18:29:16

I have just heard Rees-Mogg on the news denigrating the neurologist who wrote some of the Yellowhammer report, an expert in his field . Rees-Mogg was dreadful calling the doctor irresponsible and fear-mongering.the doctor may sue..

jura2 Thu 05-Sept-19 18:33:36

and it was just sick to compare him with the disgraced anti MMR doctor

Lessismore Thu 05-Sept-19 18:34:55

Aspen, you poor deluded fool, that was joke apparently.

Lessismore Thu 05-Sept-19 18:39:52

Rees-Mogg told MPs:

Preparations are in place and they are being done with remarkable efficiency. But yes, a lot of remainers wish to make our skins crawl.

"What [Nicholl] had to say, I will repeat it, is as irresponsible as Dr Wakefield in threatening that people will die because we leave the European Union. What level of irresponsibility was that?

And I’m afraid it seems to me that Dr David Nicholl is as irresponsible as Dr Wakefield"

This is dreadful.