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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.

Lessismore Thu 05-Sept-19 18:40:39

I include his comments jura. Really shocking.

allule Thu 05-Sept-19 18:51:02

Funny there's been so little comment on BJ mouthing at Corbyn....big girl's blouse.

Boosgran Thu 05-Sept-19 18:51:56

No granyrebel you are wrong. He DID say stupid woman and you’re stupid if you can’t see the word stupid coming out of his mouth.

varian Thu 05-Sept-19 18:52:20

Disgusting pathetic Bullingdon club sexism.

jura2 Thu 05-Sept-19 18:52:37

and chlorinated chicken - the Speaker should have intervened and make him apologise, on both occasions.

varian Thu 05-Sept-19 19:06:52

I normally support the Speaker but I think on this occasion he was remiss in allowing JRM to lol about on the government front bench in this contemptuous way, deliberately insulting House of Commons of which he is supposed to be the Leader.

Leaders are supposed to lead by example.

What a dreadful example he has set.

I did not attend Eton College, so I don't know whether that sort of offensive behaviour was encouraged or even tolerated there, but it certainly would never have been allowed at my school.

Firecracker123 Thu 05-Sept-19 19:12:34

All this Faux outrage over Boris's chlorinated chicken and his big girls blouse jibe is ridiculous.

M0nica Thu 05-Sept-19 19:16:59

Bercow was merely allowing Boris to show himself up for the total prat he is. He is allowing him to make enough rope to hang himself by (metaphorically) or possible dig a very big ditch to die in. (again metaphorically).

The worse he behaves, the lower his standing in the country, and, equally importantly, the lower his standing in the international community and the EU.

Firecracker123 Thu 05-Sept-19 19:21:24

Actually Boris is 10 points ahead in the polls.

maddyone Thu 05-Sept-19 19:25:34

Labaik

‘A phoney MP, imo, is one who acts purely in self interest, and there are plenty of those on government at the moment, including the PM.........’

That would be Corbyn then.

Labaik Thu 05-Sept-19 19:47:56

Hugo Dixon, who has been friends with Johnson since childhood has just said on the news that one of the problems is that Johnson has never been a committed Eurosceptic. He only joined the leave side as he thought he thought it would further his political career.

varian Thu 05-Sept-19 19:53:28

A would not be confident about predicting a much longer political career for Boris Johnson. He's had his chance and blown it.

M0nica Thu 05-Sept-19 19:55:49

If he is ahead in the polls, it is a good reason for the Speaker to do everything he can to let BJ expose himself as the nasty little self-serving sh*t he is.

lemongrove Thu 05-Sept-19 20:04:20

Nothing is over as yet Varian.....election looming soon.

Labaik Thu 05-Sept-19 20:11:19

lemon; are you prepared to defend the way Rees Mogg has spoken about that doctor today?

crystaltipps Thu 05-Sept-19 20:14:40

Remember the faux outrage when Corbyn called May a stupid woman? As for Tres Smugg and the doctor... I’d know who I’d trust on matters medical. He’s asked Smugg to repeat his comments outside parliament so he can sue him.

lemongrove Thu 05-Sept-19 20:17:17

I don’t know what the doctor said or what JRM said Labaik but it has nothing to do with the OP in any case.

lemongrove Thu 05-Sept-19 20:19:23

I don’t think the ‘outrage’ was at all faux.. the LOTO muttering that at T May was more than a little obnoxious.

Labaik Thu 05-Sept-19 20:25:04

Don't you watch the news? Can you not, for just once, call a spade a spade?

Lessismore Thu 05-Sept-19 20:28:45

How can there be no connection? Of course there is. The man lying down is the same man who said dreadful things about a neurosurgeon.

That is a connection.

lemongrove Thu 05-Sept-19 20:30:59

Are you spoiling for a fight Labaik?
I didn’t see or hear about JRM/ doctor other than a few posters on GN decrying it.What does it have to do with me?
Do you mistake me for a fan of JRM and all that he does?
I have a busy life outside GN and am not glued to tv or radio all day.Is that OK with you?hmm

Lessismore Thu 05-Sept-19 20:32:41

have a quick google and get back to us maybe?

grin

lemongrove Thu 05-Sept-19 20:33:17

Oh Lessismore ?
A man is lounging in the HOC ..a quite separate thing from anything that man said or did.

jura2 Thu 05-Sept-19 21:33:13

oh let's have a spade- and dig a ditch Labaik ;)

lemongrove Thu 05-Sept-19 21:34:52

A spoon may be more appropriate for you jura2 ?