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Rees Mogg. Words almost fail me.

(65 Posts)
Lucca Fri 07-Jan-22 17:05:10

Could this man be any more supercilious, smug, self satisfied?

How can it be acceptable to make light of the plight of refugees ?

MissAdventure Fri 07-Jan-22 17:13:33

Words almost daily me, too.
There is one I can think of, but best not said here.

He thinks he is some sort of amusing raconteur, encouraged by the guffaws of the imbeciles who surround him, like flies round a cows arse. angry

MissAdventure Fri 07-Jan-22 17:14:52

Fail = daily.

Nortsat Fri 07-Jan-22 17:17:37

MissA words fail me daily, too …

MissAdventure Fri 07-Jan-22 17:19:07

smile

Oldbat1 Fri 07-Jan-22 17:36:54

Disgraceful man.

Dickens Fri 07-Jan-22 17:36:57

"We don't want to make it harder for intellectually able people to be Tory party candidates. The Tory party, when it's elected, has to be able to form a government and it's not going to be able to form a government if it has potted plants as candidates simply to make up quotas.

... the "potted plants" he referred to are those who have been State-educated...

The man is deeply unpleasant, smug and conceited. I cannot find one redeeming quality about him. Yet, in 2020, he was rated the 9th most popular politician. What am I missing?

I don't dislike him because he's a Tory, but because his superiority complex is nauseating.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 07-Jan-22 17:37:15

missadventure - love your last sentence ?

Lucca Fri 07-Jan-22 17:53:35

I just do not understand the mentality that has to make a “joke” about everything in his position of responsibility. Shows such an utter lack of empathy. No ability to imagine what being a refugee is like. He’s like the personification of a sneer.

Rosie51 Fri 07-Jan-22 18:01:25

Every time he opens his mouth he shows just how unsuitable he is for any position in public office. While I admit I can only try to imagine some of the hardships others have to face, I can and do try to do so. He just seeps contempt on everyone who isn't him or his horrid inner circle. Vile man.

Chocolatelovinggran Fri 07-Jan-22 18:04:41

Obnoxious pillock- and even state educated
potted plants can see that...

Iam64 Fri 07-Jan-22 18:07:40

He really is a loathsome individual.

Lucca Fri 07-Jan-22 18:14:20

Thank you. Glad it’s not just me. Odious individual, and if he isn’t then that’s how he comes across. I like to think that the decent Conservatives of the past would be ashamed of him.

Iam64 Fri 07-Jan-22 18:42:41

Lucca- he must be a descendant of the Reece-Mog my father railed against. I remember that RM being proudly ‘eccentric’ like this one, cycling and ringing a proper bell, not a cycle bell. Right, I’ll google
I feel sorry for the mini me RM child he carts round his constituency. Awful

MissAdventure Fri 07-Jan-22 18:52:47

I think he revels in his fake eccentricity.
Pillock!

MaizieD Fri 07-Jan-22 18:58:32

I can't read the picture. What does it say?

Baggs Fri 07-Jan-22 19:22:11

It says this:

I wonder how often France has been called “safe” in this Chamber over the centuries, but I think we can accept that it is safe for most refugees – except for those who do not like garlic, who may need to escape. What has been going on in the Channel is op….

Ilovecheese Fri 07-Jan-22 19:26:28

He is unpleasant but he has been popular with a lot of people because he has superficial good manners.

paddyann54 Fri 07-Jan-22 19:31:54

That'll be his father Baron William Reece Mogg ,he was a charmer too,wrote a book about how to make a fortune when the world was in afinancial crisis or some such title.Seems junior took it all in,his fortune has soared during the pandemic while he was happy to take £20 off the poorest !

Iam64 Fri 07-Jan-22 20:10:27

That’s it paddyann

AGAA4 Fri 07-Jan-22 20:12:41

Potted plants are useful and good to have around. What use is JRM?

Whitewavemark2 Fri 07-Jan-22 20:28:10

You do realise the our opinion as oiks will matter not a jot to Smogg.

Coastpath Fri 07-Jan-22 21:04:17

Jacob Rees Mogg's voting record is a catalogue of unkindness. It's the record of a man born into privilege who has spent a lifetime using his advantage to disadvantage others less well off than himself, whilst all the while feathering his own nest.

If state educated people (that's me, over here in the cheap seats) are potted plants, then he is bind weed.

Coastpath Fri 07-Jan-22 21:07:26

Sorry that's not bind weed, but bindweed.
Or Convolvulus arvensis as Jacob would say.

singingnutty Fri 07-Jan-22 22:26:14

I keep wondering why he is allowed to say all these obnoxious things and get away with it. It isn’t as if he succeeds by being a buffoon like Bojo. My theory is that he knows a lot of things about individual fellow Tories that they would not like to be public and so he seems to be able to say whatever he likes. He is contemptible IMHO.