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Rees-Mogg’s belittling the Scottish CON leader was dumb – politicalbetting.com
Rees-Mogg’s belittling the Scottish CON leader was dumb – politicalbetting.com
One of the side stories of the current Tory “party-gate” drama has been the way that Jacob Rees-Mogg sought to belittle the comments of the leader of the Scottish Tories by saying he wasn’t a big figure.
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Unless pissing off the Scots was perceived to be the biggest dead cat readily available...
Edit: Mostly pissing of ScotCons, I guess. Probably hasn't changed many others' opinion of the Tory view on Scotland
Also, first? Surely not
Once Boris has gone, which of his successors is going to employ him?
Good morning @Jacob_Rees_Mogg . I urge you to apologise ASAP for the personal+playground way you dismissed
@Douglas4Moray on Newsnight. Johnson uber-loyalists risk looking like you're willing to trash colleagues and anyone who dares to think a new PM is necessary. Stop it. Now.
https://twitter.com/montie/status/1481528650675761152
Surely "Entitled Eton snob belittles Scots" belongs in the same category?
https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/royal-ascot-capacity-to-be-reduced-this-year-to-offer-an-improved-experience/531793
Not Labour's time or Labour's agenda.
The real list of charges against Boris, the proper one and not the powerless labour one, is being drawn up right now by chief prosecutor Lord Frost.
https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1481563966727991300
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1481405891979010054
Could Rees Mogg be laying the groundwork for a Unilateral Declaration of getting rid of Scotland by the Tories?
And if that is the plan, I wonder how and when the only Tory in the village will become fully signed up to that agenda?
https://bbc.in/3fi68kg
See also; badgers moving goalposts and wrong kind of snow on the line.
https://bbc.in/3fi68kg
{adjusts monocle}
The Times also reports that Tory MPs said the PM told them in the Commons Tea Room after PMQs that he did not believe he had personally done anything wrong, and said: "We're taking hits for something we don't deserve."
It was extremely undignified and coupled with his rudeness in insulting colleagues by treating them as not being worthy of notice (which is rude even if you think Westminster rules all), points to him being actually a pretty nasty, unscrupulous sort.
It is perhaps notable that other former members of the awkward squad have remember members of it, and have caused Boris as much trouble as they did May and Cameron, because that's who they are, it wasn't just a tactic to get ahead.
Even Sunak's teetotalism looks like an inspired career choice.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/have-long-lie-down-tory-25936985?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Boris will rationalise it as bending of the rules and wanting to be a popular boss rewarding staff. No biggie, don't see why i am getting so much grief for this.
But you can't be making the rules and then breaking them, especially when you have imposed such strict restrictions at the behest of SAGE and actually the cover up is the worst part about it.
Edit: and the loss of genetic introgression itno the L.S.T.S. population from the southern subspecies.
Not complaining (very much) though.
Sozza didn't study the autocorrect. Of course you @BlancheLivermore didn't vote Farage.
@BartholomewRoberts did.
I was using the analogy because @kinabalu said that the Labour MPs who put Corbyn on the ballot paper didn't really mean or want him to win. And yet I'm sure he would have no hesitation (perhaps he already has done so) in criticising @BR for voting for Farage while not "meaning" it.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson was asked if he had "moved the goalposts" by claiming the cull was a success.
Mr Paterson explained difficulties lay in the fact the operation was dealing with a wild animal.
"The badgers moved the goalposts. We're dealing with a wild animal, subject to the vagaries of the weather and disease and breeding patterns," he said.
We all know Boris has a long history of just ignoring rules he doesn't agree with. The big problem this time is everybody was living by them under his direction. So his usual oh cripes look zip wire failure routine won't work.
That's going to be a catastrophic statement in Scotland.
There were reports at the funeral of Phillip that Andrew wanted to go in uniform IIRC, and that the Queen had to step in to sort out the disagreement about it with Charles. I recall thinking at the time that that it took a 95 year old woman, who had just lost her lifelong love and companion, to stop the rest of them bickering over something inconsequential, was not an encouraging sign. Sort of. They were stupid for risking an outcome that they did not want, and which they knew the public would not want, but it is true they did not recommend him. The Tory MPs making him the preferred choice was because of the, correct, assumption the public would want him him too, at least in the short term. So they were less stupid since they expected him to win (unlike those with Corbyn), but were more culpable since they accepted the potential risks.
For whom it would be instant dismissal.
But let's ask him. Bartholomew? ...
Your comment is defamatory and likely to cost OGH a lot of money, please do not repeat it again.
The Scottish party is no more important to the Tory party than any other regional branch of it, it is the UK Tory party as a whole who will decide who its leader is, after all that is the whole point of the Union. The whole UK determines the UK government, not just Scots, Scots have their own parliament for much domestic policy post devolution but Westminster still remains the UK parliament
Under Truss the Tories would likely be even further behind than the 9% they are under Boris in today's poll
So we can guess at Nanny's accent.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/01/13/voting-intention-con-28-lab-38-11-12-jan
We all know what happens to PBers who get fixated on them.
Also, worth pointing out that OGH's liability is secondary to the actual poster, and OGH could probably, and justifiably, earn himself a hold harmless agreement in exchange for the poster's email and IP address.
I mean we all know in normal times MPs got to the commons bar during "work" time.
He excoriated the staunch Brexiteer after he was accused of contemptuous behaviour for reclining in the House of Commons during the Brexit debate this week.
Sir Nicholas said the behaviour was “repulsive” and believed the leader of the Commons is in “serious danger of believing his own schtick”.He told The Times: “I wanted to kick him firmly in the arse and say, ‘What the hell do you think you are playing at? Sit up!’
“[Rees-Mogg] is a living example of what a moderately cut double-breasted suit and a decent tie can do with an ultra-posh voice and a bit of ginger stuck up his arse. You do not behave like that as leader of the House.”
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/sir-nicholas-soames-labels-jacob-rees-mogg-an-absolute-fraud-335811
I think the fraud includes the accent.
Not surprising that it's not for everyone.