Quote: Dally "He'll be very popular with the oldest voters and he's become a cult figure among sections of the young. Be careful what you wish for.'" There's no one who'd have voted labour who's now in moggmentum. He'll have a cult following with these s metro.co.uk/2017/08/30/young-tor ... s-6891620/

Quote: Dally "He'll be very popular with the oldest voters and he's become a cult figure among sections of the young. Be careful what you wish for.'" There's no one who'd have voted labour who's now in moggmentum. He'll have a cult following with these s metro.co.uk/2017/08/30/young-tor ... s-6891620/

The same as Boris, when you look what they actually stand for it's repulsive.

That would be the "young" who tried to form a Tory version of Momentum, and were quickly outed (by Guido Fawkes no less) as having a WhatsApp group where they had a jolly old lol about gassing chavs?

I don't think anyone in Labour will be worried too much about the potential for those people to be swing voters, do you?

The Mogg is a bit like BoJo in that the Tories wheel him out when they need to cause a distraction.

He has the same kind of novelty function as Dennis Skinner for a section of the left, or several other politicians across the spectrum. It's good click bait but only a numpty would believe their outward schtick has a bearing of the serious practical political horse trading done largely behind the scenes in committees, briefings and meetings. Boris is a bit different, behind his bumbling schtick, he has held, and indeed currently does hold, serious roles with genuine influence. Mogg on the other hand has been an MP for nearly 8 years, but he hasn't chaired a committee, nor has he been a junior minister, nor does he have a latent powerbase to tap into (which is what Corbyn has successfully managed to do, but even Corbyn has had to tone down his previous loonie leftie schtick in order to transition from novelty politics to serious politics).

Oh man. Can't believe i missed this post from "Dally-mail", which translates to "good to see someone stand up to what they believe in as long as it's xenophobic or doesn't have people's best interests at heart.

Regards

King James

Jacob Rees-Mogg on the massive increase in the use of food banks:

"I don’t think the state can do everything. It tries to provide a base of welfare that should allow people to make ends meet during the course of the week, but on some occasions that will not work. And to have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.”

That's out of touch, privileged and contempt for real people, summed in one statement.

Every clever tory heavyweight who supported Leave has taken steps to make sure they don't get thrust into the drivers seat as Brexit unfolds.
Rees Mogg probably believes the guff he spouts, but he will have said it publicly to scupper the campaign to get him elected before it gets off the ground.

*Kevin Keegan Mode*

I will love it, if he's elected as Tory leader.

Fabulous man.

Indeed, a Prince Among Men.

Such strongly held personal beliefs, that he has no issues with profiting from a company that sells pills used to induce abortion; he's clearly a man of principle.

He's not the first high profile politician to bravely set aside his principles for the greater good of his wallet. I remember when Ken Livingstone made anti-Semitic remarks to a Jewish reporter (nobody finds this stuff even remotely unusual from him anymore) he used the justification that the Evening Standard was part of Daily Mail Group, and in the 1930's the Daily Mail was sympathetic to Hitler (an attitude which wasn't all that uncommon in UK prior to Second World War). What Livingstone didn't say was that he himself had worked for the Evening Standard as a paid restaurant critic, apparently there's some sort of special argument where it didn't count when it was him.

that's a truly amazing non-sequitur, your obsession with Ken Livingstone seems to outweigh even his obsession with Hitler

I am an older voter and he is not in anyway popular with me. Hes just another pratt in a long line of right wing pratts....and no, I didnt vote for Brexit either even though I am a baby boomer.