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Any Jacob Rees-Mogg fans here?

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    #32
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    prinzeugen wrote: »
    There a few politicians I would like that to happen to. Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn for starts.

    Christ. What a sick thought.


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    #33
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    facehugger99 wrote: »
    Name me someone with a double-barreled surname that isn’t a twat?

    Michael Healy-Rae.


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    #34
    elperello
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    To get back to Rees-Mogg, himself and Boris put me in mind of Lord Snooty and Billy Bunter.

    It is unfortunate for them that many people think likewise and dismiss them on that basis.


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    #35
    Signore Fancy Pants
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    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    Cheers, not the reaction I wanted to a genuine and honest desire of mine.

    Jaysis.

    You're an awful human being.


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    #36
    TheAnalyst_
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-43922740/the-voice-of-the-12-year-old-jacob-rees-mogg

    Christ I hate him so much.


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    #37
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,280 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Comhra wrote: »
    Michael Healy-Rae.

    I think you'd find many who would disagree with that opinion, myself included. And I'd add his brother in too.


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    #38
    AllForIt
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    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    Cheers, not the reaction I wanted to a genuine and honest desire of mine.

    You do have weird fantasies. And it's such an insult to anyone who has died or is suffering from cancer.


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    #39
    fiveleavesleft
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    prinzeugen wrote: »
    There a few politicians I would like that to happen to. Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn for starts.

    Wow bit harsh prinzeugen, those two have done nothing of note either good or bad yet to raise your ire. Why not Cameron, Blair or some of our lot :D

    On Mogg as preposterous as he is, its good to see a 20th century Tory the rest are stuck in the 19th!


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    #40
    Will I Am Not
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    He’s another in an ever growing list of almost fictional characters that have somehow come to prominence in varying levels of importance through identity politics. Like Trump, Farage, Trudeau, Zappone...
    The world has gotten very weird.


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    #41
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    RDM_83 again wrote: »
    Like him or not he's a smart dude, I think despite his retro image he's pretty clued into a certain part of the modern Zeitgeist, the fact that there is a thread here shows how successfully he has used his image e.g responding to protesters so on and social media management e.g the video of him being shown memes about himself, considering at the end of the day he's actually only been a rebellious backbencher for the last 8 years, he has also grown his already substantial lump of cash a lot

    Not a fan of his politics though

    I tend to like the sardonic wit of the British upper classes and I have known some in my life, as I managed to get into a grad program at one of the elite English colleges. And if you aren’t a threat they like or at least tolerate you. Not that I ever got invited clay shooting.

    But they are definitely not as smart as they think, , or people think. There’s something about both the elite British accent and their use of language that tends to make people infer an intelligence that isn’t there.

    The 40 letter writers, the Brexit buccaneers are all clowns.


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    #42
    Jimbob1977
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    His nickname is 'The Right Honourable Member for the 17th Century' due to his traditional views.

    He is a brilliant orator. I've seen him take Dimbleby apart on Question Time with a few well-delivered jibes.

    He would take Britain back to the days of Empire, but they're long gone.


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    #43
    TheAnalyst_
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    AllForIt wrote: »
    You do have weird fantasies. And it's such an insult to anyone who has died or is suffering from cancer.

    Not really. What, 30% of us will die from cancer so I'd like him to be one and sooner rather than later. This might negate some of the huge damage that he's trying to do.


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    #44
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    Not really. What, 30% of us will die from cancer so I'd like him to be one and sooner rather than later. This might negate some of the huge damage that he's trying to do.

    100% of people will die. Wishing death or a horrible illness on anybody is sick.


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    #45
    MissShihTzu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭MissShihTzu


    Am I a fan of JRM? No. Most definitely not.


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    #46
    Fann Linn
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    I like him for the part he is playing in tearing the Conservative Party in two.


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    #47
    Gimme A Pound
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    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    No, I'd be happy to see him die from cancer.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    cnut of the highest and may he die unloved mocked and in agonies
    prinzeugen wrote: »
    There a few politicians I would like that to happen to. Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn for starts.
    What the heck have any of them done to deserve that?!

    I mean Rees Mogg's views are too conservative for me (although he's entitled to hold them) and I'm opposed to Brexit, but I think a lot of the anti Rees Mogg press is kinda bandwagon-ish. There is a huge love and need for pantomime villains. He is not that bad.


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    #48
    The Rape of Lucretia
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    Saw this thread, and my first thought was, salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.


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    #49
    Gimme A Pound
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    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Saw this thread, and my first thought was, salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo.
    Oh god yeah me too.


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    #50
    boggerman1
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    An uncanny resemblance to a young devalara is moggy in my opinion.


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    #51
    Zaph
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    Fann Linn wrote: »
    I like him for the part he is playing in tearing the Conservative Party in two.

    I would generally agree, but the problem they have in Britain is that there isn't anything any better to replace them with. Labour is equally fragmented and has issues of its own. As it stands I don't think either of them are fit to be in government.


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    #52
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    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    His nickname is 'The Right Honourable Member for the 17th Century' due to his traditional views.

    He is a brilliant orator. I've seen him take Dimbleby apart on Question Time with a few well-delivered jibes.

    He would take Britain back to the days of Empire, but they're long gone.

    Speaking of being taken apart, Anna Soubrey basically filleted him in the HoC a few months back in a Brexit debate. This clown has few if any redeeming features. His politics make as much sense as Walter Mitty.


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    #53
    Thomyokk
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    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    No, I'd be happy to see him die from cancer.

    You probably need to dumb-down your username

    TheRabble or Something like that


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    #54
    darlett
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    TheAnalyst_ wrote: »
    His kids seem complete twats as well.

    6 kids aged from eleven to one, seem like complete twats? And you the one wishing cancer and death on their father.

    His politics seem **** but play the ball not the man and his family.


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    #55
    endacl
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    boggerman1 wrote: »
    An uncanny resemblance to a young devalara is moggy in my opinion.
    Walter the Softy.

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    British politics needs Dennis the Menace.


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    #56
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Zaph wrote: »
    I would generally agree, but the problem they have in Britain is that there isn't anything any better to replace them with. Labour is equally fragmented and has issues of its own. As it stands I don't think either of them are fit to be in government.

    I'll take the current status quo for the next few months or so. This fall in sterling is doing me no harm at all.


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    #57
    fiveleavesleft
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    endacl wrote: »
    Walter the Softy.

    stream_img.jpg

    British politics needs Dennis the Menace.

    The Beast of Bolsover.


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    #58
    Billy86
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    He represents a large section of society and does it very well. All sections of society need to be represented in political life
    Are you saying that without the Moggshite, the ultra wealthy "Old Etonian" crowd in the UK would be underrepresented in politics?


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    #59
    Yer Da sells Avon
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    darlett wrote: »
    6 kids aged from eleven to one, seem like complete twats?

    Considering their upbringing, they'll do well to avoid evolving into twats, albeit through no real fault of their own. Just as it wasn't Jacob Rees-Mogg's fault that he became a twat, given the fact that his father - William Rees-Mogg - was a known twat.

    They twat you up, your mum and dad.


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    #60
    The Rape of Lucretia
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    He is one smart guy, though. You dont become head of a research group if you dont know what you are talking about.


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    #61
    Billy86
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    Will I Am Not wrote: »
    He’s another in an ever growing list of almost fictional characters that have somehow come to prominence in varying levels of importance through identity politics. Like Trump, Farage, Trudeau, Zappone...
    The world has gotten very weird.
    Welcome to politics as sports - where policy means sweet feck all, so it becomes a game of "who's the biggest 'character' at the club in the party I support?" - With sweet feck all interest given into "why do I even support that club party in the first place?"


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