Jacob Rees-Mogg
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This chap should be PM.
Was on 5 news tonight (don't ask, no idea why it was on TV!) talking about Google's tax payments and, as usual when I've seen him speak, nailed it. The newsreader and some nondescript opposing view simply could not put up a cohesive argument.
Many won't be able to see beyond the accent or colour of his rosette, but I've always been impressed by him and the sheer common sense he speaks. We need more politicians like this.
Was on 5 news tonight (don't ask, no idea why it was on TV!) talking about Google's tax payments and, as usual when I've seen him speak, nailed it. The newsreader and some nondescript opposing view simply could not put up a cohesive argument.
Many won't be able to see beyond the accent or colour of his rosette, but I've always been impressed by him and the sheer common sense he speaks. We need more politicians like this.
An interesting fellow certainly, but as PM? Nah...
I’ve never been able to quite get to grips with the way his mind works. He comes across very much as an old-school High Tory in much the same way as, for example, Alex Douglas Hume did. And I’m not sure that history tells us that that sort of bloke is the best sort of bloke to be in charge of one of the two major parties in the UK.
I think it is fair to conclude that the man is intelligent. However, should you see him on shows such as Have I Got News For You (that he seems to enjoy doing), I can only assume that he is often taking the piss out of himself – for example, conversations about “his nanny” in his younger days in front of the likes of Hislop and Merton are only going to go one way, after all...
All that said, he is an MP for a constituency just down the road from me – indeed, there used to be a regular poster on PH (called mr purple - he seems to have gone awfully quiet since UKIP’s stunning result in the last GE) who might actually live in his constituency. Perhaps he could pass comment on how good a constituency MP he is – I suspect quite a good one.
However, in PR and marketing terms – if you want Jeremy Corbin as PM in 2020, vote for Jacob to replace Call Me Dave ...
I’ve never been able to quite get to grips with the way his mind works. He comes across very much as an old-school High Tory in much the same way as, for example, Alex Douglas Hume did. And I’m not sure that history tells us that that sort of bloke is the best sort of bloke to be in charge of one of the two major parties in the UK.
I think it is fair to conclude that the man is intelligent. However, should you see him on shows such as Have I Got News For You (that he seems to enjoy doing), I can only assume that he is often taking the piss out of himself – for example, conversations about “his nanny” in his younger days in front of the likes of Hislop and Merton are only going to go one way, after all...
All that said, he is an MP for a constituency just down the road from me – indeed, there used to be a regular poster on PH (called mr purple - he seems to have gone awfully quiet since UKIP’s stunning result in the last GE) who might actually live in his constituency. Perhaps he could pass comment on how good a constituency MP he is – I suspect quite a good one.
However, in PR and marketing terms – if you want Jeremy Corbin as PM in 2020, vote for Jacob to replace Call Me Dave ...
rs1952 said:
dandarez said:
On Cameron's EU reforms?
'Pretty thin gruel'. (J. Rees-Mogg)
That's exactly what I mean. Not the sort of thing to appeal to the average man on the Clapham omnibus, is it?'Pretty thin gruel'. (J. Rees-Mogg)
In 2016, that average man's first thought on the Clapham omnibus would be:
"What's gruel?"
rs1952 said:
dandarez said:
On Cameron's EU reforms?
'Pretty thin gruel'. (J. Rees-Mogg)
That's exactly what I mean. Not the sort of thing to appeal to the average man on the Clapham omnibus, is it?'Pretty thin gruel'. (J. Rees-Mogg)
In 2016, that average man's first thought on the Clapham omnibus would be:
"What's gruel?"
rs1952 said:
An interesting fellow certainly, but as PM? Nah...
I’ve never been able to quite get to grips with the way his mind works. He comes across very much as an old-school High Tory in much the same way as, for example, Alex Douglas Hume did. And I’m not sure that history tells us that that sort of bloke is the best sort of bloke to be in charge of one of the two major parties in the UK.
I think it is fair to conclude that the man is intelligent. However, should you see him on shows such as Have I Got News For You (that he seems to enjoy doing), I can only assume that he is often taking the piss out of himself – for example, conversations about “his nanny” in his younger days in front of the likes of Hislop and Merton are only going to go one way, after all...
All that said, he is an MP for a constituency just down the road from me – indeed, there used to be a regular poster on PH (called mr purple - he seems to have gone awfully quiet since UKIP’s stunning result in the last GE) who might actually live in his constituency. Perhaps he could pass comment on how good a constituency MP he is – I suspect quite a good one.
However, in PR and marketing terms – if you want Jeremy Corbin as PM in 2020, vote for Jacob to replace Call Me Dave ...
I just read your piece above, it's Corbyn, not Corbin. And it was Alec (not Alex) Douglas-Home (not Hume), although his name was pronounced like that. See I'm still good at this game, it's important (although many no longer think so). I’ve never been able to quite get to grips with the way his mind works. He comes across very much as an old-school High Tory in much the same way as, for example, Alex Douglas Hume did. And I’m not sure that history tells us that that sort of bloke is the best sort of bloke to be in charge of one of the two major parties in the UK.
I think it is fair to conclude that the man is intelligent. However, should you see him on shows such as Have I Got News For You (that he seems to enjoy doing), I can only assume that he is often taking the piss out of himself – for example, conversations about “his nanny” in his younger days in front of the likes of Hislop and Merton are only going to go one way, after all...
All that said, he is an MP for a constituency just down the road from me – indeed, there used to be a regular poster on PH (called mr purple - he seems to have gone awfully quiet since UKIP’s stunning result in the last GE) who might actually live in his constituency. Perhaps he could pass comment on how good a constituency MP he is – I suspect quite a good one.
However, in PR and marketing terms – if you want Jeremy Corbin as PM in 2020, vote for Jacob to replace Call Me Dave ...
I got into trouble at school when AD-H became PM as I had done a caricature of him of an art-room door. In fact, I only just avoided the cane for it!
Just thinking, I could have become a Banksy! Ahh, the crossroads of life...
And I wouldn't compare AD-H to JR-M. He is, as you say, similar in being an old school Tory (the last one!) but I simply can't visualise JR-M carrying a shotgun on a grouse shoot!
Oh, and of course, when CMD does eventually go, 'we' can't vote for his successor.
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