grr666
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He's a bit plummy I suppose. But then again, I'm from Dagenham and sound like I am.  That said, he speaks no
more 'poshly' than my wife, who despite being from Bristol herself, gives absolutely zero clue to this via her accent.
Most people I meet in this part of the world I now live in sound like hobbitses to me 'Mr Frodo'.
Heres a recent interview with the guy
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I disagree with many of his views but I do like him. However I feel he would be unsuitable because of a different reason, he has too many members of his family in Parliament. His father Lord Rees-Mogg is in the Lords, and his sister Annuciana is a Tory MP.
| grr666 wrote: | You reckon there's many pink Conservative votes to be lost then huh?
Interesting... |
Tories have the most gay MPs.
| Tierbirdy wrote: | He's pretty much the epitome of out of touch with the real world, upper class toff politicians. I'd be all in favour for banning anyone who holds sky fairy beliefs seriously from being involved in any kind of politics. The sooner these ridiculous bronze age fairy tales die out the better.
Don't like gay marriage because "God" says its wrong? Well where is this "God" chap? Tell you what, when he comes and says it to me personally maybe I'll take it seriously, but until then the rights of people who actually exist are more important than upsetting your invisible sky fairies. |
God/Allah is typically used selectively. Americans are great for this, they pick bits from the Bible that suit them and ignore the rest. Oh I see you are protesting gays in mixed fabrics and on a Sunday... so really that's 2 rules vs 1 right?
Still people shouldn't lose the sight of the fact that generally Islam is actively hostile and dangerous, whereas Christianity is just a bit weird but largely helpful to the wider community. There is no comparison.
| Lord Percy wrote: | | doggone wrote: | Its hard not to rather like him, perhaps mainly because of how much some others despise him.
Clearly a very intelligent thoughtful chap anyway. |
Smoke and mirrors, I reckon.
People like him because he displays everything that we've been led to believe is 'British', insofar as he talks posh, has a reasonably stiff upper lip, he's clearly done a lot of Eton philosophy classes that the likes of you or I don't get taught in the national curriculum and, mainly, he's toff as fuck, which is the main aspect of Britishness that we've all had sold to us since the days of the empire.
Not that his ideas are disagreeable - https://www.jacobreesmogg.com/platform/ - but he isn't radically different from anyone else in UK politics.
He's starting to get a cult following on social media now too. The UK is entering the realm of celebrity politics. Seems like Boris Johnson was only the start. |
Philosophy -> Non-subject. |
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