Jacob Rees-Mogg is using his pious image to con us | David Mitchell

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  1. Imo posh and privileged does not equal trustworthy. It equals highly likely to be a corrupt self serving piece of shit.

  2. Whilst I’m glad that David Mitchell has now seen through Rees-Mogg I’m surprised he was ever fooled by him.

    Mogg exudes privilege because that’s his true belief. He is the epitome of elitism and it should come as no surprise that he would only act in a self-serving manner – he is the elite and whatever is good for him is good absolute. Such actions are not inconsistent with his pious and pompous character – they are fundamental to it and the character of the Tory party he inhabits.

    Nothing he or his mates can do is wrong because actions that are to their benefit are by definition good as the right people profit and power and the wrong people don’t and are kept in their places. Corruption only happens when the wrong people profit or gain power.

  3. >..in the autumn of 2019, he was on LBC talking about the Grenfell Tower disaster when something dislodged his mask for a moment. “I think if either of us were in a fire,” he told Nick Ferrari, “whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building. It just seems the commonsense thing to do.”–

    This was the Rees-Mogg watershed moment for me. Never liked him but this betrayed an immense callousness and elitism.

  4. Rees-Mogg, a con? No, say it isn’t so!

    FFS this is a man at the very heart of the Tory establishment, with a more concocted and false persona than his boss Johnson.

    Of course he’s a fucking fraud!

  5. I remember watching have I got news for you and seeing Mitchell’s wife say she was really attracted to Mogg to him

    I hate Mogg and his ilk but it’s interesting context for this article

  6. I’m not sure I agree with the base premise that “this guy is so obviously revolting, that he’s got to be a bastion of integrity”. I prefer the read “if someone shows you who they are, believe them”. And Rees-Mogg is quite obviously the villain in a Dickens novel.

  7. I’d rather be intubated with an eel then spend more than a second thinking about this sly demon ( small d)

  8. I uhm, look I’m sorry no offence to David Mitchell I’m a big fan but if someone is going to present themselves as Mogg has done I’m going to assume he’s an idiot not fit for parliament. Like, who the hell looks at Mogg and says “he’s so repellant at least he must be honestly repellent”. Look. If you’re a fucknut and an idiot on the level Mogg seems to be, it doesn’t matter if he’s pretending to be or not, what you do not do is let that cunt anywhere near office. This seems like self apologetics for someone who didn’t have the sense to condemn a man who codes himself as a dickensian villain. Unfortunately. Sorry Mitchell. You seem like a nice dude, but fuck man. If it looks like a nutcase and quacks like a nutcase, you treat it with the conserned caution it should elicit in any vaguely aware person.

  9. I guess if he’s a priest to the gods of disaster capitalism he could come across as pious. There’s a lot of words I could use to describe that creature but pious is not among them.

  10. Pious? I don’t know about that one, chief, he always seemed like a slimey, self-interested cunt to me. Maybe it was his voting record, or his behaviour, or the things he said, I don’t know maybe that’s just not enough glaring red flags for some people. As funny as David often is I think this article reads like a child pointing out that snow is cold.

  11. A lot of people don’t realise, but before Jacob was the eminent-Mogg you couldn’t mentioned the Mogg family name in connected circles without someone making a ‘smokes a lot of dope’ motion.

    In fact there incredibly close connections between the Mogg family and Howard Marx, but that’s not a story you’ll hear from me.

  12. I’m deeply concerned for the people of North East Somerset, something is very wrong for them to keep electing this class A duplicitous hateful toxic badgerlicker.

  13. “What happened to the raised living standards progressive government of the 2000’s?”

    “They’re gone and we’re back”

    “Who”

    “The spiteful rich self centred snobs who are unaccountably still politicians”

    “But what about continuity blair”

    “Hah you actually believed that tosh?”

    “When we’re done with you you’ll be lucky to be living in a rusted shack with 20 other proles”

    “Scrabbling for the last tin of beans at the foodbank”

  14. The only people who fall for the likes of Boris and Rees Mogg are those with this built-in deference to posh twats. A big chunk of England still seems quite happy to bow and scrape for the Lord of the manner and genuinely appear to consider themselves lesser mortals.

  15. I mean I agree with the article in spirit but seems a rather surface-level critique…
    Like, where have you been for the past 3/4 years?

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