[Watchman]

Colour me shocked!

Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... SApp_Other

[Youngian]

He is absolutely the worst sort of Tory to put up for interview at the moment, yet they have to have him as there’s more or less no one else left.

Hold my beer

[Watchman]

Fuck me! Is that a photo of the witch, on the lectern ?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Barry Legg is a blast from the past. One of the 1992 Tory intake, supporter of flat tax and abolishing child benefit. Booted out of Milton Keynes South West on a 14.6% swing in 1997. Brought back by IDS as his chief of staff, MPs and the men in grey suits weren't impressed.

[mattomac]

There was another fringe meeting that had a statue of Thatcher, the rebuild of the Tory Party will require a distancing of themselves from Thatcher, it’s getting more toxic as the years pass.

[Samanfur]

The US Editor-at-Large of the FT, everyone. I wish we could've seen Krishnan's face at the crucial moment:

[davidjay]

Refpect where it'f due.

Jacob Reeſ-Mogg’ſ hand-written resignation letter iſ ſlathered with pretention


https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/25/jacob-re ... -17633956/

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sunak had to get rid of the "moron premium", hence Rees-Mogg couldn't stay in an economic portfolio. I suppose we're lucky he didn't get let loose on Culture or something.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

From Popbitch:

Schoolboy pranks can often be cruel. Schoolboy pranks at Eton, especially so. But we heard of one this week that seemed not only victimless, but actively fun for all involved.

Classmates who attended Eton with Jacob Rees-Mogg had a longstanding prank they liked to play on him over the years they were there. Someone would start singing or whistling the National Anthem whenever he was in earshot, then watch as young Jacob would stop whatever he was doing to proudly stand for it.

Never got boring, apparently.

[Youngian]

Someone would start singing or whistling the National Anthem whenever he was in earshot, then watch as young Jacob would stop whatever he was doing to proudly stand for it.

That’s cosplay Mogg, the real Jacob gets up for Champagne by Sailor and ABBA’s Money.

[Yug]

While Give prefers an old J.J. Cale number.

[Crabcakes]

You have to wonder how much of it is his own bizarre act, like ‘Boris’ isn’t a real person. It’s almost like sending certain people to a certain boarding school programmes them for life to create a public charade.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Could I refer you to 'The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life' by Erving Goffman.

We all present a construct to others, but some speak of a very deep insecurity and needs to dupe to gain our ends.

Presentation of Self

Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life was published in 1956, with a revised edition in 1959.[15] He had developed the book's core ideas from his doctoral dissertation. It was Goffman's first and most famous book, for which he received the American Sociological Association's 1961 MacIver Award.

Goffman describes the theatrical performances that occur in face-to-face interactions. He holds that when someone comes in contact with another person, he attempts to control or guide the impression the other person will form of him, by altering his own setting, appearance and manner. At the same time, the second person attempts to form an impression of, and obtain information about, the first person. Goffman also believes that participants in social interactions engage in certain practices to avoid embarrassing themselves or others. Society is not homogeneous; we must act differently in different settings. This recognition led Goffman to his dramaturgical analysis. He saw a connection between the kinds of "acts" that people put on in their daily lives and theatrical performances. In a social interaction, as in a theatrical performance, there is an onstage area where actors (people) appear before the audience; this is where positive self-concepts and desired impressions are offered. But there is also a backstage—a hidden, private area where people can be themselves and drop their societal roles and identities.

[Bones McCoy]

While Give prefers an old J.J. Cale number.

Better than Leaky Sue, (because she don't lie).

[Andy McDandy]

IIRC Mogg comes from fairly humble roots on one of his lines of ancestry. Not that far back either. What are the chances he's never forgotten that?

[Youngian]

IIRC Mogg comes from fairly humble roots on one of his lines of ancestry. Not that far back either. What are the chances he's never forgotten that?

Alan Clarke would have observed that the Rees-Moggs overcompensate because they buy their own furniture.

[davidjay]

IIRC Mogg comes from fairly humble roots on one of his lines of ancestry. Not that far back either. What are the chances he's never forgotten that?

Alan Clarke would have observed that the Rees-Moggs overcompensate because they buy their own furniture.

They would if they paid the bill.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

This is Softy Walter's drum, Gornay Court...



For his missus this is a comedown. She was raised in this pile:

[Watchman]

And his missis pile would be the one that was done up to the tune of £7m of taxpayers money

[Spoonman]

Your occasional reminder that Domonic Cummings had to lock this sociopathic cunt up in the wardrobe for the rest of the GE2019 campaign after his comments on the victims of the Grenfell disaster...

We mustn’t be too snowflakey about Raab bullying claims, says Rees-Mogg

Civil service union accuses former minister of ‘trivialising’ allegations against deputy prime minister

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -rees-mogg