Arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg lay down in the Commons yesterday during the Brexit debate. Cue outrage from the Remainer loonies....
It’s not Jacob Rees-Mogg who is disrespecting democracy
Arrogant MPs are riding roughshod over the will of the people.
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4th September 2019
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Jacob Rees-Mogg was chided by MPs and seemingly the whole of Twitter last night for lounging in the House of Commons during a critical Brexit debate.
Green MP Caroline Lucas called Mogg’s posture ‘contemptuous’ and ‘the physical embodiment of arrogance’.
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Mogg’s horizontal posture ‘demeans the Commons’, said Labour’s Lord Falconer. For Labour MP Toby Perkins, it showed that Mogg felt he was ‘born to rule and far too important to listen to anyone else’s view’. Labour MP Karl Turner tweeted: ‘I’ve never felt a sense of entitlement. This is what that looks like!?’
But the opposition MPs doth protest too much. After all, following the debate, they voted to wrest control of parliament from the government in an attempt to outlaw a No Deal Brexit – which, in effect, means outlawing Brexit full stop.
These MPs might not be as posh as Mogg and might not have gone to Eton, but they are the arrogant and entitled ones here. They think nothing of riding roughshod over the largest democratic mandate in UK history.
The new elite, embodied by the schoolmarmish Caroline Lucas and centrist Labourites, are united in their contempt for Brexit and, by extension, democracy itself. And that is far more shocking than a horizontal Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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MICHAEL LYNCH
4th September 2019 at 9:34 pm
Heard a new Labour member having a sly dig over Mogg’s presumed slouching. She was banging on about the integrity of JRM and the Boris Government. She’d been a school teacher and laid out a detailed description of what her idea of integrity is. Well, I thought, what about her integrity and that of Labour, who not only triggered article 50, but also ran on a mandate of respecting the referendum result in the last election. Wonder how she got through her whole career without an understanding of irony?
MICHAEL LYNCH
4th September 2019 at 9:28 pm
Usual inane stuff and name calling when people can’t get their way. JRM might be an Etonian toff, but he is no anti-democrat. The trouble is that he came too close to the truth when he called the rebels arrogant for their lack of integrity. Members of Parliament are only lent their power by the people and they are, in fact, mere guardians of the sovereignty of the British people. Instead, they’ve handed this over to Brussels by capitulating.
GARETH CORRELIAN
4th September 2019 at 6:39 pm
I come from the welsh valleys, poor and hating the Tories. This man though is a legend. Whether from comfort or contempt at the braying idiots I respect his choice of pose.
SIMON WILKINSON
4th September 2019 at 6:24 pm
There is always the possibility that he IS superior. That his lying back was a spontaneous expression of disdain for the duplicitous spin of the Remain faction and their self-deluding efforts to overthrow democracy. I get it totally.
ALEX GORDON
4th September 2019 at 2:40 pm
Serious question….can anyone relay any quotes from MP’s yesterday which convey more deference and respect for the plebiscite than the following from JRM
“Sovereignty comes from the people to Parliament, it does not come to Parliament out of a void…..We should recognise that the people are our masters and show us to be their servants, not to place ourselves in the position of their overlords”.
A GAME
4th September 2019 at 11:56 am
The BoJo Moggy Show is the hottest ticket in town.
Too funny when Corbyn couldn’t resist the ego hit of declaring himself ready for any election, all fired up. He forgot to keep his eyes down on his script and accidentally looked up. Oops.
I’ve just looked up the “scandal” of JRM handing that whiney doctor his arse on radio. Yeah… seems some people don’t get the idea of what mitigating an identified risk actually means. Which also means, as he alluded to in saying that its a good thing other people are writing up Yellowhammer 2, because with that helpless attitude (and the whole Remain argument stems from a place of helplessness and continues to be supported from a place of frightened helplessness) you have no business whatsoever having a hand in government.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/04/its-not-jacob-rees-mogg-who-is-disrespecting-democracy/