[Youngian]

Bloody hope so.

The Owen Paterson scandal is the beginning of the end for Jacob Rees-Mogg

Tory knives are sharpening for a leader of the house who has lost all credibility.

The Sun alleges Rees-Mogg then told Boris Johnson the sieve-like plan was “watertight”. Yet once floated, it sank almost instantly, taking Tory credibility and poll ratings down with it.

The leader column of the Times, which has moved closer to Johnson’s government in recent months, today excoriates Rees-Mogg. “The greatest culpability lies with those who orchestrated this assault on the integrity of the political system,” it says, castigating him for his “effort to establish a sham committee.” Given that his father William was editor of the paper from 1967 to 1981 and later spent nearly 20 years as one of its columnists, this should provide a deeply shaming moment of reflection for Jacob. It will not. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/jacob- ... n-scandal/

[Crabcakes]

Mogg inexplicably thinks himself superior to more or less everyone. Hence the u-turn was delivered as if it were a lecture about the govt. having to change tack because everyone was too stupid to understand it wasn't a fudge job, rather than anything even remotely conciliatory which may have calmed things down a bit (or at least made the lie that it wasn't a fudge job but a misunderstanding easier to pass).

The problem for Mogg is, the group of people who were "too stupid" contained a considerable number of Tory MPs, and now his boss doesn't like him because he's made him look not only bad, but weak.

[Boiler]

The sooner that talentless, poisonous and pompous prick is excised from public life and exiled to his counting house, the better.

[Nigredo]

I think the haunted Victorian pencil will stay awhile longer because if he goes, who is left to talk up the success of Brexit aside from a few fringe loons on the backbench?

[Andy McDandy]

As I've said before, he's stuck in the mindset of his days as a prefect at Eton. Ever so pleased that he's got privileged access, and can upbraid people over breaking of arcane rules.

[mattomac]

Everyone is trying to fan the shit over each other.

Hope it covers them all.

[Boiler]

Pompous prick gets pricked:

[Cyclist]

That's not the first time the haunted pencil has come out with that bollocks. You'd have thought an educated man like him would learn from his mistakes.

Pig ignorant, just like the rest of 'em.

[Crabcakes]

There’s a massive difference between someone who is educated and someone who has been through the education system.

[Youngian]

Massive difference between class and having some.

[Cyclist]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has been reported to Boris Johnson’s ethics watchdog after The Mail on Sunday revealed he did not declare £6 million in cheap loans from his Cayman Islands-linked company.

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has demanded an investigation into the ‘director’s loans’ taken out by Mr Rees-Mogg, on which he paid interest equivalent to 0.8 per cent over three years....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -Mogg.html

Apologies for the source.

[Boiler]

Oh, the comments...

However, kudos to Rayner as she really seems to have the bit between her teeth on such matters at the moment.

[davidjay]

When even Paul Staines is against you...

[Boiler]

Jacob Rees-Mogg cleared of breaking MP rules over loans

Quoting the Shakespeare play Othello in a tweet, the House of Commons leader added: "Who steals my purse steals trash… but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed."

[Bones McCoy]

Jacob Rees-Mogg cleared of breaking MP rules over loans

Quoting the Shakespeare play Othello in a tweet, the House of Commons leader added: "Who steals my purse steals trash… but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed."

By Othello's standards, Mogg has been beggaring himself for years.

[Andy McDandy]

Iago. Hardly a person with a "good name".

[Cyclist]

Rees-Mogg. Hardly a person with a "good name".


I'd take Iago over the haunted pencil any day of the week.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Jakey leaves without a stain on his character.

I think it's really unfair that what lots of people will take from this is "a loan to himself of 6 fucking million?!"

No, the real news here is that he's been cleared. In the £6m loan affair.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Iago. Hardly a person with a "good name".

Which was Shakespeare's point, of course. Irony on many levels. Don't expect JRM to bother with the subtleties.

[Boiler]

Jakey leaves without a stain on his character.

I think it's really unfair that what lots of people will take from this is "a loan to himself of 6 fucking million?!"

Perfectly legal though. Take a *lot* of noughts off and I've done one to myself in the past - it's a director's loan.

I'm more pissed off with the gratuitous Shakespeare.