The fall of the Tory party

The thing you've got to remember with Jacob Rees-Mogg is that he is new money. He wants to be upper class but his family has very little history, so he is looked down upon by people with much less money but more family history.

His wife is far more "landed gentry" than he can ever be.

You can be worth £150m but that counts for fuck all amongst the upper class if your great-great-great-great-grandfather wasn't a Baronet/etc.

We all die alone!

Cosplay ain’t cheap….

soiling himself in public.

Nanny!

The thing you've got to remember with Jacob Rees-Mogg is that he is new money.

The kind of man who bought all his furniture?

I'm going straight to golf club with this anecdote, but my misses is friends with some old money girls she met through rowing years ago.

One of them was getting married at their pile in Kent and my partner was a bridesmaid. As she sat down to get her hair done her seat collapsed with the back snapping in two. The mother of the bride exclaimed, "those fucking Jacobean chairs" and kicked the remnants into the corner. A different world.

"those fucking Jacobean chairs"

I just don't understand why she would blame Rees-Mogg.

Also, he may simply be trying to take a leaf out of the book of other non-politicians that for some reason are trusted because they've been on TV, no matter how rubbish they were. We'll see it if he gets elected again.

Exactly.

Back in the day, Alan Clark dismissed Michael Hesseltine as somebody who bought his own furniture. What most Brits don't realise is that there are actual aristocrats and the people we plebs label as "posh". The aristos know the difference, and I bet they let the supposed "poshos" know whenever they have an opportunity. Clark's own family were trade, but they'd been fake upper class for over a century, so I guess he keenly felt the distinctions.

I sense a springboard for Mogg branded fashion and cosmetics, given Jacob and Reiss are already taken.

Haunted Victorian Eye Pencil? I think that might sell well.

This.
Trump, Johnson and Farage all leveraged playing the media buffoon to gain power. Mogg is mainly known because of his Beano toff routine and this will be a way to try and keep himself in the public eye in the hope of a political comeback.
Like the other three, he also needs constant attention. People knowing he employs a human Bentley Buffer will give him much more pleasure than the shine of his Bentley.

Mogg is cosplaying because he married into the aristocracy.

Perfect for that authentic mid Industrial Revolution smokey eye look. Foundations come in a range of popular shades including consumption and typhoid

Very good. Don't forger Cholera! JRM every Victorian child's worst nightmare.

BBC review of Moggvision came with references to his comments about Grenfell.

just the reminder I needed to cancel my Discovery plus subscription

Lol at PMQs today.

Badenoch: He can try to change the topic as much as he likes, but the public are watching. He owes them an explanation. The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions.

Starmer: I gently remind the right hon. Lady that two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking the covid rules.

He could have pointed out that she admitted to hacking a wedsite that could have landed her in prison for 5 years too

I'm not willing to start a Reform thread, but I've recently got a flyer plus a long letter to me by name.

I'm in hertsmere where Dowden held on despite a 20% drop. Looks like Reform are making a push here.

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I never particularly rated Badenoch but she has been really bad since taking over. She is terrible at PMQs and doesn't seem to realise that shtick like sandwiches are for wimps, I get someone to bring me a steak for lunch, aren't going to help connect with people.

She added that she would "not touch bread if it's moist".

Conjured up an image of her shouting at an intern and making them cry over moist bread which I'm sure she wouldn't do.

Sounds like a grim euphemism. Just not sure what for yet.

Give me my desiccated bread now!

I think she must be confusing sandwiches with McMuffins, from back when she was working class.