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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?
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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.
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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.