From time to time I’m asked which Conservative MP would be my favorite to replace Theresa May, whose time as leader is limited. My first choice would of course be the redoubtable Philip Davies, but he’s always made clear his disinterest in high office.
David Davis might be next, but at 68 he’s perhaps a little too old to take on the mantle. Which leads me to that rare breed of person, an unashamedly conservative Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg (48). An extract from his Wikipedia page:
At the 1997 general election, Rees-Mogg was the Conservative candidate for the traditional Labour seat of Central Fife and attracted ridicule, after canvassing a largely working-class neighbourhood with his former nanny;[8] on election night he came third, gaining 9% of the votes cast,[14] slightly fewer than half of the votes won by the previous Conservative candidate in 1992. However, rumours that he had toured the constituency in a Bentley were described as “scurrilous” − he insisted it had been a Mercedes.[15]
In common with the hapless David Cameron, four times winner of our Toady of the Year award, JR-M is an Old Etonian, but unlike Dave he is rightly unapologetic about it. James Delingpole wrote a sterling piece on JR-M for the current Spectator edition, Let’s keep up the Moggmentum. Enjoy.
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I’ll be honest I do find him strangely likeable. But can’t help but fear he’d be just another Tory toff riddled with gynocentric “chivalry”. After all in his excellent piece on justice Hale Collins reminds us that the role of “father” was abolished in the Tory Gov. Children Act , as with other similar moves made to “protect” women. Labour makes more noise but the Tories have form in white knightery . What’s the Mogg’s form?
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Hmm, interesting question. I buttonholed him in Parliament Square on MGM and wrote to him. He replied but didn’t offer any support, on the grounds of not having the time, from memory. I threw the letter in the bin.
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It would be best to end the con that is left and right politics of middlepersons supposed to stand up for our rights in a parliament. It’s time to go back to the roots of democracy now that we have the technology of virtually unbreakable codes and have a velvet revolution towards ODG Open Direct Government by the people where we all vote on every single issue.
We are all apparently educated and 99.99% have a phone or computer or multiples of both and gaps could be very cheaply filled.
Why do we persist with this defunct system of easily bribable middlepersons aka politicians who are just a two or multiple headed snake sharing a tail, who needs parliamentary democracy, when we are now technologically ready for Open Direct Government by the people?
It is suggested that if one is at the cinema with 200 people, you are sharing the experience with at least one or two psychopaths. My personal experience of working in UK politics is that both sides of the divide are directed by our psychopaths. Lets put them back where they belong, let’s give them the 1% voting rights they deserve and not the keys to the fucking castle. 😉
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