Jacob Ress Mogg - next PM?

vivatifosi

Politicians should be able to express their views honestly as Rees-Mogg has. It enables people who oppose such views (like me) to know where they stand with them and to vote for someone else if we feel strongly enough about something.

posh*spice

No chance.

Fwiw there has never been a catholic PM.

Backbiter

posh*spice wrote: »

No chance.

Fwiw there has never been a catholic PM.

Blair converted to Catholicism while PM, I think.

Moby

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/anti-abortion-jacob-rees-mogg-could-set-tories-back-decades/

As the former Conservative MP Matthew Parris put it not long ago: “the Rees-Moggs are just rich people from Somerset whose boy never outgrew a silly phase at Oxford”

.:rotfl:

westernpromise

Er, surprisingly the Pope is not in favour of gay marriage:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-long-awaited-document-on-the-family-pope-francis-offers-hope-to-divorced-catholics-says-no-to-gay-marriage/2016/04/07/87be6dae-fb42-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html?utm_term=.74895aff5938

Moby

JRM is a founder and director of Somerset Asset Management which specialises in "emerging markets". In other words he diverts investment in British companies and British jobs into sweatshops in various unsavoury corners of the globe where human/workers' rights are negligible. No doubt those who ran the East India Company were very like this man - arrogant , bigoted religious fundamentalists. Oh - and his Somerset Asset Management also has an "offshore" section, to make sure that the profits from their ruthless global exploitation are hidden away, free from any taxes which might go into the NHS etc.

Fella

Looks like JRM has people running even more scared than I though.

As for Matthew Parris, he's an arch Remainer who hasn't stopped sulking since the Referendum & his dislike of JRM is based entirely on the fact that JRM is pro-Brexit & argues in favour of it far more eloquently than the whining drivel Parris utters.

Very amusing that when a politician actually nails his colours to the mast of some opinions that will definitely alienate many, his opponents rush to criticize him for it. I guess they prefer what we've had since Blair, politicians who won't say a word their spin-doctors haven't instructed them it's safe to say.

Neither Johnson nor JRM do this & in both cases it makes them popular with rich & poor alike.

Herzlos

vivatifosi wrote: »

Politicians should be able to express their views honestly as Rees-Mogg has. It enables people who oppose such views (like me) to know where they stand with them and to vote for someone else if we feel strongly enough about something.

It's a shame that needs to be said. Surely politicians should be honest and trustworthy be y default. Have they always been this bad?

Herzlos

westernpromise wrote: »

Er, surprisingly the Pope is not in favour of gay marriage:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-long-awaited-document-on-the-family-pope-francis-offers-hope-to-divorced-catholics-says-no-to-gay-marriage/2016/04/07/87be6dae-fb42-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html?utm_term=.74895aff5938

Ah. That largely contradicts what he's said about homosexuality in general.

AnotherJoe

Matt_L wrote: »

Whilst i may not share all his views i admire the fact that he sticks to his values and doesn't change them on a whim simply to gain popularity.

Imo he will never become PM but i do like him and enjoy listening to him..

Same as a certain toothbrushed moustached figure from history?

The fact someone doesn't change their values is no judge of whether they should be in power. What the values are, is.