Speak Engerlish the Moggy way . . .

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The commercial aircraft industry still mainly use Imperial, for both drawings and thread sizes, as do many F1 designers. Many Imperial thread forms are considered superior to their metric equivalents, strength wise, especially in softer materials like aluminium alloys. Unless you have those appalling "run flat" wheels and tyres your car will still have Imperial diameter wheel rims...Imperial is far, far from dead, quintessentially English and a delight in its accuracy and flexibility.

I am very dubious about this supposed Rees-Mogg article. Jeremy all but knows Erskine May verbatim, so I cannot believe he would spell Privy Counsellors as Privy Councillors, a spelling considered American, something is fishy there...
 
jpaul said:
what power does jrm have anyway ...
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I think Boris played a blinder by sticking him in that position. As in his role, he can to an extent control what gets debated in the HoC's and thwart potential rouge and hurried bills to prevent BJ from performing his tasks. JRM may be of the past, but that's the kind of person who has deep knowledge of the running of the HoC's and be able to dig up ancient laws to stop debates if they don't follow the rules to the letter. And lets face it Labour are a pretty stupid bunch when it comes to crossing the t's and dotting the i's

For the next coming months it's a position that could have a lot of power
 
JRM is great, he's a next level troll, I have almost nothing in common with him but he's brilliant. He has views and stands by them, not like that pathetic flake Corbyn - a staunch critic of the EU who's now decided he's a remainer.
 
Jacob Rees-Moog is awful. He has to be the least relatable MP in Parliament at the moment.

Judging from that photo of him as a 12 year old, I can imagine he got bullied a lot in school.

Also, the people in this thread who have called him a "Moral MP" - Hilarious... He is literally taking Britain out of the EU and he will become hugely richer for it!
 
Roar87 said:
JRM is great, he's a next level troll, I have almost nothing in common with him but he's brilliant. He has views and stands by them, not like that pathetic flake Corbyn - a staunch critic of the EU who's now decided he's a remainer.
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Being the leader of a political party requires compromise. You can whack it in a formula if you like. In cases where the will of the party I represent does not align with my own views then let x stand for the strength of my feelings on the subject, and let y stand for a threshold beyond which I am unwilling to bend, if x is greater than y then I need to resign as I am not the right person to lead the party, if y is greater than x then I will swallow my own preference to pursue the parties will.

That's kind of how politics works, I'm not saying Corbyn is a model Labour leader, but slamming him for being flexible and listening to his membership is a bit odd. If anything I'm annoyed at the fact that he's not willing to bend enough towards the position of the members, and is trying to straddle the middle ground.

In terms of JRM, he's not as intelligent as everybody seems to think, he gets caught out fairly regularly but he shrouds it, along with his archaic views, behind an acceptable caricature of the quintessential Victorian gentleman. When I look at him, when I hear him speak, I see a man who knows precisely what is best for the Country and Her people, and is resolute in how he will achieve this, the unfortunate thing is that this knowledge comes from the perspective of a hyper privileged, millionaire who is trapped in the 19th century. His idea of what is best for the working public is not the same as the view of the working public, unfortunately he has a funny voice and looks a bit like Ask Jeeves so they'll vote for him anyway.
 
On one level I can understand the sentiment of raising standards that have been falling for the last 10 years with university level students when it comes to vocabulary. But I think people who go over board in trying to show off and taking a position of looking down on others have a lot of insecurity and is a sign of someone who is trying to project intelligence, when they might not have it themselves. I think Mogg falls in to this group. Didn't his book also get a lot of negative reviews about being factually wrong, and it was "written like a school boy" according to one reviewer.
 
BowdonUK said:
Didn't his book also get a lot of negative reviews about being factually wrong, and it was "written like a school boy" according to one reviewer.
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Maybe you could tell us where his book was wrong?

In terms of JRM, he's not as intelligent as everybody seems to think, he gets caught out fairly regularly but he shrouds it, along with his archaic views
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Any examples of this?

I'm not sure having traditional Christian values and believing in the free market should be considered Archaic.
 
He is a pretentious nobber. However, he appeals to the celebrity culture and the subservience of people that infests society and now politics. The "Hur hur, he's tha funneh!" types may well get their rocks off on him.

Oh, as above, his book was universally panned and even the Telegraph suggests it was "...written by a baboon."
 
simpletom said:
He is a pretentious nobber. However, he appeals to the celebrity culture and the subservience of people that infests society and now politics. The "Hur hur, he's tha funneh!" types may well get their rocks off on him.

Oh, as above, his book was universally panned and even the Telegraph suggests it was "...written by a baboon."
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From your link:
Simon Heffer said:
Having always admired Jacob Rees-Mogg for his integrity – you don’t get much of that in politics these days – I find it hard to believe he actually wrote this book or, if someone wrote it for him, allowed it to be published under his name. It is a complete turkey.
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I guess it just goes to show the quality of "Ghost writers" in the 21st Century - if only Charles Dickens were still with us ;)
 
I think he's actually the perfect fit for his new role and that is probably the best thing Johnson has done in his whole career.






 
Scam said:
Well it is when he argues against abortion even in the case of rape and incest :rolleyes:
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His personal belief is based on his religious view that you shouldn't end a human life, he isn't trying to make that government policy though and has said there's no public support for it, why even bring it up? It's totally irrelevant
 
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