Inside the night Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his Somerset seat

One of the biggest upsets of this election has been in Somerset where the former Brexit minister Sir Jacob Rees Mogg lost his seat.
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The former MP said farewell in typical style with a quote from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Warning: this report contains flash photography.
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[@justpassingby2358]

What a dangerous weirdo that was.

[@kkit8629]

Can't be more than Rishi sunak & wifey with a face that only a corporate shill can love.

[@mogznwaz]

Why? Do you just not like someone well spoken and posh?

[@timowagner1329]

​@@mogznwazlol

[@ds1868]

The Honourable gentleman for the 18th century is no more.

[@Britain_Stands_With_Ukraine]

If you think he's a weirdo. Then you should see his useless son "Peter Theodore Alphege Rees-Mogg". The boys 17 years old and still breast feeding.

[@johnrussell3961]

The man who talked down at the people has been given his answer by the people.

[@mogznwaz]

He never takes down to people at all - you’ve obviously never really listened to him. Jess Phillips is a friend of his

[@brillsmith2207]

@@mogznwaz Jess philips is a horrible fascist ofc they are friends. being a female version of Tommy Robinson doesnt make you left wing.

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

@@mogznwazhe compared non privately educated people to potted plants

[@Jonscify]

@@mogznwaz He thinks so highly of the people that he led them into an unmitigated disaster that killed britains economic future just so he could enrich himself.

[@Denime]

Whenever I hear someone say this about JRM I find it's because they've never actually heard him speak. They've only ever read what other people have said about him. How can you genuinely say this about someone so unfailingly polite as him? He's even complimentary about protestors who gatecrash his speaking events, permitting them their free speech and hearing them out. If you can provide any examples to the contrary I will stand corrected but I don't think you will be able to.

[@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802]

The mental image of him riding off into a rainy sunset on a penny farthing, to the sound of an out of tune sad trombone, will forever warm my heart.

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

Prompt that thing into AI

[@welcome2insanity]

😂😂

[@welcome2insanity]

@@I.amthatrealJuan please show me the results

[@rogerfrith7551]

Brilliant. 🎩

[@mogznwaz]

So basically you just don’t like posh people. Shame on you

[@ilovelimpfries]

What a muppet.

[@user-qz3wv7tq6v]

No. The Muppets made me laugh. This guy made me vomit.

[@Richard-mk8ze]

Muppets…hmmm…well that’s one word for it….i have another few… a total condescending w⚓️

[@johnwood2684]

Could have a laugh and pint with Kermit or Animal but not too sure about Jacob Rees- Mogg

[@E9819_]

Nope, JRM is a legend, he was a true conservative not a conservative in name only.

[@xxxvvv9172]

@@E9819_ aus der Zeit gefallen - eine Mumie (Stonehenge)

[@PassiveAgressive319]

I will never forget him lounging on the front benches and him thinking it was funny. He defines the term ‘out of touch’, so disrespectful and deeply unpleasant

[@AdrianMurphy-ps2rn]

Yep, that's my closing image of him. Tbh he was a total horror show of a man.

[@davidboskett5581]

Based on his upbringing the posture that he adopted in parliament that day surprised me as even public school boys are taught right from birth that they have to maintain standards of decorum at all times.

[@weepingangel6805]

@david - that posture is actually allowed by the Parliamentary rules, provided there is space to do so. Do you not think the Speaker would have loved to call him out on it?

[@timbutton4990]

That image of him lounging on the front bench inspired the local Labour Party to work very hard to get him voted out. To begin with Hanham & N.E Somerset wasn't a target seat and it was suggested we should campaign in other target seats. "All's well that ends well" as Shakespeare once said! He did behave politely on losing his seat to be fair, unlike the tin eared lettuce in Norfolk.

[@marisaJ1]

Hopefully Mogg can disappear into an unpleasant but distant memory. Awful man that just added to the rot. Good riddance.

[@oggyoggyoggyy]

low moral standard men, so much disgusting footage of him sitting like a siht in the parliament house.

[@jamesjohnstone1224]

Why’s he an awful man, because he speaks with a posh voice? There’s nothing wrong with being poor as there is equally nothing wrong with being wealthy?

[@skavanagh2778]

​@jamesjohnstone1224 there is far more ethically dubious about being very wealthy than being poor actually

[@Shsjier]

​@@jamesjohnstone1224are you really that out of touch to think that the reason we dont like him is because he's posh?

[@skavanagh2778]

​@jamesjohnstone1224 and besides, he's reprehensible besides. everything wrong with the modern conservative party

[@markheywood8238]

Watching that haunted Victorian pencil lose his seat was one of my highlights.

[@199019852007]

Wish I had a bet on him losing made some money on liz truss losing and grant shapps

[@bereal6590]

Deffo, the guy is sick in the head

[@KazgarothUsher]

haunted victorian pencil - just brilliant :D

[@omnivorous65]

Tell me that "haunted Victorian pencil" is your creation and I will revere your name as long as I shall live. Inspired by your comment I just want to point out how much Rees-Moog looks like the "crime eraser" Pencilhead in Mystery Men. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4mpg2SClMyCnZo

[@davidl1329]

This is the man who said, "Fish are happier now they are in British water," after the Brexit even while the fishery business was being decimated.

[@jetzenijeboer4854]

Yeah, but wouldn't that make the fish happier?😄

[@davidl1329]

@@jetzenijeboer4854 You know what, I did not think of it that way 😆

[@californiadreamin8423]

@@jetzenijeboer4854. Not having to swallow human excrement ?

[@K_j_M]

​@@jetzenijeboer4854not with all the sewage, no.. It wouldn't

[@Mia-single]

It,s ok Moggy, there,s always Nannys bosom to comfort you

[@MrJimheeren]

Every upper class boys true love

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

Lol

[@eamonnquigley2125]

or go home and enjoy some heinz beans ...........................

[@richierich9943]

And the hundreds of thousands from GB news

[@jogiedhesi2021]

Hope I could comfort in yours

[@hanselmansell7555]

Horrible vile thing

[@lovejetfuel4071]

Thing??? your being nice, even Things can make us happy, He's a monster in sheep's clothing

[@trivial50]

why

[@oaktreet4335]

That's MR. Horrible vile thing to you!

[@Boghopper9999]

Not horrible, just deluded and out of touch having lived his life in an Etonian bubble

[@josephinebrevig8748]

Yes!!! Enabled by the MSM

[@aaronjohnson6916]

I’m tickerty boo because I’m sat on such an enormous pile of cash, being unemployed isn’t a big deal.

[@Bailey_iQ]

To be fair, he isn’t going to be unemployed. He will work long hours in some Excel spreadsheet sweating the day away until he finally gets to take his boots off and take a load off by reading working class classics like Plutarch and Homer. A working class hero, mate🎉

[@dstarie]

in fairness he did put all his cash outside of britian before brexit

[@speleokeir]

@@dstarie And made £7M, bought himself a £5M mansion and wiped out two thirds of the losses of his hedge fund company when he bet on the pound shorting after the Referendum.

[@mjchiwara]

🎯💯%‼️ ... that's what he was really saying.

[@SeanJacksonTutorials]

@@Bailey_iQ Plenty of working class people read the classics. Don't be so prejudiced.

[@kimkristensen2816]

Could not have happened to a more deserving politician. He has caused enough harm as it is.

[@Red-ki4tk]

This man is simply bellendary

[@letsbeavenue]

I think “bellendary” should be an official word for any “member” of parliament 😂😂👍

[@ronaldchristenkkson]

He had 14 years to slip in legislation favouring his hedge fund and the industry of his network, so of course at this point he doesn't give a damn about his own reelection. The joke unfortunately is on the voters that voted for him in prior years.

[@joelangley7974]

My god, what an absolute embarrassment he was 😂😂

[@Frederick-in2rz]

But he won't, He'll just pick up the phone, refer to his network and come up with better work, more money, and he'll get on with his life. But we'll have to pick up the pieces from him and his collegues and carry on after his disaster. Tories have left a mess, they had no work ethic, no fundamental desire to make \brittain better, only a desire to use the system to make ever more wealth for himself and his kind. Still he can always remenice the good times and miss all that easy money his family position and money gave him, and of course, blame the peasants for his misfortune

[@Cazgirl-hq4hi]

The tories arent proper working politicians they done fk all of anything for this country ,their hobby is about punishing the plebs ..no real activity on any common good ..not like labour are..let’s put it this way if the devil did voting,he vote Tory .

[@MrMaarten1969]

True, but At least you all can try to make the rest of his life miserable now. He is just a plain civilian now. No longer protected by his public office.

[@TravelinChina]

Sadly true.

[@E9819_]

You poor people sure like to whine a lot and that’s precisely what keeps you poor.

[@johnny3_]

​@@E9819_ok Mogg

[@petebraven1522]

He really still hasn't got the faintest idea just how bad his performance has been. He was in a 'safe seat' and lost it. He hasn't got a clue.

[@robupsidedown]

whilst i detest the man and everything he stands for, he was right: Labour did not 'win' this, Tory voters clearly fled to Reform, splitting the vote. From the ashes will spring a more right wing opposition, fuelled by Labour's failure to fix the economy for the majority (because neoliberlism won't allow appropriate taxing of wealth). Expect the racism and xenophobia to be cranked up a notch (bam).

[@spicy7302]

@@robupsidedown " From the ashes will spring a more right wing opposition, fuelled by Labour's failure to fix the economy for the majority" they haven't even been in office for a day and they've already failed to fix the economy? 🤡

[@tommyrotton9468]

@@robupsidedown the Tories split the vote, Reform were the real right of centre Party. yes the Racism will get worse under Labour, with not just the Gaza screamers but also with the hate whitie mob

[@steplu2916]

​​@@robupsidedown since the current labor is more center left,does that mean it won't tax the rich?

[@Steve14ps]

There is no such thing as a 'safe seat' if you take for granted those who voted for you

[@NaveedKhan-bs1sc]

"Things were no longer ticker tee boo" 😂😂

[@grimftl]

"Politics can be a brutal business." Oh, cry me a f***ing river.

[@DougieL]

Exactly, unless the commentator meant that it can be brutal for everyday Brits when Tory scumbags stop taxing the mega rich and start plundering our hard earned taxes to give their 'chums' even more money, whilst neglecting essential services, which enable a society to function? The biggest and saddest part is that there are millions of everyday Brits in the UK who actually believe that 'Reform' will look after them. Now that is more than scary. Reform are the Tory's in disguise and Starmer needs to work hard with his team to prove that is the case, otherwise, with Farage in opposition, we will see a brutal scare campaign in opposition and Farage as PM at the next election, either in Reform or Conservative colours, or even as a strategic coalition - (think the Nationals and Libs in Australia). If you know anyone who votes Reform, talk to them, educate them, make them realise that all the pain points Reform speak of are mainly due to tax payers dollars being squandered and policies that Farage supports and not because a man wants to be a woman... (eneter further trivial, fearmongering here). Do not belittle them - this is the biggest strategic mistake. Calling them Gammons, calling them racist, will not secure their vote for a more reasonable MP in the next election. Listen to their true pain points and point out to them why.... Bad policy = why. Get them to understand a good policy and which parties provide such when in office. Ooops, war and peace - rant over.

[@waywarddarkwolf8064]

I'm sure he's heartbroken, as he rides off into the sunset with the millions he's made and as he cries into his off shore bank accounts.

[@spiritusinfinitus]

People would be wise to read his dad's book, The Sovereign Individual, written in 1997, which has turned out to be incredibly predictive about many situations which unfolded. I'm pretty sure that Rees-Mogg junior's actions may provide a useful hint at why he made some of his finance related decisions the way he did. As you infer, he will be just fine. My prediction is that most people won't be that wise at all. Judging by a brief scan through the comments, most people are more interested in ad hominems and high time preference thinking rather than thinking sensibly. That probably won't turn out to be quite so tickety-boo. 😉

[@daveb8665]

Funny how after EU wanted to go after offshore bank accounts, Brexit gained momentum.

[@Tom_murray89]

Jacob is right about the tories taking the voters for granted

[@csharpe5787]

Just because someone sounds like they know what they’re talking about, it doesn’t mean that they do That’s always been my opinion of Jacob Raymond.

[@speleokeir]

Aye. His hedge fund company was losing money hand over fist and his investors were starting to leave because he's not as clever as he thinks he is - then he jumped on the 55 Tufton St Brext wagon and made £7M betting on the pound shorting after the referendum, bought a £5M mansion and wiped out two thirds of his hedge fund company's losses in one night. Such a serious conflict of interest should have been illegal, but sadly isn't.

[@mjdubs7603]

Him and the bafoon Bojo - like to talk the talk but can't walk the walk. Bombastic, pompous overly verbose rhetoric. One trick ponies - can only get away with talking flannel for so long, at some point there has to be substance behind the style or you get found out... as they have been.

[@maneshipocrates2264]

Tickerty boo: JRM - the self acclaimed, real 10th century, upper class Englishman.

[@rodgerhargoon3402]

I love sir moggs English ...so wonderful to hear when he speaks .... wish I could speak like him .... well done sir and wish you well

[@raymondlaurence980]

Very expensive education...and so stupid 😂

[@Derekconlon]

Could not have happened to a nicer ghoul

[@5leepsWIth5cI55or5]

'From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success' probably means something very different to Mogg when you consider his father William Rees-Mogg authored 'Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad'.

[@bazpearce9993]

Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

[@erikgood732]

Does this mean the ghosts of Victorian urchins will drag him back to the 19th century?

[@maxwild1212]

"I appreciate that some of you may be feeling a little bad for me right now, but allow me to put that to bed by reminding you all how insufferable I am." What a thoughtful speech from Sir Jacob.

[@WeirdWizardDave]

You'd be feeling tickety boo too if you had Moggs personal fortune.

[@jackgreene5663]

Thank God that man is out.

[@Cazgirl-hq4hi]

Yeah the bespectacled pipe cleaner.

[@johnord684]

He had a nanny at the age of 27

[@vincentvangogh8092]

he still has a nanny and refers to her often he actually stood along side his nanny when he first attempted to be an MP if you saw her you would understand why he is what he is

[@paul10018]

He'd welcome her back.

[@iangascoigne8231]

She’s still breastfeeding him.

[@Cazgirl-hq4hi]

@@iangascoigne8231lol.

[@Rancid-wd3ty]

It,s ok Moggy, there,s always Nannys bosom to comfort you.

[@KarlHamilton]

Bitty

[@PythonesqueSpam]

You beat me to that reference by 24 minutes 🤣

[@bravowhiskey3239]

😂

[@M_Bamboozled]

​@@KarlHamilton🤢🤮

[@nickwinn7812]

The best he can do is quote chitty chitty bang bang. A perfect summation of his intellectual prowess!

[@MrMaarten1969]

What bewilders me even more is how this man was elected multiple times in the first place. What does it say about the voters intellect? Is his district full of of old senile people?

[@jadger1871]

oh wise person of the interwebs! elucidate us more as you anonymously denigrate famous people from behind your screen.

[@facehugger3]

David lammy was the lefts idea of a genius on mastermind. Who was the king after henry the eighth? Umm errr um henry the seventh? 🤣🤣 His powerful intellect has been rewarded with the foreign secretary post.

[@142doddy]

Now he can lie down on his own bench, poor fella. Must be tired.

[@tgirltouhou]

hopefully jacob rees mogg can go back to whatever unreleased dickens novel he crawled out of

[@noneyourbiz]

😂😂😂😂😂😂you're wicked!!!!

[@bogdanpopescu1401]

don't like Dickens novels? no problem, I'm looking forward to see you live under a mix of socialism and sharia law, like in Iran

[@gavin75jaycock]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅​@@bogdanpopescu1401

[@lewisofthehoood]

@@bogdanpopescu1401what? Are you ok? Schizo rant

[@lewisofthehoood]

@@bogdanpopescu1401you're not okay

[@lornalow7479]

What a SEE A YOU NEXT TUESDAY

[@speleokeir]

A complete Jeremy.

[@TJ34644]

Being an MP was a hobby to him. This will have no impact on his life

[@andreseleanu8732]

Like some despicable character In Wodehouse, with an incomprehensible accent.

[@chickenbites8877]

This was truly the sweetest Tory loss of the night!!!

[@scorpioninpink]

No. It would have been sweeter if Cruella was also kicked out.

[@chickenbites8877]

@@scorpioninpink oh I agree 1000%, but I mean out of the ones that did loose last night.

[@jimlogan2329]

Good to see Terese Coffey getting turfed out.

[@growlerthe2nd712]

Walking away SCOT FREE from the scene of the crime 😮

[@speleokeir]

And all the rest of them drenched in the blood of the thousands of UK citizens they killed with their gross, negligence, greed and lack of humanity during the pandemic, Windrush and the PIPS scandal.

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

The roses of success? The rose is a Labour symbol.

[@bravowhiskey3239]

And Brexit the disaster.

[@justicedone3929]

Brexit been great? ​@@bravowhiskey3239

[@unauthorisedvodka5920]

​@@justicedone3929brexit has been awful😭😭

[@Jonscify]

@@justicedone3929 if you happen to own millions of totally non-dubious cash in offshore bank accounts, and want to avoid any scrutiny, brexit has been great for you. Thats true.

[@bravowhiskey3239]

@@justicedone3929 not so much

[@Prophetofcthulhu]

Now after beating one of the hardest Elden Ring bosses we can start on the DLC 😂

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I'm at the final boss of the DLC... I got him to about 25% of health. I'm hoping to finish the job this weekend. I was thinking of saying the final boss is Farage, Bride of putin, but I don't want to insult the honorable final boss of the DLC.

[@ps5andstuffhere]

Lol

[@matthewsmith22]

I feel queasy every time he is referred to as Sir Jacob🤮

[@speleokeir]

The man's crackers!😀

[@CIA-fx8mb]

JRM could serve as Governor of the British occupation zone in Austria.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

Thankfully they and especially the Soviets left in 1955.

[@Hascienda27]

I've never seen A man so weirdly elongated he can make A viaduct look somewhat compact

[@JamesRamboPearce]

Lol he said they lost because of reform, but really they lost the middle ground with their craziness

[@bogdanpopescu1401]

they lost the middle ground because they are a lighter version of Labor; not Mogg's fault

[@Christopher_J]

That isn't right. ​@@bogdanpopescu1401

[@spicy7302]

@@bogdanpopescu1401 They lost the middle ground because they caused catastrophe after catastrophe while remaining out of touch through the end of it. They had a lying, traitorous Boris Johnson, Liz Truss which was beaten by a lettuce, Sunak who didn't have Sky TV or working class friends. They completely mismanaged Brexit, which ended up being a catastrophe also. Labour has absolutely nothing to do with their failure. If anything, Labour has barely done anything to win this election, people voted the way they did because of the disaster the Tories brought about. Moggy was one of the high-ranking conservatives too, so he is to blame as well. He's just as out of touch as the rest of them, if not MORE so.

[@mikeh5431]

Just goes to prove that a first class education teaches you nothing about honesty and integrity

[@tudorboca86]

Mogg can jog, straight in the bin

[@jaker3151]

Maybe now he can spend more time with his six children.

[@richardcoats6430]

He'll have to find a new bench for a nap.

[@spaghettirus1229]

"for he's a jolly good fellow...." which everyone can deny

[@TravelinChina]

Kicked out in the rain, left quoting chitty chitty bang bang. What a line.

[@ZolaClyde]

He’s mad as a hatter.

[@jezcoates]

Warms my heart - even as I live in Australia I’m glad to seeing Britain right itself. Good luck guys.

[@zaroffhound]

Dealing with Smogg is not unlike someone, in broad daylight, catching Jack the Ripper piddling in their flower bed...

[@jonmel]

Now he can travel back to the 1800’s where he’s the most comfortable

[@chrism1390]

Bye Felicia

[@redalert2834]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has yet to get around to reading the big news about the Magna Carta.

[@billlynn8256]

His nanny has packed his trunk and he is going back to 1864.

[@patrikfloding7985]

Back for some bitty?

[@DannyWood7989]

I thought you were gonna say circus.

[@eileenmoroney305]

I am going to eat the biggest dinner that I have had in two weeks. The end of the Rees mogg dynasty.

[@allykhan8594]

His got 2 dozens kids!

[@kyzachi736]

@@allykhan8594 Goodness, he actually found women to lay with? Ewwwe!

[@RealUlrichLeland]

​@@allykhan8594 and they were all raised by nannies

[@StephenHarvie-xp4hn]

Surely you mean the Mogg dysentery?

[@frikkiediehaai9477]

"I'm feeling tickerty boo because I have already been offered a 6 figure consultancy position at a major bank where I will drink tea with all day with fellow corpses and laugh at the plebeians."

[@ozzythecats]

On the plus side JRM has now got plenty of time to spend with nanny.

[@user-ti9xb2ng7s]

Please don’t come back

[@pittarak1]

I suppose, he'll now go full time at GB 'News'........but actually he already was full time even before the election, wasn't he?

[@etiennedelaunois1737]

Tickely-boo then tickely-bye

[@kquat7899]

Rees-Mogg clearly drew deep inspiration from the "child-catcher" .

[@portcullis5622]

I have just discovered that Rees-Mogg is almost 3 years younger than myself! That has blown my mind! I want to hate him, but after seeing a film of him as a 12 year old child, totally obsessed with money, I actually feel sorry for him. There is no wonder the man has so little empathy or awareness of what life is like for real people. I am happy that he will now have much more time to spend with his first love.❤£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££❤

[@Lynnimod]

I am so pleased that the Victorian pencil got his come uppance!!!!

[@gedrooney9305]

The Mind of Mogg. A fascinating 3 part documentary detailing his rise from shorts to trousers, and from belts to braces. With interviews from his nanny/ mummy and his wife/ mummy. Begins Christmas Day 2024

[@JS-jy9og]

I thought it was Grandpa potts who said "from the ashes grow the roses of success, not Caractacus Potts".

[@stevenclarke5606]

He couldn’t even get that right

[@jpip1382]

He’ll be able to spend time with his million kids now.

[@speleokeir]

Poor buggers.

[@martinthemillwright]

They move on with their lives, slightly inconvenienced, but otherwise unharmed. In their wake, millions are left behind to suffer the consequences of “austerity” and the economic isolation of Brexit.

[@Mortthemoose]

A lot of disabled and chronically ill people commited suicide after the outcome of the Tory's austerity cuts. They have blood on their hands. I'm glad they've been voted out.

[@pneron2032]

"Kicked out in the rain quoting chitty c b b" is a great line

[@mac7659]

Now he can enjoy his aunt's homemade jam in peace

[@Afterthoughtbtw]

Surprised Mogg didn't go with another chitty chitty bang bang song - P.O.S.H. Either that, or quote the child catcher.

[@stefanmaslaczyk1259]

Fair play to Jacob, he was very gracious in defeat,congratulated the victor and shook his hand.

[@davidray6962]

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving figure - the slouching, smirking ghoul who's never done an honest day's work and sneers at those who do, while rigging the system to make their lives harder to make his and his pals even easier.

[@emilymaitlislaptop]

The Haunted Pencil has been erased. 2B or not 2B, that is the question...

[@csharpe5787]

This goes to show this man knows nothing, his core vote. It’s not about core votes its about doing what’s right for the country, all of it.

[@DodgeCity111]

I am devastated it's taken thus long

[@stevencharnock9271]

A quick google :- What do MPs get paid when they lose their seat? Winding-up payments This means departing MP's will get a lump sum of just £19,756 when they lose their seat - as this equates to four month's net salary on an MP's £86,584 a year wage. Add to that a pension MPs normally receive a pension of either 1/40th or 1/50th of their final pensionable salary for each year of pensionable service depending on the contribution rate they chose. So even when they get booted it's not to bad

[@annaczgli2983]

End of the Moggwyn dynasty. Hurrah.

[@MsZeeZed]

History will not be kind

[@johannesnicolaas]

Tikkety boo... hahaha.... such a huge humorist. And now he will weep in Nanny's arms.

[@MomoHadi]

What a concluding line, “Kicked out in the rain and left quoting chitty chitty bang bang” 😂

[@iainmackenzieUK]

He does not strike me as a man who ever gave a damn - its all been a silly little distraction for him...

[@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802]

I'll never forget the image of him sprawled out across a parliamentary bench, somehow managing to look extraordinarily smug and arrogant even while napping through a debate. Said more about the kind of man he is than words ever could.

[@iainmackenzieUK]

@@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802 A great loss (if you know what I mean)

[@MrDadyD]

Dont let the door hit you on the way out

[@CHEEEZ-UK]

I heard someone call him a 'Haunted Victorian Pencil' earlier and it caught me off guard and really gave me a giggle 😂

[@saoirsehaslonglegs2313]

@@CHEEEZ-UK victorian pencils were toxic too,the lead poisinous, & every piece of tory legislation that Reel Smugg signed off had indeed a poisonous & toxic effect on the people ,especially the most vulnerable in this country.,he was proud & uplifted by the implementation of austerity :that stripped away all public services,the opening of foodbanks,while closing of libraries,killing off of sure start, exponential increases in homelessness ,child & adult poverty, closure of community centres, ,the two child benefit cap,resulting in over 4million children in poverty,the brexshite economic disaster, the bedroom tax, introduction of the modern day version of the workhouse : the poverty trap ' benefit' that is Universal credit ,rise in deadly attacks on solicitors defending/:representing asylum seekers legal cases.,deregulation of environmental legislation thats resulted in shite filled,e coli infested lakes,streams,,rivers, & seas, toxic forever chemical pesticides being used on the land,.curbing of face masks being mandatory in Parliament, closure of Public Health England during covid pandemic so mates could make £££billions with profiteering frm PPE,& Dido Hardings failed track & trace.etc etc

[@tomcactus55]

All the tories need to be held to account for the damage they caused.There was corruption on an industrial scale,incompetent and utter disregard for this country.

[@FionaJane-vc2tw]

" From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success". He must mean from the ashes of Tory decimation grow the labour roses of success.

[@beepbop9]

Exactly this, he knows that teh conservative party has collapsed and failed. He just cant word it that way if he wants to continue being in politics

[@user-rv2qx9yy9x]

I think that wasn't even Caractacus, but Grandpa Bungee Potts - or, rather, his fellow prisoners in the Baron's castle.

[@speleokeir]

Max Wall.

[@user-rv2qx9yy9x]

@@speleokeir Your CCBB kung fu is strong.

[@joannag2089]

His laptop should be confiscated and investigated by the police as well.

[@liamfoley9614]

I suppose it shows how 'journalism' is about opinion and activism rather than informing.

[@paulreynolds7103]

Im sure he'll land on his feet 😂😂

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Say what you will about Mogg, he lost with class and the winner/his replacement won with grace. At least he has that going for him.

[@Hurc7495]

To loose with class to say you believe the winner is an excellent man who thoroughly deserved his victory after a robust campaign. what I’m seeing here looks closer to the demise of HAL 9000!

[@rrickarr]

That was not grace at all. That was a very creepy man who is off in some dream world!!!

[@bogdanpopescu1401]

that's what they hate, his class

[@frankh.2669]

I agree. He obviously gets heavy flak all round here, but he did lose with dignity and class. I could think of quite a few politicians, the Tangerine Twatwaffle across the pond comes to mind first, of course, who could take him as a good example.

[@JK-zx3go]

This fills me with such warmth.

[@arthurpewtey]

If ever there was a case for spikes outside The Tower....

[@ASHEN_ONE_GAMES]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke 😂

[@luismanuel2612]

It's such a relief to see him gone. The man was stuck in the Middle Ages ...

[@eden255]

“Kicked out in the rain, left quoting Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” And good riddance

[@kapitankapital6580]

The journalist prattling on as his colleague is lying on the floor, really goes to show where their priorities are...