Jacob Rees-Mogg blindly defends Boris Johnson in astonishing speech

Jacob Rees-Mogg blindly defends Boris Johnson in astonishing speech
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[@YYTT-wd5qq]

I wish they can spend 10% of this effort into British people’s problem.

[@alanhat5252]

They do, they spend much more effort on people's problems - _creating_ people's problems.

[@kewakl8891]

sell some of the monarchy's land/property holdings and you would have enough money to do _almost ANYTHING_

[@user-kv5fv2nv7o]

The effort is coming from the Labour party.

[@perrymason866]

When politicians try to create grass-roots movements that create a form of representative democracy which is led by the needs of constituents, they are usually ostracised and defamed. “Centrism” and “right-wing” are the binary that is pushed in order to maintain the status quo and continually increase the profits of the owner classed, which involves making the lives of most of the people of Britain much worse. If you want people to focus on our actual issues: - Support unions - Support protests - Advocate for increased taxation on wealth and ownership and lower taxation on labour. These 3 things will inherently make our lives better and we’re the things that have massively improved living conditions throughout history. Do not take heed of the lies and the politics of division. United, we are strong.

[@user-kv5fv2nv7o]

@@perrymason866 not in favour of taxing the rich more, they just pay themselves more, better to pay them less have a more equtable distribution of wealth before taxation.

[@hg82met]

That's why he was knighted - for dishonest services to liar Johnson.

[@AntonioProla]

hey i wonder if jacob was at any of these parties.... oh wait theres a literally video of him there

[@segue2ant395]

Well, it certainly wasn't based on his ability to find a blazer that fits. He looks like he's borrowed his Dad's suit for a job interview.

[@WilliamWatt-xm2gu]

One corrupt liar defending another corrupt liar.

[@hg82met]

@@segue2ant395 You're bang on the money. He wears his father's hand-me-downs - it's part of his posh tw@t schtick.

[@leehenry5764]

​@@AntonioProlaThey were all there partying🎉 while we were dying

[@ThomasKing19933]

Mogg defending Johnson has to be one of the most vomit inducing things I've seen.

[@matthewsmith22]

The spinelessness seems to set mine on edge

[@tommyrotton9468]

I can understand JRM defending his patron, much like saving the Titanic as the gin with ice hits. but if Boris knowingly went to a party he deserves the ban for being a liar and if he didn't knowingly know it was a party as he made a toast and drinks his wine, he still needs to be got rid of for being the stupidest man alive.

[@chdolan3530]

Mogg just got a knighthood from Johnson that's why🤮

[@gabrielc1989w]

Yes, he is vomit inducing enough on his own. The combination is not humanly bearable.

[@HShango]

@@tommyrotton9468 well damn 😅

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Moggy being a Johnson brown noser till the end

[@dennism5731]

Just like being back at Eton old boy.

[@WilliamWatt-xm2gu]

What would Nanny say, she would probably put Rees-Mogg over her knee and beat the hell out of him and no doubt Moggy would really enjoy it.

[@johnwall8862]

​@Dennis M love it mate

[@agoogleuserblootet5111]

How anyone can defend Johnson is actually beyond all reasonable belief and a complete insult to Truth and Integrity.

[@PrimitiveFuturologist_YTC]

You hit the nail on the head there. Truth or integrity are not concepts understood by JRM, never mind qualities he possesses.

[@laravonstaden1838]

Your grammar is poor using proper nouns for “,truth” and “integrity” and your statement is based purely on emotion, not fact.

[@silondon9010]

Boris is being fitted up because of patlogical hatred of him by the left

[@samuelodell1791]

It's obvious why he defends him. Come on.

[@songsmith31a]

Politics is never, nor ever has been, simply "a game of truth and lies". It is an occupation in which one is exchanged for the other, depending on various factors of the moment and according to who is taking a view and forming an opinion. That is why this sort of speech from such a literate incisive mind remains so essential to parliamentary debate.

[@wastrel92]

I wonder why the recently knighted Jacob Rees Mogg might feel it necessary to defend Boris?

[@HenleyBailey]

Knighted... Lol. Honestly, it all sounds like children trying to feel special. They've obliterated any kind of respect towards knighthoods and things of that nature completely. Personally, if someone holds a title like that, I'm instantly suspicious they're crooks. Generally, it's all just scratchy back crap.

[@ftumschk]

He hasn't been knighted yet. As a mere nominee for a knighthood on Johnson's resignation Honours List, it's not too late to cancel this.

[@leehiggins1713]

🤥🤭

[@alexandermason3421]

Oh yeh, he did nothing wrong… Why did he resign?

[@tobymarshall8142]

Everyone knows he was betrayed by the blob of quisling leftie-dogooders like you in the Conservative party, obviously.

[@marcopalazzo9349]

Cowardice.

[@andrewbarnes5802]

Shame he didn't do what he did when he was PM and rally the troops to back the big dog when it came to the vote. Get everyone on his side to vote against the report. Its not as though the Tories don't have the majority, even though its diminishing! Then see how many of the spineless lying Toffs he can rely upon. Sadly, he decided to throw a tiny tanty instead.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Mogg's nose is so far up Boris' backside he can see his intestines

[@samuelodell1791]

Tonsils

[@jonathanpipe8249]

More like see his bloody tonsils!!

[@dennism5731]

That is one of the initiation acts for old Eton don’t you know.

[@samuelodell1791]

​@@jonathanpipe8249😂beat me to it

[@selesius4591]

He'll go down with Johnson dont worry about that having said that they all will.

[@GetGwapThisYear]

Does he not make enough to buy a suit that fits him, or what? Did he just admit that they were all briefed to lie?

[@tommyrotton9468]

30 pieces of knighthood

[@digger8180]

The Tory "party's" Joseph Goebbels, at least I can see the similarity.

[@petercallomon9681]

Yes. Goebbels had six children too. He poisoned them all and then he and his wife crushed a cyanide pill each. Not that pseudo lawyer Mogg would have the balls to poison his hamster that is.

[@craigdowns8049]

Looking after the rich and posh boys 😅

[@bigmoose1961]

How dare he use the fundamentals of ministerial free speech argument whilst peddling anti strike, anti protest and anti trade union legislation.

[@asidaway9869]

How dare he??? THAT is what FREE speech is!!!!

[@samdegoeij6576]

​@@asidaway9869 To the Tories yes.

[@bigmoose1961]

@A Sidaway The point I'm making is that JRM demands his free speech whilst actively removing it from the UK workforce. I sincerely hope that you will agree that its a bit rich, to say the very least.

[@samdegoeij6576]

@@bigmoose1961 It's what the rich have always done. One set of rules for Thee and another for Me.

[@bigmoose1961]

@Sam de Goeij absolutely! But isn't it about time we stood up and objected? Except that objections are now slowly being made illegal. Food for thought, eh!

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

Not a single point provided a viable argument against the fact that as a prime minister, he was allowed to party but dying people weren’t allowed to even be with their loved ones. He is trying to defend Boris’ character, but the 3 cases of affair and adultery are more than enough to make a conclusion…

[@user-kv5fv2nv7o]

He made several very pricise and clear points, including comfirming that they were told that no rules were broken, and what has Johnsons love life got to do with it.

[@chris56269]

@@user-kv5fv2nv7o so if you can find someone, somewhere to tell you something is alright there can be no consequences? Essentially that argument means you can get away with literally anything if one person supported it and that ignorance of the law is an acceptable defence. If someone tells me it's ok to rob a bank then am I in the money whilst Barclays are just out of luck? We're not talking about some obscure law like on the 2nd Tuesday of the month the mayor of Lamberth is allowed to cut to the front of a line for a horse and carriage if it's flying the Union flag. We're talking about the most prevalent issue of the time, a pandemic the likes of which hasn't been seen in living memory and a lockdown he implement whilst he was leading the country. I mean if he doesn't know the rules how did 99% of the population manage to get it right?

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@chris56269 Knowledge of a crime is part of crime usually. With bank-robbery the likelihood of you not knowing it is a crime is low. For the parties the obscurity of the situation makes that possible. Also I think this matter is on his address to Parliament where this is the whole point.

[@chris56269]

@@johnnotrealname8168 I find the defence that he didn't know the rules difficult to accept. As I said the pandemic and the lockdowns were the biggest issue of the time and it was his government that implemented the lockdown laws, laws that the vast majority of the population abided by, how did we all know about them yet he didn't? Again we're not dealing with some archaic law from centuries past that most people wouldn't know about, everyone knew there was a pandemic, everyone knew there were lockdowns.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@chris56269 I agree with all that but applied to every single case? No. Plus he was under a lot of pressure. It is clear he thought, and was told, that it was okay in that case.

[@christopherhoggins5008]

Not a stain on boris" character. I've seen less stains on a toddlers" bib.

[@KenPassey-hd2mc]

Sorry I missed that, I fell asleep as soon as he stood up.😂😂😂

[@joeleaton8752]

Rees Mogg should be reminded of what he said of ‘Suz’ Grey when that investigation was announced. He was all for it

[@charlielynes]

They are all for investigation. It's always the findings they don't like, and then the process, then those involved in the process... 😅

[@johnnotrealname8168]

She the one who later joined Labour? He made a point about that too.

[@nicoladolby2154]

Someone should remind Mr Mogg that we're not in Nazi Germany either, despite his wishes to the contrary.

[@Ron.S.]

This clown 🤡 is extraordinary stupid. The committee (unlike communist China), only RECOMMENDED their findings. It was up to him to agree with it or not. No need for an appeal! He’s the boss! Well, poor Jacob has only 6 friends who think like him and 356 who think he’s an idiot.

[@jayplay8140]

UK's very own Goebbels

[@Ron.S.]

@@jayplay8140 Gobbles was smart, convincing and (disgustingly) charismatic. This caricature isn’t any of them

[@leehenry5764]

🤡🤣

[@WebToolkit]

@@Ron.S. he looks like the Demon Headmaster

[@DarkCreed]

Of course he will defend Boris, when the boat sinks, he will be on it.

[@andrewcockburn7484]

This is the kind of defence that a knighthood buys you.

[@user-xl2ir1nv9t]

So what when the gauntlet is thrown down in challenge?

[@digbystrong2829]

A very articulate and detailed response... But Johnson's advisers wouldn't have recommended his resignation if *they* thought he had a convincing defence. Johnson would normally try to lie and bluff his way out of most things, so there must be something in the Report which was, quite simply, beyond defence.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@digbystrong2829 Or people were resigning and his position was untenable.

[@graham.a.phillips2811]

Tell that to the 21 family members of my family who died due the lack of morals of this Government due to Covid-19. Their value of the economy is more important than those that died due to the incompetence and mishandling of the pandemic and the lies Johnson and the Tories inflicted on national.

[@Jack-iv5pi]

jesus 😂

[@dougclark9921]

@@Jack-iv5pi No he got put on a cross before the pandemic

[@toriesdontgettazered7464]

They effed the economy too but then they always do ,sorry for your loss

[@nicodesmidt4034]

@@Jack-iv5pi I don’t think that’s funny, but explain away

[@apedanticpeasant1447]

Sorry for your loss.

[@kowo6022]

I can only imagine that Boris Johnson has something massive on JRM. Why else would he openly walk about with his head up Boris’s backside?

[@HiveFleetOni]

Well, he got a Peerage out of it in the end didn’t he, and has made an enormous amount of money via disaster capitalism since the brexit vote.

[@TheDandonian]

Boris's Honours list, knighted JRM. It's very much a you scratch my back, I'll give you land and title.

[@kowo6022]

But why doesn’t he just be quiet instead of standing up like a numpty. He’s got his goods now 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@sputnikmoonchild]

😂😂😂

[@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers]

No, Moggy is just a knob.

[@dominicbaggott3525]

When it comes to the public we don't get these benefits. If I break the law it's assumed I did it knowingly. If I'm speeding, intent has nothing to do with it. Intent to break the law only ever gets applied to those who are rich or influential enough to buy their way out of their own problems. If my nan told me that meeting in the park at a distance was ok but I get fined for doing it during the pandemic then I don't get the benefit of advisors or intent....I should have known. This is disgraceful! So don't tell me a booze filled work party with dancing was ok and their is no fault because "he was advised

[@dominiquefo]

Well said

[@WilliamWatt-xm2gu]

Grown adults who need people to advise them on how to behave, give me a break!!!

[@polmcsuibhne7657]

he himself is guilty with lying to the queen.....this mans got no honour.......

[@colinmarcuspipe4251]

If the question of a former members pass is so trivial, why is he making a song and dance about it?

[@MrMykeel]

They are telling on themselves. Like most conservatives. They say it isn't important, but then bring it up ALL the time. They say this is a waste of time since Boris resigned, but then waste so much time defending him. Liars. The lot of them.

[@simoncelt5590]

lord he sounds like watching paint dry

[@nicholasglanfield9221]

😂😂😂 so true.

[@WilliamWatt-xm2gu]

But watching paint dry is more entertaining.

[@cg986]

Criminal in a suit.

[@jonathanpipe8249]

Left side lapel and top pocket looks a bit grubby !

[@WilliamWatt-xm2gu]

This vile creature Moggy is totally corrupt to the core.

[@Elephantstonica]

*ill-fitting suit. Probably a Boris hand-me-down. Likes the touch of Johnson on his Johnson when he’s spitting balls.

[@br0wnkrak3n70]

I love how he twists the narrative... like communist China😂

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Is he a commie or a nazi?

[@craigdowns8049]

Johnson stained his own underpants

[@josefschiltz2192]

No, he's right. It's not communist China. It's not the bloody Eton mess hall either!

[@sam16071997]

Mogg has the kind of face I'd never tire of slapping..

[@shanesquuaaaddd7031]

I won't take anything a man who slept in the middle of parliament seriously, ever, especially when he's laughing on the graves of the mass death his party enabled.

[@shanesquuaaaddd7031]

Imagine cherrypicking 4 paragraphs and saying it's "all assertion" my brother in christ have you not seen the leaked videos. "Don't stream we're bending the rules" Clear as day that "KEEP YOUR DISTANCE" was not emphasised.

[@michaeldick6227]

Man knighted by Boris The Liar defends Boris The Liar. I am stunned. Stunned.

[@InnerCityGirl1]

Haha Moggo rambling on whilst his tory colleagues are reading books, texting or dozing.😂

[@ffsytube]

Apparently they all ganged up on the proven liar for no reason, nice one Jacob

[@connclissmann6514]

What a waffler! He promised to be brief yet waffled on and on. Never mentioned the fact that parties *were* actually held and that Johnson attended several.

[@utwhaleandash]

The quest for making the most amount of money with minimal amount of effort knows no bounds. It seams he has had the ability to feel empathy surgically removed from the emotion feeling part of his brain. This man wants 18'th century cruelness and unfairness back. How low can you go?????

[@johnnotrealname8168]

He supports the bills giving people the right to vote so this is absurd.

[@microwaves25]

Can anyone tell me for what public service or area of expertise this man received a knighthood?

[@WilliamWatt-xm2gu]

He’s a great boot licker for Boris Johnson.

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

There's a constituency out there that made this guy an MP Just think about that for a second

[@Aussiemarco]

Indeed there is. And the two main towns in that constituency are Radstock and Midsomer Norton in Somerset, two nothing crap towns that are full of mildew covered boarded up shops. This creature can’t even look after his voter’s interests, far too busy defending liars and cheats and appearing on his TV show. I really hope the voters of Radstock and especially Midsomer Norton do the right thing in the next election and get rid of this skid mark of a man

[@raybrouitt2918]

Lord Jacob Rees Mogg is an expert in educated ,privileged and articulate evasion like his master.

[@julianshepherd2038]

He is a Sir. His dad was a Lord.

[@raybrouitt2918]

@julian shepherd It's all so important when it comes to queueing in Tesco's or a food bank. Excuse me, I'm not a Lord. My father was, I'm just a Sir, so you go first.

[@ftumschk]

@@julianshepherd2038 If they've got any integrity, his knighthood should be cancelled.

[@julianshepherd2038]

@@raybrouitt2918 no, but being a Lord means you sit in the H of Ls.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@raybrouitt2918 His father got a Edit: "Life-Peerage."

[@itsgettingdark1134]

Fair enough. They worked together for so long. No shock 👍

[@zergnub7426]

If only he spent the same amount of time and energy researching and defending the lives and rights of ordinary people as he does his mate, he might almost be doing something we could reasonably call his job.

[@williamwren4006]

Did he say "elon musk particle" as an alternative to microchip?

[@azoriusmage]

What the hell was he talking about?

[@veggi23]

Same question from me; what in holy hell is a Elon Musk particle.

[@williamwren4006]

He says at about 2.20 that Paragraph 83 attempts to be an Elon Musk particle, trying to figure out what's going on inside Johnson's head.

[@no-cq7xd]

this isn't communist china because although slow and painful for us we can hold our representatives to account for their actions

[@cmeonthemove]

It's not communist China but my goodness how the Tories trying to emulate it.

[@col.hertford9855]

I think they are more interested in emulating Saudi Arabia.

[@chaz4510]

Straw man argument there. The issue was, did Johnson deliberately mislead parliament. Nothing to do with the fixed penalty.

[@meuk6929]

I hope he's entered in the members interest his new role of arranging deckchairs on the titanic

[@anne-mariemarshall]

Moggy making a prat of himself......... AGAIN!😂😂😂

[@mathieuleader8601]

When Mr. Johnson blew out the candles it was the deathwish for his political career

[@bendaniel2271]

Sir Jacob Rees Mogg. This is the world we live in

[@martindoyle2150]

Those that stand with Johnson must go down with Johnson.

[@thecommonsensechannel6268]

1) he did attend the birthday party though 2) so the defence is that Boris is an idiot (believable) 3) the line kept changing first it was there was no parties then it changed to, okay there was parties, but guidance was followed, then okay guidance wasn’t followed but I wasn’t there to okay I was there but I didn’t know it was a party

[@joeleaton8752]

You have to admire the consistency they approach at getting off on a technicality. Partiality was a good bit considering how confused they get about impartiality of the BBC.

[@matthewsmith22]

That or to point fingers elsewhere and complain about what they're doing. Blame game politics

[@marksykes5434]

The haunted pencil never ceases , his semantics are thoroughly astounding in his defence of bozo . I’d like him to walk down a street where I live & ask people what they think of bozo , I can tell him they don’t think of it as a stain on bozo more that bozo is a stain on humanity !

[@andiharper4498]

No wonder people are disenfranchised with politics.... why believe a 95% truth when a 5% improbable is good enough!!

[@apedanticpeasant1447]

If it’s a trivial sanction, what’s the issue with it?

[@pickperson]

I'm not allowed to use the 'W' word, am I?

[@col.hertford9855]

He’s a bit of a Willy isn’t he.

[@marka2520]

Wankerrrr!

[@almafrith778]

Why would Rees Mogg go against Johnson, after all, he’s put him forward for a knighthood.

[@stevanbankier707]

Omg the antique pencil is off his bloody rocker

[@shayZero]

"I buggered a stableboy and he has pictures. I must stand up for him"

[@jonathanpipe8249]

Moggy loves using big words !

[@mathieuleader8601]

if Mogg does not believe in the function of this Commons committee then does he approve of the formation of a constitutional court composed of judges.

[@Tabletman1148]

Sunak: We will bring integrity Boris Johnson 2 seconds later:

[@marksykes5434]

I wonder if his children watch him lying ?

[@keithpanton7486]

You have to hope that when they get to their teenage years, rebellion kicks in and they start asking some bloody questions about his decades of bullshit and poor hating.

[@michaelaitken2631]

They will be exactly the same... his genetics need to be removed from the human race.

[@dennism5731]

Even the ones that don’t realise he fathered them can see his lies.

[@maremaarten]

what's wrong with that 'that's right', 'hear hear' lady's brain?

[@JA-qi1fb]

Has he gone s(t)ir crazy?

[@gerrypowell2748]

Yet the Moggy completely ignores Johnson track record,oh wait he’s been given a knighthood👹

[@grizcuz]

I heard that when the report was first published, all the Tories got together to discuss it. One of them said: "that's it, Big Dog is done for, he's completely up Shit Creek without a paddle" and Therese Coffey replied: "You're really going to have to narrow it down a bit".

[@user-wz2qe2pv6r]

So, what great work did he get his knighthood for?

[@tamhunter5025]

Court jester tries to defend the circus clown

[@alexvince461]

If you look up bell end in the encyclopedia there's a picture of JRM

[@jamesmt142]

A calm, professional takedown. He would make an excellent KC.

[@progressivedemagogue8480]

The footage that Boris must have on this guy must contain a few minors, several murders and perhaps severe runny tummy at the same time. Those Moscow hotel rooms are wild!

[@BOZ_11]

Jacob's nose looks awfully brown

[@andrewmacdonald1749]

Perhaps someone should point out that it is not necessary to read someone's mind in order to conclude that, faced with all the evidence, it is highly likely they were fully aware of something. To use the analogy already stated..... If I was driving a car doing 100 miles an hour it would be right for you to assume I knew I was driving that fast.... Either that or I was criminally negligent in not knowing that fact. Perhaps this is the "Don't blame Boris, he is too thick to be at fault" defence.

[@nigelhart3897]

"This isn't communist China." No, it's "fascist Britain" as heralded by the minister for the 8th century.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Britain is not fascist and why "the 8th century"?

[@RichardHolland4881]

earning his knighthood

[@dissol1306]

Rees-mogg is the most disgusting disingenuous person in that house.

[@ThonyStrong]

could he be channeling Rumpole Of the Bailey ?

[@jerrysmith2360]

Harriet Harmen was the committee chair, not the judge. It’s the MPs who are collectively the judge and jury, but sadly not the executioner:-(

[@ptjogara]

Soggy Moggy not happy his golden child got booted!

[@tt-ew7rx]

Of course it is not China. In China Johnson would never have been investigated publicly and he'd still be in power, probably for life, something that JRM would approve of.

[@col.hertford9855]

Johnson and mogg would have been taken out back when Johnson was deposed.

[@JETFORCEJUN0]

Spare us the theatrics Smugg, Johnson was up to his tits in parties, cheese and chorizo.

[@clarecollins2547]

Johnson lied nine times ! Is that not enough for Mogg. Afraid he’s going to get his honour taken away from him?

[@Humanimal47]

This man isn't a politician he's a political influencer and propagandist.

[@dermotoblong]

From the Victorian age

[@zeenatbaer138]

Lord Snooty's at it again ... 🥱

[@sputnikmoonchild]

Brillyaaaant 😅😅😅

[@songsmith31a]

"Blindly" defending...? What a shocking description of an obviously rigorously assessed set of questions and assertions/conclusions. Like or loathe what Johnson is supposed to have thought and done, this type of invaluable dissection of what is put forward as a judgement on a career and its assorted alleged actions is in the best tradition of parliamentary debate. Long may there be those like this parliamentarian who is not afraid to challenge the "narrative" and all its damaging ramifications. Or is Glenda Jackson's attack on Margaret Thatcher somehow unique? Impartiality suggests that both of these notable speeches are examples of Parliament doing its job..

[@brigidann23]

This shoulderless piece of work has put me right off my lunch, THANKS Politics Joe...

[@congoleseyouthnetworkc.y.n1803]

Well even the devil defends his demons

[@DD-fc1rv]

This is the price of a seat in the Lords, then! Bogg is foul.

[@alastairwallace6153]

No honours list, sack them off, no pensions, refund of legal aid money to the public wallet and permenantly banned from parliament.

[@clivesmith9377]

sMogg|: "This isn't communist China". People: "Have you tried to protest lately?"

[@LadyDiamondIsHereNow]

Watch the snake slither

[@toriesdontgettazered7464]

Moggs version of history revisited what a pompous clown 😊

[@SarahRickard]

Everything he criticised - he is guilty of! Wowzers

[@helenrushful]

Im actually impressed: Jacob managed to get to Westminster, and remembered to put his trousers on ! His nanny Im sure is extremely proud of him......(actually, not sure about the trousers, we might need another inquiry into that).

[@elizabethkirton6063]

Of course he's defending him, he doensn't want to lose his knighthood

[@demeterontheinternet]

What nonsense could have been avoided if this kid just got some friends and played some D&D?

[@barryfeatherstone1616]

Well said Jacob! 😊👍

[@normanchristie4524]

He is being tried by his peers....