Rees-Mogg on Corbyn & the Labour leadership

From BBC's Question Time 22/09/16

[@stephenmason1028]

She was so angered by him telling the truth and she knew it that she turned to stone

[@karlgor47]

Stephen Mason too true

[@The1Floyd]

She was in full agreement - he was calling her intelligent. She was attempting to appear loyal to the Labour Party.

[@jmetts]

poor old 4% Liz eh

[@jonathanhenly99]

It doesn't look very truthful now does it?

[@user-gu2rs3mu5r]

I see you in goldbridge video, metalica guitar player video, and now even at here lmao

[@-jb89-35]

The look on her face, she knows he's right

[@DOCTORDROTT]

yes , noticed that Corbyn is a very dangerous guy, that would screw up the uk

[@crumplezone1]

When JRM speaks people listen ,the sign of a leader in waiting

[@captainl-ron4068]

Jeff Jones sadly he is a catholic man. Can't be PM.

[@recruitmentch]

I bet he's eating a big fucking slice of humble pie now!!!

[@pippipster6767]

Roz Sa Nope - As he predicted his majority increased.

[@recruitmentch]

He's in one of the safest seats in the country. Put up a parrot as a tory MP, and they'd still win. Not so the case when at east fife and wrekin when he got ruined, before being given a safe seat.

[@blueskull5027]

Roz Sa you mean the seat that was labour for 13 years

[@markhenryramsey9132]

What a mature stand point. To welcome tough opposition to boost efforts in being the best.

[@thomassmith2227]

He was proven right.

[@worship568]

Mr Jacob Rees Mogg is the perfect salesmen who presents his arguments in a calm and reasoned way. His weakness is that (due to his eloquence), he is not often met with the rebuttals and counter arguments that help us all refine our thinking. This clip is a good example. Everything Mr Mogg suggested would happen in an election turns out to have been wrong....he was ever so persuasive though..

[@ForestKicks]

He was right as well. His majority did go up.

[@Schenkerflyingv]

I'm not normally bothered about politics or politicians, but I would vote for JR-M if he was Prime Minister.He is the only politician in the modern era who says it like it is - warts and all.

[@scobra6652]

Farage does too.

[@undango]

JRM gave the electorate too much credit.

[@michaelh2791]

He gets my vote!

[@southendparaquest]

I actually watched the Labour leadership contest (such that it was), and agree with Jacob re Liz. I thought, that out of everyone that took part, she spoke the most sense. Unfortunately, it was Unite that got their man (or men for that matter). I suspect that if Dan Jarvis' personal priorities was not so tragic, it may have been different. Again another Labour member who speaks sense

[@mole389]

JRM on great form.

[@LIVERNIL723]

This man should be our new Prime Minister.

[@davidb3979]

He was right at 1:10 - his majority went up...

[@jamesrobert9137]

David B His majority went down from 12,749 to 10,235

[@pippipster6767]

Liz Kendall in poker face mode as JRM slates her party's position.

[@tennis5011]

More like Liz Kendall in gloating mode, as both her and Mr Rees_Mogg know that if she was leader last election, then the race would have been much much closer!!

[@lennon1482]

I love corbyn, I love the way labour will be an irrelevance for a long time with him in charge, go jeremy!!!!

[@gordonbradley199]

arcanerhythm lennon not so cocky now eh ? Tory boy ? wait for the Tory brexit catastrophe ! labour win by an avalanche !

[@grahamrogers3345]

What world do you live in? Did you watch the election?

[@user-mf9nc2vk1t]

Even from a non-Tory political stance, Rees-Mogg is marvellous. He may well be wrong on the content of this video.

[@seanolaocha940]

Majority in 2015: 12,749 Majority in 2017: 10,235 Seems to have gone down actually.

[@yogbert]

Seán Leahy Good God he is such an unbearable turd I would like to see more of JRM on tv in order to alienate the electorate that vote for this utter shit bag.

[@boum62]

In all fairness - he could not have imagined Teresa May being so hopeless, arrogant and vacuous during the campaign trail.

[@EntertheFray1]

It speaks volumes that Corbyn couldn't win against a campaign run on fox hunting and dementia tax. It really isn't a boasting point for Corbyn to be honest, yet he seems to think it is. No one wants a closet commie ruling the country.

[@benphillips1231]

Percentage terms?

[@sadhappy8860]

Jacob is boss

[@SOPARA862k]

He's not wrong, his vote share went up from 49.9% in 2015 to 36.6% in 2017 under Corbyn, granted Labours vote share went up by a larger amount due to a drop in UKIP support but he still got more votes and I'm sure that's in big part due to Corbyn. Yes he was underestimated and did better than expected but that was more Theresa Mays loss than Corbyns win.

[@jonathanhenly99]

His majority went down. Labour gained on him

[@misterioutube]

Boy, is he good!

[@JLee12927]

Funny, his majority actually went down 5.9% because although he got a ~5% swing, labour got a 12% swing in his constituency

[@dirtcom7]

He never named any if JCs policies. He just said they're wrong. And unchallenged.whike the plebs clap for someone who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire

[@bobwilliams5905]

You can do nothing more than totally, but totally honour a man who speaks honestly !! In the times of Arthur, he would have sat at the highest seat on the round table ! He is an HONEST man ..... a TRUE Briton !

[@Kegga999]

The election proved a few things: Corbyn will never be PM (couldn't form a majority even with the 4 other mainland parties together); the Tories had a really poor manifesto; May is not good "on the stump"; anti-Brexit parties got hammered with Clegg and Salmond gone; Scottish indepence is dead.

[@Clem_Fandango11]

Kegga999 The Labour Party need to be very careful. They maybe on a roll but they forget the facts you mentioned. The Tory's kicked their own voters in the nuts really hard and were still the biggest party. They now have a massive dilemma. If May survives a full term and learns her lessons and Corbyn, who will be 71, is still there, then Labour will take a massive beating. The next manifesto by the Tories will not be written by those clowns Timothy and Hill.

[@worship568]

Not very insightful

[@adlofheltirchiefadvisortot40]

can see mogg as pm someday.. hes got the eton college education so hes almost already there

[@ProfHarveyCrichton]

You can't fog the Mogg! More moggmentum!

[@andrewpalframan4666]

Corbyn and his like would go after car owners BIG TIME.

[@grahamrogers3345]

Well he was way wrong about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour. Jeremy will be the next PM and one of our greatest ever.

[@shokoohmansouri9311]

He’s destroying your net worth (money)

[@tomj210]

lol, "hopeless opposition". that opinion has not aged well 😂

[@simonjohnhinton1938]

I liken it to two brothels competing with each other. you need stiff competition to ensure standards go up.

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

Well not so unelectable it looks like.

[@Godzilla52]

He couldn't beat the Conservatives when May was sleep walking through the election with a poorly put together Manifesto. How exactly would he have done better if The Conservatives had put up a stronger campaign with a better manifesto? I think Corbyn's gains boil down more to May taking the electorate for granted and wasting the polling gains that the Tories had at the start of the campaign. If Labour had a better and more centrist leader (like an Emanuel Macron type for example) and the Conservative's campaign was as disjointed in that election as it was in this one, Labour would have won.

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

That´s speculation.

[@Godzilla52]

Yes, but it's an educated guess. Both of statement's would still qualify as speculation either way.

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

I am not qualified to decide the outcome if labour had a moderate candidate that since I haven´t got statistical data and I don´t care that much (I´m not english) but it seems to me many of the labour voters went to vote because Corbyn appealed to them directly, whereas a moderate candidate wouldn´t have been able to convince them. If said moderate could have stolen enough votes from the tories or other parties to make up for this I do not know.

[@Godzilla52]

Well to be fair, I'm not from the UK either, I just take an interest in their politics. I think that a lot of moderates have done a good job reaching out to voters and connecting with them. Look at Macron in France, he was able to form a political party out of the nothing and gain widespread appeal among centre-left and centre-right voters. It also gave him one of the biggest Presidential wins in French electoral history. I just think that it's common sense that governments have a better chance of lasting when they have a broad base and are able to keep society and large content with them. Which I think is hard to do if you don't govern towards to centre.

[@michaelwindsor939]

moggmentum

[@patrickoconnor8166]

Don't worry Labour, Diane A butt will be your next leader.

[@pussycatwoahwoah]

I admire you Mogg and you are a charming, funny politician, but you and everyone else got it very wrong.

[@mashaw8183]

How wrong he was....

[@dominicaaaaa5547]

rees-nobb

[@11moleman]

Meanwhile the labor party ships in thousands of immigrants who will vote for them no matter what they do.

[@jonathanhenly99]

How do they do that when they aren't in government?