Is Rees-Mogg A Hypocrite?

[sp1814]

If not - why?

https://www.indy100.com/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-theresa-may

[sp1814]

Damn

[tonyav]

LOL just a case of fat fingers that's all.

[Ellipsis]

hypocrisy
a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time:
* [JRM] has one rule for [Boris Johnson] and another rule for [Theresa May] and it's sheer hypocrisy.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hypocrisy

[naomi24]

Come off it with the dictionary definition, ellipsis. Comparisons can only be made when circumstances align. Treacherous Mrs May, with her snap general election, designed to rally support for her wonky, duplicitous Brexit deal, lost the government its majority and the result of the confidence vote was bad for her - and for good reason. Her whole premiership was a disaster for this country as was she. JRM was right to want rid of her.

[Ellipsis]

So you like JRM's support for one Tory leader and his disdain for another Tory leader. That doesn't mean he isn't a hypocrite. What he said about those two leaders' respective VOCs is the very definition of hypocrisy.

[Ellipsis]

Reminder: Theresa May did better in her VOC than Boris Johnson did in his.

[sp1814]

Ellipsis.

Nail.

Head.

(You know the rest)

[davebro]

Let they who have never been hypocritical cast the first stone!

[JDavis]

How would May's proposed deal have been treacherous and duplicitous?

[Ellipsis]

> How would May's proposed deal have been treacherous and duplicitous?

It doesn't matter. What matters is that Jacob Rees-Mogg thought Theresa May should go purely based on the numbers - because of the size of the vote against her - but didn't think Boris Johnson should go on the same numerical basis, despite having an even bigger vote against him. In fact, Rees-Mogg also said that even if Johnson won by only one vote, that would be sufficient ... total hypocrisy.

[JDavis]

I agree but that wasn't what I asked.

[david small]

I think that he is more honest than most politicians.

[maggiebee]

Tory = hypocrite, so yes he is.

[Ellipsis]

> I think that he is more honest than most politicians

He clearly has no judgment. He called his sixth child Sextus. Sextus Rees-Mogg. Who in their right mind does that?

[sp1814]

JDavis

I think that might be a question for naomi24.

[naomi24]

Ellipsis, if you’re talking about honesty, making it up as you go along does nothing for your credibility. He didn’t want her to go ‘purely based on numbers’ as you claim. He wanted her to go because she was a bad prime minister who did her utmost to thwart democracy by refusing to honour the result of the EU referendum, and furthermore by decimating the government’s majority with her arrogant stupidity in calling a snap general election. The numbers confirmed that he wasn’t alone in holding that opinion. Although ultimately the numbers were a good result for the country - we got shot of her - they were, for her personally, disastrous. He was absolutely right.

[naomi24]

JDavis, my post above answers your question.

[JDavis]

Don't recall the ballot paper specifying a particular kind of Brexit.

[Zacs-Master]

I don't think Theresa May had the gumption to make a decision on her own. She was a puppet PM.

[naomi24]

JDavis, which bit of the word ‘Leave’ don’t you understand?