Is Moggism The Future Of The Conservative Party..

[Khandro]

... and British politcs?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/02/28/modern-politics-moggism-blueprint-build-winning-brand/?li_source=LI&;li_medium=li-recommendation-widget

Last week in a Spectator organised event, tickets for his appearance and talk at the 2,300-seat London Palladium sold out beforehand in a fortnight.
Makes you think!

p.s. I anyone can't read the link, I can paste some in.

[naomi24]

Can you paste the relevant bits please, Khandro?

[ToraToraTora]

sounds like something out of cats home!

[dannyk13]

Not really surprised that tickets were sold out, he is a very eloquent speaker.

[Gromit]

Only if Conservatism has no future.

The ERG are a party within a party, and like Derek Hatton, he should be thrown out of the party. While the ERG fester on the far right, the Conservative Government is rendered split and incapable of taking important decisions. The trickle of Tory MPs to IG would be a deluge if Mogg got anywhere near leading the Party.

[Khandro]

"............Political fashions change. Once, the future seemed to belong to smiling Tony Blair types (or Bill Clinton epigones) who sought to offend as few people as possible, settle down on the TV studio sofa and try to look and talk as unlike politicians as it was possible to do. Locally and nationally, victory tended to go to the centrist candidates with the fewest enemies.

Now, people want leaders with something to say, who stick out from the identikit politicians - even if they are hated for doing so. Take Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, socialists who haven’t changed their views in decades. Until recently, this confined them to obscurity. Now, both have found an appeal that astonishes those still using the late-1990s political playbook. If being ridiculed is fatal, why did Mr Corbyn win over more people in the last general election than any leader in any modern British election? If being hated is fatal, why is Donald Trump in the White House? ................."

[agchristie]

I thought the panto season had finished!

[jno]

Trump is in the White House because of the US system that likes to hand the job to Republicans who get fewer votes than Democrats.

[cassa333]

If you think the ERG are far right then you really do need to re-educate yourself on that term.

[Gromit]

Cassa,
the words of one former Conservative MP...

// “The right wing, the hardline, anti-EU awkward squad that have destroyed every leader for the last 40 years are now running the Conservative party from top to tail – they are the Conservative party.” //

Who am I to disagree with that.

[dannyk13]

Where does that mention the ERG?

[ichkeria]

If it is it’ll be the death of them. Looks like he’s realised he’s going to have to support Theresa if he’s going to get Brexit.
Selling out venues of a couple of thousand whether you’re Jacob Rees-Mogg or Jeremy Rees-Corbyn or means nothing but I guess it shows that Eton set didn’t go out with Cameron and Osborne :-)

[ichkeria]

You quoted the devil herself there Gromit :-)

[ichkeria]

A reminder that as it stands Jeremy Corbyn languishes 11 points behind May in the polls and also in personal ratings.

[Kromovaracun]

Even the name 'Moggism' sounds like something out of Tolkien. I very much doubt it has a chance in the real world.

[naomi24]

//I thought the panto season had finished! //

Ohhh no it hasn't!

[youngmafbog]

There is a massive difference between far right and right, just as there is between left and far left.

JRM is NOT far right by any means.

"The ERG are a party within a party, and like Derek Hatton, he should be thrown out of the party. "

In fact the ERG are more Tory than the liberals that have infiltrated the party, it is the liberals that need to go not the proper Tories.

[ichkeria]

One of the most comprehensive demolitions of Tommy Robinson I’ve seen came from Melanie Phillips, who is well on the Right of most things so yes I agree the world of Robinson and co is a very different one to that of the Moggster in all sorts of ways. I’d say “far right” of the Tories though.

[gulliver1]

PMM , PMSL.

[Khandro]

ichi //One of the most comprehensive demolitions of Tommy Robinson I’ve seen//
Watch him answer back;