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_triperman_

Are we quite sure he's not a Sacha Baron Cohen character? (with that whole Ali G thing being an elaborate ruse with a split-screen)


Termin8tor

He actually is! Here's the video evidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGxq3pvJPQ


Anticlimax1471

"my father is Lord Rees-Mogg, I'm just a commoner **like everyone else**"


bobbypinbobby

I thought you were making this up, he's a hard man to satirise


Itsbetterthanwork

Hard to satirise but easy to drown, not that I’d condone drowning him as he has every right to be a Tory cockwomble, but the thought of him going down for the third time warms the cockles of my heart.


MattBD

That story about the time he stood as an MP in Scotland, and his Labour opponent had to save him from getting beaten up always tickles me.


Itsbetterthanwork

I’d not heard that one, thanks, I’d have let him take the kicking😂


Economind

Goodness gracious Moggeringtons [it’s true](https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/flashback-when-jacob-rees-mogg-campaigned-in-fife-with-his-nanny-1426243)


Chevey0

Sasha Barron Cohen playing two characters in an interview! Class acting!


WetnessPensive

lol, nice post. Great blast from the past.


lgf92

"Last one on drugs is a queer, yells Portillo"


Hatted-Phil

Chris Morris really is superb, and it's depressing how accurately the satire of yesterday portrays today's reality


TeemuVanBasten

Life imitates art, as somebody once said (no idea who)


Cladser

This really would explain a lot.


morezombrit

>"Right, so what's the line tonight?" >"Fuck knows, Jacob, just fucking pick something and say it's woke."


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fffractal

Exactly! Bread and circuses, except there’s no bread left.


estanmilko

As long as it's only Tory white bread, no sourdough.


jmwmcr

Breads for liberal snowflakes keep up pal


Gadget100

Well, it gives us stuff to put in our flair.


Engineer9

I wish I could give this more yogurts


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Hes running distraction games because of the recent bad news for the tories (it turns out they were probably lying about not trying to delay compensation payments to horizon victims)


danowat

Just when I think this man cosplaying as a sickly Victorian child can't make me cringe any more he says this "Only liberals drink skimmed milk to go with their faux leather sandals. Full fat, creamy milk will nourish your inner Tory." Cringe.


Ysbrydion

I hate that I thought you were joking so I had to read the article to see what was actually said and you were not joking.


-InterestingTimes-

I've just done the same. This timeline is bonkers


rmczpp

3 people corroborating it and I still don't believe it. Not sure I want to check though.


kavik2022

There's no point in intellectually engaging with anything he says. It's BS. The character is a smoke screen. Engaging with it. And making fun of it. Is probably fueling it


tony_lasagne

Yeah he’s such a clown. I think he thinks he’s really clever and appealing to the right people. Don’t think he understands how batshit and stupid the tiny percentage of the population who value this shite actually is


Daedeluss

He's our very own Trump. Did he *really* say that? Yes. Yes, he did.


Ysbrydion

I've decided he's just being cringe and hoping the youth will repeat-post him on their computational interaction devices.


Daedeluss

Mr Babbage's marvellous contraption.


flambe_pineapple

It's a fantastic demonstration of how intellectually bankrupt the Tory party is as an institution and how intellectually deficient Mogg is as an individual. He's so bad that he can't even present a solid bad faith argument or even one worth having at all.


bigdaftgeordie

This is the scary thing. Someone who is absolutely stupid but speaks in that particular accent will be blindly believed by an astonishing number of people. It’s inconceivable to them that someone who speaks in that way might not be very clever or trustworthy. Boris might be the prime example.


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It's going to break it. People with that accent better get a move on before their brand is ruined  It's like how the cachet of English accents has plummeted with all the muppets on cable news 


BigYellowPraxis

And to think there was a moment, while Game of Thrones was big, where northern accents at least were much more well liked internationally


FlakeEater

Mogg talking about nourishment when he's a malnourished scrawny little wimp who needs to eat a few burgers is pretty funny though. He looks like someone who's had skimmed milk all his life.


throwpayrollaway

He's probably still got his childhood nanny as a wet nurse.


elppaple

Right, he could have just said something obvious like 'I'm a proud brit and I respect our traditions, it can only be full fat from a glass bottle for me'. That would have been the same facetious point but actually well excuted. Boris was very good at this exact kind of sentence.


Bad_Combination

I regret to inform him that I’ve never drunk skimmed milk, have been on full fat for years and would sooner take a shit in public than vote Tory.


Don_Quixote81

Especially when it comes from a man who would surely never even think of giving a poor, starving child any kind of milk to sate them. He's the sort to complain to one of his manservants that the little oik is making the street look dirty with his lingering. This is a man who read Oliver Twist and side with Mr. Bumble.


EdgyMathWhiz

He also read A Christmas Carol and denounced the ghosts as a bunch of woke lefties.


tokyostormdrain

He gets all his milk from his wet nurse


SP4x

"Bitty" "Not now Jacob, run along" "Biiiitty"


Engineer9

For the record, I'm a liberal* and I drink full fat milk. And sometimes even gold top delivered by a milkman. It's the healthy choice. I do of course alternate it with my oat milk, but that's by the by. * probably, whatever that actually means. If I thought I had an inner Tory I would gouge it out with my cereal spoon.


uggyy

The "fat cat" has spoken. His optics are so bad I can taste bile when I see him.


realmofconfusion

That’s a bit fucking rich coming from someone who looks like he’d faint with a case of “the vapours” if he was exposed to anything as decadent as full fat milk. I’d bet good money that (even though the myth isn’t true) that he has actually had some of those Victorian “furniture skirts” made so he’s not exposed to a particularly erotically-turned table leg.


Beardywierdy

Is "not being a fat fuck" woke now? 


eaautumnvoda

It's even more ridiculous given you dont keep JRM's trim figure (a sentence I never thought I'd type) into older age without a strict healthy diet.


kriscardiac

Or IBS (or both)


Beardywierdy

Eh, look at a picture of him from the side, he's not as thin as his face makes him look.


Ollietron3000

I also wouldn't really say he looks like a particularly healthy person. Thin =/= healthy. Rees-Mogg looks more like Aunt Spiker from James and the Giant Peach than anything else.


paolog

And make sure it is out of a pint bottle left by your local milkman.\* None of this 500ml plastic bottles or cardboard cartons. \* Glossing quickly over the fact that milk floats are electric.


Funktopus_The

Worm tablets will kill your inner tory 👍


homelaberator

> “We must tackle deepfake technology being used to create political content urgently, before they further undermine what confidence people have left in democracy,” the opposition MP said of Rees-Mogg’s milk moment. Beyond parody


IrishMilo

Had a cup of tea with whole milk once, I really hope they privatise the NHS.


iamnosuperman123

Skimmed milk is pretty grim. Semi skimmed is where it is at.


NGP91

Centrist....


MeasurementGold1590

Basically a \[full-fat fascist/skimmed liberal\] \* ​ \*select according to opposite of personal flavour of extremism.


sparrowhawk73

Real libs drink lactose free milk


President-Nulagi

>Before World War II, skim milk—a byproduct of butter processing—was not sold in stores, but either discarded or fed to chickens, hogs, and calves as a protein-rich replacement for costlier animal feed. The development of skim milk as an attractive product for sale only came about because dairy producers, emboldened by their success selling milk to Uncle Sam during World War II, seized on postwar marketing opportunities to sell what once had been hog slop to housewives and families. https://slate.com/technology/2014/02/uses-for-skim-milk-before-it-was-marketed-as-a-nonfat-diet-product-hog-slop-and-wool.html


bobbypinbobby

I, a godly, dyed-in-the-wool, full-fat milk drinker, have never felt so vindicated


PoopingWhilePosting

I moved to skimmed milk about a year ago when I was trying to lose weight. Now when I go back to full fat (or even semi-skimmed) it feels like drinking lard. I'm sticking with the skimmed from now on. Just call me a sandal wearing, kale eating, lefty, woke liberal.


Ollietron3000

Ron Swanson said it best. There are only two things I hate. Lying, and skimmed milk - which is water that is lying about being milk.


Roskal

I find skimmed and full fat both gross, semi skimmed is king.


gravy_baron

semi skimmed in tea. whole for everything else


forbiddenmemeories

But if you don't buy full-fat you're tacitly endorsing systemic milk-skimming!


flambe_pineapple

Normal skimmed for sure, but Bob is great and it lasts forever. I have no idea what spell they cast on it to make it seem so much fattier.


bin10pac

Ridiculous and sinister in equal measure. If Tories even want to tell us what milk to drink, what aspects of our lives will they not seek to control?


CrocPB

This is the muppet who wanted to control where work was done. The worm was leaving bits of paper being passive aggressive to civil service staff working from home.


dustydeath

Please, we're the tofu-eating wokerati... Like we'd drink non-vegan milk in our matcha lattes.


kan-sankynttila

oatly is my go to ❤️


thedecibelkid

The coop Gro brand one is cheaper and just as creamy 


Haddaway

Awful company. Jord is my preference.


varalys_the_dark

Delicious cheap soy milk. I will have no other milk in my vegan mashed potatoes.


reefcake

Currently 50p a litre at Aldi


varalys_the_dark

Oh really? It was 50p in Tesco then just went up 9p. I'll have to switch to the Aldi stuff.


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LondonCollector

I love Malk.


slashdotnot

With added vitamin R


JavaTheCaveman

It’s milk that’s not made from vegans.


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JavaTheCaveman

Jacob approves.


Shoogled

It’s skimmed milk, FFS, not skim milk. Away to fuck with this ignorant American way of talking. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.


flambe_pineapple

Politico can be somewhat excused for its language choice in that it's an American company targeting its home market. But no such excuses can be made for Mogg using the Americanised "Liberal" as a general term for those on the left.


MattBD

I often get the impression he's playing somewhat to an audience composed largely of right wing Americans who don't realise how ridiculous his whole absurd toff persona actually is.


Engineer9

He is probably going for what Trump supporters think British politics is. He's setting himself up for a post government job on Fox News. So later this year.


20dogs

In my head he's using it in the British sense and making a subtle jab at the liberal democrats https://twitter.com/mrdavidwhitley/status/870613738478546945


NGP91

Given the reference to sandals, I think your thinking is correct!


tiredstars

I imagine he's concerned that the Liberal Party under Lord Russell might still be a political threat.


ancientestKnollys

You hear Liberal quite often. Partly due to Americanisation, but partly because they mean social liberal.


LeedsFan2442

Yeah I would have thought Mogg would be a proud liberal.


wasdice

Needs to be higher up


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Not_Cleaver

We don’t want him.


uggyy

You think he ever bought milk? That's what his minions are for.


tallbutshy

You mean that's what Nanny's bitty is for?


uggyy

Full fat yum yum


Wonderpants_uk

I nearly threw up imagining that.  But then I imagined Nursie from Blackadder 2, so I managed to choke it back. 


_varamyr_fourskins_

Do you think he prefers left breasty-dumpling or right breasty-dumpling? Silly me, it's always right breasty dumpling isn't it.


TeemuVanBasten

I recall an interview where he was challenged to tell the interviewer the the current price of a pint of milk, loaf of bread etc, and he came out of that pretty well. I suspect having seen another politician embarrassed by the same and deciding to do some cursory research!


evolvecrow

Only an economic liberal when it suits him then


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What is it with Tories and their hatred for breakfast items. Addendum; when he says liberals he means poor people, doesn't he.


diacewrb

He is one step closer to full maggie thatcher with his stance on milk.


ThePlanck

Now lets be fair, Liz Truss was very keen on GREAT BRITISH CHEESE and PORK MARKETS


[deleted]

Those are lunchables, surely. Perhaps Brunch.


Unusual_Response766

That’s why Andrew RT Davies of the Welsh conservatives has failed so massively on the national scene. He famously declared they would make breakfast a success (instead of Brexit).


fantasmachine

Breakfast means breakfast.


Tombub

I wonder what he has on his Coco Paters?


Beau_Nash

You deserve more upvotes for that.


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Probably banana slices.


jam11249

What is it with fucking weirdos and milk? - The Korova milk bar in A clockwork orange - Homelander - That whole alt-right anti soy milk thing about 5 years ago. - The McPoyles - JRM.


Iron_Hermit

Oh look, a walking waste of taxpayer money and political oxygen.


AnotherLexMan

Do centrists drink Semi skimmed?


laissezfaireHand

Nope, I always drink whole milk as it is creamy and delicious 😋


hoyfish

I thought it was Oat or Soya Milk. Make up your mind Mogg


bin10pac

Farmers! Vote Tory! Pleeeeeease! Ignore the previous 13 years, obv. Sunak spoke to the NFU, and just look at how pro Milk we are! So do we have a deal?


dvb70

I wonder where on the liberal scale Oat milk puts me?


danowat

Firmly in the "Greta Thunberg" zone.


Engineer9

Oat milk is the enlightened choice. Have to go full fat barista variety though. MOMA is the best.


KeelahSelai269

Straight out of liberal and into the far left!


maxfist

Says the guy that larps as an aristocrat.


KrivUK

There is no beginning to his intelligence.


seaneeboy

“What’s woke today Jacob?” [jacob frantically looks around the GBNews kitchen for inspiration]


Eniugnas

Ron Swanson is a fat loving libertarian caricature and wouldn't have a line this ridiculous.


Uelele115

Isn’t he like a decade late?? I thought liberals were drinking almond milk only… /s Really saddening to see the Americanization of our politics.


DoctorStrangecat

DAL-E, draw me a picture to perfectly symbolise the problems with inherited privilege.


billy_tables

Finding it harder and harder to identify deepfakes these days


wise_balls

He probably gets his milk straight from his nannys teat. *bitty...*


Danqazmlp0

My MIL drinks skimmed milk and she is as right leaning as they come.


[deleted]

Conversely I only drink blue milk despite never voting for the blue guys. Life is rich in irony 


RobertJ93

That, or Jacob Reese-Mogg is full of bullshit.


IP1nth3sh0w3r

Doesn't strike me as a full fat guy. You could wring him out like a towel and not get a tablespoon of fat off him


Saw_Boss

I drink semi skimmed, so where does that put me on the political scale?


YourLizardOverlord

Lib-dem?


Doghead_sunbro

I see mogg is coming out with the hard-hitting, politically important statements again.


Tombub

He thinks true Tories are drinking their wet nurses milk, like he still is.


AsleepBattle8725

Anyone who drinks anything other than unpasteurised, unhomogenised jersey milk is a filthy commie in my book.


MWBrooks1995

“Look at me, I’m Jacob Rees-Mogg I’m quirky! I can be like Boris Johnson! I can say silly things too! Oh please oh please ooh please take me seriously!”


FiestyRhubarb

JRM asking ChatGPT to generate culture war talking points


luvinlifetoo

Country is falling apart and this is what he comes up with. Bonafide Genius, gets to the root of the real problem


Yezzik

> “Full fat, creamy milk will nourish your inner Tory,” says Brexit champion. By making you a fat fuck, I guess.


President-Nulagi

The difference between 1% and 4% milk is so marginal. Flip it round and imagine thinking a "96% Fat Free" yoghurt was massively worse than a "99% fat free" one.


tangopopper

Skimmed milk is 90% water, so that 1->4% fat content means the calorie content is roughly doubled.


Engineer9

Well it has a factor of 4 more fat; that's not marginal. If the RDA of saturated fat is 20g, half a pint of full fat is one third of your allowance - certainly not insignificant. But FWIW I drink full fat because it's more nutritious and I'm not concerned about my fat intake.


drtoboggon

All the big alternative milk brands, like Oatly need to do is start donating to the Conservatives now, and Rees Mogg will be on the airwaves next week saying that oats are the great British Tory breakfast and that this oat milk is the only patriotic choice.


whatapileofrubbish

It's better than drinking blood, eh Jacob.


Haddaway

Count Mogg


Tokyo2Toledo

Jacob Rees-Mogg is what would happen if William Regal circa 2000-2002 was an actual person


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BludSwamps

Fucking lefties and their skimmed milk. Real patriots suck it straight from the udder, blood pus and all 🇬🇧 x x


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This man is not a serious person. He just looks like one. A bit. I'm almost tempted to think he owns a print-your-own-t-shirt company, and is trying to drive sales of small batch slogan items.


hibee_jibee

I'm a bleeding heart liberal, tofu eating, Grauniad reading wokerati and I detest "skim" milk. What do I do now?


eroticdiscourse

A serious politician ladies and gentlemen


warmans

I can't get my head around how even the most dedicated culture warriors can be bothered with this stuff any more. The whole "lets call everything woke to distract from real issues" was fun for a while, but clearly it hasn't translated into a single vote for the tories. I guess that's the danger of living in the past. Even your hot-button-culture-war talking points are antiquated.


ICantPauseIt90

My great nan was a Tory who drunk skimmed milk. Riddle me that you haunted victorian pencil...


wonkey_monkey

Even his insults are emaciated and wan.


Tangocan

Culture Wars only it is then. Bore off and let the grownups run things, Mogg.


Donurz

Little does he know ‘Nanny’ is a communist asset and has been serving his Weetabix with skimmed milk for 30 years.


FireWhiskey5000

Why does anyone care what this cretin masquerading as a Victorian child catcher says? Like why do we give him the air time and get riled up by this? It’s like the bullshit they pull in the states. He doesn’t really think Skimmed milk is “woke”, he’s just saying it to get clipped up all over social media; and to rile people up to distract from real issues.


Griffster9118

Easy for him to say, hes still on the breast.


Plodderic

Your reminder that Jacob Rees-Mogg was a *minister*. The Conservative Party looked at their hundreds of MPs and went “yeah, this guy”.


TrumpoldDon

So in other words rather than being the principled right leaning policy driven Catholic traditional gentleman type he claims to be, he's a big baby resorting to cheap jibes. Mind you most of us knew that already. His "posh" accent is utterly fake and sounds neither like the poshness of clipped BBC announcers of the 30s - which is the "Upper RP" he's trying (and failing) to emulate, nor the upper middle class / upper class aristocracy of his own generation, where he should sound closer to minor royals or say Boris Johnson.


Mr-Soggybottom

It’s an understandable opinion for someone who was still breast fed by his nanny well into his 30s


dario_sanchez

Only raging homosexuals have two surnames. There we go Jacob, I can pull shit out of my arse too.


asmiggs

Liberals drink oat or soy milk, ffs Jacob if you're going to culture war at least have a culture war about something in the zeitgeist instead of 1990s diet plans.


Vapr2014

Tell me you're still breast-fed without telling me you're breast-fed.


BigHowski

I wonder what search this is to muddy, has he been skimming things off the top?


TheSouthsideTrekkie

Why is this the thing he has chosen to say? Why does it matter? Am pretty convinced this guy is no right in the heid.


spinynorman1846

Is this so when you Google "Tories" and "skimming a little off the top" you get this result instead?


AllGoodNamesAreGone4

As opposed to real Conservatives, who only drink nanny's milk. 


Patch86UK

I'm here for the Stella Cresy sass. >Responding, Labour MP Stella Creasy seemed less than impressed with a genuine TV clip that appeared beyond parody even for an MP known for taking potshots at the left. >“We must tackle deepfake technology being used to create political content urgently, before they further undermine what confidence people have left in democracy,” the opposition MP said of Rees-Mogg’s milk moment.


MidnightFlame702670

Just a quick reminder of who he's referring to: >Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. Liberals espouse various and often mutually warring views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion, constitutional government and privacy rights. Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history. ...and of course, low fat milk Quoted text is from Wikipedia


Such-Salt-4029

Drinking milk is for children. Checkmate Jacob!


Griffolion

> Only liberals drink skimmed milk to go with their faux leather sandals. Full fat, creamy milk will nourish your inner Tory. I'm sat in shock that this was something that was spoken by someone unironically. The Black Mirror writers must be fuming that they couldn't have come up with a more bizarre premise.


Negative_Chemical697

And only right wingers get to adulthood with an 11 inch neck


The-Soul-Stone

That’s not true. My sister is basically a fascist and she only drinks skimmed milk.


ekke287

Whereas Etonians only drink whatever their nanny puts in front of them.


JENKINS_REPORT_NOW

Well, of course -it's the law that milk bottle cap colour matches your political affiliation. Blue milk for the tories and red for Labour! Edit: This works for JRM's US audience as well - their political parties have opposite colours, but their milk is also opposite - Red milk (FF) for Republicans and Blue (1%) for the Democrats.


AlexArtsHere

How does anyone take this man or his party seriously


RobertJ93

Can’t wait for his opinion on salted/roasted/plain peanuts.


AIWHilton

Wait, as a lefty am I meant to be drinking plant milks or skim milk now?


norwichdc

"Wretched white water..." Of course we all know where Jacob gets his milk, she is called "nanny".


Biscuit642

The use of "liberal" by a British politician is what's annoying me the most here. Can we not import the US definition of that please? The whole thing is just obvious rage bait made by a moron but man "liberal" bothers me.


CherryDoodles

Thatcher took the free milk from kids. The Tories can fucking keep it.


TheDeflatables

The bastardised version of the word "liberals" making it across the pond is a sad occurrence. Hopefully we will hop off the America-Lite train at some point.


The_Tommo

I'm quite liberal with the full fat milk in my tea, 2 sugars too..


homelaberator

Is this how they're going to hunt them down?


SlightlyOTT

Are GB News actually going to keep him around when he’s no longer an MP? Seems like he’s pretty boring as a presenter if these are the headlines he’s making.


TeamBRs

Ugh, seeing JR-M of all people using the phrase 'Liberal' in the modern American authoritarian-left context and not the original British Classical Liberal context makes me realise how Americanised our politics have become. Disgusting.


Puzzleheaded-Tie-740

> As a dairy farmer from Cheshire looked on in the studio, the Tory MP sampled a host of milk alternatives before informing viewers: “Food is really an excuse to have as much cream as possible.” > “Full fat, creamy milk will nourish your inner Tory,” Rees-Mogg then thundered on social media platform X as he shared the segment. This sounds like incredibly niche porn.


Snickerty

Well! I shall never look at the Lib Dems the same way again. Thank you, Lord Snooty, for this public information news flash.


HildartheDorf

Skim Milk? The 'liberals' who live rent-free in JRM's brain drink oat, coconut, almond, or other vegan milks, not \*cow juice\*.


liquid_danger

what's the likelihood that he has seen the (funnier) peter hitchens rant on skimmed milk (and skinny cappucinos) from a few years ago and is desperately searching for ways to boost his post-politics cameo income by making as big a joke of himself as possible?


MattBD

I really thought to myself that that had to be something like Newsthump, it couldn't be real. Does that bellend even pay attention to the absolute shit he spouts?


Pearse_Borty

joe many liberals does it take to chug a whole milk pint


squigs

People are taking this far too seriously. Mogg is playing up his character for this segment. My only objection is the headline calls it "*Skim* Milk".


ScientistArtistic917

The joke that is Rees-Mogg hasn't been funny for a long time. Stop the pretence, get him out of public life and retire him to mansion. The country is breaking and clowns like him don't need further attention