On Paid Holidays and other employment benefits
TUC’s Nicola Smith: “Paid holiday, paid rest breaks, rights for time off if you’ve got kids and your kids are unwell, protection from discrimination when you’re pregnant”…. “I [Rees-Mogg] don’t support all these employment rights that come from Europe.”
Source Jacob Rees-Mogg on workers’ rights: 11 times he revealed his true colours | openDemocracy
On Food Banks:
“To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.
Source Jacob Rees-Mogg: Increased Use Of Food Banks Is “Rather Uplifting” – LBC
On David Cameron:
“You had that great day when he [Cameron] wore four shirts or whatever it was, and was pretending to negotiate very hard and came out at the end with exactly what Donald Tusk [European Council President] said he would have three or four months earlier.”
His Long word:
[manufactured a Hansard record with] the use of floccinaucinihilipilification in the House of Commons – now the longest word in Hansard.
Source MP uses 29-letter word: floccinaucinihilipilification – BBC News
On Marcus Rashford
[school meals in holiday periods: Rees-Mogg voted against].
Free school meals have only ever been intended to support pupils during term time.1
On Theresa May
[He] described the disgraceful & abominable go-home vans that Theresa May introduced as Home Secretary as “a lapse of good taste!”
On Brexit Opportunities
“Is that the best you can do, cheese and fish fingers?” Venables hit back.
Rees-Mogg said: “I’m just giving you an example of savings, but dare I say you’re slightly missing the point.
“The point is this is the aggregation of lots and lots of small savings.”
On Boris Johnson
Getting rid of Johnson “would be bad for the country and it would be bad for the world,” the Tory MP [Rees-Mogg] continued, “because then we would not have the global leadership that we need.”
At Eton College
Such is the controversy currently engulfing Eton-educated politicians, that former Eton headteacher Tony Little has chimed in saying ex-pupils, Boris Johnson, David Cameron and Jacob Rees-Mogg are giving the respected school a “bad name.”
In Parliament
His party colleague Anna Turley posted: ‘The physical embodiment of arrogance, entitlement, disrespect and contempt for our parliament.’
Note
1 Johnson’s climb down “This was never about me or you, this was never about politics, this was a cry out for help from vulnerable parents all over the country and I simply provided a platform for their voices to be heard.” Marcus Rashford
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