Britain, Come Collect Your Large Adult Son
To listen to Jacob Rees-Mogg is to know him. And he sounds like a child.
As Britain’s parliamentarians debated into Tuesday evening the question of who might ultimately decide whether or not the nation careens into a no-deal Brexit, Jacob-Rees Mogg, the plummy government House leader, could be seen reclining along a bench. His eyes drooping, his left arm draped across his chest, his left leg crossed over his right, Rees-Mogg appeared barely able to stay awake. As opposition members across the floor admonished his posture and shouted at him to “sit up, man!” Rees-Mogg simply adjusted his little round eyeglasses.
Rees-Mogg’s casual approach to an impending national crisis might suggest he knows something everyone else does not. That’s unlikely. What is likely, however, is that he thinks he knows something everyone else does not.
Only days earlier, Rees-Mogg — a staunch supporter of efforts to leave the European Union — appeared on LBC, a British talk radio station, discussing the potential societal fallout from…
