11 condemnations of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s shameful Grenfell comment
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Jacob is the guy who sits next to you in action films explaining how he'd have avoided the demise the guy on screen just experienced. But I never thought he'd go this far.https://t.co/t6OwBM3DmT
— Mark ne-Francois-pas MP (@MarkFrancois12) November 5, 2019
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Everyone: surely, nothing could be worse than a Tory candidate who said people on Benefits Street should be put down?
Jacob Rees-Mogg: hold my cup of tea. And be careful, that’s bone china.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) November 5, 2019
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Jacob Rees-Mogg saying that he, a smart person, would have just ignored the "stay put policy" and escaped Grenfell reminds me of my first boyfriend who MULTIPLE TIMES insisted that he could out-wit any mugger during an attack.
— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) November 5, 2019
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I’ve often heard Jacob Rees-Mogg described as a “character”. Very much the wrong c-word. https://t.co/XPkuDzZf8D
— Jason (@NickMotown) November 5, 2019
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The more you see of Jacob Rees Mogg the less there is and what remains is an odious empathy free shell of a human being.
— Peter Smith (@Redpeter99) November 5, 2019
In a statement issued by his office, Rees-Mogg claimed his words had been misinterpreted.
“I profoundly apologise.”
“What I meant to say is that I would have also listened to the fire brigade’s advice to stay and wait at the time. However, with what we know now and with hindsight I wouldn’t and I don’t think anyone else would.”
“What’s so sad is that the advice given overrides common sense because everybody would want to leave a burning building.”
Writer Matt Zarb-Cousin suggested another area in which common sense might be useful.
If you’re running a Conservative general election campaign, keeping Jacob Rees-Mogg away from the media just seems like the common sense thing to do
— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) November 5, 2019
Horses and stable doors spring to mind.
