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FINALLY!
At long long last, the Tories are to be returned to power!
Moreover, after 5 attempts, I am finally the Member of Parliament for somewhere or other.
So, readers, look forward to the continued adventures of Jacob Rees-Mogg … MP!
The Final Countdown
I apologise profusely for neglecting the blogg over the past week or so. I had meant to get writing, but other events just took me by surprise!
We had the leader’s debate, we had Gordon Brown’s “Bigoted Woman” gaffe. I have never been caught by a stray microphone myself, but I have been involved in many similar slip-ups despite being fully aware of audio and video devices. You all remember the time when I called everyone who did not go to Oxbridge a potted plant who would be in government to fill up quotas.
It has been a very long campaign, almost three years, really. I say to you all though, that we’ve done it. In just a few hours time I will finally realise my project to become an Member of Parliament after trying so hard, so many times, in so many places.
So, in the final moments of the campaign, before you cast your vote:
Look around this site and think carefully.
Take a look at the newspaper articles written about me. [HERE]
Take a look at my media appearances on television and radio. [HERE]
Take a look at all the things I have said over the years. [HERE]
Take a look at my newspaper profiles from 2000 and 2010 [HERE and HERE]
Then before you cast your vote tomorrow, think carefully:
Do you really want Jacob Rees-Mogg as your representative?
Finally, I also wish to thank all the people who emailed me over the campaign, with their questions. I am sorry to say I only just read them; some of them were encouraging, some of them gave me “constructive criticism”. I will not be able to reply due to campaigning (I am doing it all myself after all) but I would advise them to scroll down to the bottom of this website…
Lord King of Bridgewater
On Friday March 26 North East Somerset Conservative Party members attended what will probably be their last social gathering before the General Election – a dinner held in Farmborough Village Hall. Guest of honour was Lord King of Bridgewater formerly Secretary of State for Defence and for Northern Ireland – perhaps better known as Tom King. In a witty speech, he reminded the audience that politics was in many ways like practising to play a piece of music; it was necessary to keep on doing it till it was right and perfect. The Labour Party was now in a very different proposition from when Tony Blair was elected in 1997. Blairism in his view was now dead, and the present Labour Party had now almost given up. In areas such as defence, where there had been numerous defence ministers, none of whom had any previous background or experience in defence matters, he regarded it as scandalous that long delayed defence orders for new ships, helicopters and tanks were now being placed by the Labour Government in its dying days instead of when the troops had needed them years ago. Voters in the forthcoming election should exercise their right to vote – and vote Conservative.
The above was a Press Release we sent out a few days ago.
I’m very glad to have had the good fortune to welcome Lord King of Bridgewater to North East Somerset. As the communiqué mentions, this was our last social gathering before my election and thus probably the only visit we will have from a fellow Tory Grandee. I had hoped that Mr Cameron or Mr Osborne or anyone quite frankly would make the journey out here, but I’m still waiting to hear back. Ho Hum.
On the other hand, Lord King has always been more than willing to visit Somerset. In November I read that he visited the Bath Conservative Future Society (sadly I was not invited and only discovered the event after it had taken place.)
In fact, Lord King was the only Tory to come and visit my predecessor, Mark Prisk, in 1997. Though I was campaigning as a candidate in Fife at the time.