The constituents of Somerset North East are in safe hands!

What ho, Tories!

I say, chaps, isn't it marvellous to know that fellows like Jacob Rees-Mogg still abound in the English shires?  Jacob is the son of former Times editor, William Rees-"Mystic"-Mogg and is campaigning on the Tory ticket in Somerset.  Camilla Long wrote a rather snide piece about him in yesterday's Sunday Times but even she, I suspect, could not help but feel some admiration for Jacob's splendid refusal to pander to the lumpen proletariat:

He is well known for his unique way of electioneering: in 1997, he waged a memorable campaign in Central Fife, crawling the dank, staunchly Labour streets in a Bentley and distributing leaflets with the help of his nanny, Veronica Crook.

I say, now that is the spirit!  But it gets better:

One of the leading members of the David Cameron generation of new Tories created a storm yesterday by comparing people who were not privately educated and did not go to Oxford or Cambridge universities to "potted plants".

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who will be fighting one of the Tories' target seats at the next election, also gave the impression that he thinks that anyone educated in the state sector is incapable of writing an "articulate" letter.

I'm not sure Jacob would appreciate the term "new Tory" - he strikes me as very much an "old" Tory - but one can only admire his sentiments.  It is simply splendid to hear a fellow dishing out a few home truths in this age of oikocracy.  Alas, Jacob has as much chance of a future seat in a Cameron Cabinet as I have of securing the freedom of Limerick.  Still, let us row in behind his valiant effort to represent the people of Somerset North East and hope that this gentleman of the shires makes his presence felt from the backbenches.

Yours, etc

Viscount Crouchback

Comments

[Mr Sheen]

Rees-Mogg is a dreadful squirt who needed his nanny to protect him from malnourished wheezy jocks. Not your sort at all, M'lord, you'd see more beef at a Hare Krishna buffet.