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From City AM:

Bookies’ odds on Jacob Rees-Mogg to take over leadership of the Conservative party from Theresa May have been slashed.

“His growing popularity was bound to affect his chances of becoming the top-dog in the Conservative party,” said Oddschecker spokesman Sam Eaton, “He is still only ninth favourite to replace May so we aren’t getting too carried away, but we do expect these odds to continue to shorten with every quirky Instagram post. Jacob Rees-Mogg has even been installed as 33/1 to become the next Prime Minister, just imagine that…”

JR-M is a brain-dead, smarmy hereditary MP and Home-Owner-Ist of the worst sort, if he gets the top job, that’s the Tories out of power for an election or two. He’d take us back to the 1950s but without the affordable housing or the budget surpluses.

I did like it when I was a kid (1970s) and the two big parties took it in turns f***ing things up, that always seemed fair and democratic to me. It’s when one lot keeps getting re-elected (Thatcher, Blair) that things really get bad.