Jacob Rees Mogg is the new Leader of the House of Commons, a successful businessman, and an author of a guide to grammar for his staff. He is also someone with a hard right reactionary political agenda.
But as a type of person he is strikingly similar to one of the great characters of English literature, Mr Podsnap, who was accorded an entire chapter in Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend.
A brief summary of Mr Podsnap is below:
“Mr. Podsnap was well to do, and stood very high in Mr. Podsnap’s opinion. Beginning with a good inheritance, he had married a good inheritance, and had thriven exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, and was quite satisfied. He never could make out why everybody was not quite satisfied, and he felt conscious that he set a brilliant social example in being particularly well satisfied with most things, and, above all other things, with himself.”
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