Rees-Mogg on Garlic, France & Refugees: wrong on all counts
Jacob Rees-Mogg is the leader of the House of Commons. Below is an extract from an answer he gave to a question from a Tory MP (Jacob Young, Redcar)
Young has previously asked Rees-Mogg if he would a Parmo, a Teesside delicacy consisting of chicken, bechamel sauce and parmesan cheese. For some reason Young thinks it comes with a garlic sauce. Rees-Mogg does not like garlic, presumably because he associates it with the French.
Rees-Mogg in fact doesn’t appear keen on the French in general. His worst selling ‘history’ book The Victorians joins the word ‘revolutionary’ with France on a number of occasions. Rees-Mogg presumably doesn’t have an issue with the English Revolution of 1688 just French ones.
Lastly he appears to think that refugees are ok, provided they stay in France, irrespective of whether it is appropriate or safe for them to do so.
Just another moment in Rees-Mogg’s political career
I wonder how often France has been called “safe” in this Chamber over the centuries, but I think we can accept that it is safe for most refugees— except for those who do not like garlic, who may need to escape. What has been going on in the channel is appalling and should concern us all, because it is led by people smugglers; it is led by evil people and it has led to deaths, and we need to prevent further lives from being lost on this dangerous crossing and break the business model of the criminal gangs who exploit desperation.
House of Commons 6th January 2022
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