The loss of a parliamentary seat, the swift cancellation of a bounce-back TV reality series and a cut in hours for an extremely lucrative GB News hosting gig. These three blows would play on the minds of some people – but not Jacob Rees-Mogg, who remains completely and utterly sane.
If evidence was needed, just look at the column wrote for the Telegraph on Monday, September 22, headlined: “Trump for PM? It might just be possible…” In it, the failed Tory minister told readers: “A child born to a British mother, who was herself born in these Isles, normally has a right to British citizenship. Thus, Donald Trump could become a subject of His Majesty, granting him eligibility to stand for Parliament at the next election in 2029, shortly after his term as office as American president ends. If he were then elected, the King could send for him to ask him to form a government as prime minister.”
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Yes, and as Gino D’Acampo once memorably said, “if my grandmother had wheels, she could have been a bicycle.” Even Rees-Mogg confessed that “this constitutional possibility” was “an admittedly remote one”, but he was soon again warming to his utterly bizarre theory, telling readers: “Trump will be 82 in May 2029, the same age as Gladstone when he last took office. So precedent shows he is not too old.”
Oh Jacob, mate. Like Brexit suddenly becoming a stunning success, it just isn’t going to happen. Much more likely is the course of action recently outlined for GB News viewers by occasional guest Lizzy Cundy, who had bit parts in both Goldeneye and Die Another Day. The next James Bond villain, she said, should be none other than… Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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