Of all Tory MPs, one of those I detest the most is Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is a loathsome, self-important little man who thinks he is inherently superior to everyone else, simply because he was born into wealth and speaks with a plummy accent. That aside, if you want to see why he is utterly unfit to be anywhere near any modern government, just watch this Owen Jones video. In it, Jones discusses Rees-Mogg’s recent comments on climate change he gave for a TV interview: in an era where any sensible, educated person can see the need to draw our energy from green, renewable sources, Rees-Mogg was arguing that wind and solar energy are too unreliable, and that we should be going back to nuclear and fossil fuel-based electricity. Has this man not bothered to read the data? Or does he just have so much personal wealth invested in coal mines and oil fields that he thinks we should continue fucking up our environment just so he can stay rich?

Such arrogance and wanton shortsightedness makes me furious. How can anyone still believe that the accumulation of wealth should take priority over the urgent need to do something about climate change, that nothing should inhibit the ability of p’tahks like him to make money, or that their opinion counts more than others because he is pseudo-aristocratic and talks with a posh accent? As I said, at a time when everyone sees the need to do something about climate change, Rees-Mogg is an anachronistic idiot utterly unfit to be anywhere near our government.