Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Government’s business and energy chief, has been slammed for visiting the Isle of Wight but not speaking to the Isle of Wight Council.
Yesterday (Thursday), Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, visited Vestas’ factory at Stag Lane on the outskirts of Newport.
However, no attempt was made by the minister or his aides to meet with the local authority — despite talks at the recent Islands Forum event, which took place earlier this month in Orkney, where energy issues were discussed. Furthermore, the media were not invited to the event nor has any press release been issued.
Speaking at the council’s cabinet meeting last night, Councillor Jonathan Bacon, the cabinet member for environment, said it was very disappointing Mr Rees-Mogg had chosen not to contact them. He said he hoped the visit was not just a partisan, meaningless photo opportunity as the Island has very serious issues with its energy infrastructure which had been discussed in the council in recent weeks.
Cllr Bacon thought Mr Rees-Mogg would have seen fit to acknowledge and address them but it appears he had chosen not to.
Council leader, Councillor Lora Peacey-Wilcox, said it was almost a kick in the guts as she spoke to Mr Rees-Mogg’s assistants at the Islands Forum event and gave them all the information they would need.
Cllr Bacon said:
“We all appreciate the government is having a few difficulties but the fact we as a council had no contact means I really have to question whether they are taking seriously the issues of renewable energy. It is disappointing in the extreme.”
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He hoped Mr Rees-Moggs would be able to arrange his diary to speak to the council in the future.
Boo hoo, a busy man didn’t stop to speak to me.
Boo hoo, our national representative on energy didn’t stop to speak to the people representing the local community about energy.
Aloof and dismissive. And that goes for Rees-Mogg as well.
A private visit, and of absolutely no interest to anyone in the media or Council. He was probably only there in order to collect big brown envelope for himself.
Probably did no have the time to listen to Island councillors winging because they do not get enough brown envelopes…
Why on earth would Rees Mogg want to meet the local council. They can’t make decisions; they normally have to get off island advice in the form of consultants to proceed, AND they seem to spend most of their meetings squabbling. Perhaps Mr Mogg had been briefed on the floating bridge fiasco???
The question, surely, is “why would anyone want to meet Reet-Smug”?
Arrogant, hypocritical windbag. Chocolate teapot. I would hope Councillors have better things to do.
The arrogance of a dysfunctional council who believe cabinet ministers should come and talk to them, why should he waste his time, his advisors having done their research would have undoubtedly told him, avoid them at all costs they cannot run themeselves let alone have grown up conversations with adults.
why would moggs want to speak with those hacks
Why would local councillors want to speak to self-serving elitist filth like Rees-Mogg?
Why would someone of Reese-Moggs intellect want to waste his time with the buffoons of the IWC???
if he wants to see clowns he can visit a circus.
Or he can sit in parliament and look to the left, look to the right and then look behind.
The clowns are always on the left lol.
Very good. Enjoy your fourth chancellor in as many months and third PM in 5 years , the country in financial ruin and your pension going up in smoke, you deserve them.
It’s jokers to the right!
In his case they are opposite.
…espcially behind (isn’t that where Seldom sits when he can be bothered to turn up?)
I don’t care about his supposed intellect. He is a utterly disgusting excuse for a human being.
What upsets you baout him, he is educated, i.e. he spent more time in school than out of it, he started his own company , i.e. he did not draw benefits and didnt want to go down the pub at 5 oclock,he speaks english not a guttural twang known only to your own family, moan about him by all means but do it with good reason, not through jealously
Intellect?he who thinks he knows better than woman how to look after their bodies and mental health”anti abortionist he belongs back in the 1950’s and that may be doing that decade a disservice,he is smug arrogant and lies as well as Billy Bunter Boris all that’s of course pre requisite to be an amp!.
IWC should count themselves lucky that this uber pompous vile toad didnt speak to them. Win win.
He’s obviously got more sense
Old school tie and all that.
Well he’s probably heard about all the bitchin and fighting that goes on in the council meetings! Why would he want to associate himself with a bunch of ‘haven’t a clues’
He’s got enough of those in Westminster!!!!!
This is the prick who want to take us back to the imperial measurements system and take measurements with our thumbs and abandon the metric system in short who cares he’s a moron
So Tim .. Nice-but-Dim went to a factory .. big deal … was Seldom there ? Thought so
Such moronic.comments on here .Jacob is actually a bloody decent chap.
Talk to the council?? That would have been a waste of life wouldn’t it.
More undesirables coming to our island!
Why on earth would he want to speak to the shambles of a council here?
Who gives a monkeys????
All smug self satiating money grabbing twits !!!!!!!
And the one’s who are griping about it are obviously of no interest to the the other leech !!!!!