Rees-Mogg: what was the point of the King’s Speech? Starmer is a vacuum

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has outlined two scenarios following the King’s Speech where none of the bills announced today get delivered.

Speaking on GB News Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “The ceremonial is magnificent. The Imperial State Crown has its own carriage, though it has to share it with the Cup of Maintenance and the Sword of State.

“The officials are all there, the tabards come out of the cupboard as you see the heralds standing in line organising the procession. The King reads his speech, the government’s speech off vellum.

“But what did it signify today, if anything? What was the point of it? Because normally the big speech of the year, the one setting out the full throttle thrust of the government comes from The King’s Speech.

“It renews a parliamentary year, but today it didn’t do that at all. We’re faced with two options, aren’t we: one is that Keir Starmer lingers on, wounded, limp, incapable of getting his policies through, and then the bills announced today won’t happen.

“Or he’s removed within a few days, or the end of his time in office becomes clear within a few days, and a new prime minister will have different priorities.

“The things involved today were what you would expect of a hard left socialist: attacking our liberties, bringing in identity through digital identity, rather than an identity card.

“Getting rid of jury trial, signing up to more European regulation, overriding the referendum that we had in 2016.

“The nationalisation of British Steel, a proposal to make more regulations hit this country through business and an attack on property rights through undermining leasehold ownership of property.

“Changes that take things from people and give them nothing in return. More greenery coming out to make us colder and poorer if we weren’t cold enough today, on a May day of particular grimness, where it hailed in London.

“And you do wonder whether that hail was indicative of the state of the nation.

“And what does Starmer do? Well, he meets his main opponent in a fleeting Streeting meeting of 16 minutes when you wonder if the coffee was cold enough to drink by the time it ended.

“He wants to stay. He wants to keep going, but he is powerless. He has become a vacuum. There is nothing there. I’m afraid the King’s Speech, and I don’t want to be discourteous to my sovereign Lord, was sound and fury that signifieth nothing.”