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ITV News exclusive: Jacob Rees-Mogg issues style guide to staff
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The new Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has instructed all staff in his new office to use imperial measurements and refer to ‘non-titled males’ as ‘esquire’. Issuing a style guide in the first week of his job, he also bans colleagues from using various words in correspondence with other MPs and the public. Among the list of bizarre rules, he asks staff not to use the words “got”, “very” or “equal”.
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( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 19:18, Share, Reply)
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If that's ok?
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 19:31, Share, Reply)
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And go easy on him. This Carl Beech story must have been be such a bitter disappointment to him.
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 19:54, Share, Reply)
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He manages to somehow amaze the world with his utter prickishness.
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 20:15, Share, Reply)
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If he actually personally said people should use imperial, I'd like to know about it. But I'm guessing this is a rather made-up story... like, he happens to work at a place that issued it.
I spent 5 mins fact-checking, and discovered "The guidance was drawn up by Mr Rees-Mogg's North East Somerset constituency team some years ago." [Evening Standard] ...
So, I'm a bit skeptical.
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 20:36, Share, Reply)
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www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-jacob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff
"The guidance, obtained by ITV news, was drawn up by the North East Somerset MP’s constituency team years ago, but has now been shared with officials in his new office."
( , Sat 27 Jul 2019, 10:44, Share, Reply)
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www.itv.com/news/2019-07-27/jacob-rees-mogg-style-guide-itv-news/
( , Sat 27 Jul 2019, 11:27, Share, Reply)
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so no correspondence will deviate from his personal style. Of course you'll still need the staff to type the output on typewriters.
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 21:30, Share, Reply)
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broken his own rules thousands of times.
I fully agree with most his banned words.
But imperial? No one in this country has been taught it since the late 60s and its fucking stupid.
Double space, pffft. And there's nothing wrong with the Oxford comma.
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 22:21, Share, Reply)
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But imperial? Only in distances greater than 'not far', beer in glasses, people's heights, but certainly not in weights, except people's weights, etc.
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 22:28, Share, Reply)
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Inches are fucking useless. Miles are stupid. Pounds are crap. And we don;t even have the most popular gallon.
( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 22:43, Share, Reply)
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( , Fri 26 Jul 2019, 23:55, Share, Reply)
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Next, the staff will have to put their chairs up on tables for the cleaners.
If they want to use the lavatory, they'll have to put their hands up, etc.
He hasn't really left school.
I'd like to see what imperial computer he uses.
( , Sat 27 Jul 2019, 15:36, Share, Reply)