| Jacob Rees-Mogg is a very strange politician. Here's a short documentary about him[0]. Highlights include: * Being the subject of a French television documentary when he was 12 years old[1]; * Campaigning against abortion (which itself is weird in the UK outside of Northern Ireland) while investing in abortion pills; and * Campaigning for election in one of the most deprived areas of the UK, while accompanied by his nanny (as in, the person employed by his parents to raise him when he was a child) so that she could iron his shirts. He has been described as a 'real life Dickensian villain' and a 'haunted Victorian pencil', and is frequently referred to on Reddit as 'the honourable member for the nineteenth century' (prior centuries are often substituted). He is also responsible for the first recorded use of the word 'floccinaucinihilipilification' in Hansard (the official transcript of Parliamentary proceedings). [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzfaC0tMFDM [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bp0Szk19J8 |
Also on UK broadcast satire, though I can't remember off the top of my head if I'm thinking of Have I Got News For You or The News Quiz. (Possibly both?)