One of Britain's freshly jobless Conservative MPs, Jacob Rees-Mogg has announced that he already has a new career lined up: starring in his own reality TV series. One of many Conservative casualties to Labour's landslide victory in the UK general election last week was the not very widely liked but very well-known MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who lost his seat in the constituency of North East Somerset & Hanham to Labour's Dan Norris. Having missed out by 5,319 votes, the notoriously eccentric politician signed off from his political career in the small hours of election night with a quote from ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’: “From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.
" It was a strange choice of words. The Labour party now governing England with a majority of 174 famously runs under the motif of a rose, and it is almost entirely from the ashes of the Tory party’s governing disaster that Keir Starmer's victory flourished. But apparently Rees-Mogg had something else in mind when quoting Caractacus Potts.
A press release issued while the body of his ruined party was not yet cold has informed the public that he will be starring in a new reality TV series about his and his family’s lives. According to Discovery+ it’ll be called . One of the obvious contradictions with reality TV is that its subjects so rarely correspond with what the rest of us might call reality.
This is, of course, the reason for its popular fascination: most people are curious to see what life is like.