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mo4ch:>‘Contemptuous body language’: Rees-Mogg meme-shamed for reclining during ‘boring’ Brexit debate | Mo4ch News

Amid the contentious chaos of the Brexit debate in Parliament, leading Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg provided fodder for Remainers by sprawling out on a bench and thus showing “contempt for democracy,” his critics claimed – and memed.As the debate in the House of Commons raged on Tuesday evening, the MP for North East Somerset reclined on the front bench and closed his eyes, as if bored with the entire thing. He was called out by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, who said his body language was “contemptuous” of Parliament and of the British people.“The leader of the house has been spread across around three seats, lying out as if that was something very boring for him to listen to tonight,” Lucas said, to calls of “Sit up!” from other MPs.Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell called it “not a great look” for Rees-Mogg. The photo was soon turned into a meme, uniting angry Remainers who compared it to a Depression-era painting, or photoshopped him onto the Simpsons’ iconic couch.Labour MP Anna Tu…