GREENS ARE OFTEN UPPER-CLASS TWITS: Upper-Class Twit of the Year Goes Green. “One can’t help but wonder if this piece is at all connected to recent reports that Rees-Mogg’s own mother is set to make a pretty penny on the development of a massive solar farm in the politician’s own constituency? Perhaps he was trying to get ahead of accusations of hypocrisy on green matters, or maybe signaling his disagreement with the Truss government’s stated intention of making such developments more difficult, potentially endangering his family’s cash out. This is the theory of the politics site Guido Fawkes, which broke the story. Rees-Mogg is currently secretary of state for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy in that government, so he would have a real say in the implementation of such a proposal.”
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