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It takes a lot to arouse public sympathy for the eccentric Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, but this idiotic Corbyn supporter managed to do just that when he and some masked supporters disrupted a public meeting in Bristol on Friday.
According to The Sunday Times the heckler-in-chief was some middle class 'tosser' called Joshua Connor who ran for election as president of the university's student union and subsequently complained the vote was rigged when he came a lowly third.
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The naked truth on Jacob Rees‑Mogg heckler Joshua Connor
The Corbynite who caused chaos at the Tory MP’s talk is a failed would-be student leader with an exhibitionist streak
By Robin Henry and Sorcha Bradley - The Sunday Times
Joshua Connor in his campaign poster and confronting Jacob Rees-Mogg
The hooded protester at the centre of a scuffle involving Jacob Rees-Mogg is a middle-class Corbynite who works in recruitment.
Joshua Connor, 24, was part of a group of far-left activists who heckled the Conservative MP as he started to give a talk at the University of the West of England in Bristol on Friday evening.
Rees-Mogg had been invited to speak to an audience of about 300 people by the university’s politics and international relations society but the event quickly descended into chaos and violence.
Wearing a hood, baseball cap and sunglasses, Connor can be seen yelling in the MP’s face “No platform for sexists!” before becoming involved in a fight with another audience member.
The Tory politician, who was dressed, as always, in a smart suit and tie, tried to separate the pair as more people, including Connor’s girlfriend, were drawn into the scuffle.
Despite partially concealing his face, Connor was identified by other students on social media yesterday. He was already quite well known on the Bristol campus having unsuccessfully run for student union president three years earlier, using a campaign poster in which he posed naked with the words “Nothing to hide” emblazoned across his chest. He claimed the vote was rigged after coming third. Connor now works as a recruiter for a customer services outsourcing firm, but still has a passion for student politics, according to his social media profiles. His Facebook likes include the “We support Jeremy Corbyn” group, Momentum and local Labour Party pages.
Rees-Mogg, 48, shrugged off the incident yesterday as “a reasonable protest that went a bit too far”.
“If you go back to the 1950s and 1960s, you had election hustings that were much more troublesome . . . You had eggs being thrown and all sorts of things,” he told Sky News.
“They were perfectly entitled to say they disagreed with me. It was a little odd to be wearing balaclavas.”
Connor could not be reached for comment.
Additional reporting: Gabriel Pogrund
The hooded protester at the centre of a scuffle involving Jacob Rees-Mogg is a middle-class Corbynite who works in recruitment.
Joshua Connor, 24, was part of a group of far-left activists who heckled the Conservative MP as he started to give a talk at the University of the West of England in Bristol on Friday evening.
Rees-Mogg had been invited to speak to an audience of about 300 people by the university’s politics and international relations society but the event quickly descended into chaos and violence.
Wearing a hood, baseball cap and sunglasses, Connor can be seen yelling in the MP’s face “No platform for sexists!” before becoming involved in a fight with another audience member.
The Tory politician, who was dressed, as always, in a smart suit and tie, tried to separate the pair as more people, including Connor’s girlfriend, were drawn into the scuffle.
Despite partially concealing his face, Connor was identified by other students on social media yesterday. He was already quite well known on the Bristol campus having unsuccessfully run for student union president three years earlier, using a campaign poster in which he posed naked with the words “Nothing to hide” emblazoned across his chest. He claimed the vote was rigged after coming third. Connor now works as a recruiter for a customer services outsourcing firm, but still has a passion for student politics, according to his social media profiles. His Facebook likes include the “We support Jeremy Corbyn” group, Momentum and local Labour Party pages.
Rees-Mogg, 48, shrugged off the incident yesterday as “a reasonable protest that went a bit too far”.
“If you go back to the 1950s and 1960s, you had election hustings that were much more troublesome . . . You had eggs being thrown and all sorts of things,” he told Sky News.
“They were perfectly entitled to say they disagreed with me. It was a little odd to be wearing balaclavas.”
Connor could not be reached for comment.
Additional reporting: Gabriel Pogrund
