I THOUGHT WE’D HAD ENUF OF EXPERTS : The worlds of politics and archaeology have come together today with news of an exciting discovery.
A recent request by English Heritage for the public to raid their attics and send in photos depicting the famous stone landmark from way back has yielded a result that many privately suspected.
“A North East Somerset family, known locally as the Rees-moggs sent in a faded black and white image featuring an instantly recognisable figure from today,” an English Heritage ‘source’ told LCD Views, “he isn’t wearing his trademark top hat, and surprisingly his nanny isn’t in the photo, but it’s very clearly the former MP for the area.”
The confirmation that Mr Rees-mogg esq has been alive since the 19th century has surprised none of the experts at all.
“It’s understood he was actually involved in providing the zero hours contract labour believed to have been used to construct the monument. Although that is just rumour.”
Why the famous nanny isn’t pictured has a definite explanation though.
“It’s because she hadn’t been born, or even conceived at the time the photo was taken. But Jacob himself was shortly to stand for election in what was then the rotten borough of Sanctioned-Bank-Investments. A seat he did very well out of, in spite of the questions it raised regarding the reality of his character.”
English Heritage has requested next that people raid their lofts for wood prints of Mr Rees-mogg during the time of the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century. Specifically for the rich folk involved in attempting to diminish freedom of movement after the plague via the Enticement Act.”