--- title: Politician Slouching in Parliament Makes Best Brexit Memes description: The image of slouching British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg during a Brexit debate in Parliament has inspired the craziest memes. canonical: https://time.com/5669217/jacob-rees-mogg-parliament-memes/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-04T23:50:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:10.143Z og:title: Politician Slouching in Parliament Becomes a Meme og:description: The Internet had thoughts for Jacob Rees-Mogg og:url: https://time.com/5669217/jacob-rees-mogg-parliament-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36c91386c77f5d22/698a02634ee26232d131632e/slouching-politician-parliament-brexit-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Prime Minister's Questions og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Politician Slouching in Parliament Becomes a Meme twitter:description: The Internet had thoughts for Jacob Rees-Mogg twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36c91386c77f5d22/698a02634ee26232d131632e/slouching-politician-parliament-brexit-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # British Politician's Extremely Lax Posture in Parliament Makes for Some Lively Memes  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 4, 2019 11:50 PM UTC  Members of Parliament during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. (Photo by House of Commons/PA Images via Getty Images) Members of Parliament during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. (Photo by House of Commons/PA Images via Getty Images)House of Commons - PA Images—PA Images via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 4, 2019 11:50 PM UTC The ongoing debate over a [“No Deal” Brexit](https://time.com/5358452/britain-no-deal-brexit/) has taken center stage in [Parliament](https://time.com/5663212/boris-johnson-suspend-parliament/) of late, but it got a reprieve from the unusual behavior of Conservative MP and Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who raised eyebrows for [slouching in the Commons.](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49578400) Rees-Mogg was called out by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas for his questionable posture. “The Leader of the House, who I have to say, with his body language this evening, has been so contemptuous of the house and the people,” she said, as other members of Parliament called for him to sit up. “The leader of the House has been spread across three seats, lying out as if that was something very boring for him to listen to.” Rees-Mogg was also called out by another MP, Anna Turley, who took to Twitter to share her disapproval of his behavior on his bench, noting that she found Rees-Mogg to be the “physical embodiment of arrogance, entitlement, disrespect and contempt for our Parliament.” > [](https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1168985012718448643) > [](https://twitter.com/annaturley/status/1168980398166237185) The Internet, however, saw a little dark humor in the situation and wasted no time in using Photoshop to make Rees-Mogg a meme. > [](https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1168992945195888640) > [](https://twitter.com/Jun%5FMan/status/1169149320047857664) > [](https://twitter.com/mondayavenue/status/1169066636466429953) > [](https://twitter.com/iresimpsonsfans/status/1168996430972932097) > [](https://twitter.com/multikev/status/1169001998789873664) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5669217/jacob-rees-mogg-parliament-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5669217/jacob-rees-mogg-parliament-memes/"},"headline":"British Politician's Extremely Lax Posture in Parliament Makes for Some Lively Memes","datePublished":"2019-09-04T23:50:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:10.143Z","description":"The Internet had thoughts for Jacob Rees-Mogg","url":"https://time.com/5669217/jacob-rees-mogg-parliament-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36c91386c77f5d22/698a02634ee26232d131632e/slouching-politician-parliament-brexit-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36c91386c77f5d22/698a02634ee26232d131632e/slouching-politician-parliament-brexit-memes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Prime Minister's Questions","caption":"Prime Minister's Questions","creditText":"House of Commons - PA Images—PA Images via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5669217/jacob-rees-mogg-parliament-memes/","name":"British Politician's Extremely Lax Posture in Parliament Makes for Some Lively Memes"}}]}] ```