One of many Conservative casualties to Labour’s landslide victory in the UK general election last week was the not very widely liked but very well-known MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who lost his seat in the constituency of North East Somerset & Hanham to Labour’s Dan Norris. Having missed out by 5,319 votes, the notoriously eccentric politician signed off from his political career in the small hours of election night with a quote from ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’: “From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success.” It was a strange choice of words. The Labour party now governing England with a majorit…