Five times Mordaunt’s SNP jibes went viral

Penny Mordaunt has made mocking the sn pa feature of business questions, with the Commons leader seemingly having a weekly speech prepared.

The Hate Crime Bill – “I have noticed a consistent hostility and unpleasantness in her questions towards me and this has been going on for some time, weeks in fact.

“If id ids en ditto the scottish police they would be obliged to investigate increasing the growing number of reasons why they are struggling to attend burglaries.”

The 12 days of misery – Perhaps the most famous of her speeches, the rumoured Tory leadership candidate delivered a dig inspired by the “12 days of Christmas”.

She referenced 12 hours of police questioning, 11 grand roaming charges – and so it went on.

The willy wonka experience– “i had wrongly assumed actually that the appalling Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow had been laid on by the SNP, given its high cost, poor return, and the fact that the police were called.”

A bunch of rotters–“it appears the honourable lady isfollow in the foot steps of many a great antipodean election guru by this brilliant new strategy to equate the criticisms of the SNP’S performance with criticism of Scotland itself. The latter is a landmass of approximately 30,000 square miles, populated by brilliant, creative, stoic people. The former is a ramshackle, separatist movement, full of people who have turned maladministration into an art form ."

Victorian diseases – “She invites me to tell this House what I’ve learned in my very pleasant trips to Scotland. I did learn that Scotland has slower economic growth than England. I was shocked to learn that Victorian diseases have actually returned to certain cities in Scotland such as rickets.”