Penny Mordaunt dishes out weekly humiliation to SNP – ‘Scotland deserves higher’
Penny Mordaunt advised MPs that “Scotland deserves better” than the failing Scottish Nationalists as she delivered her weekly brutal dismantling of the SNP’s file in authorities north of the Border.
The Leader of the House’s observations on the SNP have change into a social media phenonemon in current months as she humiliates one Scottish nationalist spokesman after one other.
Her newest prey has been Australian born and raised SNP House enterprise spokeswoman Deidre Brock, the SNP MP for Edinburgh North and Leith.
Each week Ms Brock has tried and didn’t outwit Ms Mordaunt in exchanges on busienss questions.
And after a very humiliating encounter final week, Ms Brock was searching for revenge.
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She mentioned: “It is always revealing to hear the Leader of the House to express her increasingly outlandish views on Scotland every Thursday morning.”
In anticipation of the verbal battery she was about to obtain again, Ms Brock added: “I expect today will be no different.”
She went on: “Last week though had the feel of a kind of fever dream as she treated us to her thoughts on Mary Queen of Scots, the Highland clearances, and the 100 Years War.
“All in some kind of reply to my feedback about Scotland’s outstanding progress on youngster poverty.
“God knows what we will get this week.”
After she insisted “things are better in Scotland” and Westminster treats Scotland badly, she concluded that the UK authorities ought to be taught from what is going on north of the Border.
Ms Brock didn’t have to attend lengthy for an additional brutal put down from Ms Mordaunt, who obtained up paused for a second after which went for the jugular.
With a withering take a look at the SNP MP, the Leader of the House famous: “She accuses me of talking Scotland down and not celebrating it.
“Oh contraire! If she seems to be again on the speeches I’ve made on this topic.
“I am not talking Scotland down, I am talking about the SNP running Scotland down.
“And I’m very comfortable to match our file of stewardship of public providers towards the SNP’s.”
With SNP MPs looking on in fury, she went on: “Not per week goes by with out the SNP messing up some specific sector or service.
“This week highlights include the SNP pressing ahead with short term lets licensing which will on October 1 see thousands of businesses potentially close in Scotland and put some people in jeopardy of losing their homes. Clobbering Scotland’s tourism sector too.
“It has additionally emerged this week that complaints about SNP administered advantages has elevated by 350 per cent.
“And while the economy recovers and people are stilll having to tighten their belts they think it is a brillian idea to introduce a congestion charge.”
Ms Mordaunt wasn’t completed although and saved her harshest criticsm to final.
“Scotland deserves better than separatist, socialist parties and yet again [Ms Brock] has demonstrated that the SNP are yesterday’s people talking about yesterday’s grievances.
“They are yesterday’s get together.”