Penny Mordaunt launched a brutal takedown of the SNP in the House of Commons yesterday, mocking the party's record using an altered version of the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas.
In her weekly back and forth with the party, Mordaunt delivered a "festive round-up on SNP morality".
This came after SNP MP Deirdre Brock asked the Leader of the House of Commons about "morality", accusing her of "lecturing scots" the week before.
She said: "A lecture on morality from this Tory government? Pantomime season is truly upon us."
Penny Mordaunt launched a brutal takedown of the SNP in the House of Commons yesterday
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Mordaunt responded: "I think we should have a festive round-up on SNP morality: 12 hours of police questioning, 11 grand roaming charges, 10 years without school inspections, 9 sham embassies, 8 years of poor child mental health, 7 years without ferries, 6 years shirking welfare powers."
In comments delivered to the tune of "5 gold rings", she continued: "£500 million overspent on Edinburgh’s tram, £4 million to install a heat pump, 3 high-profile arrests, 2 overseas jollies, and a dodgy Jaguar EV."
Mordaunt added: "I thank her. I have succeeded in bringing a smile to her face and I must thank her for being the gift that keeps on giving at business questions.
"I hope that in 2024 better things are destined for the Scottish people.”
Last week, Mordaunt accused the SNP of taking the "moral high ground".
She accused the party of having an "appalling record on destroying the education system".
This came after SNP MP Dierdre Brock criticised the Government's new plans to cut down on legal migration by raising the threshold at which people can bring spouses to the UK.
Brock told the House of Commons: "The Government plumb new depths with their immigration panic measures, which are so damaging to Scotland in particular."
She added: "If we, our children or our grandchildren fall in love with someone from another country—many of us do so on our travels; I am living proof of that—they will not be able to join us here unless we have guaranteed earnings nearing £39,000.
"Cue a further exodus of our young people from these shores to other countries with a more enlightened approach to migration and their citizens’ human rights.
"Even worse, those who have already gone through the process and who thought that they had won the right to live here in peace will have to come up with that figure the next time their visa is extended.
"Should Parliament not have debated these extreme measures first?"
Hitting back, Mordaunt said: "I would ask her to go and have a look at the SNP’s record on education.
"I have spoken about that in the last two business question sessions, so I shall not detain the House any longer on it.
"I think everyone in this Chamber is aware of the SNP’s appalling record on destroying the education system in Scotland—the only people who are not are those in charge of it."
She continued: "The theme of her question is really values and morality. Does she think it would be moral if a Government denied faster NHS treatment to its citizens post-Covid because they did not want to send them to an English hospital?
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"I understand that the former Health Secretary made that offer to the First Minister and it was rejected. Is it moral to offer a pay deal, as she boasts, to public sector workers, including NHS workers, without a plan to pay for it?
"Come to think of it, is it moral to withhold funds designated for business rate relief from businesses?
"Would she describe it as moral if a Government denied their citizens the ability to have a civil partnership—she speaks of relationships—with their opposite-sex partner for a year, including those who were terminally ill, because they did not want the UK Government to legislate on their behalf?
"While the hon. Lady is looking up the SNP’s record on education, I would ask her also to check how many concurrent police investigations there are into the SNP’s antics.
"Owing to her party’s antics, I am afraid her quest to take the moral high ground is stuck at a subterranean level."
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