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scavengedluxury · 1 year

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UK media: “Did you see Penny Mordaunt absolutely serving cunt with that sword? Slay! Why isn’t she Prime Minister? It’s Mordin’ time!”

#uk politics #coronation #penny mordaunt #lads she lost to Truss

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atopcat · 2 years

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50% are people of colour

50% are women

50% are under 45

50% have a non upper class background

100% of them are ultra right wing bastards

Every single one of these candidates supported Priti Patel’s anti immigration laws.

They’re vocal in their transphobia, making it a main part of their platform.

A lot of them were part of BoJo’s cabinet, which oversaw hundreds of Britons having to choose between heating and food.

They attack those in poverty for relying on benefits but do nothing to stop the living crisis.

The Conservative Party’s leadership race is a brilliant example of how diversity quotas are meaningless if their politics are the all the same.

#Britain #uk politics #politics #rishi sunak #liz truss #tom tugendhat #kemi badenoch #penny mordaunt #Jeremy hunt #nadhim zahawi #suella braverman #boris johnson #conservative party #1k

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matthittscheekbones · 2 years

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I feel sorry for Penny Mordaunt, at this rate she’ll have to wait until the end of November to become Prime Minister

#rishi sunak #uk politics #penny mordaunt #house of commons #uk parliament

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rhube · 1 year

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If you want to know how things are going on Normal Island: horrible human, Penny Mordaunt, got to be the first woman to hold the swords of State and Mercy for the coronation.

She looked pretty awesome doing it, aided no doubt by being rich enough to afford a great stylist and the fact that the swords are encrusted with gems and precious metals. I will not lie, I wish this were me:

(Sword of Mercy)

(Sword of State)

I do not mind admitting that she looked great, that me and my friend Etsy'd sword of state replicas (the closest is Aragorn's sword) and even that I liked her shoes. (Extremely glittery.)

This doesn't stop me from thinking she's a garbage human or that as a nation we should sell those swords to buy people food.

Meanwhile, Conservatives are saying she should be the next PM.

BECAUSE SHE CARRIED A SWORD AND LOOKED COOL DOING IT.

Newsflash: PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE LOOKS COOL WITH A SWORD.

#penny mordaunt #normal island #uk politics #coronation

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tweetingukpolitics · 4 months

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#emma kennedy #political threads #boris johnson #penny mordaunt #covid inquiry #uk news #uk politics

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matureladiesdressedandsexy · 1 year

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#penny #penny mordaunt

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changing-my-username · 3 months

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The best way of getting a general election is to get rid of Sunak

#politics #uk politics #rishi sunak #runner up rishi #penny mordaunt #man who finishes 2nd all the time to be replaced with stand up and fight lady

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lost-carcosa · 2 years

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The third TV debate between the Tory party leadership candidates has been cancelled...

#UK politics #tory party leadership election #tory party meltdown #rishi sunak #penny mordaunt #liz truss #kemi badenoch #tom tugendhat #fuck every single one of them #they are all terrible in their own unique ways #and i don't trust a single one of them to be prime minister #fuck the tories

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nyxelestia · 2 years

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the new british prime minister be like

#rishi sunak #liz truss #boris johnson #penny mordaunt #uk politics #memes #political memes #humor #announcing it on fucking diwali too #nyxie is indian #nyxie memes

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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Onwald mæg wel reccean se þe ægðer ge hiene habban con ge wiðwinnan.*

- Old English

He wields power well who can both hold and resist it.*

Penny Mordaunt, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Privy Council, took on a leading role during the coronation service at Westminster Abbey of King Charles III. Many commentators agreed she stood out for doing such a sterling job in standing to attention and holding up a sword weighing around 3kg for a good part of the proceedings. She didn’t waver once.

It’s all the more surprising that the upward political trajectory of the MP from Plymouth had flatlined after she had a promising junior ministerial career before losing out twice in the Tory leadership elections to Liz Truss and later Rishi Sunak.

It was the ill-fated Truss in her brief stint as Prime Minister who had given the 50 year old Mordaunt the wooden spoon of political offices, Leader of the House of Commons, often seen as half-way house for a minister on his way down the greasy pole of ministerial politics. Sunak kept her in the same position after annoying Sunak loyalists for staying in the leadership race to the bitter end. In that position she has thrived somewhat for her debating skills and being good on her feet as well being loyal to the Prime Minister.

Little did anyone think - least of Mordaunt - that as Leader of the Commons she would also breathe life into the nondescript title of Lord President of the Privy Council. But in one of the more arcane details of that title is the right to hold the Sword of State in any royal coronation.

As Lord President of the Privy Council she was expected the wear the august robes of that office but chose instead for a more modest presentation of a blue dress with mute gold olive leaf trimmings. As Lord President of the Privy Council, Mordaunt exchanged the larger Sword of State, a steel blade with a silver-gilt hilt that symbolises royal authority, for the jewelled Sword of Offering, which the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby then placed in the King's right hand. Mordaunt later redeemed the sword by offering 100 newly minted 50 pence coins and carried the sword before the King for the rest of the service.

Symbolising the protection of good and the punishment of evil, the jewelled sword was used as a Sword of Offering at the coronation ceremony of George IV in 1821. It wouldn't appear again at a coronation ceremony until 1902 for Edward VII and it has been featured at all subsequent coronations since. The sword features partly blued and gilt steel decorated on both faces with national emblems, including roses, thistles and shamrocks, while the hilt and scabbard are decorated with numerous jewels such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds.

There is no question that Penny Mordaunt cemented herself in the public consciousness, with even Labour counterparts commenting that she looked 'damn fine' and 'stole the show'. Admiration for her sword-bearing skills at the coronation might just reignite her political fortunes especially if Sunak and his government are widely expected to lose the upcoming general election. She may be third time lucky at getting the chance to be the leader of the Tory party. In any case many would agree in watching her steadfast performance at the coronation, it really might be the case that the ‘Penny is mightier than the sword’.