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I didn't even get a chance to check out Penny before she dropped out, but skimming her Wiki page a few anecdotes caught my eye...

Penelope Mary Mordaunt

Mordaunt was 15 when her mother died of breast cancer and after leaving school, she became her younger brother Edward's primary caregiver. The following year her father was also diagnosed with cancer, from which he recovered. In order to support her time at university Mordaunt worked in a Johnson & Johnson factory, and became a magician's assistant to Will Ayling, a past president of the Portsmouth and District Magic Circle and of the British Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

In 2000, she worked briefly as Head of Foreign Press for George W. Bush's presidential campaign. Mordaunt worked for the Bush campaign again in 2004.

In February 2018, an investigation by The Times newspaper revealed allegations of misconduct by Oxfam staff operating in Haiti,...

Mordaunt felt it was important for aid organisations to report offences because she suspected that there were paedophiles "targeting" the charity sector in order to carry out predatory activities.

In July 2022, Hampshire Police said they were investigating death threats sent to Mordaunt. She strengthened her security after a letter was sent to her constituency office threatening to "shoot her in the head" and "kill her family" if she did not quit as an MP.

She certainly moved up the political ladder rather quickly.

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Well, politicians & stage magic go hand-in-hand; unlike the top echelon elites use of dark magick.




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IDK, skimming the surface she doesn't come across as a bad person, unlike the other swamp creatures.

However, the derivation of her surname:

Recorded as Mordant, Mordaunt (English), Mordagne, Mordant (French) and apparently Mordanti in Italy, this is a surname of French origins. According to the famous Victorian etymologist Canon Charles Bardsley writing in the year 1880, the name was originally Norman, and was brought to England by a follower of Duke William of Normandy, when he conquered England in 1066. He claimed that the name means or meant in the 12th century 'The biter,' a reference it would seem to somebody who succeeded as a result of another persons misfortune. This is a possible explanation, anything is possible with surnames, and the name does seem to derive from a fused form of 'mort d'entaille' or something similar, literally meaning 'death by cuts!' However early recordings in both France and Italy are usually erratic or non existent. In Italy because basically it did not become a unified county until 1860, and even then it was many years before centralised recording was established, whilst in France most early records and registers were deliberately destroyed by the Revolutionaries in 1792. Such recordings as exist would seem to include Osbert le Mordaunt of Bedfordshire, England in 1199, Edward Mordant who was a student at Oxford University in 1575, and Jean Baptiste Mordant, chistened at Montherme in the Ardennes, on October 11th 1791.