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Sajid Javid's Pose Outside The Home Office Shows The Tory 'Power Stance' Is Back

Strike the pose. Or maybe don't.
Graeme Demianyk
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Senior Editor, HuffPost UK

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Sajid Javid was on Monday appointed Home Secretary in the wake of the Windrush scandal that saw Amber Rudd quit.

Of course, he promptly struck the trademark Conservative ‘power stance’ outside the Home Office.

Toby Melville / Reuters

Wait, what?

Keen political observers will be familiar with the pose. It was de rigueur during the 2015 Tory Party conference.

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And a year later

Oh wait, oh no, I've just come home & am catching up on the evening's news - why? Why this stance again? pic.twitter.com/Xvszuys1Jt

— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) June 2, 2016

Naturally, Twitter brought the classic line-up together

The “Tory Power-Stance” looks like they rode in on a Shetland pony that’d bolted & they’re all trying to style it out pic.twitter.com/h9ujp4icok

— Omid Djalili (@omid9) April 30, 2018

Can I just point out, the people who continue to accept the advice to take this stance are in important positions of power over our lives. pic.twitter.com/Wy5cw1g3wH

— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) April 30, 2018

And filled its boots.

Sajid Javid getting ready to take a freekick outside the Home Office. pic.twitter.com/Y6Ckm9Rl4F

— Shehab Khan (@ShehabKhan) April 30, 2018

ROAR....Unaccustomed as I am... Sajid Javid has been taking public speaking lessons from Blackadder's Prince George pic.twitter.com/JhnS0oiZyp

— John Smith (@SmithGlasgow) April 30, 2018

“Sajid, can you comment on the splits in the Conservative Party?” pic.twitter.com/cMdOiJRGSu

— Mr Roger Quimbly (@RogerQuimbly) April 30, 2018

Just go the whole hog FFS pic.twitter.com/0cxYKLYD7o

— Robin Flavell (@RobinFlavell) April 30, 2018

pic.twitter.com/Qp1O097Vbi

— Simon Russell (@Simon_at_Boing) April 30, 2018

*Skims British Twitter*

Is it guitar power stance day across the pond? pic.twitter.com/uDUcclg657

— Jesse (@jessebusen) April 30, 2018

The most shocking realisation is that someone is probably paid to tell them to stand like this

Another victim succumbs to the Cool Aide pic.twitter.com/hkhDVfj4AC

— Ed Cumming (@edcumming) April 30, 2018

But maybe the phenomena isn’t that recent

Don’t be too hard on Sajid Javid and others doing the Tory power stance. It has a long history in the party. pic.twitter.com/yt5RRX8fXq

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) April 30, 2018

And perhaps the inspiration is Wales’s answer to Elvis, 1980s rocker Shakin’ Stevens.

Creator of the Tory power stance revealed. pic.twitter.com/sDK9fkFMh3

— John L (@2MuchApplePie) April 30, 2018
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