Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed that if he becomes Prime Minister he will personally walk to Brussels to demonstrate how serious he is about negotiating the best possible Brexit deal for the British people.
“You won’t catch Jeremy using anything so nouveau riche-bourgeois as Eurostar,” said a Labour Party spokesperson.
“And given his reception at Glastonbury we don’t anticipate needing ferry tickets,” she winked.
However she denied that Corbyn walking across the channel was in any way just another pseudo biblical publicity stunt like attempting to feed the entire Glastonbury crowd with five loaves and two fishes
“If we’d wanted to milk the Jesus angle we’d have got a donkey and a crowd of Corbynistas to spread palm leaves across the mouth of the English channel,” she said.
“Although as John McDonnell has a bad back and is afraid of water, that was never going to be a starter,” she admitted.