Chris Grayling has zero chance of screwing up No Deal Brexit transport and supply lines with the launch of ‘Tug for Britain’, an initiative as ambitious as the Transport Secretary himself.
“It really should have been Damian Green’s brief,” a surprisingly modest Chris told a poorly attended press conference, held to launch the scheme, “what with all the tugging. But I guess I can man up and see it to completion.”
Under the scheme, also known as TUB (“It’s for thumping!” – interjects Grayling), a fleet of powerful British built tug boats will push on the western coast of England to eradicate the possibility of long lorry queues at Dover and Calais.
”Once all of England is a land border with France then lorries will be able to cross wherever they like and there’s nothing the French can do to stop us. I’ve already awarded seventy, million, billion pounds to a tug boat company without tug boats.”
But the launch of the bold plan is not without controversy, as noted humanitarians within the Tory Party are livid at how easy it will make the crossing into the U.K. for people at the sharp end of British munition exports.
”Theresa can mollify them by pointing out how fun it will be to deport them all straight back over the border again.”
But further concerns have been raised regarding the safety of islanders on the many islands between the two land masses.
”They will be given plenty of warning in order to tug themselves out of the way,” the transport secretary reassured.
Asked what Labour thought about tugging for Britain, a spokesman said, “a long as we get to create a state controlled utopia in which all 65 million British citizens are stripped of FOM and forced to work to fulfil their quotas daily we don’t care what the wankers get up to.”
Tug for Britain. Then get behind it, get your feet wet and push.