The Shadow Chancellor was trying to attack the Government’s EU strategy but instead just left with egg (and bacon) on his face
JOHN McDonnell was supposed to have Theresa May in his sights this morning - but instead he seemed to only have eyes for his next meal.
The Shadow Chancellor managed to confuse ‘breakfast’ with Brexit not once, but THREE times in a speech in London.
The hard left firebrand referred to a ‘chaotic breakfast’ as he tried to attack the Government EU strategy, leaving himself with egg (and bacon) on his face.
Mr McDonnell was supposed to attack Mrs May for pursuing a ‘bankers’ Brexit’ that sorted out sweetheart deals for big business that ordinary people would have to pay for.
But the key Corbyn ally’s attack was completely nullified by his tripping over his words, calling it instead a ‘bankers’ breakfast’.
The tongue-tied politician seemed completely obvious to his hilarious blunders, but was quickly mocked on social media.
One Twitter user called him a “cereal offender” after repeatedly saying the wring thing, with others tweeting pictures of ruined meals as examples of a McDonnell-inspired “chaotic breakfast”.
Another posted: “Now McDonnell is confusing Brexit with breakfast. Makes you wonder how many of the 52% thought they were voting for a Full English?”
But he is not the first senior politician to make the same mistake, after the Welsh Conservative leader fluffed his lines at party conference earlier this month.
Andrew RT Davies told an audience in Birmingham: “Conference, mark my words, we will make breakfast…Brexit, a success.”
He then laughed and said he’d “have a word with the autocue”.
Since the EU referendum June others have mixed up Brexit and breakfast, with the SNP’s Ian Blackford blundering in a debate in Parliament.
He said: “It is deeply worrying that the Prime Minister is ploughing ahead with a hard breakfast.”
After some laughter from his colleagues he added: “I mean Brexit; other than the dog’s breakfast that was the Brexit campaign.”
His fellow Scottish Nationalist MP Patrick Grady took on the idea, saying a “consensus” was forming around it, the unleashed a number of breakfast puns.
He said: “When I said that before the summer, the BBC thought it was a slip of the tongue, but my hon. friend the member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber has confirmed that it is in fact the case.
“Whether it is a dog’s breakfast or a full Scottish breakfast has yet to be determined, but the Prime Minister has appointed some cereal Brexiteers to lead the negotiations.
“Perhaps it is no surprise that some of them are getting a frostier reception in European capitals, and that some of our neighbours just want to say cheerio to the UK as soon as possible.”
And just to prove it is a cross-party affliction, the .
While introducing Jeremy Corbyn at an event during the summer he said we were living in a “post-breakfast reality”.
