Bollocks to Brexit



Physicist and TV presenter Professor Brian Cox took to Twitter to highlight the lunacy of Boris Johnson trying to rubbish the Government's own 'Yellowhammer' planning document on the chaotic effects of a No Deal Brexit - food and medicine shortages, transport disruption and civil unrest.
Read the full story via the link below to The Sunday Times,  

  

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/operation-chaos-whitehalls-secret-no-deal-brexit-plan-leaked-j6ntwvhll

Operation Chaos: Whitehall’s secret no‑deal Brexit preparations leaked


The Sunday Times obtains the government’s classified ‘Yellowhammer’ report in full


By Rosamund Urwin and Caroline Wheeler - The Sunday Times



Britain faces shortages of fuel, food and medicine, a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard border with Ireland and rising costs in social care in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to an unprecedented leak of government documents that lay bare the gaps in contingency planning.

The documents, which set out the most likely aftershocks of a no-deal Brexit rather than worst-case scenarios, have emerged as the UK looks increasingly likely to crash out of the EU without a deal.

Compiled this month by the Cabinet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation’s infrastructure.



‘A lot of the negativity about a no-deal Brexit has been wildly overdone’ — Boris Johnson on July 2

The file, marked “official-sensitive” — requiring security clearance on a “need to know” basis — is remarkable because it gives the most comprehensive assessment of the UK’s readiness for a no-deal Brexit.

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