Secret Cabinet Office document reveals chaotic planning for no-deal Brexit
Source: The Guardian
The extent and range of the impact of a no-deal Brexit is revealed in a confidential Cabinet Office document that warns of a critical three-month phase after leaving the EU during which the whole planning operation could be overwhelmed.
The classified document, seen by the Guardian, sets out the command and control structures in Whitehall for coping with a no-deal departure and says government departments will have to firefight most problems for themselves or risk a collapse of Operation Yellowhammer.
The
structure will quickly fall if too many decisions are unnecessarily escalated to the top levels that could have reasonably been dealt with internally
the document says. It also concedes there are likely to be unforeseen issues and impacts of a no-deal Brexit that Operation Yellowhammer has been unable to predict.
The Cabinet Office has taken the lead in preparations for no deal and is desperately war-gaming scenarios in the event the UK leaves without a coherent plan.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/secret-cabinet-office-document-reveals-chaotic-planning-for-no-deal-brexit
ToxMarz
(2,154 posts)likely to be unforeseen issues and impacts of a no-deal Brexit that Operation Yellowhammer has been unable to predict.
These would be your basic unknown unknowns, they need more known unknowns and a lot of known knowns
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)eom
muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)followed her instead of Parliament. They haven't done that since the mid seventeenth century - you know, the English Civil War. Since Charles I didn't get all of the state power, he ended up losing and executed. The last time there was a standoff like you suggest, James II/VII managed to flee the country when it became clear practically none of the law/military would choose him over parliament. His heirs have done alright; in a few years, it'll probably be the future Princess of Liechtenstein. Which will mean she gets the same national anthem (though that was written after her family was booted out of England).
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Unless either the Queen acts in the best interests of the country, even if that means the end of her and her family's reign and frankly no one is going to be executing anyone over such a move by Her Highness in 2019, or May pulls her fucking head out of her ass, the UK is fucked.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)Frankly, you're advocating civil war for the UK. It'd make everyone forget about the Brexit clusterfuck, but only by providing us with a far larger one.
"This was a Russian psyops" - they may have dabbled in it, but loads of Tories have been complaining about the EU since the late 80s. It was dividing the party when Thatcher fell. Any Facebook fuckery by Russia was just a thumb on the scales. There is still a large part of the country that wants to leave the EU and doesn't give a toss about a hard Irish border. They want to be able to keep out as many foreigners as possible.