Prices are already on the upward march. I did my main shopping today and was most unpleasantly surprised when I saw the final bill. I suspect the filthy rich funders and promoters of leave, don't much care about increases in food prices or shortages. They probably have acres of allotments too!
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day..
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character
What an exciting day! So much to look forward to!! So cheerful, cheerful, cheerful....
No-deal Brexit: What could day one look like? From transport chaos to
medical meltdown
It’s Saturday 30
March 2019 and Britain has gone over the cliff edge.
At 11pm the night
before the UK left the EU with no deal agreed. There is no financial liabilities settlement.
There is no agreement on EU citizens’ rights or security cooperation. Britain
is totally outside the customs union. There’s no single market “transition”.
Nor is there any
route to a free trade deal. All Britain has to govern its trade with the EU now
is the bare rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Theresa May
announces her resignation and the Conservative Party begins its leadership
election process.
Nigel Farage is delighted at the last-minute
collapse of the Brexit negotiations and declares outside
parliament, as the dawn breaks, that Britain is now truly an independent nation
once again.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, now the clear favourite for the Tory
leadership having lead the successful campaign to thwart May’s proposed
“vassalage” deal, informs BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that
although what he describes as a “clean Brexit” will likely entail some
“bumpiness” any disruption will be short-lived and ultimately well worth it.
Travellers are the
first to feel the bump. UK airports are in chaos, as all flights to mainland
Europe have been cancelled since late on Friday.
The WTO rules do
not cover aviation. And no aircraft is permitted to fly between the UK and EU
airports until a new bilateral agreement on flights is reached.
Weekend motorists
in Kent are also suffering, as the roads leading to the ports of Dover and
Folkestone soon become gridlocked with stationary lorries.
Each UK export
consignment to Europe now has to be checked by customs staff in Calais, with
tariffs and VAT collected.
The French port’s
infrastructure is rapidly overwhelmed and ferry companies are instructed not to
disgorge any more lorries until they can hire and train more officers.
The only option
for hauliers bound for the EU is to queue and wait.
Hardliners in
Germany, France and the Netherlands insist on no cooperation with the perfidious Brits
whatsoever until they agree to honour their £39bn of EU liabilities
Traffic going the
other way also locks up, as the UK’s small band of customs staff also soon
become swamped, despite instructions for them to check only one incoming
consignment from the EU in five.
By the end of the
day, gaps are already starting to appear on UK supermarket shelves as shoppers,
hearing about the customs crisis, stockpile goods, anticipating that deliveries
from Europe will fail to arrive.
Some petrol
stations are running low on fuel as tankers have difficulty getting through.
Expecting a rush of panic buying, some profiteering operators jack up fuel
prices on Sunday to as much as £1.50 a litre.
When the stock
markets open on Monday, traders’ screens are drenched in red as UK stocks and
investment funds get brutally marked down. Many find they cannot process orders
on behalf of European clients due to the sudden demise of the single market
passport for financial services.
Bank executives
implement their contingency plans, informing thousands of employees that they
will either be sacked or relocated to Frankfurt.
Lawyers are
commissioned across the Square Mile for a gargantuan battle over trillions of
pounds of derivative contracts whose legal status is now suddenly in doubt.
Despite an
emergency rate cut and unprecedentedly large financial market liquidity
injection from the Bank of England, panic takes hold in the City.
The pound is
sinking at its most rapid rate since the night of that Leave vote in the Brexit
referendum. One airport bureau de change offers to buy pounds for only a single
dollar.
Car plant workers
in the midlands and the north east arrive for work only to be told that half of
them should go home. The parts they need to work with have not been delivered.
They are stuck in transit and the “just in time” delivery system has broken
down. The shockwaves ripple out to their thousands of supplier firms. Airbus
announces it is closing down its entire plant in Wales, throwing 10,000 out of
work at a stroke.
Despite months of
stockpiling, many NHS drug deliveries are also held up.
Non-urgent operations are cancelled indefinitely. All but the most sick are
urged not to present themselves for treatment. One panicking manager of an
overstretched hospital turns away a Spanish woman because, he says, as an EU
citizen, her right to healthcare in the UK is now unclear. Others follow the
precedent. The Madrid government declares that, in retaliation, retired Britons
on the Costa del Sol will also be ineligible for Spanish healthcare.
Civil servants
frantically hammer the phones, trying to get through to their European
counterparts, pleading for the ports and airports to be opened, for emergency
supplies to be fast-tracked, for some kind of temporary political agreement on
the rights of EU citizens and Britons on the continent.
But the Europeans
are divided. Hardliners in Germany, France and the Netherlands insist on no cooperation with the perfidious Brits whatsoever
until they agree to honour their £39bn of EU liabilities. They are also
consumed with the question of how to deal with Ireland, which has refused to
close its border with the north for fear of provoking a Republican terror
attack, leaving a gaping hole in the EU’s customs union.
As UK public anger
and fear swells, Brexiteers give defensive media interviews. Some blame the
chaos on the government’s failure to plan adequately.
Others blame the
EU for deliberately sabotaging the UK economy and demand retaliation. Others
call for martial law. Not one utters the words “project fear”.
It's the loss of humanity and common sense, I think. Greed makes you lose your humanity; hatred makes you lose both. Both of them all to evident since Brexit raised its ugly head.
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I suspect the filthy rich funders and promoters of leave, don't much care about increases in food prices or shortages. They probably have acres of allotments too!
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther KingJeremy has one too!
As for the future, some don't know what that is. The past is what matters to them.
It’s Saturday 30 March 2019 and Britain has gone over the cliff edge.
At 11pm the night before the UK left the EU with no deal agreed. There is no financial liabilities settlement. There is no agreement on EU citizens’ rights or security cooperation. Britain is totally outside the customs union. There’s no single market “transition”.
Nor is there any route to a free trade deal. All Britain has to govern its trade with the EU now is the bare rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Theresa May announces her resignation and the Conservative Party begins its leadership election process.
Nigel Farage is delighted at the last-minute collapse of the Brexit negotiations and declares outside parliament, as the dawn breaks, that Britain is now truly an independent nation once again.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, now the clear favourite for the Tory leadership having lead the successful campaign to thwart May’s proposed “vassalage” deal, informs BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that although what he describes as a “clean Brexit” will likely entail some “bumpiness” any disruption will be short-lived and ultimately well worth it.
Travellers are the first to feel the bump. UK airports are in chaos, as all flights to mainland Europe have been cancelled since late on Friday.
The WTO rules do not cover aviation. And no aircraft is permitted to fly between the UK and EU airports until a new bilateral agreement on flights is reached.
Weekend motorists in Kent are also suffering, as the roads leading to the ports of Dover and Folkestone soon become gridlocked with stationary lorries.
Each UK export consignment to Europe now has to be checked by customs staff in Calais, with tariffs and VAT collected.
The French port’s infrastructure is rapidly overwhelmed and ferry companies are instructed not to disgorge any more lorries until they can hire and train more officers.
The only option for hauliers bound for the EU is to queue and wait.
Hardliners in Germany, France and the Netherlands insist on no cooperation with the perfidious Brits whatsoever until they agree to honour their £39bn of EU liabilities
Traffic going the other way also locks up, as the UK’s small band of customs staff also soon become swamped, despite instructions for them to check only one incoming consignment from the EU in five.
By the end of the day, gaps are already starting to appear on UK supermarket shelves as shoppers, hearing about the customs crisis, stockpile goods, anticipating that deliveries from Europe will fail to arrive.
Some petrol stations are running low on fuel as tankers have difficulty getting through. Expecting a rush of panic buying, some profiteering operators jack up fuel prices on Sunday to as much as £1.50 a litre.
When the stock markets open on Monday, traders’ screens are drenched in red as UK stocks and investment funds get brutally marked down. Many find they cannot process orders on behalf of European clients due to the sudden demise of the single market passport for financial services.
Bank executives implement their contingency plans, informing thousands of employees that they will either be sacked or relocated to Frankfurt.
Lawyers are commissioned across the Square Mile for a gargantuan battle over trillions of pounds of derivative contracts whose legal status is now suddenly in doubt.
Despite an emergency rate cut and unprecedentedly large financial market liquidity injection from the Bank of England, panic takes hold in the City.
The pound is sinking at its most rapid rate since the night of that Leave vote in the Brexit referendum. One airport bureau de change offers to buy pounds for only a single dollar.
Car plant workers in the midlands and the north east arrive for work only to be told that half of them should go home. The parts they need to work with have not been delivered. They are stuck in transit and the “just in time” delivery system has broken down. The shockwaves ripple out to their thousands of supplier firms. Airbus announces it is closing down its entire plant in Wales, throwing 10,000 out of work at a stroke.
Despite months of stockpiling, many NHS drug deliveries are also held up. Non-urgent operations are cancelled indefinitely. All but the most sick are urged not to present themselves for treatment. One panicking manager of an overstretched hospital turns away a Spanish woman because, he says, as an EU citizen, her right to healthcare in the UK is now unclear. Others follow the precedent. The Madrid government declares that, in retaliation, retired Britons on the Costa del Sol will also be ineligible for Spanish healthcare.
Civil servants frantically hammer the phones, trying to get through to their European counterparts, pleading for the ports and airports to be opened, for emergency supplies to be fast-tracked, for some kind of temporary political agreement on the rights of EU citizens and Britons on the continent.
But the Europeans are divided. Hardliners in Germany, France and the Netherlands insist on no cooperation with the perfidious Brits whatsoever until they agree to honour their £39bn of EU liabilities. They are also consumed with the question of how to deal with Ireland, which has refused to close its border with the north for fear of provoking a Republican terror attack, leaving a gaping hole in the EU’s customs union.
As UK public anger and fear swells, Brexiteers give defensive media interviews. Some blame the chaos on the government’s failure to plan adequately.
Others blame the EU for deliberately sabotaging the UK economy and demand retaliation. Others call for martial law. Not one utters the words “project fear”.