Operation Yellowhammer

Over weeks, if not months, perhaps, years, the British public have had to accept the shenanigans of Brexit. The government’s plan for a No Deal Brexit has warned of severe disruption to life, as well as “to liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.

UK’s worst case scenario for a no deal on 31 October 2019 has warned of riots on the streets, food and medicine shortages and more.
                                                       

The Scots have outlined over 8 reasons for a No Deal Brexit as catastrophic for their daily lives. Among them are it would see Scotland’s GDP shrink by up to 7% and reduce real disposable income by almost 10 percent.

Economic slowdown would increase unemployment rate to up to 8% costing every person £2,300 a year. Holidays will become even more expensive and complicated due to rate in value of the Pound, flights more expensive, UK passport holders with less than six months validity on the documents will be barred from entering Schengen countries. People living in EU countries could lose access to their pension income and also to their UK Bank accounts with slower processing times, besides other things like limited supply of fresh foods and rising grocery prices.

Nearly “no scenario” barred planning   

Operation Yellowhammer worst case assumptions originally prepared by the Government on 2 August 2019 have at last been published on order of Parliament at 8 p.m. on 11 September 2019. The Brits are famous for Code names. What of “Dad’s Army” and the breaking of German wartime codes?

This document, better named as “Oyie” can hardly be compared to the “Doomsday Book” but according to a group campaigning against Brexit, “Best for Britain” this document is “terrifying.”
                                                                                                                       

The document strangely Code named after a small songbird was first leaked one year ago in September 2018 was drawn up by Civil Contingencies Secretariat under previous Prime Minister Theresa May, and is a wing of the Cabinet Office which coordinates Cross Whitehall Projects.

The amount of time and money spent on Brexit

To satisfy Brussels and the EU, the UK Governments have pumped billions into no deal planning and wasted nearly three years of time when much of it could have been diverted to the urgent and pressing commitments of need rather than wants, like health, education and housing, have been starved of funds, over this time.

It appears the EU lobby, a very powerful body in UK, wants Britain to waste more time, money and manpower, either to delay Brexit, to have a second referendum, go back to negotiating again and/or keep pumping the coffers of EU.

Can you blame the EU for making Britain so lazy in 40 years?

With free movement of labour, goods and services over these years, Britain has become according to the past Trade Secretary Liam Fox far too lazy and fat for comfort. He maintained that there was need to a change in British business culture and people had got to stop thinking of exporting as an opportunity and start thinking about it as a duty. He said: “This country is not the free trading nation it once was. We have become too lazy and too fat on our successes in previous generations.”

What about the cheap labour from the Continent which flooded into UK and made every job cost half as much?

Is ferocity of the British Press against the EU well known?

The duff journalism and the depressing news that floods the market is a perennial factor, making people fear of the future of a “No Deal” situation.

Public and business readiness for such an outcome would likely be low, in part because of continued political confusion in the run up to Brexit day and the shenanigans in Parliament. But, does it mean that the press in Britain have to behave like a pack of animals, once EU has become a target for vitriolic abuse?

It is all too easy to wind up the British public that domestic regulations are 2.5 times more cost effective than the EU laws. But without regulation, there won’t be an EU?

People v Parliament v the Courts of Law

There are 50 days to Brexit, yet the UK Parliament is about to spend 34 days in recess, unless the Opposition’s Jeremy Corbyn demands a recall of Parliament.

The judgment of the Scottish Appeal Court is that the Prime Minister acted illegally in proroguing parliament in order to stifle debate in the Commons.

In contrast, the Northern Ireland Court 12 September 2019,dismissed the case against No Deal Brexit and claimed the hard border would damage peace process is a political and not a legal issue. 

Even if Parliament is recalled and votes in favour of a second referendum, it will take months to organise a Referendum and days to agree a wording of the vote to be put before the people?

Victor Cherubim