What Might a No-Deal Brexit Look Like? Food and Fuel Shortages, Long Waits for Meds, and More

PJ Media ^ | 08/19/2019 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson now has the Brexit headache squarely in front of him. Parliament is currently in recess until early September, with the October 31 deadline for an EU-UK deal appearing to be more elusive than ever.

Johnson will meet with European leaders next week, trying to convince them to negotiate a new exit for Great Britain. But the two leaders who count the most -- Angela Merkel of Germany and Emmanuel Macron of France -- don't feel any pressure to bail Johnson out. This means that a "no-deal Brexit" scenario is likely to occur.

Johnson ordered a study of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit, which was immediately leaked to the Sunday Times. Needless to say, the picture it paints is far from rosy.

BBC:

According to Operation Yellowhammer, the cross-government study of the impact of a no-deal Brexit, the UK could face months of disruption at its ports.

And plans to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are unlikely to prove sustainable, it adds.

The dossier says leaving the EU without a deal could lead to:

• Fresh food becoming less available and prices rising

• A hard Irish border after plans to avoid checks fail, sparking protests

• Fuel becoming less available and 2,000 jobs being lost if the government sets petrol import tariffs to 0%, potentially causing two oil refineries to close

• UK patients having to wait longer for medicines, including insulin and flu vaccines

• A rise in public disorder and community tensions resulting from a shortage of food and drugs

[dp0622]

Cats living with dogs.

[cincinnati65]

I think the U.K. did alright for at least a couple of years before there was an EU to Brexit from.......

[Gay State Conservative]

Wasn't the same thing supposed to happen with Y2K? The end of human civilization was what many predicted.

[TLI]

Lions tigers bears etc

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[minnesota_bound]

They have liars over there as well.

[gr8eman]

LOL!...Locusts! (If I knew how to post a photo it would be John Belushi on his knees begging Princess Leia not to shoot him!)

[dfwgator]

Basically the worst parts of The Bible.

[dp0622]

Locusts. lol

You’d think that they were never a fully independent country ever before.

And they make it sounds like Pharaoh just told Moses to take a hike.

[butlerweave]

They’ve tried to scare everyone from day one ,LOL

[clintonh8r]

The fear mongers are out in force now that BoJo is at 10 Downing....sounds familiar.

[deadrock]

Whatever the pain, well worth it to get from under the evil EU yoke.

[dp0622]

I don’t know if you knew that was a line from “Armageddon” but I loved it! :)

I proposed during the movie’s theme song.

OK, so there’s ONE reason not to like it :)

[cuban leaf]

What Might a No-Deal Brexit Look Like?

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Key word: Might

[Teacher317]

They sure do love using fear to male sure that everyone obeys their wishes... isn’t that the definition of terrorism, by the way?

[Real Cynic No More]

Remember the “expert” predictions about the stock markets and the 2016 elections? This is likely the same type of fearmongering.

[jdsteel]

I read an article that said the average UK family has spent the equivalent of $1,000 stockpiling essentials just in case there were shortages.

So they are “preppers”.

Nothing wrong with that, even if it turns out well.

[HamiltonJay]

When ask for draw up the “WORST CASE SCENARIO” you get the “worst case scenario”.... Just like when you say, write up your “BEST CASE SCENARIO” you get the “best case scenario”...

The Reality, is almost ALWAYS something in between... But hey, lets run with the worst case conjecture to sell some papers.

[Pollster1]

I love the fearmongering nonsense. You don’t even have to read the story, just the topic, and you can reliably predict the party line that those who pass for journalists today will parrot back.

[HamiltonJay]

Y2K was going to kill us all...