With little more than a month to go on a sunset date for Great Britain to either stay or leave the European Union?
The government has begun to put in place plans and orders to deal with a possible chaotic future where the country is essentially cut off from the rest of Europe….
THAT could result in all sorts of problems including possible violence….
They country and its lawmakers seem vastly unprepared to deal with something they THOUGH would come out in their favor with a country wide vote on emotion, NOT comments sense and forethought ….
If Britain crashes out of the EU, and things go bad in London, Queen Elizabeth II will be ready to make her own exit — to an undisclosed location.
The U.K. government has repurposed Cold War emergency evacuation planning to prepare for the chance of violence and mayhem following a no-deal Brexit, and the need to protect the royal family, the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sundayreported.
Fears of Britain making a disorderly departure from the EU have spiked in recent days following a vote in the U.K. parliament demanding that Prime Minister Theresa May renegotiate the Brexit Withdrawal Treaty to change the backstop provision on the Northern Ireland border.
Neither May nor leaders in parliament have put forward a specific alternative proposal and EU negotiators insist that there is none because the issue was discussed exhaustively at the bargaining table. European leaders around the Continent and senior EU officials in Brussels have said there will be no renegotiation without a substantial shift in U.K. red lines.
It was unclear how seriously Whitehall officials were taking the prospect of a royal evacuation, which would presumably follow an outbreak of riots in London. But both the Times and the Mail said officials were worried about increasing efforts to draw the royal family into the intractable Brexit debate that continues to roil the country.
The queen has generally steered clear of the rancorous Brexit debate, though she did appear to weigh in, however subtly, in a recent speech in which she called forBritons to “seek out the common ground” and not lose sight of the “bigger picture.”
Among those who have called for royal intervention is hardline Brexiter, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who urged the Queen to suspend parliament if necessary to stop MPs seeking to delay Brexit. The Mail quoted Rees-Mogg as ridiculing those responsible for the evacuation plans. “The over-excited officials who have dreamt up this nonsense are clearly more students of fantasy than of history,” he said.
The Times quoted an official describing the need for a royal evacuation as “extremely unlikely.” But the prospect of the queen being rushed to safety in a secret operation now joins the list of worst-case Brexit fears alongside potential shortages of food and medicine…..
Note…
Donald Trump’s becoming the American President has seemed to driven the world a bit crazy….
UK still safe in no-deal scenario, says the Home Secretary
BBC News, 7 hours ago
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said the UK would remain “one of the safest countries in the world” in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
But he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that there would be a “change in capability” in terms of access to certain security databases.
He also said a general election was the “last thing this country needs”.
His comments on security come after the Met’s counter-terrorism chief said no deal would be “very bad” for policing.
The UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on Friday, 29 March, when the two-year time limit on withdrawal negotiations enforced by the Article 50 process expires.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she is “determined” to deliver Brexit on time, ahead of talks on the Irish backstop.
The backstop forms part of the withdrawal agreement negotiated by the UK and EU and is aimed at keeping the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic open after Brexit.
But Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told RTE Radio that it was “very frustrating” the UK government seemed to be considering alternative arrangements that had “already been rejected”.
Meanwhile, Nissan has confirmed that the new X-Trail originally planned for its Sunderland plant will instead be made in Japan, saying continued Brexit uncertainty is not helping firms like it to “plan for the future”.
Mr Javid said he wants to leave with a deal on 29 March, but “it makes sense to plan for all contingencies, that of course includes no deal planning”.
“It is true if we have a no deal situation there will be certain capabilities that we rely on for security with the EU, such as databases, arrest warrants… that will change,” he said.
“There are capabilities we would want to keep, but they require co-operation with the EU and I have to plan on the basis that in a no deal scenario the EU will no longer allow us to access those capabilities.”
He said that most of those capabilities began in 2015, saying: “We were a safe country then and we’d be a very safe country in a no deal scenario.”
“I want a deal… but even in a no deal scenario we would continue to be one of the safest countries in the world.”
Last month, the Met’s Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu told the BBC the possibility of a no-deal Brexit was “incredibly concerning” for police operations.
Echoing comments from Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick in December, he said the UK and Europe would be in a “very bad place” if police could not exchange data or biometrics on suspected criminals and terrorists.
Mr Basu said the Met was working on contingency arrangements with police forces and agencies in Europe….
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47108445