Brexit: New Command Centre to Detect “Battle Rhythm” On The StreetsThe reality of Britain’s no-deal exit from the European Union is now dawning upon us all – both Leavers and remainers. From what we are being told by the experts, a hard-Brexit is going to be truly painful economically. The government is preparing for much worse though.
Ian Dunt, editor at Politics.co.uk says it all in a few words – with less than 50 days left to the 29th March. His frustration is palpable – “It is hard to fully describe the contempt felt towards May in Brussels right now. Just imagine sitting across a table from someone for two years and having them tell you that this is the plan they need, this is the plan they can get through the Commons, and then watch them delay a vote on it, lose catastrophically, whip their own MPs to vote against it, and then come back, cap in hand, asking for you to change the thing that they themselves proposed you must do. The shame of it. The sheer inadequacy.
This is humiliation on a historic scale. It is the single most incompetent act of British diplomacy we’ve witnessed in our lifetime. That’s not hyperbole. That is a simple statement of fact. Quite apart from the core-function national downgrade which May is pursuing, her manner of going about it is so shambolic and disingenuous that our reputation as a serious country may never recover.”
Even Britain’s application to join the WTO was rejected by the very WTO members that the Brexiteers like Liam Fox keep telling us will be our new global trading partners. Eleven countries rejected the British application including America because they want even more deregulation and extreme free-market access than you can imagine.
And so, Britain is now preparing for the very worst. Thousands of army personnel and thousands more reservists are being put on standby. Police forces across the nation are making preparations. The domestic security service MI5 now has 20 per cent of its entire staff posted to trouble hot-spots and even the Royal family are preparing to move in case of protests and riots.
Now we hear that the government has started to recruit civilians to work in an emergency command and control centre being set up to try to make sure Britain runs smoothly in the aftermath of a potential no-deal Brexit.
The government is mobilising all of its resources with the chief executive of the civil service, John Manzoni, already confirming it is looking to second 5,000 civil servants, with volunt.................
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