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Originally Posted by Hugh
Not true - we have learned that we will be stockpiling food, medicines, reserving cross-Channel ferry capacity and specialist warehousing and stockpiling space, hiring more Border Force officers, having contingency plans to manage bottlenecks in freight traffic, spending around £130m on a huge public information campaign, and under Operation Yellowhammer, the MOD will have 3,500 troops available for deployment if needed.
We didn’t know that in 2016...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47652280 |
Quite. And I’m certain that none of the details of the worst case planning for the transition period ... the transition, not, notably, our life permanently outside the EU ... have in any way been used to insinuate that this is what being a non-member looks like and therefore we should all vote to remain instead.
We don’t know what being by far the largest European economy outside the EU is like, because we’ve not been there yet. We can - and have - debated the risks and the possibilities, all of which resulted in the leave vote in 2016.
When we have been permanently outside for a while, if it’s truly awful and, somehow, unlike every other non-EU state in the world we have permanently to worry about stockpiling essentials, then perhaps is the time to start arguing for a referendum on joining the EU. Before we get there, all we have is an argument based on deception, which is awfully rich coming from those who complain that the leave vote was carried in that way.