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Originally Posted by Pierre
Come on Hugh, you’re smarter than this.
After the referendum result, everybody should have been planning for a no deal Brexit and taking advice on what they would have to do to continue trading in that scenario.
Any deal or arrangement post would be great.
From what I’ve picked up from you and your career, you’ve worked at big companies and managed big projects. Would the companies you have worked for sat with their thumbs up their bottoms for 4.5 years? And suddenly plead ignorance on Jan 1st?
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No one ever plans for "worst case scenarios" - we planned for the loss of one site out of three geographically diverse sites, we never planned for losing two or three, because the implication was that the country had been nuked or bio/chem attacks had crippled the country, so no one would really be that fussed about education or financial lending in that scenario.
We are talking about small to medium businesses here - after the Brexit Referendum, everyone (inc. businesses) were told that a deal would be reached; it’s only in the last year or so that things "heated up" and the likelihood of "no deal" became apparent; this is at the same time as COVID hit, so no, most of the people I know who run small businesses (employing under a hundred people) had contingency plans in place for a No Deal Brexit, because they didn’t know what the impact of that would be.