Summer Brexit fun

The UK Parliament has gone on its holibobs and won’t be back in session until September 4th, and then conference season begins. Coupled with the fact it is also holibob season in Europe, not much will happen for the next few weeks.

Other than the PM and her band of Brexiteers found that backing up the threat of no deal Brexit with actually planning for it reveals that she has been wearing the emperor’s old clothes all along.

As May was forced to say, nothing to worry about, but we are stockpiling food and medicine just in case supplies are disrupted.

Of course there will be disruption, especially to radioactive isotopes as in the A50 notification letter, the Government specifically stated it would be leaving EURATOM too. As I have said previously, there was a good reason for this, but then that reason is somewhat reduced when it turns out the main reason was that it is overseen by the UCJ, and May probably got that confused with the ECHR, and rather admit to a mistake, she ploughed on.

Without being in EURATOM, there is no way to obtain and transport fissile materials needed for research and cancer treatment, and despite it being mentions when the A50 was published, the Government did nothing to act on this. So now there is the danger that there might be reductions in cancer treatment in parts of the country. Or all of it.

And this is just one area. Wherever you look, there are areas of the economy and society that automatically rely on the EU for part of its operation, and every single one of those will have to have the EU’s role replicated, and where appropriate, recognised by the international community; certifying of aircraft engineers, for one.

The time taken to set up from scratch to being able to function will be variable, but in the event of no deal they will have to be up and running in nine months. This is why the budget airlines have moved their operations to other countries.

How arbitration is handled is critical; the EU has the ECJ, but to May and many headbanger, this is unacceptable as it is part of the EU and has the word “European” in its title.

If only the Brexiteers hadn’t have had enough of experts, or at least listened to them rather than putting their fingers in their ears screaming “project fear, project fear”.