So, just how bad WILL a no-deal Brexit be?

[tommers]

Release of Parliament closure documents blocked

We get the nonsense:

What a fucking surprise.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

So she should be able to tell us what para 15 is

Refineries (threaded tweet)

 

[A380]

I can’t wait till they get the strategic reserve of 50 steam locomotives out from that tunnel under the Mallen hills* and start running them on welsh steam coal from the ‘museum’ at Big Pit in Blienaven .


* they’ll have to move the crashed spaceship out of the way first obvs.

 

[tommers]

Changing the title of a document that has already been leaked to make it sound better is so fucking amateur.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Changing the title of a document that has already been leaked to make it sound better is so fucking amateur.

As is the quality of the published document - it's wonky as fuck. Looks like somebody printed out a Word document, and then badly scanned each page individually to PDF

 

[Gromit]

I can’t wait till they get the strategic reserve of 50 steam locomotives out from that tunnel under the Mallen hills* and start running them on welsh steam coal from the ‘museum’ at Big Pit in Blienaven .


* they’ll have to move the crashed spaceship out of the way first obvs.

Blaenavon.

Good try.

p.s. I remember them wanting to give me a VIP tour (of that very museum) but I was like sorry no time, now to business. I kind of regret it.

 

[MrSki]

How many of the stockpiled body bags will be needed?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

the gorillas and lions might be hatching similar plans for you

Of the names leave voters have been called, these have to be up there as the worst.

 

[stdP]

As is the quality of the published document - it's wonky as fuck. Looks like somebody printed out a Word document, and then badly scanned each page individually to PDF

Printing out and re-scanning a digital document is actually common SOP to make sure redactions really are unreadable. I've seen hilarious attempts at redactions where someone's merely drawn a black box over the text, not realising you could simply (re)move the box with the right software, and of course the text still being visible if you inspect the file contents.

 

[A380]

Blaenavon.

Good try.

p.s. I remember them wanting to give me a VIP tour (of that very museum) but I was like sorry no time, now to business. I kind of regret it.

Yes, my mother in law is from there, and my father in law from Mountain Ash. They don’t do irony either...

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Printing out and re-scanning a digital document is actually common SOP to make sure redactions really are unreadable. I've seen hilarious attempts at redactions where someone's merely drawn a black box over the text, not realising you could simply (re)move the box with the right software, and of course the text still being visible if you inspect the file contents.

Aye, I know, but a competent person would then scan using the feeder. This doc has the text squint on nearly every page, ffs.

I accept this is a minor thing but c'mon.

 

[stuff_it]

There'll be a housing crisis, the NHS and public services in general will under severe pressure and we'll see massive regional disparities and widespread precarity.

So no change?

 

[Ted Striker]

Rosamund Urwin

@RosamundUrwin
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"15. Facing EU tariffs makes petrol exports to the EU uncompetitive. Industry had plans to mitigate the impact on refinery margins and profitability but UK Government policy to set petrol import tariffs at 0% inadvertently undermines these plans. This leads to significant financial losses and announcement of two refinery closures (and transition to import terminals) and direct job losses (about 2000). Resulting strike action at refineries would lead to disruptions to fuel availability for 1-2 weeks in the regions directly supplied by the refineries."

 

[Gromit]

Yes, my mother in law is from there, and my father in law from Mountain Ash. They don’t do irony either...

I was just pleased your mangled version had a V instead of an F tbh.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

How many of the stockpiled body bags will be needed?

Section 15?

 

[Raheem]

Yes, my mother in law is from there, and my father in law from Mountain Ash. They don’t do irony either...

They've got an ironworks, haven't they?

 

[Raheem]

Rosamund Urwin

@RosamundUrwin
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44m

"15. Facing EU tariffs makes petrol exports to the EU uncompetitive. Industry had plans to mitigate the impact on refinery margins and profitability but UK Government policy to set petrol import tariffs at 0% inadvertently undermines these plans. This leads to significant financial losses and announcement of two refinery closures (and transition to import terminals) and direct job losses (about 2000). Resulting strike action at refineries would lead to disruptions to fuel availability for 1-2 weeks in the regions directly supplied by the refineries."

This was in the Times leak, word for word I think. What's the bleedin' point of redacting something that's already been published?

 

[isvicthere?]

The effects of brexit are already malign. The pound's gone down the shitter; more employers are shutting down and leaving every day; the tax take is down £600 million a week; the extreme right feel emboldened by the vote with a consequent rise in hate crime; politics is broken and society seems coarsened at every level

Given all the foregoing, there are still many cheerleaders for brexit who see a messy crash-out as the unicorn-rich uplands of sovereignty and liberation. So, however dismal things get in Yellowhammer Land, there will still be a constituency that embraces it and fails to acknowledge its wretched effects.

 

[Humberto]

We were told a new golden age was upon us. Just believe.

 

[Humberto]

Boris is just so darned likeable though. The bumbling through gentle old soul. Let's give him an award. The people's vermin.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Time to brush up on my foraging skillz

 

[belboid]

oh, if anyone wants a laugh/to be made to vomit - here - is Claire Fix describing why she must support No Deal despite it being absolutely awful for everything she cares about (20 mins in)

 

[William of Walworth]

The effects of brexit are already malign. The pound's gone down the shitter; more employers are shutting down and leaving every day; the tax take is down £600 million a week; the extreme right feel emboldened by the vote with a consequent rise in hate crime; politics is broken and society seems coarsened at every level

Given all the foregoing, there are still many cheerleaders for brexit who see a messy crash-out as the unicorn-rich uplands of sovereignty and liberation. So, however dismal things get in Yellowhammer Land, there will still be a constituency that embraces it and fails to acknowledge its wretched effects.

This and what Kaka Tim posted earlier.
Things can and would get even worse with No Deal. Due emphasis on 'even' though, because I do very much take the point that a lot of people already endure such utter shit that the idea it can get even worse is scarcely believable, and understandably.

 

[Poi E]

No transfers of personal data will be disastrous. In the absence of the UK being declared by the EU a third country with an adequate level of protection of personal data, data controllers and processors in EU member states will have to cease the transfer of personal data to the UK, and probably from.

 

[Wolveryeti]

This was in the Times leak, word for word I think. What's the bleedin' point of redacting something that's already been published?

The Times leak was the 'base case'. By this publication it had turned into a 'reasonable worst case'. Govt used the court order to apply some spin.

 

[Poi E]

Pointless word play that has no effect. Typifies governance at the moment.

 

[two sheds]

I tried to order something off e-bay from Germany today, it wouldn't let me for "tax reasons".

World's gone