Given the clusterf%$# that is Brexit, it’s not surprising that there was someone toiling away in a back office trying to plan for a no-deal scenario.<\/p>\n
Well, now that May has been given 6 more months to get nothing done, she has shuttered the office planning for a no-deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n May is being short sighted and stupid, but I am repeating myself:<\/p>\n Emergency planning for No Deal was called off today after the Brexit delay was written into law.<\/span> Six more months of incompetence and inaction does not justify abandoning preparation for the worst case.<\/p>\n Not planning for the worst case scenario on something as potentially disruptive as Brexit is governmental malpractice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Given the clusterf%$# that is Brexit, it’s not surprising that there was someone toiling away in a back office trying to plan for a no-deal scenario. Well, now that May has been given 6 more months to get nothing done, she has shuttered the office planning for a no-deal. May is being short sighted and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[627,469,588,406,570],"class_list":["post-177971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brexit","tag-bureaucracy","tag-fail","tag-stupid","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span>Civil servants were reportedly told to stand down from urgent meetings meant to ensure the UK is ready to leave the EU without a deal.<\/span>
<\/span>The move comes after the Brexit date was moved from April 12 to October 31 following a late-night Brussels summit.<\/span>
<\/span>The decision comes as citizens and businesses – including L’Oreal, Tesco and BMW – were continuing to stockpile for No Deal<\/a>.<\/span>
<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>
<\/span>Officials had been working around the clock to make sure Britain would not suffer if we crashed out of the EU without a withdrawal agreement.<\/span>
<\/span>Government sources today said the work has been put on the back burner now the cliff edge deadline has been pushed back.<\/span>
<\/span>A Cabinet source told The Sun: “We’re easing off on the No Deal preparations because it’s not the priority at the moment.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n