To think schools will close, rubbish will rot and bodies won't be buried

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‏Local authorities making emergency plans for March 29th onwards 2019 for Crash Out Brexit (Leaving without a deal)

@faisalislam
NEW: Extraordinary Kent County Council No Deal Brexit document detailing “Operation Fennel” next month to hold 10,000 HGVs “on a routine basis”

-administration GCSEs/SATS

• waste services “delayed and disrupted”
• “difficulties with transport of the deceased”

Looks like there's a serious possibility of 1000s of our kids having wasted years of education as GCSE and A level exams could be cancelled.

@SpoonBlender thanks. Fairly sure you can fuck off too but here we both are debating something that happened many years ago.

Well, as we are all doomed anyway from the climate change it matters not a fuck in the great scheme of things, does it.

UhUhUhDennis are you playing Brexit bingo?

ReMOANer - Check
Millennium bug - Check

Oh, I thought you were talking about a Corbyn government, seeing as it’s now blatantly obvious we’re not going to leave.

If Corbyn gets in, you’re probably right. Not about Brexit though. Never going to happen.

I love a bit of brexit bingo. Where do I sign up and what do I win?oh yes a peaceful life without all this stress over nothing. Have fun debating nothingness peeps.

GimmeGimmeHellYeah given that the original post seems to be about Kent & the problem of where to put thousands of lorries in Kent I would say most kids affected will be doing those exams as they live in Kent in England

@uhuhuhdennis

Yep same way everyone prepared for the millennium bug. And everyone hyped each other up about it and loads of people and companies made millions of pounds cashing in on all the hearsay. Then nothing happened. Same as what will happen in March next year. drama llama*

100% this. There are some ridiculous histrionics on this thread.

I needed this laugh 😂😂😂

Project fear on Mumsnet again....

To think schools will close, rubbish will rot and bodies won't be buried
Wow, I think I remember this. It was under the 1970’s Labour government wasn’t it?Seriously though (kinda) I too hope GCSEs are cancelled cos here in JudasTowers we’ve got four years of consecutive GCSEs and A Levels coming up, and believe me the mocks have been bad enough.

1000s of our kids having wasted years of education as GCSE and A level exams could be cancelled.

even if that was remotely true, at worst their exams would be delayed and they'll have more time to prepare. Hardly a waste of years of education.

I'd be more worried about that zombie apocalypse breaking through with unburied bodies everywhere. The smell!

When people can seriously compare the current fuck-up to the Millennium Bug, I think we may have reached peak fingers-in-ears-eyes-tight-closed Brexit denial.

oh ffs years of education wasted

they'll just reschedule-here a grip for you

Project fear on Mumsnet again

If anyone had told us two years ago that, less than four months before Brexit, we would have no idea what the hell was going to happen and would be staring down the barrel of a no deal Brexit, Brexiteers would have been screeching the Project Fear mantra and telling us it couldn't possibly happen.

Erm, no I don't think it'll be that bad for most of the country (can't say about Kent ). Good job too. It's going to be quite bad enough as it is without borrowing extra trouble.

Are we leaving or not?

This is called 'disaster planning'

I used to work for a huge global corporate. We spent ages planning in case of a flu pandemic.(essential product). It involved ensuring enough people could work from somewhere, had PCs, connections etc.
If you read the document you would think disaster was looming but it was just to meet KPIs incase disaster struck (which of course it never did) but the disaster scenario could be ; Brexit, loss of power, collapse of banks, meteor strike.

The Kent document is just DRP contingency.

Miscible
Agreed. The Brexiteer mantra sounds very childish from where I’m sitting. My admittedly somewhat limited survey tells me that my friends, who are more mature than my birth family voted remain. My birth family voted leave.

Then if we look at the the Brexiteer politicians, we find in the main they are those with the most money and loudest voices. They are interested in themselves more than the country. Their rhetoric is in stark contrast to those, who are not happy about divorcing from the EU. They are interested in the people living in the country rather than themselves.

For me it’s about self interest vs the good for all. I can’t believe people can be so blind.

Doom-mongering nonsense.

The fact that some luvvie has chosen to call it Operation Fennel is enough for me to give it no further time.

Oh it didn’t take long before idiots started referencing the millennium bug again.

Top tip folks, if you’re using a situation as a comparison make sure (a) you know what happened and (b) it’s actually, you know, comparable.

A lot of leave politicians like disaster politics. It shakes things up, creates opportunities for the few not the many. Let’s see how many conservative MPs are still in office in five years time and how many have gone on to start lucrative careers with investment banks post Brexit.

In the event of a no deal, the traffic situation in Kent would be dire. Lorries entering and leaving the UK that would need customs checks with insufficient infrastructure in place
= Operation stack x1000.

However, Parliamentary events this week would seem to make the possibility of No deal Brexit far less likely.

Just passing on what Kent Council is saying

Except that's not what they are saying is it?

I can't see how the GCSE/A level exams are going to be massively screwed up by it. People can walk, ride a bike etc etc to get to school if it's that important and they have from now until May to work out contingency plans. If it really came down to it they could hold the exams in primary school halls because primary schools are likely to be a shorter walking distance away from where people live, obviously that would be difficult to organise but it's possible - they can organise it so the school is a polling station so why not an exam hall?