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

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bananacake2134 · 06/12/2018 22:42

‏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.

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KennDodd · 07/12/2018 15:16

Funny how his own children and those of senior party members all get sent to grammars or private schools.

Didn't Corbyn and his first wife split because he wanted the children to go to the local comp? I'm sure I read that somewhere... I'll have a look.

gingercat02 · 07/12/2018 15:21

To be fair I'd be delighted if SATs were cancelled permanently not so much GCSE or A levels

LakieLady · 07/12/2018 15:23

If you ever buy anything or use any service that has a European supplier or manufacturer in the supply chain then you need to be worried.

Or anything that has any parts made in Europe!

My MIL thought that post-Brexit we'd just build more Fords at Dagenham, until I pointed out that most Ford engines in UK built cars come from Spain. Look under your bonnet and see how much of the electrical equipment is made by Bosch, Brembo brakes mainly come from Italy and Poland, Weber fuel systems from Spain ... everything is so globalised now, that anything at all complex needs to bits from lots of different countries.

FunkyKingston · 07/12/2018 15:39

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

And this is the idiocy and half truths we are up against.

The reason 'nothing happenes' was because million pieces of code were rewritten, largely by the then nascent Indian IT industry. Unlike the Brexit fuckwits who after decades of campaigning and two years after the referendum haven't come up with anything that resembles a coherent plan beyond yeling vassalage, sovereignty and traitors ad infinitum

calpop · 07/12/2018 16:00

We're not a laughing stock. No one cares.

er, we are in the US. I work for a US tech company based in California and speak to people daily across the US and they are incredulous. They say things like, "I know we have Trump but Jesus Christ what have you guys done to yourself with Brexit?!"

LakieLady · 07/12/2018 16:09

Chuck in an accident or two (eg the day I got stuck in the countryside for 2 hours because an artic jackknifed into the canal after trying to escape stack chaos) and there you are.

I think it's hard for people who don't live here to imagine how bad the roads are in this crowded south-east corner of England. East Sussex has no motorways at all, West Sussex only has about 10 miles of motorway around Crawley/Gatwick.

An accident on a bypass the other morning meant it took me 40 minutes to travel half a mile, because all the bypass traffic in one direction was funnelling through a historic town that still has a medieval street plan in the centre. Last week, an accident meant that a colleague's 30-40 minute journey home took her 3.5 hours to travel about 20 miles.

Between Eastbourne and Brighton, there are only 6 routes between the A27 (part of the laughable Folkestone-Honiton trunk route) and the main road along the south coast that serves the smaller coastal towns. Five of those routes are very minor rural roads that cross the South Downs. Four of them aren't even big enough to have B-numbers, they are C-roads, one step above "unclassified", which means little better than a farm track.

The last time Operation Stack logjammed half of Kent, there was a massive increase in HGV traffic in East Sussex as drivers tried to get on the ferry that operates out of Newhaven. And they took absolutely no notice of the lorry prohibition on the minor roads.

Badbadbunny · 07/12/2018 16:10

There are better markets elsewhere.

If so, why havn't BWM ramped up production and sold more to "elsewhere"? Why are they selling cars into the UK if they think it's an inferior market? Doesn't make any sense.

HelenaDove · 07/12/2018 16:13

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BartholinsSister · 07/12/2018 18:07

er, we are in the US. I work for a US tech company based in California and speak to people daily across the US and they are incredulous. They say things like, "I know we have Trump but Jesus Christ what have you guys done to yourself with Brexit?!"

Yet no sign of the USA pleading to join the EU.

theymademejoin · 07/12/2018 18:23

@BartholinsSister - Yet no sign of the USA pleading to join the EU.

You do know the E in EU stands for European and that the USA is in America, not Europe, don't you?

theymademejoin · 07/12/2018 18:26

@Badbadbunny - Why are they selling cars into the UK if they think it's an inferior market

They don't care where they sell them. The size of the market impacts on the profit from that market. Smaller market = less profit, not "we won't sell there"

ForalltheSaints · 07/12/2018 18:28

I think that the fear of A levels and GSCEs being cancelled is a step too far, but things such as waste services being disrupted and supermarkets running out of certain goods because of panic buying is a real possibility should there be a no-deal Brexit.

A delay in the event of the deal being voted down next week (seems only by how much) would be sensible.

Mummyoflittledragon · 07/12/2018 18:35

BartholinsSister
I think you’ve just about won mumsnet with that stupid comment.

Walkingdeadfangirl · 07/12/2018 18:40

The EU really hates us. Why would they cancel our GCSE and A levels? What does the EU have against us burying our dead and how the hell are they going to rot our food?

Project fear really loves fake news. If its going to be that bad, what are so many MPs voting against the deal that would stop any of that happening. Its almost like Corbyn wants project fear to come real.

simonisnotme · 07/12/2018 18:40

so if Kent goes tits up we are all stuffed then Grin

yolofish · 07/12/2018 18:44

Well if Kent goes tits up simon then a lot of your supermarket supply chains (to mention just the most basic Just In Time operations) will absolutely be stuffed.

This thread is about Kent (and the importance of Dover essentially) yet so many people dont understand that lorries arrive in Dover (other ports are available and will also be clogged up) - where do people think these lorries go? what do you think they carry? It's not like Kent is some microcosm, the fact is that Dover is pretty much the doorway to the UK.

ElizabethMainwaring · 07/12/2018 18:46

It won't happen. We will not leave the EU. Don't worry so much. I assure you , it won't happen. X

FunkyKingston · 07/12/2018 18:50

Yet no sign of the USA pleading to join the EU.

Do you need me to point out the obvious?

A whole heap of leave voting villages seem to be letting their idiots roam free on this thread.

JacquesHammer · 07/12/2018 18:51

It won't happen. We will not leave the EU. Don't worry so much. I assure you , it won't happen

So basically Ms Mainwaring you’re saying “don’t panic” Grin

ElizabethMainwaring · 07/12/2018 18:57

Indeed Jacques. Thank you for getting my reference! But Im utterly convinced that we won't leave. Always have been.

TheyBuiltThePyramids · 07/12/2018 19:14

"The EU really hates us. Why would they cancel our GCSE and A levels? What does the EU have against us burying our dead and how the hell are they going to rot our food? "

Walkingdead - are you being deliberately dense? The whole thread is about plans being made by KCC in the event of a No Deal Brexit. Where chaos will ensue.

calpop · 07/12/2018 19:15

BartholinsSister

er, we are in the US. I work for a US tech company based in California and speak to people daily across the US and they are incredulous. They say things like, "I know we have Trump but Jesus Christ what have you guys done to yourself with Brexit?!"

Yet no sign of the USA pleading to join the EU.

Thats no6r what they mean silly. They have no desire to join anything and are fully occupied trying to compete against China. They juat can't believe we have potentially fucked our own economy and definitely divided the nation for no discernible good reason. They also can't believe we would jeopardize the Good Friday agreement which they see as a hard won victory.

frumpety · 07/12/2018 19:18

The EU really hates us. Why would they cancel our GCSE and A levels? What does the EU have against us burying our dead and how the hell are they going to rot our food?

Hilarious fangirl , literally have wine dribbling out of my nose at that little winnet of rhetoric Grin

Walkingdeadfangirl · 07/12/2018 19:55

A whole heap of leave voting villages seem to be letting their idiots roam free on this thread

Or maybe the thread itself is so ridiculous posters feel obliged to post idiotic comments. I suppose when we wake up on the 30th March KCC will also have run out of KFC because all the chickens will be running around screaming "The sky is falling, the sky is falling".