AIBU to ask what will actually happen on 29th March... Will we have John Snow narrating a countdown to armegedon? ?

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Genuine question. How do you think the media will cover it?
Will it be a countdown and then lights out?
Will it be programming as normal?
Will radio be playing poignant tunes?
I'm personally hoping the likes of the Mash Report and Last Leg will be on air to see me through

The meps have been quiet havnt they. Do they still have jobs. What is their jobs

its the new 'taking back control' - at least some of them realised how ridiculous that was.

Agree jennifer.

brexiteers actually do think nothing will happen with no deal brexit-
they really are that poorly informed.

I suspect there will be a delay, but whenever the cliff edge happens...

• In the days before we'll have news stories about panic buying/empty shelves.
• Nothing much will change at 11pm, but TV will work itself up into a froth.
• There will be some demonstrations in big cities and possibly some violence.
• The next morning we will wake up to queues of lorries who weren't able to cross the Channel overnight. These queues will quickly become the new normal.
• The stock markets will go insane.

Beyond that, who knows. I'm expecting a death by a thousand cuts, rather than immediate rioting and people rolling their money out of the banks in wheelbarrows.

jennifer and londonrach, can you explain a bit more about the similarities between dropping out of our agreements with most of the world has with the milenium bug?

Ffs. You could at least RTFT.

I'm envisioning no TV / radio, or possibly just an emergency broadcast on loop
No Internet / all forms of electronic comms to go down
No gas / electricity / water
The first of the ten plagues
Etc etc.

My German neighbour doesn't think we will ever properly leave. She's convinced the UK will remain in some kind of limbo for years and years with ongoing negotiations and everything will pretty much remain the same. She's still planning to up sticks and move back to Berlin though.

i dont think anyone has suggested a no deal brexit would be like that.
oh, wait, you were being funny in an attempt to show that peoples real fears about medicine and food shortages are completely unfounded, of course!

Brexit is nothing like the millenium bug. The millenium bug was a simple, well defined, programming problem. Many computers had dates set at 2 digits rather than 4 (e.g. 79 rather than 1979 to save memory). A few years before the year 2000 people realised that computers would need the dates in 4 digits otherwise computers would effectively reset themselves to 00 (I.e. 1900). This clearly would cause a number of easily predicted problems so programmers spent a few years making sure they applied a very simple patch to that computer dates were composed of 4 digits.

So, the millenium bug was a well defined, simple, well understood, easy to fix problem with plenty of experts to do the work according to a clear, agreed, implementable strategy.

Brexit, on the other hand, is a messy, complex, poorly understood problem, even by those leading it (Gavin Williamson’s ‘I didn’t realise how important Dover-Calais crossing was’ and David Davis’ ‘We will just make deals with Germany for BMWs and Italy for prosecco’ are just two examples that have us all going WTF?). It is impossible to fix to everyone’s satisfaction because there is still no agreed position even amongst government, Article 50 was triggered with no strategy (this was unforgivable), no experts, and no agreements.

So, the millenium bug is completely different to Brexit, so can we now stop it with the false equivalence? It’s like saying you didn’t feel sick when you ate cheese so you won’t feel sick from eating fish fingers. The two have nothing to do with each other.

We need John Snow Ch4 dressed like John Snow GoT saying:

"Brexit is coming"

Oh my god, I had assumed the Y2K posters must be bots as I didn’t think real people posting on MN could be quite so incredibly, unbelievably dense. How many times has it been explained now??

If we go out on the 29th without a deal then I agree with whatswithtodaytoday.

Wasn't it Dominic Raab who didn't understand the importance of Dover Calais ( said when he was Brexit Secretary)? Maybe Williamson said similar but want to make sure good ol' Dom (I don't like this deal I was in charge of sorting) gets the credit he deserves!

jennifer and londonrach, can you explain a bit more about the similarities between dropping out of our agreements with most of the world has with the milenium bug?

I am not comparing the actual situations, thought that would be glaringly obvious but clearly needs to be clarified.

I am replying to the OP saying what will happen on the actual day and the day after. I am comparing it to the bug as there was huge speculation and a sense of WTF will happen with people expecting all sorts but eff all happened at midnight.

Brexit is a marathon and the consequences and benefits will appear over many, many months as we move forwards they won't just appear on the actual day we leave.

We'll be on the quay at Southampton with flags and sympathy for all those poor hardworking MEPs who are going to lose their jobs, after all the magnificent work they have done for us, at great cost to the taxpayer for years and years - booo hooo!

No idea what will happen. I am in Ireland and frankly disgusted with it all and the negative impact it will have over here. Our government are publishing a bill today dubbed as the Brexit mega-bill in the event of a no deal scenario. Apparently it covers measures for 9 government departments and 16 pieces of legislation. The type of areas it is covering may be of interest because it shows the areas the Irish government feel a no deal will effect:

• facilitating agreements between Ireland and UK to ensure Irish and UK students will not be liable for foreign fees
• bus and train travel between Dublin and Belfast ensuring people will not be stopped for border checks
• deals with health issues to ensure essential Common Travel Area healthcare agreements are maintained
• amendments of Electricity Regulation Act with regard to Ireland's all-Ireland Single Electricity market
• amendments to student support act to cover grants
• changes to insurance legislation to deal with UK insurance undertakings with Irish customers
• support for farmers in relation to price increase in case of tariffs on their goods
• we have been warned of potential price increases on products imported from UK due to tariffs until we can source products from other EU countries and by-pass UK

And a lot more besides. The above I think just covers initial logistical concerns. Our government have a lot of domestic issues to sort but they have had to spend time, resources and energies and all this and I for one am fuming

My English dh wanted to take kids over to England to visit his parents and was about to book for that weekend but I felt he should leave it in case of chaos may not happen but don't want them caught up in it best waiting for dust to settle.

thats your theory?

fuck-all will happen after a no deal brexit just as 'nothing happened' after y2k.

riiiight.

My BIL voted leave and is now stockpiling dry goods. When he moans about Brexit I say ‘well, you voted for it.’ Nob.

I have no idea what will happen on 29 March - it won’t be good whatever happens. Maybe the Messiah will come to save us?!?

I think very little will happen on the actual day. The changes woll come in the following months.

On a different note I'm very disappointed no one talks about the other John snow

Good point op, it's going to be historic night...

But how would it be done... I suppose it's got too be marked but will we be flashing to jrm and farage drinking champagne Etc at parties then back to sad BBC commentators?

I don't know if anyone saw the times a while ago. Dutch are stock piling drug's from US and other counties will be... it's all two-way street so don't panic too much

I don't know if anyone saw the times a while ago. Dutch are stock piling drug's from US and other counties will be... it's all two-way street so don't panic too much

brilliant news!

It will be interesting to see how MPs behave. I imagine TMay will do a 'rally to the cause' positive spin going forward blah blah speech in parliament on the 28th.
But will the naysayers get up and tell us we are Doooomed Dooooomed. As they have been up to now. I would think JC might be hoping for a bit of doom so he gets more votes at the next election. But will others put disaster into words because you never know it might not be That bad, then they can be accused of being anti Britain.

So had it with the Y2K and the WTO will be fine crew. There are a couple at work, when I tried to say WTO only covers goods and our economy is 80% services that relies on the single market, so what about that? No answer than 'it'll be fine'

So I would imagine a large proportion of the population will be celebrating thinking nothing will change. Anything shit would have happened anyway.

And another large proportion will be incredibly angry that our lives have been affected negatively for no apparent benefit.

I'm so fucked off tbh and I can't see the divisions in this country healing for a long time.