*Hang on... how does leaving the eu affect our ability to buy isotopes? Will we be banned from buying it? Don’t the eu countries but anything from us?
I just don’t believe it... I mean in the uk we buy tonnes of stuff... cars, even bloody electricity from France! Why would they stop selling to us? It’s a crazy idea.*
By the government's own estimates (from just a few weeks ago that were leaked "Yellowhammer"), a No Deal Brexit will lead to ongoing traffic delays of up to a couple of hours. And they could last for weeks or even months.
A lorry coming here from Spain with salad could get stuck in compounded queues, all the time while the salad's getting warm and going off. Then it's not even just that part - lorry drivers obviously don't take back empty lorries, so then they'll be trying to load up here and go back again - and get stuck in traffic on the way back.
The queues will happen because, overnight, we won't have the deals with the EU anymore that allow trucks to go through quickly.
The only other alternative is all checks on lorries are stopped - and then absolutely anything can get in (food will no longer have to be labelled as to where it's come from because that's an EU thing too), drugs, weapons, etc.
Isotopes apparently have an incredibly short shelf life, so can't get caught up in that chaos or they, like salad, 'go off'. I'm sure in that situation they'd prioritise them, perhaps send them by plane or helicopter, but then that'll be incredibly expensive, polluting, and will mean that other food stuff can't come in by plane.
So it's not that the EU will stop selling or transporting (although I read that because of the delays/rotten food problems, companies might well not bother sending lorries, as it'd be easier to send them elsewhere in the EU.
No Deal doesn't bring an end to any of the chaos, it means we have years and years of chaos until deals are actually made.