Brexit for this dummy...

[OnNaturesCourse]

Can anyone explain it all me?

Where are we just now, and what's going to happen?

I'm completely uneducated and unexperienced in these fields. I'm trying to teach myself more and be more involved BUT I'm struggling.

It's because all the lorries currently just drive off the ferries and straight off to deliver their stuff because there are no customs checks needed. Any kind of small check holds up the lorry behind, which holds up the lorry behind, which holds up the lorry behind. There are a few calculations I've seen about if it is 2 minutes that's 500 lorries held up an hour, that kind of thing. I've just made up those figures but that's the idea of it. The lorries just won't be able to get through with the food fast enough so the shops will be fairly empty as stocks run out. And supermarkets don't have big warehouses full of weeks and weeks of food because it's much cheaper to just have enough storage for 3 days or something like that. The lorries with more food are constantly coming through at the moment.

The UK only produces enough food for 60% of people.

A significant reduction in the flow of goods through Dover and Eurotunnel to as low as 13% of current capacity on the day of Brexit

So say after 3 days (when supermarkets start to run out as I understand it) instead of the full amount of food normally - 100% - there's only 60% (UK) plus we'll say 20% of the usual amount coming in, so that's 40/5, that means the UK will just have 68% of the food it normally has. And that's being generous.

From www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/25/cabinet-office-compares-no-deal-brexit-to-iceland-ash-cloud-chaos