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No Deal Brexit Leaflet...

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Labaik Sun 28-Jul-19 22:23:20

So, what do we all think is going to be in said leaflet hmm ?

crystaltipps Mon 29-Jul-19 09:28:56

The leaflet will be to reassure everyone that the government is competent, strong and stable and acting in their interests. Meaningless piffle propaganda in other words. Just about fit for lining the cats litter tray.

Buttonjugs Mon 29-Jul-19 09:13:21

I hope and pray there will be no need to read this leaflet. I don’t see how Bojo the clown will get this through Parliament.

MaizieD Mon 29-Jul-19 09:10:23

Apart from the fact, lemon, that you weren't around at the time that the then government sent all households a leaflet on how to prepare and protect ourselves from nuclear attack, I strongly suspect that had you been, you would have believed every word in it.

NotSpaghetti Mon 29-Jul-19 09:06:40

No, Alima, you may think it’s obvious but I think it’s not as it is yet another waste of money on pointless propaganda.

EllanVannin Mon 29-Jul-19 09:05:45

It'll cost us a jolly sight more to leave than to stay as we are, in more ways than just financially.

MaizieD Mon 29-Jul-19 09:02:40

It's hardly likely to be full of unpalatable facts, such as we need 500 new border staff who take 3 years to train so are highly unlikely to be ready and in place in the 90ish days we have left.

Of course, if the latest lie from our government, and Leavers, is to be believed, 'no deal' was always on the cards so if they'd started recruiting and training in 2016 we might have just about been ready now.

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lemongrove Mon 29-Jul-19 08:57:04

It isn’t ( government depts are already advising businesses, and have been doing so for a while.)
I said that people would be moaning about it.
Face it, people would moan about there not being a leaflet informing them just as much as there are now people moaning there there will be.

jura2 Mon 29-Jul-19 08:52:13

how is a leaflet to the general public going to help business make very complex, complicated preparations, lemon?

lemongrove Mon 29-Jul-19 08:47:18

Is this the latest ‘Chicken Little’ thread by any chance?
If there wasn’t a leaflet about preparing for a no deal exit from the EU,then people would be moaning that the British public are being kept in the dark and that businesses have no idea what’s going on.It would be irresponsible not to prepare for it, (and the EU have been preparing for it for it too.)

MaizieD Mon 29-Jul-19 08:37:16

Cameron's leaflet, so I am told by ardent Leavers made uncomfortable by the fact that the Leave campaign fronted by our current PM overspent massively in contempt of electoral law and were given the maximum possible fine for doing so, cost £9 million. Looks a bit like a drop in the ocean now.

EllanVannin Mon 29-Jul-19 08:31:01

There'll be some rotten food coming our way as wagons will be held up at various checkpoints with custom checks as the queues will be longer.

It's going to be illegal to pay pensions into a bank in an EU country where UK citizens are living where there's a no deal Brexit. Although the UK would allow this the EU wouldn't.
This is just one of the uncertainties involving ex-pats and they'd do well to contact the association of British Insurers for further information.

The " leaflet " will only explain what people who voted Brexit want to see it won't show/explain the shambles it will cause !!

Whitewavemark2 Mon 29-Jul-19 08:11:31

Oh! £10 million is a vast under amount. R4 has just said it will be £100 million.

Blimey

Whitewavemark2 Mon 29-Jul-19 08:01:23

pant goodness knows, and the money that has been spent since. It is criminal.

Pantglas1 Mon 29-Jul-19 07:58:34

How much did Cameron’s leaflet cost?

Whitewavemark2 Mon 29-Jul-19 07:33:39

£10 million that’s costing us, just to tell us what we already know.

Brexit must be the most expensive project ever undertaken except a war.

M0nica Mon 29-Jul-19 07:31:49

Well, at least it will be paper so recyclable, which is more than can be said or our current Prime Minister.

crystaltipps Mon 29-Jul-19 07:28:51

The leaflet will try to persuade people that the government is doing something, even if it’s just to spend millions on a leaflet telling us they don’t know anything. May did a similar thing, spending loads on an advertising campaign in the run up to the March deadline. Boris is flashing the cash at the moment, but he knows a no deal will mean he won’t be able to fulfil his domestic promises. Meanwhile, schools, hospitals, police all struggling to stay afloat.

Newquay Mon 29-Jul-19 07:16:42

What a waste of money IMHO!

Blinko Mon 29-Jul-19 06:17:36

No-deal will be a choice Johnson and this government make.

This is perfectly correct. Except that they will blame the EU, as successive governments have done over the years when anything has proved unpopular or unsuccessful. Hence the reason we are where we are.

Responsible government? I think not.

Ginny42 Mon 29-Jul-19 06:01:23

It is at that point, when we've read the leaflet, that we should be given the opportunity to say whether that's what we wish to happen.

The people who will pay the true price of a 'no deal' exit should have the final say.

Alima Mon 29-Jul-19 05:09:48

The point of a leaflet NotSpaghetti is to calm the fears of anyone who has fears about leaving the EU without a deal. I would have thought that was obvious. Whether it will work is a different matter entirely.

NotSpaghetti Mon 29-Jul-19 01:56:31

What is the point of a leaflet please?
I know one is apparently going to happen- but why?

GracesGranMK3 Mon 29-Jul-19 00:33:31

However much they attempt to prepare for "no-deal" there will only be so much they can do. If it actually takes place there are some things that definitely will happen. There will be extra tariffs on certain goods. There will be extra checks and bureaucracy at boarders. There will be extra friction for businesses trying to do trade with the European Union. These are certainties. We will hear a lot from No.10 about how much they will be preparing us but we should be aware, as they are, that there is very little the can actually do in certain areas.

I can't bear all the illusions to war; war cabinets, battening down the hatches, the Blitz spirit. War was thrust upon that government. No-deal will be a choice Johnson and this government make.

Labaik Sun 28-Jul-19 23:37:26

For some reason I keep thinking back to the Protect and Survive leaflet that, thankfully we never needed to refer to....

GracesGranMK3 Sun 28-Jul-19 22:39:53

Underneath your OP there was a picture of mouldy cheese. Do you think that's it?