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nitpicker

(7,153 posts)
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 07:39 PM Aug 2019

Britain can 'easily cope' with no-deal Brexit, claims Boris Johnson

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/25/britain-can-easily-cope-with-no-deal-brexit-claims-boris-johnson

Britain can 'easily cope' with no-deal Brexit, claims Boris Johnson

Heather Stewart and Julian Borger in Biarritz

Mon 26 Aug 2019 00.00 BST First published on Sun 25 Aug 2019 20.45 BST

Britain could “easily cope” with a no-deal Brexit, which would be the fault of EU leaders’ “obduracy”, Boris Johnson claimed at the summit of G7 countries in France, as he continued to resist mounting pressure to spell out his own plans for breaking the deadlock.

“I think we can get through this, this is a great, great country, the UK, we can easily cope with a no-deal scenario,” Johnson insisted in Biarritz, as he made his debut on the international stage as prime minister with a series of bilateral meetings with world leaders including Donald Trump, the EU council president Donald Tusk and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

Johnson said preparations for no deal were being ramped up to help secure an agreement, but also “so that if and when we are forced by the obduracy by our European friends to come out on 31 October without a deal that things are as smooth as they can possibly be”.

Johnson claimed food shortages – one of the risks outlined in the leaked Operation Yellowhammer documents on no-deal planning – were “highly unlikely”, and offered a “guarantee” that patients would be able to access medicines unhindered.
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Britain can 'easily cope' with no-deal Brexit, claims Boris Johnson (Original Post) nitpicker Aug 2019 OP
The Brexit timing is appropriate nitpicker Aug 2019 #1
Boris is the UK's Trump. BlueMTexpat Aug 2019 #2
Or "let them eat rice"? nitpicker Aug 2019 #3

nitpicker

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1. The Brexit timing is appropriate
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 07:46 PM
Aug 2019

Because in the old days, around All Saints' Day would be when the stock not kept for breeding purposes would be slaughtered.

So first the feast...

Then down to an onion and two eggs ((and one teabag)) a week.

((Unless the US parks container ships full of dried ramen in the ports...))

nitpicker

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3. Or "let them eat rice"?
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 08:20 PM
Aug 2019

It's more compact than ramen.

One Panamax-sized ship could provide about 100 million pounds of food.

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