Tommy Tainant
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Secret government 'ARMAGEDDON' report reveals Brexit will leave Scotland's supermarkets empty | The National
SCOTTISH supermarkets could run out of food in just TWO DAYS, if the Tories fail to sign a Brexit trade deal with the EU, a secret UK government briefing has revealed.
The dire warning, labelled the Doomsday Brexit scenario, was drawn up by officials in David Davis’s Department for Exiting the EU.
Despite extraordinarily heavy security - the physical report was locked in a safe, and shared only with a handful of ministers - the contents were leaked to the Sunday Times.
Civil servants have drawn up three scenarios as part of their post Brexit no deal contingency planning — a mild one, a severe one and another dubbed “Armageddon”.
A source told the paper: “In the second scenario, not even the worst, the port of Dover will collapse on day one. The supermarkets in Cornwall and Scotland will run out of food within a couple of days, and hospitals will run out of medicines within two weeks.”
Officials would have to charter aircraft, or use the RAF to ferry supplies to the furthest corners of the UK. “You would have to medevac medicine into Britain, and at the end of week two we would be running out of petrol as well,” the source said.
The papers were prepared for the so-called Inter-Ministerial Group on Preparedness.
Hooray !! Taking back control at its best.
SCOTTISH supermarkets could run out of food in just TWO DAYS, if the Tories fail to sign a Brexit trade deal with the EU, a secret UK government briefing has revealed.
The dire warning, labelled the Doomsday Brexit scenario, was drawn up by officials in David Davis’s Department for Exiting the EU.
Despite extraordinarily heavy security - the physical report was locked in a safe, and shared only with a handful of ministers - the contents were leaked to the Sunday Times.
Civil servants have drawn up three scenarios as part of their post Brexit no deal contingency planning — a mild one, a severe one and another dubbed “Armageddon”.
A source told the paper: “In the second scenario, not even the worst, the port of Dover will collapse on day one. The supermarkets in Cornwall and Scotland will run out of food within a couple of days, and hospitals will run out of medicines within two weeks.”
Officials would have to charter aircraft, or use the RAF to ferry supplies to the furthest corners of the UK. “You would have to medevac medicine into Britain, and at the end of week two we would be running out of petrol as well,” the source said.
The papers were prepared for the so-called Inter-Ministerial Group on Preparedness.
Hooray !! Taking back control at its best.
