LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government insisted on Thursday that it is possible to avoid its prognosis of food and medicine shortages, traffic jams at ports and street riots in the event of an undealed Brexit. At the same time, Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied deceiving Queen Elizabeth II on his motives for suspending Parliament just a few weeks before the date on which the country must leave the European Union.In a backdrop to the questioned leader, a Belfast court also dismissed on Thursday claims that its strategy for exiting the EU will undermine the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Johnson took office in July with a promise to complete Brexit on the scheduled date, October 31, with or without a divorce settlement softening the consequences, but many lawmakers, activists, economists and businessmen fear leaving the bloc without a softening the consequences. pact _known as the “hard” Brexit_ is devastating to the economy. HELP US Click the Google News star and follow usLawmakers forced the executive to publish their official assessment of the impact a Brexit would have without agreement. The report describes a hypothetical shortage of food and medicine, port collapses and street riots. Johnson insisted that this grim scenario “is not where we want to end.” This is the worst-case scenario for which civil servants must obviously prepare, but in recent months, and especially in the 50 days since I took office as prime minister, we have been accelerating our preparations enormously,” he said. According to opposition politicians, the “Operation Yellowhammer” document, the executive’s codename for preparations for Brexit, shows that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is unwise in considering leaving the bloc without a softening pact the consequences. It is extraordinary for Dominic Grieve, a former attorney general, that a British government “is happy to inflict on the population the level of disruption set out in Yellowhammer papers.” Defense Secretary Ben Wallace claimed that scenario was a “planning assumption” that would only materialize if the executive did nothing to compensate him.
“We are investing money doing a lot of things to mitigate these assumptions,” he told the BBC.
On the other hand, Judge Bernard McCloskey of the Belfast High Court rejected three related cases alleging that a Brexit without agreement would undermine the pacts reached between the British and Irish governments during the peace process, noting that this argumentation corresponds to the world of politics, not to the world of law “Almost all the evidence gathered belongs to the world of politics, both national and supranational,” he said. If whistleblowers appeal the ruling, the case could join the two other legal appeals to Johnson’s plans to remove the country from the bloc by the end of October, whether or not there will be a divorce settlement, which will be tried in the British Supreme Court next week.
