So yesterday, there was no entry because I closed my site for the climate strike!
Chris Hewitt asked me to write :
“Brexit, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times! What didn’t make it into the Yellowhammer report?”
When you are done reading my site, go check his excellent writing out!
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IT SHOULD BE POINTED OUT THAT THIS IS OBVIOUSLY FICTIONAL- AND IS “FAKE NEWS”.
Brexit. It seemed like the end of the world as we knew it. The yellowhammer had dropped. No deal had emerged. The political system failed to form consensus and we were now set adrift. We had left the EU. As queues formed at the channel tunnel, and the medication stockpiles started dwindling Britain braced herself for a lonely life outside of the EU.
But after months of secretive no-deal planning, Operation Yellowhammer, the worst-case scenario plan had covered lots of bases. It knew how it would deploy it’s 3500 soldiers to deal with the political unrest that the careless exit had left. But it failed to account for the 348 lives these soldiers would take when a protest in Birmingham turned sour in March 2020. It also did not predict how the government would seek to attempt to cover up the incident by closing down social media in the UK for three months.
The document clearly showed how the island of Ireland would deal with its new border challenges. It knew that there would be roadblocks and that agricultural trade would suffer as a result. It foresaw the rise in smuggling to and from the Republic of Ireland. But it did not predict the final Irish exodus as many pro-republicans left the UK and never came back and by 2023 only 62% of the previous population of Northern Ireland remained.
As the political landscape in the house of commons worsened, Boris Johnson clung to power. His minority government proroguing parliament a total of twelve times in his first three years in office. After failing to call a general election in 2022, Johnson quelled a coup using water cannons.
As Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament ministers, both sought independence referendums, sessions were forced into closure and the union was further plunged into a deeper crisis.
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