Ride the Storm: Britain 'Officially Ready' for No Deal Brexit, Official Reveals
Brexit minister Chris Heaton-Harris MP says Britain ready for clean break with EU
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Britain is now "officially ready" for a "No Deal" Brexit, according to Chris Heaton-Harris MP, the Government minister who was handling the exit from the European Union.
Heaton-Harris was responsible for No Deal planning at the Brexit Department and now says that Britain is prepared to make a clean break with the EU.
Before he resigned on April 3 in response to Prime Minister Theresa May announcing she would request a second Brexit delay from the European Council, Heaton-Harris was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU).
May's announcement suggested that bureaucrats had purposely failed to inform her of all the No Deal planning which is in place.
Mr. Heaton-Harris declared in his resignation letter that Mrs May’s decision to abandon her previous position that “no deal is better than a bad deal” - and suggest she would submit to a customs union with the European Union to win the support of the hard-left Labour opposition for a deal - “obviously makes my job in Government [as minister overseeing No Deal planning] irrelevant.”
After much contemplation, I have decided to leave Theresa May's Government. I'm grateful to the PM for giving me the opportunity to serve the UK and I will continue to represent my constituents as the MP for Daventry. pic.twitter.com/sHkVhwJ7bb
— Chris Heaton-Harris (@chhcalling) April 3, 2019
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According to Breitbart, in a hard-hitting article published in The Telegraph, the MP for Daventry has again pressed home that “Hundreds of civil servants had been working for over two years to ensure we would be ready [for No Deal], but parliamentarians and others who are doing everything they can to stop Brexit needed to maintain a narrative that leaving without a deal would be a ‘disaster’ for jobs and our economy.”
The Brexiteer described “very well advanced” plans to deal with any potential disruption of trade across the English Channel — by the European Commission and the French government, as well as British officials.
The MP added that there would be no killer blow to so-called “just-in-time” supply chains should the country revert to trading with the EU on standard World Trade Organization (WTO) terms — otherwise known as a “clean” or “No Deal” Brexit.
He stressed that there had even been “open days for the media to demonstrate how ready both countries are to leave without a deal” at new Anglo-French border facilities.
This news was little-noticed by a mainstream media more concerned with tall tales of Mars bar famines and a barrage of space debris following Brexit.
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The former Brexit minister’s reassurances echo those given by an anonymous Civil Service whistleblower, who revealed in late 2018 that “claims that we will all ‘crash out’ over the white cliffs of Dover into the Channel at 11 p.m. on 29 March 2019” — when Britain was originally scheduled to leave the EU — “and wake up to certain chaos and doom… is absolutely untrue.
"As anyone who, like me, has been involved in Brexit work for the past two-and-a-half years in Whitehall will tell you.”
“[O]f course no-deal preparations have been made.
"Very detailed plans have been proposed, assessed, analyzed to death and finally agreed by working groups and steering groups and directors’ boards and cross-Whitehall talking shops.
"They have then been sent to ministers for approval. And they are now being executed,” the official disclosed.
“To claim otherwise is to equate the United Kingdom with a tinpot dictatorship where officials tote machine guns,” he added — suggesting that members of the public and Members of Parliament were both being misled about the how well-prepared the country was for No Deal.
Likely, in order to bounce them into falling in behind Mrs. May’s unpopular Withdrawal Agreement.
