British Diplomats Are Now Getting Ready For A No-Deal Brexit Dress Rehearsal

[nitpicker]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/no-deal-yellow-rehearse

British Diplomats Are Now Getting Ready For A No-Deal Brexit Dress Rehearsal

Exclusive: The exercise has been code-named “Exercise Yellow Rehearse”.

Posted on August 19, 2019, at 1:22 p.m.

Alberto Nardelli
BuzzFeed News Europe Editor

Mark Di Stefano
BuzzFeed News Reporter

British diplomats across the European Union are preparing to take part in a government-wide no-deal Brexit rehearsal, BuzzFeed News has learned. Diplomats have been told that the rehearsal, which is code-named "Exercise Yellow Rehearse", will be a live cross-Whitehall exercise involving all Foreign Office posts in Europe and government departments in London.

The exercise is the latest sign that a no-deal Brexit is seen as an increasingly likely scenario. Departing the EU without a deal would put significant strain on the UK’s diplomatic network, which would have to deal with an array of issues. This includes the status of British citizens across the EU and an abrupt end to UK participation in EU decision-making processes on key issues such as security, climate change, international development, and defence.

Planning for the exercise is being led by the Cabinet Office and the Department for Exiting the European Union, a diplomatic source said. It is still underway, but it's currently scheduled to take place Oct. 8–9, just three weeks before Brexit day, the diplomat added.

The purpose of the exercise would be to try to manage some of the chaos that would be created if the UK were to crash out of the EU without a deal, the source said. The diplomat described the possibility of a no-deal Brexit as now "very likely".
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[abqtommy]

1. Why don't the Brits have an exercise where they rehearse kicking

the Bolshevik Brexit Bunch in their butts, out of office and into prison? It's impossible to study the history of the Brexit movement without seeing that the voting process was totally corrupted...
I'm totally disappointed in the public response to proof of corruption in voting in both the US and England/Great Britain.