For hard-right revolutionaries, Brexit is cover for a different end

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The vultures circle a wounded prime minister, who is attacked by the hordes of extremists in her party while beset by new inconvenient facts daily exposing the damage Brexit can do. Look, the British army is preparing for the worst: emergency troops are at the ready. Operation Temperer, which usually provides soldiers for terrorist attacks, is now ordered to make 10,000 soldiers available to keep order on the streets and in shops, and to distribute emergency medicines in case of a no-deal crash-out.
“Our firms are spending hundreds of millions of pounds preparing for the worst case – and not one penny of it will create new jobs or new products,” warns the Confederation of British Industry chief, Carolyn Fairbairn.
The UK chamber of shipping talks of long delays at ports for pharmaceuticals and 40% of our food. The Financial Times reports a large Japanese pharmaceutical company in the UK shifting licences for 60 of its medicines to Germany: it will have to throw away any British-made drugs for export left over after 29 March. Desperate to keep contracts for the Galileo navigation system, Surrey Satellite Technology is moving its security-sensitive contracts to elsewhere in the EU. Every day brings new evidence of damage.


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