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posted by martyb on Thursday December 20 2018, @05:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the limey-helm dept.

No-deal Brexit plans put 3,500 troops on standby

Emergency no-deal Brexit contingency plans must now be implemented across government, cabinet ministers have agreed, including reserving ferry space for supplies and putting 3,500 armed forces personnel on standby to deal with any disruption.

[...] Downing Street suggested preparations could include reserving space on ferries in order to ensure a supply of food and medicines. Speaking later in the Commons, the defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, said his department "will have 3,500 service personnel held at readiness, including regulars and reserves, in order to support any government department on any contingencies they may need".

Citizens will be informed how to prepare through a "range of channels" that could include TV adverts and social media. Ministers agreed to allocate money from a £2bn contingency fund to departments such as the Home Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. HMRC[*] will prepare a 100-page pack for all UK businesses on preparing for no-deal, and will send out about 80,000 emails to businesses.

[*] HMRC = Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs is a non-ministerial department of the UK Government ... HMRC was formed by the merger of the Inland Revenue and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise, which took effect on 18 April 2005.

The service personnel may be called upon to assist in law enforcement, so factor that in to any riot plans you may have.

Also at CNN and CBS.

See also: Now we're facing the sad reality of Brexit — troops on the streets of Britain


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:54PM (3 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:54PM (#776843) Journal

    Please note that Chicago has strict gun laws, so pointing at them as a bastion of free toting gun lovers is a really bad example. Criminals are going to be criminals. Taking away guns from the populace isn't going to protect the populace.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @06:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @06:46PM (#776900)

    Please note that Chicago has strict gun laws

    I live in Chicago.

    Chicago had strict gun laws, and they had a degree of effectiveness, however imperfect. Now even those modest restrictions have been undone by the state supreme court. As a result, Chicago must now allow conceal-carry, possession, etc. The only thing they can restrict are the permits to open a gun shop, which they do, but because the city is surrounded by Republican suburbs with stupid (read: no) gun restrictions, all kinds of shops are built on the periphery of the city that specialize in selling guns to Chicago gangs and others.

    Chicago's gun laws aren't the problem. The problem is the rest of the state, and the surround Trumptardian states that are even worse.

  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday December 22 2018, @09:20AM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Saturday December 22 2018, @09:20AM (#777475) Journal

    Fine, Memphis has 196 murders in 650k population, also about 20 times higher than London.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday December 31 2018, @04:17PM

      by Freeman (732) on Monday December 31 2018, @04:17PM (#780290) Journal

      Criminals will be criminals:

      It's a new initiative that along with others already in place is intended to combat the growing number of gun crimes in Memphis. "The strike force will allow us to increase the focus of our investigations on those actively engaged in gun violence - the trigger pullers and the gun traffickers who supply them," Whitaker said. "That will enhance our capacity to investigate the criminals and organizations who operate across districts and across state borders."

      https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/11/28/memphis-gun-violence-acting-attorney-general-matthew-whitaker/2136883002/ [commercialappeal.com]

      Interesting thing from the article:

      However, those trends have been reversed since President Donald Trump took office, he said. "Here in Memphis, working together on a state, local and federal levels, gun crimes went down 17 percent for the first nine months of this year, murders went down 17 percent, robberies went down 12 percent, rapes went down 18 percent and domestic violence incidents went down 11 percent," he said. " Those are good trends and everyone in this room deserves credit for it."

      So, it's trending downward for some reason since Trump's election.

      Another thing to note is that Memphis / Tennessee has been part of the opioid crisis that's plagued the northern part of the USA for sometime now.
      http://thememphiseconomy.com/news/2017/4/27/the-tennessee-opioid-epidemic-by-the-numbers [thememphiseconomy.com]

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