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.
See also: Now we're facing the sad reality of Brexit — troops on the streets of Britain
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:54PM (3 children)
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.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @06:46PM
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)
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
Criminals will be criminals:
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:
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]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"