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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, @05:06PM
Maybe, try reading a little less "news" from "news sources" ? The job of news outlets hasn't been reporting "real news" for quite some time. It's been making sure that people are watching, so Sex, Violence, and Money. Those are the things news agencies are peddling nowadays. They're not reporting "the news," they are reporting "the news that sells." It's always been that way to some extent, but it seems like news has only gone down the toilet every year I've been alive. To the point that, I don't watch the news.
Reasons I don't watch the news:
#1 They promote violence.
#2 They blow things out of proportion.
#3 Commercials, Commercials, Commercials.
#4 It's much easier, less time consuming, and more informative to skim 10 articles than to watch the news for the same 10 stories.
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"