UK Plans For Martial Law If Brexit Deal With EU Fails
By Aaron Kesel
The British army has secret martial law plans to put troops
on the streets to help with potential chaos if a Brexit deal with the EU fails
to materialize, Dailymail.co.uk reported.
Plans also include services for Britain’s citizens such as
the delivery and stockpiling of medicines to hospitals across the country,
according to The Times.
Chief of Defense Staff General Nick Carter stated the army
would “stand ready to help” in the event of a “No Deal.”
The original Brexit referendum was held on June 23rd, 2016
to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union. The
leave vote won by 51.9% to 48.1%, solidifying a deal to leave the European
Union; but Britain’s leadership has been sluggish in carrying out the vote of
its people.
Finally, UK Prime Minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of
the Lisbon Treaty, on 29 March 2017. This gives the two sides two years to
agree to the terms of the split. The UK is scheduled to leave the EU at 11pm UK
time on Friday, March 29th 2019, with or without a deal.
The two parties have since been trying to negotiate a deal
to leave. Last Wednesday a draft Brexit withdrawal agreement with Brussels was
approved and backed by May’s cabinet.
However, this is far from over as the deal still requires
approval from MPs and, finally, the 27 other EU member states before anything
is final.
An emergency EU summit is due to be held on November, 25th
where EU leaders are expected to give their approval or disapproval for the
deal.
May herself has said that if MPs don’t unite behind the
agreement, “nobody can know for sure the consequences that will follow” and it
would mean taking “a path of deep and grave uncertainty.”
A leaked letter from chief executive Chris Hopson of NHS
Providers also warned that failure in the talks could undermine “the entire
supply chain of pharmaceuticals” in Britain. “Public health and disease control
co-ordination could suffer.”
Brexit is reported to affect increasingly strong risks of
price rises, falls in real wages, lower employment and lower tax revenues as
the UK-EU trading relationship becomes incrementally more distant, according to
the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an independent social change organization
working to solve UK poverty.
However, they add that the poverty rate is not predicted to
increase unless government fails to protect low-income families from the
effects of rising inflation by uprating benefits and tax credits to cover
rising costs.
To put that into perspective, the EU accounts for forty-five
percent of the UK’s exports; while the UK accounts for about eighteen percent
of the EU’s imports.
If the UK and the EU can’t agree on a deal, then economic
relations between the two sides will automatically default to the rules of the
World Trade Organization (WTO). In essence, Britain will become just another
country in its dealings subject to tariffs and border checks.
EU companies are preparing for the worst and plan to spend
tens of millions of pounds to counter any trade delays and downturns, Business
Live reported.
May told business leaders at the annual Confederation of
British Industry (CBI) yesterday that the EU Brexit deal puts the UK’s economic
success above all else.
It’s further been reported by Business Insider that the UK’s
chief trade negotiation adviser of UK Department For International Trade,
Crawford Falconer, could quit “any day” according to foreign officials who work
closely with him.
Other resignations included Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab
and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey.
All this uncertainty about the deal may be why the military
is preparing for looting and potential unrest in case the deal fails to pass by
Parliament. The economic certainty of the country may be in danger if the deal
fails to pass as the EU holds the UK hostage through debt, ending forty-six
years of deep economic and political connections.
Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post. Support us at Patreon.
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