Police are drawing up contingency plans amid concerns a no-deal Brexit will lead to civil disorder if the country faces shortages of goods, food and medicine, according to a leaked document. The potential for a restricted supply of goods raised concerns of “widespread protest which could then escalate into disorder”. – Disruption potentially lasting for three months either side of the March 29 Brexit day, rather than the six weeks planned for by the Government. – The impact of the Operation Stack arrangements for queuing traffic at Channel ports being used at docks around the country. “This is the nightmare scenario long feared; according to the UK’s most senior police officers, a no-deal Brexit would leave Britain on the brink,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post September 09, 2018 10:18 UTC