It is literally impossible for us to be ready on time.
To be ready would involve
many years of work and the spending of tens of billions of pounds, perhaps even hundreds of billions.
For example ceptimus, what is going to happen when we leave Euratom? We will no longer have an atomic energy regulator which means no one (apart from maybe North Korea) will be able to sell nuclear energy or nuclear medicine material to us.
As we derive about 20% of our power from nuclear power stations, how are the remainers supposed to be keeping the lights on?
It is for the government to set up a new atomic energy regulator.
That means new primary legislation to create and empower the new regulator.
The steps are:
- The legislation needs to be passed through parliament.
- Then a premises needs to be identified and purchased or leased.
- Then the necessary IT need to be specified and developed.
- Then staff (with suitable experience) need to be recruited and trained.
- Then the regulator needs to be approved by the IAEA
- Only then can we start buying fuel for our nukes and radiation sources for our hospitals.
There is absolutely no way this could have been done even if work had been started on the day May triggered Article 50.
And this is only one aspect of Brexit that needs to be addressed.
So question for ceptimus:
Do you think the above is incorrect?
If so, how is this incorrect?
If not, then how can you think a no deal scenario would be anything other than a catastrophe?