Operation Yellowhammer from the inside? It’s like the Office meets the Poseidon Adventure, with a Benny Hill soundtrack
I’m a civil servant working for a UK government department. We haven’t been directly convulsed by Brexit yet, but hundreds of us will soon be conscripted into the Brexit crisis thunderdome. Welcome to Operation Yellowhammer. This is basically an emergency plan that prepares the government for a no-deal Brexit. It is currently winkling thousands of officials from across Whitehall out of their day jobs to focus on helping Brexit-facing departments – Defra, the Department for International Trade and the Home Office – to cope with the havoc that will engulf them if the worst happens.
Yellowhammer, eh? Who dreams up these Brexit crisis-limitation codenames? It’s probably a secret cry for help from some wizened Treasury or Cabinet Office official. That’s why Operation Brock, which tested no-deal readiness to keep the British freight industry moving, was supposed to sound like an army exercise to prepare British people to safely find, kill and cook badger.
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