No-deal Brexit panic after ministers realise the UK doesn't have the right pallets for exporting to

[Recursion]

https://amp.businessinsider.com/brexit-michael-gove-ministers-to-hold-emergency-meeting-over-no-deal-chaos-2019-2

My God what a charlie foxtrot.

The UK government is due to hold emergency talks with industry leaders today after discovering that the country doesn't have the right pallets to continue exporting goods to the European Union if it leaves without a deal next month.

Pallets are wooden or plastic structures which companies use to transport large volumes of goods. Under strict EU rules, pallets arriving from non-member states must be heat-treated or cleaned to prevent contamination, and have specific markings to confirm they meet a series of standards.

Most pallets currently used by British exporters do not conform to the rules which non-EU countries or "third countries" adhere to, as EU member states follow a much more relaxed set of regulations.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs last week told business leaders that the UK will not have enough EU-approved pallets for exporting to the continent if it leaves without a Withdrawal Agreement next month.

[Girard442]

1. Lest anyone think this is bit-fiddly red tape...

...shipping pallets (especially wooden ones) can be havens for insects and vermin. The EU is well within its rights to insist that regulations be followed.

I handle pallets these days. The shop would be overrun with carpenter ants and who knows what else if the pallets weren't heat-treated.

[Hortensis]

3. Of course. But Britain's pallets are acceptable right now

as a member. It's not the existing pallets already on the island that are changing, and doesn't sound like stamping them with "OK pre-Brexit" will make them acceptable.

[HopeAgain]

4. Sorry, I enjoy

seeing the Brexiteers start to realize they screwed up. EU is right in playing hardball with them.

[Hortensis]

10. Can't disagree. :)

[Hortensis]

2. Thanks for the info and smile from far away. I've read that

in the long term Brexit shouldn't actually be economically disastrous for Britain, presuming no further dragging down by right-wing knuckledraggers, although London as a financial center will never be the same, but itm what a kerfluffle.

[Firestorm49]

5. Protect your investments before the vote.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Besides the flower import/export business crumbling, these pallets, I'm sure a lot of other fallout

[oasis]

7. I'm reminded of the Petula Clark hit, "Don't Sleep in the Subway Darlin'". nt

[Yavin4]

8. Brexit is a prime example of disaster capitalism

The end result will be the destruction of the UK's social programs, e.g. National Healthcare and Education.

[Merlot]

9. Which is the ultimate goal of those behind brexit.

The pro-brexit voters don't realize this, of course.

[Yavin4]

11. Austerity on steroids is coming their way. n/t

[crazytown]

12. Brexit weakens the EU.

Who could possibly want that? Ask Yanukovych, Manaforts old boss.

[Yavin4]

13. The best way to privatize Europe's social programs is throw the continent into chaos.

Make Europe Great Like America. MEGLA.