Now that the Project Yellowhammer documents
have been released in Britain it looks like Labour has fallen for a trap.
The suspicious mind would assume that the
not so secret Remain Tories hatched a plot in order to get the Project
Yellowhammer documents circulating widely in the public domain. They knew they
are mostly a Remain party albeit with a massive Brexit base. So they had to
worm their way out in a way that saves face with their base. What better way
than to hint at a secret document that tells of the worst possible outcomes of
Brexit, then get Labour to seem like they forced it out of them there by giving
Project Fear a renewed boost in its continuing psychological warfare against
the Brexit British public. Indeed much of this document reads the same way as
what the anti Scottish Project Fear used against the Scottish Referendum a
number of years back.
If for a second we were to take this
document on its face value and not treat it as the psychological warfare that
it obviously is then it shows that in actual fact the Brexiteers were in every
way correct to want to pull out of the EU. It shows that a complete loss of
statecraft and sovereignty has occurred. What a ridiculous and broken system it
is, if the supply lines are so huge and over extended that they are under such
threat of collapse post Brexit. If Britain is no longer able to feed itself
then it has in fact lost its Sovereignty to Europe. Exactly what the Brexiteers
were warning about. If there is no longer enough local production to meet local
consumption then the system is in even worse shape than previously supposed.
If medicine supply lines are so dependent
on foreign sources of production then one can no longer call it a NATIONAL
Health Service as it is in fact a supranational health service and has lost its
ability to remain sovereign and sustainable.
Again everything is in upside down land
when it comes to Brexit. The left wing Labour party should be outraged at the
total degradation of work in the British Isles that this report seems to be
admitting has occurred. Only the consumer and service economy is left.
The left wing Greens should be outraged
that the EU has been allowed to grow into a behemoth of wildly long supply
chains. The amount of carbon that must be getting burned in order to freight
along these supply chains must be huge.
Yet where are Labour and the Greens calling
for an immediate shortening of these supply lines? They should be demanding
Brexit go through and Tariffs begin to be placed all around British production,
in order to restore it to sustainable and environmentally sensible levels.
Local production for local consumption should be a standard of any
environmental movements. And it should of course be the rallying cry of any
serious Labour Union movements.
Even Conservatives should see it as a
necessity just from a basic level of statecraft. To have left ones supply lines
so vulnerable to disruption, as this document indicates, is a gross risk in the
event of any future conflicts or indeed simply some exogenous shock on the
system half a world a way in Eastern Europe, which can now represent such a
threat to a local system in Western Europe. This is terrible system planning
and is a complete misallocation of resources.
Of course it would be hugely surprising if
the British have in fact weakened themselves to this degree. This document is
probably just propaganda to terrorise the population into Remaining. At the
very least serious questions must be raised as to what Parliament has spent the
past three years doing. The narrative has long been that the working class
North overwhelmingly supported Leave because their jobs and industry had been
so denuded by the EU over the past 30 years.
The obvious solution to supply chain issues
would have been to restore a manufacturing base in the North, thereby restoring
jobs, at the same time as strengthening a robust local supply chain ahead of
leave. This was the whole fucking POINT to Brexit in the first place. They have
had THREE years to achieve this and yet seem to have done nothing to prepare.
All in all the Yellowhammer documents show
why a Brexit, and an even wider break up of the EU itself, is even more
important than ever now. The lessons of the banking crisis of barely 10 years
ago seem to have been ignored. Having a giant global system that has no
firewalls built into it, such as national sovereignty, only leads to global (or
at least Continental in Europe’s case) collapse. This collapse is inevitable in
the future of the project if it continues in this way, Brexit or no. And if it
is so impossible for the British, or even the English if there is a further
break up of the region, to operate a viable nation state anymore what on earth
makes people think the greatly remote technocrats in Brussels will have a hope of
running any viable United States of Europe?
