No-deal Brexit will leave UK fighting uphill battle to secure countless deals to restore essential services

OPER ATION Yellowhammer ( News, August 19) is the Government’s own warning concerning the no- deal Brexit disruption of all the complex, hidden networks of our ever yday life.

We barely notice the extent of these networks until they go wrong; they are rather like the plumbing of our houses, or the electrical wiring behind the walls.

The no- deal exit is like tearing up the house from its moorings without caring for these vital, hidden ser vices and expecting ever y thing to be okay; expecting that the vital ser vices will somehow be magically reinstated with no disadvantage.

But new mechanisms will have to be installed involving significant expansion of red tape, personnel and logistical reorganisation.

Our time and money could have been better utilised in addressing the actual problems of our society from which we have been distracted for so long.

But this would have required us all to have been better informed about how the sinews of our society actually work.

All of these networks will be profoundly disrupted by what we are about to do. But ver y few of us have the expertise, or the time, energ y and boredom threshold, to educate ourselves in all these areas.

So, we have made the decision on the basis of some emotional feeling provoked by empty slogans and a 30-year media propaganda war against European pettifogging regulation.

In desperation to “just get it over with”, a Johnsonian October 31 un-negotiated exit will f ind ourselves, on November 1, realising that nothing is resolved and we still face an uphill battle in restoring ser vices, which will require countless individual agreements and accords with the EU.

No- deal hasn’t ended, or resolved, the matter; it has just made the next stage more dif f icult and acrimonious.

NICK CANNING Coleraine, Co Londonderry