Re: Ahh...
From the other side of the Atlantic... Are people _really_ saying that 'supermarket shelves will be empty'?
Some people are, yes. In practice I doubt it will quite that bad - a few sections of some shelves (fresh fruit and some veg mainly) might start looking a bit sparse but I don't think anyone is at risk of starving.
Will Brexit mean that the EU won't take the UK's cash in return for goods? Really?
It's not about money. It's about the bureaucracy that international trade requires. You can't just rock up to Portsmouth docks with a ship full of bananas and expect to unload them. They will need to be inspected. There will be import duty to pay. A hundred-and-one forms to be signed. The great thing about the EU was it has agreements in place to streamline this stuff. Importing goes fairly quickly even for stuff coming from outside the EU because everyone knows the EU's processes.
From March 29th as it currently stands no-one is going to know what to do when a cargo hold of bananas turns up. And if by some miracle a process is in place it sounds like it'll be very paper based and inefficient due to a lack of software.
Will our shops run out of stuff to sell? Highly unlikely. But some stuff is going to become a bit more expensive and/or become a little harder to find.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
