{"id":392051,"date":"2019-01-08T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T09:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/military-prepare-for-post-brexit-civil-war-in-britain-and-northern-ireland\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T09:43:42","slug":"military-prepare-for-post-brexit-civil-war-in-britain-and-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/military-prepare-for-post-brexit-civil-war-in-britain-and-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Military prepare for post-Brexit civil war in Britain and Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Military prepare for post-Brexit civil war in Britain and Northern Ireland<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Steve James<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Junior Defence Minister Tobias Elwood says 50,000 soldiers had to be readied for deployment on Britain\u2019s streets in the event of a \u201cno-deal\u201d Brexit.<\/p>\n<p> With Britain\u2019s scheduled exit from the European Union (EU) less than 90 days away, his comments, quoted from an anonymous source in Saturday\u2019s <em>Times<\/em> newspaper, confirm that the ruling elite is preparing for the potential eruption of a civil war.<\/p>\n<p> The <em>Times<\/em> reported, \u201cMinisters at a no-deal Brexit planning meeting on Thursday [January 3] were told that 30,000 regular troops and 20,000 reserves must be ready to help manage the consequences.\u201d Elwood was reported as warning that the troops had to be in place \u201cin case of civil unrest, to assist at Britain\u2019s airports and to ensure fuel and medical supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mobilisation proposed is extraordinary. Fifty thousand soldiers are close to half the current size of the British Army, which currently stands at 81,500 regulars and just over 27,000 reservists. It is more than the force sent by the British government to invade Iraq in 2003 as part of the US-led invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Elwood was clear that this force should be directed above all against the working class. The source reported that he \u201csuggested that fellow ministers should remember what happened in the fuel blockade in 2000 [when troops were used to protect fuel deliveries] and plan for that kind of thing on a mass scale. &#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only last month, the government announced that 3,500 troops would be on standby to \u201csupport any government department on any contingencies they may need,\u201d according to Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson. The 3,500 would be in addition to 5,000 troops continually on standby\u2014nominally&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/08\/brex-j08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Military prepare for post-Brexit civil war in Britain and Northern Ireland By Steve James 8 January 2019 Junior Defence Minister Tobias Elwood says 50,000 soldiers had to be readied for deployment on Britain\u2019s streets in the event of a \u201cno-deal\u201d Brexit. With Britain\u2019s scheduled exit from the European Union (EU) less than 90 days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}