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muriel_volestrangler

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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:34 PM Jan 2019

Brexit: Now stockpiling cat food. Plus 182 year old shipping company reflags in Cyprus

The scale of no-deal panic gripping major companies has been thrown into sharp focus by a series of damage-limitation announcements, as corporate Britain signalled it is running out of patience with Westminster gridlock.

Sir James Dyson, the Brexit-backing billionaire, dealt a further blow to the government by revealing he is shifting his company headquarters to Singapore in a move that drew sharp criticism.
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• P&O announced that its entire fleet of cross-Channel ferries, will be re-registered under the Cypriot flag, as the 182-year-old British maritime operator activated its Brexit plans.

• Sony confirmed it is moving its European headquarters from London to Amsterdam.
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The boss of Pets at Home, the nation’s biggest pet supplier, said his company had started stockpiling essentials – including cat food – as “we don’t want families to run out of food for their pets” after Brexit day on 29 March.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/22/no-deal-brexit-panic-grips-major-uk-firms

Lawd, it make yer proud to be British ...
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Brexit: Now stockpiling cat food. Plus 182 year old shipping company reflags in Cyprus (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2019 OP
Now we have two totally f'ed up English speaking countries. democratisphere Jan 2019 #1
Theresa May is puposefully driving this up to a cliff, to manufacture a crisis manor321 Jan 2019 #2
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