Thread by @uk_domain_names

BREXIT BY THE NUMBERS...
- Days since the referendum: 1,209 (as of 16 October 2019)
- Days until the UK leaves the EU: 15 (as of 16 October 2019)
- Brexit Day: 31 October 2019 at 11pm UK time
- Taxpayer money spent on Brexit preparation: £6.3 billion

- Cost of “divorce bill” (exit payment on leaving the EU, payable in installments): £39 billion
- Remaining cost of “divorce bill”: £33 billion (we’ve already paid off some during delay)
- Cost of developing the new IT system to register EU citizens after Brexit: £175 million

- Estimated number of international treaties and agreements we will lose: over 1,000
- Estimated number of critical treaties: 157
- UK exports to EU: £274 billion (43% of all UK exports)
- UK imports from EU: £341 billion (53% of all UK imports)

- Number of non-EU countries covered by EU trade agreements: around 70
- Number of non-EU countries’ trade agreements rolled over: 20+ (as of 16 October 2019)
- Share of UK trade covered by EU trade agreements with third countries: 11%

- Share of UK trade covered by rolled over trade agreements with third countries: 8%
- EU WTO tariff on cars (UK exports subject to this after a no-deal Brexit: 10%
- EU WTO tariff on dairy products (ditto): 35% on average
- HMRC estimate of WTO tariff costs: £22 billion/year

- Estimated long-term value to the UK of new EU-Japan trade deal: £3 billion
- Number of days new EU-Japan trade deal will apply to UK: 272 (1 Feb to 31 Oct 2019)
- Number of civil servants working on Brexit 11,000 (as of 15 January 2019)

- Number of new customs officers hired by The Netherlands: 900
- Number of new customs officers hired by France: 700
- Number of new customs officers hired by Belgium: 340
- Number of new customs officers hired by Ireland: 400

- Number of new customs officers needed by the UK: over 1,000
- Number of new customs officers hired by the UK: 300 (as of February 2019)
- Number of new HMRC staff hired for Brexit customer service and compliance: 3,000

- Number of international haulage permits (ECMT) available: 984
- Number of international haulage permits (ECMT) requested by industry: 11,392
- International haulage permit (ECMT) shortfall: 10,408

- Cost of Chris Grayling’s Seaborne Freight ferry company disaster: £34,800,000 (£800,000 for original due diligence, £800,000 for legal advice, £33,000,000 settlement to Eurostar)
- HMRC estimate of new Brexit-related red tape for UK businesses: £7.5 billion/year

- HMRC estimate of new Brexit-related red tape for EU businesses: £7.5 billion/year
- Number of steps to import goods from the EU or export goods to the EU now: 1
- Number of steps to import goods from the EU or export goods to the EU after Brexit: 10

- Number of military reserves on standby in event of no-deal Brexit: 3,500
- Police from England & Scotland that may be deployed in NI after no-deal Brexit: 1,000
- Tory+DUP parliamentary majority (as of 16 October 2019): -45
- Number of Brexit Secretaries: 3

- Number of days David Cameron stayed in office after the 2016 referendum: 20
- Number of fridges Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed to have bought: 5,000

- Number of fridges Health Secretary Matt Hancock actually bought: 0 (he rented refrigerated space in a warehouse for 5,000 pallets of goods)
- Number of .eu domains that UK registrants will lose under a no-deal Brexit: 340,000
Number of good reasons to proceed with Brexit: ???

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