Talk:Operation Yellowhammer

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This page on the UK government's Operation Yellowhammer deals with the UK's preparations for a no-deal exit from the EU.

Q. Should there be a separate page doing the same for the EU's corresponding work? (If there is such a page already it is not yet linked herefrom and I did not find it in a search.)

Q. Or should there be a comprehensive page on, say, "Preparations for the UK to leave the EU without a deal" which set out work done by the EU, the UK and commercial organisations separately, as known?

Q. Or should all such info be deleted from Wikipedia as describing an ongoing event or thought to be too subject to partisan editing?

Comments welcome.

Ablonus (talk) 09:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• @Ablonus In the way things have rolled with hindsight your question should perhaps have been answered sooner. In the event there is some relevant content that falls on the margins outside the scope of Yellowhammer that is best developed elsewhere. I am tentatively developing content at Draft:Brexit_-_Scenario_following_no-deal_exit

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/brexit-staff-redeployments-revealed-ministers-prepare-trigger-operation-yellowhammer Zazpot (talk) 00:51, 29 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

While it would be useful to say Operation Yellowhammer was not activiated in the run up to April 12th because everyone was reasonably certain there would be a further extension I am not sure that can be sourced .... Djm-leighpark (talk) 06:26, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

‘’However, the Sunday Times, according to The Observer,’’ it would be better to quote the Sunday Times here. Broichmore (talk) 05:05, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Putting this here in case anyone finds it useful for the article. I won't add it myself since I don't understand this stuff really. 173.228.123.207 (talk) 10:08, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[2] -- titled: HMG Reasonable Worst Case Planning Assumptions. Dated 2 August 2019.

This is a result of MP Dominic Grieve's Special Humble Address in Parliament on Monday, which requested from the government to publish the Operation YellowHammer documents by 11pm Wednesday. Isofarro (talk) 19:06, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yellowhammer is an anagram of Orwell Mayhem. There is no way that is a random accident.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 13:04, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

to be notable for the article we would need some citation that showed it was not an accident. Sirfurboy (talk) 16:50, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

An IP editor has just updated with ref to a BBC article saying that Yellowhammer has been triggered. This looks POV to me, but it is properly sourced so will wait for some consensus. Government saying they are triggering the plan appears to be meaningless. The plan is triggered by the event of a No Deal. Up until then it is presumably just under active preparation. I don't think this article should say it is triggered. At best it should say the government are saying they are triggering it. Thoughts? Sirfurboy (talk) 15:33, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Sirfurboy: we go by what the reliable sources say, we don't apply our own interpretation or understanding. The cited BBC source says it has been triggered, what do other RSes say? -- DeFacto (talk). 17:57, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Having looked at sources, they all seem to go back to a quote from Michael Gove: “It means that we are triggering Operation Yellowhammer. It means that we are preparing to ensure that if no extension is granted – and we cannot guarantee that an extension will be granted – that we have done everything possible in order to prepare to leave without a deal.” The practical upshot of this was he held an "emergency" cabinet meeting to discuss plans on Sunday. The Guardian is one of many sources to say this primarily looks like a political move to pile pressure on parliament. Various sources put "triggered" in quotes. The fact of the matter is that Michael Gove did convene an emergency meeting. Questions of whether there was any emergency to actually discuss are POV, but a meeting was called. Yet "trigger" is Michael Gove's word and is not really what happened. Also the meeting was on Sunday, not Monday. Thus I propose a change of wording to:

"On Monday 21st October 2019, The Cabinet Office announced it had initiated an emergency Operation Yellowhammer Cabinet meeting on Sunday 20th 2019, because it said there was no guarantee the EU would grant an extension"

Is this appropriate? We can use the same source or another one that makes it clear, such as: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/20/gove-triggers-no-deal-brexit-contingency-plans-operation-yellowhammer (similar can be found in the Telegraph and various others) Sirfurboy (talk) 14:05, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we should report only that HMG says that they are triggering it. We have no evidence of anything practical actually happening. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:47, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]