‘Car Crash Brexit’ – The New ‘Millenium Bug’
On 6th January 2000, after the turn of the millennium had come and gone without mishap, the Economist magazine reported that ‘Y2K’ had turned out to be ‘Y2OK’. Only weeks beforehand however, and for some years, there had been dire warnings of computer crashes, aircraft falling out of the sky, power stations exploding and a veritable apocalypse, so much so that Labour minister Margaret Beckett was appointed ‘Minister for the Millenium’ and so important was…