A thread on what happens to UK Mars Bars if a hard Brexit happens (bad things), due to today's massive reliance on cross-border flows and just-in-time sourcing.

Also a thread full of UK citizens (presumably, or possibly Russian bots) who can't or don't want to believe this

Mind you, people have been warning for decades now that maybe all this just-in-time-ing isn't very wonderful when it comes to crisis situations and maybe we shouldn't be so proud of it.

https://twitter.com/ChrisChilton64/status/1151759606139543554

@natecull "UK cocoa processing capacity is only around 35% of demand and virtually all is aligned to Mars competitors."

So as a consequence of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, Mars bars go away and Mars, Incorporated's competitor's chocolate bars are all we can buy. I'm shocked by how banal this topic is.

@rah Now picture this same thing happening across multiple companies in multiple industries, simultaneously - including food and water, and all the follow-on chaos - and get back to me on how 'banal' you think a massive systemic cascade failure of supply chains is.

Hint: Wars have been fought over - and won or lost by - supply chains.

@natecull The point is it's not a failure of the supply chain, it's only a restriction of part of the supply chain. And it's temporary. The guy is pretending like Mars' tankers will never again be able to make it over the border to supply their factory. That it won't be possible to engineer tankers capable of making it through permanently delayed border queues. This is nonsense. Of course there will be disruption, it's called change. It's a good thing. We'll get through it.