Here’s a law of unintended consequences example. Those in Britain will need to have their passports handy if they wish to visit mainland Europe if lawmakers can’t come up with a deal.
To make matters worse, a warning was issued Thursday telling citizens with travel documents expiring in less than 15 months that they could risk a travel ban.
The crush of people heading to the Passport agency’s website, caused it to crash, leaving millions unable to renew.
The site was down for most of the day. With the “technical issue” repaired, the agency tweeted they were “back and raring to go”.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/8589193/passport-office-website-crashes-no-deal-brexit/