To think we are being lined up for something?

Remind me who was in government the last time the market went to shit really quickly... or are you one of those who think Liz Truss was a genius but the Bank of England spoiled it?

He is but our stupid bastards, a little nation aka puppet of the USA is making us the focus as we are the weakest link

I just want Cameron to SHUT UP as it is a "red line"

I've taken previous press reports a not really worrying but the recent loose talk by our Gov/ministers is not helping

I am feeling that soon our idiots/gov that has access to nuclear bunkers and we don't, may allow, ok ukriane to use UK weapons to attack Russian soil - I HOPE I AM WRONG

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-will-strike-british-targets-if-uk-weapons-are-used-hit-its-2024-05-23/

Isn’t it obvious, if anyone gets in other than Tory it’s going to go to shit really quickly. Really quickly. So they need to be prepared for a market meltdown that might not recover fast.

tap water in a bottle tastes absolutely rank after 24-48 hours let alone weeks!

God, if life becomes as tedious, boring, and ugly as Fallout 4 I might need to start worrying.

The "potential targets" have been advertised in the press on a numerous times - just Google "russians prime targets Britain/Englanduk/etc"

the first link is related to our misnters winding up Putin and the second ink is the expected UK targets

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28094220/putin-threatens-strike-britain-supply-ukraine-arms/#:~:text=VLADIMIR%20Putin%20has%20threatened%20to,be%20fired%20beyond%20Ukraine's%20borders.

War...war never changes....

Congratulations, I'm sure the idiots will now be emptying the shelves and fuel pumps like last time due to people like you posting stupid things.

Do not start the panic buying ! PLEASE!

Regarding the election timing, I suspect Rishi Sunak is fucked off with the constant sniping from other Tories. And wants to get his family settled into a nice mansion in California before the start of the school year 😂

Store in a cool dark place ( cupboard under stairs type of thing) I do this and change them for fresh every 3 to 4 weeks ( I use the old to water plants/tip into a barrel for outdoors so as not to waste)

As an aside.
London will be the safest place to be anyway

Finally a thread for me to find my fellow paranoia people 😂

My thoughts are that Putin is doing a lot of sabre rattling about the UK interfering in his war in Ukraine atm. Before all the mocking posts start, I'm not living in fear that a nuclear missile is going to hit London or I'm going to wake up to see Russian paratroopers floating down from the sky. But I wouldn't be surprised at cyber attacks against infrastructure or essential services like the NHS. Interestingly, I did read some time agon that Ukrainian hackers have had some successes targeting things like payment systems used in Russian petrol stations + disrupting fuel supplies. I would be amazed if there aren't ongoing attempts by the Russians to hack and disrupt things in the UK.

But then, I also think....last year's Paris bed bug hysteria turned out to be probably the result of Russian trolls. For all the benefits of the internet, it has also allowed for unprecedented interference by hostile powers in the running of other countries. Interesting times!

Thanks for this.
All very worrying if you live near a potential target.
Which we do

I had a very mild dose of Covid in January 2021 before I was offered the vaccination. I now have Long Covid....it's changed my life in so many ways, and I don't have LC as badly as many who are bedbound by it. I'd advise everyone to have the vaccination. A few have reacted badly to the vaccine, but there are about 1 1/2 million with LC.

sounds sensible to me. If people start panic buying (because of having to have 3 days worth of tinned beans and UHT milk) the supermarkets will soon look empty which leads to further panic buying. If they double from 2 to 4 weeks of inventory, that is less likely to happen.

The Tories have always been about self interest. Maggie did the same and had to be forced out just like Boris.

But... quite a lot of people just love to slag off socialism, and appear to have very short memories.

Ha that's exactly what I thought when I saw the "should I feel guilty for receiving a large amount of universal credit" thread the other week, with the OP rustling everybody's feathers going on about how she receives thousands.

I thought to myself, it's very convenient timing to start pissing off a forum with a sizable % of middle class users. That's one way to temp somebody to vote Tory.

They are doing a July election because:

Due to the way the parliament dates fall, there's no way Labour can actually pass any laws till October, so they can say Labour is doing nothing/failing, and also stop Labour actually being able to improve things for months.

Old people (i.e. Tory voters) are more likely to get out and vote at that time of year vs winter. Currently, they have a strong chance of stopping Labour having a majority government just by winning a few key seats. Labour isn't doing as well as the hype.

They can sack off all the doomed to fail policies like Rwanda while saving face and pretending they would have worked out.

Rishi already has plans to spend winter in California so he wants time to prep for that, wrap everything up, move his stuff etc.

We are woefully unprepared for a war, all the eastern countries and the US and even Japan and Australia have been actively preparing for months. As usual, we will do f all until the eleventh hour.

Just found this as i hear a bot about it a couple of days ago and dismissed it - better to have a few extra cans and candles and batteries as its always sensible to do so for power cuts etc

https://www.ft.com/content/002490f0-13db-4234-b609-e8a539b28447

That’s good info to have , makes you wonder . Since 2020 we always have at least q month supply of food as an emergency . People used to joke when at the hight of Brexit I decided to have 3 months , then Covid hit and guess who didn’t need to panic at all food wise , we had plenty of pasta and toilet paper to share

@Dahliasinallotment Bots -maybe.'

I spent days metaphorically shitting myself when threads like this started appearing when covid hit, then again when Putin started his sabre rattling about nuclear weapons. It all gets a bit too much for people who have a tendency to panic and get stuck in a doom mindset. I clearly haven't learned my lesson though as here I am again, reading the same shit, years later.

If anybody else reading is like me, can I suggest you hide the thread and look after your mental health? I will be doing so after I post this 🙁

I suspect is there is Armageddon my family doesn’t really have the skill set to survive, and a few extra tins in the cupboard won’t make much difference to our chances.

But the tins and water might help in a natural disaster while we wait for relief aid. That seems sensible.

Mumsnet seems extra twitchy this week. Do we suspect bots may be trying to influence national mood in an election cycle. My Paranoia will extend that far.

What a life when it's spent wondering if a pandemic or war is coming!