To think we are being lined up for something?

Andrew Bridgen.

l mean come on, 😂who takes that knob seriously?

Interesting. Does anyone have a link to the 3 days thread? I saw it on trending but assumed it was some prepper thing and didn’t click. Didn’t realise it was the gov

Are they thinking Nuclear War....Like the old ''Protect and Survive'' days?
Bastards.

we're have a spring nearby and are on a river so water isn't an issue.

So weird people stockpile toilet roll, there are so many other things you could use in an emergency. The number one thing to have would be water. Get a load of the 5l bottles, and a simple rain water collection barrel that collects water from drainpipe. Not drinkable, but good for washing. Water is crucial

Sunak called an election in July to avoid another Rwanda embarrassment, when he pledged the planes will fly by July. PM got sunk by small boats he scapegoated, you can't help but chuckle in your tea about it!

This is exactly what's happening. The gov has obvs told the supermarkets they were going to make their 3 day preparation plan notification yesterday. Rishi has then made his general election speech on the same day hoping everyone will think omg something’s afoot we’d better vote for the conservatives to keep the status quo we can’t have anymore turmoil if something big is coming.
Keeping you frightened makes you easier to control.

We spent a period of time living self sufficiently, but moved back to grid when we had kids and it was just too hard work. But always have a supply of food. We have huge sacks of grains and other things in big barrels... maybe enough food for a few months. We have a berkey water filter, solar panels with invertor that turns solar to 240v. Matches (making fire is quite difficult without a spark...), a big wood supply, wood burner that can be cooked on, and a huge amount of tools (such as chainsaw) which are battery operated and could charge from solar panel. It's not recently gathered in a worried panicked way, we just have those things from our previous life, but as a mum of three I definitely feel better knowing we can provide for our children in case of emergency for an extended periods of time (potentially indefinitely)

things do feel a bit unstable at the moment, the new surges of technology seems to be having a destabilising effect on societies around the world, who knows what's round the corner.

This is the likely reason.
Good old Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving.

Turkish delight would be a good stock up item

Funnily enough I was just poking around on Reddit and came across a thread exactly like this from 5 months ago. Right down to the Times having run a "preparedness" article. That time posters were speculating a connection to something to do with hacking and Sellafield. That one passed me by entirely.

Since covid we have always kept enough emergency food in for 7 days. Not necessarily amazing nutritious meals but pasta, sauces, cans of fruit, tuna, vegetables, soup etc alongside biscuits and crackers etc. We also make sure we have frozen fruit and veg and also keep a loaf of bread and a carton of milk frozen.
In our garage we have a spare 12 pack of toilet rolls, some kitchen towel, 12 x 2 litre bottles of water and an extra pack of dry cat food (Unopened in a plastic box)
Our bathroom cabinet always has extra toothpaste, shower gel etc
Have never seen that as panicking but more about having learnt the hard way how difficult things are if you can’t leave the house for a week!
There is definitely a vibe that’s something’s about to happen though - not necessarily planned or a conspiracy theory, just a lot going on - so have added a battery radio, battery torch, batteries, candles and matches to the supplies.
Figure the candles and matches will be useful anyway if there’s a power cut and a torch is never a waste. The only thing I probably won’t ever need is the battery radio but for £7 (Amazon) I thought I might as well add that too!

@wateringcanface you have just about restored my belief in sanity with that!

@wateringcanface

I completely agree.

I never get the approach that you are either scaremongering, paranoid and should be wearing tin foil hats, or are completely dismissive, what about a middle ground?

Such as thinking that there isn't a conspiracy, nothing specific is looming, but in present times, there's a few reasons you might need to bunker in for a few days, or reasons there might be water /food supplies issues so it's fine to be mindful and keep some supplies in and stay alert to news.

You can have a healthy middle ground where you aren't terrified but neither complacent. Its reasonable to speculate

https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj5ll89dy2mo.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17165036479602&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

Oh hello, another thing to add to the list of possible impending doom?

DH was bollocking on about this tonight when we did the food shop. Wanting to get extra toilet rolls, water and tinned food. I told him to stop being daft but get me a couple more bottles of wine

He was then muttering about finding space to start stock piling, I suffer with anxiety and don't listen to the news anymore, I zoned out from him too, god love him.

For sure, if anything comes out of recent events, let’s hope that the new government after July 4th has the sense to implement a raft of measures to protect UK farmers and their products and land.

I just hope there is not a load of panic buying.

@songaboutjam

Exactly this. I'm of the same mindset. I don't like surprises so I keep half an eye on things in the news and on various sites. Nine times out of ten everything settles down and we move onto the next thing. It's continuous rumbling in particular directions that holds my attention and the escalating general instability in the UK and worldwide politics is giving me a hinky feeling.

Might lay in some extra cat food.

What I'm getting at us that on MN there were threads about what might be incoming as Covid spread in January and February which were scoffed at as scaremongering then we did actually have lockdowns etc. So I'm a little less sceptical because I never imagined I'd see such administrative chaos in my lifetime. Fool me once and all that.

Ive seen people claim they what was coming the previous year which im definitely sceptical about…

It’s food supplies, and could be just this, but if the food supply is not reliable, the population is more vulnerable to whatever else may happen.

Brexit regulations affecting food imports and contributing to continued labour shortages, meaning crops don’t get picked, carcasses don’t get processed…, climate change affecting growing conditions, farmers unable to make enough of a living so retiring or switching careers.

After the bacteria in the water situation in Devon I'd say it's
Pretty Sensible

However
Only In Mumsnet have I seen this mentioned

Are we going to get taken over by serpents do you think?

If you don't factor in that we are only now actually implementing Brexit on the ports

What I'm getting at us that on MN there were threads about what might be incoming as Covid spread in January and February which were scoffed at as scaremongering then we did actually have lockdowns etc. So I'm a little less sceptical because I never imagined I'd see such administrative chaos in my lifetime. Fool me once and all that.

This is very true. I'm not about to panic, but nor am I going to sneer at the possibility of something being prepared for. Many of us did that in 2020. Everything changed forever in the course of a few short months. Covid has already proven that life can change almost overnight. How many of us were in some kind of denial right up until the first day of lockdown?

It's pretty obvious from what's been said in recent days that the government wants the UK to have more food stockpiles. While it may be something of a leap (at least right now) to go from that to WW3, it does make me think they're anticipating a potential supply chain issue and preparing accordingly.