AIBU to think the stockpile advice suggests something to come??

Its not about war. It might be an idea to actually read and understand the reasons that this is being suggested.

You make a good point here which reflects risk and why it's a emergency supplies for a short period not full stockpiling we should consider.

London is economically safer is what I take from this. They aren't expecting a full war. There's something about geographical proximity that matters here though. And theres something about the political situation that matters.

Realistically if the internet trading goes down they think they can still access global markets and make a transaction in London that they can't do in the US. I guess even if that means travelling to London or having someone in London available to enable the transaction. If there's no aviation fuel or foreign nationals are treated in a hostile way by the Trump administration, this starts to make sense.

They also possibly don't trust Trump not to seize foreign assets if things go south in the US to save his own arse. Or they worry that he'll hold it hostage over NATO or something.

I don't know. But Trump is making them very nervous about something and that says a lot about the scale of the current instability.

There are no tin foil hats here. Just extra caution that usual.

How odd if the shit really did hit the fan I think it's far safer defence wise in the states !
Our drones wouldnt last for several hours and everything else is pitiful

I imagine the hardcore deeply rural American preppers with basements and bunkers full of stockpiles would read about @Bedheadbeachbum ’s husband’s “drawer” and chuckle!

Move billions to London…. That’s mightily reassuring for us Londoners!

I think having a bit in for emergencies is always sensible.

Stock piling is probably over doing it though.

You can’t sensibly stockpile enough to get you through a war anyway.

I have had self heating ramen and a self heating hot pot kit before whilst in China. They are perfect for picnics but I haven't seen them over here.

I always have a good ‘pantry’ supply but water would be a problem- those big bottles are hard to store and really wouldn’t last long

I've not noticed Complan being cheap anytime I've been unwell of late 🙈 it's a useful standby obviously but works out a lot more expensive than the likes of tinned fish/meat or cereal/nuts etc

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy51xlz39o

Complete normal. Totally happened before.

If the Dutch National Bank thinks there's a high risk of instability, I'm not going to call them tin foilers.

Well on this score I can probably last a good few months. Alcohol has calories right?

Living rural we take having reserves in as par the course

Cupboard under the stairs is like a shop tbh, tinned and dried food stuffs, toiletries, candles, wind up torches, radios, battery packs etc etc etc

Dh sets up lighting using 12v batteries, which he trickle charges via solar panels

We have a small generator which will keep the freezer and fridge running,

We have an old 1950s gas cooker which was heading to the tip, its in perfect working order and is set up in a garage plus a small camping stove

And we have wood fired heating though out the house and we keep a years supply of wood

Last year we were 5 days without phone, wifi or electricity after the storm

We are quite used to being snowed in or blocked in ( fallen trees) and its just not worth risking life and limb to pop out for a loaf , so we hole up and sit it out

Easiest food if you want something cheaper is powdered stuff like complain. Boil up water on a camping stove and add water. Or even add cold water.

Yes the government know we may have a cyber attack. There was already a cyber attack on a small UK power plant that temporarily shut it down, but it didn't affect overall energy supply. If a bigger power plant was taken out for a bit we may have energy blackouts. Hence not being able to cook.

There have also been issues with Russian ships loitering around our cables in the seabed that supply energy and internet. If one of those is cut we would have blackouts and or no WiFi.

It would all be fixed, but food, water and torches is to help us over the temporary blip.

I haven’t read the whole page, but seems to be tube food, dehydrated foods to have water added and so on. As well as getting fresh deliveries to the space station including pizza and peanut butter.

www.nasa.gov/history/space-station-20th-food-on-iss/

We have lots of stuff anyway, DH was stocking up on Stoats and Jordans bars yesterday as they were on offer, we always have loads of those tuna salad things in. We have lots of Cherry Pepsi Max, 48 cans and some other cans that DH likes, and lots of Jimmy's coffee in various flavours if I don't fancy the stale bottled water.

An army marches on its stomach,doesn't it,and they set up field kitchens any and everywhere. I suppose if you've got a few cannisters of camping gas and a little stove and billy can,you could get away with a few days hot food yourself.
Don't think that'd work in the space station tbf.

You might have to hide cooking smells from envious neighbours though,especially if they're the type that get preoccupied with parking

I'm just musing here, no intention of stocking up on them or anything! That's what I was thinking of, army and conflict supplies in the field. But I must find out what the Space Station crew eat just the same, will google later, unless someone knows already...

Army food supplies. They are not known for their flavour and they can be expensive.

I'm now thinking that there must be something like survival food kits that need no cooking facilities but have an inbuilt "heater upper" when you pull a tab on the pack or something. I'd say the crew of the Space Station don't have a four ring cooker on board so what do they eat! What say you?

Well that’s exactly why you wouldn’t let your neighbour know what you’ve got.

One side of me grows their own food and raises chickens and makes some amazing home brew.

The other side would run away to her sisters house. 🤣

There's a really obvious reason behind this that few want to acknowledge

Which is what?

I like your style!

These scaremongering threads are tedious. The UK's threat level has been at severe before. It is sensible to have a few things in, just in case.

Good advice but the"trying to hide " sounds grim I can see us in our garden hiding from vicious russkises eating cold meat from tins in winter.

it's not the zombies you need to worry about it's your next door neighbour