to ask how you’re preparing for Brexit?

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There is so much uncertainty surrounding what will happen with trade deals and goodness knows what else, that I’m starting to wonder about making some sensible plans.

We have put a stop to some planned works we wanted to do to our house, we have downsized to one car and we grow a small amount of veg. We keep some stocks of food in the house but we have a large family so I never feel like we’d have enough.
We have discussed not taking a holiday this summer and DH is taking every training course possible at work in order to diversify his skills should his industry go tits up.

I’m wondering what decisions you’re making in your homes for what could possibly be a really uncertain time for a few years.

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People are stockpiling olive oil.
One is looking into making one's own butter too (I'm hoping that was tongue in cheek, it's getting hard to tell with some of these posts!)
It is coming across as total scaremongering.

We're going on more European holidays in case there's a blip in air travel next year (but mainly because we want to).

you're dealing with people who get their Brexit news from the Express. They're probably more interested in how Brexit will affect Princess Diana.

FYI, I voted Remain. I just think it's completely ridiculous for this level of hysteria when we haven't even left yet!

Because it means you are still a European citizen after Brexit, Oblomov As a Brit living in the EU I have no idea what my status will be after Brexit. I'm currently allowed to work here and have healthcare and all the rest that comes with being an EU citizen. What will happen once I am not? Nobody can tell me, so I've got an Irish passport to protect myself from ossible problems.

Safeguarding my family's future in the UK by applying for a British passport for my DS under treaty rights and marrying my long term SAHP DP. Keeping my fingers crossed that 27 years of NS contributions an tax payments will count for something.

For those of you sneering: BREXIT is a valid reason for genuine uncertainty for 3 million of us who were perfectly entitled to feel sure of a future in the UK.

Sorry, I have a no click policy for the Daily Express, as well as the Sun and the Mail. Perhaps if you didn’t read such trash you might be less of a gullible chump?

I mean, really. The leave campaign promised benefits which weren’t within their gift, and which were obviously never going to materialise. The gullible chumps wibbled on about “Project Fear” and “taking back control”, and voted leave anyway.

Now it is obvious that we are not taking back control, that the predictions of “Project Fear” are largely coming true, and that none of the promises benefits are going to materialise.

Then what happens?

The same people who lied to you before the referendum are telling you that everything would be going swimmingly if it weren’t for “remoaners” trying to “sabotage Brexit” and “talking down the economy”.

And the best part is, YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THEM! I mean, really, is there anything you lot won’t swallow?

Yeah, “gullible chumps” was putting it mildly.

Anyway. Past my bedtime here. Dream the sweet, unburdened dreams of the completely f**king oblivious.

There's no point preparing after we've left though, is there?

So weird, all these people who definitely voted Remain popping up to say preparing is hysterical and a complete over reaction to the circumstances people find themselves in. I don't know any Remainers who are so relaxed.

Remember 2008? We were bailing other countries out. Greece? They were part of the EU when they practically went bankrupt.
And Greece still owes the UK that money .....
but the Euro is much stronger against the pound now

But where is the 'hysteria'? in my experience the type of people who make big financial decisions such as the ones detailed on this thread, or even people who decide to fill their cupboards with tinned and dried goods are normally the most prudent and level headed of people. It would not take very much at all to cause a major interruption to our food supply chain, so if people want to try and prepare themselves for such an eventuality it seems sensible rather than hysterical.

I don't know any Remainers who are so relaxed

Well,there's at least one out there and by the laws of probability and the sheer amount of people out there who did vote, I'd hazard a guess that there's some more out there too.
They just get on with things though instead of shouting the loudest and predicting the end of the world.

So... let me get this right. If a family is making financial planning to include a possible risk of recession, they are hysterical. Right.

By that logic, everyone over the age of 50 must be totally hysterical for saving extra for a pension then.

LoveinTokyo I have no idea why you think you have had any conversation with me about Brexit. Can you read at all? My two comments on this entire thread consist of pointing out your 'wind your neck in' comment was a bit rich when you called another poster a gullible chump. My second link to the Express was the only place I could find the video of that SNP MEP idiot Alyn Smith, mainly because the BBC don't appear to have it online yet, not that I can find. Here's a sanitised link to youtube to get around your 'no click policy' as I'd hate you to miss out

Preparing? Preparing for what?
Utterly ridiculous because it will be at least a decade before the UK actually leaves the UK.
The bigger concern might be the Russian state sponsored assassination with chemical warfare. If you want to prepare for anything concrete you might want to move your stocks and shares out of the hellhole Russia

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Its not panicking

Its planning ahead in the secure knowledge that the politicians making the decisions are utter muppets

Tie up your camel - then trust in Allah

Oh, and LoveinTokyo when you start typing this type of thing, it's probably well past time you lay down. "And the best part is, YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THEM! I mean, really, is there anything you lot won’t swallow?"

I suspect there is quite a large group in the middle who may have voted leave or remain you haven't thought about it much since. Nothing about that though makes me think that there won't be significant and complex issues with Brexit. I just think there is a large group of rather politically switched of citizens.

Getting my German citizenship sorted out. I hope everything doesn’t go tits up in the UK, but I can’t help but fear it will be like Britain in the 70s, but without David Bowie.

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To be honest, I don’t disagree with anything Alun Smyth says there.

it will be at least a decade before the UK actually leaves the UK.

I'm sure it's a typo but it may be prophetic. If anything will hasten the demise of the U.K., it's Brexit.

Thanks Milly I think I have aleady corrected the typo

No need to be snippy. It was a lovely typo.

I am not a leaver but this is hysterical ranting wine induced rubbish. Veggie patches? It is freezing for six months of the year!

I am very proud of my typo

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Then I, for one, am delighted your sort are off to France LoveinTokyo because the world is a hard enough place without resorting to such nasty insulting behaviour unfit for any office so if you're on that level, it's no loss to Blighty.