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.

Lol @ stockpiling food and cancelling holidays

I'm preparing for Brexit by ignoring it.

The world won't end.
The shops won't be empty.
Planes won't fall out of the sky.
The borders won't be closed.
We won't be trapped in Blighty.

Honestly, this whole thing has a Millennium Bug feel about it and remember how that turned out.

DH and I have both pushed forward promotions that had been on the cards for a while, but weren't moving - we expect there to be a hiring/promotions freeze in our company if finances worsen significantly over the next 12 months. We were considering moving out of London but opportunities in our field seem to be slowing down significantly, so we probably won't. However there's a chance that our employer might open a European base to be able to maintain access to the market, and we've discussed whether we'd be prepared to relocate if that came up, and what we'd need to do.

I wish I could prepare by being scottish.

We have got a 5 year fixed rate mortgage.

Doing a grand tour of Europe this summer while we still easily can.

Telling all my EU citizen friends and their children I think they're great and it wasn't my idea.

Panic-buying Doritos.

Maybe there is some survivalist equipment left over from the Millenium Bug Doomsday panic that you could get? This is entirely the most absurd thread I have ever read on Mumsbet, and that is saying something. It's usually the Daily Mail that frothes up the tinhatters but the Independent is really pulling a number this time.

Well done for a scaremongering post. This kind of stuff is what CAUSES financial collapse.

Will Mumsnet still exist post Brexit? 🤔

There are 195 countries in the world (counting Vatican City and the Palestinian territories). Only 27 of those are in the EU. Are you really telling me that 168 countries are weeping and wailing that they are not in the EU?

No, but none of those countries are ripping up all their trading contacts and peace treaties (GFA) with nothing in place to replace them.

I work with a Spanish company who are investing millions in their UK part of the business over the next 5 years. They are not frightened of Brexit, they are confident. They will still be able to manufacture their product and ship to the UK, that won't stop.

Scaremongering, media and posts like this are the cause of shit going wrong because we all start running round like headless chickens for absolutely no reason.

Michael O Leary is also a c**T.

It's Brexit not the apocalypse!

WE'RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED, DOOOOMED I TELL THEE.

We've built a bunker in the back garden and have suitcases packed next to the front door just in case an awooooga siren goes off in the middle of the night and we have to flee further afield.
In the meantime we've stockpiled baked beans, tinned soups and bottled water.
Or yanno, I'm just being normal and not hysterical.

We aren't the only country in the world not to be a part of the EU!
Ssshh. Stop talking sense. Where's the fun in sensible when you can froth and instil a sense of panic in everyone instead?!

Scaremongering, media and posts like this are the cause of shit going wrong because we all start running round like headless chickens for absolutely no reason.

EXUNCTLY.

Honestly, this whole thing has a Millennium Bug feel about it and remember how that turned out.
Ah you mean the bit where programmers worked their arses off for three years beforehand
and advised people on how to change their systems
and upgraded everything they could
and took precautions left right and centre for months and weeks
and did not sleep AT ALL for that night

The Millenium Bug was averted by PROPER PREPARATION PREVENTING PISS POOR PERFORMANCE

I see little evidence of proper preparation for Brexit.

I'm going to buy a sandwich-board and write 'WE'RE DOOOOOMED' on it. I shall lurch about the city center advising people to repent and what not.

Taking out dual citizenship for myself and the children. My mum is doing the same but in reverse (has EU passport but now applying for British one also). Diversifying assets.

If you read the other Brexit thread you'll see that the reason the millennium bug looked like a non-event was because many people worked for many hours fixing the bug.

Carry on as normal if you want. Putting some things in place that will help you if it does go tits up and don't hurt you if it doesn't is only sensible. But sensible is not fashionable these days, only scoffing denial/ sticking your head in the sand.

Just because it's 'the will of the people' doesn't mean it will WORK.

Taking Spanish citizenship so I'm not stuck suddenly as a non-European when my life here is based on being exactly that (work permit, health care etc). Spanish citizenship takes a very long time to come through (currently a year and 3 months in and still not even got a reference number) so have got my Irish passport in the meantime.

The usual lack of preparedness will cause the usual problems for those who lack foresight but I'm sure they will find someone else to blame when the shit hits the fan, as they always do.

*talkinpeace8

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30576670

basically, the millennium bug was never going to be hugely disruptive and there was a lot of scaremongering. sound familiar....?

The economic situation has been unsteady for a few years. So just what we were already doing which includes not taking out debt, making sure we have a financial buffer, etc.

Ah you mean the bit where programmers worked their arses off for three years beforehand
and advised people on how to change their systems
and upgraded everything they could
and took precautions left right and centre for months and weeks
and did not sleep AT ALL for that night

I think your looking back at this with either rose tinted spectacles or something, SysAdmins and Programmers coined it in, (I know I was and still am one) because a lot of gullible business owners didn't understand. The Millenium bug was very isolated was mitigated against years before 2000 and there was a massive amount of hysteria at the time.

How the giddy flip did we manage before being part of the EU? You'd think there was no life before it or something.
Plus there's other countries not in it. They're not panicking as they're not part of it.

sunnypatio Have you got a lawyer or gestor? Luckily a good friend of ours is a lawyer here and she's making things move quite a bit quicker.

Just take out really good insurance if you are worried.

Other than that, keep spending as normal.

It’s the jitters around economy that can often cause a lot of damage.

I’ve been preparing in much the same way as you OP.

I grew up in England before it was fucked - up by Europe. It was bloody marvelous.

Besides the British Isles our grub came from all over. Beef from Argentina, dairy from Denmark, lamb and wool from New Zealand and don’t forget the Hong kong ‘rubbish’ as my mum always called it.

'Empire Made’ was on a lot of labels.