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.

Draylon - I used emoticons because that truly was my expression when I read it and then I re-read it and decided I didn’t actually think it worthy of any response. Someone else might feel differently and dignify it with a response. I am wondering if you are intentionally being insulting or you just don’t know you are doing it.

It is unfortunate if you feel 'insulted', here, borrow my pearls to clutch

I’m not personally insulted so no pearl clutching here required but, it’s not about me it’s about the ‘they’ you keep referring to in a derogatory manner.

Did you mean to be so rude?

What you need to be doing is telling me where I am wrong

No, what I need to be telling you I can’t put because I would get my post deleted.

No, what I need to be telling you I can’t put because I would get my post deleted.

Ditto Time4.

I won’t be doing any preparation. I don’t have the money to pay more into my mortgage, save, clear debts, buy stockpiles of food. It strikes me if people have the spare cash just now to do all those things they’re maybe unlikely to be all that negatively impacted.

Draylon

Do you talk to people this way in real life?

To further answer OP I'm overpaying my mortgage and am thinking of upping the amount. Hope OP hasn't been put off this thread by all the debate.

Ha true Draylon.... however I get the impression debate wasn't what she bargained for when she posted this thread. Probably just reassurances she was doing the sensible thing. Which according to some she is and some she isn't

So awful really that Brexit has polarised the UK now.

But it was inevitable anyway. The Tories made sure of that. Terrible IMV.

Just to mention,

Where is the angst going on within the EU right now?

But we don't care because that is the natural order of how we Britons like it to be. We were happy to go down mines, working 60 hour weeks, to steelworks blinding and burning ourselves, doffing our caps to our betters, living in unheated, unlit, cold boxes that our masters rented to us..........

Up to a point, but the last War broke that natural order. The huge shake up of people, who were moved from one end of the country to the other as they got called up, or women moving into work previously only open to men, opened many people's eyes. Hence the 1945 Labour landslide and the implementation of radical social policies of which the NHS was of course the jewel in the crown. I think the Labour victory took the upper classes by surprise, and what, the people kicked out Churchill, for Attlee, who had "a lot to be modest about."

( I personally think they messed up education and didn't have the same vision - but that's a digression.)

This social agreement has been gradually eroded, and a couple of generations have grown up who do not know of the grinding poverty that so many suffered during the 1930s - (a time incidentally when many were doing very nicely - think of who was living in those 1930s semis which were all over) - it wasn't the poor.

At the same time, especially with the NHS people live longer, and medical treatments are much more sophisticated now, and there is a desperate need to have a proper debate as to what sort of NHS we need and are prepared to pay for. Not this privatisation by stealth, which benefits the Jeremy Hunt's of the world, but makes life worse for most of us.

It maybe that this social contract will have to break down again, before a new generation rises up and says 'We can do better than this'.

Couldn't vote (C.I.)
Because you are not in the EU. If you have Romanians coming over and taking your jobs, the blame can't lie with the EU. Try blaming your own Government.

Draylon - I don’t feel I need to ‘attack’ anything fact or otherwise - chill out.

I've been binge watching episodes of the walking dead for tips. Got myself a katana, baseball bat, barved wire and a hatchet. Just need to find myself a tiger and I'm all set.

I was pretty interested in talking about the Ops question. I accept the result, leaving CU / SM etc. Doesn't matter what opinion I have of it, that's apparently what's hsppening. However... there are loads of unknowns that affect lots of people see ilovetokyo post or the 200 year manufacturer (sorry name!). These people are of all sorts of backgrounds and votes.

Peregrina, if you think our politicians don't just follow yours like dogs to heel, I don't know what to tell you. Brexit will definitely affect us though it's hard to tell how as our politicians make yours look competent.

Blurry Not being in the EU you can't directly blame them for your woes. I doubt very much whether our politicians gave a moment's thought to the Channel Islands, apart from buying goods VAT free, so it does sound as though you too, as Wales, Scotland and the English regions, have a legitimate claim to blame Westminster.

I accept the result, leaving CU / SM etc.

I don't accept this result. The question was do we Remain in the EU or Leave. There was no question on the ballot about leaving the CU/SM, and indeed, the Tory Manifesto of 2015 had a commitment to the SM written into it. This is just one woman't interpretation of what the result meant - there were 17 million other interpretations available.