To stockpile food, medicine and petrol?

[Laudanumm]

So apparently we're now at very high risk of exiting the EU in March without a trade agreement with the EU. The government wanted to keep it secret, but it's been leaked that the middle of the 3 outcomes they're discussing, so not the bad one, is the port of Dover collapsing on day 1, immediate food shortages and almost immediate petrol and medicine shortages - as in, no food in the supermarkets. It's in the Sunday Times. AIBU to start stockpiling?

Where are you planning to stockpile petrol without it being a massive fire risk?

Just out of interest where are you intending to store petrol...?

Lol, great minds sooty

Nothing wrong with you stockpiling none perishable foods but not petrol as it’s dangerous, just use it sparingly instead

This will be like the Millenium bug ...

Wouldn’t the government just not exit without a deal?
There would have to be forced a vote surely?

Oh I have children with asthma & allergies - the thought of a medicine shortage makes me very nervous

we're all doomed, doomed!

honestly haven't we heard this at every single stage of this process?

before the vote, after the vote, before we do a deal?

the media need to get a bloody grip and stop fanning the flames of these doomsday scenarios.

the day after Brexit, will be absolutely no different from the day before it. honestly, these lazy journos need to find something else to write about.

You could buy feckloads of jerry cans for petrol I guess. But you’d need A LOT. Seems pointless.

Hey, the wind will still blow. Maybe worth getting an electric car...

Yeah, don't stockpile petrol.

How could there be "immediate" food and medicine shortages? There aren't when there are strikes by French workers which seem to happen a lot. The EU isn't the only place to import from. I can see costs going up but severe shortages of food/medicine seems unlikely.

Have a look at the Preppers topic, they'll help you figure out how to store petrol :). Definitely store some food, why would you not?

Scaremongering.... that's all it is

Don’t be so bloody daft

@mummymeister

It must be a real shame when the facts don’t jive with your opinions.

I am hugely anti Brexit but I think I’d be sceptical about such headlines, great way to shift papers when print media is dying..

I believe stored petrol only stays good for around 9 months so wouldn't h there with that.

The only medicines you could reasonably stockpile would be paracetamol and other basic over the counter meds, nothing that you can't live without.

Food s not a bad idea though if you have space for it and a willingness at some point to either eat a lot of cans of food before it goes bad even if you have access to fresh food, or to throw it /give it all away.

Anyone would think they are trying to encourage panic buying to create a problem....

Don't stockpile anything. Even if there were a shortage, there'd be plenty to go around for the foreseeable if idiots didn't fucking panic and stockpile.

Just coz govt is planning for disaster doesn't mean they expect disaster... they are supposed to plan for disaster & also plan how to avoid it.

Stockpile butter op. Wish gov just leave. They need our trade more

PaddyF0dder - when that happens I will tell you how I feel!

how many people honestly can say that their lives have radically and irrevocably changed since the Brexit vote?

Life changes all the time. shit happens. I have lived through miners strikes and thatcher and cold wars and Vietnam and the twin towers and god knows what else and my life goes on.

yes things change - because things always change. and this is just yet another change that I will have to adapt to - in business, in my lifestyle etc.

some people are just so snowflakey about change that if it wasn't Brexit that caused their angst it would be something else.

Missing point I know but what on earth is “baling” out? Has the paper made an error or do I just not know how to spell???

I read a similar article, but at the end it said:

A spokesperson for the Brexit department said: “These claims are completely false.

“A significant amount of work and decision making has gone into our no deal plans, especially where it relates to ports, and we know that none of this would come to pass.”

So I reckon it's scaremongering.

mummymeister this is from the governments civil servants. It’s not press speculation. This sort of scenario was predicted years ago anyway by the likes of Richard and Pete North who are euro sceptic Brexiteers. So definitely not project fear merchants.

Having said that it’s political suicide to allow this scenario to happen. May knows this now, hence all the fudging and delay in taking any decision, she knows full well her and her government have backed the wrong horse. They do nothing and prepare for nothing in the hope something will come up. There will be a reversal on the decision to leave the SM and CU, it’s just a matter of time now. We cannot untangle quickly from the EU as too many of our processes are tied up in it.

Petrol would evaporate after a time. I don’t really believe it will happen tbh