To stockpile food, medicine and petrol?

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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?

@Havanananana Where have you relocated to and can I come work for you?

I'm willing to bring jaffa cakes and I bake an impressive rosemary and sea salt focaccia.

I have to admit tock-piling petrol had crossed my mind briefly but only because the fecking price keeps going up. We've already changed the mortgage to a 5 year fixed to take us past transition.

@lettuceWrap knows their stuff. No reason why urban and suburban dwellers can't learn from this and adapt.
Even camping supplies (provided you are safety conscious about fire and CO2) would be a sensible thing to stash under your bath or wherever.

After the Irish vote on abortion I heard a commentator say that new legislation would reflect the sort of majority that the Yes vote had which was a fairly large majority.

For some reason this logic was not applied to Brexit which had something like a less than 4% majority in favour of leave which is tiny. However we seem to be headed for the hardest possible of brexits which in now way reflects the will of the british people when you consider that nearly 50% of those who voted did not want it at all.

I seriously question how the government is dealing with brexit and to what extent this hardline brexit is being driven by a minority of tories and their supporters who do certainly not have the interests of the british public at heart, or even on their agenda at all.

I'm a remainer but fair enough the uk voted to leave but it has to be something that works for everyone. If we have to compromise on leaving the EU then leavers have to compromise on things like the customs union.

Same here, Eazy. You do have to wonder, don’t you? It’s like some people have suddenly been handed the ball after 40-odd years and they’re not letting anyone else near it...

lost I'm not proud of it but that's exactly how I feel too. I watch my 74 year old mum (lived in the UK for 50 years) worry about being forced to leave then think "fuck you".

Bloody hell, Barbarian. Has she gone?

This thread has made me really scared. I voted remain and just keep telling myself we won’t really leave, it all seems like a bad joke rather than reality.

Since the remoaners are still trying to frighten everybody, I think all food, fuel and medicine should only go to leaver voters first and anything left can be shared between the remoaners, It will not just be GB struggling, All that rotten food at the ports, EU company’s not getting paid for there delivery, staff layoffs in EU as they can’t sell to GB, All air workers laid off and the hoiladay Islands with no GB holiday makers spending there money, mass rise off unemployment in EU, workers with no incomes, Eurostar shut down staff laid off, ferry companies both sides of the water, It’s just not us who will suffer, that’s why there will be some kind of dea, anydeal even if it goes past the already agreed extension, We know how the French farmers like to make a fuss.

@user1486062886 , you are so funny I almost pissed myself. Are you old enough to vote?

No. She doesn't want to go anywhere (and my dad has dementia so it'd be pretty bloody difficult to go anywhere). I keep telling her it'll be fine then we see stories in the news like the one about Inga Lockington (former mayor of Ipswich, lived in the UK since 1979, married to a Brit, denied citizenship) and she lies awake all night.

Fun times.

So, User, you think the people who voted for (and caused) this mess should be the ones to get first dibs on any supplies coming through the ports

This thread makes me glad the general public are not in charge of negotiations behind the scenes! The hysteria.

Don't worry @lettuceWrap , @user1486062886 will be back to school soon and the grownups will manage fine with them.

You sign up especially for the insightful post there user dickhead

4dogs, DH and I are still hoping it doesn’t happen either. An “accept/reject the terms of the deal” vote would be the most likely mechanism imo.

User1486.....The 27 will be ok. You think they’re not way ahead of us in the planning stakes. That’s why most of our money-making engines are relocating to mainland Europe and Ireland.

lettuceWrap Excellent advice,

I hope for all my family that this scenario does not develop. But it seems a “no brainer” decision to start storing some stuff away. Or planting some vegetables. It’s not difficult, and so what if we are wrong. You cupboard full of food won’t be waisted.

NewMinouMinou you are right , it’s the leavers who are trusting the government to get this right. They are got to be the ones who haven’t prepped, and therefore the hardest hit. They will be the ones who are looters.

lostinsunshine Yes I am Thanks, I glad you can read, so you can assure me that The EU will not suffer as well if we end up in a no deal position, obviously the EU bigwigs will be alright, but many EU people will be out of work as well

DGRossetti

Yes you need to defend yourself. It’s amazes me when people say there are no guns in the UK we are safe.

People don’t realize that it only takes a small group to outnumber an armed police patrol and all of a sudden a group of looters becomes a armed gang.

lettuceWrap I think you will find it’s the governments fault for trusting the people to vote. And not planning for the very obvious leave vote.

Yes Minou, it really does make me wonder. I suspect that many leave voters also have no idea of what is going on or how brexit will effect them but are now just being belligerent when anyone criticises or questions what the government are doing. It's very defensive behaviour and not conducive to an actually discussion.

Kursk, if you don’t mind me asking, have you been through a political upheaval?

Tit4TatandAllThat Are you just another name calling remainers?

My life has changed drastically because of brexit.
Right now I'm working my arse off transferring EU laws into UK law and advising the Mps on both sides about this.
While as a civil servant I'm meant to remain neutral all I want to do is right in big fucking letters for every leave MP you're fucking this up!

I love it that the "they need us as much as, if not more, than we need them" fantasy is still going. We won the war on our own, dontcha know. And, we had a magnificent Empire. Thems was luvvly times.