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?

A lot of chaff being thrown up here now.
So, has anyone got any practical advice in the same vein as Lettuce has given us?
Just in case?

@user1486062886 , @Tit4TatandAllThat can swear as much as they fucking well want to.
Unless mnhq doesn't like it, that is

Ah no user. Why the fuck should I

Tit4TatandAllThat I think you are going off topic now.
If we have a vote on the deal, the EU will not bother to even slightly negotiate seriously, so it would have to be accept deal or no deal as the majority have all ready voted to leave

The plausible scenario is this:

The government fails to reach a deal. Day 1 the ports grind to a halt as trucks are searched. People begin to realize the situation and panic buy food. The 2-3 day supply in supermarkets disappears within the first day. We have all seen the Black Friday mini riots in ASDA when people squabble over cheap TV's. just think what it will be like over something serious like the last food on the shelves.

The food coming through the ports is too little and too slow to resupply the supermarkets. By this point (Day 3-4) Civil unrest begins. Power cuts and water cuts start as people don’t go to work, because they are looking for food, fuel or protecting their home. The NHS and other services are cut to emergency's only.

Day 4: The government realize they have lost control and stop customs searching. But the damage has been done. Some food makes it through the ports under armed escort but its not enough for the 70+ million hungry angry people. EU companies stop sending shipments because they don’t want to risk their trucks/drivers. Besides they have lost contact with there customers in the UK and don’t know if they will get paid.

Over the next few days the situation deteriorates slowly. There are a few marches in London, demanding the government resigns. (Think the end of Thatcher) May resigns, and now there is a power vacuum. The Army is now in charge of the UK.

@NewMinouMinou , plant veg, preserve stuff, buy a camping stove and some bottles of water. And a couple of hot water bottles. Take your preps from there. And don't panic.
Wind up torch and radio probably a good idea too

Get an allotment .
Freeze stuff.
Have some cash in your house (see visa debacle).
Get dried fruit.
Cheese freezes.
Buy tins of stuff.

NewMinouMinou

It’s very thin, and it starts completely by accident, (one person loosing their temper) and snowballs uncontrollably.

Has the UK even got enough of an army, though, Kursk?

Stockpiling food is always a good idea anyway

I've always believed that we should have been a self seffient country which provide a lot of our own food and other products but this is what happens when you rely on other countries for resources but on the other hand the press are known for scare mongering

I can also assure you all the Mps won't be starving if brexit goes bad.

Well, we can all breathe a sigh of relief there, then Siwel, eh?

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.

IheartNiles, I completely agree.

I also think May might resign, citing ill health. I'm not sure when but I guess before they can come for her with the long knives.

This isn’t the press harping away, though, this is a govt document.

Kursk You are looking at the very worst case there, The supermarkets will have brought in extra supplies and might start rationing bread and milk and fuel depots will be full, etc

Supermarkets do not have extra supplies. That is not how they work.

I hope you’re right, Niles and Nikita. We’re clinging to this hope, really.

iheartniles nikita, agree completely.

I’d like to see your average checkout operative go head-to-head with hungry families for eight hours straight.

The supermarkets will have brought in extra supplies

Not heard of the just-in-time model?

Your average checkout operative will have more sense and not come into work . They'll have their own shit to deal with.

If word gets out that the local Sainsbury’s has stocked up in prep then it’ll just get looted.

DarlingNikita It will political suicide if she stays in the SM & CU,

Has the UK even got enough of an army, though, Kursk?

I don’t think the army is strong enough, I suspect that the army would plead for assistance from NATO allies.

What would follow would be a modern day Berlin Airlift with European military’s bringing in food.

Honestly I am not trying to scare anyone, but I have seen this happen, and there is the chance it could happen in the UK.

Exactly, lost.
Too much reliance on good manners here because we haven’t had a scenario like this since...well? I guess WW2, but why are we going back to this?