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?

Icantreachthepretzels I do expect there will be trouble with suppliers if there is no deal, but you sound a bit like Private Frazerr, we’re doomed, we’re doomed. One for the older people. You may be right, but surely any government would but contingency in for the worst case, As it would be them put up against the wall first

Remoaners, always scared of something...

@PoisonousSmurf , way to get people onboard with your views!

And I'd thought we'd got beyond this purile crap.

lostinsunshine As I said before it is not the public’s fault it will be the governments for giving the public the vote and not preparing for the obvious leave vote, then not doing a good enough job in the negotiations,

We always have enough food in the cupboards and freezers to last about 6 weeks, possibly more if we eat some strange combinations. We are not thinking of stockpiling any more than usual.

None of us know what is going to happen but I am not going to spend the next few months worrying myself sick about something that may or may not happen. If the worst case scenarios do happen I don't see that there is really much we can do about it.

To the poster who said house prices are already falling, I would suggest you visit Essex where they certainly are not. I am not sure they are falling anywhere other than, maybe, London where the prices were even more ridiculous than the rest of the country

Remoaners need to be brave like Azterix!

The op asked about medicines too. I have MS but am currently able to manage without meds. Dh is asthmatic but is similar.
I have a big stash of paracetamol/ibuprofen. A few essential oils - nothing mega.
I'm ok at first aid but nothing too major.
But that's it. Knowing my luck there'd be a health crisis in the family just at any tricky time that might head our way.

The op asked about medicines too. I have MS but am currently able to manage without meds.

No idea what 24 hours without my glaucoma meds will bring. Not sure if going blind gradually is better than suddenly ?

I have been living through the Qatar blockade for the last year and apart from a shortage of a few brands and different brands of some medicines (such as Acetaminoprim instead of Panadol) there has been no major disruption or shortage. There are always suppliers happy to import cheaply in a crisis, especially when the want in with that country

The denial of the Brexiteers does make me marvel, insisting it'll all be okay. Just how can it possibly be ok for people who are already struggling to afford to feed their children?

Does anyone know what predicted rising prices are for food over the next year, depending on the different deal/ no deal possibilities?

If a best case scenario still leaves a serious % of people on low incomes unable to afford to eat - what do you think will happen? That they'll all starve quietly and humbly and not make a fuss?

Icantreachthepretzels You go on about having another vote on the deal , I’ve no problem with that, but it has to agree the deal or leave, we has the the vote already to leave, It’s all a big mess the government should have negotiated before the referendum Vote.

No it doesn't. WE ARE ALLOWED TO CHANGE OUR MINDS IN A DEMOCRACY.
Especially as new information comes to light, facts are made clear, and situations change.
How long do you think one vote on one day should be held as sacrosanct? If it's forever: then I'm afraid we already had the vote back in the 1970s - and we decided to to be in. If it can be reviewed as times change... then we can have a new vote.

In a GE it's considered binding for 5 years at the most. By March 2019 the vote will be almost 3 years old. If we get the longer transition period TM wants now, then it will be well over 5 years since the vote that Brexit takes effect.

We can vote to accept the deal (if one is forthcoming)/ crash out/ remain. That is not undemocratic.

Kursk, lostinsun,

Have the dehydrator (use mostly for fruit but have made jerky), no canner tho. A generator should maybe be on our shopping list...

JJS888

Qatar is only 2.5 million people, the UK is closer to 70 million.

Icantreachthepretzels Yes we can have another vote, the last one was in 75, and many things changed before we had another vote 16, how possibly can we have another vote on something that hasn’t happened yet, what TRUE facts have come to live or situations changed, we would be voting in a general election every year if MP’s were to be found to not adhere to their polices

No it doesn't. WE ARE ALLOWED TO CHANGE OUR MINDS IN A DEMOCRACY.

totally agree - why on earth would we drive over a cliff like lemmings saying "but we have to, we voted for it" - seems nuts to me.

Lettuce, if you need electricity for your set up and absolutely can't manage without then maybe think about it. Otherwise, it might be worth looking at alternatives. Is solar an option?
Again, if that sort of thing isn't for others then it's not essential.
I don't have a generator but I don't think I need one. If my freezer goes, I have alternative sources of preserved food.

Pre Brexshit is shit, Brexshit will be shitter 👌

Beyond, we don't do government by referenda. That was the proverbial "it". I saw nothing on the ballot paper about second referendum.
We are stuck with this idiocy.

In a GE it's considered binding for 5 years at the most.

Well given recent history, we had a GE in 2015, and another in 2017. (And there were 2 less than a year apart in the 70s.)

So I'd say the shelf life of a countrywide vote isn't much more than 2 years.

I await a plethora of Brexiteers explaining how this is "different" ...

Yes PoisonousSmurf - referring to us as ‘Remoaners’ is really purple and reactionary....we wouldn’t dream of calling you a Brexshitter.
Just unnecessary

BeyondThePage I thought that being under another Tory gov would be shit after the last election, Dont remember to many people calling for another vote

*purile - not purple 😂

Haven’t we started the leave process? I mean, should we want to go back on it, can we actually do that according to whatever laws there are governing how the E U works? If I were the EU I would laugh and tell us to sod off!