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To stockpile food, medicine and petrol?

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Laudanumm · 03/06/2018 21:18

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?

To stockpile food, medicine and petrol?
OP posts:
user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 08:28

Icantreachthepretzels If you are so certain that its going to be doomsday you think it will be, you have plenty of time to leave this country. But i have all ways suspected that we will not leave and will end up still in the SM, CU, so we might as well stayed as we were. Too many people in high places with their own agendas, as we have seen by MP's and like going to see the EU negotiators and asking them to give their OWN country and their constituents a bad deal

lostinsunshine · 05/06/2018 08:32

Too many people in high places realising what a stupid idea this was and that we make better trade deals as part of a cartel - the EU, that is.

Theworldisfullofgs · 05/06/2018 08:42

Because leaving the country is that easy.

KennDodd · 05/06/2018 08:46

I wish I could leave, we don't have enough money though. We don't speak foreign languages well enough to get a job, did look at Ireland but it's really expensive there now.

KennDodd · 05/06/2018 08:48

Also Ireland is going to be badly affected by Brexit as well as most of their imports come through the UK. If Ireland suffers supply shortages because of us we should really hang our heads in shame.

Heroo · 05/06/2018 08:56

I wish I could leave, we don't have enough money though. We don't speak foreign languages well enough to get a job, did look at Ireland but it's really expensive there now.

If foreign language is all that is stopping you, you cold easily learn a foreign language in the next 6 months if you study intensively.

Or is the real issue you don't have a skill / profession that is in demand in other countries?

GhostofFrankGrimes · 05/06/2018 08:59

If all remain voters left the country the UK would be even more screwed than it will be already after Brexit. Careful what you wish for.

lostinsunshine · 05/06/2018 09:10

@user1486062886 - your solution for people who disagree with you is for them to leave the country. Horrible .

MadeleineMaxwell · 05/06/2018 09:51

Too many people in high places with their own agendas

We have always been going to stay in the CU and SM for one single reason: Northern Ireland. There's no reality-based way around it. You either have a border or you don't. If you do, then we have to tear up the Good Friday Agreement and usher in a return to the Troubles. If you don't, then we aren't controlling our borders. It has always been a complete non-starter. Nobody, not one of them, has come up with a different, plausible solution.

Personally, I can live with BINO, but I think it's utterly pointless. Why not just remain and campaign for change from within?

user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 10:19

lostinsunshine no, don't keep moaning about it, do something instead.

user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 10:23

GhostofFrankGrimes yes silly me, i keep forgetting how much superior you are.

WittyJack · 05/06/2018 10:24

Does anyone else feel like this is a nightmare and that we'll all wake up soon, despite the fact that it's getting closer and closer?

SadSadSad

user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 10:24

MadeleineMaxwell if that's the case why did DC give the people the vote, which was going to end in an obvious leave result

GhostofFrankGrimes · 05/06/2018 10:26

GhostofFrankGrimes yes silly me, i keep forgetting how much superior you are

No, I just understand that leaving the biggest and most prosperous trading block in the world with no plan is destined to end in failure. Thats before you get onto slightly complex matters like NI.

GhostofFrankGrimes · 05/06/2018 10:28

Does anyone else feel like this is a nightmare and that we'll all wake up soon, despite the fact that it's getting closer and closer?

They will pull back at the last minute - we've been hanging off the cliff edge for 2 years, utterly unforgivable. The government are cowards.

user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 10:30

I think it has come to the point where TM needs to go back to the public and ask.
1 - Stay as we are ( if EU lets us)
2 - leave EU, but stay in CU,SM ( might as well stay as we are )
3 - Carry on and leave what ever the deal maybe
4 - Leave even in the event of a no deal
Or wait to after the 12th June where she my have to resign anyway and another GE will be held, which will not help matters either way

lostinsunshine · 05/06/2018 10:32

@user1486062886 - doing plenty, thanks. I'm a prepper for the sake of my family. I work. I garden. I have MS so all of the above is pretty impressive.
And I challenge on Mumsnet if I think the person is kidding themselves about Brexit.

GhostofFrankGrimes · 05/06/2018 10:33

user, you will never get consensus across those 4 options and the majority will end up unhappy. Enough money has been wasted on this nonsense already.

user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 10:34

lostinsunshine I wasn't on about you. but well done

Havanananana · 05/06/2018 10:36

For those who don't think that the Brexit vote has affected them, look at the price of petrol in 2016 compared with today:

Petrol prices Nov 2016 - under £1 per litre [ www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/20/morrisons-to-slash-petrol-price-to-below-1 ]

Petrol today - £1.29 a litre at supermarkets and £1.44 at service stations [ www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/05/drivers-petrol-price-rise-may-rac ]

lostinsunshine · 05/06/2018 10:36

We had a referendum. There were two options. If, like me, you thought leaving the EU was a difficult fool's errand that would, apart from all the other negative consequences, screw up the delicate and hard fought for peace process in NI, you voted Remain.
If you didn't give a shit about any of that and just wanted to stick it to someone, you voted Leave.
Tough titties, we are stuck with this.

user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 10:38

GhostofFrankGrimes i agree about enough money has been wasted ( tax payers money ) but some how you have to go back to the people and give them the options, ( not reject the deal and stay )

siwel123 · 05/06/2018 10:40

We can't just say people who voted leave don't care about the country. Yes they didn't vote how we wanted but everyone has there reasons for voting leave or remain

user1486062886 · 05/06/2018 10:41

Havanananana price of a barrel of oil june 16 $29, price today $ 70, that's more the reason

GhostofFrankGrimes · 05/06/2018 10:45

Yes they didn't vote how we wanted but everyone has there reasons for voting leave or remain

The problem is most of the leave reasons have been completely debunked.

  • There is no £350 million a week for the NHS
  • Trade deals will not be easy, they will take years to conclude.
  • Turkey is not joining the EU
  • There is no EU "Army"
  • Sovereignty was never lost
  • You could already control immigration but chose not to.
  • You won't be closing borders - see NI
  • The EU is not collapsing.

If you are not going to get the things you wanted why carry on?

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