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?

Ageism and sexism @IIIustriousIyIIlogical as well as theft. What a lovely person you are!

And murder - don't forget the murder!! That's what the spikes are for on the Fiat 500 - but I'm equal opportunties so I'll make sure to mow down young men too......

HTH

nobody has yet pledged to Not Prepare.

I pledge to Not Prepare.....

Best thing to prep is probably knowledge and skills. Easy to barter and can't be stolen.

Normal service will be restored including rule of law and your actions will catch up with you.

No, they would be dead by then, killed by someone protecting their home.

I will buy some extra tea bags, milk powder, beans and rice pudding in the Spring, maybe plant something to keep us all going and have something to barter. I don't feel like buying a good weight and spy eye glass thing set.

IIIustriousIyIIlogical

No matter what the situation 90% of people will do the morally right thing. 10% will rape loot and steal. Without the police. The 90% tend to deal out mob justice on those people.

You may have a good run for a while but you will end up swinging from a lamppost.

If we encourage one person to do a bit of prepping, it is one less drain on everyone else. At least in the short term.
Kursk, I prefer to keep that kind of thinking on the Prepper topic. Doesn't mean I don't think it.

I will take my chances with a standard loo, a bucket and garden water rather than a compost loo.

I will take my chances as I bring my garden goods, beans, tea and powdered milk to the nearest battering space.

The 90% tend to deal out mob justice on those people.

You've confused "M" and "N", and an extra letter seems to have appeared at the end of the word "no".

Is this the same mob justice that threatened a paediatrician ?

OneHourTwentyFourMinutes

That is a very good way of thinking. Stockpiling food for the short game. Then planning to barter in the long game.

Maybe I could make a banner and get out the pasting table, then I wouldn't have to walk, the bartering could happen here.

What weapons do I have?
An air rifle. And a bunch of knives. And whatever else I can grab and kill you with if you threaten my resources and family

I was thinking a box of tea and half a dozen of each type of tin. It will only be for a couple of weeks at most.

After the earthquake in Christchurch, ordinary naice people discovered that , in an emergency with no sewage, compost loos are cleaner and more sanitary than a bucket in the corner.
Take a deep breath and take a look. Easier than you think. Not as nice as a proper loo like we are used to but better than a bucket in the corner. Don't cost much to set up.

I used a bucket of water to flush my actual loo in the past, you don't need to use a bucket to sit on.

I pledge to Not Prepare.....

Yay, the first patriot on the thread! Congratulations! I hope we will be seeing more takers now...

You have to properly Not Prepare though - to truly reflect your confidence that everything will carry on without disruption, you should keep nothing in stock (no food in freezer, no tinned food, no packets of paracetamol, and no especial levels of savings - IIRC the last time this sort of topic came up, it was suggested that people cutting back on unnecessary expenditure and building up emergency savings was unpatriotic).

But if the sewage system fails, anything you try and flush down comes back up at you. Sewage works need power and people to operate them. Hopefully it would never come to that but it is worth thinking about.
I too have flushed a loo with a bucket. That's nothing.

Ageism and sexism @IIIustriousIyIIlogical* as well as theft. What a lovely person you are!

Well @illustriouslyillogical is probably right.

At least @illustriously is not suggesting he/she is going to eat any one, that’s certainly not lovely. The sexism/ageism definately the lesser of two evils where canabalism is involved

How will Brexit make the sewerage system fail? People may struggle for a week or so with deliveries, so power may have a short distribution. The drain should be clear enough for two weeks of my household waste and a couple of weeks of buckets down the loo. Two weeks of beans and greasy hair. Long term it should be ok, maybe more expensive and less choice, there won't be people going around like wild animals.

Sewage works need power and people to operate them.

There's a whole infrastructure to modern living. Electricity probably being the most immediate. Then energy more generally (heating and cooking). Fresh water, of course ... hygienic waste disposal (including the dead).

Anywhere that requires people to operate it is vulnerable to operating problems if those people don't turn up or can't get there.
If you are on shit wages, what are you going to do, put your family first or put random shitters first?
I too think we will get nothing worse than a hiccup with a more expensive longer term. But I have to consider the realistic possibility that the hiccup is more than a hiccup.

I don't know the length of pipes within your property, I know mine will take a couple of weeks waste flushed down with garden water. You don't need to flush liquid waste in that kind of situation. Bottle water, cleaned water via sand or bleach maybe standpipes if needed.

I d feel the need to panic. I can swap tins if needed with neighbours. It will be spring and all over quickly.

You would just have to lower standards, only wash at the sink, eat out of the tins to reduce washing up. No electricity so no washing machines would be going. No TV or internet so you would have time for the extra work.

@mummymeister
If it helps with your question, my SIL and DB both lost their jobs after the Brexit vote when their employers relocated to other EU countries, leaving them both out of work with two young children to care for.

My FIL (who did vote Brexit) was made redundant when his (small company) decided that they would be better off downsizing given the predicted additional tariffs on imports.

My son got into a good secondary school but the housing market has slowed right down and we can't shift our house, meaning that if it's still the case in September I'll have two hour-long school runs per day (children at different schools), which fucks up my life as it means that I can't work until it's sold.

But hey! Blue passports... 🙄