To feel terrified after reading the prepping for Brexit threads?

[LittleNapRefuser]

I have genuinely cried real tears of fear after reading the threads on prepping for Brexit today. I have a toddler and right now I am terrified of what is to come and their future after all this.

I don't really have anyone to talk to about this in 'real life' because most people I know aren't reading the news or don't seem to care.

Should I be terrified? Should I be scared for my baby's future? Can anyone reassure me or offer me an alternative perspective on all this. I don't want to to put my head in the sand but I feel really afraid.

It's late and I really should try and sleep. I have needed to let all this out. As I said, I have held the fear in for ten years, and now I have to face the reality that my son has a disease that can kill him, and how vulnerable he really is.

It's perhaps not fair of me to be "overly emotional" or use my son as a "hand to play" (what a horrible thing to accuse me of!), but, it is what it is. A Brexit fuckup means it is entirely possible we will be facing an insulin shortage, and next April will be extremely worrying for me. It's not about party politics or points scoring, it's about real lives, my son's life.

I don't believe that any Leave voter intended for this, I'm sure you all had admiral intentions and hopes, but people do need to realise this is the consequence now. I'm not blaming Leave voters for their vote. I'm blaming our shambles of a govt for making such a mess of this and continuing with it in the face of disaster.

I just need everyone to know that this is what Brexit means.

Take care inigo x

Ain'tnothing - way to spectacularly miss the point again. You're incapable of reason and rational thought.

Think you're right, Ihatemycar. Lots to do tomorrow, food to hoard, bunkers to build and all that

Inigo - your late night interlocutors are not "leave voters" because they are not British!

Genuinely getting hard to tell what's a parody account and what's not now, this threads so batshit presumably we're Russian bots now?! That's actually funny

Not a Leave voter or a Russian, this threads hysterical in more ways than one lol

My anxiety is that while things are shaking down, idiots will use the excuse to riot in cities. And we have en exhausted and depleted police force so the army may become involved.

I wish we weren’t leaving but we need to keep our heads. Most things will carry on being viable if a bit tough for a good few years, if we don’t panic and descend to looting and shooting.

Some of you really are absolutely vile attacking a Mother who is scared about her son’s health. Can you not see and understand that when you have a family member who is dependent on medication for survival how incredibly scary it is when papers are reporting possible interruptions to the supply of that medication? It’s so easy for you dismiss as scaremongering and hysterical when you’re not in the position.

We’ve gone from it being something no one had to even think of a couple of years ago to this. And yet we still get the same shittbabout being ok before being in the EU and how we survived the war, on and on, ignoring the points people make the rules governing WTO trading. For fucks sake, leave Inigo alone and try to understand why she feels as she does.

Inigo my DH is T1 diabetic and has been since 9. I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through. He has a good life nearly 40 years down the line from diagnosis, is well controlled and it doesn’t stop him from doing things. I know his Mum went through some really difficult times when he was diagnosed and I can’t imagine what you’ve been through. I was out with a friend who is very senior in a Diabetes hospital department recently, she has an insulin dependent child and sibling. I asked if she anticipates issue with insulin supply and she isn’t worried at this point as the ramifications are so huge. We’re putting in prescriptions very slightly early and are building up a small surplus in the fridge. If there is any disruption to electricity we have an ice box that keeps things cool for up ti 5 days so will have bottles of frozen water in freezer to get that up and running.

Friend agreed this is sensible approach but I suspect pretty confident it is unnecessary. I’m choosing to trust her judgement as her family have track record of being quite astute. Her family dairy farm is coping well at the moment as managed to get enough fodder cut when they saw the Signs of the weather weather this summer to cope with feeding the animals over the summer over and above their winter needs. They’ve been very successful and are in no danger of running out.

I am and will remain incredibly pissed off I’m having to even think about this but it is what it is at the moment and when government were asked to vote in starting the summer break early to give less chance of it collapsing it’s obvious to any rational person that a hefty dose of self preservation a sensible precaution and having supplies in to ride out any disruption is clearly sensible. We were caught a bit short in the snow so I see it as killing two birds with one stone.

Someone mentioned eg boxes. End of March is around the end of winter crops and before the summer ones get going, known as the hungry gap. At this point UK veg box providers generally import to keep supply going so if supply chain hit then would expect these to be affected.

*InigoMontoyaWillcox

Any Leave voters reading this - I'd really like you to consider this consequence.

There might be no insulin for my son (for any of the diabetics in the UK). He might die.

That's what your Brexit means.*

I am horrified at the responses to this. Don't be mean to me because I voted differently to you.no actual response to the issues
And yes whoever said people in Canada have insulin... Yes they do. So how quickly can we get it over here in sufficient quantities for this posters son and all the others like him? And presumably someone is sorting that out yes? Plans probably need to start now?
I don't expect a response, just abuse. Resume

Somebody mentioned not having enough space to store emergency supplies, I don't so I'm using suitcases instead. They're only used a few times a year so definitely can hold dry, none perishables like pasta. Tins & bottles can be stored in there too as long they're upright & the case is stored flat. Just a thought for people worried about storage space.

FASH84
Anyone else remember the millennium bug and all the crazy prepping 😂
Yes. And surprise surprise a few people made billions out of the crazy hysteria.

I so wish we had a 'get a grip' emoticon
honestly so many of you are being pathetic, wound up and indoctrinated by social media and the left-wing press
if the UK has so little backbone in its younger generations - heaven help us if there was a real 'crisis'
As I was reading some of the posts on here - I was thinking about what my parents/grandparents generation went through during the war - they would be really appalled at how gutless some of the recent generations have become - I hope MN is not representative.
I saw an item on the news the other day where a 101 yo lady had recently died and she delivered spitfires during the war and was so articulate. What a strong proud lady she was. That is my sort of role model. She would not be whinging on Mn about her lot.
We are moving out of a trading bloc - not going to war with the rest of the world
The EU is a corrupt dictatorial organisation that has successively bound us tighter politically and socially by promising everything with a very high price. And appealing to the 'haves' by promising gap years in Europe and forever sunny uplands in the EU for ever (at least until the next treaty took away even more of our independence)
What we need is a short sharp shock to regain some of our nation's pride - which is why the 17.4 million people voted LEAVE and believe me many of us did it with the future of our descendants in mind.

I remember the millennium bug. I worked in IT we spent years preparing for it, testing and fixing software. That's why it wasn't a bigger issue!

@lindalee3

The UK was not doing perfectly well before joining the rest of Europe. In the 70s the UK was broke and confused - looking in bewilderment across the Channel at a Europe that had rebuilt itself from the rubble of WW2 and was now forging ahead while the UK was suffering strikes, mismanagement, corruption, fuel shortages, 3-day working weeks (for 3 days pay). The UK was begging to join the Common Market, but strangely, not in order to learn and benefit from the ways in which the European nations were working together, but rather with the intention of being top-dog, dominating the discussions and showing the Europeans how things should be done.

Some politicians have spent the last 40 years spinning this line - 'UK is best, worthy of exceptionalism, opt-outs, special terms etc' - and refusing to accept that the world has changed. On 29th March, we're about to find out how wrong they were.

What we need is a short sharp shock to regain some of our nation's pride - which is why the 17.4 million people voted LEAVE and believe me many of us did it with the future of our descendants in mind

Genuine question. Why would a short sharp shock and here i assume you mean an economic one? give us back our nations pride?

I just dont get how lower GDP growth and having even less tax take is going to make anyone proud in their country, even if it only lasted a few years, how would we come out of it?

The last time we had a short sharp shock, we ended up with an IMF loan, a 3 day week, power cuts and only really came out of it because we had N.Sea oil and could be argued we joined the EEC lol!

The last time we had a short sharp shock, we ended up with an IMF loan, a 3 day week, power cuts and only really came out of it beca
What was this last shock that caused this ? I remember it as being the power of the unions whom today’s workers avoid.

buiys shares in pasta companies

Got to be a wind up

I was a remainer and am not stock piling. Medicine is a separate issue so I am talking only of food. The only thing we did was lock ourselves in on our better mortgage for 5years to make sure we weren’t caught if the rates rise because of brexit.

After reading the panic on this thread though I think I will begin stock piling. If people’s reactions on here is actually indicative of the general public then we will run out of food whether there is an actual shortage or not from everyone panic buying. I have a cupboard. I will be popping some bits in there and, no doubt, adding to the problem along with everyone else.

What we need is a short sharp shock to regain some of our nation's pride

So we're going to trash the UK economy, close what remaining manufacturing we have, make farming unprofitable, tear up 750 treaties and agreements that we have with the rest of the world, make millions of well-paid workers unemployed, reduce the NHS to an 'Emergencies Only' service, suffer shortages of food, medicines and fuel and risk civil unrest.

Yeh, that's going to make us feel good and regain our pride. Next you'll be telling us that throwing a teenage tantrum, wrecking our room and setting fire to the house and trying to burn the neighbours' houses down as well will really impress the world.

Clear evidence of how ERP vendors deliberately exaggerated the possible impact of "The Millennium Bug" (planes could "literally fall out of the sky") in order to sell their solutions.
www.scmfocus.com/scmhistory/2013/09/y2k-issue-deliberately-exaggerated-erp-vendors/

What we need is a short sharp shock to regain some of our nation's pride

Utter twat.

which is it- it’s like the milenium bug or it’s like the Second World War?
Can brexiteers make up their minds.