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.

What was this last shock that caused this ? I remember it as being the power of the unions whom today’s workers avoid

Massive miss the point..... the PP said this country needs a Short Sharpe Shock... how does this restore National Pride?

Maybe you d care to answer? its hardly the same as winning the World Cup.

Aside, the cause of the economic collapse of the early 70s had it roots in high public debt of the 60's, and mainly in a tripling of OPEC oil prices..
Imagine what would happen to the UK now if oil went from $70 a barrel to $210 ? but sure blame it all on the unions.

I’m sorry to hear of your fears inigo.

The people who make light of them have no idea.

Ok -read as much of this thread as it developed overnight as I can tolerate.
I'm on these threads all the time and I post about focussing on the short term difficulties we might have and what most people can try to do to mitigate against them.
I don't give a shit (at least on here) whether you voted Leave or Remain. Whether you see sunlit uplands in the future or a steaming pile of shit for the next 50 years.
People like @InigoMontoyaWillcox are NOT using emotional blackmail to make a point. This is to you @rainbowsandsmiles and others.
Even a short term problem in the supply of insulin, even a day, can be difficult for a diabetic (I am avoiding stronger terms). It seems highly likely there will be hiccups in supply of all sorts of things. It may only be a short hiccup. It may go on for ages. Nobody knows.
I think we all have a role to play in getting extras in (even for a couple of days) so that we are not causing unnecessary and avoidable dramas that the emergency services have to deal with. The emergency services should rightly be focussed on standing by to help people who actually need it.
I genuinely hope we don't need a buffer of food in our homes. I would love to be wrong and look foolish. That would make me happy.
And for what it's worth, I learned about Just In Time in the early 90s.

"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."

100%.

It is actually a highly protective customs union designed to protect prices for its own produce and make it difficult for farmers outside it to sell to us.

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

Can Remainers turn up the oh so successful "Project Fear" any more?
"Project Pooping My Pants with Terror"

@FrancinePefko42 - which is all lovely. Please explain how that solves a short term hiccup in the food supply chain which can have very unpleasant consequences for some people.

Gosh there’s a lot of hysteria on this thread

Nothing is more helpful than stirring up unnecessary panic.

First. World. Problems.

You have such faith in your little band of privileged brexiteers, don’t you? the racist Farage, the resigner Davis, the turncoat Johnson, even the remainer May.

It’s sweet. They’ll sort you out and get you the very best deals won’t they. Because none of the rest of the world know what’s happening, and see our desperation, do they? They’ll sort out the Boarder problems, they’ll sort out the excellent trading deals, they’ll make sure food and meds arrive uninterrupted, they’re so clever, they will unravel forty years of trading relations in the blink of an eye, and no one will even notice: see ultimately British people are far cleverer than the rest of the world and bad things don’t happen to us, see hilarious milenium bug.

Plays national anthem....

Nothing is more helpful than stirring up unnecessary panic

Well it's actually Dominic Raab, minister for Brexit and one of the leaders of the Leave campaign, who has announced that companies need to be stockpiling.

He did so after initially denying that the head of the civil service has told MPs that a breakdown between the UK and the EU could have some “horrendous consequences” that the UK is not yet ready to cope with;

• many aspects of the contingency planning — like the M26 idea and the use of RAF aircraft to ferry supplies of food and medicine around the country — are so drastic that they risk alarming the public.

To restore calm we need some sensible politicians and not the bunch of clowns like Raab, Davis, Fox, Rees-Mogg, Farage etc who think that all will be well as long as we believe hard enough.

The scientists, the business community, the supermarkets, the academics, the Nhs, the civil service, the bank of England, the airlines, even the govt are worried- but that’s because they're hysterical and got no pride.

‘Somebody needs to tell them:

We’re a rich country! ‘how hard can it be?’have a bit of faith! ‘Remember the 2nd world war that all turned out fab! We want to be great like in the 1970s great!

Francine you have been asked a direct question. Do you have a response or would you prefer not to answer?

@rainbowsandsmiles now we are foreign or trolls. Not insomniacs.
I can't catch my breath about how people think we are going to run out of stuff like food or insulin.
My mil is an insulin dependent and two of my friends since they were children. They voted leave.
If you believe the propaganda after March 19 we are going back to the dark ages.
I'll get the bunker ready and extra pasta once I finish building the well.

This is what "Project Pooping My Pants" said would happen in June and July 2016 - in the immediate aftermath of the referendum.

Unemployment would rocket. Tumbleweed would billow through deserted high streets. Share prices would crash. The government would struggle to find buyers for UK bonds. Financial markets would be in meltdown. Britain would be plunged instantly into another deep recession.

Remember all that? It was hard to avoid the doom and gloom, not just in the weeks leading up to the referendum, but in those immediately after it. Many of those who voted remain comforted themselves with the certain knowledge that those who had voted for Brexit would suffer a bad case of buyer’s remorse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/20/brexit-eu-referendum-economy-project-fear

@FrancinePefko42 - not going to answer a direct question, then?

StealthPolarBear
Francine you have been asked a direct question. Do you have a response or would you prefer not to answer?

Run it past me again and I will do my best.

@FrancinePefko42 "Please explain how that solves a short term hiccup in the food supply chain which can have very unpleasant consequences for some people".

bellinisurge
FrancinePefko42 - not going to answer a direct question, then

What is the question?

Thank you. You mentioned we are moving out of a trading bloc and not going to war. You were asked how that would mabage short term disruptions in supplies such as insulin. Even if in the long term it will all be fine, are we 100% sure there will be no short term disruption? Because short term disruption could have devastating consequencesm

@FrancinePefko42 I asked it again in the post exactly before your previous one.

Apologies for my typos

"Please explain how that solves a short term hiccup in the food supply chain which can have very unpleasant consequences for some people"

How what solves a short term hiccup in the food supply chain?

Your assurances that all will be fine, brcaufse we are moving out of a trading bloc. Are you sure there will be no short term supply problems? Short term supply problems in something like insulin are very worrying.

Everything I read predicted that once we brexitted then the real trouble would start.

(We have of course lost Billions of pounds already.)

As your anti-Semitic Brexit leader Farage said: ‘I never said it would be a success’.

Who is it in charge now Davis has wimped out?
Ah Raab, he with the poopy pants- all those emergency measures what a fucking wuss.
Man-up, we’re British and we’re the best!

How any long term benefit that you so lyrically explained will address short term problems?
That bought you enough time to use Google?