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.

Keyboardkate, you fail to grasp noone knows. What is the point of running round expecting everyone to doom and panic with you? It's pointless.

No one gets it. But our betters know it will all be fine for (them) us.

Better to be a cynic and buy ahead than be a fool and trust those in power.

The no one knows thing is what got us into this shit in the first place though. Just voting for something they didn't really know enough about. Doing the same in the run up blindly plodding on isn't that assuring tbh.

Now Jeremy off you go and take Dianne with you while the sane debate

Tell me why anyone who doesn't agree with nationalism is suddenly a Jeremy Corbyn fan?

I'd love to know how people can put two and two together and come up with this nonsense.

It's because they've seen Jeremy Corbyn being slated by David Cameron for not singing the national anthem, and generally being slated by the right wing press and think to themselves that anyone else who considers themselves Republican is automatically one and the same. Very boring. Very unoriginal. Guess they've never heard of Oliver Cromwell.

The current operation stack uses the M20 as a lorry park, with traffic diverted to the A20. The idea is if this becomes full, then the M26 is also closed to traffic. There have been various plans to build a lorry park but of course the government have done nothing about it.

At least there IS a plan, albeit one which will close 2 major routes in the already congested south-east. What about smaller ports, like Plymouth and Harwich, that nevertheless carry a pretty significant amount of freight?

I live within a few miles of Shoreham and Newhaven. Shoreham only has cargo ships, afaik, but Newhaven has 2 ferries a day that carry enough lorries to cause a significant problem when sailings are cancelled because of weather. It's practically in the town centre and there's nowhere to put them.

GirlsBlouse17 excellent post

rainbows darling, what is your argument in the debate please? YAWN.

Can you confirm that all will be well on Leaving Day? NO. You cannot neither can anyone else.

You are an anonymous poster on here who has had NO critical arguments for your views yet.

I don't blame you personally for that, since our Government is speaking like you are.

No one is liking this at all now IMO.

If you think people are panicking do you not thing that our Government should be calming things down?

No offence but an anonymous internet poster is not going to convince me. I need leadership now.

Can I confirm all will be well on Leaving Day?
No.
Can you confirm that we need to kick the bath panels in, hoard beans under there, or stick them in suitcases under the bed and in the woods too? That planes stop flying, food disappears, people will loot and rampage?
No.

I love all these remainers with there crystal ball, they can see into the future, can only see the bad, They have no factual evidence for what they are saying, when the government wisely take precautions they moan, The great EU, it’s like having a husband that abuses you, but your worried that that’s the best you can get and he might hurt you if you leave, Let’s stay together for the kids, never no mention about how good the EU will be for us in the future only we can’t leave because it will be bad for a little while, Can’t you see the EU don’t want a deal, why don’t they tell us what they will except and we can go from there.

I think that these preppers are the type to already suffer with anxiety and are generally a little bit scared of life anyway. Prepping allows them to indulge their anxieties.

Have several family members who work in the City and they're not worried at all.

Funny that. I've been in abusive relationships before (shit analogy btw). I don't think I've ever thought for once in my life I was being 'abused' by he EU. Felt like I've been metaphorically spanked by the government but that's a separate issue.

Rainbows.

You have your points to make, but they are not making much sense really.

In fact you are making an ass out of yourself because sadly you are just ranting with no back up at all.

Well since you have been posting for nearly 48 hours non stop now, something has to give. Get to bed love and come back tomorrow.

I have no issues with debating points but you are relentlessly talking shite.

Calm and controlled is the way to go.

TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince
I’m shitting myself. I’m going to my doctor on Wednesday to ask for counselling. Not that it will help, but l am just freaking out big time. How can a responsible government fuck with peoples lives like this

A political / administrative change happening in 7 months time has caused faecal incontinence? You are now going to the use the time and resources of an already overstretched NHS to ask for counselling.

Nope @BettyBooHoo - prepper here. I prep and then get in with enjoying my life. Like having insurance.

Bettyboohoo - I agree with regards to the anxiety, one person on the threads said they were genuinely in tears after reading the prepper Brexit threads. I'm not surprised with some of the posts.

I'd rather people asked for counseling to be fair as if it's inducing panic and anxiety it might help more than listening to others on the internet feeding it for you and egging you on to higher heights of anxiety.

Not egging people on @rainbowsandsmiles . Offering low key sensible proportionate advice. If you characterise that as hysteria, I wonder if maybe you have a problem.

@FrancinePefko42 Thank you!

Why does prepping have to be seen as panicking? At the least on leaving the EU prices aren't likely to go down. So if you have the money and space to stock up a bit why isn't that just good financial sense? The worst that will happen is you won't need to buy toothpaste or pasta for a long time.

Also, I get a bit fed up of the assumption that NZ is just desperate to be our trade partner again. We were great trade partners until we joined the EU and the UK basically found new best friends. Since then NZ has forged new trade relations and may not necessarily feel inclined to jeopardize these in favour of the UK. I give NZ as an example but this may equally apply to Canada or other Commonwealth countries.

Rainbows darling

What a patronising cow.

AllIHsveToDo

Yes gosh all who know Jeremy is a monumental tosser and has never run a Union, club, business or successful event all base these assertions on the right wing press. Of course we do all us Jeremy cynics are too stupid to see his real worth!

If you are not patriotic, don’t thank your lucky stars you live in a free fair democratic country you are frankly an idiot

Bellini surge - you might not be, you seem fairly sensible and just like to prep and stash for emergencies. That can be seen as fairly sensible. Some are full on hysterical though. Which helps noone, especially if people say that they are in tears over reading all the panicking.

@Seasawride if you think I like that twat Jeremy Corbyn, think again.

Actually you sound pretty normal bell and it sounds like this is something you've always done?

But lot of people on this thread sound like they are generally anxious/scared of life anyway and are just using Brexit as the peg to hang it from.

Physically crying in fear? Asking your GP for counseling? These are not the reactions of someone with a normal mental adjustment, they're really not.

@rainbowsandsmiles - one person has said they are suffering from anxiety. On any other thread that would be get sympathetic responses. Not Mean Girls rehashing.
I go on these threads to try and tell people to calm down and take control of their situation with practical advice.
Pity that a bunch of numpties keep piling in mocking and sneering.

I too can remember the 3 Day week, rolling power cuts and rubbish piling up in the street (even if as a child I enjoyed the time off school wink). It wasn't a nice time. The first time huddling in front of an open gas oven in candle light for heat was an adventure. Subsequent times were not.

I was in my late teens and working during the 3-day week. I thought it was great fun, especially getting sent home early from work and reading by candlelight in front of an open fire. The bread shortage was caused by a bakers' strike. My BF's mum taught me how to bake bread and I taught my mum, so we both learned a useful skill.

Oddly, although I remember the Winter of Discontent and the bin men's strike, I have no recollection at all of rubbish being piled up in the streets. I'd left home by then, so would have had my own rubbish to get rid of, but I really can't remember what we did with it.