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.

To the PP with unworried friends who work in the city...

I have a relative who worked for the treasury as an economist who is considering stockpiling. So where does that leave us? I asked him because I don't trust the press or government to be completely honest.

I'm not looking to pick a fight with you I'm just pointing out the uncertainty is so great that even the more knowledgeable types have differing opinions.

Yes that's probably true about differing opinions even among the knowledgeable.

All the NOBODY KNOWS answers , don't the posters saying this think that somebody should know ?

Well how on earth could they when it hasn't happened yet?

We need reassurance from our elected Government.

So far they have indicated stocking up.

So no wonder people are worried.

Well no one knows what’s going to happen. Some would like to plan for possible scenarios, some want to carry on as they are. To each her own.

Either side shouting the other side down just looks like a total fool though.

I have the money and space to store food and essentials, that we would use up anyway. It seems rather dim witted if I didn’t do so, as we are entering a period of political uncertainty and I have children to look after.

@BettyBooHoo - if people feel a bit more empowered to deal with a tricky situation then, great, might help them generally. If not and they go on to something else, not a lot I can do about that. Pretty sure being snide doesn't help. Or projecting your own bugbear about someone you know who is a pain in the arse.

Everybody knows it’s going to be shite- even most brexiteers admit this (only they think it’s shite and we all deserve the shock or something or it will be shite but only for 20 years and after that it will be glorious)

The question is how shite will it be?

It is getting a bit hysterical here.

Anonymous posters on any forum do not have any answers.

Our elected reps and Government need to calm this all down now.

Oh, I forgot, they are all on their holidays now and nothing will be said for a month or so.

Great time for worry and hysteria really.

Helmet.

It will be 50 years. Jacob Rees Mogg said that. He is running the show now anyway despite calls to the contrary.

But he is ok moneywise, and has agreed to move his capital fund to Dublin already.

We are mugs. Aren't we?

Anonymous posters on any forum do not have any answers.

If you had followed the anonymous commenter "JDD" on eureferendum.com or "AntonyWycher" on the Guardian (same person) you would have known months ago about the stuff that's in the headlines now. He claims to be a government Brexit advisor with responsibilty for liaising with the USA and WTO, and the author of the 'Armageddon' report. If he's a fantasist he is a scarily accurate one.

It is pretty mug like to say it's a great time for worry and hysteria, so in that respect you'd be a mug, yes.

This is worth a read. Looks like the government don't get the full implications of a disruption in the supply chain.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/29/no-deal-brexit-food-supply-chain-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I wouldn't worry unduly - because I think there will be some sort of deal - I don't think the EU will let us crash out. Jeremy Hunt's point to EU countries that if the EU thinks UK people are suspicious now, just wait for the hate if it's involved in our rapid decline, is a good one. The whole point of the EC / EU was stability within Europe. Germany knows what rapid economic decline can lead to and will be mindful of that.

I do think these reminders / forecasts are coming from a sensible place though. Just after the Chequers collapse there was a growing sense of "well, just stuff Johnny EU foreigner, we'll go it alone and be totally fine". These reminders are - rightly - pointing out what crashing out on WTO terms actually would look like. And by making sure there is no appetite for that among the British public, the government is making it less likely - by preparing the British people for the compromise that inevitably there must be to keep the lights on.

bell

Yes I get you are sensible and I apologise if I have offended you.

I think the hysteria surrounding Brexit is appaling and I completely sympathise with anxiety issues but honestly sometimes humour is a good defence and a good strategy.

Op honestly hide the Brexit threads

I agree with you longtalljosie I actually don’t think we will see much difference post Brexit as a deal will be cut and we will end up paying a lot more for the benefit.

Agustarella

That is fine, but our own Government have been infighting so much that there is no leadership or guidance. So it will all go tits up eventually.

Esoteric stuff will never hit the majority. That is reality, so we are left with messages from the usual msm. I would not trust them as far as I could throw them either. Their bread is buttered from their donations and backers.

The UK is truly in an awful bind ATM.

I must admit, I do find it a tiny bit amusing (and ironic) that FrancinePefko42 is invoking karma, now it's biting her on her arse after her appallingly patronising tone yesterday to a fellow parent of a diabetic child (worried about how she's going to keep him alive!) !

"You total, absolute CUNT for calling me a liar about my own daughter. You have no idea how much I will be CURSING you in the coming days, weeks, months -"

Francine Knock yourself out.

Why get so upset? I don't understand this, if you're so sure everything is going to be ok for you and your vulnerable type 1 child.

I can understand that your determination to believe that everything will be ok is to do with protecting yourself because you can't deal with the frightening reality of maybe things being chaotic and difficult if we crash out next March.

I urge you to stock up on insulin for your child's sake, despite that. Even if everything goes very smoothly it will keep in the fridge for a long while. You have nothing to lose.

Will all go tits up ....again with the presenting as facts.
You know as much as the rest of us, you have no idea it will go up so stop pretending you know it all when you don't. It's pure speculation presented as facts to whip it up more.

"I don't think the EU will let us crash out. "

I think you need to get real. There may not be a crash out, but it will be the UK who relents and agrees.

The hubris of all this amazes me.

Absentminded - why so upset after you said that? Really?

rainbows

have you had a sleep yet? Constant posting without any firm argument or result seems to me to be obsessive.

But to be fair, you are not getting much traction here. That is because you have not argued your point well at all.

This is worth a read if anyone cares to.

cer.eu/in-the-press/eu-has-36-free-trade-deals-non-eu-countries-will-they-roll-over-britain-after-brexit

Yes, really.

I have never come across another parent so apparently relaxed about their diabetic child not having insulin - even if that's just a small chance.

The risk of an insulin shortage may be small (we hope) but the consequences are devastating.

I concede that for some parents, it's too scary to think about the implications of that scenario so they retreat to a place of denying there's any chance of no insulin and shout at the rest of us diabetics/ parents for getting in a "fanny flapdoodle" I believe was the phrase of choice

Rainbowsandsmiles is only posting for the shitsandgiggles. They know they have nowt worthy of contributing and think that jokes about grips and tinned food makes up for that. Bless.