To think that this place has gone completely nuts?

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I've had a break of a few weeks, and come back to many threads about prepping, stockpiling food and batterie so, and mass panic about the end of civilisation as we know it.

Dafuq!?

I might start stashing all the wine. Just in case, you see. In the unlikely event France et al say "on yer bike" over wine in the future, I can always try making my own. Quite fancy tramping about in a big basket of grapes like in the movies or I'll go foraging for elderflower

The original trade organisation before the Common Market morphed into the EU was set up by ex Nazis

I think that's highly unlikely, given the official founding fathers of the EU included Churchill, Adenauer, Bech, Monnet etc.

YANBU

The hysteria is pathetic

It's people stockpiling which will cause shortages, not BREXIT.

Probably, but so what? I don’t trust the government. My familys food security is my responsibility.

Food shortages, expensive fresh food, a domplete change from the easy, cheap shopping experience we have now.

Given that this country has a serious obesity crisis, I can't see this being a totally bad thing tbh

So if Brexit isn't the success it should be it's due to the negative influence of those who thought leaving the EU in this way wasn't a great idea.
If Brexit fails and it is only an if because no one knows what will happen, it will be because it was a duff idea not because some people thought it was a duff idea. Those who think this is a good idea have the responsibility to make it work, so far I am underwhelmed by how they are doing but they have some months left.

The UK imports £10 billion of fruit and veg annually so if there is disruption to the supply chain that's where the empty shelves will be.

There's really nothing wrong with eating fruit in season and doing without guavas.

wellerr the problem I see with that is that it will be the worst food in terms of nutrition that will be the cheapest. The fresh fruit and veg, humane meat and well sourced fish is likely to be the most expensive. So people may get more obese not less, food poverty doesn't automatically lead to slimness.

One reason I'm a Brexiteer is the way the EU has treated this country like a cash cow for years. That's all they really care about so that French farmers and German manufacturers mainly can be subsidized at the expense of the likes of us and countries like Greece who had loans thrown at them knowing they would never be able to repay them

I thought I was reading a Trump bit of prose there for a minute...

40% of vegetables and 37% of fruit sold in the UK comes from the EU.

I don't think the EU has cornered the market in guavas (yet)?

food poverty doesn't automatically lead to slimness.

If you don't get enough to eat, you lose weight.

If you get enough and it's the wrong things, you gain weight.

But the argument here is that people will be starving and huddling round a tin of peaches with a whittled spoon each, which I just don't buy.

QuizQueen : "It's people stockpiling which will cause shortages, not BREXIT"...

Well, if you read this entire thread, it is apparent that The Majority, The Brexiters, won't be stockpiling, so there'll be no shortages, according to The Will of The People.

So that's OK, then.

if you read this entire thread, it is apparent that The Majority, The Brexiters, won't be stockpiling, so there'll be no shortages, according to The Will of The People.

Yes because everyone who posted here voted leave, and every leave voter posted saying they won't stockpile, that's exactly what the content of this thread said.

I didn't vote Leave! And I won't be stockpiling!

Hurrah, a sensible thread!

Some of the doom mongering on MN would almost be funny (in a black humour kind of way), if there weren't people getting themselves so upset about it.

A bit of prep is probably sensible. Scaring people in some attempt to score Brexit fear points isn't.

To be fair, I think the stockpiling under plywood floors was for being on a submarine, rather than being concerned in Surbiton...

I'm bemused by all of these threads. I voted remain. But I dont have an apocalyptic vision of life post Brexit. I think its a bad idea, but I dont think there will be totally empty shelves and looting in the streets though.

Just for the record I voted remain, I respect everyone who voted differently and the end of the world senarios do not represent me or many people like me Blushah.
There won't be dead littering the street, wild west style law keeping, 5 o'clock government subsidiesed Neo Nazi marches or a disintegration of law.

You could go for the full submarine experience and remove all the labels from your cans, and when you open them they all have to go into the same pot. Curried beans, tuna and cherry pie mix casserole anyone?

Dog food, problem solved and a massive range of flavours.

That's what I'm doing for when those marauders come for my stock pile. No cross bow.

Just 500 tins of label-less dog food.

That'll fucking show em

Well, I am actually hugely relieved to hear that everything is under control, because in my local Rag, The Framley Examiner,... it said this:

Damn! That was 'The Week'!

Ooer!

I don’t trust the government.

Normally, neither do I...but I do actually trust them not to allow actual real food shortages, for the simple reason that if they did, they would never be elected again. Never. If the Tories bring about actual real food shortages in 2019 - I don't mean us being low on baked beans for a few weeks, I mean real shortages to the point where we should be stockpiling now - then that will end them. They will simply never be in power again.

I trust them to want to prevent that.