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To think that this place has gone completely nuts?

287 replies

WellErrr · 29/07/2018 11:04

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!?

OP posts:
FinallyHere · 30/07/2018 06:06
  • 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.*

That seems to make sense, but then when it comes to the border in Ireland, I am just not confident that they have sufficient grasp, in order to not make a complete horlicks of it. But then , perhaps they just don't care about people on another island...

derxa · 30/07/2018 06:51

There's really nothing wrong with eating fruit in season and doing without guavas. I think a lot of MNetters are worried about not getting their luxuries more than anything. Life will be simply ghastly!!

Oliversmumsarmy · 30/07/2018 07:04

Well to avoid it all you could just go on holiday.

CrabappleBiscuit · 30/07/2018 07:28

I like tomatoes, salad crops and lemons and oranges. Britain will have to erect more polytunnels to grow the first two and can’t grow the others.

It’s not about eating in season, the U.K. can’t produce enough food. And there’s no one left to pick it.

We are in perfectly good trade deals. And well have to start all over again from a position of weakness.

Yes the eu needs reform, but we can’t crash out of it.
I’m horrified by the lack of knowledge on here about this subject.

Jacob Rees jog is now saying it could take 50 years to see any benefit from Brexit, is that what leave voters voted for? Adaquate food supplies and a pay off in fifty years? www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2018/jul/24/two-50-or-100-years-when-do-leavers-think-brexit-will-pay-off

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 30/07/2018 09:39

Most of this come from the propaganda machine titled The Guardian, the paper has realised people are sick of constant trans support and are now filling pages with stockpiling horror.
Sheep will follow.

CrabappleBiscuit · 30/07/2018 09:40

It's also in the FT, the Times and the Independent.

The Govt has put together plans to ask manufacturers and retailers to stockpile.

It's coming from the Govt. Partly I'm sure to try and stop a hard Brexit - but that's where it originates.

GhostofFrankGrimes · 30/07/2018 09:41

Most of this come from the propaganda machine titled The Guardian

The rags have also covered the stockpiling story.

Sheep will follow.

Sums up Brexit and the tabloids quite well.

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 30/07/2018 09:43

Stockpiling is good, we need a buffer.

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 30/07/2018 09:44

CrabappleBiscuit

My reply wasn't specifically to you but to the thread as a whole.

PestymcPestFace · 30/07/2018 09:51

Actually some of it is from the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, the Grocer and other trade bodies and publications. They made and implemented plans for an unknown deal and are now making additional plans for a NO deal. Maybe Guardian journalists know how to research (rather than just pinch stories off MN).

CrabappleBiscuit · 30/07/2018 09:53

captainKirk retailers and manufacturers can't stockpile. Hence why people are worried.

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 30/07/2018 09:55

captainKirk retailers and manufacturers can't stockpile. Hence why people are worried.

There's no need to worry though, I actually come from the future, it will be fine.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 30/07/2018 19:34

I can Categorically say if someone I know confides they’re stockpiling provisions under the bath, hollowing out the sofa to stash tins of beans,I’ll seriously fucking worry about their mental health. Will I tell them this,Aye! sure thing

If there’s a run on items I’ll get pally wi the pta queens, they have the access to the harvest festival cupboard. A cupboard rammed with tins of all descriptions. Flageolet bean surprise anyone?

I’ll get busy with flour,water,yeast make a loaf

Blushah · 30/07/2018 21:01

Hearing a bit less from the mockers now that it transpires 'stockpiling' is government policy, eh? Wink

rainbowsandsmiles · 30/07/2018 21:18

Nah, it's because they've all been shifted off to Brexit board thank fk.

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 30/07/2018 21:19

Actually I killed the thread saying I was a time traveller, there are other almost identical threads right now

SusanneLinder · 30/07/2018 21:31

Not stockpiling, but as I am a huge fan of Italian pasta, passata, German ham, French wine and Italian Olive oil, so I might get some extra. At the very least the prices will go up!

Am concerned about the meds for DH though.

CoteDAzur · 30/07/2018 21:38

"countries like Greece who had loans thrown at them knowing they would never be able to repay them"

Hilarious Grin Greece issued and sold those bonds. Do you have any idea how sovereign debt works?

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 30/07/2018 22:53

Yea. But the govt Isnt running a masterclass on stuffing beans down the sofa

Seasawride · 30/07/2018 23:05

Fuck me I have dismantled my bath and shoved tons of beans and peas there.

Nope I havnt as I havnt actually lost the fucking plot.

Yawn yawn. Op you are right.

Some people have taken leave of the little sense they were born with

Roussette · 31/07/2018 07:22

Hearing a bit less from the mockers now that it transpires 'stockpiling' is government policy, eh?

Really? I am an avid current affairs watcher and I'm on Twitter far too much I follow about 800 and have the same amount of followers, and yet I've not seen this. Yes, TM has talked about the Govt stockpiling medicines and blood but I have not heard a Govt anouncement telling the general public to stockpile food.

Oh hang on... I saw one bloke's opinion in the Guardian doom mongering at the weekend but I don't take that as 'government policy'.

This thread is ful of 'mockers' as you like to call us!

P.S. I'm a non panicing Remainer.

BigChocFrenzy · 31/07/2018 10:01

That hysterical Road Haulage Association ?

www.rha.uk.net/news/press-releases/2018-07-july/brexit-and-the-uk-haulage-industry-–-no-deal-no-jobs-no-food

... for the 7000+ members of the Road Haulage Association who, between them operate nearly 50% of the UK’s 496,000 lorry fleet (and the UK haulage industry as a whole),
the prospect of a future without a Brexit deal looks extremely bleak

BigChocFrenzy · 31/07/2018 10:07

That hysterical Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency chair ?

Millions of patients could be affected by 'no-deal' Brexit medicines shortages, says MHRA chief

www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/news/millions-of-patients-could-be-affected-by-no-deal-brexit-medicines-shortages-says-mhra-chief/20205240.article?firstPass=false

SlartiAardvark · 31/07/2018 10:09

Hearing a bit less from the mockers now that it transpires 'stockpiling' is government policy, eh?

No, it's just that we're bored of taking the piss out of you & have moved on to other threads..... Wink

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