To think that this place has gone completely nuts?

[WellErrr]

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!?

YANBU the hysteria here is laughable. I don't know anyone in real life who is 'panicking' about Brexit. Most people I know are level headed, sensible, normal people, who know we will be FINE! Not like the batshit fruit-loops you get on the parallel universe of Mumsnet.

The UK coped quite well before we joined the EU and we will cope VERY well after we leave, (which cannot come soon enough frankly!)

I had to hide a thread last night too. The posters on it were fucking batshit. Coming out with gems like 'I sobbed today with FEAR over Brexit,' and 'we had to prepare for MANY YEARS for the millennium bug, so we need to prepare for the mass fallout of BREXIT; underground bunkers, stockpiling tons of dry, non-perishable food,' and 'I fear for the future of my children!'

Bonkers. Utterly. Fucking. Bonkers.

How do these people get through a day? Serious question.

As a few posters have said, it is scaremongering, pure scaremongering, and it's pathetic. The only 'food shortages' will be because of hysterical numpties going batshit over Brexit stockpiling food!

hysterical numpties going batshit.See that’s why we need Lorraine Kelly she’ll sort them

I really think it’s time HQ brought in the ‘hide poster’ option that’s available on virtually every other social media site.
The hysterical remainers will only get worse the closer we get to leaving, so it would be nice to have the option of blocking them.

If we descend into a dystopian hell the NHS & social workers will rise up unfazed
Chaos,injured people,disputes,discord,shortages,medications not delivered
Yup seen it all before..Next!

@WellErrr YANBU.
I've been reading some of these threads with my mouth literally hanging open. Talk of riots, people breaking into houses for food, electricity cutting out, water shortages etc... it's properly bonkers.

I really do think some posters have way too much time on their hands and too many preppers really, really enjoy the fantasy of an Armageddon situation. More exciting than being a SAHM I imagine.
The thing is, these nut-jobs encourage panic buying which inevitably leads to shortages.
The government are stockpiling medicine and food to ensure we transition smoothly and as a 'just-in-case' - which is exactly what any sensible government should do. This doesn't mean we should all be loading up innards of our sofas with tins of spaghetti hoops and fucking ravioli.

Sure, stock up on some extra tins (we always have pasta and a few tins of soup etc. for times when bad weather or road issues cause delays in shop shelves restocking). But Christ almighty people need to knock it off with the doom mongering.

I think you are right, there are a few that really want it to happen, then followers who want it to happen just to prove people who voted out were idiots, then the people who get ripped in with the hysteria of it all.

If everyone is panic buying, there probably will be food shortages (temporarily like it is when everyone panics at Christmas) it is completely ridiculous and the only way there will be problems.. is if people make problems.

Haha great post brazenhussy
This doesn't mean we should all be loading up innards of our sofas with tins of spaghetti hoops and fucking ravioli
Yup. I read on mn someone recommended remove bath panels put provisions there. Some one else earnestly asking where else can I stockpile?
It’s like some folk love predictions of doom. Brandishing their tins,taking a stand

Project Fear 2.0. I Wish all these remainiacs would freely move to North Korea, I'm sure they'd be far more at home there.

Those with little or no understanding of anything as complex as supply chains have decided there is nothing to be concerned about.

Whew! I'm so relieved.

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

If there’s no deal then the food we get that comes via the EU, not just food from the EU will be affected.

There will be a deal.
Brian will bend over and get it's arse whipped by the EU but there will be a deal.

Britian

I'm from the future I know. Trust me.

Brian should have made a deal this time last year and saved his arse.

Another few months of hysterical /prepping /anti Brexit/ "all Leavers are trash who have ruined the country" threads and we might all be very glad of Armageddon actually arriving...would be infinitely less painful I suspect.

Brian is a very stupid person who spent more time throwing a snap election that uniting parties.

Sad hysterical nonsense ignore and carryon.

You'll be amazed how quickly they shut up when nothing happens, there will be some great offers on bulk tinned food on eBay though.

But Brian will be ok. He has beans and corned beef to look forward to for tea for the next 7 years.

It's also worth bearing in mind that a lot work is going on to work with the impacts of different brexit scenarios, from no-deal upwards, and to come up with solutions. Certainly in my line of work we've been having regular 'stakeholder' (hate that phrase but that's what they call them) meetings with DEFRA identifying potential sticking points and coming up with answers.

Obviously it's not going to be 100% plain sailing, but an awful lot of political capital is being made out of some very fixable problems.

Just thinking of the hysteria around 'there won't be any migrant agricutural labour to pick the crops' for example. Well - it's really not that long since the Eastern european countries joined the EU, and we had plenty of migrant agricultural workers before then. There was a migrant agricultural labour scheme which gave temporary visas - I am pretty certain that a replacement for that is drafted and ready to go in the appropriate corridors of government. (Even ignoring the possibility of gangmasters providing decent wages & conditions that might attract British workers.)

Given the obesity levels in this country a spell of food shortages would probably improve the nation's health immeasurably.

The UK coped quite well before we joined the EU and we will cope VERY well after we leave

Yes because the world is exactly the same place as it was in 1975 isn’t it. We all eat the same foods and have the same standard of living. No products, imports or exports are different.

Oh, and it did take years to fix the millennium bug. Anyone who thinks that was all bullshit really doesn’t understand the problem.

Although I don't believe there is any great need to "stockpile" right now, I do also believe that many people think the gap between comfort and shortages is bigger than it really is (understandably, given how comfortable British life has been in the last 60 years or so). There is a perception that because nothing major has happened in many of our lifetimes, that it never will. Which is obviously not the most logical position to take.

As such, I wouldn't look down on people taking precautionary measures for any event like this. People always think the worst won't happen, until it does! If people want to stock up on food and medicine, let them. If everything turns out great then no harm done.