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 think some people think law is going to be meaningless and murder will become legal while the average human reverts to a feral state or die.

I think most people have a few tins a dry food stocked up anyway don't they?
Corned beef hangs around for centuries.

When we had the snow, back before the heatwave, I thought we'd be fine as we have a massive Tesco superstore in walking distance. I was wrong because panic buyers cleared the shelves quickly before they could re-stock.

What they ran out of most quickly was fresh vegetables.

Not really possible to stockpile those is it? I suppose I could stock up on frozen peas, but anything else is barely edible.

the important thing to remember is the political agenda behind the hysteria. Remainers want another referendum or to revoke article 50. The only possible way to do this is to scare the absolute shit out of us all. They’re not going to take it lying down, so expect lots more scaremongering. Years of it. Only when Brexit is long over, (we’re talking years not months) will they start to pipe down.

Yes papayasareyum because even the most ardent Brexiteers acknowledge it will take many years to feel the benefits, if not decades.

Whilst we remain a capitalist society and shops exist to sell stuff and make a profit I have no concerns.

I don't get it either. And I am EU so I am not sure what I should be scared of. Internet is such a confusing place nowadays.
Should I be scared of going hungry?
Or of being made to leave (which on a positive sidewould result in me not being hungry?)

CaptainKirk,

Tinned corned beef is just delicious. Pity that opening the cans may result in a trip to A+E though. If A+E still exists in this Armageddon. Well they will have no drugs or other meds and staff will have fekked off to their home countries.

All for a corned beef sandwich.

But, by the same logic the tin could also be a most powerful weapon, mightier than the deadly crossbow.

I might start watching macgyver re runs in preparation

2 years ago - we've got our country back/easiest trade deal in human history/they need us more than we need them/BMW's, Prosecco/we hold all the cards/350 mil for NHS

Now - no deal/food shortages/benefits of leaving in 50 years..

Its not Mumsnet thats gone nuts its Brexit Britain.

OlderThan Aldi won't crash and burn. They have already implemented their Brexit plan. 77% of their goods are already British and don't need to go through customs. They have also been communicating with suppliers to ensure a smooth as possible transition in event of 'no deal'. They are several (dozen) steps ahead of the government.

Seeing this is the tin foil nuts thread.

In 50 years time we will see the benefits. From the mouth of Jacob Rice-Pudd.
What is going to change in fifty years time, apart from sea levels?

Just want to thank the OP, and all the other normals on this thread, who have balanced out some of the pious, aggressive anti-leave rants on these boards! As with the referendum campaign, a minority of hysterical doom-mongers seem able to drown out everyone else. I'm often tempted to argue some of it on the Brexit threads but I see whenever anyone is 'invited' to do this, they just get pounced on by lecturing militants who seem determined to doggedly argue until the world actually does end! - so there's no point.
This thread has been a refreshing reminder that normality still exists here!!

There’s actually a thread telling people what to stock pile. Totally unbelievable.

I think some people just enjoy drama or hsve very little RL problems to deal with they have to invent some.

PestymcPestFace Oh, that's good, pleased to be wrong on that. My comment on Waitrose versus Aldi was all about where their supplies come from. It was supposed to be a lighthearted remark but I got roasted for not considering those less well off by middleagedalready. I shop in both, so for me, that's win/win

Just remind me who is planning for no deal and who is planning to stockpile food and medication? Oh that's right, it's the government.
Given everything else they've not managed to deliver, do people really trust them with managing to magic up a stockpile of food and medicines?

If there's no chance of it happening, why are they preparing for it. If they are preparing for it, doesn't that mean there's an issue?

Here they come

I think some people just enjoy drama or hsve very little RL problems to deal with they have to invent some

^^ This.

I am in that people are actually thinking like this... taking the bath panels off to store tins of beans, arming yourself because of looters knowing you have the beans, all the supermarkets closing because the shelves are completely empty, government rationing ... it's all nonsense.

If your 'thing' is prepping, that's fine, it's a hobby, even if it's a strange one, but stop causing anxiety and worry for the more nervous amongst us (not me) It's just not fair, it's not your duty to go on at people about how awful it's going to be because you don't know.

I'm old enough to have lived through 3 day weeks, power cuts, the winter of discontent. Of course there was no internet then but everyone just went about their business quietly and made do... there was none of this mass hysteria. We ate what was around, lit candles when the power went off... and look! We survived!

why are they preparing for it. If they are preparing for it, doesn't that mean there's an issue?

Because there job is to prepare for all outcomes, it's actually what they are supposed to do.

The reason it seems weird is because up until now they've not actually had to do any work for decades.

Right, so brexit is about survival? Wasn’t exactly sold that way at the start.

I'm often tempted to argue some of it on the Brexit threads but I see whenever anyone is 'invited' to do this, they just get pounced on by lecturing militants who seem determined to doggedly argue until the world actually does end!

Exactly - which is why the Brexit board is just full of remainers now.

Right, so brexit is about survival?

Yes because the government are using the buffer they should be using anyway brexit means the purge.

I am a Prepper because I like to be self sufficient, and prepared for any eventuality. Anything from a car brake down, power cut through to civil unrest.

Up until these threads started I assumed that it was normal to be prepared for stuff