To be surprised that some friends are buying extra food because of Brexit?

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I suspect that specific foods may get be in short supply for a short period of time, but there will still be plenty of food in the shops. It is not going to be Armageddon. So this seemed an over reaction to me. Or am I going to be that person in the disaster movie who is laughing saying everyone is over reacting, who ends up dead when the disaster finally hits?

I've not stocked up.

What things should I stock up on?

What's likely to be short?

Whitehall hiding behind the EU. My issue with the whole bloody shitshow.

britney
stuff that will not go off
stuff that you would eat anyway

• pasta / rice / pulses
• tinned veg / meat / fish
• bread ingredients
• butter / cheese / milk / eggs

YANBU. It's scaremongering, just as happened when both sides were campaigning before the vote. I'm not stocking up. I remember 1999 when there were dire predictions everywhere about planes falling out of the sky because the computers couldn't cope with the year 2000. A family here (north of Scotland) moved into the country and stockpiled tins of beans, etc. As it was, life continued as normal.

Toothpaste, washing powder, loo roll, sanitary products, soap, shampoo, deodorant.

If not shortages prices will increase

Storecupbiard foods which you can make a meal from

Tinned tomato, anchovy, olives, spaghetti

Pesto, frozen sweet corn & peas, pasta

Curry sauce/paste chicken for freezer or chickpeas

Part bake bread 🥖 tinned tuna & mayonnaise
Tinned soup & part baked rolls

Porridge frozen fruit

Nolmnotspecial

So the £ didn’t crash against the € after the vote and had an affect on the price of imported foods and produce

Millennium Bug, and that’s Bingo!

Ahh yes Project Fear, it is all just made up. Except I'm pretty sure the pound is worth less than before we voted to leave and we haven't actually left yet.
If we we do want to leave can we at least not be honest about the cost of it all.

I remember 1999 when there were dire predictions everywhere about planes falling out of the sky because the computers couldn't cope with the year 2000.

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What’s going to happen to the glut of fresh food going to waste in the EU countries that import their fresh food to us.(Spain, France ) I doubt the EU farmers will take kindly to loosing their crops, profits and livelihoods. We won’t be the only loosers. It’s a mess though.

The only reason why 2k wasn't a problem was because a shed load of people made sure it wasn't. They planned for years.
So far the government have badly practiced having a very very small traffic jam, gave a contract to a company with no ferries that plan to run out of a harbour that couldn't host them.
So I'm seeing how the vote goes next week and yes I'm starting to see what I can stock, including buying seeds for my allotment.

Talkinpeace - thank you 😊

How crazy to be stocking up, its like people going mad when shops close for ONE day at Christmas and Easter. Worried they might not be able to overeat to their usual capacity? We are a developed nation! For goodness sake.

Must be lovely to be so blissfully ignorant.

Are your memories so short? A bit of snow last year for a couple of days left the shops local to us with just a carton of goat milk and so ryvita.

As previously said of course there is going to be a shortage. The main reason being those who have stocked up and bulk buyed far more than they reasonably need!! Could I make a suggestion to those in this scenario. If the shortages don’t materialise, and you find you have stocked up too much, why don’t you give the excess food to food banks so it can be used before expiry dates?

It's not food I will stock up on it's toilet rolls,soap piwder and shampoo. At least I will be spic and span whilst I am starving gand losing weight.

^if you'd read the thread properly, most people have already said this is what they will do.

Please see if you can manage to read it all, as your other point is also addressed many times.

If the shortages don’t materialise, and you find you have stocked up too much, why don’t you give the excess food to food banks so it can be used before expiry dates?

Everything I'm stocking up on is dried or canned so I will use it far before its expiry date

I remember 1999 when there were dire predictions everywhere about planes falling out of the sky because the computers couldn't cope with the year 2000.

I was going to shout BINGO, but I was beaten too it. Slightly impressed it took 500 posts to get to it.

*Private Eye has covered for years the fact that DEFRA (the Department for Eliminating Farming and Rural Areas) under NuLabour gold plated with bells on the EU abattoir rules to give big supermarkets more control.

Its not the EU that caused small slaughterhouses to close - they exist everywhere else
it was Whitehall
as is the case for many of the UK's problems*

Absolutely, and not just Debra. Part of the reasons some wanted to leave the EU and the current lackadaisical attitude to the major problems we might face come down to two things.

1. Many people in the U.K. including many MPs understand so little of what the EU does and how it’s done. Or, in fact how the U.K. is governed.

1. Whitehall has consistently misled/cynically used EU directives. This means the government of the day can tag on bits to directives and blame the EU which is easy to do when the public have no clue what the EU is actually doing. But, Gold plating has also brought good things too, it allows a government to enhance directives to give more benefits to citizens. Only, it muddies the waters in understanding what the U.K. is doing and what the EU is doing, hence the British and NI failing to understand how being part of the EU has changed U.K. governance.

Judging by this thread there are some who have a high level of confidence that Brexit is a brief interruption to the status quo and that we have a competent government and structures of governance across the U.K that will smooth out any issues. You don’t have to have spent the last two years fallowing the academic literature to understand that this is absolutely not the case. 5 minuted spent reading a paper or watching the news should tell you that Brexit could take 20;years to fix and that we have one of the most incompetent governments filled with venture capitalalist who are drooling at the prospect of chaos.

Lol. Not Debra *Defra

Everyone is talking about petrol shortages.
I dont understand WHY there will be petrol shortages.
It doesnt come from the EU so what is the problem? genuine question as i dont understand it?
Also do we not make toilet rolls/soap/shampoo in this country anywhere anymore?

Apparently there is only a day's worth of loo roll in the country at any given time. I only found this out recently. So two days or so delays and were all up shit creek. Also I can only afford the cheapo paper. Woo I'm going to stick up because of I go to the shop and there's only Andrea left I'll be going without.

We always have some food in our store cupboard - plus we are pretty relaxed about eating whatever is available. BUT our cat is a fussy bugger about his food, which I noticed yesterday is made in Luxembourg or similar, so I may buy kitty a few trays of his fave food this weekend, just in case! 🐈