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

999 replies

abacucat · 07/01/2019 11:53

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?

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TheElementsSong · 10/01/2019 16:33

Why do some people seem so desperate for No Deal?

Something to do with DontTheyKnowWhoWeAre? Grin

RedToothBrush · 10/01/2019 18:14

Why do some people seem so desperate for No Deal?

Well Jacob Rees Mogg has a lot of assets overseas so I'm guessing that's why he's desperate for no deal.

twofingerstoEverything · 10/01/2019 19:15

Even Tesco is planning to stockpile...

Member745520 · 10/01/2019 19:52

^ Even Tesco is planning to stockpile...

...they'll need to, considering the quantity of tinned tomatoes and grapefruit I've been buying there recently Grin

Juells · 10/01/2019 21:18

twofingerstoEverything
Even Tesco is planning to stockpile...

Did you watch the video on the sidebar of that page? How Brexit could make food prices skyrocket. The people who say "we'll just eat locally-grown food, we don't need to import" are ignoring the fact that the picking is all done by migrant labour.

springtimeyet · 10/01/2019 21:24

This isn't just any stockpile of food, this is an m&s stockpile.
If it is good enough for m&s OP it should be good enough for you. (They have also released information about their planning)

RegularShowRules · 10/01/2019 23:52

If the MPs vote for a deal will this slow down stockpiling by the public?

RedToothBrush · 10/01/2019 23:53

www.newsletter.co.uk/news/civil-servants-asked-to-volunteer-to-man-75-crisis-filling-stations-across-northern-ireland-1-8765757/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Civil servants asked to volunteer to man 75 crisis filling stations across Northern Ireland

springtimeyet · 11/01/2019 00:31

If the PM's deal were to get through parliament then there would only the increased costs from aborted planning to worry about in the short term.
But the odds don't look great.

ivykaty44 · 11/01/2019 06:38

Regular showrules

There is bad weather coming from the east for February so any stockpile of food for Brexit can be used for the bad weather if there is a deal voted for before that event

Mistigri · 11/01/2019 06:42

Bookies now offering odds on what will be rationed first ... fuel, milk and bread have the shortest odds.

It's very, very hard to believe that a single person voted for this ^

ivykaty44 · 11/01/2019 06:53

Sadly the nostalgia to revert UK backwards to the 1950s is looking more realistic

SalrycLuxx · 11/01/2019 08:07

This isn't just any stockpile of food, this is an m&s stockpile.

Grin
JustBeingJobless · 11/01/2019 08:37

I’m not specifically stockpiling for Brexit, but I’ve always got extras in ‘just in case’ I have real anxiety about running out of food so I tend to overbuy at the best of times! I’m disabled so heavy snow can render me housebound, so I like to know we can eat. Always got extra rice, pasta, tins, frozen stuff, king life milk etc

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 11/01/2019 08:56

Thanks bellini. I was beginning to doubt myself there.

Clavinova · 11/01/2019 08:59

Bookies now offering odds on what will be rationed first ... fuel, milk and bread have the shortest odds

I've just looked this up - the bookmaker is Paddy Power, whose head office is in Dublin - but also licensed to operate in the UK.

Southern Ireland may well have shortages of fuel;

Ireland imports all of the oil that it uses.We import both crude, unrefined oil and finished petroleum products.The majority of our oil arrives already refined (petrol, diesel, home heating oil, aviation fuel), mainly from the United Kingdom

ireland2050.ie/present/oil-and-gas/?q=where-does-our-oil-supply-come-from-how-is-it-imported-or-moved-around-the-country

PlumpSyrianHamster · 11/01/2019 09:03

I'm stockpiling my vape juice and cannabis oil! I'll be needing those in the event of no deal Brexit.

PlumpSyrianHamster · 11/01/2019 09:05

'Southern Ireland' is its own country, the Republic of Ireland and part of the EU, so I doubt any shortages they might feel due to our stupid cockup will be far shorter lived than ours.

PlumpSyrianHamster · 11/01/2019 09:07

Exactly, ivy.

MattFreisCheekyDimples · 11/01/2019 09:15

Why do some people seem so desperate for No Deal?

Because that is what will make both the public sphere and private individuals more vulnerable to a neo-fascist ideology that has been gaining traction in Britain in recent years. Brexit is only the first of many cliff edges we are on imo.

bellinisurge · 11/01/2019 09:55

@Clavinova .
There. Is. No. Such. Country. As. Southern. Ireland.

How can you possibly have anything useful to contribute on the backstop issue if you don't know this?

Geography 101. Our neighbours. FFS.

Clavinova · 11/01/2019 10:17

There. Is. No. Such. Country. As. Southern. Ireland

Yes I know that - I was using the word Southern as a geographical description - I originally used italics but it deleted.

No point you 'nit picking' - the chart still shows that Ireland imported 76% of its oil from the UK in 2014.

Buteo · 11/01/2019 10:27

It's very, very hard to believe that a single person voted for this

But Leavers keep assuring us that they knew exactly what they were voting for?

KissingInTheRain · 11/01/2019 10:49

Because that is what will make both the public sphere and private individuals more vulnerable to a neo-fascist ideology that has been gaining traction in Britain in recent years.

What?

Please explain the ‘neo-fascist ideology’ that’s taking hold, with some examples if possible.

Thanks.

MattFreisCheekyDimples · 11/01/2019 11:15

Please explain the ‘neo-fascist ideology’ that’s taking hold, with some examples if possible.

Seriously?

The entire Brexit catastrophe has been cooked up by the extreme right. 20 years ago very few ordinary people in the UK gave a stuff about the EU or our relationship with it, but were just getting on with enjoying the manifold benefits that flowed from our membership of it.

In the last 20 years the Overton window has shifted progressively further and further to the right, driven by the neoliberal agenda of the popular press and news media. The internet has provided a fertile environment for the activities of the alt-right and organisations such as Breitbart, whose agenda trickles down into the views you hear from more visible commentators like Farage or Hopkins. Social media facilitates the massive proliferation of a range of right wing hatefulness that has both driven and been driven by the Brexit project.

Cue EDL, Yaxley-Lennon, hate crime, vans ramming into groups outside mosques, people being told to fuck off back to Poland, intimidation of MPs who don't toe the line, chants of 'Nazi scum', threats of civil unrest if 'we don't get the Brexit we were promised'.

A hard no deal brexit will make the country vulnerable. The pound will tank, food and other essentials will rise hugely in price and may not be readily available, services will be disrupted, infrastructure will struggle, the government will fall, people will be scared and the stage will be set for a new, charismatic political movement or leader to emerge, promising a simple solution to a complex set of problems.

Some people want this.