DH and his Brexit cupboard

[Anymom]

Dh has converted two of our kitchen units into his Brexit cupboard! He has filled them up with all sorts of tinned delacacies including different beans, chilli and dogs (hot!)
He's also stockpiled toilet rolls, medicines, cleaning products etc. It's all stashed away in his new Brexit cupboard, that we have been warned not to touch! I darent tell him that the dc have already been in there hunting for chocolate. They were disappointed to find numerous bags of rice and pasta but alas no chocolate. Seems he has got his priorities mixed up! 😁
AIBU to think this is unnecessary and over the top? I need help to convince him as he talking about stockpiling and filling up the freezer and I'm dreading what concoctions I will find in there! All joking aside, it is just Dh panicking isn't it? We don't really need to be stockpiling food in one of the richest countries of the world, do we?

[Maryjoyce]

You really miss the point the fact is we don’t need to eat foods out of season we eat like we used to. Why do u see the need for strawberries in December or raspberries in January if you eat the things in season we don’t need the tasteless crap that comes in anyway. Forced foods from a greenhouse in the Netherlands or other places will never be as good as eating the real thing in June or the months when they naturally would be available or any other rubbish that’s produced because little Sidney shouts he wants strawberries in mid winter.
I don’t disagree that there will be some issues of course there will be but I personally see it sorting out like any other big change it takes time and shouting that it’s the end of the world before it happens gains nothing.
As to Tesco and co knowing any more than you or me makes me laugh as they know as much or as little as us right now.
No one really knows anything since the so called government don’t know either they can only guess and yes they can guess the problems that may effect there industry like I can with mine but non of us will know if they are true or not as only leaving will see.

[PerverseConverse]

I'm happier now I have a few months supply of foundation. I'm not confident in my skin for it to be bare when out and about and I get very rosy cheeked in all weathers. A luxury I know.

Must try out lentil recipes this week...

[bellinisurge]

To be fair to @Maryjoyce , I think that was a snide comment directed at me personally as a general prepper .
Which is nice.

[StoorieHoose]

No Deal Brexit - "you can always go outside and start a fire to warm it"

That wasn't on the side of a bus!

[AutumnCrow]

A family friend of DP's has just said on her Facebook page that leaving the EU will result in prices in the UK being 13% lower on 30th March 2019, because we won't be paying 'the EU tax'.

Where did this figure come from?? Is it a Farage-ism doing the rounds of the Facebook World Of Idiots?

[BorisBogtrotter]

The vitriol is down to the fact that you stock piling means that they made an incorrect decision.

[MonicaGB]

I have been buying extra for a few months now and it's added up to a pretty impressive pantry. At no point did I ever clear a section of items as I just added an extra item each time I went shopping. The idiots who think this is causing shortages are welcome to be fighting it out in the supermarket with all the other people who didn't prepare far in advance.

I just don't understand the vitriol against people who have been keeping a well stocked pantry. It's not affected you, it's not caused any shortages and it means there's more for you when the bunfights break out.

Anyone who voted leave and believes the government will be able to feed them, well they are welcome to what ever shit they land in. Good luck

[Scandaloso]

Are the groundhogs snuffling around again? Dear, sweet, slow-witted things.

[SalrycLuxx]

I think I have an inkling

Wish I did. I just looked and went...’um...English?’ I’m clearly a bit slow today .

[Buteo]

X-post with TheElements.

[Buteo]

Oh look, the British Retail Consortium is scaremongering now:

^A no-deal Brexit threatens the UK's food security and will lead to higher prices and empty shelves, retailers are preparing to warn MPs.
M&S, Sainsbury and Morrisons are among those warning that stockpiling fresh food is impossible and that the UK is very reliant on the EU for produce.^

The warning comes in a letter from the British Retail Consortium and is signed by the main food retailers.

[bellinisurge]

Sarcasm @Maryjoyce , like patriotism. Something about last refuge of the scoundrel.

[Maryjoyce]

As to cold spaghetti in the morning you can always go outside and start a fire to warm it

[bellinisurge]

Ok @Maryjoyce , have you read the BBC article linked below. @TheElementsSong actually copied it out in case you don't like clicking links.

[TheElementsSong]

Just wonder what language you are using

I'm really looking forward to seeing where this incredibly cunning opening gambit is going to go. I think I have an inkling

[Maryjoyce]

I have children at home yes

[Maryjoyce]

Element. Just wonder what language you are using

[TheElementsSong]

This morning's news - but who to believe? Experts in food supply and retail, or some random drive-by evidence-free sloganeer on a talkboard? So difficult to decide! 🤔

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-46998249?

A no-deal Brexit threatens the UK’s food security and will see higher prices and empty shelves in the supermarket, according to a letter sent to MPs from the British Retail Consortium and signed by the chief executives of Britain’s biggest food retailers.

M&S, Sainsbury, Co-Op, Lidl, Morrisons, KFC, Starbucks and others warn that stockpiling fresh food is impossible and that the UK is very reliant on the EU for produce with 90% of lettuces, 80% of tomatoes and 70% of our soft fruit grown there.

[Belenus]

it cuts all ties to anything with them totally and leaves a blank sheet to start a new.

It puts us outside of one of the largest trading blocs in the world without the chance of re-entering it, because why would they want to trade with a nation that does not honour its deals? It cuts us loose right at the time of year when our own food supplies are at their lowest. We will be desperate for other deals, deals which we've signally failed to make over the last two year. Non-EU countries know that we'll be desperate enough to strike almost any bargain. and that they can ask for pretty much whatever they want.

The evidence points to us not being able to trade under WTO rules if we crash out with no deal. This is not a blank sheet. We no longer live in the simpler world of the 1970s, or as some people seem to think the 1870s. We do not have that much clout. We aren't this incredibly rich nation producing goods that everybody else wants. We are just a little island. And we are about to make ourselves so much smaller. We've already drastically diminished in the eyes of the rest of the world.

We're mad to do what we're doing and I am deeply ashamed of what we've become.

[WaxMyBalls]

The hungry gap isn't so much basic things as insufficient things. I actually like both cabbage and rhubarb, but we aren't going to be able to live on those.

[TheElementsSong]

Nice one @SalrycLuxx we should keep this Dictionary going across all the Brexit threads!

[bellinisurge]

@SalrycLuxx those snowflake bastard soldiers. Honestly, some people have got no national spirit.

[RedToothBrush]

I don’t need a case since it was voted for to leave

"I was just following orders."

Nope. That's not a reason, to despatch with critical thinking and consider the consequences of your actions. Ever.

If you can not present a coherent argument for doing something you should ask questions about that.

Otherwise you have the mental facility of a Leeming jumping off a cliff and dubious ethics.

[SalrycLuxx]

elements you forgot:

ARMY: SMUG group who are UNPATRIOTICALLY PANICKING.

[bellinisurge]

Do you have young children at home @Maryjoyce ? Because I do. The more chilled out and normal I can keep it, including palatable food choices, the better. Not sure giving my daughter last night's cold spaghetti for breakfast will help her very much.