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?

Yup - have enough for just over a month, albeit on a limited diet! It's having room in the freezer for veg and meat that worries me. I think we will end up going pastafarian at this rate!
Btw I must thank whoever that was who posted about marmite pasta. I've got 4 large jars of Marmite in and loads of pasta, so at the very least we can do that! Have also just bought some powdered eggs...curious but would rather have them than struggle.
Just wondering about all the posters thinking that because they live near a farm they will be fine - what do you think the rest of the country will do? Not expect the government to come to your farms and ensure the towns and cities get some of the produce?

Scary reading:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/27/uk-cannot-simply-trade-on-wto-terms-after-no-deal-brexit-say-experts

There will be severe disruption but only in the short term is what I've read.
We're not stockpiling. It's just people going into panic mode, the media scaremongering.
I don't actually think you're allowed to stockpile prescriptions?
Well, those people who voted for brexit asked for all of this. shrugs

@Totopoly
" I have voted Conservative all my life (OK: shoot me now). I won't again, ever, though. I've joined the Lib Dems' campaign for a second referendum. Will look up @Renewparty, too. I can't say how upset I am about the prospect of any kind of Brexit."
Good to know you'll look up Renew. Let me know what you think when you do. Interesting what draws people to different parties. I had joined Labour in 2015 and liked Ed Miliband and then with the change of leadership I couldn't stay and resigned. I was floating rootless then with Brexit getting me down. Renew came along just when I needed it. Conservatives have changed hugely I reckon and not in a good way.

Thing is, @Vivianebrezilletbrooks,do you really want to visit the supermarket during the short term severe disruption? I don't. So I'm forward planning.

Businesses and government are all stockpiling, everything from components for manufacturing to food and medicine so I think it reasonable for individuals to do the same. I was listening to a woman on the radio the other day who has been bumped off a Brittany ferry booking for mid April because the government has requisitioned the ferry space. If confiscating space on passenger ferries is the best the government can come up with I think everyone should be prepared. Incidentally, I don’t think it a bad idea to have a well filled ‘pantry’, especially in winter so that you don’t have to rush out panic buying if there’s a couple of hours of snow.

Conservatives have changed hugely I reckon and not in a good way.

Conservatives have lurched (even further) to the right in much the same way the Republican party in the US has.

I am thinking I will go to B & M tomorrow on my day off and buy bars of chocolate to hide in the loft. The other stuff can stay downstairs because there is less chance of it being eaten. May also get some Easter eggs in for the kids in case the price of chocolate skyrockets.
If nothing else, the whole Brexit thing seems like a disaster that is completely out of my control. Stocking up makes me feel as if I am doing something to potentially make it less awful. I know a couple of people (openly) who voted leave. They were both very irritated at the thought that it was going to be anything other than brilliant after Brexit, so I do wonder if they are stockpiling. Part of me hopes they are left to the baying mobs in Tescos fighting over the last loaf of bread.

See you all tomorrow.

@Hawkinspace, thanks for not slaughtering me online after my Conservative confession. It's strange, the way that Brexit has changed the political landscape in ways that people would perhaps not have expected...

Sorry, NC fail! @Hawkinspace

Before UK joined you could buy pasta & rice in the UK
Yup, but pasta was in the "exotic foods" aisle back then

SalrycLuxx
And you see absolutely no relationship between widespread reports of people stockpiling and the inevitable panic buying this will provoke? I rather suspect that the differences between the pejorative description “panic buying” and the advance purchasing activity of those who stockpile can in some cases only be measured in degrees of smugness.

Vivianebrezilletbrooks

There will be severe disruption but only in the short term is what I've read.

Define 'severe disruption'. 10% less food in the shops? 40%? No food at all unless there is rationing? Looting? Black markets for basic goods? Martial Law and a State of Emergency? - both being considered by the government.

Define short term. A week? A month? A year? The legal experts are suggesting 7 years before the UK trade situation is resolved.

We're not stockpiling. It's just people going into panic mode, the media scaremongering.

Did you not read the bit about the government asking the retailers to stockpile? The government buying space on ferries to help to get food into the country? The armed forces beginning to 'forward plan'? People on this thread and other threads are not going into panic mode - they are being prudent and stocking up on essentials while they can in order to not be caught up in the panic buying that is inevitable once supplies dry up.

Well, those people who voted for brexit asked for all of this.

Whilst true, the shitstorm is going to affect everyone, not just Brexit supporters. It is no good just shrugging - get on the phone, email, social media and ask your MP when he/she is going to honour their parliamentary duty - which is to act at all times in the interests of the country.

My daily medication got put on a 4 weekly prescription 6 months ago. The chemist warned me to expect generic versions soon. This is a problem for me as I can only tolerate the fillers in two German produced drugs. This is on the say so of my hospital consultant. I am anxious about it. Lack of the correct medication affects my ability to work.

I’m not stockpiling anything. I think it’s a lot of silliness.

Anyone would think we get every morsel of food we eat from the EU and we don’t make any of our own in the UK.

The Heinz factory is in the UK, the McCains factory is in the UK, Cadbury’s is in the UK. So we’re sorted for chips, beans, spaghetti and chocolate at the very least

We have British meat, can grow our own veg or buy it from local suppliers. Nobody will go without food. Nobody is going to starve.

If I were going to stock pile anything it would be Wine. But as I like Californian wine, I shouldn't have any issues there

Apart from 3 cartons of long life milk and that is due to snow forecast i am not buying extra Brexit or mo Brexit. I have food in freezer and cupboards and that will do. If there are shortages of certain foods we will just eat other ones.

Can any country ever break away without economic suicide and civil unrest?

We’ve been joined to the EU for 40 years. Over that time, all sorts of systems and symbioses have evolved. We could leave but those would have to be gently unpicked, support systems put in place on both sides and the gaps sealed up. By experts, who know how these systems work.
A bit like a team of surgeons separating conjoined twins.

Instead our politicians have spent all this time peacocking about playing party games and shouting down experts they disagree with.

Now the deadline’s upon us, they’re saying we should just hack things apart with a meat cleaver and hope we can heal before we bleed out.

I wasn’t going to any more but

Not to you Sleight

The Heinz factory is in the UK
but the beans and tomatoes are imported
the McCains factory is in the UK
but most of the ingredients are imported
Cadbury’s is in the UK
Where in the UK does chocolate grow
So we’re sorted for chips, beans, spaghetti and chocolate at the very least
If you say so

The Heinz factory is in the UK, the McCains factory is in the UK, Cadbury’s is in the UK. So we’re sorted for chips, beans, spaghetti and chocolate at the very least grin

And their ingredients come from.......... where?

We have British meat, can grow our own veg or buy it from local suppliers. Nobody will go without food. Nobody is going to starve.

Read the thread. This has been explained multiple times.

@Dionysa
"thanks for not slaughtering me online after my Conservative confession. It's strange, the way that Brexit has changed the political landscape in ways that people would perhaps not have expected..."
You're right. Strange times are drawing out unexpected responses from many of us. Though talking to a friend yesterday we agreed some of us are dealing with the uncertainty by hiding under the blanket and pretending nothing's changed.
Re Conservative confession - nah, we are where we are. Communicating is my priority 😊

can grow our own veg or buy it from local suppliers

You do know it takes many months to 'grow veg'

And you see absolutely no relationship between widespread reports of people stockpiling and the inevitable panic buying this will provoke?

Definitions in the new Brexitannian English Dictionary:

PANIC : taking gradual action, in January, for an event in March.

SMUG: having taken gradual action in January.

SHORTAGES: something that will definitely happen in January, when supply chains are not disrupted, due to PANIC (see above), but somehow will definitely not happen in March, when supply chains are disrupted.

CAUSATION: people who buy smoke alarms in January cause fires in March.