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?

@Graphista
"Re renew I'm wary of single policy parties and I'm DEFINITELY wary of one mainly peopled by ex tories!"
Don't know where you get your information but maybe you need to check for reliability. There is a mix of ex-Labour, ex-Tory, people who've not previously been in a political party, a few ex-Lib Dem.
I'm ex-Labour and 'way back was in the SDP as was, before it merged with the Liberal Party.
My own focus is on what's happening now. I'm sickened by the calibre of politics we have, I see both main parties and the political system as broken. They're killing the well-being of the country with their disjointed ideologies and thinly disguised in-fighting and snobbery /inverted snobbery.
Angry rant over. I'm happy to support the Renew Party and aim for practical solutions that work for people. I share Renew's values. And I like the wide reach of its developing policy platform.
If you don't that's your choice. Pity if you have to sustain your own allegiances by making an uninformed jibe at a new party.

I thought men and women who died during the war wanted peace in Europe?

I agree libloo and stockpiling

We see every year where we live the shelves emptied of essentials because it may snow ,whether it snows or not of course it’s gone. No shop can predict idiots panick buying.
Always makes me wonder how much of the excess bought gets thrown away in the end

woo hooo Put the Great back into Britain again!!! Woop Woop

Do you always talk in slogans Libloo - what a load of pish

Dear lurkers:

If (having clicked on this thread presumably because you were interested in the topic suggested by its title) you feel magically reassured to sink back into supine passivity by the drive-by empty-slogan-spritzing of evidence-free assertion, fairy-tale levels of historical understanding, and complete lack-of-grasp of modern manufacturing supply chains...

What can I say? It's up to you.

Libloo and MaryJoyce you do realise that big ships with containers of food are still able to get into the country right now?

Me buying extra food today will not I repeat will not cause a shortage as we are still able to get goods in freely for now

Chased. I shouldnt think those that died thought about such things at all

Watching with interest. I’m not in the UK but we will (hopefully) be returning this year. I worry for my parents although my mother can cook up a decent dinner out of very little. Both rely heavily on prescription meds that would see their health decline fairly rapidly if they were to run short. Both voted to leave. Trying to find a way to speak to them about it.

then again I'm off to Turkey a few days post-Brexit so maybe I'll be ok!!!

Will they still be issuing visas to British citizens? Probably a silly question, just wondering if other countries will become concerned about illegal immigrants/overstayers from the UK.

I'm genuinely not sure whether libloo is serious or not. If the latter then fair play, you pulled it off very well.

Maryjoyce Mon 28-Jan-19 11:02:28
Chased. I shouldnt think those that died thought about such things at all

then why the fuck were they fighting if they didn't think about such things like PEACE IN EUROPE?

He sounds like he needs help as he is suffering from Brexit Derangement Syndrome. You catch it by associating with daft rumours from biased sources. The UK will do just fine however we leave the EU club. We already know medicines will be fine and that Calais port are content they will process lorries as usual.
Sadly the Treasury forecasting department have previous on the scaremongering front, claiming we would see economic disaster if we did not join the Euro. Wrong then, wrong still.

Once again

Dear lurkers:

If (having clicked on this thread presumably because you were interested in the topic suggested by its title) you feel magically reassured to sink back into supine passivity by the drive-by empty-slogan-spritzing of evidence-free assertion, fairy-tale levels of historical understanding, and complete lack-of-grasp of modern manufacturing supply chains...

What can I say? It's up to you.

Hooray, another one! @user1467052019 sounds like a pledge not to prepare and a pledge to come back on to admit they were wrong as well.

We've always "stock-piled". We never run out of anything because our cupboards already have probably a month's worth of supplies of anything that's not perishable, and we have "perishables" frozen in the freezer. We're both on long term medication and have an extra month's supplies of those too! We're not doing anything different re Brexit.

Will they still be issuing visas to British citizens? Probably a silly question, just wondering if other countries will become concerned about illegal immigrants/overstayers from the UK.

I think there is more of a worry about whether you'll be able to get back. If there is martial law, with fuel shortages then will lots of flights be going out of the UK? If they aren't, then they can't come back to the uk either.

@Libloo "we" didn't win two world wars by standing apart from our European neighbours. And after WW2 the country was on the brink of bankruptcy and then starvation. We only survived thanks to a huge loan from the US.

I swaer Nigel Farage has employed a few people to scatter the usual flimsy soundbites in this and other Brexit related threads.

It does effect things of course ,how do shops know a bunch of numpties are going to start panick buying.
Which in turn goes all the way down the line to the manufacture also not knowing how long such is going to last and how much more they should produce if they possibly can so it has the same effect whether ships get here or not.

@bellinisurge Nah, they never pledge. Most of them never come back at all, having graciously bestowed what they fondly imagine are their nuggets of special personal wisdom. But even the ones that do reappear, never actually pledge. I don't know whether their shaky faith makes the Brexit fairies feel poorly.

Plus if you really convinced and think it is going to be a disaster make sure you get your international driving licence cross the channel and go shopping it’s not hard.

What on earth are you doing feeding each other's fears like this? We would never have got through two world wars with this attitude, sure it may be tough for a short time change usually is, the men and woman who gave their lives for the country would be so sad, we can be so scared of immediate discomfort we can't see the light over the horizon, come on let's grow a back bone as the shortage may not come because of brexit but because of people being greedy and selfish under the heading stockpiling, no my head is not in the sand , I see the world trade being our oyster, and my country being Great again.

But @Maryjoyce , I'm not going to panic buy. Because I already have what I need. I got it ages ago.
I've been advising people for a few months now on here to do the same in a sensible, proportionate, budget friendly manner. The number of people who have a problem with it has gone down considerably. Apart from a few no Deal idiots who I no longer give a shit about. I've tried nice and patient. They can fuck off.

Thing is you think you are the only one right just as others think they are right the only proof will be if and when it happens so arguing now gains nothing that’s why most can’t be bothered or give up as it’s pretty pointless really no matter which side or the fence you like

@Maryjoyce not much point in doing that if the pound has tanked against the Euro.