To think they shouldn’t be advertising that they’re stocking up for Brexit?

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So with Brexit approaching, some people (including me) are concerned about the possibility of food shortages etc afterwards.

One of my Facebook friends has started posting photos on Facebook of them stocking up.

Photos of crates and crates filled with a variety of tinned food, dried food, UHT milk, bottled water and other drinks, toiletries, medicines etc.

With comments along the lines of “we’re stocking up for Brexit, we’ll be ok”

I think they’re daft.
Not about the stocking up, I’m buying in extra stuff just in case too - but I think it’s daft to be telling hundreds of people on Facebook.

If things get to the point where shelves are bare and they’re reliant on their stash of food, then there’s now loads of other people who know they’ve got loads of non-perishable food stashed. People who might be very hungry.

AIBU to think that telling everyone about your food hoarding is a really bad idea if you’re planning for possible food shortages?

It's hilarious

I don't believe there will be food shortages. Of if there is, I don't mind. Can I live without bread and milk? Yes.

I have full cupboards and freezers normally, so could eat for days anyway.
I just don't get the hysteria.

@TheElementsSong please add "flat earthers" to the Brexitannia Dictionary

Do you really think that Brexit is actually going to descend into gangs robbing people's houses for supplies?

For goodness sake...

I think that's the third time you've copied and pasted that: it wasn't remotely funny the first time. Got anything new to add to the discussion?

No, nothing at all. Not in the slightest, unlike those with truly great minds and substantial points to make.

But then neither do repeated drive-by empty-slogan-spritzers saying the same thing over and over, clearly not having read the thread in their eagerness to bestow what they fondly imagine are their novel nuggets of wisdom.

Some aforementioned empty-slogan-spritzers are new names; others are familiar names who have bestowed exactly the same nuggets on multiple threads and therefore clearly know that their "points" have been repeatedly addressed. Which means they are empty-slogan-spritzing with the deliberate intention of snowing any unsuspecting, uninformed, but otherwise concerned, people who have been moved to click on the threads out of interest.

So if people can repeatedly post the same stuff over and over again, then I can damn well refute that same stuff over and over again.

And I don't give a tinker's cuss whether you find it funny or not. Sorry not sorry.

No "hysteria " apart from hysterical giggling at increasingly feeble attempts to criticise bulking up your pantry.

As a pp said, it's not so much about robbing and more about half your Facebook friends asking you to share your stash, which will not be a stash for long if that happens.

Doing my online Tesco shop, this appeared (which I've not seen before)

And... see the proof for needing repeated C&Ps of the same refutations, just in the intervening minutes. QED.

That's interesting Nigellas. It would make life easier for Tesco if we stock up so they don't have to.

Yes I don't post on prepping threads (in denial) but found this interesting and thought i would share!

It would make life easier for Tesco if we stock up so they don't have to

That’s a good point. Didn’t the government ask them to get extra food in, but they responded that they don’t have the space to store it?

Not everyone routinely keeps cupboards and freezers full.

I know some people who don’t.

Of course the shops want us to stock up, spend our money now, regardless of the consequences.

Well it makes sense for 6 million people to store an extra tin of beans than tesco having to store an extra 6 million tins of beans.

Well it makes sense for 6 million people to store an extra tin of beans than tesco having to store an extra 6 million tins of beans.

You'd think so wouldn't you, but according to some, those 6 million people are hysterical, scaremongering, causing shortages, pushing prices up and damaging BlitzSpirit. Whereas, if Tesco does it, no problem.

As a native Londoner, with family killed, injured and made homeless in The Blitz, I find all the BlitzSpirit/just like in the good old WWII days/faux patriotic bullshit quite offensive. Being the impossible to offend type, that’s quite hard to admit but it really pisses me off.

And we’re they stockpiling in The Blitz? You bet they bloody were. Growing stuff, hoarding stuff robbing stuff, basically prepping. That seems to have been forgotten by some though.

I was very impressed by Jack Munroe saying that it would be good if people who had the money and the space did a bit of strategic stockpiling now so that if there are shortages, there would be stuff in the shops for people who can’t afford to buy in advance. Then if there aren’t shortages, people can just use or donate their stockpile.

I swear people on MN use Facebook very differently to me. My friend list is populated by people I know and like. Some I know less well than others, but well enough that I don’t see them as potential thieves. Also, those I don’t know that well don’t have my address - so even if they want to rob me, they’ll need to find me first. Those that do have my address are those I trust enough not to rob me. It’s really rather simple.

The same goes for those threads where people are told they’re stupid for ‘advertising’ on Facebook that they’re on holiday as it’s ‘an invitation to be robbed’. Maybe the people flinging insults are the stupid ones for having people on their friend list who they think would burgle their house.

It's sensible for anybody to have food in the cupboard that can last at least a week in case of illness, snow or other disruption. Anyone who doesn't either can't afford it (so telling them to prep for 3 days will just cause anxiety), or can't function at that level (again - you're just causing anxiety) or is deliberately reducing stocks e.g. moving house (so they can't do anything anyway). So who do people think they are talking to when they say "you should prep for 3 days"?

Of course the shops want us to stock up, spend our money now, regardless of the consequences

Erm, you do realise that if there are no issues with Brexit, that the shops will make LESS money later, so why would the supermarkets be tricking people into spending more now? Your comment makes absolutely no sense.

CoughLaughFart Have you seriously never ever read the relationship boards? Have you never read how people get financially screwed over by friends and family? You haven’t read anything about men who are financially and physically abusive to the current or ex partners? You really don’t think that people who behave like that aren’t going to take advantage if they start struggling and know someone else is doing better than them?

I am talking to anyone who wants to listen if I say prep for 3 days. I also say (or said for months) do it carefully and within budget. If people didn't listen to that on here (and I wasn't the only one saying it) not much I can do.
If you are worried about people in abject poverty now, do what you can to not be a problem in the future. Which means emergency services etc can focus on people who need it.

Well as this country now boasts plenty of foodbanks to feed the hungry, i think that prepping is a sensible way foward tbh.Who knows what lows the government will stoop to next?

I think it's a sad state of affairs when we have to worry about our own friends and family robning us.
Therefore proving thay Brexit isn't really fostering the cosy blitzkrieg spirit really. More like selfish preservation.

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