To let you know that panic buying starts next week.

[GladAllOver]

The government is starting an advertising campaign next week telling us all to "Get Ready!".

What else can it mean?

By the way, it's costing £100m.

Ireland is still a part of the EU, their trade with the EU will continue as usual
There are several million Brits who are technically entitled to Irish citizenship. In the unlikely event that the shit really hits the fan, they’ll all descend on Ireland.

I have lots of friends who work in IT. Those who were in the industry in 1999 spent months and months preparing for the millennium. One even accepted a HUGE amount of money to be a part of a team to go into the office overnight on NYE just in case something went wrong. They even supplied her with a torch 'just in case' all the lights went out.

The millenium bug didn't AFFECT YOU because of the hard work and planning which happened.

Nowhere near as much planning has gone into this shit show so I'll add a few extra bits to my shop every week thanks.

It really is a thread title to stimulate panic, whether you agree or not about the truth of tue statement.

What say you OP?

ou don't tell anyone about your stash in real life

Thats why people keep coming on here to say that they dont know anyone who stockpiles

They just aren’t telling you ...

BizzzzyBee - you don't tell anyone about your stash in real life
You think the marauders will only knock on doors where they think there’s food? If they’re starving they’ll search every single house. And if they’re not starving then neither are you so you didn’t need a stash.

And having lived in a country in an actual crisis with armed gangs on the street , martial law tends to deal with them pretty quickly.

See

Most posters calmly stockpiling a few extra bits

Poster rocks up...what about baseball bat wielding marauders

And the preppers are the hysterical ones

I now have visions of Gordon who runs the sandwich shop and Della the school lollipop lady going door to door with his bread knife and her lolly to menace people into handing over their chopped tomatoes and UHT milk.

My friend was in the Seychelles years ago when there was a coup. They had to stay inside for a few days to avoid getting involved. That is serious.

What happened after hurricane Katrina to New Orleans was far worse than will happen here. I was watching the Grand Tour the other week, NO is still not and may never be rebuilt in parts.

Are people seriously thinking about stockpiling?

I'm not.

Even if I wanted to I couldn't afford it, and would have no where to put it.

But I don't think it'll be necessary.

Oh well I 'm stuffed then. Am preparing to move so have been emptying the freezer and cupboards.

@SchadenfreudePersonified , it would have been better to start before and to get extra bits slowly and proportionately to make a 3 day buffer of food and hygiene stuff. You probably have most of it already. As for space, I won't look under your bed or your settee.

Poster rocks up...what about baseball bat wielding marauders
My point was: If there are serious food shortages then someone will take your stash off you. And if there aren’t serious food shortages then you didn’t need a stash in the first place.

Stop panicking y'all. Just open the wine, the stored up crisps and settle down with a copy of The Road (McCarthy). Enjoy.

This thread is gold. Can’t wait to see mumsnet after brexit.

I don’t give a monkeys on the stockpiling as long as no Brexiter buys any single item extra ‘just in case’.

As BJ and Brexiters are so convinced crashing out will be fine, presumably they anticipated that some people would not be as convinced and start preparing.

It’s going to be carnage, I’m so glad i live in a teeny village where we’ve all got decent sized plots and chickens etc. We also have lots of room for dry goods.

I mentally feel a bit like I did when I was to,d I was in the middle of having a fucking huge heart attack: stunned disbelief combined with a very undramatic ‘so this it it then’.

I’m guessing the pain won’t hit Brexiters until the fast food and Weatherspoons are affected. Certainly in the nearby towns the demographic is that way inclined and firmly Leave.

@BizzzzyBee and my point was that a curfew and martial law stops marauders in their tracks. I have actually been in this situation in another country, unlike you, I suspect.

@SewingWarriorQueen76

I hope you aren't moving near me and come round mine begging for food or I'll poke your eye out with my spaghetti stash!

@pepperpot99 , it is Leavers and ostriches that are panicking.

Some absolute lunatics on here

Presumably Bunnyfuller they can all bugger off to their second/third homes in France, Spain, Italy.... oh yeah, EU countries. Fucking hypocrite bastards.

My point was: If there are serious food shortages then someone will take your stash off you. And if there aren’t serious food shortages then you didn’t need a stash in the first place

Its incredibly black and white thinking

From what ive seen on some of these threads most people just think that they won’t be able to get their favourite beans or there will be a delay on the motorways and that might not have enough bogroll

Not WE ARE DOOMED...NO FOOD!!

Its posters who do not want others to stockpile that seem to be coming up with the extremes

Buffoon said the chances of a no-deal were a million to one, so I took him up on it and bet him a fiver.

With five million quid in my pocket I'm sure I can get by for a bit.

What a lovely unbiased and unsmug and unetitled post that was Bunnyfuller

Well, not really, obviously, as everyone knows, brexiteers are all addicted to fast food and frequent Weatherspoons. I shan't be listening to any further of your posts with that lovely attitude you have!

Gosh, so many of you really don't understand what a thin veneer 'civilisation' is, do you?