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To let you know that panic buying starts next week.

652 replies

GladAllOver · 30/08/2019 11:24

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.

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twofingerstoEverything · 30/08/2019 17:48

Just the stuff from eu. I also dont think eu should be preventing all trade, like a trade embargo, as its not as if we've been flouting international humanity laws or something.

Hmm Jesus wept.
Do you actually no what 'no deal' means? Think of it as an 'embargo' if it pleases you, but thinking of it as a 'self-imposed embargo' would be more accurate. Or, better still, think of it as a country imposing trade sanctions on itself if you want a better analogy.

Tonnerre · 30/08/2019 17:53

I also dont think eu should be preventing all trade

You can think they shouldn't do it as much as you like, it won't change the fact that if they don't want to trade with us, they can't be made to. After Johnson's talk of reneging on the repayment agreement last week, I wouldn't be surprised if they decide not to touch us with a bargepole.

Venger · 30/08/2019 18:09

If the pound tanks even half as much as expected (BoE have mooted a drop as high as 25%) then the exchange rate likely won't make it worth their while to trade with us anyway.

Bunnyfuller · 30/08/2019 18:10

@Smotheroffive the post was intentionally so. The only reason I sound smug is because I didn’t vote for this shower of shit, and I’m privileged enough to have a greater degree of control over how my family will fare, than those I see on various local FB posts who rant with ‘we won’ ‘get over it’ ‘Rule Britannia’ and whose profiles show just how well the likes of Farage, JRM and BJ have well and truly got them to fuck themselves.

You thought Austerity was bad. You ain’t seen nothing yet. Unfortunately martial law won’t be sustainable in this country because the Tories have systematically destroyed our police and armed forces over the last 10 years.

I’ve done everything in my power to try to help us pull back from the cliff. I’ve realised that this is more about ‘we won’ and has zero to do with looking after the UK’s future. So desperate were people to get back at the rich for Austerity, they thought they were getting the boot in by voting Leave. The super rich have already moved their money and investments out of the country, and are probably lining up some silent partnerships across various businesses that will profiteer from the impending crisis.

I’m resigned to it now, and yes, I will bloody sound smug, this is not my circus and not my monkeys. I did say local towns and their demographics, @Smotheroffive and not ALL Brexiters but the selective reading only underlines the lack of research and headline following that Leave fell for. ‘I read it in the papers’ FFS.

Block me or whatever it is people do on Social Media in such an adult way, I have zero fucks left, they’ve been used up on this fucking disaster.

PoffleWaffleWoo · 30/08/2019 18:10

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

I do, actually, as someone whose parents lived through a military coup in their home country and watched their friends shot.

Smotheroffive · 30/08/2019 18:24

The attitudes on here towards fellow posters are taking this thread down

Whilst I don't agree with the panic dramatic title, I don't see why anyone and everyone shouldn't do some prepping if they want, or be spoken about in the way 'they' are.

OrangeJustice · 30/08/2019 18:26

Lol at keeping your food stash under the sofa. I might be able to slide a few lasagne sheets under it I suppose Grin Ditto the beds.

beanaseireann · 30/08/2019 18:28

Arent most of the goods people are stockpiling manufactured in the UK ?

bellinisurge · 30/08/2019 18:29

@OrangeJustice , point is , food doesn't have to be in kitchen cupboards

Autumnintheair · 30/08/2019 18:31

Whatever happens the media will whip everything into frenzy. Many people will panic buy.
Having teeny bit of stock won't hurt anyone, done in small measures now... Just a little extra with weekly shop

Autumnintheair · 30/08/2019 18:32

Bean apparently pulp for loo roll is brought in. Stuff like that

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 30/08/2019 18:34

You and me both OrangeJustice!

Food may not have to be kept in kitchen cupboards but is it too hard to understand some of us really don't have the room to keep more than we use?

bellinisurge · 30/08/2019 18:36

Of course I get that. And you could have asked on here for advice on being creative with space.

ChocChocButtons · 30/08/2019 18:41

These hysterical brexit threads are so much fun to read...

Havanananana · 30/08/2019 18:47

Arent most of the goods people are stockpiling manufactured in the UK ?

No. Half of the food that the UK consumes comes from abroad, mostly either grown in the EU or imported via the EU, so any bottleneck at the border reduces the amount of food available.

UK food? 90% of vets in the UK food industry are from the EU, so if they bugger off, food production will be severely affected, which means less UK food in the shops. Actually about half of all workers employed in the food industry, from pickers to process staff to packers and drivers come from the EU. Likewise, if they go home, food does not get picked, manufactured or delivered. 'British' made food also requires ingredients. A frozen pizza uses cheese from Ireland and Italy, ham from Denmark, tomatoes and peppers from Spain and Portugal, mushrooms from Holland and so on. Packed in a carton made from Swedish paper. If any of these ingredients is missing, the whole process comes to a halt.

Medicines - 90% of medicines used in the UK (for humans and for animals) comes from the EU. Some of it can be stockpiled, but just like fruit and veg, many medicines are highly perishable, so any delays in their import can affect availability.

Other stuff - if there is a 10% reduction of port capacity, then there will be some shortages of food, goods and medicines etc. If there is a 25% reduction, things start to get more serious, with short-term shortages of even vital goods. But - HMRC and the freight companies fear that the reduction might be as high as 80%, in which case only one truck in five gets through. This would be close to catastrophic. Imagine that four out of five aisles in your supermarket would be empty. Goods would need to be prioritised, but if they prioritise medicines, then less food and no goods like paper for loo-rolls and packaging gets through. If they prioritise food, then less medicine gets through, and so on.

violashift · 30/08/2019 18:47

I am going to live off the fat of the land.

is Berocca and 4 stone of fat.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 30/08/2019 18:48

Bean apparently pulp for loo roll is brought in

Cheeserton · 30/08/2019 18:52

Why the fuck wouldn't you think about stockpiling? A shit load of our stuff comes in by lorry, and as things stand no-one will give us any mercy. People's naivety on this blows my mind.

diddlesticks · 30/08/2019 18:52

@Inebriati I am surrounded n summer, by rape fields used for vegetable oil. I thought we produced a lot?

TakeMeToYourLiar · 30/08/2019 19:08

I seem to have stockpiled 30 jumpers for DS so if there are energy issues, his upper body will be warm

beanaseireann · 30/08/2019 19:08

I'm in Ireland and we import so much from the UK. Shock
We're really going to be up sh*t creek.

Alsohuman · 30/08/2019 19:09

We’re not doing it @Cheeserton, we don’t have small children and could both do with losing some weight. Maybe people will stop wasting so much food.

Miljah · 30/08/2019 19:10

@PoffleWaffleWoo so I guess you must be a Remainer?

PoffleWaffleWoo · 30/08/2019 19:11

Miljah

100% remainer. European to my bones. Hate Bojo and Co.

Also don't think brexit is the end of civilisation.

AuldAlliance · 30/08/2019 19:11

Is the idea that food shortages might be a providential solution to the obesity crisis on the bingo sheet?

It needs to be.