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To let you know that panic buying starts next week.

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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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starfishmummy · 30/08/2019 14:45

Greatnorthwoods fish antibiotics are really going to stop my DS having seizures when we run out of his anticonvulsant Hmm

timshelthechoice · 30/08/2019 14:46

I'm in Dublin and we haven't been told to stockpile anything! Also didn't know we have so much food produced here only beef and milk!

You don't need to, Ireland is still a part of the EU, their trade with the EU will continue as usual. Any hit they take because the UK was stupid will soon be smoothed over, they're already planning for it and well, they are still part of the one of the largest trading blocks in the world.

Cornettoninja · 30/08/2019 14:47

Fuck, this thread makes me nervy and bloody furious. What an absolute needless circus and for what?

I really hope I’m proved wrong and brexit is a success but even so this is the kind of discussion I would expect to see in the midst of a national disaster and I resent my family being made to live through it for no good reason.

Like this government hasn’t already made it hard enough to be sick or disabled, now they’ve got voters crowing along like it’s some kind of jolly fucking camping trip ignoring that our most vulnerable are already pushed to, in some cases past, their limits and simply won’t survive some of the scenarios being touted.

I know of a diabetic in dire poverty (other issues at play) who lived alone. No food, no electric (medication must be kept in the freezer) and no one left to turn to who wrote on their hall wall the situation so whoever found them would know what they were walking into. How the hell does someone like that get through normal life, never mind a situation where everyone is trying to survive?

timshelthechoice · 30/08/2019 14:47

Medicines are a bit of a worry though. Even my treatment stockings for DVTs have to come from England although they are manufactured in Germany!

No, they are not if you are in an EU nation. This doesn't apply to you.

JaneJeffer · 30/08/2019 14:48

Badcat the moths would have been a good source of protein. You're being very wasteful exterminating them. Tut tut.

Mamamia456 · 30/08/2019 14:49

Controversial ferret - The shortage of drugs especially hrt is nothing to do with Brexit, we haven't even left yet. There is a manufacturing problem in China.

TheFlis12345 · 30/08/2019 14:51

@Doyoureallyneedtoask

“If people really believe this is necessary, wouldn't they surely do better to dig their gardens and rent an allotment and grow their own fresh in season food surely.”

The biggest issues are likely to be in the first couple of months. Have you ever tried to grow veg over winter in England?

Cinammoncake · 30/08/2019 14:53

I tried to grow my own strawberries but as soon as I've seen them pop up the next morning they are gone.

Have stockpiled on my thighs Wink and got in a few extra tins. It's likely there'll be food after just not much fresh stuff or not as much choice and it will be more expensive.

I think fuel shortages are quite likely.

RB68 · 30/08/2019 14:54

Garden Dug

ghostofharrenhal · 30/08/2019 14:54

Like this government hasn’t already made it hard enough to be sick or disabled, now they’ve got voters crowing along like it’s some kind of jolly fucking camping trip ignoring that our most vulnerable are already pushed to, in some cases past, their limits and simply won’t survive some of the scenarios being touted

Cornettoninja I agree with all you have said. All the gloating and piss taking makes it worse. Some people have no empathy.

TheDarkPassenger · 30/08/2019 14:54

Considering I work with the most vulnerable people in society, who use food banks weekly etc. We haven’t even had brexit stockpiling or shortage of food in November for clients come up in any of our internal meetings or even in meetings with other support/link workers or anything. And my employer is the police. So I’m yet to worry tbh

RB68 · 30/08/2019 14:55

am considering a poly tunnel...

Greatnorthwoods · 30/08/2019 14:56

starfishmummy

My point is look around for alternatives, medications for humans and animals are the same a lot of the time, it’s just the dosage that is different

Fish antibiotics are available over the counter. Read the box, they are prescription antibiotics

LynetteScavo · 30/08/2019 14:56

I only stock pulled things I don't like to compromise on. I'm going to casually wonder out and buy loads of my favourite brands in a moment. Because I still can.

Doyoureallyneedtoask · 30/08/2019 14:57

The biggest issues are likely to be in the first couple of months. Have you ever tried to grow veg over winter in England?

Of course I’m not suggesting digging the ground in a wet and icy climate. Everything needs sun to grow. Vegetable and fruit growers grow in season and preserve for the winter months like our grandparents did.

Namechangenecessity · 30/08/2019 14:58

@Bbang and Contessa now I’m worried about my thyroxine 🤒

AuldAlliance · 30/08/2019 15:01

But since we will have traded things over the English Channel for 1000’s of years before during and certainly after the EU I’d imagine Britian and the EU will want it ticking over as is until an actual deal is in place.

Phew.

timshelthechoice · 30/08/2019 15:02

Vegetable and fruit growers grow in season and preserve for the winter months like our grandparents did.

Yeah, that really kept them all fed, that's why one of the most common complications of childbirth until relatively recently was 'contracted pelvis' caused by rickets Hmm. Since all our grandparents also had access to gardens, too, yep, no one lived in tenement slums in big cities. Hmm

It's not viable, hence, why countries import.

KOKOtiltomorrow · 30/08/2019 15:02

@Venger.....60 quid!!!! How the heck do you stockpile on 60 quid? Serious question - my weekly shop for a family of four (2 teens 2 adults) is around 130 quid.

callmeadoctor · 30/08/2019 15:03

I imagine that we are all more sensible, OP!!

jasjas1973 · 30/08/2019 15:05

ignoring that our most vulnerable are already pushed to, in some cases past, their limits and simply won’t survive some of the scenarios being touted

Well, the poor and elderly did by enlarge vote for brexit, so one could say they are reaping what they sowed, hard cheese on the ones that didn't but who said life was fair?

Foodtheif · 30/08/2019 15:07

The only thing I’m worried about is my child’s insulin. Due to order diabetic supplies again in a couple of weeks and will order insulin again (even though I ordered insulin last month and only order every other month) hopefully they will let me and then I should have enough to get through til December when I’m hoping everything will be ok.

Greysparkles · 30/08/2019 15:10

Did anyone else read the thread about how we should stockpile cigarettes and alcohol.... So you could trade them for food down the line GrinGrinGrin

jasjas1973 · 30/08/2019 15:17

Vegetable and fruit growers grow in season and preserve for the winter months like our grandparents did

What a load of shit, thought brexit was meant to improve things?

But since we will have traded things over the English Channel for 1000’s of years before during and certainly after the EU I’d imagine Britian and the EU will want it ticking over as is until an actual deal is in place

3.5 years on and still you've not got a fucking clue, then again you can't even spell Britain

MissConductUS · 30/08/2019 15:18

Buy meds online from Canada, or go to the pet shop.

They don't carry everything, but this Indian chemist has been very reliable for me for many years:

www.alldaychemist.com/

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