Brexit: how scared should we be?

[staydazzling]

Theres been worries about a lot, all valid reasons medical suppliers, food unrest. People stockpiling, and now that photo on twitter about the back pack with supplies & paperwork. do we need to be prepared for the real threat of some impending civil war? how scared do we need to be?

Also having an opinion is not shit stirring, I just don’t see Good things happening from us staying in at this point.

'any good chemist will be sourcing supplies from other countries' I'm sure the NHS, patients and pharmacists wished it would be that simple!

How much people need to worry depends on their industry, their health, and their current standard of living. It will be different for everyone.

As usual no doubt the poorest will be more severely affected

We are not out because the politicians in this country are so selfish and so vile they block every attempt to make a deal, etc

I can’t wait to leave, and I don’t plan on stockpiling beans.

@TabbyMumz - well I suppose you've read that every council in the country has been issued with 100 body bags in case of mortalities. And Gove has ordered 1600 troops to deal with fuel shortages / rationing. All fact not fear mongering. Don't remember any of it on the side of the bus 🤔

We had a deal. The ERG/DUP cult didn't back it.Even Johnson backed it 3rd time around.

@greenlavender this kind of scaremongering crap is just hysterical nonsense you’ve probably read in the Sun.. leave off

@ChocChocButtons - I never read The Sun so I've no idea if they reported these facts. I look at Govt records. Suggest you do too. And an apology would be good.

The Sun? 😂 They looooove no-deal Brexit, they certainly won't be publishing anything like that.

Those crazy bastards at Wales Online
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/body-bags-being-stockpiled-part-16858123.amp

Hahaha at the Sun scaremongering about brexit

My sister manages a pharmacy. They are currently struggling to get in enough drugs to fulfill prescriptions. Don't imagine they are stockpiling. They're not (she says they would if they could)

Actually from the doctor who advised on Yellowhammer, the government's own risk papers...

To answer those who don't think civil war is likely.

We now have a huge and unsolvable division between rich and poor and young and old that is only going to get worse.

If people start dying after a no deal Brexit because they can't afford food or because time sensitive drugs are now unavailable you really think they are just going to relax and sit back and quietly complain about it?
They will be mass riots and civil war will break out.

I'd bet money on it.

@greenlavender nah your ok! I doubt you are credible.

Riots, maybe. But civil war requires weapons. I've lived in a country where civil war seemed likely. Where weapons were more freely available. Martial law and curfew pretty much sorted that.

@MaxNormal Are they pro Becky? Huh that surprises me. I always assumed you couldn’t get more left wing, luvvie then the sun.

Brexit*

“I always assumed you couldn’t get more left wing, luvvie then the sun.”

Riots, maybe. But civil war requires weapons. I've lived in a country where civil war seemed likely. Where weapons were more freely available

Illegal weapons are very easily sourced here...

I hope I am utterly wrong of course and will be shown up to be a victim of project fear in the end.

For those who think there wont be a civil war, are you including NI in that or is it that it's over there so won't really affect you as such.

@Fucksandflowers not available on the scale required. And I rather think that it would be noticed.

Given mum's, mine and ex's meds are on the shortages list...

We rely on vast quantities of veg to avoid more meds for DD.

We are at the limit of our budget and price rises will have an impact.

@Voila212 NI is a different situation. I would be very fucking afraid if I lived in NI given the lack of care and interest expressed on here for NI.
Hoping for an NI only backstop which would reflect the mainland's utter lack of interest in NI.

not available on the scale required. And I rather think that it would be noticed.

We'll see...

As I say, it would give me great pleasure to see that I am wrong and hold my hands up and admit, yes I was wrong, it is all actually fine.

There is genuine discussion in the mainstream press about whether our own prime minister will obey the law. This would not have even been a question before now. Our government is casually throwing about suggestions to break an international peace treaty. I don’t know how this doesn’t worry people. It’s all very well thinking that it won’t affect you... until it does

This for me too - it is terrifying. I grew up in a country that paid lip service to democracy. Seeing the wonderful, tolerant, meritocratic country that I have chosen to make my life in go down the same road for no good reason that I can see is simply terrifying, there's no other word for it.

And I'm eagerly waiting for gov't info on how they'll ensure food and medicine supplies aren't disrupted, because what they've said so far is wholly inadequate.