‘Get ready for Brexit’? How exactly?

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Everywhere, these creepy government-funded messages are popping up - full front page of this morning’s Metro paper, TV ads etc etc. How exactly are we, ordinary citizens, supposed to ‘get ready for Brexit’? Isn’t this just a heavy-handed way of drumming into those of us who still think that shooting yourself in the head as a nation is an incredibly poor idea that resistance is futile - getting us ‘mentally ready’? Are you ‘getting ready for Brexit’ and if so how?

Conned DH (leaver) into installing an extra deep shelf in the laundry cupboard for stockpiling purposes. Told him afterwards it was the 'no deal' shelf. So far I've bought tinned tomatoes, passata, pesto, dried pasta and brand name beans. Whatever happens we'll be fed. Bored, perhaps, but fed. Cudgelling my brains to work out what else might go short and wishing I had a cellar and the spare cash to buy an entire wheel of parmesan.

I’ve procured EU passports for the dc so they can still do Erasmus and work in Europe without any difficulties should they choose to do so.

Be independently wealthy with most of your money offshore.

Stock up on Unicorn food.

These adverts are positively exhorting people to hoard stuff.

Honestly I'm thinking the same thing after seeing those ridiculous adverts. Thanks to PP I'll be ordering Unicorn food

It is basically extremely unhelpful to individuals and as others have said will encourage hoarding. I’m not going to go mad but I will make sure I’ve got enough nappies and formula for my baby. No-one has really said anything about formula but there have been restrictions in the past and it’s the one thing I’m a bit wary about for our family. I’ve also told my parents to check their medicine supplies. My mum is on critical medications and any delay would put her at enormous risk.

I am ready! I am doing precisely nothing that I wouldnt do day to day. I am not stock pilling anything at all. people are being manipulated and frightened in my view unneccessariy .and I dont like that.

Getting 'ready' my arse.
Bin it and please let's get our act together!

I haven't seen the ads yet but I'm so cross about it all - just fuming. Hate this government with a passion.

One thing that's really important to point out however, is that hoarding / stockpiling (whatever you want to call it) food and household goods now, while the supply chains are open and unobstructed will cause few difficulties, because we can easily import more. It's the mark of a responsible and considerate citizen to do it now, rather than panicking and grabbing whatever you can when the shelves are half empty in November and there's not enough to go round.

We always keep quite a lot of tinned and packaged food in anyway as I hate supermarket shopping and tend to only go once a month, topping up with fresh stuff from market etc. So my cupboards are full to burst at the moment and I intend to keep them that way as long as I can. Plus I have got extra duplicates of everything we use regularly stuffed under the bed and sofa, and the car is full of petrol and will stay that way. I also have about £500 cash stashed across the house, just in case.

I haven't mentioned any of this to anyone in real life apart from my parents and siblings who have done the same; I don't want to advertise it to people who might later want my support because they didn't bother to protect their families as I have done.

I don't really know the situation with medication but I do know that I don't trust anything this government says, so if I was dependent on meds and was able to develop some kind of buffer, I would.

I think we're in for a rough ride this autumn / winter, IF Brexit happens as they keep insisting it will. F**kers. We shouldn't have to be preparing for Armageddon in one of the richest and supposedly most civilised countries in the world.

We've picked up some spare fuel so we don't have to worry about shortages in case that happens. I'm not sure what else we can do really, I doubt the supermarkets will be empty, just more expensive and less choice really. I feel fortunate to work in a service where there's no chance of downsizing/unemployment which will inevitably come to a lot of businesses and it's so sad for those whom do.

To be honest though I'm increasingly optimistic that we're going to be saved at the last minute and brexit won't happen.

Not getting ready, or 'preparing' for fuckall here.

Very little is going to change.

It's all scaremongering. It's like the millennial bug. Fuck-all happened. All histrionics, hysteria and bullshit.

Stupid auto-correct on my tablet! Millennium BUG!

@HamsterHolder

hoping we're going to be saved at the last minute and brexit won't happen..

That scenario is not gonna happen.

Brexit is happening

@bluegirlgreen The millennium bug didn't trash anything because hundreds of thousands of people put in the hours and planning to fix almost everything before it happened. I was one of them, and a large chunk of a major telecoms company only worked on Jan 1st because of what I did.

HOWEVER that was an extremely well defined problem with an exact set of remediations available. Brexit is not. So they're not at all equivalent.

Fixed our mortgage,renewed my Irish passport and have been buying a couple of non perishable food items each week since Aug 18 to stock.

I and my business (and many others) spent significant parts of the late 90's modifying software to remove the millennium bug.

Lets hope someone has spent the last few years succesfully getting international agreements in place to replace our arrangements with the EU...

Have moved my pension funds overseas.

Have made sure we have more than usual tinned food and regular medication stored.

Have investigated where me and my family can relocate to in the event of loss of freedom of movement and the subsequent rise of the far right (hopefully an unlikely scenario but you never know).

I can't work out if people comparing it to the Millennium bug are thick or just ignorant. Or both? Such a comparison shows a complete lack of capability for critical thought.

I expect the Lisbon Treaty to be mentioned shortly.

Prices will rise even with a deal. But hey, that's just scaremongering.

I've made sure my stock cupboard is full of all the non-UK produce we eat a lot of - lots of pasta, rice, pesto, passata, tinned tomatoes etc - and stocked the freezer with frozen fruit, veg and bread as I suspect if there is an issue getting hold of things it will be stuff primarily produced in mainland Europe and fresh produce that gets delayed at the ports. I'm not scaremongering, I don't think we'll starve, but I have no doubt that a) there will be short-term shortages and b) prices will rise. Supermarkets themselves have confirmed it. I've also stocked up on nappies and household cleaner (again, because of price rises).

I honestly don’t see any advice go hoard in the advisories I’ve seen (motorway gantry and radio) I think it’s more about checking your papers and rechecking on 1st November to keep up to date with what you do and don’t need to travel/ export/ freight. I agree they can’t tell us much (what do they know? Bugger all) but, I guess the advisories are just to be sure the population knows they may not be able to go about their normal business on the 1st November

"It's all scaremongering. It's like the millennial bug. Fuck-all happened. All histrionics, hysteria and bullshit."

The stupidity is amazing. Similarly, people are arguing that the ozone layer issue seems to be turning out OK so therefore no need to worry about global warming which will also blow over. Yes - if we actually do something about it like we did about the ozone layer, which we currently aren't regarding global warming.

Other non-food prep - we've fixed our mortgage (went for 2 years but I'm now starting to wonder if we should have gone for 5, but it's so hard to know!) and DH and DD both have their Irish passports. I'm not eligible for one but if it becomes a real problem I will consider naturalising.

We made the decision in 2017 to leave the UK and sold up in summer 2018.

Relieved to be out of it and watching from afar.