‘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?

It's really quite horrific if you think about it. This sort of state propaganda as seen in the Metro this morning. We've gone full throttle at totalitarianism. A suspended Parliament. A PM who runs away from media and Parliamentary scrutiny.

It's going to be a shit show.

I honestly don’t see any advice go hoard in the advisories I’ve seen

Well that would cause panic, which they don't want. It could also turn people against their previous sabotage (oops sorry, brexit).
We are being tricked, conned and now spammed.

*Precious

Emigrate

Nothing.

Applying for EU passports for me and the family at the moment. Have been stockpiling for months so no problem there.

My poor parents (EU nationals who have lived here for over 60 years - their entire adult lives) are shit scared they are going to be kicked out because they cant find their "indefinite leave to remain paperwork". Well, my mums shit scared, my dad has dementia so is unaware he may well end up dumped in a country he doesn't remember with no support network or health insurance if he lives long enough.

Also acquiring Irish passports for adult DCs and me so we can continue to be EU citizens and enjoy all the freedoms. DH is not entitled to another passport, but the he voted leave, so that:s OK. Have tried to get him to stockpile his vital meds a bit, even a few weeks' extra supply, but he scoffs at the idea of shortages. His call.

I am wryly aware that, in the event of food shortages, the 'no deal' shelf and its contents will miraculously all have been his idea.

Putting a reminder in my phone to re-order my prescription meds around 20/10 is the complete extent of preparations here. Although we did have a flippant conversation about buying a chest freezer to put in the spare room and fill with bread, milk and other staples.

Then DP said "That might not be a bad idea, you know", so we stopped talking about it.

We can both walk to work if need be, and I can work from home, too. We're mortgage-free, so don't have to try and guess how interest rates might be affected, and our savings are spread across 6 different accounts, including a couple of grand in a Euro account (purely due to inertia, not astute financial planning lol).

I suppose it might be an idea to have some cash around, in case the banking systems get fucked up.

Our biggest worry is DSS getting his insulin, and I don't think there's a lot we can do about that, tbh.

@bluegirlgreen

I think the only certainty about the brexit process so far is that there are no certainties. If Borris was turning govemnment to agree TM's deal then I think it would be far more likely to leave but at the moment I think their leadership has greatly increased the chance of a brexit cancellation.

It feels like the current UK leadership aren't interesting to create a workable deal or agree to the current proposal. The rest of government are opposed to leaving without a deal which will inevitably mean delays for elections and then we'll either repeat the vote or just get cancelled altogether. Time will tell ultimately, who knows what will happen!!!

I haven’t seen any of this stuff, anywhere!! (North West). Have Radio 4 on most days all day from 6.15 am, watch BBC news channel, Newsnight, paper reviews, listen to Any Questions/Answrs/Broadcasting House, watch Question Time. Sunday Times and Private Eye.
Not a sausage! Where is it all (I’ve googled for the ads, found articles reporting it but no ad)
Where is it 🤪

OP I despair of the Brexit situation and all who voted leave (can see both sides but don't think anyone who voted leave thought through the implications of no deal).

HOWEVER - have you actually read further than the headline on the 'get ready' campaign (e.g. by looking at the Gov.uk website page)? I have and can't see a single thing that is 'positively exhorting people to hoard stuff' - where do you get that from?

How exactly are we, ordinary citizens, supposed to ‘get ready for Brexit’?
I saw my first one of these adverts on tv last night and I did have a wtf? moment. So I followed the advice in the ad and went to the relevant government web page. There I dutifully followed and clicked through all of the yes/no questions and, after a few pages, turns out the official advice to me, as an ‘ordinary’ citizen, is that I ‘Do not need to take action at this time’, hurrah! Because for a minute there, I don’t mind telling you, I was a little concerned. All my fears have now been totally allayed (I’m ignoring the ominous ‘at this time’ bit), and I can now confidently go back to skipping everywhere and stroking puppies and kittens! Hurrah!

How have we got ready?
The 3 of us now have dual nationality so dh can stay here or we can move to Europe.
Am slowly making a brexshit store cupboard.
Got plenty of wood for the wood burning stove.

Need to get ddog rabies injected.
Need to fix mortgage.

I'm buying all the lovely Bonne Maman top 6 products that we most enjoy that I can get my hands on, stocked up on 10 kgs each of our fav imported pasta plus all the makings I need for sauces. Frozen fav cheeses. Lots of other tinned and dried goods and frozen all I can of our own produce. Bought enough for 12 months worth of our usual consumption but if there's sod all else we may eat it in 3. Also tons of toothpaste/toilet paper and other toiletries and OTC meds - I say enough for a year-DH says two. I have just been picking up stuff when it has been on promotion but whereas I would normally buy 2-4 I bought 10. I am sure some of the delivery drivers and checkout operators must have thought we had 'issues'. It is all a nightmare and though I do believe it is going to happen there is a little bit of me that hopes all the prep is for naught.

According to sky news, the government spent £25,300 for a 6 day campaign on snapchat

Haven’t found an actual ad online yet.

Not just me then! I’ve googled every possible variation I can think of. Nada. Where is this expensive ad?

I don't trust the government to be able to organise a piss up in a brewery, so I'm gonna make sure I have a freezer full of food before end of October.

Gonna have lots of tinned food, cheeses, butter, pasta, noodles, and stuff for baking. I can bake my own bread so I'll just do that if shops run out.

Yeah it might seem crazy, but let's face if, we've got boris at the helm of our titanic. We are going under.

And yes if you can change your mortgage rates to fixed, do it. Mine is fixed for 5 years, hoping that gives the idiots enough time to fix things.

I think those signs on gantries and on motorway service stations are aimed at lorry drivers, aren’t they? That’s where I’ve seen most of them. So they don’t end up stuck outside the ports for days. Quite how they can avoid this is beyond me.

I'm not doing anything, on the assumption I will not be much affected. Mind you, on the basis they were too horrible to be allowed to happen, I didn't believe we would vote to leave, or that Trump would be elected, so I've not had a good track record of predicting the future recently.

Nothing.

Does it not mean...quick start furiously stockpiling so we can see an artificial boost to the economy and pretend it was it was created by a change in leadership?

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

Haha I can't believe anyone is still trotting out that tired old non-equivalent. As a PP pointed out, there wasn't a problem in 2000 because the problem was identified in time and so much work had gone into sorting it out beforehand.

I think there's going to be a double whammy - Brexit-caused shortages, and fuel shortages because of the Saudi attacks. Iran has found a way to turn the screws, and they'll keep doing it. I don't believe a word from the Saudis that 'all is back to normal'.

I will stock up a little bit on non-perishable items just in case

YANBU. Gives me the rage when I see one. Since they won't even say how it is going to be done, and since parliament has said he has to ask for an extension, then what are we getting ready for exactly and when? What's the point of those ads? wasting taxpayers money. It's propaganda.

I’m pretty sure that’s directed toward business/people with international connections of some sort. You know, adjust your supply chain, make sure your travel documents are in order, consult your accountant about overseas assets. That kind of thing. For you average person there isn’t much to do is there?