to think that there must be preparations taking place for terrible events that may well happen soon?

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Currently behind the scenes- such as :
The government preparing ways to boost numbers in the armed services in the event of war and production of more weapons?
The government making plans to support civilians in the event of a war- preparing instructions for what to do? Water purification? Iodine tablets? Stockpiling of medications? Air-raid buzzers/some shelters etc?

Arrangements for dealing with large scale civil unrest- which looks increasingly likely to me.
How they will deal with the fall-out of a huge financial crash- and I mean huge.

Also that the very wealthy will already be moving theur money out if this country's banks to safer places to protect their wealth when the banks crash?

The plans aren’t being made now, because they’ve already been made. And not recently, but decades ago. Every area will have contingency plans for civil unrest etc and there will be Emergency Planners in every council (had a job interview once). If you read the book Vaxxers, you can see the vaccine scientists knew that a pandemic was due sooner or later, and there were policies for this.

Tbh I wouldn't give the government credit for being that organised.

The unrest in Leicester and Birmingham concerns two different religious factions disagreeing with each other over certain things. It is nothing to do with the current government leadership/proposed budget....

But some people would survive and would need help and the government must be preparing for that surely?

Why would they? They (govt) don't give a single solitary shite for anyone who isn't them.

Why would Putin nuke his giant dirty money launderette?

You are deliberately scaremongering posting this.

My prep for getting nuked make a plan to drive towards explosion. Beyond that ignore the news not worry about things I can't change and just go about my business like I always have

There is a part of the Cabinet Office called the Civil Contingencies Secretariat and their job is to do the emergency planning for situations like this.

My tiny little brain can’t comprehend even the possibility of this being a threat.

What I like to imagine in the face of real danger is that the ‘real’ people
in charge will emerge and say ‘don’t worry, we’ve been using idiot politicians as a cover for years but we’re here and we have it all under control’. It makes me feel better 😊

This.

Yes, but as we saw with Covid - pandemic planning had not been updated in years. That worries me.

It all worries me.

Those on here who are wealthy and have large savings/investments - are you doing anything to try to protect them?

Maybe they'll make it compulsory to dig over your front garden and grow potatoes ??

I took all my wealth out of the banks and hid it, not saying where though. Done it just this week, day after the funeral

Well, that would explain the tinned potato shortage.

This.

Stay off the news OP. Nobody wins a nuclear war, nobody wants to survive one. Just go about your life.

But the 'news' is these days around debating and commentary where every action leads to Human extinction or incomprehensible change whereas the world has always done what it wants and we have always

I remember my dad going to some civil defence thing once a week in the 60s. No idea what it was about as I was very small at the time.

I presume that as it was during the Cold War it probably had to do with the Russians attacking. He wasn't army or civil service or anything so I don't quite know what they did.

I suppose it could have been a Cold War equivalent of Dad's Army. Sadly he died two years ago so I will never know.

Actually I've just googled it and it was the Civil Defence Corps which was disbanded in 1968!!!

At the back of your knicker drawer or behind the copy of The New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency in the bookcase?

Had to adapt as humans - it is not new.

Ds2 applied to rejoin the army 18 months ago. Due to various fuckups his life is still on hold while they process the application. Last message was requesting test results they have already received bringing the total number of medical history requests so far to 6.
That was a month ago.

Don't worry about mobilising people for war.

Be more concerned about people being fucked off with being cold hungry and in rags getting angry.

Good lord, there was far too much for my knicker drawer

No I'm not. They are perfectly valid questions that are really worrying me. I am certainly not 'deliberately scaremongering'.

Caught two seconds of BBC news today....never again.

I doubt very much that they are doing anything of the sort. They will already be bickering about how to oust Truss and who will be the next pm. They were woefully underprepared for a pandemic despite many warning signs like sars and ebola. They have been woefully prepared for shortages of fossil fuels despite knowing for my entire life time that they are running out and destroying the world and that we have alternatives. They couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery. All they seem to be able to do is squabble, lie and throw one another under a bus.

If there's a nuclear war there's only one thing to do ...stick your head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye. No point worrying or scaremongering as it won't help and the government will look after themselves by heading to the nearest nuclear bunker.