To think we are being lined up for something?

[BeverForget]

I work in food supply chain.
Four of the 'big' grocery retailers have just asked to renegotiate at least four weeks min supply, as opposed to two.
This happened in Feb 2020 as well.
Lots of rhetoric about being on a war footing, from politicos.
And then Sunak essentially jumping ship yesterday, as though he knows there is a crisis on the horizon that he wants no part of.
There is no way that the Tories have a prayer in a July election.
So what do they know that they aren't telling us?

Like what…..?

I think you are being paranoid

We are fucked 😂 more shit posts to deal with.

The election has been called on 4th July, because the tories don’t want to waste their summer preparing for an election they know they will lose. Might as well call it now, lose their seats and get the summer off…

I’m so tired of pp saying we’re being prepared for something. It doesn’t work that way! And it’s a stupid concept.

Probably readying for food shortages due to the new post-Brexit food admin. Perhaps that’s about to bite as stockpiles fall.

Four of the 'big' grocery retailers have just asked to renegotiate at least four weeks min supply, as opposed to two. What does this mean?

It isn't that stupid a concept.
This is what happened in food supply in 2020.

Brexit makes the supply chain less flexible. Add to that that prices, interest rates and exchange rates are less predictable, so businesses are trying to hedge their bets.

Most likely the new Brexit checks as PPs say for the supply chain

Thanks for sharing, good to know to stock up!

And when do they want to start this new format? Today, next week?

There’s no way the Tories have a prayer
in an August, September, October, November, December, or January election either.

There are new Brexit supply checks and charges so food is going to get more expensive and the supply chain is less resilient. That's my guess anyway. I think Sunak called the election because of the letters of no-confidence in his leadership Tory MPs had started submitting.

There was a thread on Reddit earlier, it was an interview that Andrew Bridgden MP has done. I couldn't watch the video but the gist of the comments were talking about the Russia/Ukraine war really ramping up after the election. I'll have to watch it later but maybe it could be relating to the op.

Perhaps they're anticipating stockpiling behaviour because of the current government's fear-mongering in the press this week. Which presumably is part of their campaign plan. I.e. frighten everyone into voting for "consistency".

Well my partner works in print and I knew about the social distancing stickers the supermarkets were ordering waaay before they stuck them on the floor. Honestly, where do people thinks they appeared from?

YANBU @BeverForget. Supermarkets are not going to order double for no reason. Is this all supermarkets? Or one in particular?

It's probably down to the secondary petri dish conditions of people using those sardine cans (aeroplanes) to go on holiday. Covid is rife, cases of measles, whooping cough and TB are on the rise. All this means factories will have less workers, truckers won't be driving etc etc.

Then you have the French blocking the ports or air traffic control on strike every summer as they try to convince their government of something so nothing will be coming across from Europe. Pensions, farmers, petrol...

So no conspiracies - just another usual shit summer for us all - and that's before we moan about the non stop rain

Some of the regulatory divergence between EU and UK looses its transitional period over the next months so the supply chain between EU and UK is more complex. This is to keep things moving whilst all the paperwork and process is established. Just sensible management of an evolving situation. Of maybe the ET space ships are only 4 weeks away. That's probably the reason, thinking about it in more detail.

OP I'm kind of with you. It does feel like we're being primed for something. But what? Could be any number of things affecting global supply chains / infrastructures. Cyber disruption? Suppose all we can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

It might be something to do with Oliver Dowden's website, recommending every household should have at least 3 weeks' supply of non- perishable food, bottled water, torches etc as emergency backup for any future pandemics/floods/other disasters. I heard about it yesterday but then it was overshadowed rather by Rishi in the Rain.

Brexit nonsense has already been, largely, costed for.
This is new, the need to build a larger stockholding.
This is what happened just before the Covid shutdown.
I hope I am just being overly twitchy.
But we have been here before, with the same idiots.

This. It’s all they’ve got left, may as well give that a go.

@Fallenangelofthenorth
The main ones.
Every little helps.
This is not just...
Etc.

Well the government did actually do a weird announcement yesterday morning about stockpiling 3 days food and water and other things ‘just in case’. It was then of course completely overshadowed by the election being called.