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?

I’m old enough to remember the ‘protect and survive’ advice that advocated just that. Stock up your store cupboards, paint your windows white and if the alert sounds huddle up under the nearest table for protection and kiss your arse goodbye.

I agree, OP. It is worrying. Whatever the outcome of the election, we will have idiots in place and a huge majority of the population who will fall for anything.

Russian,s spring offensive causes collapse of Ukrainian army.
Russia overrun Kiev and a massacre begins
France and the UK deploy troops in Ukraine.
Something like this?

Well I did say "threat" and not actual attack. But maybe something else where we are told to stay home and, this time, shops won't be open. It may not be that likely but is not impossible.

Well, I better go and get stocked up properly on cat food (only have three weeks supply!), there were shortages of their food during covid and I found myself searching the internet for anywhere that had supplies more than once.

How frequently do you/would you replace them?

We had a huge thread like this when they rolled out the emergency alert text message a year or two ago. Business as usual.

I used to work as a Contingency Planner for the Civil Service. The way it works is that we (the workers / civil servants) drew up plans for various scenarios and then told the MPs what they needed to know.

MPs have fuck all to do with the process. Most government policy is driven and organised by civil servants.

Remember the “emergency alerts” for our phones as well? Of course, there’s no reason why the govt might actually use them.

It would if you were outside the main blast zone but within the area where there is nuclear fallout. The same applies for releases from nuclear power stations, chemical releases etc. A huge amount of protection can be gained from sheltering.

@BeverForget

It's like the post cold War fear 😨 of nuclear arms attacks in the 60s 70s and early 80s era etc,

Now we have the issues of climate change Brexit the Ukraine 🇺🇦 Russia conflicts to contend with too.

Back when I was a poverty-stricken postgraduate student (no grants or loans, minute income from taking tutorials) and used to cycle around looking in the gutter for 1p or even 1/2p coins at the end of the month I still always managed to always have an emergency can of tuna and / or sardines, and a bag of porridge oats in store Just In Case. And baked beans, that can be, and sometimes were, eaten cold out of the tin.

and whatever else War conflicts are happening now and the future too...

But in 2020 were they told to do that before we heard about Covid?

Could it be that if they think there's a change of government then prices will go up?

and people think history is a dead subject ,

History in some ways just repeats as humans don't learn that's why

Wars conflicts, climate change ect...

We shall see. Just before Covid hit the UK and things shut down I was sat in a cafe. Next to me was a woman talking on a phone to someone, I’ll never forget what she said.

“they’ve said it’s going to hit supply. No you better get six months of beans in before it’s announced”. I don’t know who she was but I lolled in my head. She was right, the next day everyone was closed. She must have worked in the industry somewhere. I wish I had bought some baked beans that day.

I’m done for if it’s zombies. Even slow ones.

“they’ve said it’s going to hit supply. No you better get six months of beans in before it’s announced”. I don’t know who she was but I lolled in my head. She was right, the next day everyone was closed. She must have worked in the industry somewhere. I wish I had bought some baked beans that day.

no one needed 6 months of beans though did they? The only thing I couldn’t get was yeast which is fine as I could buy bread.

I have my little prepper cupboard.
Not just in case of a big emergency situation, but as others have said, to prep for everyone having flu, or the car breaking down, a power cut, whatever. This year I have got more canned veggies in, as the harvest is going to be fairly dire despite our wonderful farmers best efforts. Also always have a properly stocked first aid kit in the house.

Remember the “emergency alerts” for our phones as well? Of course, there’s no reason why the govt might actually use them.

I remember threads about how they were preparing us for something imminently. It’s quite normal in other countries.

😂yes, I was thinking that.

What a lovely thought for the day!

MP Andrew Bridgen thinks the war will be announced in July/August and that Rishi doesn't want to be a wartime PM. He also says we are already at war, we just haven't been told yet.

If there is an emergency that requires me to have food stockpiled, I'm fucked. Currently 46p in the bank and 7p in my purse, to do us till Monday. Not much left in the cupboards/fridge (odds and ends that you couldn't put a meal together from). Going to the foodbank shortly to try and get food to see us through until the kids go to their Dad's tomorrow evening. Think I have disability payment coming in on Monday, which will see us through the rest of the month, but definitely can't ever afford to buy extra food.