To ask if anyone is considering stockpiling

[Ninoo25]

Just that really, given that the government asking industry to stockpile food and medicines has been all over the news in the past week, I was wondering how many people are planning on stockpiling themselves and if so what are you going to stockpile and how much?
TBH my main concern is long term medication that I’m on, but as it’s only available on prescription and Dr wouldn’t let me order more than I need, so there’s nothing I can do about that anyway!

My main brexit fear is that it has been Europe that has brought in climate protection, animal protection and employment protection laws.

Really not worried about food levels.

This was the reality for the U.K. in Jan and it wasn’t just a post-Christmas thing. For a chunk of the country massive parts of supermarket shelves were empty until the first week in Feb www.express.co.uk/news/uk/899670/Sainsburys-Asda-supermarkets-shopping-Christmas-empty-shelves-Belfast-Birmingham

@Blackteadrinker77 - your worry should be food distribution

I’m buying some Huel. It has a shelf life of a year.

Btw, tinned food is still eatable, for up to four years. The date on the tins if ‘best before’ and although it may not taste as good, it won’t harm you. If Tina are kept in a dry, dark cool place, they can last for up to six years.

Excuse the spelling mistakes.

I was thinking about this earlier today and made a mental note to have a google for what sort of things would be good to store.....then I found this thread!

I am not a prepper by nature and was unperturbed by the millennium bug but Brexit has me worried.

I thought this was interesting, re Brexit and food supplies,

www.bearingpoint.com/en-gb/our-expertise/insights/how-could-a-difficult-brexit-impact-the-uk-food-industry/

especially this line.

For the authorities, a day’s delay on inbound for the Dover Straits will require 100 kilometres of queuing road space on an average day. And that is just for food.

Like many, I'm just gradually buying a few extra non-perishables with the weekly shop.

This isn't project fear, at least from people who want to stay in the EU. It's the reality of people not understanding how trade works now.

Apologies if someone's already linked to it but this www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/07/27/this-is-what-no-deal-brexit-actually-looks-like from Ian Dunt is well worth a read. It details how our trade works and what may happen if we crash out without a deal. One thing to note is that extensive competition from unregulated non-EU competitors may drive UK farms out of business. We produce 60% of our own food now, but there's no saying we can keep doing that.

I suspect though that fears about needing to stockpile are actually project fear put about by the Brexiteers. This means that when the shit hits the fan, but proves not to be quite as bad, they can say it's all OK really.

I really don't know what's got into us though. I'm ashamed of the UK and what it's become.

Are you sure your coffee come directly from Columbia? Does it go to Germany to be roasted first?

In WE2 we didn’t prioduce enough food to supply demand, this was why rationing came in - we now supply even less therefore it’s a problem.

Buying food that is increasing in price due to supply and demand will be fucking expensive.

If you think food shopping at £120 per week for a family of 4 is expensive, how are you going to feel if it doubles - which isn’t scaremongering as the £ will fall against the euro and aid this.

There is a Hugh difference between scaremongering and realism

Completely ridiculous

@KC225 - what is completely ridiculous?

We managed perfectly well before we were part of the EU, in fact far healthier. I have just looked on a few of those threads and someone is actually stockpiling frozen avocadoes and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

How will they live without them?

FFS, it's COLOMBIA not Columbia.

LEELULUMPKIN I think we will manage perfectly well eventually, I’m just preparing for the inevitable upheaval until we get to that point

checks in on thread, steps back away from JingsMahBucket 😲

I think there are a lot of people here who haven’t felt a personal, real impact of Brexit (or indeed any other financial or personal crisis) yet and can’t begin to comprehend why someone would want to protect themselves.

A few years ago I left my job because I was assaulted. I had a nervous breakdown and couldn’t work in profession I so loved because I was traumatised. I set up my own business and it was very successful until Brexit struck and I had to get rid of employees and our profits went through the floor. Now my business is essentially something I do as a hobby and I have been forced to return to my job, which I am scared in every single day.

We prep in our household not just for Brexit (but we have taken extra steps for Brexit) but because we have 6 DC (and one on the way) and several animals who we are responsible for.

We prep in our household because although our jobs are part of an essential service you never know when they will be impacted. We didn’t know I would be assaulted so badly that I didn’t feel safe returning to work and have a nervous breakdown. We thankfully had food and supplies in the house to cover the loss of income whilst I set up my business.

We are not panic buyers. We are calmly, methodically buying small amounts every week to put away so we can be responsible for ourselves, so people who can’t afford or are unable to prep can be aided first if the worst should happen.

@JingsMahBucket my apologies. As a fellow pedant, I feel your pain. Sadly autocorrect rules my world.

But my coffee comes from Columbia confused

I remember reading that a huge amount we import comes from a massive distribution hub in Europe (possibly the Netherlands?) so I wouldn't think it's 100% safe to assume that non-EU goods get in easily, especially if the ports are disrupted as some articles are suggesting. Someone feel free to pitch in if they know more on the subject.

@UglyCathKidstonBag - I'm very sorry that you have had a dreadful experience. Well done for taking charge of your situation and doing so in the face of further setbacks.
Had my share too. Better to get in the front foot but often so difficult to get there.

Thanks bellinisurge, you never know when life is going to hand you a plate of shit!

We managed perfectly well before we were part of the EU, in fact far healthier

But we are now part of the EU. We are structurally dependent on it. We are living in a very different world from the one we were in 40 years ago and cannot turn the clock back.

If we want to leave the EU, we need to be far, far better prepared than we now are. We need an understanding of how it functions and how many of its institutions we rely on. We need trade negotiators. We need a regulatory framework for medicines. We need to understand the Good Friday agreement. We need to understand how trade works now in 2018, not in some mythical past in which Britain was great and we all loved the empire and rode unicorns to work and had tea with the queen everyday

A few, a very few people will get rich from Brexit. The rest of us will suffer.

UglyCathKidstonBag, I’m sorry you’ve had to go through all of ghat and it’s still impacting on your life.

I started keeping a store, when I lost my husband and was worried how my adult kids would cope if anything happened to me. The oldest has ADD and the youngest SNs. I don’t want them having to worry about the basics, on top of everything else, until they get the support they will need.

I’m concerned about Brexit affecting my clients, because that will have a direct impact on my business. I’m a pet sitter and they won’t need me if even one member of a family loses their job, as they will have to look after the dog, to save money.

We managed perfectly well before we were part of the EU, in fact far healthier, life expectancy was about 10 years less.

The world has changed a wee bit since then, many people were still moaning about decimalisation.

PositivelyPERF

What a lot to go through, I can’t imagine how hard that was

It’s about cushioning a blow, isn’t it?

Jung’s did you not know which South American country I meant then?