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!

Same here it's all any of us can do.

These are deals that will no longer apply to us after March 30th, it's not just imports from EU countries that will be affected all of our trade deals will need to be renegotiated from a position of weakness.

This just about nails is as to why there is going to be a problem with the food chain supply, with 60% of our food disappearing for a ? How ling

@Seasawride - walling yourself in with tins is daft. Putting some extra to one side is not. Don't overreact.

No it’s a totally overreaction and you might consider some posters are very anxious and threads like this can cause damage.

If you do start to hoarde that’s disgraceful behaviour.

ivykaty

That’s just not true. Honestly google the facts.

@Seasawride which is why I have posted on these and other threads to advise people to be sensible and proportionate. But if you are one of those people that dismisses the slightest suggestion of putting bits by as hysteria then you are not very helpful.

""The govt isn’t talking to the farmers, it’s bonkers""

Neither is Trump.

There are freezers full of meat, in the US because of all the Trade disputes and lets face it, what needs to be done is beyond Trump's understanding and intelligence level.

The Far right is building up across Europe, three people in the UK have just been imprisoned for being members of a Far Right Group, based in Germany, which is illegal in the UK. Australia is getting draconian in the rules they are setting for Female dress etc.

We have people needlessly having their benefits cut and having to use food-banks, become homeless. The Cuts having saved the UK any money, as they didn't in the 80's, it just put people in poverty, closed businesses and made many Northern Cities go into decay.

If people don't think that the World is changing and we are heading towards worrying times, to the point that life is changing, they are either in denial, or have enough income/are the right colour/religion and are adopting an "i'm alright jack" attitude.

Does anybody else find it ironic that the Brits are worried about being stockpiling when they leave a union, given the awful atrocities they caused in colonies?

Famines in India and Ireland, prison camps and the death of tens of thousands of Kenyans that lead to the Mau Mau uprising, Radcliffe’s hasty partitioning of India etc.

Just wondering, if the worst comes to the worst, how quickly the rest of the world will mobilise to support the UK?

I don’t think it’ll come to that at all, but it’s something to think about.

Our country had a vote and whether you wanted in or out it's what the UK decided. We should now all be on same page to get a good deal. Why wouldn't anyone want us to dm get good deal??

There's no such beast, that's why. Every single option the UK has is worse than the current one we have. Every single option is about mitigating the untold damage we apparently voted to do to the country to a greater or lesser degree. Let alone the massive amount of illegal campaigning, Russian interference and so on and so forth. I don't want any deal, I want to remain.

We are not prepared for a no-deal Brexit. We haven't a hope in hell of being prepared for it by March. The country is being held hostage to Tory party unity. I would like to think the government won't head down the no-deal path, but who knows anymore what those arseholes will do to keep their stinking party together? I don't trust a single one of them. It's taken them 2 years post-vote to even come up with some kind of (unworkable) negotiating position and even then none of them are happy. But instead of coming up with something that works, they just keep throwing their toys out their prams and blaming remainers for 'not believing in the country enough'.

These are interesting times and I hate them with a passion.

On the subject of Trump, he is thinking of fucking over his Farmers and moving manufacturing to Eastern Europe. South America was mentioned, which he could do and dress it up as a caring gesture.

What is happening in the US is going to change the deals that the EU and Eastern countries make, with the UK.

""Our country had a vote and whether you wanted in or out it's what the UK decided.""

At least one third of the voters to leave have now admitted that they didn't understand it, they didn't vote for what we are going to end up with and a percentage took it as a joke.

But we have the card that we have been dealt. That is all we have and all we have to work with.
The deal we have now is old news.
What's the point of talking about it.

I like to have at least 1 month worth of extra food in the cupboards and freezer all the time. I do this because should something unexpected happen then I know we could feed ourselves for a good few weeks without worrying.

I have lots of tins, packets, longlife milk, cereals, frozen veg etc. DH used to think it was strange at first but it’s helped us out a few times when unexpected bills have left us skint with hardly any money left to buy food.

I have been buying a few extra things on top of my usual supplies in preparation for the mess that will be Brexit. Luckily we don’t rely on much medication so not too worried. DH takes medication for his reflux but for some reason has ended up a few packets ahead on his prescriptions anyway - I think he’s maybe missed a few days of tablets here and there so I would say the has a spare 3 week supply in the cupboard. I do also have a couple of packets of generic OTC he could use, it’s not as strong but would do in a pinch. I sought them as emergency supplies for him anyway after a couple of delays in the dr sending the repeat prescription to the pharmacy.

But if we were all to ‘puts bits by’ that would be stockpiling on a massive scale and therefore wrong.

Bird.. This is my point.. It may be a joke. Maybe not a single solitary person understood the vote. Maybe everyone had alien invasion in their brain.
But this is what came out of a democratic vote. This is... It. The whys and wherefores don't matter one jot now. You could easily argue that people back in the 7os didn't know what they were voting for either. But that was the card we were dealt.

This. Is. It.

@Seasawride - if you think it is unpatriotic, then don't do it.

Birds

Where did you get that stat from? All the stats I have seen say most people would vote the same way again.

I voted remain but do feel it’s terribky patronising to tell people they were too stupid to understand why they voted leave. Or to say it was a joke! Link to those stats.

I won’t be. That’s what I already said.

@Seasawride and as well as saying you won't be, you have had a go at anyone who says they will be.

What's the point of talking about it.

Because Brexit is not inevitable.

Because we haven't left yet.

Because we could still revoke Art 50.

Because people are allowed to change their minds in the light of new facts.

Because democracy didn't end in June 2016.

Because this will affect every single one of us.

Because Brexit, according to the ONS, OBR, HM Treasury and LSE, will cost each household £4,200 annually, where the EU costs us £317.

Because I am not prepared to accept that kind of drop in my living standards.

Because I am one of the more lucky ones and could probably, with effort, absorb that extra cost, but millions won't be able to.

Because not one single Brexiteer has ever come up with a sensible plan for how we're going to compensate for it.

Justhereforthepoo

If I ever meet anyone who was responsible for Famines in India and Ireland, prison camps and the death of tens of thousands of Kenyans that lead to the Mau Mau uprising, Radcliffe’s hasty partitioning of India etc...

then I'll ask them.

However since they are all dead now, your question only works if you subscribe to the theory of racial guilt, which I think has been debunked now.

What's the point of talking about it.

Because freedom of speech has not been curtailed yet?

Because failing to plan is planning to fail. My government may well fail me but I am obliged not to fail my family.

Our country had a vote and whether you wanted in or out it's what the UK decided.
We should now all be on same page to get a good deal. Why wouldn't anyone want us to dm get good deal??

We had an advisory referendum. There was nothing legally that stated we had to act on the result. Since then, it has been proven that the Leave campaign committed electoral fraud. There was foreign involvement in the electoral process. It was won by a narrow margin and generally, when legislation is better drawn up, there will be substantial majority required to change from the status quo. As it was, we could have ended up with an even narrower majority and it would still be the case that some people would be saying that we had to act on the result.

This isn't democracy - not genuine democracy. Referendums are commonly used by dictatorships to claim they have the will of the people.

But it isn't remainers who are threatening to crash out with no deal. It's this government. It's a government that claims it supports leaving the EU. It's the government that should be trying to get a good deal that is in fact so useless they cannot negotiate and have no idea what it is they're trying to negotiate.

Under those circumstances, buying a bit of extra pasta is sensible, although vaguely reminiscent of sticking your finger in a dam, only with no hope that you'll be relieved.

they are all dead now

You think everyone who was alive in 1960 is dead now?

(I’m not saying everyone who was alive then was responsible for Mau Mau, of course, but you seem to be suggesting that none of this matters as you perceive it to be a long time ago?)