To ask if those panicking about Brexit realise they've been had?

[Growingboys]

Honestly, it's pathetic.

This is Project Fear mark 2, spin designed to stop Brexit happening. Politicians and wonks hope that if they spread enough fear around, which is what all these ridiculous 'prepping' threads are, they will stop us leaving the EU.

Everybody needs to calm the fuck down, stop digging their underground food stores/adding some more tins to the Ocado order, and realise this is spin, pure and simple. The world will continue to turn, and food will continue to be on supermarket shelves, regardless of what happens with Brexit.

I am very sad at the lack of sense and backbone so many people are showing here, regardless of views on Brexit.

I'm off to have a gin and put my feet up. I might even eat something from my freezer tonight rather than save it for armageddon #dicingwithdeath

Look, I'll just lay down an few tins just in case and if it rains Unicorn dust after Brexit, then on my head be it.

Isn't your question, opening poster, the equivalent of asking why most people take out home insurance?

This is the most sensible thing I have read on here.

@rainforest

Op it is better not to engage, the bitterness of the remoaners is staggering, it is the only thing that gives them pleasure is the idea that they would love to see the country crash and burn than to come together for the good of the country. It is truly pitiful.

Enjoy your gin and tonic and tune out of the doom and gloom, let them stock pile the beans if they want. We all know they are being pathetic. Even my remainer friends find it utterly ridiculous.

All of this. I have never seen such histrionics in my life, as I have seen on here. I don't know a SOUL in real life who is acting like this over brexit. Going on about how they won't have the meds they need to live, and how we are all doomed to have no heating, lighting, petrol, food, or fuckall. They are just a second away from saying WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!'

As for saying 'it must be great to be so stupid that you don't worry...' what a nasty and pathetic thing to say. Pretty typical of the bitter and vitriolic remoaners really...

To ask if those panicking about Brexit realise they've been had?
This is Project Fear mark 2, spin designed to stop Brexit happening

Except that it's the Brexit Minister, Dominic Raab, who is asking the food wholesalers and retailers to begin stockpiling. The same Dominic Raab that was one of the leaders of the Leave campaign and one of its loudest foghorns.

AIBU to ask if Leavers are finally panicking now that they realise that Brexit is in danger of being an unmitigated disaster and are desperately trying to put the blame on Remainers now that what they dismissed as Project Fear is becoming Project Reality? Is this a last-ditch attempt to pull off the greatest con-trick ever attempted on a nation? Or can we sit back, safe in the knowledge that if their are food shortages after 29th March there is enough meat on a unicorn to feed a family of 4 for a couple of weeks.

Yeah, I'm totally relaxed, having been told by my daughter's paediatric nurse, that if we leave the EU without a suitable deal we will have significant difficulty in getting the medication she needs. The medication that, you know, keeps her alive. It's not produced at all in the UK, but hey, you enjoy your G & T as I shouldn't think you give a shit about anyone else OP.

Before we start glibly discussing making insulin in someones kitchen, have you any idea how long it takes to design, build, certify and get into production a new large scale medicines manufacturing facility?

If you got one up a running in a couple of years you would be considered a hero in the industry

And, no, it's not about a few tins of beans for me. I wish it was.

I'm off to have a gin and put my feet up

Since you've got a window of opportunity, maybe you can share your thoughts on a solution for Ireland and the Irish border in the marvellous Brexit Experiment that is such a great idea.

People do peskily keep asking Leavers about that particular issue, then they fall oddly silent.

Lindalee - oh, we've had that too (won't somebody think of the children!) just in slightly different wording but the exact same meaning.

I’m confused why some people on some of the other threads are talking about stockpiling bottled water.
Are we expecting our mains water supply to suddenly become corrupted? I don’t really get that.

Medicine I understand and I can get people panicking about. Most other things, no.

The y2k disaster didnt happen because a lot of planning, effort and testing over the preceding four years made sure it didn't. No equivalent effort has gone into brexit and in the event of no deal its now too late.

(i spent the whole of 1998 and early 99 working with a US tyre manufacturer whose global logistics would have collapsed - testing showed that orders would be rejected, stocks marked as life expired, finance and bank transactions wouldnt match. )
Anyone who worked in IT in that period has similar stories - and will accept your unvoiced praise of our success in averting meltdown.

I wonder when those that were persuaded to vote leave will realise they were had.

I know this is really boring but....

rainforesttreeswinging 'Undemocratic elite' you say? Please explain why a transparently democratic organisation is undemocratic? Or is this just a statement you like to make with no facts to back it up.

Good god I am so tired of asking this question. Posters make this statement and have little to no knowledge of how the EU works.

The EU has administrators, it's like the civil service, that's doesn't mean it's not democratic.

rainforest the fact you have to stoop to trying to belittle people just proves you’ve utterly no substance whatsoever, sound familiar with the entire Brexit process to date? If you had any sound arguments to make whatsoever you’d be making your case based on facts and not on sound bites and propaganda.

Name one law, just one, that came from the EU which the U.K. voted against.

One.

I agree the EU is not that different to the UK system with civil servants etc. It's even better at auditing their accounts (despite the popular myth).

As for saying 'it must be great to be so stupid that you don't worry...' what a nasty and pathetic thing to say. Pretty typical of the bitter and vitriolic remoaners really..

Fucking hell the irony .

rainforesttreeswinging

We will of course fall back on WTO agreement of course. It MAY be that we pay more tariffs on some things, less on others, but it is the accepted framework that works with 164 member countries

I imagine the WTO tariffs will be set once the talks collapse in October

The UK has already submitted its proposed tariff rate quotas to the WTO. Given that a number of countries (Australia, New Zealand, Canada amongst others - and oh look, all the countries we want to trade with) are seriously unhappy with the proposals, how easy do you think its going to be?

Not to mention who fishes in our waters

So nothing to do with the UK fisherman who sold their boats and the attached fishing quotas to other EU countries because the UK government (in its infinite wisdom) wouldn't pay into the EU scrappage scheme to allow the boats to be scrapped and the quotas retained?

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/06/16/british-reliance-french-energy-increases-quarter/
You can’t pump or treat water without electricity.

They are just a second away from saying ^WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!' shock

People who voted remain did consider their children's future opportunities and freedoms (not to mention their medicine requirements). It's basic decency to think of the younger generation even if you're not a parent (I assume you're not, given the humour you find in this notion).

Shop keepers are premoting this as will make them billions, people have stopped having cupboards full of goods.
I intend to eat out if the stores are empty...

I love these threads - they have brought about a new game for me: how long will it be until a Brexiteer with no idea about computers makes a Y2K reference?

Mummy2017 lol, where do you think restaurants get their ingredients?

Mummy2017 - exactly what I thought too. The articles saying "supermarkets suggest stockpiling" that I saw earlier - immediate reaction is "well, duh, of course they want you to do that!"

It must be rather relaxing, being too stupid to worry.

THIS.

YABVU, OP.

If the government don’t get their heads out of their arses and do a sensible deal (which means drastically readjusting their expectations and those of the general public), the shit is really going to hit the fan next April.