To think people are creating hysteria around brexit

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I keep reading post about brexit And prepping and they seem to be crazy. Why are people creating so much hysteria around this. I can’t see how it would be beneficial to other countries to let it get in the state some posters are suggesting.

Um what do you think happens to diabetics from countries that cant afford treatment? We say fuck it and they die. Luckily the UK can afford it so of course we'll be able to buy insulin - it will just cost more. Quite a bit more if the £ falls.

YABU.

No deal/crashing out is a very real possibility and there are going to be huge problems getting things (including food and medicine) into, or out of, our ports/across borders if that happens.

Well, you know, hopefully everything will be fine but it doesn't hurt to take precautions does it? The chances of someone coming along on any random day and burgling my house is fairly small, but I still lock the doors when I go out. The chances of having a car accident are relatively small but I still wear a seatbelt every time I drive anywhere.

I can’t see how it would be beneficial to other countries to let it get in the state some posters are suggesting. Hmm, I guess you could say the same thing about the UK's attitude to say Yemen or Saudi Arabia. I can't see how it is beneficial to the UK to let the Yemeni people suffer the worst famine in a century but we seem to have turned a blind eye anyway.

This thread is hilarious, in a really dark way.

Many large manufacturers use a Just In Time method of production to keep down inventory. Large multinationals will not want to change protocols for one production site when they can just close that site and transfer production. They care about the bottom line.

That wasn’t very well put by me, I mean I can’t see other countries In the case of a no deal letting diabetes ( using the example of insulin) die unnecessarily which is basically what is being suggested

Mistigri, I read that earlier in the FT.

Also, other countries care about you as much as you care about them. Governments care about their own voters. It is seen as Britians mess to solve.

People are creating hysteria my arse. What people really need to do is get their heads out of the sand and see what is happening in this country.

The government are suggesting there will be food and medicine shortages of up to 6 months. They've proposed a "flotilla" to carry us through. Health experts are saying one in three small to medium pharmaceutical companies will not be able to stockpile medicines for six weeks after March if they had to start now. People are being told to stockpile their own medicines now. Businesses are already moving out and the ones who haven't prepared yet are going to struggle massively.

The Conservatives don't care about anything other than themselves. May announced there was 5% left conveniently ignored the fact that she doesn't know if she has the support to get it through the government. Corbyn and Labour are doing fuck all - one Labour MP tweeted "don't interrupt your enemy when you're making a mistake" which is just horrific. Both parties are willing to throw people under the bus to preserve themselves.

Not enough hysteria? You must be fucking joking.

The combined populations of Ireland, Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden and Norway), Netherlands and Switzerland still fall short of the combined population of the UK. Do people really think the EU companies will turns their backs on that kind of market.

If the EU is that great - let the UK go and watch it fall on its arse and beg to come back. But no, they are behaving like a vindictive abusive partner. Why would that be? Because Uk would be the first of many to leave.

I think people are just worried as nobody knows what will happen, so much of our daily lives are linked to EU policies and processes people don’t know what will happen when that all changes. Fear of the unknown.

Same as when all the computers were going to go into meltdown in the year 2000 hysteria at its best

Yanbu.

The world will keep turning and everything will be ok other than we will no longer be in the eu which I personally find very sad and a shame. But no, not the apocalypse by any means

Who knows?

OP what do you think happens in third world countries ? Don't people die of very treatable diseases still even though other countries would have the potential to change that if they so cared to. Why do you think England should be treated as a priority or get special treatment once out of the EU? Why should the world care more about poor British citizens dying of asthma than African kids dying of polio or Aids? (I will let you come up with a justification that doesn't steam off white privileges if there is one)

As a European, I would personally rather my money went to helping out people in needs in third world countries than British people who willingly chose to renounce their privileges hoping of (and feeling entitled to) no change occuring to their lifestyle.

another person who understands fuck all about politics coming out with the ‘it’ll be fine’ line.

Have we had Y2k, Spanish hoteliers yet?

Utter thickos.

That wasn’t very well put by me, I mean I can’t see other countries In the case of a no deal letting diabetes ( using the example of insulin) die unnecessarily which is basically what is being suggested

See my Yemeni analogy above. It's very easy to turn a blind eye to suffering if it isn't affecting you personally.

If the EU is that great - let the UK go and watch it fall on its arse and beg to come back. But no, they are behaving like a vindictive abusive partner. Why would that be? Because Uk would be the first of many to leave.

The EU have been incredibly patient. They've tried to throw May lifelines more than once to help her out here in the UK and she stuffs it up every time. She's repeatedly gone behind Barnier's back despite the EU telling her that's not going to work. She's repeatedly pushed Chequers despite being told from July it was unworkable. Davis only spent about 6 hours there a week and he was Brexit Secretary. If they are now losing patience, it's because of the ineptness and sheer arrogance of the UK government.

Diabetics die in the US every day, because they cant afford insulin. Do you offer to pay for it on their behalf? No, of course you don't. And you'll sleep perfectly well tonight, because it doesn't affect you.
Thats how it will be for other countries, after Brexit.

I’m also staggered at the chumps who keep saying ‘the world will keep turning.’ Yes dear, but if you listened to what people were saying, you’d find absolutely no one is suggesting that it won’t.

Just had the Y2k, helmet. Brexit bingo.

God, I can't believe this country's future has been mostly decided by the utterly clueless. It makes me sick.

At what point do you suggest people who've already lost their jobs because of it should get to be concerned?

But other countries won’t be letting diabetics die unnecessarily. The problem is those drugs will need to be checked on entry to the U.K. And we don’t have enough people to do that, so it’s going to get stuck in a long queue.

We could try not checking drugs on entry to the U.K. and hoping that the insulin is insulin, but that’s not without risks.

It's not about "letting die", it's about practicalities.

Jams and queues at the ports and customs, high prices because of drop in the value of the pound, additional red tape, not enough HCPs, it all makes medicines, and everything else, unavailable. Devil is in the details. No one ever thought of the details when they voted for the big bright Brexit unicorn.

Op,
You are perhaps making the mistake of thinking that it’s all about other countries REFUSING to sell to us that’s going to stop food, medicine etc getting into the U.K. it isn’t, it’s red tape, legal issues, import/export deals and controls, security checks etc.
The knock on effect of a few min extra paperwork, time, checks etc on EVERYTHING that comes through our ports and airports will be immense.