How would No Deal Brexit affect you personally?

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What impact would no deal have on your personal circumstances? What is your personal biggest worry?
In my case it is medication which is my biggest concern.

Well personally, very likely my son will die.

His insulin is manufactured in Denmark. His insulin pump supplies are manufactured in Puerto Rico and come to the UK via the Netherlands.

Any fuck up in supplies getting into & out the UK due to a No Deal Brexit (which is highly likely) means we would run out of insulin pretty quickly, and after a day without insulin my son will most likely be dead.

Not hyperbole. Highly likely. Yes, I know the govt has told suppliers to have a 6 week buffer, but there are already problems with NHS Procurement, and not enough refrigerated warehouse space available to store that much insulin. I'm afraid I don't have much faith that this clusterfuck of shafting the entire country will be all sorted within 6 weeks.

And no, we can't just suddenly manufacture insulin here. So my son is fucked.

PlumpSyrianHamster I was asking, what are the SNP’s answer to the border and currency issues, and what would be the effect of independence on Scottish people living and working in the rest of the UK, how long would it take to get EU membership,

therewillstillbe
I am so so appalled and angry on your behalf that you're going through such levels of worry and stress 💐. It doesn't bear thinking about.

Bluntness what makes you think all the foreign nurses will go home?

Why do you think rents and mortgage rates will rise to astronomical levels?

Why not engage your brain, Hesta and research that yourself. Oh, wait . . . .

Jesus marsbars :(

if its affordable I would go on holiday (with insurance!) the week before brexit and stay there till the whole thing blows over.

I'm a bit worried about getting my Italian passport renewed...its taken 2 months to book a phone call to book an appointment. Can't get a job without valid id

marsbars I keep a small amount of insulin as a backstop in normal circumstances.
I have added to it - I guess people will slate me for stockpiling but frankly I don’t care. Better that than the alternative. I have a few months extra insulin myself. However what I don’t have is pump supplies so I’d have to go back to injections and I don’t have much of the penfill stuff. I’d have to hope to get some syringes I suppose.
Not sure what the availability of glucose testing strips will be either.
Basically it will potentially make everything a lot more dangerous for us than it currently is.
I know three people with t1 children, all of them are worried about it.
I wish the government would stop fucking about. The level of anxiety brexit is causing is crazy. I want to smack anyone who says they still want to no deal brexit.

I'm worried about my sons meds. Not as life threatening as yours Cheekysquirrel and ThereWillStillBeMarsBars but still worrying. He has severe depression and is suicidal, without his antidepressants he will be worse. They're manufactured in the EU and he can only have liquid so are less likely to be stockpiled (shorter date of three months). His other med is made up specially in the UK but I'm not sure where the ingredients come from.

More worrying is the money. I live solely on benefits, likely the first thing to be cut in a downturn and definitely not going to be raised in line with inflation. DS can only eat certain foods so it will be difficult to be flexible. I don't know how I will get by if prices rise a lot.

PlumpSyrianHamster So no concrete answer then,

First real example today! Looking to book flights with Norwegian, and at the payment point is a warning that payments with personal credit card will attract a charge of 1.99%

I should have added payments from customers outside the EU. But Norway isn't even in the EU!

I would imagine the SNP have plans if and when they decide to go for a second ref to your questions but of course the problem of a border didn’t come up the last time cos we had FoM

smilethoyourheartisbreaking As much as you can be upset with our Parliament ( rightly so ) you should be as upset with the EU, in a case of no deal, they don’t agree a mini deal, for medical needs then they will be willing hurting people, it will show the EU in their true colours

Hesta
Yes I thought they would make an exception for medical supplies to get through.

What is a mini deal. How would that work in practice?

Also how do you come to the conclusion that if we choose to leave with no deal that any consequence can be the fault of the EU?

{you should be as upset with the EU, in a case of no deal, they don’t agree a mini deal, for medical needs then they will be willing hurting people, it will show the EU in their true colours}
I would have a fair amount of confidence that the EU will do all it can to be helpful with medication you really have to remember that this mess is ENTIRELY the making of the UK government.
You are determined to paint the EU as a 'baddie' presumably because you have no real idea of how they work to try to improve the lives of all EU CITIZENS. The UK government is dragging nearly half the population out against their will, try a bit of compassion and understanding.

So if leaver voters knew what they were voting for
And they were voting for no deal
And no deal means life saving medicines potentially getting stuck
Then Leavers have a strategy to resolve that that doesn’t rely on the misplaced generosity of the union we just voted to leave at significant cost to them - right?

Hesta - 'mini-deal' isn't relevant - transport delays are the issue - the amount of goods passing between the EU and UK amount to around 40% of our trade - depending on how you measure it - raab discovered recently how much goes through Dover.

Any kind of delay will impact all traffic - whether its part of a mini-deal or not - if you're 'precious' goods are at the back of a 30km queue you aren't going to get them to the front quickly.

In a case of no deal, if they don’t agree a mini deal, for medical needs then they will be willing hurting people, it will show the EU in their true colours

No, that's 100% the British Government's fault for pursuing Brexit regardless of the cost to the UK population......

If no-deal is such a disaster (as they appear to be prepping for) no responsible Gov would allow it and would revoke A50 for the good of the UKs population.

Brexit is not an unavoidable threat to the UK.

The government needs to say ‘we’ve looked at this. We’ve realised it cannot work in practice. We revoke article 50’
But they won’t.

jasjas1973 So because it’s the U.K. governments fault the EU will willing try to hurt UK citizens, They can easily get vital medicine through if it’s necessary, if they don’t I can only presume that they are doing on purpose,.