I survived 1980's recession as a kid, I'm sure I'll survive this

[LadyandGent]

In fairness, my mother couldn't cope with not having potatoes, so heard rice was cheap, which we had religiously.
2 Yellow pack burgers, frozen peas, rice and gravy!!!!

I was very skinny for a few years lol.

I think we existed on that diet for 2 years. Probably when I was between 6-8 I'd say. You cut your cloth to meet your measure innit?

You cut your cloth to meet your measure innit
What happens if your cloth is too small.

But why would you want to just survive for who knows how many years?

I’m sure I will have a place on this thread, but not sure how yet.

Yes cos life is all about just surviving isn’t it?

I think those burgers were so high in TVP they turned me vegetarian.

But there's probably a parallel with CJD and future implications of losing the ability to check the quality of imported meat after a no deal brexit if we ever want to allow any into the country.

How about this one, from bbc news at 10 a couple of nights ago;

It will do us good to go without for a while. It’ll remind us how well we had things before.
(The mental gymnastics there is too much for BrexitBingoGenerator to compute.

Brexit is self inflicted chaos and completely uneccessary economic decline. Unlike the 80’s crash.

Why are we doing it????

I remember the recession of the 80's, when
my son's were young. Horrible time Worrying if we would be able to pay mortgage. Shopping with a list hoping the prices hadn't gone up to much so I would have to decide what was needed.
Now I am watching my son's worrying whether crashing out of the EU will mean he loses his job and how he is going to manage to feed his young family.
To think that some Cameron decided to put us through this to stop his party fighting makes my blood boil.

I “survived” the strikes, power cuts and mass unemployment in the manufacturing industry in the 70s.
Doesn’t mean I want to do it again, specially when it’s self inflicted.

Brexit is self inflicted chaos and completely uneccessary economic decline

This.

I was a child during the 80s recession. Remember my parents both working overtime and completely exhausted because of it, mum budgeting each meal to the penny, no holidays or treats... Yes we survived but why would anyone chose to do that again (And if we have a No Deal situation, it's going to be much worse.)

2 yellow pack burgers eh? Obviously not 'brain food' then.

I don't think it's funny and those who inflicted it on us can cut their own bloody cloth and serves them right.

why are we doing this

Because a load of rich public school people realised they would be richer if the uk wasn’t tied to eu rules, and managed to persuade some other rich public school people to let everyone vote on it in a referendum run like no other

and the second lot of toffs are so divorced from ordinary people that they could not believe that the vote might go against them and now they are scared of losing their jobs so they insist on going for the hardest dbreaknpossible just to prove to the bullies that they are tough

and Doing nothing to solve the original problems in the process

Btw not all MPs are toffs but I suspect they are all in thrall of them

Well my parents lost our family home in the 80s recession and if this goes the way predicted I'm probably going to lose my home too.

Hurrah.

Nice - I remember the ‘80s too, and all the people who lost homes, jobs and their futures.

I come from an ex coal mining community, I'd never wish to return to the 80s.

Apparently May is going to start offering "incentives" (bribes) to get MPs to vote for the WA. No hope for my community because my MP always blindly votes for her anyway.

There is a lot of money to be made out of recessions if one is willing to put in the effort and risk a bit of capital. But the majority suffer temporarily. The key is to prevent a steady decline. That is far worse than cyclical recessions. Quite frankly I think brexit is too little and too late. If anything it will probably be counterproductive.

I survived it, too, it was really fab to hear my dad pacing round out night worried sick about how he was going to support his family. Having to keep moving in his search for work (we lost our home), thankfully getting help one horrible winter from some travellers on a camp site we were in, my mum coming home from work crying into her watered down tea, both of them going without food to keep us fed, power cuts, no fucking heat so all the places were lived were full of damp (especially if the fireplace had been bricked up), waking up in the night one time because light woke me (no curtains on the windows) with the light of the moon bouncing off the silverfish who were all over the floor.

Anyone who harks back to that time as some sort of character-building bollocks needs to have their head examined.

Christ! Why all the angst!
I've been stocking up on tinned soups, noodles, cup-a-soups, meat to cook nutritious meals to freeze for maybe once every second day (small freezer though).
I'm not bloody looking forward to this! I'm probably the 10% most affected.
Just trying to be cheerful.
I'm just saying, we've come through worse. And there is nothing as bad as imagining the worst and then going through it, as then you go through it twice.

And the yellow pack burgers managed to rear a physicist (and moi).

I survived the recession in the 80s and a 70s childhood.

It was shit.

I don't want to just 'survive'. I like eating out, trying different foods. I like having money. I like going places and doing things. I like taking my dc to the theatre and cinema. I like the nice life money gives me.

I'm not massively rich but I'm doing alright. I don't want to give up my comfortable life, I don't want to deprive young people of a comfortable life. I want the poor and the dispossessed in this country to have a comfortable life.

Why the hell should I 'survive' and 'get by' because some fools want freedom we haven't lost and sovereignty we are giving away anyhow.

Brexit: we can survive it - is that the slogan now?

We had no fucking cloth to cut because it was all sold out from under us so a fig for 'cut your cloth' bullshit.

Cannot believe anyone can look back at that time with some sort of sick nostalgia. How fucked up can you get?