12/1 odds on rationing making a comeback

[Cheekysquirrel]

Excellent. This is all excellent

Why isn’t someone calling a stop to this entire madness? I just don’t understand.

It’s going to result in a depression.
There will be food shortages.
There may be rationing.
Medications will be unavailable.

Why isn’t someone stopping this? I feel like we are slee walking towards catastrophe. What motive could the government have for wanting this?

Seems like full steam ahead to me;

UK signs post-Brexit trade deal with Switzerland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47196636

Oh good, call off the dogs, we’ve secured supplies of Toblerone and expensive watches 🙄

Reminds me of that excruciatingly embarrassing episode of The Apprentice when they tried to sell block cheese from the Cash&Carry to the French.

'No Brexit' is the elephant in the room. To anyone who knows anything, Brexit is madness.

One to tick off the list though;
www.worldstopexports.com/united-kingdoms-top-import-partners/

But the government must know its madness - they know something surely. So why is this being allowed to prevail? What is the agenda?

The lesson is to teach Joe Public to keep their nose out of politics and stop asking to vote on important matters.

"Remember last time you wanted a referendum, and we had to leave Europe and now you live on Spam and boiled potatoes? Quite. No voting for you."

Fabulous, we're replicating the deal we already have with Switzerland.

Remind me again, how is this an improvement?

Fuck. I hate spam.

In gambling terms 12-1 is pretty high odds for things like this. The bookies are just jumping off the back of Brexit and probably wanting to up their coffers considering they may have a big payout depending what actually happens (a bit like when the Brexit vote won).

It was 11-1 a few weeks ago on Paddy Power so I don't think it's worth a punt.

Cheeky

As someone else described it, perhaps it is a " longing for mud ". That is, a desire for hard ordeals that one has to fight like mad in order to survive.

If someone has had a hard and unpleasant life then generally what they really want is security and comfort. Someone who grew up knowing nothing but security and comfort may desire discomfort and challenging events.

This is why some people run in long-distance marathons, go mountain climbing, whitewater rafting, etc. Usually though some thought goes into these events, that's why it takes at least a few years of conditioning and competing in shorter marathons before they attempt something really major like the Boston Marathon here in the US.

Even then they have water and medical aide stations along the way because they really don't want people dying on them.

All the things you mention, a depression, food shortages, rationing, and medical shortages are then something some people want in order to prove how tough they are by them barely surviving all of this.

The problem of course is all the other people who rightly don't want this deprivation and misery, a true " Paradise of Pain ".

I've lived through rationing in another country. It's shit. Not sure how many times I need to repeat that but I will.