Will you be disappointed if Brexit goes smoothly

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Genuine question to the Preppers - how will you feel if Brexit goes through with no significant shortages or civil unrest? Will you heave a sigh of relief and sleep better at night, or feel a tiny bit flat and disappointed?

It's the slightly excited tone of some of the Prepper threads that has me wondering this. As if having a reason to hoard is fulfilling some squirrelesque instinct, which my be thwarted if the hoards prove unnecessary?

Of course everyone will be disapointed, people thrive on danger and drama.
But who knows how it will go I no longer have the remotest idea.

Fucking ridiculous.

I will be disappointed. I was promised fireworks, goddamnit, and an opportunity to ram raid my local Curry's for top-of-the-line roomba. It'll be like that Millennium Bug all over again.

I call bingo! We have a millennium bug reference.

I’m a Prepper and voted Remain. I’d be delighted if everything went wonderfully, shop supplies were uninterrupted, medicines flooded in without disruption and the loss of EC nationals in the job market was filled by others. I’d love to be wrong.
If I am, as a supply teacher, I’ll be using up my extra stashes in the holidays when I don’t get paid.

Share the winnings bellini

Hang on, I read one of those links - are the food industry not just trying to postpone the new sugar regs? It says nothing about food shortages.

I hope it gets stopped. If it does or all goes on as usual I’ll be a delighted person with quite a lot of beans and loo roll.

are the food industry not just trying to postpone the new sugar regs? It says nothing about food shortages

huh?

I think it is extremely unlikely that Brexit will go smoothly and I am a hard core Remainer. However if by some miracle it works I will feel only relief. I don’t want me or anyone else to have to experience food and medicine shortages just to be proved right.

huh?

It was re goldengummybear's post at the end of the previous page, with links about the food situation. The one I read was just the food industry wanting health related stuff put on hold until Brexit is over.

so thats what you think? youve genuinely never read any concerns about a no deal brexit?

Hahaha OP good question

I’m not a prepper, but have a small stash just in case. I’d be very relieved if it all goes smoothly, am sick to death of watching the incompetent shenanigans of Government and thinking fucking hell we’ll starve with this bunch at the helm.

If I'd spent Megabucks on an underground bunker, generators, guns and put all my assets in gold I might feel it had been a waste of time.

I think there are degrees of prepping and the vast majority in here have just got a few tins and bits of long life food in. I hate supermarket shopping at the best of time, if we have shortages of food and I can avoid Tesco and a bunfight over the last bag of spuds I won't be disappointed. If there are no shortages I will donate the lot to a food bank, who will also not be disappointed.

I think you all live in a MN bubble.
Most people on here want to,stop Brexit but in real life most want to leave the EU and quickly and preferably without a deal.
So you think the bomb in Derry is because of Brexit? You all really need to get real.
Brexit has not gone as I expected. I expected it to be much faster.

in real life most want to leave the EU and quickly and preferably without a deal.

that's nice, dear.

You're living in a dream world, Copper.

Most people on here want to,stop Brexit but in real life most want to leave the EU and quickly and preferably without a deal.

Where is this most of which you speak? I'm in Scotland, where 62% voted to remain. Where is your so-called bubble then?

Nah - i live in a Leave area and most people (leavers) either have lost all interest and don't care which way it goes or now want to remain.
There are still a few hardcore leavers.

But it's dangerous to go on anecdotal evidence.

The polling (fwiw) shows a consistent 8 to 10% lead for remain over the last few months.

Agree, the Derry bomb, on its own, cannot be proven to be because of Brexit.

I'm a remainer but I do understand the reason behind the question.

On some ( by NO means all) of those threads there is an eager girl guide jolly hockey sticks vibe that I find profoundly naive and distasteful.

This is not a chic take on austerity mark 2 complete with retro chintzy bunting and aprons.

In a no deal situation the country is facing the most massive crisis since World War Two.

Am not a prepper but I see lots of not preppers answered, so here is my 2p.

The only way (in real world possible) Brexit goes smoothly is if we get WA & seamless end to transition onto decent FTA with EU in reasonable # of yrs plus half-decent trade deals with rWorld at same time. That would be fine. Big relief.

So you think the bomb in Derry is because of Brexit?

I’m pretty certain the bamb in Derry was a practice run, in case of a hard border, so yes.

Considering the majority of people in NI voted to stay, yes I do speak to lots of people who think the leavers are going to help destroy the UK. I hope you feel at least some responsibility when the first person is injured/dies, because you leavers didn’t give a shit what happened here.

Where is this most of which you speak?

Probably in Midsummer.

I live in an area which voted leave by a narrow margin. I know of no leavers who have changed their mind. I have close family in London who are staunch leavers and the same in Cheshire. Friends in the north west all voted leave even though their jobs could be affected.....they tell me Brexit is too important.
All are "in real life"
But MN is clearly pro remain. And you all obviously think that when it rains it must be because of Brexit.