Why do people here have a stash for Brexit?

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I can see the point if it's medicines or medical supplies, but I've seen a few threads here where people are stashing tuna, toilet rolls and sweets!?

Are you all fucking mad?

I'm a total remainder but come on, I know it'll be shit but you'll still find asda and tesco will be open

*i don’t say duck normally. The phone just likes to censor my words.

Heres a question for everyone who thinks stockpiling is creating a bigger problem: thousands of people stockpiled ahead of March's exit date. Did it impact the supermarkets? Were there dozens of articles about empty shelves? Were there fights in the aisles for the last toilet roll as preppers had it all stashed away?

I can't remember any supply problems. Its been tried and tested. Gradually building up your stock when supermarkets are running as normal does NOT impact other people.

I'm going to go back to the start (thanks coldplay).

Some people are general "stashers" or preppers who like to be a bit prepared for possible disruptions caused by anyone of a long possible list of occurrences.

Some people specifically got into with worries about potential initial supply chain disruption caused by Brexit and border / logistic changes.

Some people are worried about potential panic buying at that point of constrained supply and/or civil unrest leading to them perhaps not wanting to go to the shops for a few days. (See every snowfall / storm in recent memory for quite frankly just not wanting to deal with the car park).

Some people are worried about economic disruption - either a change in their personal circumstances or rapid inflation/ price rises - and want a buffer against that.

Some of us have lived through all sorts of stuff in other countries - rationing, overnight currency devaluation, major import constraints, riots, movement restrictions, fuel shortages etc etc and don't believe it could never happen here.

Some of us work in supply chain and logistics and appreciate that while fairly resilient it is a complex system that can go wrong with significant impact. Some of us are probably massive control freaks. So as many reasons as people but the first few sentences would cover the majority I think.

I don't. It's gonna be ok. Remember Y2K? I predict the same.

@Seahorseshoe HOUSE!!!!!!!

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Curses! I salute you @TheElementsSong

Well I thought they were all mad.
Now BJ is actually the PM. Fuck knows.

House before I've even had my morning cup of tea, bloody hell!

Thanks for the well wishes, I believe the RAF are doing what they can to divert the water flowing into the reservoir. Where is that water going to go instead though? Flooding that causes some damage is going to be preferable to a dam bursting and wiping out a town though. It's a sunny day here and we were going to head out into the Peaks today before this happened. Lots of roads are closed in the area and the trains aren't running along that line so no Peaks today. We might go and see how high the river is nearby.

Best wishes @Bercows .
Brexit bingo has cheered up my dh who had a bit of a Brexit moment.

@Bercows, we have been watching that on BBC Breakfast. That's a heck of a lot of water! Holding thumbs for you here that a solution can be found and that you and your town stay safe.
My DH comes from near there so it feels close to home.
Best wishes.

Dammit Elements I look away to have breakfast and miss it!

Thank you. We are going to walk down into marple bridge later and see what the river is like along with the canal. Looking at the flood maps it has flooded Brabyns park significantly and that was before they started reducing down the reservoir.

On the dam - those houses at the foot of the dam on the aerial footage look new. Don’t we have rules about not building in such close proximity?

Bloody Nora -Brabyns Park too. I visit there a fair bit .

My children go to school in Marple Bridge so we pass Brabyns Park daily and cross the river. We love looking to see how high it is after heavy rain defined by can we see rocks or not, and looking for the resident heron. There'll be no visible rocks today. We know the family who live on the river in the park so will check they are ok.

Of course Bellini is only going to share with people useful to her. Why the duck would anyone share with people who won’t be helpful at all? That would be an excellent way to waste a stash.

If we all give away our stockpiles then that doesn't help anyone. My stockpile is for my family and loved ones. I am not planning on sharing it. However that doesn't stop me from trying to encourage others to take steps now to help themselves and from being worried about the potential impact on those on low incomes who are already struggling.

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I think Bellini means that she would swap commodities with someone else - a box of beans and rice for a gallon of petrol - that sort of thing. She is worried about the collapse of normal society.

But that is only sensible. Giving stuff away is foolish and means that all of the hard work in stashing it has gone to waste.

If my neighbour has petrol but no food and I have excess food and need petrol more then I would swap and that is better for me and mine than just giving away a bag of food to someone who couldn't be bothered to put aside any for themselves. I think bellini is absolutely right.

However hopefully if more people with the means to do so start thinking about the potential impacts and read the leaked report etc then they'll put aside stuff for themselves. That way, whatever is available in November will be available for those who didn't have the money to store anything.

And if there is no impact and everything is fine we either eat our stashes or else we can donate to food banks.

read the leaked report

The leaked report is a bit of nonsense - leaked by a couple of sacked cabinet ministers or junior ministers/civil servants who want to derail Brexit.The news report says it was only shown to 'some cabinet ministers' - not taken taken seriously then.

Anyway - just out for the day - and luckily not around that much in August.

Or too scary and only shown to some to limit the chances of leak....

Unlike almost any other economic challenge, No-deal Brexit will happen overnight...literally.

Stupid to think that this won't have profound consequence.

In 2016, anyone suggesting the Govt would earmark £500m to buy up lamb (to burn) would have been taken to the local MH unit.