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

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Many farmers make a loss now - which is why the EU have CAP payments. Farmers have dumped milk in the past I believe - no time to check now. If the government are looking for cold storage they will probably direct the lamb to hospitals and schools.

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

That's exactly what the EU have been doing for decades. Buying up surplus supplies and selling them at massive discounts or destroying them.

One quick post - the market usually adapts;

26 July 2019 Number of Welsh farmers in Tesco lamb contract doubles;

www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/number-of-welsh-farmers-in-tesco-lamb-contract-doubles/595993.article

Sure intervention has always held up UK farming, started after WW2, long before CAP, yes milk has been pumped into slurry tanks and potatoes have been ploughed back into the ground but no one voted for any of that & was usually caused by changes in consumer demand or weather and poor intervention payments, often only lasting a year or so.
Welsh farmers will not have the luxury of farming something else, their land is suitable for sheep or nothing else.

However, there isn't the cold storage capability in the UK, so this lamb will have to be disposed of, this price guarantee is on top of any CAP replacement.

But what is more worrying is that every exporter who loses out in a no-deal scenario will want compensating, the cost to the treasury will be too large.

@Clavinova , I think the collapse of normal society is unlikely - bit of Clavinova Project Fear there - but, for example, my Leave voting neighbours who are otherwise nice folk are handier than I am. One male neighbour is a joiner, one female neighbour is a civil engineer. So, if they asked for some of the veg growing in my garden that they can see from their windows, I would expect payment in kind.

@bellinisurge I think C’s “not as bad as the collapse of society” falls under this definition from the Dictionary

STARVATION: an often-fatal and previously undesirable condition. Due to BLITZSPIRIT (see above) anything less severe than this is no longer deemed worthy of discussion. (See also: MAD MAX, ARMAGEDDON, END OF THE UNIVERSE, TENT CITIES).

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@Clavinova, of course the market adapts. I'm counting on it. But meanwhile, while it's adapting, people still need to feed themselves. Haven't you worked that out yet?

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

Do you have even the faintest idea how hard people worked to stop it being a massive issue?

Do you have even the faintest idea how hard people worked to stop it being a massive issue?

They're not coming back after imparting their fondly-imagined hyper-original fart of wisdom, Pancake.

My free trial box. 3 loo rolls, 1 kitchen roll and a box of tissues. I'll give them a whirl.

If the government are looking for cold storage they will probably direct the lamb to hospitals and schools.

Well at least we’ll have a decent selection of lamb dishes to offer patients when we can’t supply their drugs.

Hospitals and schools tend to have their catering done by private outsourced companies these days, not the government.

It's one of those suggestions that leavers leap on with delight, forgetting the logistics. I guess it could potentially be a good idea, but like a lot of the bright ideas, would take time to implement. And, British cooks are going to have to learn a whole new way of cooking, if we are to avoid wasting the parts that are normally exported as we don't like/don't know how to cook them.

I've ordered the free box too, @Bercows. The reviews, especially for the recycled, seem to be rather polarised.

I wish I liked lamb, but it always tastes like rancid fat to me.

I am not based in the UK, but why wouldn’t you keep a stash of long storage items?
It’s normal to have an emergency stash in many countries, if you can afford to do so and have the space. I have plenty of dried food and tins, and bottled water, having been through a couple of major earthquakes as well as typhoons. It’s sensible.
It’s best not to go out on the roads during a major event. Even the rumour of shortages will cause panic buying that makes the January sales look like a slow day. Which then raises the possibility of violence and looting.
Nowadays butter tends to sell out a lot here as China is importing more and more dairy every year. If I see a good deal I buy and freeze.
Make no mistake, the UK will face issues if there is a hard Brexit.

Can the lamb be kept alive for a bit longer? Lots of cultures eat mutton, and hogget is apparently a chefs favourite. Will lambs be lambs in October??!!?? Gaah!

Keep the lambs alive? I can imagine that the local kids football team turn up to the park to play and find the "opposition" are all wearing woolly jumpers and munching grass.

My parents farmed sheep. Few years ago now but here are my thoughts. May not be totally accurate but roughly. Intensively farmed lambs are born in Jan/Feb and never see the light of day. They can be ready for the Easter market.
More traditionally they are born late March/April, and are ready for slaughter about 6 months later, having spent summer on grass.
So the farmers get paid for the meat Oct/Nov time.
Keeping them alive longer causes payday delay, effectively. Also they would need keeping over winter, costing more money. Sheep generally have 1 or 2 lambs, and if they were to be kept on grass, that would more than double the number of the feet on muddy fields, increasing the amount of hay and hard feed they need. Generally, after the lambs have gone, the rams go in again with the ewes to cover for the following year. So the farmers would need to find extra housing of field for the youngsters.
It would save a situation where meat goes off and is wasted, but at disruption and expense to the farmers.

I'm wondering if the more savvy farmers will force the lambs on a bit (extra hard feed etc) to get their weight up to get to market earlier. Or perhaps they will wait and hope to get the govt money which has been 'promised'.

Keep the lambs alive? I can imagine that the local kids football team turn up to the park to play and find the "opposition" are all wearing woolly jumpers and munching grass.
Where I live apparently they import sheep from Wales to eat the remnants of crops. Maybe we can send them around the country to save money on mowers?
I will caveat my incredible theories by explaining that as a born and bred Londoner and recent country bumpkin, my Country bred DH almost every day has a reason to take the piss out of me

I think that remainers do such ott things as stockpiling, to justify their 'it's a disaster' stance on it.
If they didn't outwardly behave as if the sky were falling down, then, their insistence that it IS falling down would ring rather hollow.

What utter bollocks - no-one is saying the sky is falling but it might and if it does who'll be crying about it - the people who prepped or the leavers who expected rainbows and unicorns.

I think it gives them something to do.

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I think it gives them something to do.

Because we don't have anything else to do. Really?!