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

How delightful to have a pledger. Although the emoji thing is really weird. Is it the done thing amongst Patriots in the fucking Daily Fail comments section?

Anyway, for lurkers deciding whether to stockpile, and new patriotic visitors from the fucking Daily Fail, the reasoning behind the pledge works like this:

If today I were to simultaneously run out of bread, milk, vegetables, painkillers, cash, petrol and have a freezer breakdown (etc etc), I’d be pretty fucking annoyed but am sure that I could step out of my door and obtain all of the above now. How many people have complete cast-iron certainty that this will continue to be exactly the case in the aftermath of a No-Deal Crash to Freedom?

Therefore to keep those Brexit fairies fluttering, the True BeLeaver should say something like “I swear not to save so much as a grain of rice or tin of beans in my empty cupboards, to keep my freezer empty, to have a near-empty tank of petrol in my car, and less than £5 cash - thus will I demonstrate my unswerving certainty that there will be not an iota of disruption post-Brexit”.

(Oh, and fuck the fucking Daily Fail and its lazy screenshotting fake journalists).

Doh! Bloody kindle. For 'education's ', read 'ridiculous'.

It’s not just a few crazy remainders that are prepping for Brexit. Lots of leavers I know are too. They reckon there will be mass hysteria in September/October as the media will push lots of food shortages stories. This will make people panic buy which will be the actual cause of food shortages.

But what do your pledge-free cupboards look like?

Exactly, Socks - after all, I would be able to say, with some honesty, that I'm not really "prepping". As I've said many times before - possibly due to growing up poor and the family being kept afloat only my parents being fucking careful - ever since I have run my own household, I've been a meal-planning, bargain-multi-buying, batch-cooking-n-freezing, well-stocked pantry type.

In the past, long before the delights of No Deal Brexit became every Leaver's most fervent wet dream, when we've run down our pantry (say prior to moving house) or emptied our freezer (say for routine defrosting), it usually took a good couple weeks to consume our supplies. One could almost say I was pre-adapted for the Sunlit Uplands.

So I could do a whole "Dearie me golly gosh, why on earth would I do something as silly as stockpiling? I'm not changing my behaviour at all, oh no! I'm sure No Deal Brexit will be FIIIIIIIINNEEE" if I was being a duplicitous sort trying to lull others into supine acceptance.

Jajas reckon it's more likely SpringingIntoAction from pre-ref

@Wiltshirelass2019, if everyone went panic shopping all at once, yes there would be empty shelves for a while, but deliveries would continue and shops could restock quite quickly.
If the same happened at a time when supplies were delayed, the restocking would take much longer.
Your scenario would be more like the sort of situation that happens at Christmas.

Love your post @TheElementsSong. You have a lovely way with words.

Socksontheradiator it’s not my scenario, it’s just what I’ve heard from Brexiteers 😂 remainders and brexiteers are so argumentative 😂

During October I will be building a major stock pile of our favourite foods, particularly those which originate in the EU. We go to my parents in Belgium regularly and I’m going to stock up on the local food and drinks we bring back each month.

I’m not prepared to put up with difficulties with shopping due to idiots supporting Brexit.

My pledge-free cupboards look like the type of cupboards where we got off our arses, worked hard every day since leaving education, payed taxes & didn’t rinse the state of benefits @Socksontheradiator 🇬🇧✌️

@MigorRortis like most people then?

like most people then?

No, special patriotic cupboards chock full of specially hard-work-earned special patriotic goods, especially not actually answering the actual question.

@Jason118 like @bellinisurge & gang? Who claim to work yet spend every waking moment on MN claiming they know how to run the country better than actual politicians? Have a day off & come to my party 31/10/19🎉🍻😃✌️🇬🇧

@TheElementsSongs don't feel bad. You're welcome too. Bring a tin of mushy peas or something✌️🇬🇧

I'm this close >< to calling Poe, but in light of these crazy days, I think maybe this is not a Poe.

Oh, and [emoji][emoji].

@MigorRortis the key question is, do you grow courgettes?

Why bother when there’s a tonne of crazy nuts spending their money & energy growing them for me?! @Jason118 ✌️🇬🇧

@MigorRortis so farmers are suddenly crazy nuts? I'm not following your logic

If there are any undecided MNers still in existence (perhaps you’ve just awakened from a 4-year coma?), feel free to come to your own conclusions.

Are you 100% cast-iron SURE that a No Deal Crash Out Clean Break Brexit will not result in any disruption of whatever supplies/services/general stuff that you personally consider important to your life? Furthermore, are you comfortably reassured by posters parroting empty slogans or deliberate point-missing non-sequiturs, compiled into short single-paragraph posts? Perhaps you feel particularly convinced that all will be well, at the sight of jolly emojis used as a witty sign-off?

If the above applies, please do enjoy your continued Panglossian bliss.

If, however, you allow for even a shadow of doubt as to whether No Deal Crash Out Clean Break Brexit will be perfectly benign to you and yours, then consider the Bedouin proverb: “Trust in —Brexit— God, but tie up your camel.”

Oh, and [emoji][emoji].

I pity the British farmer that focuses on growing courgettes @Jason118 Give me spuds, carrots, cabbage & sprouts in season✌️🇬🇧

The former CEO of Sainsbury was very interesting just before on Newsnight.

The former CEO of Sainsbury’s can afford to or be paid to say whatever he likes✌️🇬🇧

Erm ... surely that’s the point? He’s got no skin in the game?
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, this one

So it didn’t click that the former CEO of Sainsbury’s might been seen to be influential enough to have an opinion? A biased opinion? Enough of a biased opinion to be interviewed for tv on the biased remain channel BBC?? Have a day off will ya!✌️🇬🇧

You’re not even making sense.

Are you drunk, Mr Rortis?