Am I the only one?

[thrumylookingglass]

I have been reading with interest all the threads on this board. Am I the only who cannot believe the tone, content and the sheer catastrophe thinking about this issue? Reading threads about stockpiling and falling out with family and friends over this strikes me as strange. Historically, there a many, many more events that have had a humanitarian impact on the world ... Brexit is not one of these! There may, or may not, be an economic impact of Brexit, but will people die? Get killed? Be oppressed? There needs to be some perspective here.

Some of the world are already non fans. Irish people for example.

The govt reports say themselves there are going to be food and medication shortages. They are expecting civil unrest. There are already some drugs that are in short supply. I think most of the British population are sleep walking into this - believing it can't happen to them - somehow, someone will make it all right. They don't seem to realise that the people responsible "for making it all right" don't give a flying fuck

Screamanger - Do tell us where your DB works, I'm sure we'd all love to know where these mass graves are going to be.

You've definitely won first prize with that scaremongering piece of nonsense.

Mamamia456

You can believe it or not, it doesn’t matter to me.

He works for a environmental government department. He has to plan locations so that any environmental impact to the groundwater is limited.

Why the mass graves? Why are so many people expected to die? Lack of medicine for the sick? Street violence? Starvation?

Genuine questions.

My guess is they would have a number of civil unrest triggers listed and have a corresponding "plan" they revisit at intervals.

Years ago my aunt had a role allocated in the event of a nuclear strike. She only worked at the local council office. It is part of what government offices have always done.

Global recession would be triggered by the big economies. Britain is an insignificant set of fog-bound islands is it not?

I just can't even be bothered anymore, because anybody who's still seriously spaffing on about Y2K or the War is too busy off-thread, congratulating themselves on their highly original, deeply considered and doubtless unanswerable winning point. They know their post was so damn good that there's no need to ever return to the thread to look for the awestruck felicitations of the MN community.

But, just in case: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eu_referendum_2016_/3653528-Brexitannian-NewSpeak-Dictionary-WIP

Is that aimed at my post Elements?

👋 then Elements, and have a on your way out.

KaySarah Did you post about Y2K or the War? If you did, then yes. If you did not, then no.

Oh, and at angry biscuit person 😜

I wondered if my reference to the cold war was teetering on the edge!

Just wonderin!

I don't often see these biscuits on the brexit threads. We used to have cake, before the brexit shortages, of course.
to elements.

to woman

Perhaps the polite thing to do would be to thank angry biscuit person, and take the biscuit for my stockpile

I’m a humanitarian at heart! I trust we can all live in harmony and be kind to each other

Yes OP, if only the people of NI could hold hands and sing “Let it be” instead of having all of their silly little sectarian violence.

Do you have any conception of how offensive you are being? Out of interest did you say the same about Srebenica and Rwanda, or is it just Irish people you think need to grow up and shake hands?

@thrumylookingglass
The GFA is estimated to have saved the lives of 2,000 people, Brexit endangers it. So yes, people could very well die, infact you could argue that two women already have been murdered because of the referendum and Brexit.

Screamanger - Well obviously graves just can't t be dug anywhere. But come on, mass grave sites because of Brexit, I think he's been pulling your leg!

I’ve lost family and loved ones in other (European) conflicts

Shame the people who killed them hadn’t thought of living in harmony and being kind to each other then isn’t it?

Oh, that’s offensive is it? That’s exactly how your fucking hippy “can’t we all just get along” pronouncements sound to me.

Oh the ignorance about NI.

I think TheElements was talking about an enthusiastic cutter and paster, who as soon as she is challenged on nonsensical statements, has to go out. When she returns the thread has moved on.

Just found Wife swap, Brexit special on ch4. Before it started i could distinguish which way it would go but i will watch it a purely to raise my bp. I never understood the need, want and usage of a class system in britain but its plain to see the divide already on this show. Chavtastic watching.

I’m amazed that someone whose “family’s history and experience was traumatic and devastating, it included death, starvation and poverty” cannot see the huge danger we are in with a newly-formed extreme right-wing government. I would think that someone in that position would be screaming from the rooftops “have we not learned from history?!” But instead there is some flannel about trusting in humanity, despite every evidence to the contrary. It does come across as not in good faith I'm afraid

Years ago my aunt had a role allocated in the event of a nuclear strike. She only worked at the local council office. It is part of what government offices have always done

I think your aunts role during or after a nuclear strike would be obsolete.
As for that matter any mass grave sites.

Mamamia456 Not sure why the identification of potential mass grave sites is so far fetched - it should be standard government planning?

See the lessons learned from the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak (and the subsequent potential risks of groundwater contamination from leachate) and the 2004 flu pandemic prep papers for instance.