Do we need to do anything to prepare for Brexit?

[LemonCakeCat]

I have accepted we will be leaving in January. Is there anything I need to do to prepare. I'm a single mum and stuff like this always plays on my mind. Am I over reacting?
I always make sure we have a spare supply of long life food just because I get ill and stuck in bed sometimes and we've been snowed in so I like to be prepared for those instances.

Nothing will happen in January. We have a transition for a year so it will be business as usual in 2020. Please don't get anxious.

Thanks. That's reassuring to know. :-)

Agree
31st January is going to be an utter damp squib

I understand why we won't need to prepare for January 31st - sort of.

But am confused about why there were adverts on the motorways warning everyone about Brexit coming up to 31st October ... was that the date, I can't remember now ...

Was that all just because we were heading for a No Deal back then? It's frightening how easy it is to forget what was going on just a few weeks/months ago.

Yes, the government spent a great deal of money on warnings about No Deal. I wonder if we will see these again in December 2020?

Dusty
Yup, 31st October was planned to be a hard crash out or Boris would die in a ditch

Assuming the WA passes the lords and Royal assent next month
then on 31st Jan we leave with Transition till the end of 2020

and then if there is no trade deal its groundhog day again next December

(and I'm at home posting because most of the pubs round here are shut as nobody has any money)

And I've had to change my contraception twice because the pharmacies can't get hold of any .....

The motorway stuff was mainly to do with travel papers/regulations etc.

We’ve been going thru this for so long I don’t think anything major will happen suddenly in jan. it will probably be a gradual process that creeps up on us but personally we will be maintaining our brexit and medication stash just in case ☹️

Maybe try to put aside extra savings. Bojo hasn't exactly been transparent with his grand economic plan so there may be some shocks to come. Best to have a cash cushion/investment pot depending on your circumstances. Don't think much will happen in Jan.

Has the EU formally agreed the new deal yet? If not, we could still no deal on 31 Jan.

I've lost track of what has and hasn't happened yet!

We definitely don't have all the legislation in place yet.

Has the EU formally agreed the new deal yet?
This isn't the deal (i.e. the trade deal), this is the withdrawal agreement. And no, the EU Parliament hasn't ratified yet either -Beeb story here.

Assuming this does get approved by end of Jan (which seems likely given there is now no effective opposition), the government will have 11 months to agree the actual deal, or we will still exit with no deal at the end of 2020.

I know it's not the deal, thank you for explaining that to me. I was using common parlance.

In fact, I know all of what you posted!

Emigrate.

Consider transferring savings to a non sterling account.

I have a stash prepared for October. I will keep it topped up until the end of February to give it time to settle. If all is well I will restart for December.

The key factors will be how much haggling there is between the two houses over amendments to the WA before it is passed in the next few weeks.

If it is NOT passed then 31 January becomes a cliff edge
but that is incredibly unlikely as Johnson has a huge majority, Brexit was in the manifesto and Corbyn is sitting there like a bad small

If it is passed then the commemorative 50p coins and church bells will happen
but not much else will

Then it comes to the trade deal
If Johnson does the sensible thing and agrees the EUs draft, we get BINO

If he does not we either get another die in a ditch extension
or a December cliff edge

Buy toilet roll according to my mum. We could have a few rounds of noro before we run out in this house

@Northernsoullover, I have a shit load - ha! - of loo roll. I don't recall how many packs. A few though (they've been on top of a cupboard for months!).

I have a stash of food too. I'll use this up and reassess in October, I think.

This isn't the deal (i.e. the trade deal), this is the withdrawal agreement.

Yeah ... but Johnson is reportedly keen to call the WA “the deal” so that he can claim to have “Got Brexit Done” and to have left with “A Great Deal”. The trade deal will be “the future relationship”.

m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-boris-johnson-downing-street-officials-negotiations_uk_5dfb57f3e4b01834791c02a8

Nothing to do until later in the year and then we will be back in the same shitty situation as feb and Sept last year.

If you rely on medication and can stockpile please do.

Can anyone tell me if insulin can be stock piled? I need to warn in laws.

Lying bastard Johnson told the ill-informed he was going to 'do Brexit' by January. And enough of the impressionables believed him.

I'd suspect we will be still back at the cliff- edge bollocks up into December this year, and Tories will 'blame' the EU for trying to pick on brave little England, but we won't take any more of this johnny foreigner nonsense, we're at war doncha know?