WHOA! British Official Warning Public: Stock up on food, water, canned goods & cash – enough to survive 1 month – Banks may CLOSE(Stock meltdown)

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up on canned food for stock market crash, warns former Gordon Brown adviser www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stock-up-on-canned-food-for-stock-market-crash-warns-former-gordon-brown-advisor-10469509.html

British Official Warning Public: Stock up on food, water, canned goods & cash – enough to survive 1 month – Banks may CLOSE(Stock meltdown) investmentwatchblog.com/whoa-british-official-warning-public-stock-up-on-food-water-canned-goods-cash-enough-to-survive-1-month-banks-may-closestock-meltdown/

of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's advisers is in full-blown panic mode over China's Black Monday uk.businessinsider.com/gordon-brown-adviser-damian-mcbride-full-blown-panic-mode-over-chinas-black-monday-2015-8

We have seen seeing the markets crashing everywhere. Governments from china to the US and EU are trying their best to simulate the economy and delay the inevitable. It is now official, there will be an stock market collapse, meaning the banks will be shut and with that everything coming to halt. No one will be at work, no imports will come in, food and medication selves will be empty, civil unrest, hungry and confused people etc... will follow. We have seen it happen to other countries like Greece, but this time no will be here to save our butts.

We dont know what simulation package (if any) will follow, but in the mean time it will be a good idea to have bear essentials like food/ water/ medication/ warm clothing and coal to hand. Im looking at it as buying insurance.

Just wondering how much food and other essentials you have got in your house. And would you be buying more stuff to protect your family, from a economic collapse.

Most people dont keep up to date on this stuff, if you have please share some info to help others understand what is happening.

Thanks

Sophie

We survived and was able to migrate because we were prepared. We did not live in a rich country, so storing food was the norm anyway. The people who lived in cities and were able to buy food regularly, died quickly from preventable diseases and hunger.

The first few days these people were spending valuable time trying to scrap every last can of food from anywhere. Those who prepared moved outside the cities and waited the city people to die or move out. There were children on the streets, you could not save. It was like the walking dead series, apart them these people are still a live but you cant save them. There were women from good upbringings out on the streets going into prostitution. Now, my heart bleeds when I see newspapers headlines of Syrian people migrating and some selling their organs to put food on the table. This is price you pay for not prepping and calling anything and everything a conspiracy.

I'm going to have to go back down to the storage unit and get my "old style freeholding existing in a Montana prarie" book back out for resource material, aren't I?

Although, stockpiling gin, that is an essential to add to the shopping trolley this weekend.

Don't forget the tinfoil blankets for the chariots....

And I will obviously have an extensive array of weapons in the changing bag, peppa pig slingshots, Thomas the tank engine water gun, to squirt flammable liquids at the zombies, DS1s Frisbees, etc and a pack of matches

[Partly howling in laughter at the strange turns this thread has taken, and partly re-evaluating my reasonable prepper-type stuff, pondering if I need to re-do it again.......]

Sod it, going home in half an hour, will drink as it's been a long day. May call at cash point en route to restock wallet. But not going shopping......

I don't suppose Waitrose would deliver would they?

Hard cash is great at the very beginning, until people realise the banks wont be opening again any time soon. Some shops will be open and they will only accept cash, because the machines aren't working.

He also said Crash advice No.2: do you have enough bottled water, tinned goods & other essentials at home to live a month indoors? If not, get shopping.

Crash advice No.3: agree a rally point with your loved ones in case transport and communication gets cut off; somewhere you can all head to.

All this advice is pretty basic.

I do monthly food shopping plus top ups so will be fine.

To add to that, being a jeweller/goldsmith whatever, I have a supply of gold,silver and diamonds - currency sorted, AND a nice collection of various hammers, anvils, gas torches and many sharp implements.

I suggest a zombie killing party at mine followed by a rotten flesh bbq. We could save the world and get a great big shout out for strong women.

Failing that, at the very least we could bling up some zombies so they're a bit easier on the eye

mimi, whatever it was that you survived, and wherever it was, I'm sorry that you had to go through that.

But - kidnapping Ray Mears aside - most of us in the city I live in can't meaningfully prepare anyway. I don't drive and don't have a car, and don't have a bolthole in the country, so could not leave the city while I waited for my neighbours to die, even if I could contemplate that. I do have a few litres of bottled water, as it happens, because the block of flats I live in has crappy ancient plumbing, so breaks down from time to time, but other than that, no, it's just not practicable to plan for disasters, even if there might be a glimmer of a fraction of an outside chance that they might be necessary.

If after what you've lived through it calms your mind to make preparations for another disaster, then I think it's a good thing that you do. That doesn't hold true for all of us,

Hang on a minute... a month off work?

Result!

This thread is brilliant. Do we think mumsnetters will form an orderly queue once the looting starts?

Dd eats like a horse so there is no way i could stockpile enough food to last a month. She is handy with a crossbow though so i may send her out hunting. If the internet goes down and she can't stream her tv shows she may get rabid very quickly.

I've got a kelly kettle, a box of matches, and about a thousand teabags. (I only go once a year to the place where favourite brand is sold, so literally 1/6 of my food storage space in my tiny kitchen is taken up with my favourite teabags. Priorities, people: I have them.)

Come at me, world. I'll have a cup of my favourite tea in my hand.

Actually... not Peppa Pig. Scrub that.

Prepper Pig!

Ahhh, the Zombie apocalypse.

The power goes off, millions of people in a city are thrown into darkness and cold with no lights, no phones, no TV, no internet, all their food rotting, no transport

THey will surely end up killing each other within hours

but they didn't they pulled together and helped each other and the crime rate plummeted

inhabitat.com/nyc/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2013/01/The-City-and-the-Storm-Iwan-Baan-3-537x402.jpg

Mimi, also sorry you had a fuckawful experience, glad you are safe now. That kind of trauma never fully leaves you and shapes who you become, we all recognise that - many of us having been raised by babyboomers and had the stories passed down.

Please don't take the lighthearted spin on this thread personally - this is MN and we help when needed but mention zombies and all bets are off.

In this particular armageddon scenario the tea drinkers are set and the coffee dependants are destined for zombification and extinction by weaponised ninja rugrats.

THIS is what happens when shit happens
blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2012/11/05/wsj-photographers-document-hurricane-sandy-in-new-york/
people look out for each other in a way that I and all others did not expect.
It was uplifting.

But I can't think of a single capitalist democracy that has collapsed over night into disaster. Germany between the wars is the closest I can think of and that was a slow decline. Having cash was pointless. Food stores would have been long gone.
I could see an event causing chaos in a comparatively small area but the collapse of the economy, infrastructure and law and order overnight?
People are frequently told on here that they need to assess risk better. The chances of it happening are small and the preparations an ordinary person could make are likely to be minimally effective.

XCChamps Agreed with your points

• it would take a relatively small "disaster" to bring life as we know it crashing down
• UK is probably the worse place to be in a disaster

There is an upside,

• food is still relatively cheap in the UK. Pepping in my country was much more expensive. We did not have child benefit or child tax credits. We still managed.
• If you get more of your friends and family to prep it will help you a lot. A lot less people knocking on your door trying to get food. The most important thing is you don't need to watch your friends and their children die of hunger. Although I would be careful of who you discuss your idea to prep with. The simple reason being most people will be like the people on here. They would rather make excuses and throw insults rather than prepare for the future. To me it makes no sense, but this is just human nature. You have to creative of how you bring up the idea to prep. OP has used US Dollar loosing it reserve currency status and possible stock markets crash.
• With our country, a lot of people did not prepare and because of that our country has turned for the worse. People started to support government ideas which enslaved the people and took away much of what little human rights we had. That is the scariest, I think. Because there is no future for our children. We had no choice but to flee the country.
• The British people do not have any to survival skills. There are also a lot of people on daily medication. Some people will be too scared to go out of their house and die of starvation or thrust. Some will die from trying to get the next meal. Others will commit suicide. In a week time, your threat diminishes dramatically.
• Heirloom seeds have been proven to worth as much as gold.

I hope this starts you off. I have jsut taken a look at the NASA preparedness plan and its a pretty good guide.

Archery, make sure you keep a stash of dry wood to chop up for your KK - that's always the thing I forget - "Oh, we'll have plenty of hot water while we're camping, we've got the kelly kettle..." Then it rains & I can't get the stupid damp twigs to stay alight!

I'm wondering if I can access the space under the floorboards to keep a stock of tins down there without DH noticing - he'll think I'm mad! I know where I'm heading with my tent in the event of an emergency - we stayed at this beautiful campsite a few years ago in the middle of nowhere with a stream running through it & sheep on the hills nearby that woke us up at 5am... Water, meat... We'll be fine! Also, I know where the local foodbank warehouse is so I can raid it if necessary...

))))))) Preppers (((((((((
They abdicate from trying to deal with the issues and hide in their bunkers.

Try being a prepper on the 20th floor of a tower block in Manhattan.
Luckily the people in New York looked out for each other as the sea swirled through the bottom of their buildings.

Mimi what you went through sounds horrible, and I'm truly sorry you had to suffer that, but telling people to prep for crisis isnt going to work. I can't prep for crisis, I have no storage and no money, my children need food for now, not for when the world goes to shit. They need clothes and heating etc and I can't afford to scrimp on any of that just in case. If it happens then so be it and yes you are right, there will be people like me, people who will do whatever it takes to keep their families alive and safe and the best way to do that is to come together as a community and help each other, not locking ourselves in a cupboard.

Phew thanks ArcheryAnnie & CosmicDespot, 2 new recipes for my poor poor lonely butter beans Yay.

Plus I've been playing a game lately called Project Zomboid on Steam so I am sorted for Zombie attack skills. Give me 2 sticks a bit of string and a sheet and I'll rustle up a tent, a fire and a butter bean stew, plus maybe a stake, to kill pesky Zombies, with some left over stick.

Remember : Double Tap I love that film

It's quite ironic that we're considered to be a bunch of pearl clutching mumsy types, but in reality we're actually some of the most clued up people on the internet when it comes to dealing with the ZA.

I bet Jeff and the MRAs haven't discussed it in as much detail as we have!

And beware of bathrooms TalkinPeace