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

Always do you have a Hummer? You could break into a Nespresso shop and empty the shelves. The zombies wouldn't appreciate decent coffee anyway.

As soon as Mark Carney tells me to stockpile supplies and buy gold, I will

I wonder if Tesco will sell me pet food for a silver ring or gold earing?

Hey Agnu, I gave all three of my dear children a Scrubba for Christmas last year. Plus we have one in our travel trailer.
Cosmic, DH had one that filtered urine into drinking water....
We could drink/drain water from the hot water tank in case of emergency.
As a proud Canadian, I have a pantry full of dry goods...sorta like a mini market ha ha ha. Oh ya and a shot gun.
Another big crash would be sad, the Rothschild's would do well.

What will we do in the mean time? Walk sideways through the hall which is stuffed with long life milk and bottled water? Where will I store all the chocolate? It will melt in the loft and get eaten if not hidden?

Out can I come live with you in the event of a zombie apocalypse? I'd very much like to be standing behind the person wielding a shotgun...

MN at its best - were else do you get a thread about the impending doom and we end up posting about butterbeans, pilchards and people come up with recipes.

Some of us weren't children during the millennium bug, which btw we all largely ignored because we were too busy being fucking outraged at being charged to get into pubs.

We've done a couple of crashes and financial nightmares too (thank you Mr Lamont) and a variety of fuel crashes. We didn't stay indoors with pilchards and filtered urine. We just got on with it.

*fuel crisis

And the last pandemic was 2009.

This is t'internet equivalent of a man stood on the street corner wearing a board or carrying a placard saying,

THE END IS NIGH!

Honey, I never imagined you as being that old!

If the apocalypse comes I'm living on pumpkins. 23 of the buggers sprouted whilst we were on holiday and they are all football sized now pity the only thing I know how to make with them is soup

I've got a lovely recipe for spiced pumpkin cake?

'bear essentials' eh? I don't have anything that uses coal but might have some charcoal for the barbecue in the shed.

I think we'll be ok to be fair.

Eve, pumpkin risotto is rather lovely, served with boiled ham (use the water from boiling the ham as stock for the risotto).

Oh thank God, we are all still here!

Having survived the Nuclear Bomb 'Retreat to your cellar with a mattress over the door', AIDS scare, various economic meltdowns and 38 years of marriage I suspect that this will be a doddle.

Going on to a slightly more serious concern I have - energy shortages:

bbc link We are down to 5% spare capacity this winter. It is only that high because they have asked some industries to shut down. We are in a bit of a pickle if we can't power our own industries through the winter.

Given the potential (this is not a forecast!!!!!) for a severe winter as we are in an El Nino event, it could get a little squeaky this winter. More industries would be turned off rather than domestic supplies, but it can't be a great prosepect for our economy!

The millennium bug didn't cause any problems because as soon as people realised it was an issue, companies all tested their software and made changes where necessary. If no one had thought of it there could well have been some problems, although I doubt it would have awoken the dead from their graves.

There is nothing wrong with taking sensible precautions, which is what millennium testing was all about. I worked for a software company at the time, everything was millennium tested and quite a few bugs found.

Incidentally I have some breathing masks which I bought on t'internet after watching a documentary about what would happen worldwide if that volcano under Yosemite blows. You may laugh now but you won't when the inside of your lungs is turning to concrete.

I should add my understanding is that the industries that have been asked to shut down will only do so if needed.

Honey Dragon and your point is?

Are you trying to say we should not consider a global pandemic as a serious threat? That's not a credible position.

Ebola isn’t the big one. So what is? And are we ready for it?

Oh, yes please honey. Pumpkin soup starter, pumpkin risotto main and pumpkin cake dessert. I reckon I could survive a month...

I think that my mum starts these rumours of needing to stock up. She was so mocked for her Millennium Cupboard (but she was following advice from Richard of and Judy fame!) and she is determined to prove that she was right all along.

Luckily, she still has quite a stock of tinned peaches from 1999. Not butter beans though -they're a bit too exotic. She'll make do with cold Heinz's best.

Op you clearly abandoned formal education shortly before 'Grammar', 'Spelling' and well before 'Debating'. (kios - nearly finished me off well before the zombies !) Dunno why you think you can keep up with the world banking experts.

I suggest you finish school before worrying too much about what the adults are doing.

it's a pandemic, there is only SO much even the cleverest people can do.

That's the point of pandemics. It generally means something bastard nasty.