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

I don't recall John Major having a classic education.

Will boards nailed over the windows keep the zombies out? Or do
I need corrugated sheets?

Haha yeah, kios and holt. :o

:o at your mum Zebra.

When the banks crashed in 2008 we didn't need OFRS's and stockpiles of water. The banks didn't close either. So wtf is different this time?

I do actually like the idea of a stockpile, and a bunker in the back yard, but really, who can be arsed? My DH used to be a cage fighter...I think we can take the zombies and learn to loot like the best of them.

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

The bear necessities of life will come to you.

Ooh, this is fun. I do like a good froth
I have a OFRS packed at all times. Except I have taken the torch out to look for hedgehogs, and the DC have eaten the emergency Kendal Mint cake and the emergency Swiss army penknife is just a tiny souvenir one.
But I will be fine. I can recognise at least three woodland herbs that are edible and we live in a farm, so in an emergency I can just make my own bread with all the wheat that was missed in the harvest.
We have a pond for water, with added froggy protein, and I think the bats in the barn could be roasted in an emergency.

Sorted

sleep

My main concern today is the mahoosive spiders that seem to be all over the house. I think we should be worried about them taking over. We need to keep up to date with the spiders.

We have a visiting seagull. He is huge. He would definitely do a few meals probably more than a magic chicken.

Spiders are protein, snow, plus, plenty of leg meat for everyone

I read this at 4am and had a slight overreaction and it an on line order in for two cases of wine.

norks
Maybe OP has a point about stockpiling though, every zombie film I've seen, the fuckers congregate at the supermarket so we won't be able to go shopping.

Are you my FIL patter? That's exactly what he will do when I tell him to stock up due to impending doom.

I felt a brushing against my foot yesterday. Thought it was the cat's tail. I looked down and that was a huge house spider sitting on it. I wasn't wearing socks or shoes. I like spiders though.
A couple of months ago a huge house spider fell out of my top when I gave it a shake because I felt a tickling. It been there all day!

Perhaps the spiders can help with the zombies?

The spiders are huge this year. I live in fear. I know DS2 has one in his bedroom but I am not sure exactly where so the dust is gathering....

I'd rather take my chances against the zombies. I hate sliders.

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

That's a pretty fatalist attitude.

So if people are dropping like flies around you, you're not gong to do anything to protect your family and are just going to sit back and accept your fate then?

If not then what's your problem with people thinking through how they might cope in such a catastrophic disaster?

Hello op. Haven't seen one of your panicked rants for a while.

I'm off to see my grandma today. She is 90 and we have to work hard to keep her away from the corner of the street with a placard brigade as she tends to believe them and gets very frightened. Thankfully, on MN we are quite able to reassure each other using facts and logic. Do you scaremonger in real life too?

If you'd like to discuss the economic situation rationally, I'm more than happy to join in. I can't do the lies, hyperbole and shouting though.

Spiders, not sliders.
Although I'm sure I wouldnt enjoy a spider slider either.

This thread is like a study in denial.

Ostriches aplenty!

sleepy I am no ostrich. The spiders are huge. I have seen them.

sleepy are you the op?

I should probably go off to lidl and stock up on pain au chocolat before the other MNers do. I reckon that would be panic buying central for MN.

If I was an ostrich I wouldn't need to worry as I could probably outrun the zombies and eat the spiders.
I'm definitely not an ostrich.

Id like to add to kittens winter doom post. DPs job is cutting back trees from power lines. Due to budgets/contracts lots of trees that should have been removed or cut back this year haven't been touched.

He is the most laid back person ever but even he is predicting lots of power cuts if we get a bad windy winter

We have a well in the garden and my hoarding tendencies mean we have enough food in to survive at least a year. But if the internet goes down what's the point?

I bet an ostrich would do a few meals.....

Ooh I hate ostriches. Especially the nasty bastard that pecked DD and tried to bite my boobs whilst I was trying to get the windows closed.

Hmm, ostrich pie. That would make a lot of meals wouldn't it?