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

Stockpiling is pointless anyway. Unless you have the means(weapons) to defend it all you would keep hold of it for long in a real crisis. Now there's a cheerfully thought

The next MN Cookbook needs to be 'Recipes for Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse', I sense an award for services to humanity for providing this tome.

If society collapses, the world's most ferocious and dangerous predator will be roaming in packs. It can break down walls, fences and gates that would defeat an elephant.

That's a cheery thought, Piglet.

I haven't got a bobble! Do I need a bobble? Where can I get a bobble?

Umm - what is a bobble?
Is this a bobble?

beware

Did anyone explain yet why a financial crisis will make the water go off?

Ohhhh, SHARKNADOPCALYPSE!!! I will toss my cat skyward and hope for the best.

You got me lancelotti, I am a dreadful speller, and if there is no auto-correct on my spelling, I blissfully and ignorantly plough on (or should that be plow?) with homophones.

I have it on good authority that you can oven-bake or BBQ tarantulas, house spiders would probably do just as well :D

I should probably stock under the stairs with supplies actually, if you can afford it and have the space, why not have some? And if I lose my job unexpectedly, I have a month of supplies in :)

I think the assumption is that society will collapse and the people who work in water and energy companies will stop going to work.

In fact, human behaviour in a crisis is that people continue to do what they do.

The water might stop working if somebody blew up all the power stations or stole the cables; but where would you sell the cable if the smelters, refiners and manufacturers had closed down? There are strategic reserves scattered around the country for use in emergency.

Boulevard 'tis obvs. The economy will have gone down the toilet and the water will have to go off while they unblock it.

Fatty

Yes, you'd have to accept it might kill you although stewing half to death (if that's not contradictory) might help...

Here's the Zombie Cookbook .

What I don't understand is why it's specifically a month indoors (nice round number). If the crash is so severe (zombies?) that we have no water or any way to continue supplying power, food etc., and must manage off our carefully hoarded pains au chocolat, how will that be fixed in a month? And who's going to be fixing anything if we're all hiding inside with our stockpiles/frantically making zombie & butterbean stew? Do we just stock up for one month, live inside through September, then all die off in October when the stockpiles run out? Plus how do we manage the combination of stockpiling + rallying, take the stockpiles with us? Won't there be a bunch of empty houses, and a bunch of massively overfilled houses in that case? If we don't take the stockpiles, everyone who does rally will presumably only survive 2 weeks due to double the people on half the supplies, so maybe that's why people will be losing loved ones - because they ate their loved ones' stockpiles?

Please advise, OP.

Icy, I have on good authority, Bobbles are those creepy doll things, one attaches to the dash of your car. They seem to be mostly attired in hula skirts. I'm guessing, you mesmerise the zombie with swinging head/ hip action, whilst making your escape.

To be honest if the choice is a month cooped up with my 4 year old under the stairs or being first course in a zombie banquet I'd probably be pouring salad cream on my head and dancing in the street. Ds is impossible to handle without a daily run.

Yes, I am a fatalist. I'm also aware it doesn't take only a national crisis to bring harm and disaster to my family. Terrible things happen to people everyday no matter how many bottles of water they have stashed in their cupboards.

Why is everyone shitting on the idea of buying food and water as a hedge against uncertainties? It does not matter what will happen: an earthquake, a war, a tsunami, aliens, terrorists, economic collapse, uprising. The important part is that something will happen. When it does, wouldn't you be grateful for taking measures against it?

Because it's a Tuesday, it's Mumsnet and it's the Internet.

and the op has form

"Did anyone explain yet why a financial crisis will make the water go off?"
Dur... because no one will be working. There will be no fuel or imports coming into our small little island. No power. Have you not seen "The Walking Dead"?

I've just found this thread.

I'm going to spend the afternoon sewing my jewellery into my corsets.

Oh, and then I'm going to get a life and remind myself that I've spent the last 22 years working in financial markets, and that baseless attention seeking by a disgraced spin-doctor who was called "Mad Dog" by his friends does not really constitute a "British Official Warning" .

OP,iInstead of stupid scaremongering, why not make a rational post about futureproofing society, as the Transition network are trying to do. They are rational, sensible local groups trying to build sustainable community networks. Their premise is that as oil becomes scarcer and more expensive, we might need to go back to local produce and local services. No big, screaming overnight apocalypse (sorry, no zombies, either, afaik) just local people supporting each other.
There are serious issues to consider - no coffee, no tea and no chocolate, until we rebuild the 19th century sailing clippers for overseas trade. NOW will you take it seriously?

No I'm not the OP. I am also At the thread title. Why write there is an official warning about something specific when there isn't?

But all the scoffing at the very idea of a collapse of civilisation as we know it is depressing.

One thing all civilisations on this earth have had in common is that they end, eventually. Ours will too.

There is no harm in at least examining ideas about how we would cope. There is potentially a lot of harm in turning it into a joke about zombies however.

"Why is everyone shitting on the idea of buying food and water as a hedge against uncertainties? It does not matter what will happen: an earthquake, a war, a tsunami, aliens, terrorists, economic collapse, uprising. The important part is that something will happen. When it does, wouldn't you be grateful for taking measures against it?"

This.

FairNotFit I am glad your on here. I've just been watching the videos OP has put up, and they are very convincing. Is there a chance the US Dollar will collapse in the near future?

You love a good conspiracy theory, don't you, op!