Anyone stocking up on canned food etc.. Brexit?

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StriderX said:
...i'm sorry do you live in this country, experienced villagers at all?
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So all the supply problems in villages when we don't have mild winters in the past were caused by Brexit? You're confusing me now. Did the villagers survive? It sounds like I've missed this massive winter cull of villagers in the past, and I don't understand the link to Brexit.
 
mmj_uk said:
It won't matter because we've been reliably informed by sensible non-hysterical remainers prior to the referendum that Brexit will lead to WW3, what use is a stockpile of food when an atom bomb hits?
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Do you ever post anything in GD that doesn't make you look like a complete retard?

mmj_uk said:
remainers will probably all starve to death because they only eat overpriced goods from the EU's protectionist single market, who won't care about them once we've left and stopped funding them.
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Obviously not
 
Em3bbs said:
So all the supply problems in villages when we don't have mild winters in the past were caused by Brexit? You're confusing me now. Did the villagers survive? It sounds like I've missed this massive winter cull of villagers in the past, and I don't understand the link to Brexit.
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Course we survive. The fact that this is being done on purpose to us and not because of weather conditions is what is stupid. The 6th largest economy in the world is having to put measures in place to decide on which areas will get essential foods each day? Mental.
 
I can see it now, food trucks throwing sacks labelled USAID off the back into crowds of starving people. Hercules transport planes airdropping MRE's over parts of the country - scenes not seen since, well, never.

It's going to make a good movie though.
 
Em3bbs said:
So all the supply problems in villages when we don't have mild winters in the past were caused by Brexit? You're confusing me now. Did the villagers survive? It sounds like I've missed this massive winter cull of villagers in the past, and I don't understand the link to Brexit.
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Take the usual supply problems in a freezing winter and then add on 30-50% volume issues at ports and you have your answer, people who may have survived off of prudence in the occasional serious winter, would have to put up with further disruption. There's also the issue of increased prices on both food and energy costs, which would be MOST acute in winter. Along with the disruption of businesses who might have to let people go, and we have a set of circumstances that an ordinary person might have trouble with considering the average person doesn't have much if any savings.
 
I could probably do with getting through some of the food in the freezer anyway so it might be a good thing, I've probably got over a months worth. When that runs out, I've got a cupboard full of cat food and dog food I could eat at a push!
 
Not yet, but plan to soon. I hate suddenly finding we have nothing in the cupboards for a quick, relatively healthy meal, such as beans on toast.

If No Deal comes to pass on Halloween night, the faeces will start hitting the fan by around mid November. Not just less brands of a particular dried/tinned food type, but also fresh fruit and veg.

Normally I can't stand paper receipts for food shopping, but I might start keeping them to photo and log how much items increase in price over the coming months.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
I will feast on the sweetest of meats....Tory.
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is that part of the new legislation the glorious October 31st will also mark open season on Tories .. electoral obliteration anyway .
kind of like the Purge, or maybe that already happened with the exodus of eu workers.

Freezer may not be the best option if we have any French nuclear derived energy shortage .. so dried food ... or, just dig for Britain.
 
Freakbro said:
Do you ever post anything in GD that doesn't make you look like a complete retard?
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The problem is anyone who comments against remaining in the EU is a retard in the eyes of people like you, if you remainers didn't have such a superiority complex you wouldn't be dictatorially trying to overturn a democratic vote because you believe you know better than everyone. All of the dictators throughout history probably believed that they were doing what's right for the people they were oppressing and saw themselves as saviours. Remainers and the media can scream and shout about "attack on democracy" as much as they want but the fact is the government has the majority of the country supporting it, it's only because of the majority of remainers in parliament trying to delay Brexit with the hope of eventually overturning it that we are in such a stalemate, neither side wants "soft Brexit" it is just what remainers claim to want to hide their true goal of erasing the 2016 Democratic referendum from history. The remainer plan is simply to take no deal off the table knowing that as a result the EU will never offer any acceptable deal and remainers won't vote for a soft brexit deal anyway as we've seen several times with TM's capitulation agreement.
 
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mmj_uk said:
The problem is anyone who comments against remaining in the EU is a retard in the eyes of people like you, if you remainers didn't have such a superiority complex you wouldn't be dictatorially trying to overturn a democratic vote because you believe you know better than everyone. All of the dictators throughout history probably believed that they were doing what's right for the people they were oppressing and saw themselves as saviours. Remainers and the media can scream and shout about "attack on democracy" as much as they want but the fact is the government has the majority of the country supporting it, it's only because of the majority of remainers in parliament trying to delay Brexit with the hope of eventually overturning it that we are in such a stalemate, neither side wants "soft Brexit" it is just what remainers claim to want to hide their true goal of erasing the 2016 Democratic referendum from history. The remainer plan is simply to take no deal off the table knowing that as a result the EU will never offer any acceptable deal and remainers won't vote for a soft brexit deal anyway as we've seen several times with TM's capitulation agreement.
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No we put down people who post idiotic, made up lies which are easily provable as lies. if you see that as a superiority complex then I am sorry, I can;t help that.

No, there is no "fact is the government has the majority of the country supporting it". Show me anything reputable that backs your statement,. The majority of country has and still does not back the government.

Plenty of people on both sides want a soft brexit. In fact the entire leave campaign was totally based on a soft brexit and a no deal brexit was never ever mentioned by the leave side. If a soft brexit had ever been put forward by TM then it would have passed parliament a long long time ago.

You can;t correlate people not backing TM WA as them not supporting a soft brexit. You can want and support a soft brexit and be against May's WA especially since Mays deal was a "hard brexit". When did things get redefined?

And you have just proven exactly the issue with some leave posters on here. You come and post soundbites, mistruths, revisionism and lies and then get all uppity when you get called out on them and then start claiming we have a superiority complex.,
 
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mmj_uk said:
The problem is anyone who comments against remaining in the EU is a retard in the eyes of people like you, if you remainers didn't have such a superiority complex you wouldn't be dictatorially trying to overturn a democratic vote because you believe you know better than everyone. All of the dictators throughout history probably believed that they were doing what's right for the people they were oppressing and saw themselves as saviours. Remainers and the media can scream and shout about "attack on democracy" as much as they want but the fact is the government has the majority of the country supporting it, it's only because of the majority of remainers in parliament trying to delay Brexit with the hope of eventually overturning it that we are in such a stalemate, neither side wants "soft Brexit" it is just what remainers claim to want to hide their true goal of erasing the 2016 Democratic referendum from history. The remainer plan is simply to take no deal off the table knowing that as a result the EU will never offer any acceptable deal and remainers won't vote for a soft brexit deal anyway as we've seen several times with TM's capitulation agreement.
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Current polling puts the Tories at 33%, so not a majority in support. 47% oppose proroguing parliament, that's a lot closer to a majority. Polls also have remain now polling 4 points above leave.

None of this is painting a terribly supportive picture.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
Current polling puts the Tories at 33%, so not a majority in support. 47% oppose proroguing parliament, that's a lot closer to a majority. Polls also have remain now polling 4 points above leave. None of this is painting a terribly supportive picture.
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Devils advocate - Yougov voting intention 29/Aug/19: CON at 34%, BRX at 13%. That's 47% in support of brexit, or as you put it "A lot closer to a majority". Interestingly LAB/LDEM/GRN also adds up to 47%, so the country is split down the middle just the same as before (If you assume a vote for Labour is indeed a vote for remain). 6% of floating voters appear to be the only thing between Brexit and Remain, which is not good for anyone.

Everyone on both sides should be more careful when throwing around statistics, predictions, assumptions and hyperbole. There isn't a clear majority support for either which is why we're all so emotional.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
Back when I legally held firearms in the UK, I upset a neighbour be saying that I didn’t have to stockpile anything apart from shotgun ammunition for a period of civil unrest as the only armed person in the neighbourhood would mean I could take whatever I wanted.
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If things ever get to that state then be prepared for the yardies to run things #pocketshotty
 
Alex_6n2 said:
Devils advocate - Yougov voting intention 29/Aug/19: CON at 34%, BRX at 13%. That's 47% in support of brexit, or as you put it "A lot closer to a majority". Interestingly LAB/LDEM/GRN also adds up to 47%, so the country is split down the middle just the same as before (If you assume a vote for Labour is indeed a vote for remain). 6% of floating voters appear to be the only thing between Brexit and Remain, which is not good for anyone.

Everyone on both sides should be more careful when throwing around statistics, predictions, assumptions and hyperbole. There isn't a clear majority support for either which is why we're all so emotional.
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I would have mentioned the remain/leave party polling but the point I was addressing was related to the idea that the current government have a majority. Voting intentions polling, polling relating to proroguing parliament, and polling related to their current Brexit approach (I would have tracked down no deal polling had I had the time) all suggest they don't.

Adding together the remain/leave parties vote share is quite disingenuous, we all know that people in this Country don't vote like that, you've got people who vote the way they always have regardless of issues, you have protest votes, votes on domestic policy (not that you'd know these exist given the news cycle) etc. The only part of that voter share that I'd consider an accurate reflection of views on Brexit would be the BXP share, and even then I'm not willing to say all of that transfers to no deal as there is likely an element of protest and a cohort of voters seeing the word "Brexit" and conflating that to their own concept of what that word means.
 
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