Anyone stocking up on canned food etc.. Brexit?

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I know someone who keeps his loft stocked with bottled water and canned/packet foods for when democracy breaks down.
he's also invested a load of money in gold as paper curency will be worthless.
thing is people will break in and take his food and water and he won;t be able to get hold of his gold as it is in a vault somewhere.
pillock.
 
DarrenM343 said:
Problem is it may become like a self-fulfilling prophecy. The press will pump this nonsense and guess what? We'll have food shortages because idiots have gone out and panic bought everything, not because there's a supply problem.
I'm not a fan of Brexit but I won't be stocking up. I really hope I don't read about some pro-Brexit people panic buying/stocking up tho.
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Hopefully it wont be the brexiters that stock up on all the goods and will leave it for us remainers and we will be the ones to survive while brexiters with their everything will be okay attitude will die out through starvation or become infertile because they are eating chicken with steriods and other hormones from the USA and then the middle classes can start the country afresh. It will be just like an apocalypse but better.

Yes Im drunk. I only hope these posts and a hangover are my only regret in the morning. Hopefully I wont be buying stuff I dont need tonight. At least after Ive bought all the dry goods on amazon that is.
 
Nasher said:
Brexit will effect EVERYTHING. Including weather and solar activity.
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Well **** there goes my plan to use solar panels to cover all the power cuts come Brexit.

sideways14a said:
Same with this nonsense about hording food and medicine, total and utter nonsense. But some will stand to make a packet out of other folks misguided fears.
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Personally don't understand either polar side of this - nothing wrong with having a plan just in case and taking sensible pre-cautions but not much sense in the over the top prepping some do either.
 
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robfosters said:
We recently had a clear out, but we’ve kept all the old wooden wardrobes and doors in the garden for after brexit, in case we need them for firewood to cook our dog over once we despatch him for the meat.
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You've just given me some ammo as to why I haven't taken the dismantled wardrobes out of the garage to the tip. It's not laziness, it's Brexit.
 
Worthy said:
You've just given me some ammo as to why I haven't taken the dismantled wardrobes out of the garage to the tip. It's not laziness, it's Brexit.
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Also useful in case of nuclear attack and you have to turn the deepest room in your house into an emergency fall out shelter ;)
 
Rroff said:
Compared to what alternative? it isn't like there was a good deal on the table.
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If we left the EU, after a period of initial transition, the level of uncertainty re the UK's position would decrease and so any level of devaluation as a result of said uncertainty could be expected to reduce as well.

Essentially the current value of sterling already factors in a fairly large component of a
pessimistic view of the UK position after leaving the UK.
 
Caracus2k said:
Politicians, often remainers, have dragged out brexit for three years (without current resolution)...... increasing uncertainty which negatively affects the value of sterling.

Can I help with any other basic matters of economics?
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No sorry you said it was over valued with the implication it needed to be brought down.

Without the uncertainty the implication is it would not have lost value then, but it would still have been over valued I take it?

Are you now blaming remainers for the downturn or thanking them?

Also as a user of imported goods and not an exporter what is the benefit to me?
 
Tony Edwards said:
No sorry you said it was over valued with the implication it needed to be brought down.
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Not me, the IMF said this (as did othersl

Tony Edwards said:
Without the uncertainty the implication is it would not have lost value then, but it would still have been over valued I take it?
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It would likely of had a correction regadless hence why I initially scoffed somewhat at the suggestion that sterling could be expected by anyone to return to pre referendum levels any time soon.

Tony Edwards said:
Are you now blaming remainers for the downturn or thanking them?
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Part or the current, low, value of sterling can be attributed to uncertainty.

This is widely agreed upon?

So yes I do think brexit being dragged out has caused sterling to have a lower value then it might otherwise have.
 
As someone who works in international freight I think it only sensible to have a small supply. Any delays on the borders and fresh produce will quickly run out.

I certainly hope it won't come to that but seeing it from a freight perspective its easy to see a worst case scenario panning out.
 
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