Preparedness for when

moneyistooshorttomention

One bank statement turned up and looked at this morning and it didn't take two seconds for the firm that did recent expensive job on my place to whack that cheque straight through into their account (though I had told them to do precisely that - so that money was their responsibility).

So - that's me now as prepared as possible against Government theft (aka bail-in) and total money everywhere comes to less than £6,000 (ie the amount of money working age people are allowed in savings).

Will start building those savings back up again in the direction of £16,000 once the Government accepts I'm not working age anymore (ie that revised State Pension Age of mine). Meanwhile, I just don't want to take the risk of getting into arguments with them about "I am a pensioner/no you're not/yes I am" etc etc..

Guess a thread motto should be "When you've done what you can - then you've done all that you can. So its pointless concerning yourself any further".

Back to the gardening....

[Deleted User]

From the news this morning it will perhaps behove ALL of us to be a little more aware and cautious in THIS country from now on as David Cameron has said he expects there to be some major terrorist attacks right here in the UK in the not so distant future. I'm NOT and never will be running scared from anything but common sense says this IS just the time to be prepared and stocked up with neccessities, NOW is the time when we need to have the capability to go to ground for a few weeks should there be problems enough to make it sensible to stay home. I'm glad I've built up the stores and equipment we have got, I'll review it and get anything I think we'll need extra of. Not a guarantee of safety but if I don't have to go anywhere very populous for a while it will be sheer bad luck or fate if I get caught up in anything violent!

GreyQueen

Just been having a very interesting convo with a couple of blokes, combined ages pushing 150 years, combined life experience spanning several European countries as well as the UK, combined family anecdotage spanning some truly horrific experiences such as the Weimar hyperinflation and two world wars. Plus both know a lot of history, are in constant contact with people of all nationalites and are in the more ruffianly end of the monetary system - fascinating.

Quite a lot of French people have been rocking up in person at Spink in London to buy gold - been going on for some time already. If they keep it under £8k cash purchases there's no ID details retained. Unlike France. Softly, softly, the gold coins go back to La France, to hide quietly for a while. Ditto certain other nationalities.

Seems that there's people out there in the eurozone with feelings in their watter that holding just fiat currencies ain't too clever.

I'm spending money on necessities this summer, eyeglasses and dentistry, not exactly movable assets but the gold crowns will always retain a smallish resale value.

A lot of people can't be bailed in because a lot of people have no cash on deposit. Many people are effectively negative-cash and in debt. I foresee governments getting ever more inventive about taxing what they can get their hands on, such as property. In most of the western world; Europe, US and Australia, you can have your home seized for non-payment of property taxes. So, even the mortage-free only own what they own if they can pay the taxman his 'rent'.

I've always thought it anomalous that the UK can have you gaoled for non-payment of your property-based taxes (council tax) but they can't take your property. Since bigger brains than mine are advising government, I think that others will have noticed this, too, and will be making plans to possibly change this in the future.

Butterfly_Brain

Mrs L I remember the IRA bombings and attacks in this country in the 70's and 80's, we didn't give up and cower because of their threats and nor should we cower to ISIS now. It is all about fear and I for one will not change my life because of them. If your number is up, it is up and that is it.

Butterfly_Brain

The banks want the government to cut regulatory costs, hogs in the trough need slapping down big time

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/29/banks-like-government-cut-regulatory-costs-survey-finds#comments

moneyistooshorttomention

There have been 2 "attacks" here today in Britain by the look of it - of the type designed to look like they are "real" bomb attacks. So - not someone panicking in view of the news going on. It also doesn't look like they were real bombs - but they were meant to look like it.

They hit Manchester and Exeter today in that way.

[Deleted User]

Neither did I BB but I sure as hell stayed out of London and all the other big cities unless absolute necessity made it imperative I went there. Not scared, just aware that going for a jolly to the theatre etc. might have a bigger cost than I was or am prepared to pay. No guarantee that something terror driven won't happen on our doorstep, but odds are the bigger populated cities and most popular venues will be the targets. Hopefully the joyrides of the world will still be there when it's safe to go and play with them until then, caution and common sense will be our motto!!!

moneyistooshorttomention

The day we accept that its okay for terrorists to hit at us in our own home country and we just go "Oh well...its one of those things" is the day we might just as well give up and give in.

Particularly when we can see that they are hitting our smaller places as well.

There is no guarantee that they wouldn't hit the smallest hamlet in the Back of Beyond. Admitted the chances are much smaller than those of them hitting a city - but they are not non-existent.

Right now - I would dearly love to smash a few terrorists right slap bang in the middle of their evil little faces. Can I have that gun please for clinical one shot where it matters shots?....and yes I know we're at root of this...yep...us right here in the West (Iraq Mark 2 and consequent torture at Guantanamo...so just who do we think they learnt to be so brutal from?).

Butterfly_Brain

We are at war and we all need to be vigilant.

But this concerns me more at the moment, the fact that we have been force fed GMO's without our knowledge since 2013 :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

http://www.gmfreeze.org/why-freeze/u...uy-non-gm-fed/

http://www.theecologist.org/News/new...imal_feed.html

GreyQueen

MTSTM, the purpose of terrorism is terror, to cause distress, upset disproportionate to the losses, and to control the behaviour of the target population. It's the ultimate admission that the terrorist has no valid argument, can only throw their toys out of the pram in the most noisy way possble. The terrorists have very little power, and most of that is what we give them by being frightened.

Be calm. About 50 yards from where I sit, a 500 lb bomb took out a chunk of my neighbourhood in WW2. Several more fell nearby and more out over the suburbs. I've seen the maps at work of where they hit and heard firsthand accounts of how my city burned. People still got up and went to work every morning, even if they weren't guaranteed to find their house still standing in 24 hours time. One of Mum's rellies used to sew for a living in her home in London. When the air raid warnings went off, she hid under the sewing table and hoped not to die. When the bombing was over, she carried on sewing to earn enough to put food on the table. Great Aunty Dolly (maysherestinpeace) had balls, like the East End matriarch she was, and lived into her nineties.

:T Someone I know is holidaying in Tunisia as we speak. And they're not running home early, either.

We are Brits. We carry the heritage of butt-kicking warrior peoples who've made these islands their home over the millenia and added into our backgrounds, culturally and genetically. We do not give in to terrorists, nor look askance at people of other faiths and nationalities and turn on them because some nutjobs with grudges go on killing sprees. Anyone who thinks that they can justify turning on some other Brits (or other residents/ visitors) over what the psychos are doing is a fool and a coward, like those imbeciles desecrating Muslim graves. How wrong, how pitiful, how despicable.

:mad: Gird your loins, and sharpen your pitchfork, the enemies you really need to worry about are already amongst us. [STRIKE]Lynch[/STRIKE] errrr, I mean HUG a banker today.