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It’s been quite peaceful over the Xmas period with no MPs arguing but I know it can’t last.
Never mind. We’ll just have to make the most of it.
Cuddles
I have started building up enough stock to last me couple of months. Just in case the delays at ports will disrupt supplies. Stocking up on anything that I normally buy and is produced in EU (outwith UK).
Loo roll, tomatoes, coffee, chocolate, tomatoes etc.
I still hope that we'll get a deal, but just in case I don't think prep is a bad idea.. If we get a deal, I'll just have to use up the stockpile I've build up and in progress will spend less on food while I use up most of the stock. Will keep enough in stock to keep me going for few weeks in case of "snowmageddon" or in case I fall ill and can't leave the house.
That is a good idea for once on their part.
I'll volunteer the West Wales ferry ports - ie Fishguard and Pembroke Dock - for that one then - as a temporary measure. Provided, obviously, that it's shared out between all the ferry ports in our country (England, Scotland, Wales).
I think the roads here will cope with a few extra lorries - I've yet to get involved in a traffic jam anywhere in this area - so we can handle it as a temporary measure to help out the whole of our country.
It all seems a bit crazy to me that the country has to go into disaster contingency planning mode for something we are inflicting on ourselves, but, hey, Willo The People and all that!!
If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
Excellent post - I may paraphrase some of it for another forum that I belong to.
If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
Yes for a short time there could be problems with medications and other things but down the line if we become more self sufficient and aware of where items and food come from then it is a good thing as hopefully we will not have this society of waste.
Yes, now confirmed! The Govt. is paying a French & Dutch company €102 million to charter ferries. Now with the 15 mile lorry park that’s being created on th M20 in Kent to hold the lorries pending customs checks etc it’s good to know that in 21st century Britain we’re stock piling food and medicines and have the army on standby for civil unrest.
That’ll show Johnnie Foreigner who’s boss.... makes you proud to be British :doh: