Prepping for Brexit thread

chirpychick

Having spent last night at the hospital with my little boy who was very poorly (thankfully doing much better now) it made me think of this post and question things like medicine? Do we think that will be affected? I wonder about things that we use regularly both prescription and not. You’re obviously not allowed to stock up on prescription medication but also i have an over the counter migraine tablet which is the only thing to give me relief. I normally make sure i have one in use and one spare but now considering stocking up on more. As well as things like paracetamol and ibuprofen both adult and child. I literally have no clue where they are made or anything like that but i will have a good look into it when ive recovered from my lack of sleep. What are other peoples opinions in this area?

cuddlymarm

Hi Chirpychick
I hope your little boy is on the mend.
We have the same problem. Obviously you aren’t allowed too much of your prescription drugs but I’ve started popping an extra couple of the cheaper hay fever tablets in my basket when I go shopping. Chances are if there is a shortage only the more expensive packs will be on sale.
I’ve started on my hunt for a part time job to bolster our saving. I had an interview this morning and I’ve another on Friday so fingers crossed.
Listening to what’s going on with the government fills me with even more dread of what’s going to happen.
My food shop from last week is still lasting well so I only needed a few bits this week so I’ve knocked another £15 off my credit card today. This warm weather is great because I don’t feel hungry. OH has finally decided after 35 years of marriage that he doesn’t mind salad and yoghurt so I will need more later in the week but will pick it up after my shift at the CS tomorrow. No special journeys any more.
Anyway better go
Keep well guys
Cuddles

MrsStepford

I am fighting Brexit. 500,000 of us marched in London recently. I don't agree that Brits will stoically put up with everything and pull together. That Dunkirk spirit stuff only applies for OAPs. Younger people like me don't relate to it at all, it's just history.

If the craziness happens then I can use the stream across the road for drinking water and cooking, through military grade filters. As the garden is full of sunloving drought resistant plants, I haven't had to water it at all through the heatwave. Rain will do. We could be self-sufficient in herbs but there's not much room to grow more than some fruit and salad.

If the power goes off, we would lose fridge, freezer, washing machine, radio, internet, phone, cooker and central heating. We have an open fire and a stock of wood though. So I need to look into solar-powered phone chargers, wind up radios and the like.

Bought a Use By label dispenser to make sure I know what to use up first and how to store once opened, at a glance. Did all my tins yesterday.

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Sadly not true Mrs.S people are much tougher and resilient than they think they are whatever the generation they come from. The Dunkirk Spirit could be labelled the Brexit Spirit with some truth us humans are programmed to survive whatever situation of adversity they find, we don't just roll over and die, we fight no matter what age we are. New skills and ways CAN be learned if they have to, goodness how do you think all we oldies survive in this new and technological world if they can't? it's just as hard to learn new skills from the older aspect and many older folks (me too in a way) are just as reluctant to embrace each new bit of advancement that happens as you younger ones are to be forced into a situation that you feel is not right for you BUT we do it, we've always done it or I and many others wouldn't be on these OS forums on the computer on the internet. Backbone girlie, you CAN you know! there will be life after Brexit and who knows, we all together might even be able to make it GOOD!!!

mardatha

The thing about history is that it's always with us. It's constant. What they were, we are. It isn't a long ago world peopled by strange different humans... people are always just people and they will react the same way to threat. I always think it's a big mistake to ignore history..

fuddle

Cracking good posts from two oldies *ducks!

I think it's quite blindsighted to box off oldies in such a way. Each oldie has had their own personal troubles that have made them them into the fighter that they are. What happened as a country may or may not have exacerbated troubles but be under no illusion life is really quite rotten sometimes.

For me, it is the people who have got through their periods of rot who can cope with change because essentially we are all individuals getting on with our own lot. Marching also has it's place in history. Protesters, activists, and strikers are all steeped in history. You mention to my grandparents who would have been in their 90's if they had still been alive that they stoically put up with stuff and you would have got short shrift I can tell you!

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Not knowing and having the imagination to consider what MIGHT happen during or after Brexit is even for us older folk quite a challenge, but until we have the reality of what actually DOES happen that's all it is, an imagined situation. I would rather wait and see what we have to deal with before going into a tailspin of panic about what is only a might!

MrsStepford

Went to biggest local Tesco last night. It was deserted because of football. Started stocking up on tins, because I am NOT going to be caught in a panic buy situation in March. Once you start looking, it's easy to see why 60% of our food is imported. The tinned tomatoes are Italian, corned beef French, HP sauce Dutch, salmon American.

Brexit insanity gets crazier every day. Whitehall plan to cope with electricity shortage in NI was leaked yesterday. Government would requisition portable generators and place them on barges in the Irish Sea. Mr Stepford fell about laughing at that one.

It was an advisory referendum and the Government went ahead and triggered Article 50 before putting any impact assessments in place. There aren't any workable plans for Brexit. It's all propaganda.

The government cannot propose a plan whereby they pay in for things they want but don't accept the rules of the club we've been in for 40+ years. EU has 447m other citizens to think about.

Farage and Banks are in Bermuda, Cleese is leaving, Lawson has applied for residency in France, Boris Johnson is American, David Davis can get an Irish passport, Gisela Stuart is German, Farage's wife is German so his kids have German passports.

They want us to think it will all be spiffing while making plans to leave. Jacob Rees-Mogg has moved part of his hedge fund to Dublin.

Having used savings to pay off loan and credit card we're now embarking on doing up kitchen and bathroom. Mr Stepford is looking for a job outside UK now.

If Brexit happens Britain will be a third world country not a third country. When the banks leave, the country is in trouble.

I'm not prepared to waste the rest of my life under an authoritarian regime led by criminals. Vote Leave, Leave EU, BeLeave - they all broke the law. Prosecutions WILL follow. But that won't be compensation for deprivation of EU citizenship and shattered dreams.


I'm stockpiling and aiming to be gone before transition is over. That's IF we don't crash out.

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For those of us who won't have the means or the choice of leaving I maintain that whatever happens we'll make the best of what we find as there is no alternative and nothing that can realistically be done to stop it!

mardatha

MrsStepford, there isn't much point in stockpiling if you're not staying though is there? You'd be better selling everything off and clearing the decks..