Prepping for Brexit thread

mardatha

O please god just let us get out!!
Operation Yellowhammer - well the blurb makes no sense at all. I can't give you a link because I forgot where it is, but I read it and what it basicallys says is that all the departments are on their own. Not to contact the guv because then the system will fail.
I readit then had to go and lie down with a bag of jellybabies.

elona

mardatha pet

Please don't let us fall into the trap of thinking those lower down the chain are on their own. They are being "empowered!" Encouraged to step up to the challenge and forge their destiny etc. Sorry about the sarcasm.

Zentimes

Just saw the SNP leader in Parliament (forget his name) being interviewed by the Beeb and he mentioned how he and the other party leaders had been told by the PM what preparations are being made for a No Deal scenario (Operation Yellowhammer I presume). He said he 'obviously couldn't talk about it due to security' but his oblique comments didn't sound reassuring, he mentioned warnings about 'medicines and foods'. No details of course. But the word 'warning' doesn't fill me with confidence, hence my prepping continues!

DryTheRain

Trouble is, if we leave - whether sooner or later - the wrangling isn't over, in fact it's only just begun. The difficulty of negotiating the basic withdrawal pales into insignificance compared to the years of trade negotiations ahead, not only with the EU but most of the rest of the globe too. It hardly bears thinking about.

While I hesitate to 'campaign', please consider signing the article 50 petition if you haven't already. Feels like it'd be a wise move to pause for reflection right now, fingers crossed eh. http://https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

DigForVictory

If a wiki overview helps you look in the right places that would be here and the main "areas of risk" are listed as

The twelve areas of risk are:

Transport systems
People crossing borders
Key goods crossing borders
Healthcare services
UK energy and other critical systems
UK food and water supplies
UK Nationals in the EU
Law enforcement implications
Banking and finance industry services
Northern Ireland
Specific risks to oversea territories and Crown dependencies (including Gibraltar)
National Security

Risks common to all areas:
Legal
Communications
Data

Which comes from the NAO Contingency preparations for exiting the EU with no deal.

I'm a devout believer in getting facts already in the public domain well circulated. As preppers we were collecting data together Just In Case - well, the London gov site is for preppers without a UK passport just yet.

I have to say much of that does look like stuff that at a local level we can probably cope with. We watch over our health care as best we can, we grin over food & drink (tea!) - let's just hope it's all a massive non event as it actually unfolds.
<Goes off to weep into a heap of loo roll.>

gettingtheresometime

I've subscribed to the BBC's Brexit podcast but listening to it from the very start of this whole process... 2 years ago they were arguing about the same things they're arguing about now!

Anyway bought 5 packs of soap today so that makes 36 bars of soap....would have got more but I literally had all of the brand we use....will get more on the weekend

Zentimes

Crumbs - here's the Brexit possibilities flow chart to end all flow charts!! The mind boggles.


https://jonworth.eu/brexit-where-now-the-flow-diagrams/

DigForVictory

Boggling so hard will have to make inroads into tea stash.

There's an awful lot of flowchart there & the last ones didn't have possible outcome percentages any more.

Interesting times, dear gods.
<heads purposefully for the kettle>

[Deleted User]

We'll make good whatever happens, we'll find ways to make good lives, we'll learn to live with what we find in our lives IF we leave the EU. I am made of sterner stuff than to go into a downward spiral of panic 'in case' things become less easy than they are today. I remember rationing and the 3 day week in the 70s with the power cuts and all the shortages and we all managed both those periods. We will be OK, we may not have as much choice and we may not be able to have as much of anything as we can today because of expense but we're an inventive and innovative species, always have been, and no one I know is going to go under if we leave the EU.....for heavens sake we're British!!!

Farway

GreyQueen wrote: »

Every.damned.morning I wake up and hope to find that the Grubbyment has fallen and every.damned.morning they're still there!

Be careful what you wish for;)