Prepping for Brexit thread

DigForVictory

Interesting they hadn't acted on that. Mind you, getting 10% of voters may not be easy,

Living_proof

DigForVictory wrote: »

Interesting they hadn't acted on that. Mind you, getting 10% of voters may not be easy,

Getting anyone to turn out to vote next time will be nigh on impossible. We have local elections on 2nd May but nobody I have spoken to intends to go to the ballot box this time. Everyone is sick of politics altogether.

DigForVictory

I'll be going, if only to spoil my paper.

I have sons to lead an example to, & scouts...

My politically active elderly female relatives would be most upset if all their hard work was ignored by me & other women just as we are fed up with politicians. We're not overfond of housework, either but at least with voting we get a chance to complain.

Vegastare

I asked my partner did he have any idea who our MEP was answer No.
So I looked it up .... never heard of him but....he gets around £7000 per month and will get about £60,000 redundancy pay.

DigForVictory

My learning to teach air rifle course is going well.
Thank heavens noone expects me to check why the pupils want to learn.

Largely as it's cracking good fun & my Scouts rightly regard it as an exotic & exciting game, with bonus legislative requirements - no chit, no shoot. (Parents are pro for this same chit issue - no cooperative scout, no signature...)

[Deleted User]

I think we'd be better calling our Brexit Preps by another name after the headline announcement on the BBC this morning which is decide on and present a deal to the EU (seen any flying pigs today?) the likelihood of which is about as great as fairies being real or stay in the EU and forget about Brexit altogether. Three years of self serving arrogance from the elected Government of this country and we're at this point today. I'm sad for the loss of those 3 years where the time I've spent prepping could frankly have been put to much more productive use. God help the UK is all I can think today.

Living_proof

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

(seen any flying pigs today?)

Actually it is, and always has been, my avatar!

DigForVictory

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm sad for the loss of those 3 years where the time I've spent prepping could frankly have been put to much more productive use.

I agree from nave to chaps this is a mess. I’m not convinced that prepping is, was, or will be a waste of time, as while I dislike the “deadline” it, like a school exam, did make me focus on what will I & mine need to get through some iffy months?

I had intended to get formal training in the rifle it’s usage & the law anyway - this weekend has resulted in me becoming a qualified tutor thereof to scouts. That the course ran was a function of other things but that I grabbed it like a bull pup was intended as I have been meaning to do this and also I can foresee a use (or several) for this. Much as you have a well stocked larder & a thoughtfully chosen wood burner, which have already brought serenity & warmth & light in power cuts, I at last have a better stocked brain.

I think knowing things, like how to grow your own food preserve it & enjoy it for example, is a worthwhile & productive prep regardless of who’s in charge tomorrow.
And so, once I’ve reread my notes & had a soak to ease my shoulder, I’ll be curled up with a good book or five, at least one of which will be about cooking.

Just as well my classic crime reading remains intellectual fantasy, eh?!

[Deleted User]

You're right of course, no prepping is ever a waste of time and we have all the useful things you mention and much more. I too have a head full of 'how to's' and knowledge that will be perhaps be life saving if we ever are in a situation that needs us to use it. What I feel is 'duped' in that I believed in the democratic vote of the people, not just me, being accepted and carried out by the people we trusted enough to put into governance of this country and am feeling a total fool for having that belief in the first place because they have failed, worse than that they haven't even tried, in fact have used every obstruction in the book to avoid carrying out their professional duty to the people of the UK. I guess those who chose to remain will be feeling smugly pleased that this has happened BUT I have the thought in my head now that sooner or later there will be issues of grave importance to people who wanted to remain that will receive the same cavalier treatment from whomsoever is in power at the time because this is an utterly absolutely dangerous precedent to have a created and I fear that in the future there will be very little that governments won't do and then we have tyranny. I was proud of the age old British stance on the rights of the person and freedom of speech and I am now totally disillusioned.

GreyQueen

It ain't over til the fat lady sings. We are just under a month from local elections in many parts of the country and canvassers will be getting an earful from the electorate. I shan't be holding the local party responsible for the national party/ parties but I shan't miss a chance to express a polite but firm opinion.


Meanwhile, two party politics is staggering as a way of running a system and some other interesting beast may be about to heave itself from the swamp............ we live in interesting times.