Prepping for Brexit thread

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You could cook the apples down to puree and make fruit leather with them?

cuddlymarm

Hi guys
It’s probably a good idea to make sure that any flights, holidays etc around that time are insured. It always amazes us when we go on holiday how many people aren’t insured, considering the cost of medicines and being brought home. If we leave the EU we won’t be covered by the E11 system any more so people travelling will be best checking with their travel insurance to make sure they are covered.
Cuddles

MrsStepford

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Are you sure you're happy posting on this thread love? you sound so scared at the prospect of the Brexit actually happening, would it be better for you to not read along?

I'm not exactly ecstatic about it either but if the country IS a democracy and the vote to leave is a democratic decision it can't be ignored because some don't want it to happen, that would be against the whole constitution. My take is IF it's going to happen I'll have to deal with it and to start thinking about how now before it happens might make the reality a little easier. Thar's just me, but you sound so very unhappy xxx.

Vote Leave lied and cheated to obtain the advisory referendum result and under the Vienna Convention, which the UK is a signatory to, the referendum should be annulled. May and her government are ignoring it.

The Supreme Court ruled in the Miller case that the Government had to give Parliament a debate, that May couldn't trigger Article 50 by herself under the constitution. The court told the government what was constitutional and the government ignored it.

The government presented a bill to Parliament, saying that the (advisory) referendum was the decision, which it couldn't be, constitutionally or legally. The government withheld the White Paper guidance until after the vote - then MPs found that the Government admitted that the UK hadn't lost sovereignty.

The Supreme Court found that neither the Notification of Withdrawal Act or the referendum was the decision to leave and that May had acted unconstitutionally.

The EU accepted the Article 50 letter because they believed that it had been triggered constitutionally. We know it wasn't and that Vote Leave cheated and committed electoral offences. Criminal offences were committed in the eyes of the Electoral Commission.

The billionaires who control our media (none of whom live here) allow newspapers to call judges traitors and an MP was murdered.

None of this is democracy. It's happening because the rich elite want to keep their money in the UK's 10 tax havens and the EU wants people to know how much of the wealth of Europe is held in the hands of relatively few people in tax havens.

Yes am deeply unhappy and we're leaving UK as soon as we can. As that might take time (and property prices are already falling in SE) we are doing everything we can to try to protect ourselves.

Floss

Auburnette how about apple wine? We have 2 old trees on our allotment that give good volumes, I freeze about 1/3 of the cookers but all the others get made into wine by DH :beer:

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We'll have to make the best of it, we're retired and not in a position health wise or financially to do anything but make as good a life as we can given any set of circumstances we find ourselves in. I wish you well and hope your future is the bright one you are looking for and that you find your happy place again xxx.

auburnette

cuddlymarm wrote: »

Hi guys
It’s probably a good idea to make sure that any flights, holidays etc around that time are insured. It always amazes us when we go on holiday how many people aren’t insured, considering the cost of medicines and being brought home. If we leave the EU we won’t be covered by the E11 system any more so people travelling will be best checking with their travel insurance to make sure they are covered.
Cuddles

Very good point, also checking the small print of the insurance and holiday booking very closely as some operators (not sure about insurance companies) have started putting brexit-related exclusion clauses in the t&c...at the moment in the absence of a replacement to the open skies agreement planes won't actually be able to fly post brexit. You would hope and expect that this will be dealt with but things are progressing agonisingly slowly....

auburnette

I like the sound of the fruit leather and apple wine!

lessonlearned

Well said Mrs Lurcher.

As well as learning from my mother's wartime experiences, I reached my majority in the Late 60s and by 1970 I was married, running a household. I remember the shortages, the three days weeks, power cuts, fuel shortages. I learned how to make bread and how to get by. Luckily I was always in work and even through the 80 and 90s with young children, a whopping mortgage and sky high interest rates we Managed to stay afloat but it was a close run thing.

I learned then that sometimes food in the cupboard is worth more than money in the bank. Obviously it's best to have both. :rotfl:

I honestly think that even without Brexit, in many ways, the good times might be over for a while. We live in uncertain times, and, without wishing to be alarmist the next recession is not that far away. Then there's the possibility of weather disrupting crops and food supply. That's not taking into our own personal circumstances.

Life can Throw a curved ball any time, sickness, death, redundancy.

It doesn't do any harm to be prepared. As long as people are sensible, store things properly, and keep an eye on the sell/use by dates so things don't go off or die in storage.

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Me too Lessonlearned I was married for the first time in 1972 and I remember the power cuts, the three day week and the shortages in the shops etc. but we all made the best of it that we could I don't remember people moaning, just getting on with their lives. I was a young mum in the late 1970s when I got married again and can remember being at home with young babies when the interest rates were sky high on the mortgage and managing because we had three allotments and being very inventive with home grown produce to feed us and again we were all affected by the interest rate but I don't remember much self pity, we just got on with it! It's propably living through times like those that makes us have the attitude that we'll manage whatever happens because we already have. If you're younger and life has been level for a while I can understand the fear of the unknown but not the bitterness.

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me too re living and surviving through that lot, including the day that hubbie came home and said `in order to not get rid of any staff, we have all decided to go on half salary for as long as it takes`. No notice and not the mega storecupboard that I have had since but then again that was my learning situation. We would not have survived without the home grown food and eggs from local farmers. Thank goodness that we had no debts. What doesn`t kill you certainly makes you stronger


Maybe we were all stoic because we were brought up to make the best of life and it was a challenge but there is something satisfying in getting through a challenge. A little book called thrifty fifty by rose elliot saw me through. Meals for 4 for 50p. I don`t remember us moaning and blaming someone else, we just rolled up our sleeves


Best of luck mrs Stepford. I hope the grass is greener for you but I bet it isn`t