Prepping for Brexit thread

Has anyone considered the possibility that we aren't trading directly with a country for their goods but with a third party company who might be based in the EU? Therefore we might not have a trading agreement with that company because they made an agreement with the whole of the EU. One for further investigation.

And a few banana facts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_industry

Farway wrote: »

I stand to be corrected if anyone knows of European bananas plantations

Well I know a guy in Pitsmoor here in Sheffield who was growing them It even made the BBC news a couple of years ago

Sorry for barging in, but been lurking on this thread for a couple of weeks and I'm happy to observe that it seems troll free so I'm in...

DigForVictory wrote: »

Oh yes & mixed citrus marmelade is still a wonderful thing. For the purists only Seville will do, but to make something acceptable, oranges lemons grapefruit & co can all do their bit. I am trying again with quinces as apparently they smell wonderful, set like green apples & make a quince marmelo that has to be nibbled on to be believed.

I grow quinces (sadly there aren't many this year) but have only used them for jelly, which I make most years. They do indeed smell wonderful, and are a beautiful golden colour when ripe. But the jelly is always pink.They are really hard to cut up though!

I shall have to try the marmalade.

DigForVictory wrote: »

<nostalgic sigh for millennium bug>
At least we knew it was real, if even we didn’t know what might wobble.
I had a box of nappies, three tins of baby milk, and a bottle of duty free vodka set aside ready to cover anticipated challenges then.

This likely coming little local knees-up has required rather more thoughtful planning, although the same extra cash in hand - goods always easier to trade than notes.

As an interesting aside, back in 2008 I ran/was de facto CFO/COO for a distribution company with over £1m in our client royalty account. The directors mainly started to panic about that £1m and it was suggested that we take a portion out and place into separate accounts to mitigate any losses for our clients. I ended up writing a very long late night email explaining what would happen should a high street bank fail, and that in such circumstances we were much better buying guns, ammunition, tinned beans & coal than trying to spread our obligations across multiple failing institutions. Sanity prevailed I'm happy to say, and the consensus was 'we hold our nerve'. I didn't mention my good clients in Iceland - they variously instructed us not to try to pay them by any means - if memory serves they waited over six months. But this is just an illustration of how rhetoric and scaremongering can make matters a whole lot worse - especially in the era of clickbait & fake news

I would expect the month of October to be interesting and demanding for those in retail who need to get consumables (shelf-stable or otherwise) onto shelves.


It's very likely that hysteria will be fanned by the media and cause panicky and unpredicable shopping patterns, which will generate some local shortages, which will generate panics spread in minutes on social media, and thus it will go around and around.


You only need to see the excessive consumption which precedes any public holiday or rumour of snow to get an inkling of what might be in store (pun intended).


I expect that there will be extra work for car bodyshops as over-excited drivers manoever in crowded carparks. Might be a good idea to keep out of these places with your treasured vehicle in the last days before B****t.


I'm old enough to remember the Three Day Week and the power flickering on and off like fireflies, too.


Might be an idea to have an alternative method of making a kettle of boiling water, as Tea is the rod and staff of many a life.