Prepping for Brexit thread

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Long time lurker first time poster alert.


Apparently it's believed that the shops will start to see the Brexit run on the shops beginning Thursday when people get paid for the first time after Christmas.

That is interesting, mind you when I was a young mum January pay was already spent before I got it so it would have had to wait for February.

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Long time lurker first time poster alert.


Apparently it's believed that the shops will start to see the Brexit run on the shops beginning Thursday when people get paid for the first time after Christmas.

I'm expecting a bit of panic to set in at the end of March, if it's a no deal Brexit. I'm planning to complete my preparations by mid March, just to be on the safe side. However, I'll be keeping an eye on what's happening, and will bring forward this date, if I think it's needed.

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

I do wonder if we have a bit of a short, sharp shock where supermarkets aren't as full as they usually are, if it will make people think about impulse spending and the quantity of products they buy? What a healthy adult actually needs to live on is a fraction of the amount piled in trolleys most weeks.

Sadly, I don't think it'll do any good. This is the country where someone called the police because KFC ran out of chicken. If shelves do empty and can't be swiftly replenished, I think people will just get angry. I predict the ones who say that empty shelves are 'Project Fear', will be the angriest of the lot!

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I'm expecting a bit of panic to set in at the end of March, if it's a no deal Brexit. I'm planning to complete my preparations by mid March, just to be on the safe side. However, I'll be keeping an eye on what's happening, and will bring forward this date, if I think it's needed.

I'm a member of a Brexit prepping group & somebody posted on there that Thursday is crunch day ....whether this is bs or a genuine advance notice I don't know.

Anyway I've got a Brexit preparation delivery coming Wednesday....just in case Armageddon is announced Thursday lol

parsniphead wrote: »

Another one here who is completely fed up to the back teeth with it all. It seems like a Pandora box has been opened and we are never going to hear the end of it.

And in the meantime, Rome burns........

My DIL is Venezuelan. Her parents and one sister are still there, plus various aunts and uncles.

Although the reasons are different Venezuela has been experiencing shortages for some time now and my DIL often sends them "Red Cross" Parcels. She has to do it via Spain otherwise the military open the parcels and steal the contents.

If you have seen the news this week you will see that the situation is now very serious. There are serious food shortages and the poor are starting to starve. Inflation is through the roof. There is violence in the streets. My daughters family do not live anywhere near Caracas but they have turned their home into a fortress. Her parents have more or less been forced out of their respective jobs as university professors, dictators don't like academics. :eek:

From being one of the richest countries in Central and South America their economy has totally collapsed and the country is now a basket case. Both America and Russia are now set to wade in and "help" the opposing factions. (And help themselves to the oil in the process noi doubt) Another Vietnam in the making.......:(

The only positive note is DILs family do at least have EU passports so they can get out if push comes to shove.

Will the U.K. suffer a similar economic collapse, it really is hard to say but, at the very least, I think we can expect rising prices - especially if the £ has to be devalued.

It must be so hard for businesses to prepare though, because of the uncertainty.

The sooner the situation is resolved, whatever the resolution might be, the sooner we can pick up the pieces and get on with our lives.

It is all just getting so ugly now. The country is so divided on this issue that it is becoming a threat to peace and stability.

EachPenny wrote: »

What makes you think that tyres won't be 'easily available' post-Brexit?

Michelin, French Innit?:D;);)