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Surely this is one of the most irresponsible things ever to be said by an incumbent government. No doubt we will be seeing empty shelves again this week as all the big roll gets bought.
It just brings us closer in line with a bunch of other countries in this region, which all have official government advice to be prepared for emergencies. Though they mostly recommend five days of supplies.
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Being told to stockpile on 20:12 - Oct 24 with 2077 views
Being told to stockpile on 20:03 - Oct 24 by NW5Hoop
It just brings us closer in line with a bunch of other countries in this region, which all have official government advice to be prepared for emergencies. Though they mostly recommend five days of supplies.
Very good!
Like our goals 😉
Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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Being told to stockpile on 20:38 - Oct 24 with 2012 views
Being told to stockpile on 20:03 - Oct 24 by NW5Hoop
It just brings us closer in line with a bunch of other countries in this region, which all have official government advice to be prepared for emergencies. Though they mostly recommend five days of supplies.
After five days, what then?
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Being told to stockpile on 20:43 - Oct 24 with 2000 views
Watch the Bond markets. Hammering France, UK second highest rates in the West after the French. The French rioting as they are out of money.
The UK is now borrowing £150b per year, of which £120b is being used to pay interest on the debt already accrude. There is no more slack in the system. Unwilling to cut benefits yet unable to raise taxes any further to cover the cost of entitlements.
Bond market interest rates are already rising, and they will stop buying them (the markets already bought less than expected at the last sale in the summer). When it happens, and it now can't be stopped, the UK will have to go to the IMF. They will take control and demand massive cuts. Anyone on any sort of benefit can say goodbye to them.
The UK, like France, has millions of people who feel they're entitled to free money and when the tap is turned off the inevitable violence will follow. Oh, the French have the ECB to bail them out (but still with huge cuts), the UK has no one.
This is why you should have an emergency stockpile.
My wife grew up in Germany close to the East German border fence. She's been stockpiling since the Brexit referendum. And then stockpiled some more during the Covid-19 lockdowns. We're eating tins of beans and tomatoes dated 2016. So nothing has changed for us.
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Being told to stockpile on 09:13 - Oct 25 with 1631 views
Watch the Bond markets. Hammering France, UK second highest rates in the West after the French. The French rioting as they are out of money.
The UK is now borrowing £150b per year, of which £120b is being used to pay interest on the debt already accrude. There is no more slack in the system. Unwilling to cut benefits yet unable to raise taxes any further to cover the cost of entitlements.
Bond market interest rates are already rising, and they will stop buying them (the markets already bought less than expected at the last sale in the summer). When it happens, and it now can't be stopped, the UK will have to go to the IMF. They will take control and demand massive cuts. Anyone on any sort of benefit can say goodbye to them.
The UK, like France, has millions of people who feel they're entitled to free money and when the tap is turned off the inevitable violence will follow. Oh, the French have the ECB to bail them out (but still with huge cuts), the UK has no one.
This is why you should have an emergency stockpile.
Watch the Bond markets. Hammering France, UK second highest rates in the West after the French. The French rioting as they are out of money.
The UK is now borrowing £150b per year, of which £120b is being used to pay interest on the debt already accrude. There is no more slack in the system. Unwilling to cut benefits yet unable to raise taxes any further to cover the cost of entitlements.
Bond market interest rates are already rising, and they will stop buying them (the markets already bought less than expected at the last sale in the summer). When it happens, and it now can't be stopped, the UK will have to go to the IMF. They will take control and demand massive cuts. Anyone on any sort of benefit can say goodbye to them.
The UK, like France, has millions of people who feel they're entitled to free money and when the tap is turned off the inevitable violence will follow. Oh, the French have the ECB to bail them out (but still with huge cuts), the UK has no one.
This is why you should have an emergency stockpile.
Still, we won 5-0, so I'm happy!!!
Interesting you mention this and a post above mentions the Liz Truss mini period of mad office.
Now Truss was/is a buffoon; absolutely no denying that and God knows how Rishi lost out to her originall. However, the Bond sell off her mini budget prompted is oft cited as nearly breaking the economy and the ramifications of it still around. I took interest in it as it had a really bad fallout to me personally and meant a sharp deviation my own life plan. What a lot of people who chuck the “Truss Mad Mini Budget” seem to not realise is this is now actually an accepted tactic across many governments and people don’t even raise an eyebrow. You are bang on that it is happening again now and rates have actually been higher than Truss’s worst moment. That’s an inconvenient fact for the red tinted spectacles.
There’s no easy answer and none of the politat have the answer. I don’t either by the way! This country does need a short sharp shock but it’ll be too late very soon.
I’ll be buying lots of baked beans in my shopping today. That’ll have me sleeping soundly tonight
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Being told to stockpile on 15:21 - Oct 25 with 1386 views
Just got in from work delivering peoples shopping,one of my colleagues had 240 toilet rolls for one customer,when he got there it was for an old lady who was panicking after the announcement this week!
Pro tip from one of my customers in Tewkesbury, who was cut off by floods for a couple of weeks in 2007: if you've got a good supply of booze you can swap it for almost anything else, as there's bugger all to do apart from drink.
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Being told to stockpile on 18:55 - Oct 25 with 1097 views
Being told to stockpile on 09:34 - Oct 25 by Lblock
Interesting you mention this and a post above mentions the Liz Truss mini period of mad office.
Now Truss was/is a buffoon; absolutely no denying that and God knows how Rishi lost out to her originall. However, the Bond sell off her mini budget prompted is oft cited as nearly breaking the economy and the ramifications of it still around. I took interest in it as it had a really bad fallout to me personally and meant a sharp deviation my own life plan. What a lot of people who chuck the “Truss Mad Mini Budget” seem to not realise is this is now actually an accepted tactic across many governments and people don’t even raise an eyebrow. You are bang on that it is happening again now and rates have actually been higher than Truss’s worst moment. That’s an inconvenient fact for the red tinted spectacles.
There’s no easy answer and none of the politat have the answer. I don’t either by the way! This country does need a short sharp shock but it’ll be too late very soon.
I’ll be buying lots of baked beans in my shopping today. That’ll have me sleeping soundly tonight
Sure. Governments are all in for £50 billion unfunded tax cuts to the rich when inflation is in double figures and both debt and the deficit is projected to continue to rise. This greedy Capitalist bung was only foiled by other greedy capitalists looking to make a quick buck at our expense.
It's not comparable to today, with debt projected to fall by 2029 leaving us as the least indebted of the G7 and with current interest rates at 3.75 not 10.
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Being told to stockpile on 09:14 - Oct 27 with 592 views
Being told to stockpile on 07:59 - Oct 27 by Martin63
It wasn't a clever communication - far from it. When my wife mentioned it to me I thought she was joking.
There's ways to communicate these things - and that wasn't the right way.
Absolutely this!
I've lived in countries where my employer has advised I have a bug-out bag ready and we've had emergency plans in place, and the government does public advisories on what to do, if! What Streeting should have said, in a downplay manner: always wise to have a few days supply on hand, just in case.
As pandemics go, Covid was a low-level one. If it were anything as virulant and had the morbidity rate of the Spanish flu pandemic, we would have been f....d! Thankfully it didn't, and we got through with delivery drivers, Zoom, and Netflix, and that's because many people were able to keep things moving. And yet, it wasn't as if we got through by use of common sense as opposed to luck in my view, and we've not come out of it better.
Wilkins' assessment above, is bang on! There are too many lazy twunts draining systems who expect their state to fund them at one end of he scale; with too many self-entitled twunts/corporations not paying tax at the other end. The middle who are/want or did work, are squeezed beyond reason.
Instead of raising retirement ages (at a time when AI will take away many jobs) so that those who are working continue to shoulder the burden; we need to approach the fiscal issues by looking at those who won't work (as opposed to those who can't) and those who don't (often through lawful means) have anywhere near their fair share of tax responsibilities.
The system, as is, cannot continue! Throw in the issues of the environment and whatever AI might bring, if we steer the ship through the choppy waters we're heading towards, I'll be amazed as I will be delighted.
Indeed, I've been saying since Covid: if we get past 2030 intact, I'll be happily surprised.
Being told to stockpile on 15:21 - Oct 25 by loftboy
Just got in from work delivering peoples shopping,one of my colleagues had 240 toilet rolls for one customer,when he got there it was for an old lady who was panicking after the announcement this week!
She literally shit herself
AND WHEN I DREAM , I DREAM ABOUT YOU AND WHEN I SCREAM I SCREAM ABOUT YOU!!!!!
I've lived in countries where my employer has advised I have a bug-out bag ready and we've had emergency plans in place, and the government does public advisories on what to do, if! What Streeting should have said, in a downplay manner: always wise to have a few days supply on hand, just in case.
As pandemics go, Covid was a low-level one. If it were anything as virulant and had the morbidity rate of the Spanish flu pandemic, we would have been f....d! Thankfully it didn't, and we got through with delivery drivers, Zoom, and Netflix, and that's because many people were able to keep things moving. And yet, it wasn't as if we got through by use of common sense as opposed to luck in my view, and we've not come out of it better.
Wilkins' assessment above, is bang on! There are too many lazy twunts draining systems who expect their state to fund them at one end of he scale; with too many self-entitled twunts/corporations not paying tax at the other end. The middle who are/want or did work, are squeezed beyond reason.
Instead of raising retirement ages (at a time when AI will take away many jobs) so that those who are working continue to shoulder the burden; we need to approach the fiscal issues by looking at those who won't work (as opposed to those who can't) and those who don't (often through lawful means) have anywhere near their fair share of tax responsibilities.
The system, as is, cannot continue! Throw in the issues of the environment and whatever AI might bring, if we steer the ship through the choppy waters we're heading towards, I'll be amazed as I will be delighted.
Indeed, I've been saying since Covid: if we get past 2030 intact, I'll be happily surprised.
Utter 'kin mess of our own greed and msking!!!
2-2 Saturday by the way!
Are you feckin’ mad?
1-2 Superduperhoops.
Good post, mate.
Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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Being told to stockpile on 10:38 - Oct 27 with 446 views
If the nuclear bomb ever comes , I’ll be running towards the epicentre of it . Living off tinned beans and peaches while waiting for the radiation to clear isnt my idea of fun . F*** that .
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Being told to stockpile on 15:01 - Oct 27 with 262 views
Being told to stockpile on 14:43 - Oct 27 by Paddyhoops
If the nuclear bomb ever comes , I’ll be running towards the epicentre of it . Living off tinned beans and peaches while waiting for the radiation to clear isnt my idea of fun . F*** that .
Get some evaporated milk for the peaches. Will make them much more tasty!
Some of the reactions to this, across social media particularly, have been quite predictable. It's a simple government suggestion that you should have a few tins of food, some water, a radio, torch and batteries in your house just in case. It's something every western European country tells its people - and something our own government recommended up until the 90s. Making a big deal of it is ludicrous but entirely in keeping with modern discourse.
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Being told to stockpile on 15:37 - Oct 27 with 163 views
Being told to stockpile on 15:07 - Oct 27 by nadera78
Some of the reactions to this, across social media particularly, have been quite predictable. It's a simple government suggestion that you should have a few tins of food, some water, a radio, torch and batteries in your house just in case. It's something every western European country tells its people - and something our own government recommended up until the 90s. Making a big deal of it is ludicrous but entirely in keeping with modern discourse.
Problem though is pensioners and adults with learning difficulties will only see this in black and white, my job has certainly got “heavier” in the last week.
Watch the Bond markets. Hammering France, UK second highest rates in the West after the French. The French rioting as they are out of money.
The UK is now borrowing £150b per year, of which £120b is being used to pay interest on the debt already accrude. There is no more slack in the system. Unwilling to cut benefits yet unable to raise taxes any further to cover the cost of entitlements.
Bond market interest rates are already rising, and they will stop buying them (the markets already bought less than expected at the last sale in the summer). When it happens, and it now can't be stopped, the UK will have to go to the IMF. They will take control and demand massive cuts. Anyone on any sort of benefit can say goodbye to them.
The UK, like France, has millions of people who feel they're entitled to free money and when the tap is turned off the inevitable violence will follow. Oh, the French have the ECB to bail them out (but still with huge cuts), the UK has no one.
This is why you should have an emergency stockpile.
Still, we won 5-0, so I'm happy!!!
Interesting points. I watched this video the other day saying that France are first in line to go bankrupt when compared to the other G7 countries, this was before the riots started and the extra costs to France that caused.
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Being told to stockpile on 16:11 - Oct 27 with 92 views
There was a guy rang in to Five Live to say he has totally prepared and stockpiled all he needs for a reasonable life for a period when staple items will be sparse.
He has between 70 and 80 jars of gherkins.
Gherkins Stockpiled. Check...
Clearly a very sensible man...
Good God a life without gherkins, doesnt bear thinking about !!
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