On Food Shopping for Brexit

[danieldwilliam]

Today I am going shopping for emergency supplies.

The last time I did this I was 14, living in Townsville and we were expecting a Category 5 (out of 5) cyclone to go right over the top of us.

I'm a middle-aged, middle-class man, married to a middle-aged, middle-class woman,  living in one of the most cultured cities in the world, both with good jobs and our country and our government have so fucked up our foreign policy that I am genuinely concerned that there might be an interuption in our food supplies resulting in social disorder.

I didn't vote for the cyclone and I didn't vote for this shower of shambolic ineptitudes and their policy but I refuse to give them the same moral credence. A cyclone is an act of nature, Brexit is an act of the Tory Party.

Comments

[notasupervillain]

This. Exactly this.

[alithea]

Yep.

I'm going to pick up medicines this afternoon and tomorrow we'll be doing a second tins and dry goods shop before we head away on holiday.

[danieldwilliam]

Aye - I'm mostly thinking dry goods and tins.

[cmcmck]

Our local Aldi manager admitted to me that they were receiving 'brexit stock' in preparation for panic buying.

Heigh ho.............. :o(

[danieldwilliam]

I think that's important because what will trigger panic buying rather than prudent stocking up is if the supermarkets are seen to be empty.

I remember going to Sainsburys once when they'd had some sort of fruit and vegetable delivery failure and noticing how spooked people were by the shortage.

[miss_s_b]

Yes, this

[cmcmck]

This is where having moved from a large south eastern conurbation to a small rural Shropshire market town is going to be interesting because I suspect the real panic is going to be in the metropoli!

[danieldwilliam]

I think you are right. Panic is contagious and there are more people in the cities.

How small towns fare in the event of a very serious and protracted disruption to food and fuel supplies is a different question. As is what happens to really small places with no supermarket.