I don't think I've phrased my question very well, but it stems from the fact that some companies are stockpiling medicines and foodstuffs.
There's already a thread to debate the pros and cons of Brexit, so I'd encourage people to avoid that on here, but I'm wondering if you've taken any steps or changed behaviour because of what might happen after 29 March.
My wife's friend is storing up her own medicines and given that she is an advisor to the NHS, that raided my eyebrows.
Personally, I had been planning on another April trip to Lisbon, but we've decided not to book anything until we see what happens with airline licences and at the borders.
Have you changed plans or made arrangements?
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22-02-2019 08:01 AM #1
Brexit is looming. Has anything changed for you yet?
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22-02-2019 08:08 AM #2
I’ve got the family Irish passports. Not that I think I’ll need it but it gives my boys the right to live anywhere in Europe.
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I knew things were bad but the NHS raiding your eyebrows is worrying, does this signal a move away from modern medicine towards a more traditional Chinese method?
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22-02-2019 08:24 AM #5
Nope. I've not booked any holidays this year yet, but I think that would have been the case regardless. Although I would be reluctant to do so now until after B-day just to see how things pan out.
I might show up at home tonight with as many tins of beans as I can carry just to see the look on my girlfriends face when I tell her I'm stockpiling for Brexit.Mon the Hibs.
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I'm not even sure what I meant to type!
Edit: raised my eyebrows.
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22-02-2019 08:32 AM #7
Was planning to visit London, the Lake District then Edinburgh and the Borders for my summer hols - going to Stockholm / Sweden now instead ... took German citizenship a while back ...
Hugely disheartened by what is happening in the UK - none of this augers well for the future of the UK or the EU ... fed up trying to explain the unexplainable to my family and friends here
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I knew what you meant.
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Sammy Wilson, DUP Brexit spokestube, claims (I know) that Leo Varadkar has been threatening Irish troops at the border between the two bits of Ireland, if the backstop were to be done away with.
If things went very seriously bad in Ireland again, couldn't your boys be called up to fight against the DUP and their pals?
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22-02-2019 09:03 AM #11
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Been hitting the gym and eating well. Going for runs, sprinting up hills etc.
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22-02-2019 09:10 AM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As expected.
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22-02-2019 09:27 AM #13
In mid-planning for a friend's stag do, first weekend in April. Like an earlier poster, we had planned on going somewhere in Europe but decided to stay domestic until there was some clarity as to what might happen.
I work for a University and I'm part of a group of people preparing a funding bid for some research - it would have been ideal for a Horizon 2020 or ERC Grant, but I'm not going to spend the time it takes to prepare one of these things when there's a significantly high chance we won't be eligible to apply for them in a month. I suspect professionally, it's going to have some significant impacts on us!
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22-02-2019 09:46 AM #15
At my work I work on projects that can take 18 - 24 months and I advise people that it can be difficult to change provider halfway through, therefore it is best to be committed to staying within reach of Edinburgh if they plan to see it through.
Several potential clients have delayed starting, some have abandoned altogether and some have made plans to fly back for appointments from Spain.
The majority of my clients are between the ages of 16 - 35 and in a modern cosmopolitan city like Edinburgh I have quite an eclectic mix of nationalities.
They are generally jittery and unsettled, and not without good reason.
Some people might be getting their country back, I feel like mine is being taken away from me.
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22-02-2019 09:55 AM #16
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22-02-2019 09:56 AM #17
I'm in the process of trying to buy a new property, I'm finding myself checking prices on 5yr fixed mortgages rather than the obviously cheaper shorter term deals. I'm also worried about the timing of it because if I'm successful it looks like the sale will be finalised on or around the day we leave Europe.
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22-02-2019 10:14 AM #18
I've not done a lot personally but it's been a nightmare at my work.
We have a couple of big public service contracts and we've had to prepare a full action plan of what we will do in the event of a no deal Brexit. So much of it is guesswork and supposition that what is written on paper and what might actually work are 2 different things. We also have major suppliers in Germany and France and we've started a stockpile of those goods as they are among our biggest sellers, we have hired extra warehouse space to hold it.
Personally I've avoided booking any holidays in the short term; we looked at booking for 2020 now but decided to wait until we have an idea of what is happening. Maybe I'm being naive but the thought of stockpiling food never occurred to me.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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22-02-2019 10:25 AM #19
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I booked a mega cruise about a year ago hitting South Africa, Reunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Jordan, Greece, Montenegro, Croatia and Italy. We set off in the middle of April.
Our passports are valid as per the government website but that could change in the event of a no deal with the possibility of visas being required, although probably not. It's a slight concern.
How the pound will react whichever way Brexit goes is a fairly major concern and we've been busy prepaying as much as we can now.
I'm also on regular medication and get a few more pills than I need each time meaning there's a wee build up. I would normally tell the pharmacy not to order the next lot but I'll not be doing that for a while.
My spring fag run was brought forward a month. When I come back from that I'll have around 7,000 stockpiled!Space to let
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22-02-2019 10:36 AM #20
Not changed anything and I even booked a holiday to Gran Canaria on 12th April.
Ever the optimist eh?
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22-02-2019 10:44 AM #21
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You should try it.
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22-02-2019 10:44 AM #22
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I'll deal with anything as it happens
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22-02-2019 10:50 AM #23
Nope, nothing.
It was ***** then and it's ***** now. I have zero regrets about where i've stood politically over the past several years.
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22-02-2019 11:41 AM #25
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Have got a bit more food in reserve than we usually would. I recently left my job, taking about a year's post-tax salary with me. Most of my decision was about wanting to do something else and having a cushion to try that out. I'd say 10% of the push factor was having that cash available up front.
My partner and daughter are EU citizens. We'll see what happens, but we have recently been talking about leaving if things become really difficult. Like anyone in any country around the world, if the circumstances are such at home that you feel compelled to move and you have that option, you move.
That would be significant for us and a hard choice with family close-by especially when the kid is young. However, if it goes the way it looks it probably will, we're not going to hang around to struggle through it, if we have other options. Even if that means starting again somewhere else.
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22-02-2019 12:01 PM #26
I own a small travel agency, been waiting for the **** to kick off and business to dry up, but genuinely it's business as usual. Folk on the whole- and outside the bubble of taking an interest in politics in general- are inured to it I think.
My sister in law lives with me, very severe and complex medical conditions. My wife has been stockpiling medication for a while now. The idea of not having it terrifies her.
I have noticed things in Tesco being less readily available more often. Daft things like sparkling water or milk. As an ex-scotmid filler and facer, you notice that shelves are less filled, with maybe 2/3 items at the front and empty behind.
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22-02-2019 12:05 PM #27
I'm about to launch the process to become a French citizen (although I'll retain the right to a British passport).
Hee-haw hee-haw!
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22-02-2019 12:20 PM #28
I'm trying to avoid all talk of Brexit on radio or TV. None of the journalists have a scooby what's going to happen so spend time endlessly speculating and analysing.
I expect there will be a last-minute deal of sorts, or the can will get kicked down the road a bit. End of story.
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22-02-2019 12:31 PM #29
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My wages have changed. A 9% drop since 2016 due to the weak pound
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22-02-2019 12:48 PM #30
Not directly answering the question, and you'll get the usual suspects crying 'scaremongering' of course, but it's going to make more sense to grow your own food in the next few years.
If you factor in extreme weather events caused by climate change, supermarket monopolies, food price rises, increased population, to the short term problems that will follow a No Deal Brexit, food is going to get scarcer and more expensive. Having an allotment or garden space and the know how and time to grow stuff is going to reap dividends. (As well as all the well documented health benefits both in terms of the end product and the exercise and added wellbeing)
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