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UK Government urges stockpiling of food & water..

What do you think they're plotting now?

Michael Brown ● 7d30 Comments

Start another panic buying of toilet rolls

Nick Pallister ● 7d

Michael, they have been saying this on and off for years now,just in case of some 'emergency' no need to panic.

Janice Evans ● 7d

Under Satanic Etiquette, they must give a warning or series of warnings/clues. They did the same with 9/11, 7/7, Great Covid Scam etc. etc..  😈

Michael Brown ● 7d

Perhaps they know of some Satanic plan from your chum "Ras" Putin, Mikhail McBean ?

Richard Greenhough ● 7d

Where does Satanic Etiquette land with respect to salad forks?

David Lesniak ● 7d

And now saying to have cash, just as well we do our own thing, couldn't make it up.

Janice Evans ● 7d

Conspiracy theories help stupid people feel clever

david ward ● 6d

It was/still is a mystery why on the faintest chance of a supply crisis for ANY product, the British people rush to buy loo rolls.We still have come of those purchased in the covid era.

James Roy ● 6d

One suspects this is a diversion to move responsibility onto individuals when really you’d hope for some rapid government response to any crisis, such as water tankers at the end of the road or emergency food supplies set up or delivered. Meanwhile, the water system in a traditional British house has a large storage tank in the loft specifically designed to deal with interruptions to the water supply. And a traditional TV and radio with access to terrestrial channels via an aerial works without the internet and allows centralised communication with the general population. And a landline telephone works without local power. Maybe the wholesale move away from these technologies towards on-demand online i-everything should be discouraged.

Peter Evans ● 5d

If they have a combi boiler there is no tank in the loft, and if landlines are digital voice as my one is it will not work without electric, I'm so pleased Conservatives were in during the Pandemic can you imagine what it would have been like.

Janice Evans ● 5d

Terrestrial TV is being switched off around 2034 as a starting date.

Julian Pavey ● 5d

Agree we should move away from technology, or why not always have both, not be forced to switch when you don't want to, I never wanted the digital voice phone but was given no other option.

Janice Evans ● 5d

UK switches off copper phone lines on 31 January 2027

Julian Pavey ● 5d

Or a pressurised system (megaflow) . Over 60 % of homes now are mains fed and have no storage tank

david ward ● 5d

Flats can depend on an electricity pump to pump mains water to each flat,  so keeping a kettle and saucepan full of water can be a good idea even if you can't heat it (don't use a camping stove indoors).  If you're desperate for a coffee we found in the summer when we didn't want hot coffee that UHT milk and Camp coffee essence was a good cold alternative.

Philippa Bond ● 5d

A 'Russian' cyber attack, knocking out our utilities for a few days must be high on the list... and maybe the cutting of a few cables on the seabed.Get your tinned food in..

Michael Brown ● 5d

I'd imagine it's more than a few daysInternet, shopping tills and computers, banks online, cash points, the whole lot.Mind you, free energy if you have a smart metre maybe

Julian Pavey ● 5d

Then after the State Sponsored false-flag psy-op, we'll be told we have to go to war with Russia, which they're also prepping us for. It's so blatantly obvious, they clearly don't care anymore..

Michael Brown ● 5d

Thought Ukraine was self sufficient in building what they need or buying what they need now.

Janice Evans ● 5d

Home-built weapons, but EU loans in billions of $s. You need money to build your own weaponry, but many weapons they need require military aid from Western allies.If the USA says no to certain US-built weapons, what do you do? You can't pop down to the shops

Julian Pavey ● 4d

Janice  I guess you haven't paid attention to the Covid Enquiry!  I hope everyone has learnt a lot from having gone through the Covid experience - we should all have - and be more prepared for another difficult period.

Philippa Bond ● 4d

Some of this is something that many of us have always done there is the likelihood power cuts and disruption followingbad weather, storms etc and because you can't or just don't want to go out.Govts have discovered how dangerous the Just-in-Time lifestyle has become as well as Just-in-Time manufacturing and buying in of goods.  So many people now don't know how to or aren't experienced cooks, don't have any long-life food or the ability to create meals with it in the home and just live off ready-meals in the fridge or home delivered meals!  All are vulnerable to disruption.It is made even worse when you have children who insist on only eating one type of baked beans or fish fingers or pasta sauce.  Once upon a time you were just expected to eat what was put in front of you - and quite honestly that made meals a lot easier to make and children a lot more flexible in what they ate.  Some meals you liked better than others but you certainly didn't have children only eating this or that to the same extent.

Philippa Bond ● 4d

I still think Covid could have been much worse Philippa, and don't think I'm alone on that.

Janice Evans ● 4d

I couldn't image businesses getting the help they did during Covid from another party.

Janice Evans ● 4d

For many of us (especially those working in any medical and scientic area) it was an expected sometime pandemic where a risk-taking penny-pinching Government failed in its duty to us in paying enough attention, taking notice and learning from the from Risk Assessment that had previously been carried out by joint orgaanisations.  What's the point if you aren't prepared?  With worldwide telecommunications and living in  London with its huge intercontinental airport we could only watch, listen and wait as it came closer.We've got used to living in a 24hr city but we need to make sure we can live for a few days without 24 hr shops, banking facilities, electricity, water etc in case we can't just go out or get things delivered.

Philippa Bond ● 4d

"risk-taking penny-pinching Government failed in its duty to us in paying enough attention, taking notice and learning from the from Risk Assessment that had previously been carried out by joint orgaanisations.  What's the point if you aren't prepared?"Totally correct. Not about Covid but about today. Our feeble Government needs to be prepared and that means they should: abandon Net Zero, secure out energy supplies, and start building up our defenses again. Not to do so leaves us vulnerable to attack, economics, and the vagaries of nature . Start drilling for oil and gas, build nuclear plants, re-arm asap, secure our borders. All common sense.Not too much to ask, better then a store of beans and lentils.

Chris Smith ● 3d

Self-sufficiency begins at home with making sure we can make do without needing to depend on the Govt for absolutely everything all of the time while we are able.  A few days' provisions are more important than much of the stuff we see advertised and can buy online everyday.  It's staggering that we've allowed Govts to fail us so badly on water.  Droughts and floods have always occurred and the management and provision of clean water has always been crucial to life.  There's absolutely no point to any of the rest of your wish list without it.The lack of practical skills and training in the workforce and the outsourcing and selling off overseas of so much important infrastructure here without investing for everyone here has severely damaged the country.  Norway had it right years ago with a national wealth fund.

Philippa Bond ● 3d

It's impossible to be prepared for a pandemic, it arrives in different forms and no one knows what type it will be, people expected the Conservatives to do absolutely everything, and I think they did pretty good, they also helped with energy bills, the cost of energy was going down during Rishi's term..

Janice Evans ● 3d

The Climate Change Act was voted through Parliament in 2008 by a majority of all the parties.  There have been people actively transitioning their homes  and businesses away from fossil fuels and making these more sustainable for tens of years.  Oil and gas companies in the UK have been charging us extra because they were tasked and expected by Govt to be doing more to make sure that our homes were insulated so that we used less and less energy to heat and cool and light them.  Extinction Rebellion in frustration at the lack of progress made a nuisance of themselves so that the problem over our reliance on huge amounts of imported oil and gas gained even more attention from everyone. But it has proved that it isn't that easy to insulate so many of our "oldest and leakiest buildings in Europe" as some of the Govt sponsored attempts have shown.  Reducing our dependence and need for oil and gas continues but like lemmings heading towards a cliff the determination to carry on as if nothing was happening has so often been the disappointing result. We don't set the price for all the fuel we use it depends on  the markets.  The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz was not of our making.  What we have in the North Sea is sold on the  global market.  Our Govt can raise and lower our taxes here.https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/badenoch-makes-false-claims-in-attack-on-climate-change-act/In fact we have a much greater amount of alternative energy being used now.  It takes more than a Govt to make changes.  Unfortunately in our mainly two party system we have to be able to see past all the subsidies and little sweeteners offered whoever is in power. We still need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.  The last 11 years have been the hottest on record:https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166758

Philippa Bond ● 3d

Rishi was just far too nice and generous during Covid. He just didn’t predict so many unscrupulous business owners exploiting the Furlough System to increase their profits and personal wealth. He paid the price for his generosity. Millions of people will be extremely grateful that we didn’t have a Labour government during Covid. God help the UK while Streeting is Defense Secretary and the pug faced one is Health Secretary. Not to mention the totally demented Foreign Secretary and inexperienced Chancellor.

Steve Taylor ● 3d