British SDopers: how are you personally preparing for Brexit

[Quartz]

@UDS

it becomes the UK’s problem, though, if the answer is that EU countries do not accept UK truck licences. It’s obviously a problem for UK trucking companies, much of whose businesses involve trucking things into, out of or between other EU countries. And then it become a problem for UK businesses and consumers, if the restrictions suddenly faced by the UK trucking industry lead to delays, shortages and the like affecting imported goods.

Actually, it doesn’t. There are far more EU trucks on UK roads than vice versa. And switching cabs at Calais or Dover is a trivial solution.

[Treppenwitz]

@Staggerlee

I haven’t met any Remainers who predict some Mad Max outcome like the OP suggests

Isn’t Theresa May a closet remainer? Or so they say. And she’s put 3 500 troops on standby.

No-deal Brexit plans put 3,500 troops on standby

Also, in a thread over in Great Debates, PatrickLondon higlighted this: Secret Cabinet Office document reveals chaotic planning for no-deal Brexit | Brexit | The Guardian (Thanks, Patrick). Read that and tell me there’s nothing to worry about.

Anyway, pleased to make your acquaintance, Staggerlee.

I made a simple decision weeks ago to (as far as is feasible) de-risk my life. Here’s a thing - the shelflife of tinned and dried goods is typically more than a year. So you can buy a whole year’s worth now and there’s no downside. It comes to about 50 litres. In a country that imports about 50% of its food (https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2016-0003, see download) and has limited port access etc etc etc (not going through all that again), it isn’t going to take much panic buying to cause chaos.

“From now on I’m thinking only of me.”
Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.”
“Then,” said Yossarian, “I’d certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn’t I?”

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Catch-22, of course.

[Ludovic]

@kbear

I put my London home on the market 2 months before the Brexit vote three years ago. Should have been a slam dunk, sell quick, pocket a modest profit, downsize into a cosy mews house and spend the proceeds travelling the world. Three years later it’s still for sale. I just need for this to be over so I can unload this place and prob go back to Canada where life is marginally more sane.

[hijack]I knew somewhat of what a mews house was but wanted to know more, so I Googled it and one of the auto-answers was “Why is it called a mews?”, and thanks to another recent Dope thread, for the rest of the night I am going to be singing “And I guess that’s why they call it the mews” to myself

[system]

@kbear

I put my London home on the market 2 months before the Brexit vote three years ago. Should have been a slam dunk, sell quick, pocket a modest profit, downsize into a cosy mews house and spend the proceeds travelling the world. Three years later it’s still for sale.

I wish all Leave voters could read this and understand the sort of suffering that their selfish actions have caused. We have people here who are having to delay their trips to Guatemala by 18 months or more, for god’s sake.