Or will modern ramen noodles take over?
Families will today be urged to stockpile three days' worth of food and water to help build national 'resilience'.
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will advise people to make contingency plans for dealing with potential emergencies such as prolonged power cuts, cyber attacks and floods.
Blimey, that's a bit of a mixed bag! Luckily, I don't live in a flood area...
Last year, Mr Dowden said people should stock up on 'analogue capabilities', such as candles, torches and wind-up radios, to boost their 'personal resilience'.
Thanks, 'Green' energy!
Today he will go further by encouraging people to stock up with enough food and water to survive for three days without leaving their homes.
The next pandemic panic is going to be pretty short, then?
Whitehall sources insisted that the plan was not designed to create a nation of US-style survivalists. One said Mr Dowden's intervention was not meant to be 'alarmist' and was simply 'common sense' advice.
Common sense...it really ain't so common anymore.
I wonder how many people don't as a matter of routine have three days food in the house? I reckon on at least a week's supply.
ReplyDeleteQuestion is though, how are they going to heat it in their eggs-in-one-basket all electric homes?
And anyone without a stock of candles simply hasn't been paying attention.
Imagine the screams of abject horror from the "Just Eat" generation when they cannot get fed on command!!
ReplyDeleteCandles? We have battery LED emergency lights in every room and our own genny. But what the hell is going on? Is Dowden tacitly telling us that they have now screwed up our energy supply so badly that lengthy power cuts are now on the cards?
ReplyDelete"Families will today be urged to stockpile three days' worth of food and water"
ReplyDeleteSo I have to get rid of 87 days worth of food and water?
" I reckon on at least a week's supply."
ReplyDeleteMe too.
"Imagine the screams of abject horror from the "Just Eat" generation when they cannot get fed on command!!"
Stock up on pot noodles!
"Candles? We have battery LED emergency lights in every room and our own genny."
Wow, that's preparedness!
"So I have to get rid of 87 days worth of food and water?"
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