Reality Check

[NorthernRaider]

For me prepping is an always will be just another form of insurance, nowt glam, gung ho or ramboish, just bloody minded common sense.
Before supermarkets everyone was a prepper by default, you grew or bought stuff when available / affordable and put it in the larder or cellar or outhouse to see you through the winter. Now in 2012 the supply chain for the supermarkets is so complicated and extended most inteligent people can see the vulnerability in the system and take out insurance in the form of extra grub supplies.

The same issue exists with energy supply prices and vulnerability
The same issue exists with crime and protecting your family from ethnic gangs, chavs, terrorists or extremist government.

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Look, do you trust the state to look after you when it cannot even cope with a flood in one village, Do you trust a government that responds to terrorism by creating laws that targets the innocent majority, Do you trust the Supermarket supply chain, Do you trust the Russians and Ukranians to keep supplying us with cheap gas, do you trust the EU?, Do you trust the police to protect you if your family is attacked, do you trust the NHS to be functioning after a huge major incident.

I trust myself, immediate family and about a dozen preppers and that is it.