if it was up to you ....?

[Lightspeed]

Well said Rush. I mostly agree with you.

There has indeed been a degree of condescending remarks to newcomers to prepping. That was wrong, and I think it has pretty much stopped now.

Re the Americanisation of SUK, we're all adults on here, well, most of us are. And we have the capacity to ignore stuff that not pertinent to us. That said, I personally dislike the gun-centric point of view pushed by some US members, as it is almost always irrelevant to the general UK situation.

Being pedantic, I'd re-phrase your final comment: Bottom line is SUK is only as good as its contributing members.