The threat is [a long slow deterioration in living standards]

[NorthernRaider]

Nup your not wrong, A societal collapse is for many of us the most lilkely secenario, Its something that has ben covered in depth for many years by many preppers, Skean has commented on in on this forum, and I have done the same on PUK. But it is how we respond to a collapse of society and the associated anarchy that follows that rocks most UK preppers boats.

I may be wrong and am willing to accept being corrected but I think the majority of the preppers on forums I use choose to plan to survive with their own nuclear family groups or groups of known other preppers with whom they have mutual support agreements. But on some forums the socialist mentality appears to be popular with members on those forums talking about sharing their stocks and supplies with their neighbours and communities including those who have never embraced or considered prepping as worthwhile.

I'll gladly help other preppers who I know, but stuff the sheeple.

(15 November 2011, 00:06)Bald Carl Wrote: Hi all,

New member here

I believe the main threat facing us is a long slow deterioration in living standards which at some point will hit a tipping point - mass disobedience, strikes, water/food/fuel shortages, breakdown in law and order and so on.

Not as sexy as asteroid strike, nuclear war, pandemic etc.

Looking at current events, this is happening (for all manner of reasons) in the middle east and on the peripheries of Europe. I do not see the situation improving.

I may be wrong (and would dearly love to be proven so). My guesstimate is for a tipping point to be reached in a couple of years.

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(15 November 2011, 01:48)Kenneth Eames Wrote: Bald Carl, I am pleased to see that you have joined us. This is certainly something to consider. I am wondering what will happen in that situation. Will our Government allow us to take over or will they do what is happening in Syria and what happened in Libya? Will they go quietly or use the steel fist and shoot us down. Kenneth Eames.

Kenneth what do you think all the gun control laws applied every couple of years since 1968 are about? certainly not crime fighting as the governments own figures show that legally held guns were only ever used in less than 1% of reported gun crimes, and most of those were suicides. The govt has been disarming us gradually for decades primasrily to ensure they stay in control.

What good is democracy with the three main parties have identical policies and are run by the same ruling elite old boys?