Government Evacuation in Times of War/National Emergency

[LawAbidingCitizen]

(28 October 2013, 21:54)Highlander Wrote:

(28 October 2013, 21:51)LawAbidingCitizen Wrote:

(28 October 2013, 21:43)MaryN Wrote: Well, it's not the same as WW!!. I can't remember exactly how many people are supposed to be in the UK - was it 60million-ish? Even if only a small percentage of the population was displaced it wouldn't make any sense for the PTB to start humping folks all over the place. It would incur massive resentment, and if you think about it, what would you do with them all, and how would you achieve it anyway? You could hardly be expected to feed and house hoardes of people when you were probably in the same predicament. This is not a "Mister Tom" scenario.

I was using WW2 as an example because it is the last time that something like that happened. If I was a government high official, I would not want hoardes of people on the streets with no homes and given the suddenness of an event, I could well see the police/army commandeering residential homes for at least temporary housing for those displaced as a result of an event/s.

I can see what you mean, but traditionally this has usually been done with tented camp,...all over the world,.. I personally cant see it happening at all, but if it did, this would be about as much as they would do, they simply wouldn't have the time or the money to do anything more

Yes I can see that would be likely in the early days of an event/s, but if it were to be prolonged I could see it at least being attempted.