A former adviser to Gordon Brown has urged people to stock up on canned goods and bottled water as stock markets around the world slide.
Damian McBride appeared to suggest that the stock market dip could lead to civil disorder or other situations where it would be unreasonable for someone to leave the house.
Advice on the looming crash, No.1: get hard cash in a safe place now; don't assume banks & cashpoints will be open, or bank cards will work, he tweeted.
Crash advice No.2: do you have enough bottled water, tinned goods & other essentials at home to live a month indoors? If not, get shopping.
Crash advice No.3: agree a rally point with your loved ones in case transport and communication gets cut off; somewhere you can all head to.
Mr McBride credited his former boss Gordon Brown with preventing a cataclysm by nationalising the banking system during the 2008 crash.
We were close enough in 2008 (if the bank bailout hadn't worked), he said. and what's coming is on 20 times that scale.
Financial markets are unstable and periodically suffer crises which can have devastating consequences for the wider economy.
China's "Black Monday" has plunged the global financial markets into chaos. The Shanghai Composite Index, Chinas most important stock market index, was down 8.45 per cent, erasing a years gains in a days trading.
The FTSE100 fell 4.5 per cent, hoping £60bn off the price of UK shares, and the Dow Jones in the US fell by over a thousand points in its first minute of trading.
Some analysts have suggested that the stock market slide could be the start of a new global financial crisis.brightcove.createExperiences();
Mr McBrides suggestions about stocking up on canned goods, setting rally points and stocking up on bottled water were ridiculed by some users on Twitter as over the top, however.
Mr McBride was special adviser to Gordon Brown and head of communications at the Treasury for a period during the last Labour government.
I don't know - having cash on hand, not depending on banks or ATM's, 30 days of food and water stockpiled and having a bug-out/meet-up location planned.
having cash on hand, not depending on banks or ATM's, 30 days of food and water stockpiled and having a bug-out/meet-up location planned.
Yes. It's a good idea to be prepared.
I'm inclined to believe that the most likely sudden life-changing catastrophe that might befall us here would be the riots, looting, raping, murder, and general mayhem that would ensue if our dusky equals ever feel that that they have sufficient justification or excuse to do so. It doesn't take much, as we have repeatedly seen. Imagine how they would react if Obama were assassinated, and the jewsmedia dutifully reported that the perp was a White Nationalist KKK CofCC Confederate flag waver?
I can imagine dozens of major US cities burned to the ground, White people dragged from their cars or their homes invaded and then raped, tortured, and executed South Africa style, etc.
The stock market dropping 25% doesn't seem too bad in comparison.