Now is a good time to join Preppers Anonymous

A prepper is a person actively preparing for future emergencies or disasters by stockpiling non-perishable goods and water, batteries, tools, weapons even, learning appropriate skills and basically making plans to ensure their safety and self-reliance when normal systems fail. Preppers are often the object of scorn or ridicule in the media, especially if the people in question are eccentric in other ways too. However, in the last year or so, serious updates from the UK government have suggested that British citizens should take a leaf out of the prepper handbook and get ready for when the lights go out, the food supply stalls, and if not yet panic buy toilet paper, then at least make sure they don’t let any labrador puppies waste rolls of Andrex unnecessarily. What’s particularly intriguing though is that different government departments with their various announcements have focused on different putative disasters and emergencies. Some have focused on the weather and climate, homing…