*** OFFICIAL BREXIT SUNLIT UPLANDS and #MEGA THREAD ***

[Poopadoop]

There is if you're willing to accept that there might be an agenda to create havoc so it can be blamed on Brexit.

Why would Boris want people to blame it on Brexit? He's the one who started the panic by telling people not to panic. No-one would have even thought about panic-buying fuel because a few stations ran out somewhere on the other side of the country.

Or perhaps there's another agenda, such as a good old fashioned distraction.

Whatever it was that happened that was worse than this, I'm sure we'd have heard about it.

As much as government and media are filth and need to be held to account, that shouldn't mean the general public get a free pass to behave like idiots and then blame others. The public have to accept their share of responsibility, and in this case it's rather large. People should be capable of critical thinking, they should not just absorb whatever the media say.

I think it was George Carlin who said "Think about how stupid the average person is, then consider that half the population is even dumber than that."

Also, there comes a point where it's no longer people being stupid but it's rational to panic-buy. If you need petrol to get to work next week and there's a queue outside every station, you're going to join the queue before it all runs out. Mass hysteria of a sort, it's contagious. Just needs a spark to get it all started. It's easy to look at it from a distance and go 'what a bunch of idiots', but really it's just a few idiots to start it and everyone else is actually being fairly sensible. If I had needed to use my car for commuting in the next week, I would have been one of those people queueing up.