are the MSM trying to tell us that modern urban Brits don’t know how to ride out shortages? I’m not sure how many deaths were caused by the WW2 blackouts - likely many more from the doodle bombs than the dark. And surely their mums and grands taught them about WW2 rationing. How all those jars of jam, flour, salt, lard and baking soda, tinned milk and meat and smoked sausages, etc. set aside for a rainy day came in very handy.
And how being arrested for hording and having everything you had put up taken away was such fun!
How you raised a pig on garden scraps and the government took half.
How people got shot for daring to tell the government that the land they wanted sown with wheat was too hilly and rocky for anything but raising animals.
How you had to get permission to make cheese from the spoiled milk from your own cows.
World War II did not make them more self reliant, it made them turn to the government for everything.