After months of fraught negotiations - first with the EU, then with her eurosceptics in Parliament - mere hours remain before Prime Minister Theresa May brings her Brexit withdrawal agreement up for a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday. And with analysts and MPs alike anticipating an overwhelming defeat - the latest estimates put the margin of defeat at around 225 votes - Theresa May is under pressure to bring all of her "Project Fear" powers to bear to try and coerce MPs to back her deal, though now that MPs have wrested some of the control over the process away from the PM, her threats of "her deal, no deal or no Brexit" have largely been robbed of their bite. '

But that doesn't mean stories and images about the chaotic fallout from a 'no deal' Brexit can't still stoke anxieties among the voting public.

Enter the Guardian, which published on Tuesday a story documenting the phenomenon of the newly minted Brexit doomsday prepper. A reporter for the paper traveled to different parts of the country interviewing members of Facebook groups and other social media cliques dedicated to preparing for the worst case scenario. May's government has offered a nightmarish vision of the fallout, complete with lorries backed up at the border, bare cupboards and supermarket shelves and medicine shortages.

In an interesting twist, the Brexit preppers documented by the Guardian don't fit the stereotype of the rugged libertarian-leaning individualist. instead, they are mostly housewives and working women worried about their children going without essential medications.

Jo Elgarf, a member of the group '48% Preppers' (so named for the percentage of Britons who voted to remain a part of the European Union), told the Guardian that she had agreed to participate in the story because her doctor told her she couldn't stock up on two essential medications that help her child avoid daily seizures.