To feel very uneasy at the latest 'conspiracy?' theory doing the rounds on social media?

Well any of us could be run over by a bus tomorrow, it does happen.
I find it best to basically not think about it. I can recommend some funny cat videos on instagram if that would help?

Who reads all this crap?

I remember the IRA sleeper cells - they never advertised what they were doing. 🙄

I’ve seen a lot of videos about it on TikTok the last couple of days and it’s really scared me. My husband reckons it’s just scaremongering and I hope he’s right, but if’s making me feeel so uneasy.

The people who keep their kids out of school are exactly the people who will cause terrorist attacks, by raising children to drop out of society and live their lives online where they are ripe for grooming either by racist groups or terrorist groups.

And the police have asked people to help them out by not spreading rumours.

There are a dozen protests today all around the country and more over the weekend. This is spreading rapidly.

Yeah you’re right actually, it’s massively more likely that the OP or others will be seriously hurt by the racists and their ‘protests’ - that’s something worth being aware of, much more so than migrant sleeper cells.

I am not sure what you mean by conspiracy theories but we do have a friend in the police who said new leave is not being approved due to concerns around civil unrest although people on existing holidays could still go? I understood this was 'just' protest marches though, likely in September. Just sounded to me like reasonable thinking ahead...

However, there's a sizable amount of people vowing to keep their children off school and not send them back in September on account of these rumours

They're fucking idiots, then.

Don't give this a second thought. We're no more at risk from terror attacks from asylum seekers than we are from people who were born here.

Even if it were true (which I highly doubt, to put it mildly) I personally refuse to live my life in fear and will carry on as normal unless I get clear evidence that I should do otherwise.
Life is not without risk but you wouldn't stay in the house for fear of getting hit by a bus, would you?
There are a lot of people out there, at home and abroad, trying to instil fear and unrest via our electronic devices. Ignore them.

This 'rumour' was initiated by a far right man who calls himself 'Active Patriot'. He's known on the far right circuit as someone who likes to stir up hate through false and misleading info. Don't fall for fascist lies!
https://hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-alan-leggett/

Also if we are panic buying loo rolls and pasta of the back of this can someone give me heads up I missed out last time didn't check social media in time lol would like to get involved this time round lol

It's not just friends though, it's algorithms.
Say if you're on Twitter and you interact or read an article, then it'll push more and more of the same at you as it'll think you're interested. Next thing you know you're in an echo chamber/down a rabbit hole.
It's worrying.

Who are you friends with that this is the crap you’re seeing on social media? My social media is all smoothies and chicken keeping and the occasional video of cute goats.

I think the poster meant the re spreading and repeating conspiracy theories makes more people exposed to them, causing more and more worry in turn leading to real life attacks as they get more and more sucked in. Not you in particular.
Not sure what's to be done about it really, but feeding into the panic isn't going to help.
As others have said, step away from the internet, get into nature. Sounds daft but it helps

Well it on social media and we all know that is where all the experts are so it must be the gospel truth lol
I would take any Facebook nonsense with a grain of salt

I’ve seen nothing. Step away from the madness.

Exactly this.

Vulnerable includes those of lower intelligence, lower literacy and cognition as well as others who are less able to detect subtexts and inferences the writers are making - which also involves the inability to see that they are being wound up/lied to/manipulated or even that it's an attempt to use persuasive writing in the first place.

It's a rich seam to mine for political purposes, what with 6.5m+ of the adult population having the literacy levels at or lower than a child who has reached the age of criminal responsibility, irrespective of their IQ. 17% of adults having a low IQ (below 90) means around 11m in all.

Vulnerable also includes people taught to hate who may have average or higher intelligence/literacy/ability or have come to their opinions of their own volition.

There's always a risk that terrorists may target children or schools in attacks. Terrorists want to spread terror, panic, cause distress to the maximum number of people or attack targets that will get a lot of attention. Significant public buildings - Parliament, Buckingham Palace, popular tourist attractions with lots of people. Big sporting music or cultural events. Crowds. Children and schools. If you're looking for a "soft target" and not to get shot by armed police within ten seconds then you're not likely to go for the likes of a central London public building or the bus parade for the Lionesses. There are tens of thousands of schools and nurseries...

But - schools and nurseries have security, you can't just walk into a school building with a knife and start stabbing people. Thankfully it's still hard to get guns in this country. And schools do practice lockdown procedures. Short of stationing armed police at every school like they do in some parts of America (and look where that gets them) you can't do much more. Every person who dies in a terror attack is one too many, but your kids are more likely to be in a car accident driving to school.

People need to use their interrligence and take responsibility for believing what they want to believe, the word vulnerable seems to be used as a get out jail of thinking card

If people are intelligent enough to take some information in why do they take the the racist trouble making information and not actual legitimate facts

People cant keep on blaming others because they cant decide what is make beleive and what is truth, and these people are raising the next generation?

Parents need to take some responsibility for how thry teachers their children to think, we cant blame everyone else