Terror alert - trip to London

[Rainydayss]

Has the recent news made you anxious about going to big cities? I'm due to go to London the end of this week and I feel uneasy about it, I cant decide if to go.

I'm going to see AWB on Saturday, we're booked to stay on the south side of the city and I cannot wait. I'm from Ealing and lived in London until I was 21 and then moved to Hertfordshire - I narrowly missed being on the train that crashed at Potters Bar in 2002 and I rolled my car in Sutton Colefield in January 2019 and walked away having ended up facing the wrong way on the dual carriageway - the Police found it was a freak accident due to debris on the road, thankfully I was doing about 60 and not 70+ anyway, live your life to the full as it turns on a sixpence is my advice.

Why once again are posters making this about London? Manchester and Liverpool are not London. They will not be able to to target London again for some time. The middle class can rest easy... For now.

I'm off to London this afternoon. Couldn't give a shit - we've been at this alert level before. Millions of people live in London. The last few attacks were in other cities.

I live in a small Cornish town so it's not like my normal life is likely to see an attack, and yet just up the road we had an incel go nuts with a shotgun just a few weeks ago.

It's not about where you are. Nothing is that simple.

Go, enjoy, steer clear of big crowds if it worries you.

@Noavocado

Why once again are posters making this about London? Manchester and Liverpool are not London. They will not be able to to target London again for some time. The middle class can rest easy... For now.

Are you thick?

What do you mean ‘the middle class can rest easy’?

That’s who you think makes up the entirety of London’s population?

Most of London does ‘rest easy’ because it’s senseless living in a big city and getting bogged down with anxiety about it. But we are not a gated community of middle classes 😂

@ThePoisonousMushroom

I don’t think that poster is the sharpest tool in the box…

@Noavocado

Why once again are posters making this about London? Manchester and Liverpool are not London. They will not be able to to target London again for some time. The middle class can rest easy... For now.

I mean… you can’t be suggesting that all of London is middle class and all of Liverpool is working class, can you? That would be hilarious

Of course not! There have been terror events since my 1970s childhood (except it was the IRA then). Nobody who lives in a city ever even thinks about it.

I hate this situation OP. Unfortunately, these attacks happen in random places so no point changing your plans. Do not expect sympathy here. It is an anonymous place and god knows who is answering.

No not at all. Still far more likely to be involved in a traffic accident due to the traffic in cities.

Even if you were unlucky enough to be in the vincinity of a terrorist attack you still have greater odds surviving it.

@Noavocado

Why once again are posters making this about London? Manchester and Liverpool are not London. They will not be able to to target London again for some time. The middle class can rest easy... For now.

I mean someone quite easily could target London at any time? Security services don't know about everyone, and even if they do, can't monitor them 24/7 to prevent someone attacking civilians.

I lived in London for over 20yrs - moved there at the height of the IRA bombings, heard the Harrods one go off and we knew it was a bomb straight away. We did just get on with our lives - but once the DC were born I didn't go places like Oxford St during Xmas shopping in case of evacuations, which were sometimes chaotic (memories of Oxford Circus tube station being evacuated and the crush!).

I also worked in London during the bus/tube bombings

I'm going there for a funeral next week and will have to travel across the city via public transport - I really haven't given it much thought. It's so statistically unlikely that any of us will be killed by terrorism that I just go on as usual.

My son was there at the Manchester bombing
(Well,he was at at friends flat just down the road-i got a text 'mum,do not turn on the tv,and don't panic' ovs I did both)
Not quite the same thing but I work with someone who was on a bus,just round the corner when Lee Rigby was stabbed

Of all the people I know,they are the only people I know that have been caught up in evil like that

The risks are very low-evil does live with us but you'd have to be damn unlucky to get caught up in it

If you don't go then they have won-its what they feed from-fear

Oh do get a grip dear

@DarlingFell

Oh do get a grip dear

Say that again when you or your relatives are involved in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. What is happening is not OK or the fact that many of your fellow citizens are plotting to kill you. Think on.

@RedHot22

……le also live in Beirut but I try and avoid there too

I lived in Beirut for a year and now live in London. Have never felt unsafe. We just have to get on with it - anything could kill us at any time!

noavocado he came to UK 7 years ago, not 5 weeks ago

My DM was a nursing sister in central London during the Blitz. She had a much greater chance of being blown up than being killed by a terrorist, but she had a job to do and got on with it.

Consider taking some sort of legal defence spray with you op, just to give you a little bit of comfort. Before that gets jumped on, obviously there's plenty of situations where that wouldnt do a thing, but some where it might.

By the way I know my facts are correct. We can't possibly be told the truth yet because....