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.

No need for you, or others, to make sarcastic remarks. You’re just showing your own ignorance of current guidance.

Government website:UK terrorism threat level raised to SEVERE
The UK National Threat Level has been raised from substantial to SEVERE – meaning an attack is highly likely

Yes...the UK, not specifically London.

@DickMabutt73962

This thread is about London because that’s where the OP is going. Cities are obviously a bigger risk.

Yes...the UK, not specifically London. London is in the UK, no? And the OP is going to London? Thought so.

As you were…

I just don’t see why posters can’t be understanding of the OP and, well - reassuring?

You do realise that these pathetic, sarcastic replies just come across as you showing your own insecurities don’t you?

@HeartsAndClubs

Yes...the UK, not specifically London. London is in the UK, no? And the OP is going to London? Thought so.

As you were…

Yes but what's the point in going anywhere then? I'd understand if the threat was specific to London but to have a nation wide terror alert and get worked up about visiting a different city makes no sense to me. As many have pointed out anywhere could be a 'threat', is OP going to make a post every time she has to go somewhere?

@Noavocado

Terror attacks have happened in the UK since the 1970s and the IRA. That's err 50 odd years.

What, you think that was the first time the UK experienced terror attacks? They've been happening since humans first graced the planet.

It's not a permanent peacetime state to be in tbh. There was the threat from the IRA yes, and there was the Victorian anarchists but I do think the UK is vulnerable atm, which is reflected in the government's threat level.
It's sad if this is our permanent future..

What, you think that was the first time the UK experienced terror attacks? They've been happening since humans first graced the planet.

I cannot think of a nation that has not received terror attacks at some point, or been on the end of them. Even Ireland was raided by Barbary pirates a few centuries ago. Villages were emptied of women and girls who were kidnapped and taken to North Africa.

The world was and still is a terrible place sometimes. People do horrid things to each other. But oddly enough this country bumpkin feels safer in London than anywhere else. This comes from somewhere, perhaps a certain unity about being a 'Londoner'.

I cannot think of a nation that has not received terror attacks at some point, or been on the end of them. Even Ireland was raided by Barbary pirates a few centuries ago.

Err the ROI suffered loads of injuries & deaths as a result of loyalist terrorism.