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Isis threaten to kill Prince George at school

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2boyz1girl · 29/10/2017 15:02

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5028613/ISIS-extremists-threaten-attack-Prince-George.html

This is shocking (other more reliable papers are also carrying the same story). Horrible for the royal family to have to read this & also the other parents who have kids in Thomas's

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SweetCrustPastry · 29/10/2017 17:23

The royal family is always at risk whether from people with an axe to grind or daily mail type reporters and photographers who stalk them for the latest scoop. It's not news.

sanddune11 · 29/10/2017 18:08

hadron i don't think tacky memorabilia that people buy justifies the huge expense of keeping them.. The true cost of the RF isn't known because their finances are shrouded in secrecy (how convenient) but it far out ways the royal souvenir crap that people buy. Financially we'd be better off without them, more tourists once they're gone (like France) and the entire income from the royal estates reverting back to us. How i wish.

sanddune11 · 29/10/2017 18:12

The royal family is always at risk whether from people with an axe to grind or daily mail type reporters

The ordinary people on the street are at risk, the royals have 24 hour police protection, highly trained police officers taken off a tightly stretched police force. People might have an axe to grind about that.

Flopjustwantscoffee · 29/10/2017 18:17

Not quite the same but I met someone who went to school with some of Salman Rushdies kids... I think they had a police/bodyguard in the classroom at one point. I think for all the children it just became normal but it's crazy when you think about it "children just ignore that armed man in the corner"

Yarboosucks · 29/10/2017 18:24

What ISIS really want is for people to be afraid. Their media strategy is to get people to share and spread their propaganda. Well done for starting this thread OP, they will be pleased if they see it.

Ta1kinPeece · 29/10/2017 18:45

flopjust
Oh yeah the
from them "please ignore me"
to them "would do but I cannot reach my coat as you are in the way"

The DEILY FAIL are the kings, emperors and tsars of mysogynist hypocricy

they are tax evading gits of the first order
who froth up their readers about what does not matter
so that they do not notice the stuff that does

RunningOutOfCharge · 29/10/2017 18:52

Well let’s hope his security is better than his dad’s back in the 90’s!!

I can’t say too much but it wasn’t that great back then at all

Ta1kinPeece · 29/10/2017 18:56

Nor was Anne's nor was Andrew's nor was Edward's

but from what I know of the school
its nowt like the 90's Grin

holdthewine · 29/10/2017 19:48

The school in question is in a densely populated area of London, south of the river in Battersea. It would be absolutely impossible to make the area terrorist proof any more than any other street. It might be hard to get at him personally but some random blowing themselves up nearby cannot be prevented 100%. I don’t understand why anyone would think they couldn’t get anywhere near him. I wouldn’t swap with the Royal family for all their money and privilege.

Of course all children’s lives have value, that wasn’t the issue in OP’s post.

2boyz1girl · 29/10/2017 20:05

Hypothetically if threats like this continued & the school saw a decline in new enrollments as parents are afraid of what could happen could Prince George be asked to leave?

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OlennasWimple · 29/10/2017 20:15

I reckon any decline in interest because of security concerns would be more than compensated by an increase in interest because of rubbing shoulders with HRH

HadronCollider · 29/10/2017 20:22

Daily Fail........are tax evading gits of the first order who froth up their readers about what does not matter so that they do not notice the stuff that does

Preach sister!

The ordinary people on the street are at risk, the royals have 24 hour police protection, highly trained police officers taken off a tightly stretched police force. People might have an axe to grind about that.

Praise the lord!

MexicanBob · 29/10/2017 20:30

Clearly a slow news day.

megletthesecond · 29/10/2017 20:33

In other news bears shit in the woods.

itusedtobeverydifferent · 29/10/2017 20:52

They shouldn’t even be reporting this. Doing so is just keeping the organisation in the forefront of people’s minds and causing further scaremongering.

sashh · 29/10/2017 21:20

The Royal Family have been a target for hundreds of years. They have amazing security. George is in no danger.

Family are also trained, George won't know how to shoot a gun yet but I'd bet that Kate was taught before he got married.

user1497863568 · 30/10/2017 00:10

It’s not true. ISIS is a front for the same operatives that work for the ruling families of Europe and elsewhere. Stir up the masses to get thrm to fight each other and make a killing off the arms sales. Twas ever thus.

ContessaBonessa · 30/10/2017 00:45

Hypothetically if threats like this continued & the school saw a decline in new enrollments as parents are afraid of what could happen could Prince George be asked to leave?

No.

The kudos that comes from saying 'Oh yah, Jago is in George's class, they're great chums' trumps any assassination threats.

papayasareyum · 30/10/2017 01:09

if I was Kate, I’d want to homeschool in the way royals used to be educated. But her and William have always said they want their children to be normal and live in the real world. Thinking back to the Charlie Hebdo attack, if terrorists really were hellbent on harming George, they probably could.

ContessaBonessa · 30/10/2017 01:15

I’d want to homeschool in the way royals used to be educated.

I presume you mean as in not educated at all?

PyongyangKipperbang · 30/10/2017 01:19

Terrorists threats are not new within the RF and if you think they are then I suggest you google Lord Mounbatten.

George is the safest kid in England.

PyongyangKipperbang · 30/10/2017 01:20

*Mountbatten

EdithWeston · 30/10/2017 06:04

They had tutors and governesses. None went to school before Prince Charles. But all received an education.

kmc1111 · 30/10/2017 07:25

The royal family memorabilia isn't such a big thing anymore (very few younger people want a collection of tea towels and mugs with royals faces on them sitting in a drawer), and even when it was it didn't bring in anywhere near enough money to justify their existence. The stuff that sells the best is still Diana memorabilia, so it's nothing to do with being a living/active royal anyway.

They bring in some (pretty weird) tourists when they get married or hit a big milestone, but we're talking the same amount who might travel here to see an exclusive concert or show. It's something, but it's really, really minimal.

Some tourists come primarily for the historic royals and related sightseeing, but getting rid of the current monarchy doesn't mean everyone will suddenly lose interest in Elizabeth I and Richard III and so on. If anything it would increase tourism, as more historic buildings could be opened to the public.

Dapplegrey2 · 30/10/2017 08:45

Better to be Prince George than a child in the target zone of British made armaments

Better for whom? What a weird comment.
Do you think it 'better' that one child should be killed rather than another?
I'd have thought any child killed would be equally tragic.
Do you think it would be better if one of your children was killed rather than a child in the target zone of British made armaments?