To let daughter go on trip

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Daughter has a London trip with school coming up this week. About to 2 1/2 hours ride away.

Looking at the news UK has changed to severe for an attack and highly likely for an attack on British soil.

Aibu to not let her go or should I still let her go?

I've asked a lot of people and no one can really answer me. I'm so torn.

Let her go!

Let her go. She's more likely to be randomly hit by a car. Do you think all the kids in London are staying home.

Let her go - I had the same with my son just after the London Bridge incident, but it’s important not to let terrorists win by changing how we live our lives.

It's because it's like asking Google about whether the COVID vacc is safe...it's a huge bucket of people who know very little, giving opinions that they shouldn't give and couldn't give in 'real life'. Unless you're high up in the security services, I doubt if anyone can give you an valid answer. This one is up to you I'm afraid.

I live in London. I have no idea what the threat level is because it wouldn't occur to me to look, but I can assure you the millions of us who live here will just be going about our business as usual.

Of course let her go. Good grief.

Oh ffs, of course let her go!

Of course you should let her go. Why is London the fear, the most recent attack was in Liverpool!

Please don’t limit your daughter in this way.

She will be fine. Even if something does happen in London, there are nearly 9 million people here so the chances of something happening to her are infinitesimally small.

But she will miss out on an experience with her friends, and feel left out, and forgo the educational experience.

It's not unusual for it to be severe. It's been severe or higher for most of the last 10 years

www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels

The last two attacks have been in Southend and Liverpool. Maybe they've given up on London.

Honestly op, there's millions of us living here and no one is worried.

Let her go. My sister and dad went today to visit the cenotaph. Was I worried, no. Life is for living, not worrying about what could happen.

I live in London and I don't even know what attack you're talking about lol I'm sure she'll be fine

Of course you should let her go! London is as safe as anywhere else in the U.K.

She’s incredibly unlikely to get caught in a terrorist attack anywhere in the U.K.- more likely to be hit by a car as others have said

We live very close to the attack that happened yesterday so more alert.

But thanks everyone you've made me feel better. Especially seeing it from the people who live in London who are just getting on with things.

For goodness sake, stop being so dramatic. The last 2 incidents didn’t take place in London.

People live in London and go about their lives as normal there everyday.

She'll be fine :)

I was about to say, I'm surprised to hear the threat level wasn't severe already. I've checked multiple times throughout the years and it's always been severe. Did they lower it for the first time in years when no one was allowed to travel or leave their house maybe?

Unfortunately a severe terror threat level in the UK is pretty much the norm. You've been living through severe threat levels without even knowing.

As PP said see www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels

I thought the threat level had been severe for ages. You're probably safer at the moment than you would have been two weeks ago. Security services will be on super high alert

We live very close to the attack that happened yesterday so more alert.

If you live close to where the attack was I’d be just as worried if she stayed home.

Unfortunately these things can happen anytime, any place.
I was literally around the corner from the shootings in Plymouth a couple of months ago and it was somewhere I go on a weekly basis.

Let her enjoy herself as much as she can as we never know when our last day is.

I've asked a lot of people and no one can really answer me
What sort of answers were you looking for from these people?

They cannot know if and when an attack will happen
They do not have greater power over your child than you do

I'm a Londoner and will be going about my business as normal, let her go op

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz I meant I asked other people if they would let their kids go and no one really knew they just kept saying I don't know speak to to the teacher

What’s the teacher going to add to it?

@RoseRedRoseBlue well today they were told if there is a "wild animal" around they need to run, hide and get help. So the school have thought about this as well. They thought I could ask what size groups there will be, how they going to keep the kids In the groups. I haven't asked the teacher or spoke to her about it but they obviously thought you what to do if there was an attack.

But most of the comments are the same and she will be going. So thanks