Evacuation wouldn’t happen now would it?

[Bellavida99]

Just watching about evacuation. I initially thought that definitely wouldn’t happen now. But then I remembered how we all did as we were told during Covid even when it meant not visiting relatives etc and I wonder if it could happen

In such circumstances again, we would, again, do as we were told.

It is human nature.

It certainly could happen. People in cities will not want to be there if we are at war. Missiles and bombs are much more powerful than they were in the 40s.

It's effectively what's happened in Ukraine with women and children leaving for Poland and other countries.

I think if you lived in a city where there was a risk of airstrikes, you'd gladly allow your children to be evacuated. It would likely be organised very differently now with regard to safeguarding. Also many people would be able to go with them and work remotely. Tbh though if the UK was ever in a conflict the scale of WW2 again, evacuation would be the least of our worries.

I worry about it all the time

Dd is autistic - what would happen to her 🥺

We live in London as well. Where would we all evacuate to, is there enough room in the countryside

God 🥺🥺

I really can't see that even if it were necessary o evacuate that they'd separate children with a medical/developmental need to be with a trusted carer from both parents. If nothing else, who on earth would take them? They would evacuate you with her.

Kind hearted people would take people in and hotels, holiday camps etc would be used We did it twice for Ukranian families, so we'd certainly do it again for example.

Well it would depend on the type of warfare wouldn’t it. Evacuation due to Luftwaffe is very different compared to evacuation due to nuclear threat.

I think war would be so different now. There wouldn’t be hundreds of bombers flying overhead. Just one plane dropping a nuclear bomb. Absolutely terrifying.

Yes I don’t think evacuation would be necessary because of the type of threat. It would either be cyber attack or nuclear. Neither would have any warning.

Must have been so harrowing

Maybe i should get some more food in, in case of a cyber attack

And have back up batteries etc

Will stock up on payday

😔 I'd be so useless, you should've seen me during the pandemic, the very opposite of the blitz spirit

Just watching piers Morgan shouting at politicians and crying

Considering the next world war would most likely be a nuclear-level event, I’d want my DC to stay with me and their dad in London. Better to be together in the blast zone than them waiting for the poisonous cloud to reach them in the countryside knowing we were already dead.

I think you're right to say it would never be done in the same way.. as in kids with labels around their necks handed off one by one in a random village with no safeguarding checks etc.

I also agree that modern war would likely be nuclear and then there's no real benefit but in terms of population movement for reasons of safety of course it would happen if necessary. We also took in a Ukrainian family for this reason but it obviously wasn't just kids.

I'm already laughing at the ridiculousness of my comment.

I imagine cuddling dd and dcat, titanic couple style 🥺

I don’t think we’d ever send unaccompanied little children to live with total strangers that just chose them from a railway station lineup, no. Older kids to extended family or friends of friends, maybe.

But with such a predominantly urban population these days, a lack of self sufficiency in food, heavy reliance on electricity and technology for everything (banking for a start) and the likelihood of nuclear retaliation, any threat would no doubt look extremely different to WWII anyway. And if it’s proposed evacuation over a substantial nuclear threat I’d actually rather head towards the threat and get whatever is coming over with quickly - it won’t be worth surviving.

Yep. There won't be time to do much else.

I always think no they wouldn't then I remember a picture of people lining up to get their animals euthanized at the beginning of one of the wars

I also remember getting abuse during covid for saying I would not put my indoor cat to sleep that he wasn't spreading covid he was an INDOOR cat

Why?

I think if it meant children were safe, people would do it.
But I do think the way the world is now it’s more likely to be a country or even world ending thing. There is too much conflict in the world and I think if it escalated to the point it is here, then it will be the end of everything.

I don't think the lockdown during the pandemic is the same as evacuation.
We are much more conscious about child protection now, so children wouldn't be sent to random people's houses without checks and we are also more aware of child psychology and children's emotional development
Also to the PP who said we would do what we were told it wasn't compulsory to evacuate your children, parents did it because they thought it was safer for their children some people refused to send their children.

It wouldn’t be considered now because of safeguarding. I don’t think I’ve ever heard any harrowing tales come out of the WWII evacuations but it must have happened.

So theer would be no point in evacuation. If you are talking a war of that scope, nowhere is safe. In fact the best place to be might be under the bombs when they drop.

I think we’re better off trying to influence politicians to do things that avoid an all out war (and they’ve been miserably failing to do it by showing utter weakness for years) than worrying about evacuation.

If we have one, it will likely either be a nuclear war, or something else non conventional like cyber warfare. I’d be surprised if there was an equivalent of the blitz if nations like the UK were directly under attack.