Explosion at MEN Arena/Victoria Station

[worsleyweb]

So sad for the young families. Well done to the police and service men and members of the general public who helped out. Was a very strange mood in town today as you would expect.

 

[rickmcfc]

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[Tricky_Trev]

I'm taking it literally as i think most people do

It's just cause it is being treated as an "ongoing attack" until they know the facts.

 

[BigJoe#1]

So sad for the young families. Well done to the police and service men and members of the general public who helped out. Was a very strange mood in town today as you would expect.

I think that mood was the same across the country, certainly was subdued here in South Wales,

 

[bluethrunthru]

The threat level going up is scary,critical level,stay safe everyone

been raised there twice before and nothing happened- probably proves that it works the increased vigilance and activity prevents those creating the threat moving to the next level

 

[Damocles]

The JTAC definition of Critical is "An attack is expected imminently", as agreed with ACPO for use by the civil police and national agencies

This. Anyone suggesting differently is talking out of their arse.

Well seems as so people want yo start this argument.

1. Critical is also used for an ongoing attack.

2. If you actually read JTAC guidelines it's entirely a judgement call based on a bunch of different criteria and not indicative of specific intelligence

3. It was raised in 2005 and 2006 based on the inability to rule out lone wolf's.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I think that mood was the same across the country, certainly was subdued here in South Wales,

Think across the UK there has been a CBA mood - everything you are doing or think of just pales into insignificance. I can't even be arsed hating the rags and wanting them to lose the EL final at the moment. That is no longer important in the world. Not when some **** blows 8 year old kids up.

 

[BigJoe#1]

Just in case there's any doubt about what was reported. Note the quote from May.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-400234...social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

The UK terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of "critical", meaning further attacks may be imminent, Theresa May has said.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Forget the fcking semantics. Let's just say the situation is extremely worrying. Too many would be security experts.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Just in case there's any doubt about what was reported. Note the quote from May.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-400234...social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

The UK terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of "critical", meaning further attacks may be imminent, Theresa May has said.

Yep, MAY be imminent. It's not based on actual intelligence, it says the reason why in the next paragraph... because they haven't been able to confirm if he was a lone wolf. I get that we're scared, we're panicky, but the raising of the terror threat level is not as ominous as it sounds. We'd rather it wasn't at critical though, absolutely - goes without saying.