London Blasts – Off Topic Posts/Discussion
Discussion
All of you will by now have heard the news about what has happened / is going on in London.
As said can we please keep the main thread started by dazren just for updates on the news, for messages to PHer’s we know personally, short messages of support, and the such like.
If anyone wants to relate experiences they had of previous emergencies, or loosely related posts please put them here, or anywhere else other than the main thread.
Thanks
John
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As said can we please keep the main thread started by dazren just for updates on the news, for messages to PHer’s we know personally, short messages of support, and the such like.
If anyone wants to relate experiences they had of previous emergencies, or loosely related posts please put them here, or anywhere else other than the main thread.
Thanks
John
[small] If a mod thinks that this topic is unnecessary please just delete it.
Good call Rude boy!
The news had me close to tears whilst watching some poor bloke on a stretcher getting his heart pumped by a paramedic.
Keep the side notes on this thread people.
As with all things like this there must be a clear passage of imformation for people who need to use it.
Sorry
The news had me close to tears whilst watching some poor bloke on a stretcher getting his heart pumped by a paramedic.
Keep the side notes on this thread people.
As with all things like this there must be a clear passage of imformation for people who need to use it.
Sorry
Well i have to say that for once i am glad that Blair is on the ball after his speach. Moreover i mean to say he did very well. Glad he is returning to london today as we need leadership in times like these. He has displayed that in spades on this instance imho.
All his speach was unscripted and to the point as well as full of emotion.
All his speach was unscripted and to the point as well as full of emotion.
I just hope the British public don't choose the path of retaliation, which will obviously become apparent from Bliar over the coming weeks.
Even his speech just now goes on about how we won't be defeated.
ID cards, an reinvigorated war on terror etc etc.
In his speech he said we shouldn't give up our freedoms and our ways of life because of terrorism, so why have ID cards to help prevent it?
Surely thats changing our way of life around their actions?
Interesting how stocks markets have fallen quite a bit across Europe, and G8 stands to impact the oil producing nations quite hard too!
So much more to it than Al Queda being angry extremists. More like there is a shed load of power and wealth behind them, driving their actions!
Dave
Even his speech just now goes on about how we won't be defeated.
ID cards, an reinvigorated war on terror etc etc.
In his speech he said we shouldn't give up our freedoms and our ways of life because of terrorism, so why have ID cards to help prevent it?
Surely thats changing our way of life around their actions?
Interesting how stocks markets have fallen quite a bit across Europe, and G8 stands to impact the oil producing nations quite hard too!
So much more to it than Al Queda being angry extremists. More like there is a shed load of power and wealth behind them, driving their actions!
Dave
). HR walking around doing a head count/name register. Yup, emergency powers to put army men everywhere and tanks at airports to scare us all even more!
All the stuff since Sept11th in the USA and all the extra precautions and camera's, and look how vulnerable we are still.
I can see people loosing even more freedom in the name of "war on terror" in the coming months because of this.
This is shocking, but what happens next I fear is what will really effect the people of the UK!
Dave
All the stuff since Sept11th in the USA and all the extra precautions and camera's, and look how vulnerable we are still.
I can see people loosing even more freedom in the name of "war on terror" in the coming months because of this.
This is shocking, but what happens next I fear is what will really effect the people of the UK!
Dave
I wonder who did it?
it wouldn't surprise me if it was anticapitalist anarchists - think about it: Police are all in Scotland, Londoners are out celebrating the Olympic bid, they attempt to knock out strategic centres of capitalism. Also, the likes of al-Qaeda and the IRA usually own up to a bombing after it goes off.
I seriously hope there isn't a huge death toll. When we had a big bomb go off in Manchester back in the '90s, miraculously no-one was killed, although many people were injured by glass and shrapnel.
I am seriously worried now. In Manchester earlier I saw 4 fire engines flooring it through the city with their sirens blaring. I hope it's an isolated incident.
it wouldn't surprise me if it was anticapitalist anarchists - think about it: Police are all in Scotland, Londoners are out celebrating the Olympic bid, they attempt to knock out strategic centres of capitalism. Also, the likes of al-Qaeda and the IRA usually own up to a bombing after it goes off.
I seriously hope there isn't a huge death toll. When we had a big bomb go off in Manchester back in the '90s, miraculously no-one was killed, although many people were injured by glass and shrapnel.
I am seriously worried now. In Manchester earlier I saw 4 fire engines flooring it through the city with their sirens blaring. I hope it's an isolated incident.
posted this on the other thread
"Just phoned my mate, who is a met special. He's OK, but too close for comfort thank you!
He phoned his work to tell them he's going in to help. Their reaction?...."we'd like a bit more notice than this".............TWATS !!!!
He told them, "fk you"!
Phil "
My blood is boiling here!!
"Just phoned my mate, who is a met special. He's OK, but too close for comfort thank you!
He phoned his work to tell them he's going in to help. Their reaction?...."we'd like a bit more notice than this".............TWATS !!!!
He told them, "fk you"!
Phil "
My blood is boiling here!!
I cant say i'm surprised this has happened. How long have bombs been going off and killing 10 - 20 people every few days in Iraq. It's not slowing down and our press were not giving it the attention they wanted. It was unlikely they'd give up, but more likely they'd change tactics. And to me it appears thats what they have done. If we truely are in a "War on terror" then we can expect terror to have a war on us as well.
Perfect timing isn't it.
As has been mentioned before, everyone out on the streets celebrating the olympics success, security probably not so tight as the G8 is going down in Scotland and thats where the resources will be.
Really hits you hard when its in your own back garden doesn't it.
I hope Blair isn't too over the top with things now.
I feel sorry for people in London, and really feel for the dead and injured in what has been a pointless attack.
Makes the blood boil a bit doesn't it!
As has been mentioned before, everyone out on the streets celebrating the olympics success, security probably not so tight as the G8 is going down in Scotland and thats where the resources will be.
Really hits you hard when its in your own back garden doesn't it.
I hope Blair isn't too over the top with things now.
I feel sorry for people in London, and really feel for the dead and injured in what has been a pointless attack.
Makes the blood boil a bit doesn't it!
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