Theresa May to declare State of Emergency

[darmstadt]

You don't need policemen to go around measuring the length of people's beards and telling them they need to wear a star on their arm.

Actually they should be stopping all men with beards, in particular the young ones, give them a clip around the ear, tell them to go home and shave it off and put some bloody socks on

[TheFaQQer]

Well according to YOU it would have been a high enough priority to alert your local Bobby to it had he been passing.

Make your mind up.

If there were officers walking round the streets who saw something suspicious to their trained eye, then maybe they could have done something about it in advance.

[original PM]

If 1996 doesn't count as living memory (or even 1987), when were you born?

The IRA do not count as middle class suburbanites....

or were you referring to something else?

[shaunbhoy]

If there were officers walking round the streets rummaging through everyone's dustbins, then maybe they could have done something about it in advance.

ftfy

Think you may find that scavenging exceeds their remit.

[TheFaQQer]

The IRA do not count as middle class suburbanites....

or were you referring to something else?

I'm sure if you look through living memory you'll learn something and see

[shaunbhoy]

The IRA do not count as middle class suburbanites....

or were you referring to something else?

I think he was referring to Michael Ryan and Thomas Hamilton, a couple of fruitloops that went berserk with machine guns in Hungerford and Dunblane.

Hardly comparable to Jihadis in truth, but it seems like he is trying to make some sort of equivalence.

[TheFaQQer]

I think he was referring to Michael Ryan and Thomas Hamilton, a couple of fruitloops that went berserk with machine guns in Hungerford and Dunblane.

Hardly comparable to Jihadis in truth, but it seems like he is trying to make some sort of equivalence.

Give that boy a gold star for modern history (even though there was no machine gun used at Dunblane) And then take it away for reading something that was never written

The original statement was "no terror attacks have been performed by middle class white people in the UK in living memory?". My point was merely that terror attacks have been performed by middle class white people in the UK in living memory. I made no statement or comment on whether there was any equivalence, merely that there have been terror attacks performed by white middle class people in the UK.

[original PM]

Give that boy a gold star for modern history (even though there was no machine gun used at Dunblane) And then take it away for reading something that was never written

The original statement was "no terror attacks have been performed by middle class white people in the UK in living memory?". My point was merely that terror attacks have been performed by middle class white people in the UK in living memory. I made no statement or comment on whether there was any equivalence, merely that there have been terror attacks performed by white middle class people in the UK.

And which major group claimed responsibility and cheered about these two incidents?

Answer none - they were not part of a larger terrorist organisation committed to affecting our way of life for political gain.

So yes comparing Apples and well anything else but apples.

[TheFaQQer]

And which major group claimed responsibility and cheered about these two incidents?

Answer none - they were not part of a larger terrorist organisation committed to affecting our way of life for political gain.

So yes comparing Apples and well anything else but apples.

You didn't say anything about a major group, or anyone cheering. Or a larger group. Or any commitment to any gain. Your statement was merely that "no terror attacks have been performed by middle class white people in the UK in living memory?" which I have shown to be false

Comparing your original statement to your new extended one would indeed compare one thing to something completely different.

[original PM]

You didn't say anything about a major group, or anyone cheering. Or a larger group. Or any commitment to any gain. Your statement was merely that "no terror attacks have been performed by middle class white people in the UK in living memory?" which I have shown to be false

Good point.

In my head a terror attack is an attack on our way of life as part of a larger political organisation who are committed to disrupting our way of life.

Your argument almost means that anytime anyone has a fight on the street and pulls a knife they can be seen as a terrorist.

Which may be correct but in my head it is not because there is no further political agenda.