The Difficult Conversation has to start.

Sonic67

Depends. You can go to Turkey for peanuts now. Tunisia and Egypt, probably the same. Holidays in places like that have dropped by a huge amount.

Last time I was in Egypt was a couple of years ago. A local Bedouin used to have about twenty camels for tourist rides. He was now down to two. Tourists and flights and stopped coming in. Not just from the UK but across Europe.

Individually blokes will carry on and know the chance of being caught in an attack is slim. From a family point of view, people will be careful about putting their kids in harm's way and try running stuff like that past your missus.
I always find that strange. Of course things will go on. People have jobs. People still have to get to work. It's not down to defiance. It's paying the bills.

Rasczak

I wouldn't change my plans. I am equally sure neither would my wife. And it didn't seem to deter however many thousands signed up for the charity concert that followed the Manchester bombing. Most aren't so easily cowered.

Sonic67

The Manchester Concert will have wall to wall security... Nothing to do with being cowered. It's probably the safest place in Manchester right now. Terrorists never seem to go after the exact same target either. Too predictable.

Cliff

I actually object to this message that gets repeated by our politicians. We carry on life anyway but are much more vigilante. We can't change our work place or where we live, so have no choice but to carry on. But some how saying this, is one in the eye for the terrorists is guff. They will continue whatever we do.

By the way, those that know me will also know that it is not something I personally fear. Work commitments and all that.

I noticed today, commentators on TV and radio are actually saying Islamic terrorism. It's as though this taboo has been lifted.

r1ecn

BBC news just now. A Muslim chap said he'd called the Anti Terrorist Hotline several times worried that one of the attackers was radicalised.

Can we expect the authorities to investigate and keep tabs on everyone reported?
Do they have enough resources?

No easy answers unfortunately.

Cliff

If it's a non essential trip maybe you should put the safety of your family first? If they were harmed your rhetoric would be in tatters!
As for the  concert, that is a show of defiance and carries a message. Two very different things.

tapzilla2k

I object to it, mostly as MP's are better protected than the rest of us when they are in the Palace of Westminster. Which some MP's will acknowledge.

I've always been vigilante, it stems from experiencing 3 or 4 IRA Bomb scares (at least two were legit) in the early 90's. That level of tension is not something I really want to experience again. All you can do is get on with life and be civil to one another.

I've got a pragmatic attitude to Terrorism. If I get caught up in something I have no idea how I'd react.

I took note of that.
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May avoiding the Question at the G7 in regards to her dropping the ball on terrorism or not -
Sky News on Twitter

Rasczak

I would hazard a guess that the chances are much higher of a fatal accident at home than being killed by a terrorist atrocity whilst out and about.

Edit: Yeap, seems I was right:
Scientists calculate odd ways to die
So if 9,300,000/1 is your 'risk cut-off', don't ever use a bed, hot tap or goto work again!

Greg Hook

That's the problem.

We simply don't have the resources to monitor all of these people. I'm not sure a lot of people realise just how many people it actually takes working full time to monitor just one person.

With a country that can't afford a lot of things, if we want to get serious about this, then do we need to be thinking about a one off tax to fund many thousands more security personnel to track and monitor these people?

Difficult times.

apolloa

Yes their is:

What is Sharia law, how is the Islamic legal system applied in the UK?

The UK's Sharia 'courts'

Sharia Law In UK — Current Status of Islam's Sharia Law In The United Kingdom

And I was accusing ALL politicians,  it just May. And I do NOT purely blame foreign policy for these few Muslim groups and parents in the UK and abroad allowing radicalisation to happen right under their noses!