Shots fired outside Houses of Parliament

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Farage chipping in now - from the Guardian Live feed -

Nigel Farage has appeared twice on US television already, today arguing that the London attacks prove Donald Trump is right on hardline immigration and anti-Muslim policy.

“It seems to me our political leaders really ought to start saying sorry,” the former Ukip leader told Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Thursday morning.

And Katie Hopkins (bless her) -

He wasn’t the only hardline conservative to appear in the US media. the Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins also turned up on Carlson’s Fox show, echoing Farage’s xenophobic rhetoric.

"We’re a country that spends so much time tiptoeing around the cultures that refuse to join us and not enough time defending the culture they’ve chosen to join, but because I say those things I am widely hated for those views. People are cowed, people are afraid and people are not united."

Farage is right, all people from Kent should be pushed in to the sea. Starting with Farage. In fact, you can end once he's been done.

 

[8den]

Fucking hell, she's gone full Jazzz.

 

[teqniq]

Nice response. State something. Get corrected. Insist you're right. Get proved you're wrong. Call the person a pedant.

I thought it was perfectly adequate. To the hitherto uneducated Joe public (me) who doesn't know a great deal about guns in general, they look like machine guns and indeed a variant of them actually is. I now know they actually are not for which I am grateful but I fail to see why you think an apology is required for what was in effect a genuine mistake.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Man held for 'driving at crowd' in Antwerp, Belgium - BBC News

 

[DaveCinzano]

they don't have a union

Ah, it's the Rt Hon Member for Surgical Accuracy

 

[Idris2002]

Fucking hell, she's gone full Jazzz.

Oi, you, I posted that first.

 

[likesfish]

the Police always seem to be packing much whizzier looking bang-bangs and robo-gear to wander around Heathrow with than squaddies get given to patrol the meanest bits of Iraq-Afghanistan...is it cos they've got a better union...

part of the reason why the police look like they have covered themselves in glue and rolled around in the latest gear
is deliberate so they look as intimidating as fuck and people dont even try to shoot it outwith them.
That or they are total gear whores who never have to walk more than a mile and have nobody in the chain of command who knows enough to call them on their idiocy

 

[not-bono-ever]

Man held for 'driving at crowd' in Antwerp, Belgium - BBC News

I have driven in Belgium many times, I know how frustrated he must have felt. I was close to going postal and driving furiously myself

 

[DotCommunist]

Police Federation - Home

not a union.

 

[existentialist]

I have just seen two carloads of armed OB pull a car over right outside my flat. Machine guns and all. Maybe something to do with this?

London attack: Police activity understood to be in Wales - BBC News

helicopter around too

There were some goings-on in Pembrokeshire, with police sealing off a road (and the Cleddau Bridge) in one direction. No idea what it was about, though...

ETA: and no mention whatsoever of it in the local traffic reports *watches out for black helicopters*

 

[brogdale]

senior ex copper. I think he tried to tell me there was none of the Craft in policing circles which I find highly unlikely

Reminds me of the bunfight that was the 'Ask a freemason' thread!

 

[Smokeandsteam]

BBC reporting that the police have named the assailant as Khalid Masood, a 52 year old man born in Kent, living in the West Midlands. Had previous convictions for criminal damage, possession of a knife. No previous terrorist convictions.

Big liberal sighs of relief all round.

 

[gosub]

Big liberal sighs of relief all round.

Born on Xmas day. Thats got to fuck you up a bit.

 

[brogdale]

Born on Xmas day. Thats got to fuck you up a bit.

Jesus

 

[gosub]

Jesus

I was thinking more the lack of presents. And same meal every birthday, and sharing a birthday with Noel Edmunds. But true, that bloke had a martyr complex

 

[brogdale]

R4 'PM' has, thus far, been an extended piece of arse-covering/justification from the deep state.

 

[Pickman's model]

R4 'PM' has, thus far, been an extended piece of arse-covering/justification from the deep state.

you listened so we didn't have to

 

[Pickman's model]

Jesus

jc only given his birthday centuries after his death

 

[bimble]

I was thinking more the lack of presents. And same meal every birthday, and sharing a birthday with Noel Edmunds. .

No wonder the man converted.

 

[brogdale]

you listened so we didn't have to

Have to admit I did bail/bale from yesterday's programme at the point where they asked Gove-the-Brave for his recollection of his part in taking out the terrist

 

[Pickman's model]

Have to admit I did bail/bale from yesterday's programme at the point where they asked Gove-the-Brave for his recollection of his part in taking out the terrist

no one would have wanted you to listen to that

 

[EastEnder]

I realise that in the grand scheme of things this is a bit of a petty niggle, but I do wish Sky News would drop the perpetual "Breaking News" banner... they've had it up continuously since yesterday, and I can't help but feel that rather defeats the purpose...

 

[planetgeli]

I have driven in Belgium many times, I know how frustrated he must have felt. I was close to going postal and driving furiously myself

And it was in Antwerp. He'd probably been on the ring road. Makes the M25 at peak period seem a haven of tranquility.

 

[hot air baboon]

not a union.

compared to what the army has it is !

 

[felixthecat]

I was thinking more the lack of presents. And same meal every birthday, and sharing a birthday with Noel Edmunds. But true, that bloke had a martyr complex

A slight derail maybe but Noel Edmonds wasn't born on Christmas Day. I know this useless fact from compiling a Christmas themed quiz for work

 

[Pickman's model]

A slight derail maybe but Noel Edmonds wasn't born on Christmas Day. I know this useless fact from compiling a Christmas themed quiz for work

22/12/1948

 

[J Ed]

Fucking hell, she's gone full Jazzz.

She is now a respected analyst amongst US liberals, the Clinton campaign held her in V high regard.

 

[steveo87]

Fucking hell, she's gone full Jazzz.

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

 

[brogdale]

Bit like SSGB in reverse...

 

[bimble]