Man suspected of terrorism attack on UK parliament after driving into pedestrians

Both the Metropolitan Police & London Ambulance Service have issued statements that they believe that nobody has suffered serious injuries. Thank god!

And can I also just praise the Police on their quick reaction to this incident. Without any information on possible dangers the officers were surrounding the suspect without any concern for their own lives. These are the people who we should be respecting!

Good on the police

Police now saying it WAS a terror attack.

Open borders globalism strikes again.

I hope the victims recover from this horrible and traumatic attack.

Prime Minister May had to be rushed out of parliament after a policeman was murdered in the last terror attack.

Now its the same thing again,right?

Prime Minister May had to be rushed out of parliament after a policeman was murdered in the last terror attack.

Now its the same thing again,right?

Not exactly - Parliament aren't sitting.

The UK's annual counter-terrorism budget for 2018/2019 is £757,000,000 ($968,000,000). The Home Office is thought to be monitoring 3,500 potential terrorists around the clock. A further 20,000 are considered 'person's of interest'. The EU terrorism coordinator estimate that up to 25,000 in the UK could pose a terror threat (the highest number in Europe).

The EU terrorism coordinator estimate that up to 25,000 in the UK could pose a terror threat (the highest number in Europe).

Do those numbers include other domestic terrorists - far right or dissident Irish Republicans?

Whoever is behind it, the response from plod was pretty darn efficient.

Do those numbers include other domestic terrorists - far right or dissident Irish Republicans?

No, it only includes Islamist extremists. I left that part out to avoid being too controversial.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/islamist-extremists-uk-highest-number-europe-25000-terror-threat-eu-official-isis-islam-britain-a7923966.html

Part and parcel of living in a big city

And he's right, of course. Has been that way for centuries. London has always been a target for violence, dissenters, and assasinations.

David Copeland and the IRA spring to mind. It's scary stuff at first but Londoners get used to it. The majority of us rub along very well together.

“Do those numbers include other domestic terrorists - far right or dissident Irish Republicans”

There hasn’t been a ‘’dissident Irish Rupublican” attack since 2001!

Look up where the attacks on Wikipedia-I don’t want to post anything that could lead my comment to be deleted......

Thank goodness nobody died and it's not as bad as it could have been.

Keep strong London, all the love from aboard.

There hasn’t been a ‘’dissident Irish Rupublican” attack since 2001!

They haven't gone away, you know.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44082633

Armed resistance now comes from the main dissident group referred to by the police and MI5 as the New IRA.

Of course, they keep operations low key and have not carried out atrocities in London but it could still happen.

I guess the people in the 6 counties are of marginally less importance than our friends in London. Sure, look at Omagh. 29 people murdered and the 20th anniversary was marked elsewhere but not a mention here.

Meanwhile, the far right are still a threat. All potential terrorists should be taken notice of.

But not all the folk some like to blow the dog whistle at - are potential terrorists.

See the difference?

Not until very recently by Muslims, thou'.

Terrorists are terrorists. The effects of being blown to pieces by a bomb from the 'RA or a bomb from a white supremacist are pretty much as devestating as from an ISIS terrorist.

Interesting stats on the use of police firearms

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-england-and-wales-april-2016-to-march-2017/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-england-and-wales-april-2016-to-march-2017#incidents-in-which-police-firearms-were-discharged

It's reassuring to know that people in the UK don't live in fear of terrorists or guns, despite what some would wish the situation to be.

Londoners tend to come together at times like these, even though the far right tries to capitalise on such horrors.

Describing the effects of terrorism is a complete non-sequitur.

I'd have to disagree. The effects are being played out right now online and in London. There's the physical effects, there's the trauma and there's the chitter chatter of who's responsible etc.

What we should be discussing is the risk of terrorism (probability x impact), and what can be done to minimize said terrorism.

Educate people, that's a start. Be more vigilant when it comes to hate preachers - be they "religious" or otherwise. Prison is a good place to start. Many poorly educated people become radicalised in prisons. Or be even more pro-active and close down faith schools (of all faiths) and integrate the different peoples.

Bit of a pound shop terrorist. Attacks well before the rush hour and when Parliament is in recess. Good job he's so pathetic, lock him up and throw away the key.

Is this just a coincidence and nothing to do with the latest outrage of the Saudi coalition responsible for the barbaric attack on a marketplace that caused horrendous carnage destroying a bus full of school children who were buried yesterday? Revenge is a deep emotion shared by all humans and is a popular staple of Hollywood movies, but no culture in the world takes revenge more seriously than Arabs and adherents of the Holy Koran. Whatever the case, we will soon learn what lies behind this latest act of terror.

And yet, London life carries on regardless. People didn't stay in, the went out and got on with their lives. No stopping, no fear, no shut down, just the a sense of combined strength and resolve. The British people and in particular Londoners will never waiver. If one idiot thinks that by committing a cowardly act of terror against innocent people will somehow challenge this, then they are sorely mistaken!  Britain prevails!

Stupid man, if found guilty he will spend many years in prison, and for what?

Police now saying it WAS a terror attack.

I've only read so far that they are treating it as a terrorist attack. Not quite the same.

"Given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method and this being an iconic site, we are treating it as a terrorist incident." (Scotland Yard head of counter-terrorism)

I understand the UK has had more than it's fair share of extreme violence from religious groups other than Muslims, and that those groups do still exist.

But it's a bit disingenuous to try to shift the blame to groups like the IRA (or others, forgive me if I've oversimplified it) for these current attacks.

Right now, the group to be worried about is Muslim extremists. It's not racist, it just is.