Old Bailey Terrorist Trial

All on your doorstep who knows?

This sort of event is now so commonplace in UK life that the media can hardly be bothered to report it. They don't even pretend to be shocked by it anymore.

Parliament seems more vexed over Mr Donald Trump than the everyday violent threat to our people and democratic way of life.

I know, incredible.

Terrorist plot foiled = small item on page 11 of a newspaper
Terrorist plot succeeded = 11 full pages of coverage

Yet the margins between the two are probably wafer thin.

Medical student FFS.

Reconnoitered the police station and TA barracks -- ie looked out of window on bus ride home.

People have such short memories and attention spans and assume that if there haven't ben any major terrorist attacks that the threat doesn't exist. Several punters on this very forum are guilty of that.

The security services working their arses off to try to prevent things and nobody giving them any credit.

Sometimes, unfortunately, it seems as if they need someone to slip through the net and actually commit something horrific to rouse people from their complacency.... then they complain that the security services aren't doing their jobs properly.

There were 11 failed terrorist attempts last year that went unreported.
Cameron told us that but lots on here ridiculed his statement.
That's 2 came to court so far.

11 in how many years?

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There were 11 failed terrorist attempts last year that went unreported

Sorry, speed reading....are you making it up though?

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There were 11 failed terrorist attempts last year that went unreported.
Cameron told us that but lots on here ridiculed his statement.

Was he making it up?