Shots Fired

[Jackdaw33]

...outside parliament. Place reportedly in lockdown. No further details yet.

[-Talbot-]

Why type it out and then apologise?

Odd.

[Peter Pedant]

// Every thread is like Groundhog day when a post is made by the culprit.//

a bit like the good old days of debates on Brexit
every day a 'new; one- and you could c/p the first hundred posts

[Togo]

Nice succinct post Khandro.

[anotheoldgit]

Togo
/// So glad I went for a walk this afternoon. I missed the ruination of a valid thread by the usual culprit. It is obvious that it is not worth engaging with the poster in question. Every thread is like Groundhog day when a post is made by the culprit. ///

Exactly why I chose to no longer debate with him, perhaps others should consider doing the same.

[Jackdaw33]

You don't debate with the 'usual suspect', you merely attend lectures aimed at telling those who disagree with him how wrong they are.

[andy-hughes]

Go jackdaw!!!!

[Khandro]

The Beeb keeps pushing the 'British born convert' label, which I think is a bit disingenuous; his birth name was Ajao and from this photo;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/24/london-attack-eight-suspected-associates-westminster-terrorist/
he doesn't look like typical Englishman to me.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // he doesn't look like typical Englishman to me. //

Is that because he's not wearing a bowler hat and a pin-stripe suit?

What does a 'typical Englishman look like?

[naomi24]

Khandro, //The Beeb keeps pushing the 'British born convert' label, which I think is a bit disingenuous//

It is - and not only for the reason you give. The fact is, convert or not, he was an Islamist and therefore his place of birth is irrelevant.

[anotheoldgit]

Khandro

Be very careful Khandro, you are in danger of being accused of racial stereotyping.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - If Khandro issues a statement that involves racial stereotyping, I am sure he will be challenged on it.

Although from experience, he seems rather more educated and erudite than someone who would wish to lump people together based on the fact that they may dress a certain way - that would be far more crass and ignorant that the type of post he usually delivers.

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

Yes and it also gives the British a bad name.

But then that is nothing new, we are given a bad name for bringing civilisation to a large section of the World.

[mikey4444]

There is a lot of tosh being posted on here. This chap may not have been Anglo-Saxon and white, but he was British, whether everybody likes it or not.

The fact that he may have been radicalised while here in Britain is highly significant, and it shows that he wasn't from this recent "horde" of immigration that everybody says was Tony Blair's fault.

It shows that we have a problem here in Britain, with people converting to Islam and then a few of them becoming terrorists as a result.

[emmie]

mikey, if it were only a few perhaps they could be managed. However i firmly believe now that Islam is a threat that won't go away, that more radicalisation will occur, that more atrocities will happen and that more people will be divided.

[naomi24]

Mikey, like the BBC, appears to be delighted that he’s British, conveniently forgetting, of course, that Islam is a culture that is imported. Still, we’ll ignore that and hope the fact that this man was British will stop people moaning about immigration!!

[anotheoldgit]

Did I notice someone mention the wearing a bowler hat and a pin-stripe suit?

[mikey4444]

Emmie....put the recent events up in Town into its proper context. The day after the outrage, Londoners went about their normal business, and the same happened all over Britain.

It was a very serious event but it was an uncommon occurrence.

We need to have a sense or perspective here.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //Did I notice someone mention the wearing a bowler hat and a pin-stripe suit? //

You really are a piece of work.

You are too stubborn and immature to debate with me like a grown up, and you try and encourage others in your nonsense, but on the other hand you can't stop yourself sniping from the side-lnes in thread-derailing snipes and digs.

I suggest you either ignore me, as you claim, or debate with me, which is sensible - this playground ragging is getting seriously tedious, so why not give it a rest.

[Jackdaw33]

So the slaughter of innocents is an uncommon occurrence. That's all right then.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// There is a lot of tosh being posted on here. This chap may not have been Anglo-Saxon and white, but he was British, whether everybody likes it or not. ///

This 'CHAP' that is rather a mild way of describing this murderous knife wielding savage.

Pity you didn't choose to dip in your box of expletives and insults that you set aside for such chaps as President Trump, Nigel Farage and co. so as to better describe that late piece of garbage.

He was also a known criminal who had a number of convictions, including the possession of a knife, pity he wasn't banged up in jail, then this poor victims would still be alive.