Always a possibility but given the MO is very similar to Nice and Berlin you tend to suspect ISIS-inspired religious terrorism.
It was always likely to happen in London again, it has before and it will in the future. There is just no way to fully guard against it. It is the price of freedom and as horrific as it is we shouldn’t change a thing. Fuck 'em.
Glad to hear that both houses will sit again, as normal, tomorrow.
My wife was in the neighbourhood of this today, and got caught in a lock-down. She said the atmosphere was one of weird calm, and everyone just determined to keep busy.
Let’s hear it for Tobias Ellwood. Presumably as an MP one of the targets of the attacker, he gave mouth to mouth resuscitation and CPR to one of the injured on the scene.
Is that confirmed anywhere, or just speculation? I haven’t seen anything that confirms the identity or motives of the attacker, but I could have missed it.
c’mon, it was sarcasm
you’ve missed "as usual "
Glad to see so few use the term ‘terrorism’ - this wasn’t that, this was a dickhead in a hire car with a kitchen knife who wasn’t very happy in his life.
Channel 4 News* identified the attacker on their 7pm show tonight, and actually had to walk it back during the broadcast due to the fact that the guy they fingered is actually in prison at the moment. Oooops.
Let’s stop the hijack of ad blockers from this post on, please.
That explains why the news wasn’t on the +1 channel then. I missed it at 7 and tried to watch the time shifted version and it was just a slide saying they couldn’t show C4+1 at the moment.
May annoyed me with her speech. She said Westminster was home to the oldest parliament in the world. There’s a few icelandic and manx people who might have a different opinion on that.
Then she talked about not letting this change our way of life and we should carry on as normal and not run away scared. Easy for her to say after she was whisked away from the danger zone within seconds. Hundreds of her colleagues were held in lockdown for hours.
This is Horrible and my heart goes out to the people of London. 
UPDATE- There have been some arrests this morning.
Shame on you. That is very harsh, Considering all the very sensible things she said in that speech you feel it is necessary to headline with an arguable technical nitpick.
As for carrying on as normal, politicians are, and always have been, targets for terrorism what with terrorism being a political act itself. The UK is no stranger to this.
Thatcher herself had one of her closest political friends killed by Irish terrorists in 1979 and again in 1984 when she was directly targeted. Irish republican terrorism was an ever present and only really faded since the Good Friday Agreement. Jo Cox MP was murdered last year by a right-wing nut job and Teresa May, whatever you may think of her politics does not strike me as a someone happy to hide in the shadows while others take a bullet.
No-one gives a shit.
To expand a little on why it annoyed me. The world is going to be behind London on this no matter what she said. There was no need for incorrect emotional hyperbole. To me she was heading into ‘bowling green massacre’ territory. And there was simply no need for that. It’s just reinforcing the concept that politicians can’t open their mouths without lying.
I voted remain and I’m fairly liberal, but I’ve been a reluctant fan of May so far and I expected better of her.
At least I criticized what she said rather than what trousers she was wearing!
Fine, the oldest independent parliament in the world, all right? After all, Iceland was ruled by Norway and Denmark for several centuries, and Man was never truly independent. Happy?
Besides, if the Brits are anything like the Americans, May wasn’t the one who made the decision to flee the scene, nor did she have any choice in the matter.
I think clearly we disagree on this. I thought her speech was clear, short and pretty stoic. She’s not given to flights of emotional rhetoric and I don’t think she was here either.