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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on July 20, 2009, 11:02:00 AM

Title: Excellent news
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2009, 11:02:00 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8158937.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8158937.stm)

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The UK terror threat level has been lowered from "severe" to "substantial", the Home Office has said.

The level was raised in 2007, meaning a terrorist attack was "highly likely". The downgrading means there is a "strong possibility" of an attack.

Can anyone make any sense of this at all?

Title: Re: Excellent news
Post by: Snoopy on July 20, 2009, 11:19:15 AM

It means that someone will set off a bomb soon

Title: Re: Excellent news
Post by: Nick on July 20, 2009, 11:20:48 AM

But not quite as soon as they thought until today?  whacky115

Like on Wednesday, instead of Tuesday, like. So that's all right then.

Title: Re: Excellent news
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on July 20, 2009, 11:30:14 AM

Nope.  No sense whatsoever. noooo:


I think that they just want us all to feel safe and secure.....Oh and to forget about the expenses claims, the Charlie Whelan/Damien McBride debacle, the war in Afghanistan, the You Tube broadcast, retrospective car tax, the Nigerian oil adventure, secret donations to the Labour Party........

Title: Re: Excellent news
Post by: Snoopy on July 20, 2009, 11:46:42 AM

And the fact that cussing: VAT will go back up to 17.5% in October