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Emergency Alert System Used to Ban Barbecues
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17, August #BrokenSystem, #TrendShock

Emergency Alert System Used to Ban Barbecues

On August 14, millions of people across the country were frightened by an emergency alert. It turned out that the system had been used to warn people about a ban on lighting fires and having barbecues, prompting thousands of angry posts on social media.

Tens of millions of messages were sent through the emergency alert system to phones in England and Wales. This came after Prime Minister Andy Burnham chaired a COBRA meeting to discuss the problem of wildfires. The alert warned citizens about the dangers of lighting fires and told them not to have barbecues.

Firefighters are indeed tackling several dozen wildfires, but this is not a nationwide problem. And it certainly does not pose a deadly threat to millions of people.

''When the Severe Alert system was established in 2024 it was made clear that: “There will be a very high threshold for its use based on strict criteria centred on an immediate risk to life.” Tonight’s use at a national level clearly doesn’t hit that threshold and opens the door to future misuse of the system'', shadow Conservative minister Alex Burghart writes.

The Guardian writes that the piercing and highly alarming sound accompanying the message frightened many people. Some of those who received it even thought a war had begun. ''And then you check your phone, and it turns out the government is asking you not to have a barbecue.'', the newspaper quotes members of the public as saying.

The Cost of the Alarm

Some bloggers write that sending the alert cost taxpayers millions of pounds. Others point out that the warning was excessively loud and even reached people who had disabled such notifications. In some cases, raising the alarm over such an insignificant reason can create a genuine threat to life.

GB News quotes journalist Amy Felton: “All you’ve done sending that alert out is put loads of lives at risk on the M61 making everyone panic thinking the world’s about to end. Outrageous.”

''I feel deeply sorry for every woman in an abusive relationship who had managed to hide a phone, only for it to be exposed because this government decided to send out an emergency alert with an extremely loud to remind people it’s hot outside so they shouldn’t start a fire. Those women are almost certainly taking a beating right now, thanks to Andy Burnham and his (clown) world administration'– Skint Eastwood writes on his page.

Truly Important Problems

The online community also points out that the prime minister should not be sending emergency alerts, but should instead be addressing more pressing issues.

''Andy Burnham has chosen to ban BBQs - when we face a major national threat. He should be holding a COBRA meeting on 230 person migrant dinghies entering Britain - not telling us “we all have to do our share” in accommodating illegal migrants'', Together co-founder Alan D Miller writes.

Bloggers also write that most people in the country will now disable emergency alerts altogether, and call the prime minister a jester or a clown.

As The Telegraph columnist Isabel Oakeshott sums it up, ''Burnham had one chance to show it was serious – and overreached''.

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A Somali-Born Driver Struck Five Pedestrians in London
Spectre of Churchill
08, July #MigrantCrisis, #BrokenSystem

A Somali-Born Driver Struck Five Pedestrians in London

The incident took place on Ealing Broadway, where a car mounted the pavement and struck five pedestrians before the driver fled the scene. He was later arrested by police. Social media users have focused on the authorities’ response, arguing that they portrayed the incident involving a Muslim driver as nothing more than a routine road traffic collision. The driver has been identified as 34-year-old Timir Ahmed Mohamed. Born in Somalia, he now holds British citizenship. Following his arrest, investigators stated that they were treating the incident as a road traffic incident rather than an act of terrorism.
#MigrantCrisis, #BrokenSystem
Hundreds of Thousands of Girls Were Victims of Grooming Gangs
Spectre of Churchill
01, July #MigrantCrisis, #BrokenSystem

Hundreds of Thousands of Girls Were Victims of Grooming Gangs

At least 250,000 cases of abuse involving girls across 149 areas of the UK are alleged to have taken place, according to the findings of an independent inquiry published in June in a report entitled Rape Gang Inquiry. The report’s conclusions, together with the response of the mainstream media, have generated widespread discussion on social media.
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