ha ha ha
i just saw an animation - it looks like the idiot did not know about the barricade ha ha
how far away is where he came from is this
News reports seem to be saying he is from Birmingham, so about 120-130 miles give or take.
They put up a lot more security barriers since the attack last year. By the looks of it that prevented this situation being an awful lot worse.
I was in Westminster today - it is the city I used to work in, the city I love and a place that has my heart. A strange feeling to see it so heavily cordoned off this morning, crowds of people waiting on the streets. By the time I went home this afternoon the tube station had been reopened, most streets un-cordoned (save the obvious crime scene where they are still working) and everything back to normal.
As always, so very proud of our police. It is so clear on the videos how professional they are - you can see the ARVs arrive, and they are straight out and surrounding the vehicle. They run towards the situations so many run away from, to protect others, and, somewhat ironically, in the city where the decisions are made to cut police funding, or to cap their pay increase so that it is lower than the rate of inflation.
Fortunately this incident could have been a hell of a lot worse. But they weren't to know that. Last year they saw one of their colleagues stabbed and killed in a similar attack at Westminster, another paralysed in the same attack, another only just returning to work and another stabbed by terrorists a couple of months later. And they put themselves on the frontline each day, often unarmed (though in London seeing armed officers is not uncommon at all). Inspirations.