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Yet another attack on Paris and this time 127 dead. What an awful thing to have happened and it does make me wonder just how safe the UK is and how long before we see something like that here. Are our security forces genuinely better than the French and able to stop this sort of thing from happening here? Or does our island status make us a lesser target due to the additional hassle of getting here and not being part of the Schengen Agreement? And where next if the reason it was Paris was the ease of getting themselves and their weapons in?

Poor, poor, Paris and it's people :(
 
Yeah its horrible, i just missed it by 12 hours or so as well...

Remember that warning isis sent to europe about sending in an army disguised as refugees....
 
We're due to hold our final conference there 3 weeks on Monday and whether or not we'll get people to attend now is debatable. Having said that Paris is probably one of the safest places to be in the world now with all the extra security it will have after this.

There were Syrian refugees staying at the hotel we were in when I was in Budapest and they were just ordinary families with their kids. In fact the only way I realised they were refugees was when one of the kids left the door to their room open and I could see that they had several families packed in to one room. Plus there was the fact that they never appeared to go out and do anything. The kids were usually sat in the corridor with their ipads and phones all plugged in to wall sockets just like every other average teenager in the world.

So do we stem the flow of refugees in the hope of preventing further massacres and thereby condemning families like the ones I witnessed in Budapest to living in a war zone or do we carry on as we are and tighten our security to try and combat this. This would probably mean regular car searches, ID to be shown at bus and train stations etc which would be a massive encroachment on the liberty we currently enjoy and effectively turn us into a police state
 

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