Dancing Queen wrote: 27 May 2017, 12:16
Any reason given or do they think the nine people they have in custody warrant it ( yes I am being sarcastic

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I believe, because unlike Jeremy Corbyn and UKIP, I think these things are too important to make political capital from, that the threat level was raised because, as the definition says, a further attack was thought to be imminent. I also believe that was the fear because it was thought the Manchester bomber was a mule, not the bombmaker, and that the bombmaker was still at large with maybe another bomb and another brainwashed volunteer.
The reduction in threat level, made not by the government but by the Joint Intelligence Committee, defines the threat of an attack now as likely, rather than imminent. We don't know why but the security forces do. Maybe they now have evidence the bomber was the mastermind, or they have the mastermind in custody or know he's left the country.
Personally I'd rather put my safety in the hands of the security forces and the government, rather than the misinformed or uninformed cynics and conspiracy theorists attacking their efforts.
I presume others also saw the theory that this attack never happened? It was staged as a stunt by the Tories and the victims and witnesses were all actors?
The victims and their families and those charged with the awful responsibility of keeping us safe deserve more than cynicism and sniping.