OT: Guaranteeing Public safety - who do you think your kidding?
Quote:
“Can you guarantee the public their safety?” he probed.
Amber confidently insisted: “Of course I can guarantee the public their safety.
“We have been ready for a long time for the sort of incidents we have been seeing.
See eg https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv...ng-Britain-ITV
So how come these incidents happen? How come nobody gets hurt? How come people can wandering around with nerve agent or polonium are apprehended before doing any damage?
These nonsensical "reassuring" statements are spewed out everytime some major incidence occurs, "public safety was never threatened" when some massive explosion occurs or a nuclear power station goes wrong.
Things go wrong, nasty people are around, nature has brutal forces. At least Canute had the wisdom to show he was in fact powerless over many things.