please empty your brain below
Yes.
That would be pure bliss.
Unless some teenagers who would otherwise be occupied decide to break into your home and you can't call 999...
Anyway, do the police come out to household burglaries? They don't round where I live, they just grive you a crime number over the phone and tell you to give it to your insurers.
And wot, no riots?
"Influx of British nationals not normally resident in the UK"
Defined in the full document as "British nationals not normally resident in the UK, returning to UK within a 4 – 6 week period following conventional war, widespread civil unrest or sustained terrorism campaign against British and other Western nationals."
- what plans are in place if a large number of expats suddenly had to come to London? For instance, if recent events in Gibraltar were to turn nasty.
The colouring is a function of likelihood as well as the potential consequences. National electricity failure is in the highest category, 5, for its potential consequences. The reason it is only orange is because it is seen as low to medium risk (because although localised problems can and do occur, the grid itself is pretty robust and with lots of redundancy built in.)
No doubt meteor strike would also be a "5", but it would score very low on the likelihood axis.
Read this on the LRB website recently from a book on the environment by Brian Stone:
"In all, the EU estimated that more than 70,000 citizens of 12 countries died from heat-induced illnesses over a four-month period in the summer of 2003. This number represents more fatalities than have resulted from any EU or American conflict since World War Two or any natural disaster (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes and floods) to have ever struck a developed nation. It dwarfs the 1800 deaths attributed to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and effectively renders trivial the 900 lives lost during the highly publicised Sars epidemic that struck in the same year as the heatwave … Americans would need to experience more than 20 terrorist attacks equivalent in destruction to 9/11 before such a death toll would be approached. Yet the global response to this climate event, an event that reveals more about the profoundly changing environment in which we now live than any other yet endured, has largely been one of indifference."
I think you have a broken link from the "London Recovery Protocol". Yes... I am so sad... I was interested in looking at it! It comes up with "403 - Access denied" on the London.gov site.
Perhaps they changed the page after you posted the link... or perhaps they aren't as resilient as they'd have you believe!
All the best
Nick
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