'What the plotters reckoned without is the extremely vigilant and public spirited nature of the people of this small Gloucestershire village' On #BBCBreakfast former National Security Adviser Lord Peter Ricketts praised people living near RAF Fairford for alerting police to a 'large group of hooded and masked men', as... five men are questioned on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, and on suspicion of preparing a terrorist actshow more

Strange that a place hosting B-1s still gets saved by someone spotting vans on a country lane.

Perhaps the American bombers should go home, or elsewhere. American troops on UK soil makes us a target, let them push their aggressive agenda elsewhere.

How come the slashing of an empty dingy got more main stream propaganda from you and your globalist narrative competitors!?!

muslim migrants don't become suspicious if they are bussed to everywhere on mass like Andy Burnham wants. You either have society and community and a distrust of strangers or you have migration. Distrust saves lives.

Banging on about our great security services whilst simultaneously making their lives exponentially more difficult by shipping in undocumented men from countries and cultures that despise us. Ridiculous.

@FennellJW Where was all the regular security? Why did it take a local resident to spot them ? Surely the whole perimeter is covered by cctv ? Surely it’s not like the other airbase where they got in and damaged an RAF plane ?

The 5 guys were stealing red diesel from farms, this is ALL hype.

Where exactly was the emergency cobra meeting in Manchester?

I wouldn’t be shooting coverage of RAF Fairfords base at this time, a little stupid as it shows where the key assets are located! That was a clear choice!

Why didn’t rickets mention their not caught the witness clearly stated many men in hoods scarpered in various directions.

hahah most of UK saying this is a #FalseFlag to distract from Burnhams particpation in Israeli GENOCIDE

Hahahahaha you cunts are so full of shit.

Some old person coming back from a night out foils a potential disaster,,,

Why No COBRA meeting? Labour are dangerous😬

can we not do what media always does and assist terrorists by showing terrorists what they want to see real time?

NO WHAT IS CLEAR IS THESE FOOKERS ROAM FREE AND BY CHANCE THIS WAS STOPPED

Have they been bailed yet 🤔

Lib Dem MP. There will be lots of handwringing

Trump seems to think he was tracking them…

Since the IRA Bombings of the 1970s, a large proportion of the British Public are very aware of reporting suspicious Parcels, Luggage, Cars, Persons etc

I think the farmers was mi5

Yet drones still appear to be able to fly over the site??

fixed your headline! 'What the plotters reckoned without is the absolute shear luck as the security forces haven't got a bloody clue what's going on'

This is B.S. Iran has the know how to build a nuclear bomb and ballistic missiles but sends out 5 men who look like they’ve been pulled from the market stalls to drive 3 vans to the wholesalers 🤦‍♂️. This is a rouse to stop any demonstrates going to RAF base.

And MI5 on their tail the whole time.

Do you want to say that UK security forces are incompetent to protect their military assets? Trump gave you a bonus lie that they were under surveillance for some time - as if they were :-)

The public are ALWAYS vigilant. But when we speak of what we see and hear, we are far right according to you. Stop calling decent British people far right. Start calling out who IS a danger to GB. Enough of your twisted words now. We are clearly right to be terrified

Surely Sally Nugent should be reporting on Kevin's ultra marathons?

Terrorists are not the vigalantees in Dover they only just want boarders closed to invaders. These bombers at the RAF base are real terrorists who blow us up! Why is the @UKLabour @10DowningStreet not doing their job and protecting us against real terrorists running free in UK!

Plane spotters & others in the area reported the base being on the highest alert stage (Delta) several hours earlier, so at least one agency had prior knowledge something was happening.

Perhaps that age old British tradition of noticing a group of men acting suspiciously, looking out of place and up to no good is not racism after all?

The Reform BBC.