All Phones to Blast Out ‘Emergency Alarm’ in System Test as Government Warns UK to Prepare for War
Every phone in the UK will blast out an ’emergency alarm’ on the orders of the Government as the system is tested for the second time in two years and the Government warns Britain to prepare for war. The Mail has the story.
All UK devices will blast out an alarm tone later this year in a new test of the ‘Emergency Alert System’.
First launched in 2023, this system is designed to warn the public if there is a danger to life nearby.
This latest test comes as the Government’s security strategy warns that the UK homeland could come under “direct threat” in a “wartime scenario”.
The renewed testing of the emergency system also comes at a time when escalating conflict in the Middle East has sparked concerns of a wider war between nuclear powers.
When it was first tested, the emergency system sent a message to phones which read: “Severe Alert. This is a test of Emergency Alerts, a new UK government service that will warn you if there’s a life-threatening emergency nearby.
“In a real emergency, follow the instructions in the alert to keep yourself and others safe.
“Visit gov.uk/alerts for more information. This is a test. You do not need to take any action.”
The Emergency Alert System was designed to quickly inform the public of an impending threat.
According to the Government, this could include severe flooding, wildfires, or extreme weather events.
Once the alert is sent, all phones in the affected area will make a loud siren-like sound, vibrate, and read out the warning.
The sound and vibration will trigger even if your phone is set to silent.
The Government does not need to know your phone number in order to send the message, and all phones will automatically trigger the alert.
The next nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System will occur at some point in the coming year.
However, the exact date is yet to be announced.
After this year’s test, the Emergency Alert System will continue to be tested once every two years.
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Don’t forget it is relatively straight-forward on both Android & Apple to turn these off completely!
or leave it at home !
Or not have one!
My working assumption is that large numbers of components inthe phones and in the system pushing out these ridiculous alarms are made in China.
What could possibly go wrong?
I just find this whole thing unbelievably cretinous even for this lot.
I can tell you now, you are living in a police state. The UK is aping China more and more each day.
Which for vulnerable people, eg women with violent/domineering partners, who may keep a secret phone, is vital for their safety.
In Settings, I assume. But where, exactly, please?
In iPhone go to settings/Notifications and scroll down to the bottom. Toggle off Emergency Alerts and Extreme Alerts
Goggle it.
Still off from the last panic alert!
Likewise, but best to always check it after an iOS upgrade, don’t trust the sneaky B&stards not to turn them back on again.
I CGAF. I’m not playing.
Easily disabled on your mobile. Just go to Settings ….
On iOS go to Settings then Notifications and scroll right down to the bottom and turn off both Extreme and Severe alerts
I’d already done this at some point in time, but good to know.
Be aware that Android (can’t speak for Apple) is in the habit of secretly switching them all back on again, when you’re not looking or are forced to accept some crappy system updates.
Thanks
Do you know how to switch them off for Android? Asking for a friend
Settigs, Notifications, turn off Allow Alerts and anything else you see that you don’t fancy in the same location.
Thanks
Look on YT for ways to make your phone as “dumb” as possible and disable all the default-on info collection nonsense.
Mine did bugger all (switched off as soon as the system became live) – Android user.
Thanks. Just checked and found that mine had been re-enabled.
Pretty much the same for Android.
Mine’s disabled although a notification to advise of the demise of this dire government would be welcomed.
Wit til Miliband gets his hands on the controls. We will get weather alerst daily.
weAtHEr iSNt ThE sAme ThING aS CLIMatE
😉
It is okay. You can still say things on social media without threat of imprisonment.
Of course. This is a free country with freedom of speech!!
The Prime Minister says so, but lies as soon as his lips move.
My first thought exactly! No doubt “climate emergency” notifications (aka summer weather) would feature prominently, as will notifications of rainfall, wind, snow … and also lack of rain, wind, snow etc.
“Visit gov.uk/alerts for more information. This is a test. You do not need to take any action.”
Apart from vote these dishonest fear-mongering c@nts out office for good.
Do these buffoons really think we’re going to fall for their pathetic war-mongering? And why should we fight for a government that wants to see us gone from our own country? They want to defend the borders of the Ukraine, but not ours. And if we advocate defending our own borders then our government designates us a heretics (“racists” is the word they use for us).
We will be fighting for our own survival.
Hopefully not another attempt at slowly ramping up the drumbeats of war with Putin. Ukraine cannot be allowed to lose.
Obviously he’s determined to invade the whole of Western Europe. After all Russia needs more land and mineral wealth.
So give thanks to those who rule us, without whom we’d never be safe and free.
On the other hand some may think it’s yet another diversionary tactic to make the plebs blame Russia for the total clusters..k the West has made of the economy/immigration etc since WW2.
How many young men of fighting age have been assisted to come through the ‘portcullis’? Millions? How many of the recent atrocities (Lee Rigby, Manchester Arena, London Bridge, Sir David Ames, 7/7, Glasgow Airport, Southport and more) were carried out by one of these ‘refugees’? The attack on Israel on Oct 7th was part of the global Jihadi war on the West and considering that various intelligence agencies put the number of Islamic radicals somewhere between 180 million and 300 million (WW2 German Army 13.6 million / Japanese Army 5 5 million) there is a very real threat. in addition Iran, which has been using Hamas and Hezbollah as proxies to attack Israel recently used hypersonic missiles. These are supplied by Russia. Putin (Russia) has been a supporter of all the North African countries that border Europe since at least WW2, supplying aircraft, tanks and prodigious amounts of AK47s and of course persistent anti western propaganda. Putin is also mates with all the major dictators around the World, which is why there have been North Koreans and Chinese fighting for Russia in Ukraine. Irrespective of the collapse of the Soviet Union the Communist mind set is alive and well. Both… Read more »
Irrespective of the collapse of the Soviet Union the Communist mind set is alive and well.
Putin’s actions don’t spring from communism but from traditional Russian foreign policy going back centuries. Specifically this means controlling Russia’s borders AND controlling what goes on beyond those borders. This is the same foreign policy that the Tsarist regime pursued. Given Russia’s strategic position – a country with no natural frontiers to act as barriers to foreign invasion – Putin’s foreign policy makes complete sense.
Particularly when considering the propensity of other European Countries over the centuries to mooch back and forth over each other’s and Russia’s land.
Putin’s foreign policy makes complete sense.
As did the Mongol, Roman, Assyrian, Mayan, Babylonian and Ottoman foreign policies. Whether it makes sense to Putin or not is immaterial if someone else is threatened. Sweden and Finland recently requested to join NATO because of Putin’s aggressive threats to all it’s neighbours. In which case Western foreign policy towards Putin also makes sense. Putin sent assassins to the UK twice using military grade biological and chemical weapons against Russians living here. He has also eliminated any political opposition using trumped up charges and death.
I used to have some sympathy for the Irish republicans early on in the ‘troubles’, especially as they considered themselves ‘Freedom Fighters’. I came to understand that they weren’t interested in freedom for all but only themselves and only within the IRA as it was death to anyone that opposed them. As it was evident I was a target being British (we had a bomb go off outside our Christmas party) it was now academic whatever their views were and so I wished for their defeat.
Western foreign policy towards Putin also makes sense
Actually, Western policy towards Russia doesn’t make sense. This is because the fundamental element of Western policy is the breakup of Russia. In the current circumstances of Russia’s military strength, the intense patriotism of the Russian people, and our own military and social weakness, this policy is completely deranged.
All the ‘young men of fighting age’ were allowed in by your government, and they continue to allow them in. I am surprised you do not blame that on Putin too but it is hardly the case. The attack on Israel on 7th October 2023 was the result of decades of Israeli suppression of the Palestinian people. Israel has responded every single day of the more than 600 since then, killing thousands upon thousands of Palestinians. The only global facet of that mess is that Israel is guilty of genocide and every one of the 153 countries that ratified or acceded to the Genocide Convention should be preventing it, including, of course, UK. You accuse Russia of all sorts of misdeeds but make no mention of USA, NATO or EU, that altogether happily encourage or carry out regime change in foreign countries, invade and bomb numerous countries, as well as being responsible for literally millions of deaths all over the world. What European country has been invaded by Russia? What country anywhere has been invaded by China? Zero and zero, and yet you accuse them and others of threatening the West? You complain that North Koreans have been fighting alongside… Read more »
In the photos below which one is war and which one is genocide? Also where was each photo taken and when?
Russia invaded: Georgia Chechnya Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Czechoslovakia Germany Romania Transnistria Moldova Ukraine Of course some of these invasions were in the course of expelling the Nazi German army, but unlike the Allies in the West, Russia had no intention of restoring freedom to the countries it invaded. Outside Europe Russia invaded and supported revolution in: Korea Afghanistan Vietnam Laos Cambodia Sinai Ethio-Somali War Abkhazia Tajikistan Dagestan Syria Central African Republic Mali Burkina Faso There have been 32 Military Coups in Africa (look at the weapon of choice – AK47), there is the ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in India, the 45 left wing or Marxist guerrilla groups in South and Central America (there are only 3 US backed guerrilla groups); In other words the deliberate destabilization of sovereign countries. In all the usual Marxist propaganda papers like China Daily or The Morning Star it is only ever the west, and particularly the US that is criticized for causing wars or daring to stop Marxists revolutionaries. Capitalism and colonialism is blamed for all the ills of Africa while the Marxist revolutionaries make every effort to bring about war and instability. Look at all the places in Africa where there is or… Read more »
Try to differentiate between Russia and USSR. And, good heavens, you list Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, all invaded by JFK and his forces, and those countries are still suffering today from the effects of their bombardment with Napalm and Agent Orange. Well done, USA.
Communist propaganda is not intended to fair and balanced. It’s purpose is to prevail, so bad mouthing a designated opponent is allowed.
“It is not truth that matters, but victory”
A. H.
A. H. was also a socialist. Here are his thoughts on the matter.
“Socialism is the science of dealing with the common weal [health or well-being]. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.
‘Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.
‘We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our Socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the State on the basis of race solidarity. To us, State and race are one…”
I visited Vietnam and Cambodia this year and they both seemed pretty vibrant and busy. The Vietnamese are very friendly and hard working and they like the US. Ho Chi Minh’s communist collective farms were dropped following famines (who’d of thought) and they appear to have adopted free market capitalism. Cambodia did have a certain air about it but the hotel we stayed at was opposite a compound used by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge to torture and murder people. It was pretty sobering, as you can imagine. Of course that is also the fault of the US. Everything is just like all weather is Climate Change and also the fault of the US.
Congratulations on visiting Vietnam and Cambodia. I am sure they are very friendly to all tourists but USA has one hell of a legacy: you only need to do a search on YouTube for “Vietnamese agent orange” to get a list of horrifying videos. I was actually looking for a video I watched recently but could not find it. However, those listed upon my search were far more horrifying. I am as capitalist as the next man, I am only trying to point out that Russia is no longer a communist state. Putin has really pulled the country out of its ashes and can be exceedingly proud of what he has achieved. That our mainstream media classify him as an evil monster is just part of the programme. China appears to be another total success story. Yes, they are governed by the CCP but is that so different from UK, with its video cameras at every corner, a government clearly determined to destroy everything English, two-tier justice system and so on? Of course Pol Pot’s regime was disgusting but did the West try to change anything? No, that was Vietnam. We never do anything for the good of others, only… Read more »
Noam Chomsky is a Communist and anti-USA. I will listen to what he has to say however.
My brother said the same thing about Chomsky and refused to watch it! I do not care what people believe, the question is simply is the truth being spoken or not? In this case, and I have no evidence to the contrary, I believe Chomsky and what he said is pretty damning for USA.
More government scare mongering!
A terrified population is a complicit population
Don’t they get right on yer t!ts with all this bo//0cks!?
I didn’t know this was going on today. What a lovely day for some solidarity with like-minded folk and feel-good vibes. 🙂
https://x.com/jomickane/status/1938939807901553109
https://x.com/GhorbaniiNiyak/status/1938939009562223033
Msm didn’t really want you to know, I saw it on Tousi tv, wonderful to see👌
In the event if a real warning, what would Starmer advise we do? They used to suggest whitewashing your windows & getting under the dining table. That should do it.
The official stance used to be, ‘put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye’. I don’t think anything has changed
Why would I want to be notified that I have a few minutes before I am converted to a crisp? I would rather not know in advance.
I always thought that the best place to live in the UK was near an American Base. In the event of a nuclear attack you would be killed instantly, probably without warning, and avoid a long lingering death from radiation poisoning.
That’s the way to go, instantly incinerated by supersonic, superheated winds. You’ll know next to nothing about it.
I would, so I can grab my favourite whisky and a deck chair! (Probably no need for sunscreen).
If the Government could do the same when they all resign that would be much appreciated.
Maybe play Rule Britannia, though, we get enough shrieks already ….“never never never shall be slaves”….
“…a new UK government service that will warn you if there’s a life-threatening emergency nearby.”
The UK Government is a lifethreatening emergency and it is all too nearby.
Damn right.
My phone won’t – alerts are switched off.
Starmer – war leader of bore leader?
As Pissed off Postman Sweeney Pat would put it…
“Ain’t that nice, ain’t that lovely.”
😀😀😀
“This is an emergency government alert!
We are totally incompetent.”
Thanks for the warning (LOL). Wife and I have both disabled our phones’ alerts!
Larry Johnson reported this morning that “British, French, Polish and Australian troops are now entering Odessa, taking up positions in Odessa”.
Is that true? Because, if so, he is certainly right to say “I expect the Russians will be killing a bunch of them within the next week or two”.
Is this the reason for us supposedly preparing for war?
Any British troops in Ukraine will be slaughtered by the Russians – guaranteed. Is Starmer and Co. then going to declare war on Russia?!
Didn’t they do this a year or two ago, and all right people just set their ‘phones to ignore the scaremongering nonsense?
Next step they’ll let the met office and BBC use this for their extreme weather warnings – they’ll be so many alerts happening continuously a normal call won’t be able to get through!
How can we resist this dystopian 77th Brigade crap?
I think I’ll hang on to the Nokia 3310 for a while longer
Wise man.
The only warning is to recognise your gov’t appears to be trying to scare you. Can anyone else explain why britain and it’s puppets are not working for peace? Your military is negligible and simply unable to cope in a full blown war. Isn’t it strange your puppets want to keep you in a terrorised state? Why would that be?
They need to kill off most of the White working class male population, they can be a bit too troublesome for their taste, they much prefer those nice multi-culti chaps.
I’ve switched this nonsense off on my phone. I can see this being used every time it gets a bit warm or during heavy rain.
The system is designed to keep people frightened.
I’m having none of it.
It did make me chuckle last week when 3 warm British summer days were reported as a ‘deadly heatwave’. Do the nutters think we believe that cr*p?
iPhone: Settings, Notifications, scroll to bottom and turn off Emergency Alerts.
Well the overmanned civil service do have to find “important” work to do. Otherwise somebody might suggest redundancies.
Designed by the WEF to scare the populace into submission. It won’t work.