The usual suspects within the mainstream media and other political commentators have taken to social media to exclaim that Boris Johnson and his comments about the Burqa are the cause of today’s attempted murders.

Sean O’Grady is the editor of the I, formerly known as the Independent, which only publishes online. He wrote an opinion piece: ‘If the Westminster car crash turns out to be a terrorist attack, this is what we should bear in mind’.

In it he suggests that comments from Johnson on the Burka has had the potential to cause today’s attacks!

It said:

The ‘debate’ about anti-Semitism, about the burqa and niqab, the hateful tone of so much that goes on in social media, the talk of traitors and treason, enemies of the people. If you want to see what racial or religious hatred looks like, you need not infiltrate some terror cell; just take a look at the comments left below the line on popular news websites, or surf around Twitter.

Sooner or later there was going to be a reckoning, a tangible act in response to the goading and climate of fear we seem to have generated in our peaceful land.”

Luisa Omelian is a comedian who appears regularly on the BBC and her tweet below has been met with incredulity:

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Sadiq Khan has taken to the airwaves with his usual message of tolerance. He also stated that people must speak out against prejudice wherever it existed in a thinly veiled barb at Boris. Owen Jones has been conspicuously silent on the issue unlike when Boris wrote his article when Jones went on a twitter rampage! He has spent the day trying to defend Jeremy Corbyn’s wreath laying for terrorists… the irony!