Surely The Time Has Now Come To Put An End To This Trouble Making Event?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[ummmm]

I wouldn't mind the disruption.

We have a carnival here each year and roads are closed (obviously not on the same scale) and I don't hear people complaining.

There's more complaints when there's a gig on in the local cricket ground and people can't park directly outside their houses or can't get a table in the local pub.

[Rockrose]

All our disruptions have turned into tourist draws - as the parliament intended them to be, its good to see all sides of the divides coming together.

[youngmafbog]

I'd like to see this (and similar events) a ticketed affair to cover the huge Police bill and clear-up.

[mushroom25]

this event concentrates upwards of a million participants and spectators into a small area of narrow streets in west London, where access is (by its nature) difficult. I would be interested in seeing the organisers risk assessments, and the mitigations in place to prevent the risk of injuries if the crowd were cause to stampede, for whatever reason, or for ensuring emergency services can get access quickly in the event of serious injury or fire.

Oh and Ummm, at the 2015 carnival, the sound systems operated continuously for 42 hours. does your carnival operate in that manner? If I were a resident I'd call that disruptive, and I think I'd mind about that.

[fender62]

i wonder how much revenue to carnival creats, against the cost of policing and cleanup.

[youngmafbog]

And how much revenue is lost to those that have to board up their properties? Let alone the cost of boarding up and repairing any damage (deliberate or accidental).

[mushroom25]

wow! that comment disappeard before I could open the page :-0

[anotheoldgit]

melv16

/// Just be thankful that we live in a country where we can parade on the streets. Banning them seems to be a draconian measure, more suited to dictatorships! ///

Didn't our government ban a Far-Right march in case it caused trouble?

Seems like double standards to me.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

This thread is about the Notting Hill Carnival not Gay Pride, please keep my thread on track, just as you are always telling others to do.

[ummmm]

Mushroom....I don't attend so I don't know how disruptive it is. I just know about the road closures.

I get your point though...our carnival is only 1 day and it's pretty crap tbh.

[dannyk13]

ummmm, which is your carnival?

[Canary42]

You want something banned for racist reasons ? So what do you do ? You infiltrate it with trouble-makers as agent provocateurs . It is folk of your bigoted ilk AOG who are behind this. You should be ashamed of further fanning your fascist flames on this forum.

[ummmm]

danny....it's just a carnival. No reason behind it as far as I know. Jackthehat might know better.

[dannyk13]

Ah! I thought maybe you were referring to the Leeds carnival.

[ummmm]

Northampton.

[Peter Pedant]

you mean close the whole of Birmingham for ever
because there is far too much knife crime and stabbings ?

no you dont .... Notting Hill - can |I comment
'the old age party pooper celebrates his annual giant party-poop fest"

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I was gonna say in Manchester
it was all the men with big tots dancing the night away ....

big difference

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // andy-hughes

This thread is about the Notting Hill Carnival not Gay Pride, please keep my thread on track, just as you are always telling others to do. //

Threads meander as people contribute, and I am sure you know that.

But if you want to have a moan at people for the direction of the thread, try Rockrose, who first mentioned Notting Hill Carnival at 09:46, or Sqad who mentioned it a 09:56.

On second thoughts, perhaps that's best left because it's not 'your' thread, it's a thread you started, which does not give you rights of ownership, or a say on the direction in which its headed - that's decided by the contributors.

Any further discussion about this would be rightly construed as derailing, which of course you are keen to avoid.

[Sqad]

I thought that the Notting Hill Carnival and Gay pride were one of the same thing.........Homosexuals prancing about in lipstick, long hair and dresses.
Have i got it wrong?