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August 26, 2008
I hate Notting Hill Carnival. Every year I hate it even more. It is not a fun place to visit and I would never recommend that anyone take their family to such a violent and unsafe event. I really want to start a coalition to stop Notting Hill Carnival or move it to another location. It basically alienates the residents of Notting Hill and inconveniences everyone.
Every year I have to move my car for fear that it will be trashed. I come home and there is garbage on my door which the council does a really bad job of cleaning up. There is glass covering the streets. I have to move home for the weekend out of fear and disgust. And who ends up paying for a hotel? Certainly not the council which has inconvenienced my life.
It is a joke. It infuriates me to no end…. GRRR!
Horaayy..there are 4 comment(s) for me so far ;)
The thing is, when you and I decided to move into the area, we did so in the full knowledge that for two days a year the streets would be full of partying people. It’s as simple as that.
As it happens I walked slap bang into the area onto which bottles were being thrown last night and one narrowly missed me. I hoofed it towards Sainsburys as fast as I could. I still don’t believe I should let people like that dictate whether I should be allowed to enjoy a couple of days of fun.
I do sympathise with you though because I don’t necessarily fee like doing it every year and guess what - I go somewhere else!
40 idiots out of 1,000,000,000 people cause disturbances, are you serious about starting a ban campaign?
Your rubbish collection is poor even without the carnival…so you want the carnival banned hoping the council will provide a better rubbish collection service?
Where do the trouble makers get the “bottles” from? It’s YOUR local PUBS and RESIDENTS who are more interested in making a quick buck than in YOUR safety. I continue to campaign to the POLICE, WCC and RBKC to make carnival a NO bottle zone…every year they pay the same lip service “blah blah blah, stall holders license prohits them from selling drinks in bottles…blah blah”…
No bottle sales mean no bottles to throw…its really not rocket science.
i remember a time when you were even a bit excited about it!
you should try having to work it each year..