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- Jun 13, 2020
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https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/londons-notting-hill-carnival-cancelled-again-because-covid-2021-06-18/
Cancelled again this year.
This was announced about 2 months ago
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[News] Notting Hill Carnival
- Thread starter crodonilson
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This was announced about 2 months ago
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/londons-notting-hill-carnival-cancelled-again-because-covid-2021-06-18/
Cancelled again this year.
police will be happy
the gangs wont
crodonilson
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First time for 3 years this is going to be live, such a thrill. Anyone else going this year?? Should be an absolute hoot.
First time for 3 years this is going to be live, such a thrill. Anyone else going this year?? Should be an absolute hoot.
You and [MENTION=41330]Pierre the Painter[/MENTION] going together?
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Not for the localsFirst time for 3 years this is going to be live, such a thrill. Anyone else going this year?? Should be an absolute hoot.
First time for 3 years this is going to be live, such a thrill. Anyone else going this year?? Should be an absolute hoot.
Unfortunately will have to miss due to family commitments
Stop, now. If you want to draw out the racists there are better ways of doing it. And better forums. Try the Argus online.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62719530
Just the one murder, eight sexual assaults and 209 arrests. Nothing to see here, move along now.
Been more innocent people murdered in Liverpool in the last month due to ‘gangland’ feuds
The Clamp
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Laaandan. Big carnival. Everyone in London , I mean everyone goes. People with beef run into each other, drunks get into fights, purse-dippers and pick pockets dive in etc etc
Contrary to what people want to believe*, it’s not solely black teenagers stabbing each other.
Even Leeds festival turned to turmoil this weekend and that’s largely middle class white kids, dropped off by Mummy and given spending money.
*I’m not suggesting you think that.
GingerBeerMan
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- Dec 29, 2011
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Although I agree, the fact is the black population is majorly over represented in crime and prison statistics. To suggest the reason for this is the colour of skin or attitude of an ethnic group is racist. To overlook the fact this group has been systematically disadvantaged in this country since a huge influx in 1950 would be shying away from the problem. Of course BAME groups will have higher crime rates if they have lower incomes, fewer opportunities, more exposure to unfair police, school and court systems. It's a huge problem in this country made much worse by racists and those who don't want to address the problem.
The Clamp
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100% agree.
As an aside, if rich white folks and politicians got arrested and imprisoned for the crimes they commit daily, including internet moguls who breach strict data protection laws billions of times every day, if they were held to account? It would make black on black crime pale into insignificance.
Thank goodness for your diligent monitoring of the news. We would be lost without you. I hope the stabbing didn't spoil your enjoyment of the carnival. Personally I never go - it doesn't interest me
Thank goodness for your diligent monitoring of the news. We would be lost without you. I hope the stabbing didn't spoil your enjoyment of the carnival. Personally I never go - it doesn't interest me
You are very welcome Harry. I like to think people are allowed to debate without fear of being shut down by those who do not want to hear uncomfortable truths. I am sure you would not want things swept under the carpet either.
I suppose the issue is whether the carnival is in the public interest or not. It has always been seething with criminality but the people who attend appear to be OK with that. The numbers you quote are far lower than I would have expected, and way down on what they used to be. As I say I wouldn't go (in part because the level of criminality appears to be beyond what I'm comfortable with). I wouldn't go to a music festival for much the same reasons (one day at Reading in 1975 was enough for me, thank you very much
)Did you have any point you wished to make with the post? Do you think it should be banned, or that there is something about it in particular that the nation should be pondering?
Nobody is shutting you down though are they? We're just rolling our collective eyes at your stupidly simplistic but predictably self-righteous comment, exactly as you might see at the bottom of a Daily Express article covering the carnival. As has been said, more people died at the Reading/Leeds festivals.
I suppose the issue is whether the carnival is in the public interest or not. It has always been seething with criminality but the people who attend appear to be OK with that. The numbers you quote are far lower than I would have expected, and way down on what they used to be. As I say I wouldn't go (in part because the level of criminality appears to be beyond what I'm comfortable with). I wouldn't go to a music festival for much the same reasons (one day at Reading in 1975 was enough for me, thank you very much
Did you have any point you wished to make with the post? Do you think it should be banned, or that there is something about it in particular that the nation should be pondering?
Strangely enough the figure that most surprised me was the number of reports of sexual assault. Is it really a common everyday occurrence, or has the definition changed dramatically over time?
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
Nope, the definition hasn't changed. People being groped (or worse) is sexual assault and always has been, but now people feel empowered to speak out about it, rather than keep quiet and live with it like they would have in the Good Old Days.
Was also a death at the Leeds festival (the sister festival to Reading) due to drugs and several gang killings in Liverpool in the last few weeks.
Then again that doesn't fit into your insidious racist agenda.