Notting Hill Carnival 2023

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Traditional deluge of racist punditry underway during the 2023 Notting Hill Carnival ​

The famous London street festival is once again underway, accompanied by badly written tirades associating petty crime with black culture.

An online persona called EnglishPatriotCunt4life claimed the honour of getting the first bigoted comment of this year’s carnival when he linked it to a month-old stabbing in Croydon.

His misspelt tweet was logged at 0.091 seconds into the minute of silence for the victims of the Grenfell tower disaster, which is a new record.

Many racists see the event as the official end of summer and have been hard at work making tired memes featuring black men fighting next to a picture of a policeman twerking.

Tabloid papers have also helped portray the festival as a violent bacchanal by maintaining a strict 3/1 photo ratio of shirtless men being arrested versus scantily-clad women having fun.

Sunday Express columnist Ray Cyst explained that painting a joyful popular event as the Mau Mau Uprising required great skill.

He told us, “Frankly it’s a miracle that a party of 2 million resulted in only 24 arrests. Eastbourne on Tuesday night will see more violence. But chuck in enough drag queens and BME teenagers, and I can get the codgers muttering complete bollocks about absent black fathers while eating their bank holiday BBQ.”

Carnival goers are also wondering if this year will see the highly anticipated return of the Metropolitan Police Service to unhelpful stereotyping.

In 2017, the Met’s PR department decided to connect the carnival in Notting Hill (W11) to a large seizure in Catford (SE6) of heroin, possibly the only class A drug not popular with partygoers.

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[RequiemForACat]

Have you ever been to Notting Hill Carnival?

 

[Words]

proberly not he/she is all sh**

 

[Moriarty]

proberly not he/she is all sh**

LMAO

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

My Choking on Plastics carnival outfit.



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[Billyliar]

How many stabbed this year? I read 8,

 

[Words]

How many stabbed this year? I read 8,

Maybe they ran out of knifes

 

[Kev45]

An online persona called EnglishPatriotCunt4life claimed the honour of getting the first bigoted comment of this year’s carnival when he linked it to a month-old stabbing in Croydon.

Of course, the stupids (racists) will immediately jump on any crime committed during carnival, rather like a hyena on a month old rotting corpse.

I mean... 2 million and upwards attended peacefully, and any crime at all is of course automatically linked to carnival itself and, including by the institutionally racist MET Police.

When Glasgow was being described as the knife crime capital of Europe in the late 90s and 00s, vast resources were quite rightly invested to tackle the issue and which was largely successful over a number of years (at the time). Now the problem is further down south, the solution appears to be lock them up and throw away the key.

I wonder why that is...

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Saturday is children's day ✔
Sunday is family day ✔
Monday is machete day!

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Racists using arrest figures to criticise Notting Hill Carnival seemingly unaware arrest rate was three times higher at Reading Festival​

A racist c.unt who is determined to draw attention to Notting Hill carnival has seemingly chosen to ignore the arrest rate at Reading Festival, which was three times higher.

With 37 arrests for 100,000 people at Reading, and about 13 arrests per 100,000 at the Notting Hill Carnival, arrest numbers alone would suggest Reading Festival saw worse behaviour. This might not paint a full picture of either event, but arrests are the only picture that some people prefer to paint.

However, Ray Cyst, 66, insisted that Notting Hill Carnival was definitely worse, telling us, “Notting Hill Carnival is the thing you should be focussing on, because of reasons.

“There were only 37 arrests at Reading, compared to 275 in Notting Hill, so it was clearly the worse event for law-breaking. I am choosing to ignore that about twenty times the number of people attended NH Carnival compared to the Reading Festival, and I’m ignoring that, once again, for racist reasons.

“I don’t have to explain my thinking, I just think it’s important to focus heavily on the crime that happens at a largely black carnival, and less on the crime that happens at a music festival where a lot of the people look like me.”

Meanwhile, Notting Hill Carnival attendee Si Willis, told us, “I’ve never been to Carnival, but I only live about ten miles away, so I’d thought I’d give it a go this year. And yes, it’s noisy and rowdy and colourful and vibrant and brilliant. I loved it.

“And in the interests of balance, I compare that to my experience of Glastonbury in 2008, when someone stole an entire crate of beer from my tent while I was watching Massive Attack.”

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[Words]

8 Stabbings and 275 arrests

 

[Kev45]

Ray Cyst, 66, insisted that Notting Hill Carnival was definitely worse, telling us, “Notting Hill Carnival is the thing you should be focussing on, because of reasons.

Hi Ray, you and your dodgy statistics eh and your casual (dangerous) overtly racist remarks that slyly link any violence at Carnival with Carnival and as one and therefore the same thing... Remarks that soon become totally acceptable, and the 'norm' in mainstream society. Manipulated by the establishment to persecute minority groups, take gypsy or traveller culture as another more recent example.

Report after report has found the MET Police to be institutionally racist, Ray, they can't all be wrong just because they don't mirror your personal views, can they?

Because when you bleat about the erosion of British culture, Ray, what you really mean is people who look just like you, have a culture just like you and cancelling anyone else who doesn't?

Ray, did you know it can take up to 600 police officers to police a single high risk local derby in football? A single football match and up to 1,000 stewards (dependent on ground capacity). That's a single match Ray, are you still with me, Ray? (source, Owen West, match day commander and senior lecturer in policing).

Ray, so on a like for like basis, it takes far MORE police to supervise football than supervise Carnival? I can't be arsed doing the actuals sums, Ray but then again neither can you, can you buddy?

It's not like carnival, with fewer police in attendance, supervising a vast area where anyone can come and go and criminals can on the whole mingle anonymously amongst the crowds, working their trade, which is crime.

Oh and Ray, one last thing, did you know that football hooligans, albeit mostly hidden from the public gaze nowadays, still carry a multitude of weapons, while they beat, slash and hammer their way to victory against their so-called rivals (source ONS).

What's the reason your cancel culture ideology doesn't extend to football, Ray?

Have a great day, Ray.

 

[RequiemForACat]

I do think the difference between Leeds&Reading and NHC is the fact NHC is held in residential streets. I don't dislike NHC most people who go are there for the good vibes and its generally a good time with good food & music, but, it's poorly managed for a street festival (think no toilets so hundreds of people pissing on people doorsteps/gardens), no bins so mounds and mounds of litter. I did go to NHC this year and it was great EXCEPT for the lack of respect people have for the residents property and the MEN who seemed to all be on high THIRST alert, if you were a woman you had a 95% chance of being sexually harassed or assaulted, it was honestly that bad! Oh and the transport.

The people who stab at NHC are the ones who are there for a fight or to settle some stupid gang related sh**, the risk of you or I being stabbed there is relatively low.

 

[Raining_Roses]

My Choking on Plastics carnival outfit.

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I hope that's all biodegradable or recyclable. All that landfill to make a statement defeats the objective of the argument.

 

[Raining_Roses]

I don't think NHC is any worse than any other, but you are going to get more crime, simply because more people attend. I don't like the connotations others have made regarding race or culture being to blame.
There is another carnival held every year in Luton- a diverse multi-cultural town, not a million miles away from London- and for the majority, it's a fun, family day out and serious crime is pretty low to non-existent. Yet oddly, in the 80's, on football days when Millwall played the town, the same couldn't be said. I remember running from hoards of skinheads and trying to hide in alleyways on one occasion. They used to terrorise the town, whether they won or lost.

 

[Moriarty]

"A police officer was sexually assaulted and six others were bitten this year while footage has emerged of a youth running through the streets with a machete.
Video showed a gang of youths, many of whom were dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, fighting as Europe’s biggest street party descended into violence on its final day.
Two men are in hospital, one in a critical condition, following a spate of stabbings as the carnival drew to a close."
“This level of violence is unacceptable and unsustainable. You can’t have it that every single year come Tuesday morning we’re contemplating these types of injuries, this numbers of injuries and sexual assaults and stabbings. It really is awful.”
"some officers had also been urinated on by people in upper floor windows."

“I just think the levels of violence and the levels of crime and the nature of the geographic layout of Notting Hill and with the amount of people that come to this carnival now it just facilitates people with nefarious intent.”
Last year:-
"Takayo Nembhard, a rap artist, was at the carnival with his sister and friends when he was killed after being stabbed in the groin."

Yeah sounds like fun.

 

[Austrian]

Notting Hill Caŕnival is a disgrace and should be banned. The statistics speak for themselves. And don't forget how the MET go out of their way to avoid confrontation with carnival goers. They accept behaviour that wouldn't usually be accepted at other festivals.

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

 

[Moriarty]

I don't think NHC is any worse than any other, but you are going to get more crime, simply because more people attend. I don't like the connotations others have made regarding race or culture being to blame.
There is another carnival held every year in Luton- a diverse multi-cultural town, not a million miles away from London- and for the majority, it's a fun, family day out and serious crime is pretty low to non-existent. Yet oddly, in the 80's, on football days when Millwall played the town, the same couldn't be said. I remember running from hoards of skinheads and trying to hide in alleyways on one occasion. They used to terrorise the town, whether they won or lost.

Whenever you get large groups of people together, crime goes up.
Sounds logical, is logical.
Some percentage are willing to commit crimes like theft, sexual assualt or violence, some get into arguments/rivalries which lead to violence.
When more people gather, the market for illicit goods becomes more readily available, hence people indulge more and drug selling, possesion and drug related crimes go up.
Increase the avaliable drugs in the market then theft, burglary, burglary with violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, car theft and all other metrics go up.

All festivals attract elements which in an ideal society would not be there.
They also attract drugs, both legal like alcohol and illegal.

The same is said for all cities in the UK.
Population density equates to crime, it's a simple function.

Take a step back and think about it though.
The drug's and it's related crime are in our cities, our festivals, not because there is a ready supply, but because there is a ready demand.
It's pure free market economics.
Only if one can change demand by educating and addressing why drugs are in demand can you fix the drug and hence the associated crime problem.

Thats a mental health problem, which no government can touch.