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Notting Hill Carnival
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Well the 'Children's Day' part, gets the Notting Hill Carnival off to a good start.
Only 53 arrests for a variety of offences including drugs possession, public order, theft, criminal damage, robbery and assault, with more than 5,500 police officers being deployed.
Puts a typical banned EDL protest into insignificance, it would seem.
Well the 'Children's Day' part, gets the Notting Hill Carnival off to a good start.
Only 53 arrests for a variety of offences including drugs possession, public order, theft, criminal damage, robbery and assault, with more than 5,500 police officers being deployed.
Puts a typical banned EDL protest into insignificance, it would seem.
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Nice of those 53 numbnuts to converge in one place today. Saves a lot of resources.
14:28 Mon 29th Aug 2011
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I think when you've got an estimated million people over 2 days 53 arrests is a minor miracle
400 EDL people attended this rally and there were 31 arrests
http://news.bbc.co.uk...anchester/8577777.stm
so nice try but total rubbish
400 EDL people attended this rally and there were 31 arrests
http://news.bbc.co.uk...anchester/8577777.stm
so nice try but total rubbish
1 million will see the carnival. Divide that by 5,500 and you get one police officer for every 180 attendees. Which is comparable to policing at football matches that happen EVERY weekend, 43 weeks a year.
At an EDL event, you would get a similar number of arrests for less than 500 marchers. And the EDL do not attract hundreds of thousands of tourists.
But you should save your indignation for the Olympics. The policing of that will be a month of Notting Hill Carnivals and will cost a fortune.
At an EDL event, you would get a similar number of arrests for less than 500 marchers. And the EDL do not attract hundreds of thousands of tourists.
But you should save your indignation for the Olympics. The policing of that will be a month of Notting Hill Carnivals and will cost a fortune.
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just got back and everyone there seemed to be having a good time. It's not as good as it used to be in the good old days, of course, before the steel bands were replaced by sound systems that make my chest hurt. But I was not robbed, raped or killed, and any herbal intake was involuntary (though hard to avoid).
We had our Chapeltown Carnival today it was said to be a success, everyone enjoyed themselves the costumes were really good considering that the warehouse was damaged by fire earlier last month. Don't know of any arrests I'm sure the police will have lifted the obligatory druggie as it is the place to be for them.