Notting Hill Carnival's Much More DANGEROUS Than Tommy Robinson's Marches – Peter Bleksley

追加: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]I'm glad the rioting was brought to a close before anybody lost their life, for example, and before it got out of hand and before the levels of criminality and damage reached those levels that we saw in 2011 with those riots which were far more widespread created much more um damage and financial loss to count the Tottenham.

[00:00:21]Yeah. Started in Tottenham and then of course spread throughout London and and further much further a field. Mhm.

[00:00:28]>> So, I'm glad that mobilization happened.

[00:00:30]I'm glad the riots were fairly swiftly brought to an end. That's that's all fine by me. But then, of course, we also saw 7,000 police officers mobilized from the Metropolitan Police to deal with the recent Notting Hill Carnival, which on many regards turned once again into utter lawlessness with eight stabbings. Somebody still critically ill in hospital fighting for their life.

[00:01:06]>> Dozens of weapons uh seized, dozens of other over 300 people arrested for a whole variety of of other crimes >> and um yeah and people lying in hospitals fighting for their lives.

[00:01:21]>> And this was not the far right.

[00:01:23]Ah, but it hasn't been described by anybody, has it? No. As other than a wonderful carnival of cultural expression and experiences for people, right? We haven't had any broad brush labeling of an orgy of criminality, for example. We haven't heard any politicians saying that when perhaps they could do >> no thugs. This is I mean Notting Hill Carnival is forgive me if I'm wrong is sort of a well all different classes but it has become a bit of a woke liberal elite kind of place to go to.

[00:02:00]>> Yeah. And it you know I I know some some mates of of uh Caribbean origin who go here and it's really important to them.

[00:02:09]>> Yeah. It really is because they reconnect with a culture and a land that they left many years ago to come here and contribute to British life. In fact, one mate in particular who rose through the ranks to be a senior police officer, hugely respected, brilliant detective and couldn't have done anything more with his life to make this country a better place. It's really important to him to go to carnival and connect and I see all his photographs and we exchange messages and all that stuff. So, it's really important to some people and I get it. I get the fact that it is a cultural event for so many people and I wouldn't want to see it cancelled in any way, shape or form at all. But what I would like to see is it moved to Hyde Park, which is really just down the road. And then of course it could be a ticketed event. The security could be much more striden without being heavy-handed.

[00:03:15]And it would be a lot easier to manage people within a designated space >> as opposed to the streets are not inhill where people can turn one corner through another alleyway through another street.

[00:03:28]>> Yeah.

[00:03:28]>> And >> that would be a shame though. It is quite beautiful going down those little cobbled lanes and all these little streets and things like but I get I get what you're saying.

[00:03:35]>> Yeah. But there could be an almost you wouldn't lose the processional element of the carnival by moving it to High Park. There all are already roads in Hyde Park and bridal ways and the such like but of course it's 2024 so false you know there's tracking roads which are laid for so many festivals and such like could be laid so that that whole processional carnival element of the event is not lost. But and funnily enough, one senior police officer, in fact, the police officer in charge of the Met Police operation uh to to police carnival, a deputy assistant commissioner called Adi Adelacan.

[00:04:22]he came forward and was very strident in what he said about the violence >> and the unacceptable levels of crime which I thought was good on his behalf to speak up and and and be quite strident about that and if the Metropolitan Police wasn't so bismerged over race you know only recently yet again described as institutionally racist organization, albeit the commissioner of the metro and police doesn't want to use that >> description for some idiotic reason.

[00:05:03]>> Um, and just a few days ago, 10 black and brown met police officers going to the BBC and saying it is rife with racism and they were telling stories that I was shocked at. And I was somebody who was there in the 70s, the 80s, and the '9s when some of the racism was utterly appalling.

[00:05:25]>> So it does have a race problem in the police, you'd say.

[00:05:27]>> Clearly the Metropolitan Police does have, and I can't believe it because it surely must be one of the most easiest issues to fix. But the Met Police is just lurching from crisis to crisis to crisis, including today the news breaking that another Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with a number of rapes, coercive control, kidnap, and all manner of dreadful, dreadful charges. innocent till proven guilty.