Quote Originally Posted by Big Kuneho View Post
Given that there is one fatality a year at the notting hill carnival and considerably more serious breaches of the law than a failure to close down the stalls fast enough, I can't believe that Kensington & Chelsea council would get away with closing this down on health and safety grounds. Its just that Hounslow know that there is unlikely to be any adverse comeback, as barely anyone (other than those who know pinoys) have heard of this festival.
True enough but as there is a at least an eighth of the population of london passing though the festival idiots will prevail.

heres the sad statistics from the Notting carnival

1987- Michael Galvin ;a stallholder -stabbed.
1991- Dr. Nicholas Hanscomb ; a supporter of a religious group bled to death after being stabbed in the thigh.
2000- Greg Watson, a man stabbed to death after an argument over food.
2000- Abdul Bhatti,- stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack by a group of 40-50 youths.
2004-Lee Surbaran ; a man who was shot by a gang using a machine pistol for "showing disrespect"

Thankfully not one a year.

Im not sticking up for hounslow council far from it just mentioning possible reasons why in their view it did not meet health and safety requirments.

IMHO the organisning party needs to be asking serious questions of itself how an event they have a year to plan and organise (with 24 years worth of experience) gets halted a week before. Then the organisers seem to be the last to announce the news.

Normally in such cases where an event gets closed down for these reasons its the organisers who need to worry about legal action i would have thought rather than the council, police and fire brigade.
I' love to see the gant chart entry where it said make sure we have the ok from the authorities a week in advance Surely you would ensure you had great relationship with all those that can make or break you and ask every step of the way for informal and formal advice on wheter the cretia was being met?

I hope they can recover from this, as it would be a terrible loss if it dissapeared for ever in its current format.