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We've had this conversation before. It comes around every year
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I think your position is it's simply too dangerous, and now they want more money from the taxpayer simply to keep it open
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It's crazy, isn't it? We're talking at least £12 million to police
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Some of which, most of that is, well, half of it's overtime for the police to get held over bank holiday
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Now, the concerns are these. One, it's very dangerous. The crust situation is unbelievable to have such masses of crowds
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in a residential area. And secondly, the levels of crime. There's an average of 10 stabbings every year
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And as you said, there was two murders last year. There was a murder in 2022
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So my view is they should not be funding this event unless they're prepared to move
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And if they're prepared to move, then they should move it to somewhere like Hyde Park
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which can be policed and controlled with security properly. And also the people can pay to go there, because why should me, you
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or any other viewer or listener, be paying for this event. It's just not on
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It's a waste of taxpayers' money. If people want to go to this event, let them pay for it
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Now Mike Neville of course supporters of the event would say it an important cultural event They would also say that the taxpayer pays for policing at things like the football But of course you told me many times in the past that if the Notting Hill Carnival was policed like the football
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there'd be many, many more arrests. Yeah, absolutely. When they say there's been 100 arrests at Notting Hill, if somebody behaved in the same way at a Millwall football match
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you know, twerking with female officers to the point of indecent assault
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openly smoking drugs or abusing the police. They'd be straight away arrested
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And even more so, if there was any football or any event which was attended by white working class lads
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where there was 10 stabbings a year and two murders last year
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it simply wouldn't be allowed to go ahead. If it's that important culturally, they can move it
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they can have it in a place which is safe for all those attending and can be proper police because you could put knife arches
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And also with Notting Hill, because it's residential, you could hide a knife or drugs within the carnival area, under a bin, under a bush, a week before the event, turn up and use it
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If it was properly prepared in Hyde Park, where there's a proper suite by drugs, dogs and things like that, that wouldn't be allowed to happen
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So it'd be much safer. The event could be held and the taxpayer wouldn't be fronting up for it
