We are being sold a sinister lie about Notting Hill Carnival in the name of multiculturalism - Carole Malone

What they mean is that no one died.

But it’s the poor coppers on the ground who have to deal with the grim reality of this carnival. Year after year, they take a battering from drunken, drugged-up yobs.

They have to stand by smiling as they watch aggressive young men openly dealing drugs. They get spat at, headbutted, and punched.

But still, on the orders of their woke bosses, they have to carry on pretending that this is all one being one big festival of fun, which started after the Second World War to celebrate the people from Caribbean communities who had settled here.

But whatever it started out as – it’s a million miles away from that now.

Last year, there were 53 assaults on emergency workers. Hospitals tell stories of having to stitch up countless people who then run because rival gang members have followed them there to kill them.

But Assistant Police Commissioner, Matt Ward, seems to think this year’s carnival was a success and is grateful there were only two stabbings compared to last year, where one person was stabbed to death, another was beaten to death, and there were another eight stabbings.

But hey, there were only two this year, so that’s alright, which is what Ward seems to be saying.

Well, no, it damn well isn’t alright.

Because the policing bill to patrol this knife fest runs into tens of millions of pounds, and taxpayers have to cough up for that.

And isn’t it funny there’s never any coppers to come to our aid when we get beaten up, burgled or robbed? But there are hundreds of them at Carnival.

This year, on the day laughingly known as Family Day, the scenes went beyond ugly. Two women brawling in the streets. It took thirteen police officers to arrest just one crazed woman who tried to hit a police officer with a glass bottle full of booze.

Yet the capital’s idiot mayor, Sadiq Khan, had the brass neck to tweet about how “the streets are alive with music and joy showing the best of our city and the power of culture to unite us”.

If this cretin thinks this carnival demonstrates the wonders of multiculturalism and shows London off at its very best, it’s no wonder that the capital’s in the mess it’s in.

It’s no wonder that under him knife crime has rocketed by 60 per cent over the last three years, and huge swathes of the city have descended into vicious lawlessness, never more apparent than at this so-called festival.

And Khan is the bloke who this year got a knighthood for “political and public service”. It’s a joke!

But, of course, he’ll do and say anything to make sure he doesn’t offend ethnic minorities or the farce that is multiculturalism. Ditto the elites who see any criticism of the carnival as a criticism of multicultural Britain.

And so, what if it is? It doesn’t matter a stuff whether a festival celebrates – black culture or white culture (although we’d never be allowed a festival celebrating the latter), the point is if it results in murders, violence, stabbings, hundreds of arrests, sex assaults, drug busts and catastrophic carnage to an area – then of course it should be criticised. And stopped!

Or is the perceived thinking that because the people committing the crimes are Afro-Caribbean, they shouldn’t be criticised and should be allowed to get away with them?

And why are taxpayers having to foot the bill for this folly? In 2023 the Met police spent more than £11M policing the event.

Last year, the 7,000 officers on duty were drawn from local policing teams and other special policing teams. So basically, for the three days of the Carnival, the rest of the capital and beyond is not being policed.

Every year, 90 per cent of Notting Hill residents are forced to leave their homes for the duration of the three-day carnival.

They board up their windows and doors and have to pay for special security for their properties, knowing that one million drunks and drugged up people are doing to descend onto West London - intent on destroying them.

And they’re going to hurt people.

So why do we still allow an event knowing it’s going to potentially kill but definitely hurt people? This is an event we’ve been told time and again has the potential to be another Hillsborough.

In 2026, Met commander Dave Musker told the London Assembly: “Each year, we come exceptionally close to a catastrophic failure of public safety where members of the public will suffer serious injury.”

Again, in 2019, another GLA report warned of “a catastrophic public safety incident”.

Yet the idiot Khan still has the brass neck to call it “a festival of joy”.

But why, when there are so many risks, has so little been done to mitigate them? Or are they being ignored on the altar of Multiculturalism?

Why is London’s mayor so totally unprepared to address the very real safety concerns that go with this Carnival, especially as this year organisers were almost forced to cancel it because shocking scenes of violence in recent years left a £1million funding shortfall due to sponsorship drying up.

And of course, it’s drying up because businesses don’t want to be seen donating money where people end up being stabbed or murdered.

The Met Police were desperate to tell us that many arrests this year were made thanks to facial recognition cameras.

I’m sorry, but there were still 423 of them, and people were stabbed.

It’s the definition of insanity to crush one million people into a tiny corner of London with people intent on killing, on violence, dealing and taking drugs, on committing sexual assaults on women, and not expect carnage. Which there is. Every year!

Some say we should move the carnival to a huge park (so they can destroy that as well), so as not to disrupt residential areas of the city.

But surely any mass gathering which costs tens of millions to police and regularly ends in murders, stabbings, sexual assaults and drug busts shouldn’t be held at all!