Carnival

agreed it does look like a hurricane is on its way and the streets are an open sewer for two days but it started long before it was fashionable to live there and it would be such a shame for it to be moved to somewhere like hyde park.

Agreed, but Notting Hill/Portobello wasn't made to receive 1 million plus people for a 2 day alcohol/drugs bender, my view of it is that it should be a community event for the community and run by the community, Hyde Park would have great potential to host a festival sort of event with parade and all. Organisers should be allowed to sell food/alcohol at their prices and use profit to run the event.

if you walk down portobello road now i doubt you will find traces of there having been a street festival over the weekend.

In an ideal world yes,in reality sadly it isn't. I traversed most of the carnival route this morning and the amount of glass that's still left on the streets is a piss take, from 7 years experience I can tell you that it'll be there for at least another month.