R.B.K.C HAVE ANOTHER POP AT THE CARNIVAL.

I read last week that the R.B.K.C Council have had yet another one of its regular digs at the Carnival, they seem to do this at least once a year, as if they just cant hide their hatred of Carnival and all they perceive it represents.
The main reasons they have given in the past are the old 'funding' chestnut, but that's a load of dung, they know full well that Carnival is the highest annual earner for many local business', traders, hotels etc, and helps to give the Borough a kudos that brings 'em in all year round, that and the 'public disorder' nonsense, even though, proportionally the Carnival is a beacon of mellow peace.
In many instances trouble has been caused by the closing of roads and the herding of tens of thousands of people against their will in a circuit alongside the floats, whatever the size of the street in front of them. I'm sure someone will die in one of those 'control zone' bottlenecks one day and it will be used as an excuse to move or close the Carnival (watch this space).


Do they come out with these threats because they want to make us feel that we should drop to our knees in gratitude for them allowing the event to happen? Or are they really out to stop it? Certainly there's been a growing number of nay-sayers over the past few years, many but not all, are people newly arrived in the area who didn't realise what they were moving into, either because they let themselves be misled by Estate agents because of the 'trendiness' of the area or because they are stupid, either way, their opinions should by all rights be ignored, unfortunately they cant.
Being the natural paranoid sort I'm wary of the 'yadda yadda' view and am inclined to take the Council seriously, i know they've issued these dire warnings before, but it's also true that the Carnival has really had to fight to stay alive in past years, with the sabre wielding Council up front during the attack.
This latest threat R.B.K.C has issued should i think be taken seriously, if only because it shows us that for the Carnival, the flickering candle of hatred is still burning strong in the Councils dark heart ('flickering candle of hatred', 'the Councils dark heart'? am i having a laugh?).