No Panorama for Notting Hill Carnival?

What the jail!

I have been hearing these rumours rising, surging and falling, ebbing gently but refusing to die away.

I have been reliably informed that there will be no Panorama at Notting Hill Carnival this year at Hyde Park due to a lack of funding. Apparently, no one had the foresight or initiative to check last year whether funding was on track for this year. Quelle surprise! Frankly, this is a crying shame that years after our grandparents fought for Caribbean culture to be showcased in London, and it is our own carelessness and general laziness that have caused us to reach this new abyss! I am trying not to say that I knew it all along- when they decided to take Panorama away from its traditional home into Hyde Park, none of us complained because they brainwashed us into thinking that gentrification of our culture was in its best interests. What we did not see was that pan, the traditional instrument of our Carnival, was essential to its home. When we said nothing about its marginalisation, how can we now complain about its disappearance?

Damn good thing we didn't accept the bait for Carnival to be now in the Park because all of us would have been literally on shit street at the moment, waiting for a saviour and salvation. This is our own doing, and our own fault. We take the small incentives and fail to see the bigger picture. What a crying shame!

I will be trying to attend the next Notting Hill Board meeting for a better idea of what is going on,  so watch this space for further developments.