Richard Barnbrook

It is that time again when my mind has to focus on a suitable selection of questions which are destined to be submitted before the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. To give you a little insight into the mechanics, members of the London Assembly are permitted to submit only one oral question to Mayor Boris and,having to do so several days before the session itself. it is important to select a topic that has legs.

On the last few occasions I’ve pushed the knife crime issue very hard indeed and like to think that the ethnic discrepancy between white victims and African Caribbean assailants has now become public knowledge is in some way down to my efforts. Yes I’ve received a bit of flak from the usual suspects, but I can hardly be accused, like the Labour Party was very recently, of allowing young black men to die on the streets. You might even be interested to learn that I’ve received a bit of support from the black community , some of whom realise that perhaps in this particular circumstance it is perhaps about time to start focusing inwards with a view to solving this enormous problem.

Unfortunately for the liberals and other multicultural fantasists the ethnic associations with violent crime are becoming more and more difficult to ignore. Take the disgraceful scenes at the weekend’s Notting Hill carnival which saw 500 arrests, police officers injured by rioters and a Metropolitan Police Invoice winding its way towards the taxpayer to the tune of £6 million. Not that I blame the police here, in fact I feel very sorry for those officers on the front line who had to endure that shocking level of violence, hatred and intimidation.

You will remember that after appalling scenes in both London and Glasgow following on from England/Scotland football matches, the fixtures were suspended. At the time I thought that this was a slightly over the top response, but if fans can’t learn to behave themselves then they have to accept the consequences. Perhaps my question to Boris Johnson should demand an explanation as to why for instance the Notting Hill Carnival cannot, likewise, be suspended until the Afro Caribbean community learns to control its violent and aggressive young men. What’s more why on earth should London taxpayers have to continue to finance not only the policing of the event, but the actual sponsorship of the event itself. I wonder what kind of politically correct claptrap I shall receive for my troubles.To think that London’s St George’s day celebrations will be run on a budget of just £100,000, it’s almost as if every August bank holiday the whole population of this great city of ours is collectively mugged.