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Editorial
Summer fun in Regents Park, pull the other one! The same city which every year in the summer is reporting record levels of drink related crimes, is now planning a "fan zone" in Regents Park for the world cup, is City Hall on a different planet?
Let’s just look at the following scenario. England vs Algeria, or is City Hall trying to pull wool over the eyes at the serious potential for violence in London. Algeria, lets not forget participated in some of the most horrendous violence during the African Cup of Nations, and the World cup qualifier against Egypt, resulting in the ambassadors for each country being withdrawn. In addition, Algerian's are well known throughout Europe to use knives and weapons, do we want this added threat on our streets? Added with our very own yobs who do not need very much to start street battles, City Hall have made a mistake here. We do not need a "fan-zone" in Regents Park.
Brian Coleman the Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden, spoke total sense yesterday in an interview with LBC, stating that the noise, disruption to local businesses of this "bear fest" in Regents Park did not justify the event being held in this particular Royal Park.
The Chairman of the Friends of Regents Park group Malcolm Kafetz said to the Camden New Journal:
“We are going to have a load of drunken louts roaming around the park. Personally I don’t think Regent’s Park is the right place for this sort of thing. Football fans are not like cricket fans.”
Keep football in pubs, lets not create a powder keg in the summer, we already have major problems in London, lets not create more animosity with the potential for open pitched battles in Regents Park.
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