I don't think this implication is fair "The anti-festival case gathered widespread support among the community in south London, although some residents are in favour of the events. A pro-Mighty Hoopla campaign group calling itself SayYesLambeth, run by members of a gay rugby team who wanted to attend the festival, briefly emerged before …
I don't think this implication is fair "The anti-festival case gathered widespread support among the community in south London, although some residents are in favour of the events. A pro-Mighty Hoopla campaign group calling itself SayYesLambeth, run by members of a gay rugby team who wanted to attend the festival, briefly emerged before fizzling out."
The festivals that take place sell out far in advance and clearly have more widespread support than the NIMBYs opposed if you choose to count them properly.
Not for nothing, but Hoopla didn't sell out far in advance. And how many of the thousands of people who attend actually live in the area and witness the damage and destruction it causes?
The Say Yes group fizzled out because their best argument was that they wanted somewhere to drink prosecco and dance. Lol
And who cares if they are local? For one, there are 9 million of us in Greater London and many of us count ourselves as part of the greater, not the tiny fiefdom boroughs (and I'm up the street in Camberwell). And two, London is the capital city, not some quiet town, it will be noisy.
You didn't see the pictures from last year.... Or clearly havent seen the damage that's still not recovered while they build on it again.
Don't have any beef with the noise. Just want to protect a green space instead of let it get trashed for the benefit of some shady PE firm (the same one thats about to take over Thames water btw).
Hardly anyone wants to ban them outright... We just want them scaled back or tale and occasional year off. Glastonbury does it.
I don't think this implication is fair "The anti-festival case gathered widespread support among the community in south London, although some residents are in favour of the events. A pro-Mighty Hoopla campaign group calling itself SayYesLambeth, run by members of a gay rugby team who wanted to attend the festival, briefly emerged before fizzling out."
The festivals that take place sell out far in advance and clearly have more widespread support than the NIMBYs opposed if you choose to count them properly.
Not for nothing, but Hoopla didn't sell out far in advance. And how many of the thousands of people who attend actually live in the area and witness the damage and destruction it causes?
The Say Yes group fizzled out because their best argument was that they wanted somewhere to drink prosecco and dance. Lol
"witness the damage and destruction it causes"
This is hyperbole.
And who cares if they are local? For one, there are 9 million of us in Greater London and many of us count ourselves as part of the greater, not the tiny fiefdom boroughs (and I'm up the street in Camberwell). And two, London is the capital city, not some quiet town, it will be noisy.
You didn't see the pictures from last year.... Or clearly havent seen the damage that's still not recovered while they build on it again.
Don't have any beef with the noise. Just want to protect a green space instead of let it get trashed for the benefit of some shady PE firm (the same one thats about to take over Thames water btw).
Hardly anyone wants to ban them outright... We just want them scaled back or tale and occasional year off. Glastonbury does it.
Now that is a homophobic dogwhistle.
Nope. Actually it's a direct quote from
one of the SayYes organisers in an article on this site.
"Mighty Hoopla, he said, is “honestly the best day of the year” where he gets to drink Prosecco with friends,"