Lib Dem member Bob Sullivan’s reply from the Council regarding the cancellation of the Leyton Carnival last summer showed that local Councillors and officers, after receiving the accolade of the London Borough of Culture, know nothing about local culture. A cultural event of over 40 years, which included the whole of the community with many borough infant and junior schools involved, was cancelled. Instead they granted £30,000 to a company Carnivalista Culture, a provider of 28 workshops across the borough.    

Bob Sullivan says: “How outrageous!  How can one of the biggest cultural events in the borough, be replaced with a so-called carnival company which did not produce a carnival? We will be pressing the Council to bring the carnival back this year.