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Monday, 9 September 2019

Brent Momentum in "Kensal Rise Library"

Brent Momentum is advertising an event in "Kensal Rise Library" on 12 October, which is indicative of some rather strange connections.  The facebook publicity promises:

"Inspired by ‘The World Transformed’ festival held alongside the Labour Party conference since 2016, Brent Momentum is holding a day of discussion, debate, and organisation this autumn on practical ways to make Brent and the wider world more radically equal, just, democratic and sustainable.

Themes will include climate disaster, extreme inequality, racism, street violence, insecure and low-paid work, poor air equality and public health, inadequate overpriced housing."


Brent Momentum is of course an organisation founded as a Jeremy Corbyn support group that is principally known for it for its attacks on Brent Council, Labour Party members who don't support Jeremy Corbyn to the group's satisfaction and Boris Johnson in that order. 

Kensal Rise Library describes itself  as a library, and is largely dependent on money granted by Brent Council.  Having been originally formed as a campaign group against Brent Council's Librarieis Transformation Project, it then morphed into a privately run community group.  More recently still the main twitter feed was changed to suggest its purpose as "We will hang in there until it is publicly funded & run by the council."

It is run by the  Friends of Kensal Rise Library,  which is registered as a charity (no. 1141606).

It is unclear how all these connections work since they are not subject to any kind of public scrutiny.

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