This Camden Momentum agenda, recently published on Jewish News, reminds me of many of the differences between the two Boroughs and the culture of Momentum and the Labour Party.
Brent Labour Party for many years has had an agenda of much more localised campaigning. Debates have traditionally been much more based on local issues, such as education, and grown out of events in Brent. While international issues have never been entirely absent, there has in all my time in the Labour Party in Brent been a suspicion of "pie in the sky" objectives and an emphasis on practicality. This is partly a legacy of the disastrous 1980s, when the Labour Party in Brent would have policy positions on the politics of Central America but was visibly failing to deliver effective local services at a reasonable cost.
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