So Brent Council thinks it has won

The High Court judge dealing with the Judicial Review to save six London Borough of Brent libraries has ruled in their favour.

Tokyngton library has been closed, along with five other libraries.

But the council fails to remember mistakes of the past.

I remember when this borough was dubbed “Looney Left” by national newspapers in the early 1980s.

The fact that one could read banned books in this borough’s libraries, such as Spycatcher by Peter Wright (which the Thatcher government tried to block which, not surpsingly, made this a best-seller) made this London borough great, as it refused to bend to central government rule.

I also remember the Government inspectors watching me and other pupils at Preston Manor High (now community) School.

But few publications stated their ruling - there was nothing wrong with this council so far as our education – Kenneth Baker (who commissioned this) eat your heart out.

When the council shut all school libraries in the late 1980s with the intention of selling them off, parents in this borough wouldn’t send their kids to be educated here.

They opted to educate them privately or in schools/colleges outside Brent.

Yet all of this is likely to happen again, thanks to the way they are shutting down (clearly with the intention of selling them off) six of this council’s libraries.

There has to be another way as this isn’t it.

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Light and Peace

Andria