Local elections are not about National or International issues.
In local elections you vote for who will do the best job running local schools, maintaining council houses, keeping local streets clean, ensuring parks are maintained and safe, repairing roads, providing support for those who need care in old age, anti social behaviour etc.
For National or International issues you need to contact your Member of Parliament - there are 3 covering Brent:
Barry Gardiner - Labour: barry.gardiner.mp@parliament.uk
Dawn Butler - Labour: dawn.butler.mp@parliament.uk
Bob Blackman - Conservative: bob.blackman.mp@parliament.uk
"Anonymous22 April 2026 at 17:41" says "There has never been a local election ever where people haven’t been influenced by national politics" and that's exactly why we ended up with a majority Labour run Brent Council making poor decisions without proper opposition or scrutiny.
Vote for those who will make a difference locally on local issues.
"Anonymous22 April 2026 at 17:41" says "There has never been a local election ever where people haven’t been influenced by national politics" - for years people voted Labour in local elections in protest at the Tory Government but that didn't get rid of the Tory PM or Tory Government it just meant that we ended up with a Labour run Brebt Council which has destroyed our borough!
I will be voting on who can eliminate the fly tipping, street drinking, urinating on the local streets in broad daylight and sort out the pavements. Not voting Labour this time.
If a synagogue can be targeted for arsonist by allegedly a 17 year old, what does that say? It means the council is not using resources across all denominations of schools for interfaith work. Maybe focus on the interfaith stuff that does happen in the community.
At the hustings. No candidate championed 2ha South Kilburn Public Open Space (Brent Kilburn Park) being strongest green protected and invested in for the car-free towered tenants of Kilburn Tower Walls future health, wellbeing and community needs. Park open 24/7, its regeneration year 25, the park has a late 2024 Brent expand and upgrade plan, but the park also has its woodland a brownfield site allocation in the Brent Local Plan (being Reviewed), so bit-by bit park destruction to 'support' massive scale population growth zoned is also an option. Towers only and no welfare state infrastructure zoned, 'the worse the better' Reform policy.
Instead at hustings, the rabbit hole of 0.5 ha Granville Road Open Space was focused on. South Kilburn local people are locked-out of using it, so that debate is about taking the two padlocks off this public open space pocket park renewed in 2010 'as part of the final masterplan'. Again of course its also a brownfield site allocation in the BLP!
South Kilburn hustings. Just saying that the Granville pocket park lock-out political distracts from the 24/7 open to all 2ha Kilburn Park. Lots of noise, but both are under very real developer threat. One a public lock-out, one neglect and carelessness along the lines of whoops we damaged a veteran tree with heavy machinery building a temporary road in the park.
'Nothing to see there' for politicians re South Kilburn Public Open Space 2ha which is the park for Kilburn Tower Wall.
Lets instead all talk about 'Granville Rec' (Granville Road Public Open Space remains) which the local public is locked-out of because deemed to be anti-social in behaviour. Some would say that a private lock-out from a public open space is anti-social behaviour. True Blue Labourism.
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First question must be about all these attacks on jews locally over israel
Local elections are not about National or International issues.
In local elections you vote for who will do the best job running local schools, maintaining council houses, keeping local streets clean, ensuring parks are maintained and safe, repairing roads, providing support for those who need care in old age, anti social behaviour etc.
For National or International issues you need to contact your Member of Parliament - there are 3 covering Brent:
Barry Gardiner - Labour: barry.gardiner.mp@parliament.uk
Dawn Butler - Labour:
dawn.butler.mp@parliament.uk
Bob Blackman - Conservative: bob.blackman.mp@parliament.uk
There has never been a local election ever where people haven’t been influenced by national politics
Believe it or not, there are FOUR MPs covering Brent.
"Anonymous22 April 2026 at 17:41" says
"There has never been a local election ever where people haven’t been influenced by national politics" and that's exactly why we ended up with a majority Labour run Brent Council making poor decisions without proper opposition or scrutiny.
Vote for those who will make a difference locally on local issues.
"Anonymous22 April 2026 at 17:41" says
"There has never been a local election ever where people haven’t been influenced by national politics" - for years people voted Labour in local elections in protest at the Tory Government but that didn't get rid of the Tory PM or Tory Government it just meant that we ended up with a Labour run Brebt Council which has destroyed our borough!
I will be voting on who can eliminate the fly tipping, street drinking, urinating on the local streets in broad daylight and sort out the pavements. Not voting Labour this time.
If a synagogue can be targeted for arsonist by allegedly a 17 year old, what does that say? It means the council is not using resources across all denominations of schools for interfaith work. Maybe focus on the interfaith stuff that does happen in the community.
Perhaps split votes which often let Labour in will work against them as their vote is split with Greens over this none local issue
Talking of candidates not engaged....
At the hustings. No candidate championed 2ha South Kilburn Public Open Space (Brent Kilburn Park) being strongest green protected and invested in for the car-free towered tenants of Kilburn Tower Walls future health, wellbeing and community needs. Park open 24/7, its regeneration year 25, the park has a late 2024 Brent expand and upgrade plan, but the park also has its woodland a brownfield site allocation in the Brent Local Plan (being Reviewed), so bit-by bit park destruction to 'support' massive scale population growth zoned is also an option. Towers only and no welfare state infrastructure zoned, 'the worse the better' Reform policy.
Instead at hustings, the rabbit hole of 0.5 ha Granville Road Open Space was focused on. South Kilburn local people are locked-out of using it, so that debate is about taking the two padlocks off this public open space pocket park renewed in 2010 'as part of the final masterplan'. Again of course its also a brownfield site allocation in the BLP!
I am confused. Are you writing about the South Kilburn hustings?
South Kilburn hustings. Just saying that the Granville pocket park lock-out political distracts from the 24/7 open to all 2ha Kilburn Park. Lots of noise, but both are under very real developer threat. One a public lock-out, one neglect and carelessness along the lines of whoops we damaged a veteran tree with heavy machinery building a temporary road in the park.
'Nothing to see there' for politicians re South Kilburn Public Open Space 2ha which is the park for Kilburn Tower Wall.
Lets instead all talk about 'Granville Rec' (Granville Road Public Open Space remains) which the local public is locked-out of because deemed to be anti-social in behaviour. Some would say that a private lock-out from a public open space is anti-social behaviour. True Blue Labourism.
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