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Summary: Media coverage of Long Left Boroughs.
Title number: 1679
LSA ID: LSA/2195
Description: Documentary about "loony leftism". The media machine fabricating stories about Baa Baa Black Sheep and Wendy Houses being banned in school settings. Specific mention of story that hit the news about Brent in February 1987 accused of high spending on ethnic minorities. Lucy Williams Youth Officer and Caribbean Exchange interviewed. Labour party fear the label will lose them votes and support. A group of academics debate the stories in the media and try and unravel the truth. The importance of having a council made up of the ethnic mix that the council is there to serve. Ex press officer from Hackney interviewed as well as political editor of Independent. The government looking at a ways of controlling centrally. The disadvantages of the poll tax and how it changed funding of local services and how the loony left contributed to the shift of power from local to central government.
Credits: Director Giles Oakley
Further information: To view this film one week's notice is required. Please contact Brent Archives, Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, Willesden Green NW10 2SF. Tel: 020 8937 3541. Email: archives@brent.gov.uk.
Keywords: Brent Council; Labour; Cultural discrimination; Mass Media;
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