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Posted by Brent Blogger on Aug 22, 08 11:10 AM in Brent Blogger

Did you notice Brent's powers at the town hall conducted a survey to discover if we preferred to be Brentists or Wemblites?
For some unfathomable reason to me, the vote was very highly in favour of us being in the Borough of Brent.
Obviously my address is still Wembley, Middlesex, but I now seem to be living in a place named after an insignificant creek.
Okay, I know there are the folk from Kilburn, Willesden and other places who are covered in the umbrella term of Brent, but I don't care.
We live in Wembley!
I don't really slobber about the big Red Riding Hood's shopping basket called the "New Wembley Stadium" and even less with all the moaning and screaming about the cost of changing the name back to Wembley.
It was Wembley when I moved here some 55 years ago and I dislike going away for a while to return to the same place where my home has migrated into a new region without changing address!
In days of yore, I lamented the demise of the London County Council and later my school having to relinquish the word Grammar from its title made me wince.
Now, our locals WANT us to be from Brent.
Hm!
Maybe it is time to migrate - again.

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