“Rainbow Park”, “Freedom Peace and Harmony Park” and “Peace Park of Equals” were also featured, along with “Ramsey Park” and “MacDonald Park” – an obvious deconstruction of Ramsey MacDonald, the former Labor leader , who had weak ties to local landmarks. Brent Borough’s council says it is continuing its “commitment” work pending a formal decision on a new name, which it has been seeking since the outbreak of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. At the time, Gladstone – widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest political leaders – was swept into a local review of “historical forms involved in the slave trade” for pushing for compensation for slave owners such as his father after his abolition. . Although he went on to call slavery the “most heinous crime” in history, he was named in a dossier commissioned by the council with “historical figures whose views, combined with the slave trade, are inappropriate.”
