Can someone help me wire 2 new lights into an existing 2-gang dimmable switch? AKA how does this even work at the moment?

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Described the situation in the image - I have a 2-gang dimmable switch on the wall that had 2 extra wires added in, when the new lights came installed.
The new lights are now here and installed, but for the life of me I can't figure out this wiring and how the neutral is not even wired into an L1 or L2.

What I would like to get is to have the 2 new lights on the same gang as the Nr 2 on the picture.
 

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Neutral wires are not switched , only the live .Your question suggests a complete lack of electrical knowledge .
Your lighting ring passes thru the switch , not common but not unusual .
Are you in a block of flats ?
 
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It's not; it is going from here TO com otherwise the switches would have no power.


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Looks more like the loop in and out to me.

If as you say, then there would be no power to the existing switches and lights.
 
Your question suggests a complete lack of electrical knowledge .
Your lighting ring passes thru the switch
Hmm. Does your electrical experience include lighting circuits provided as rings? I've never seen one.

Oh, Lord, I must have caught something from Winston1!
 
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Hmm. Does your electrical experience include lighting circuits provided as rings? I've never seen one.

Oh, Lord, I must have caught something from Winston1!
I meant a light circuit fed off the ring main , my in laws home had this as ceiling were concrete slabs .
 

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