Wiring new light fitting

[Tmdh89]

I have removed a light fitting and thought it'd just be a case of matching colours up, but on closer inspection something seems odd to me. The labelled L and N wired are from the old fitting that were attached to a transformer so I cut them. But from what I can see the one labelled N is attached to the switched live and the one labelled L is attached to neutral. I currently have the switch away from the wall as I'm doing some decorating so quite certain the black wire is switched live.

From my understanding of ceiling roses, I'll need to put the brown wire from my new fitting to the switched live, and the blue to the neutral, the opposite to how it was wired before?

 

[Sureitsoff?]

Lights don't really care which way round they are wired. And can we see some cables, brown probably, wrapped in tape just behind the bracket?
The connections really should be in an enclosure.

 

[Tmdh89]

Ok so wired either way doesn't matter, the light'll still work? Just trying to get my head around how the other one worked, and yeah the more DIY I do on this house the more cheap work and botches I find, I'll unwrap those and stick them in a wago.
Thanks

 

[Sureitsoff?]

Ideally ALL the connections should be in an enclosure which is usually the ceiling rose but you could use a small lighting junc box like this
https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/ASJ501.html above the ceiling
and have just one cable down to the fitting

 

[Tmdh89]

All wired up and working, thanks for your help.

 

[Risteard]

Lights don't really care which way round they are wired. And can we see some cables, brown probably, wrapped in tape just behind the bracket?
The connections really should be in an enclosure.

Polarity can be important from a safety perspective depending on the lampholder.