Birmingham City Council Labour :Bankrupt

[arista]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66715441


[Birmingham City Council has declared itself effectively bankrupt.
The local authority - the largest in Europe - has issued a Section 114 notice preventing all but essential spending to protect core services.
The pressures have been linked to a £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.
In a joint statement, the leader and deputy leader of the Labour authority said the move was a "necessary step as we seek to get our city back on a sound financial footing". ]


Life In The City

[bots]

2 things

1. Labour show how good they are at managing finances

2. The reason they are in this mess is because they actively discriminated against women

[UserSince2005]

my friends who bought in Birmingham never stop going on about what a great city it is and how it was the best decision ever to buy there.

[arista]

2 things

1. Labour show how good they are at managing finances

2. The reason they are in this mess is because they actively discriminated against women


Yes Mega pay-outs to the women staff

A Decade Ago Payments.

[The Slim Reaper]

The Effects of 13 years of austerity really starting to show through. School buildings programmed scrapped, budgets slashed year on year, despite greater needs.

The country has at least another 6/7 years of this under this gov then the labour one to follow.

[arista]

No Slim

They never updated female pay.

Pathetic Labour Council

[Crimson Dynamo]

paid out over £1,000,000,000 in compo

and its fcked them

meanwhile these council clowns wasted hundreds of thousands of quid on wokery and inclusive street signs

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/09/12/36635418-9031341-image-a-40_1607516125877.jpg

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9031341/Birmingham-council-accused-woke-virtue-signalling-naming-street-Diversity-Grove.html

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/09/12/36635464-9031341-image-a-41_1607516181767.jpg

STUFF your Gimmicks Lady


Empty the Bloody Bins

[arista]

[Louise Kilbride, from Handsworth Wood,
who won the competition to rename the roads
in the Labour-run council
is a Jeremy Corbyn supporter.]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/09/20/36652878-9031341-image-a-1_1607545083175.jpg

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5QfG2bWEAApWaQ?format=jpg&name=900x900

[arista]

£87million
Hole.


Some other Councils are getting near
going bankrupt

[The Slim Reaper]

Energy companies = record profits
Amazon, Starbucks, and other corporations also raking in ridiculous profits, as services crumble in the country.

The politicians in thrall to capital are literally killing us. If only there was a way to take some of those profits to redistribute. I don't know, call it a tax or something.

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8B55/production/_130996653_2financialtimes_page-0001-1.jpg.webp

[arista]

The Council Leader is in NYC
on a nice Holiday.

Sod the Dead Council

[arista]

Revealed: How 'bankrupt' Birmingham council
spent millions on botched IT system,
'inclusive' new street signs,
and the Commonwealth Games - while also
blowing £50m from the hated Clean Air Zone
on hydrogen buses... as rubbish piles up
and violence soars

Birmingham declared itself effective bankrupt
after blowing millions of pounds




https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/09/06/21/75141111-0-image-m-11_1694033687705.jpg

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/09/06/18/75133535-12488241-image-a-175_1694022821054.jpg

[Under-fire council boss John Cotton
told the BBC 'tough decisions' would need
to be made, as it emerged he was dealing
with the crisis remotely while on
holiday with his family]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12488241/How-bankrupt-Birmingham-council-spent-millions-botched-inclusive-new-street-signs-Commonwealth-Games-blowing-50m-hated-Clean-Air-Zone-hydrogen-buses-rubbish-piles-violence-soars.html

[arista]

Michael Gove MP (Secretary of State for Levelling Up,
Housing and Communities and Minister
for Intergovernmental Relations)
is sending Commissioners in.

£760million owed
The Council may have to sell the Museum
and many more buildings.


BBC Report

[Mystic Mock]

my friends who bought in Birmingham never stop going on about what a great city it is and how it was the best decision ever to buy there.

It does have BCFC, Pizza Shack, Stab City/Star City and Prego Pizza.

Like Graeme Souness, I blame Paul Pogba as to why Birmingham City Council has lost a **** ton of money.

[Alf]

£87million
Hole.


Some other Councils are getting near
going bankruptAll Labour or Green councils no doubt?

[Oliver_W]

The Council may have to sell the Museum
and many more buildings.

Of course they will :rolleyes:

I bet they'll sell off any remaining green spaces too.

[bots]

if they dont sell off their assets, residents will end up paying much more for vastly reduced services. They haven't even touched yet on the unemployment it will cause too

[arista]

A BBC Clip has a Birmingham
Councillor Crying

As All Arts and projects are now CUT
under the Bankrupt Council.


Was Debated on Ch5HD 1st show Live
a Reporter from Birmingham
also on a screen.

[bots]

i wonder how much the council charge will be for birmingham residents this year

[Crimson Dynamo]

Looks like Denver is next

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1764351279113867582?s=20

:shocked:

[arista]

LT thats USA

Not UK

[joeysteele]

There'll be more and more councils in this position or very near to it.

Of all political persuasions

[bots]

Birmingham City Council has signed off a wave of cuts to services ahead of a 21% rise in council tax over two years.

The largest local authority in Europe has declared itself effectively bankrupt and needs to make £300m in savings.

The financial measures have been described by those on the Labour-led council as "devastating".

Leader John Cotton apologised "unreservedly" to people living in the city during a full meeting on Tuesday.

Last September, the council said it could not afford to meet its financial obligations.

The cuts were first published in draft form in February, and touch on everything from reduced waste collections to dimmed street lighting.

The crunch vote, in which 53 councillors voted for and three against, came hours before Jeremy Hunt was set to reveal his Budget.

In it, the chancellor is expected to ask councils to reduce spending on diversity schemes and consultants.

Local authorities across the country have said they are struggling to balance the books, with Nottingham also announcing big cuts to services.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-68483264