[parmnion]

Rubbish piling up on the streets..mothers pushing buggies over maggot strewn pavements, rats the size of cats....this is britain in the year 2017 if labour has any imput in things.


Shamefull...

[Tom4784]

It's always been a ****hole regardless political parties, most cities are.

[Toy Soldier]

LOL at the idea of it being because it's "Labour Run".

This is the effect of now approaching a full decade of Tory austerity. What exactly do you think austerity means? It means cutting service after service, whittling away all but the bare essentials (and let's face it, some of the essentials too), and yeah, that means towns and cities becoming dirty and run-down.

Why do we see it in Birmingham more than / earlier than elsewhere? Easy answer to that one; it's by far the UK's biggest "normal" city. London gets a disproportionate amount of maintenance and attention because it's the "jewel in the British crown", so to speak. It's the city that the world sees, so it has to keep up appearances. Birmingham - along with other cities - are a more accurate representation of post-recession austerity Tory Britain.

[James]

I read it was partly because of a legal action that Birmingham council lost, where they were found not to have paid women enough for their jobs. So they have to keep male-dominated jobs like bin workers at lower pay, for parity.

[Kizzy]

Many Labour run councils do not have sufficient central government funding as opposed the the leafy tory boroughs making them appear to be under performing, when they have inadequate resources to function effectively.

[Oliver_W]

Places like Birmingham and Luton are just dumps, it doesn't matter who runs them.

[AProducer'sWetDream]

As a Birmingham resident I'll clear up what's going on. The council are looking to install CCTV on the back of the lorries that collect the rubbish, so that the driver can see what's happening at the back of the lorry from a little screen at the front. This is because one member of the 'team' per lorry must be a designated health and safety person, and rather than paying one of the men who collects the rubbish extra to be Mr Health and Safety, they can just get the driver to do it and save money.

So the binmen took industrial action and just as they were coming to a resolution with the council, the council broke their agreement and started making people redundant. And so it continues...

TL;DR- the binmen are on strike because the council shafted them.

P.S Birmingham is a lovely city and I will not have it be rubbished (get it ) by members of the forum.

[AProducer'sWetDream]

Furthermore I have not observed a single maggot or abnormally large rat since the indudtrial action began.