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YouTube video by Chamber UK Birmingham Council’s Collapse Explained: Austerity, Mismanagement, or Both?

Do you want to know why Birmingham City Council is bankrupt? Chambers have made an excellent documentary on the subject which you can see on YouTube (linked here). I was more than happy to take part and help tell the story.

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"If you're here in this country..." tells you exactly who the flags are aimed at, and why they're being flown.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.

Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

YouTube video by Birmingham Liberal Democrats Improving Birmingham highways: Councillor Colin Green speaks at full council

Why are the roads in Birmingham so bad? Because the council is in stasis until the government decides whether to allow us to continue with PFI or not. I spoke at the council this week to get them to urge Angela Rayner to get on with it.
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Anger as Brum Council pushes ahead with 'unjust' park charges Birmingham City Council has plans to introduce new parking charges at Lickey Hills, Sutton Park and Sheldon Country Park

Labour confirms car parking charges at Sheldon Country park. It's madness. The money raised in parking charges will be less than the cost of the ticket machines. Everyone will lose out except the people who fit the machines.

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Birmingham bin dispute could run until December after vote for more strikes Unite says industrial action will last ‘for as long as it takes’ after 97% of workers in latest ballot vote to continue The bin strike in Birmingham could last until December after nearly 400 workers voted to continue industrial action. Unite, the trade union representing the striking workers, said 97% of workers voted in favour of further strike action in its latest ballot on a 75% turnout. Continue reading...

Birmingham bin dispute could run until December after vote for more strikes

Chief Constable Craig Guildford should keep police at picket lines Resident’s health and wellbeing should always be the priority. Workers that are not striking must be allowed to do their job and keep the city clear of hazardous rubbish pile ups.

Group Leader Cllr Roger Harmer urges the Chief Constable Craig Guildford to keep police on the picket lines.

More here:

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You can just see the Lib Dem election leaflets:

“Labour cut your benefits then gave the money to Elon Musk.”

There is no way that this will not come back to bite Labour if they do it.

Apartment plans approved despite concern over 'mistake lasting 100 years' The Birmingham Smithfield scheme is set to transform the former wholesale markets near the Bullring shopping centre into a major new destination

The one thing Brum has enough of is 1 bed flats. They They serve a more transitory group, and can erode a sense of community.
The city needs more family homes.
Cllr Green regularly makes this point when new developments come to the planning committee:

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Cllr Paul Tilsley speaks about the Birmingham budget Message to Birmingham Labour: "There is a Labour government, a Labour council and Labour Mayor. You’ve got nowhere to hide anymore, the responsibility is with you."

Cllr Tilsley:
"Following Cllr Waseem Zaffar’s comments, I think it’s imperative to remind him that there is a Labour government, a Labour council and Labour Mayor.

You’ve got nowhere to hide anymore, the responsibility is with you."

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By suspending all military aid to Ukraine, Donald Trump has humiliated the people who pretended he was a reliable ally only in search of peace.

The UK and Europe must seize frozen Russian assets to resist Putin’s unjust and savage war.

Latest news re the Brum bin strikes is garden waste collections have been suspended. 😥

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"If the President of the United States is doing things that are against the British national interest and against our values, someone has to point them out."

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Brum bins are looking grim Strike action means that many are being left without a bin collection, and recycling is not being collected. Here are all future strike dates and updates for residents on what to do:

An update on Birmingham bin collections.
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Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn.

It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

Liberal Democrats believe that we have a moral obligation to stand up to Trump and challenge his view of the world.

That will almost certainly necessitate a realignment, where we look closer to home, to our European partners for our future security alliances.

Brum's second eye-watering council tax hike sparks blame game Birmingham City Council plans to increase council by around 7.5 per cent - a year after a rise of just under 10 per cent

Council tax is going up again by 7.5% in 2025....but Birmingham Labour originally asked for a 10% increase.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Birmingham City council denied permission for new 9.99% tax rise But the government says the council can increase it by 7.5% without a local referendum.

Birmingham's council tax will go up 7.5% this year instead of the 10% that was planned. The equal pay settlement is not as high as some feared, so the council doesn't have to raise quite as much to pay for it.

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Old cars did something similar with blink codes. Garages without diagnostic equipment could read out fault codes using flashes of the warning light.

Ed Davey on Elon Musk.
Ironic that it’s a screengrab from X but we’ll work on that… 😉

Exact date your last bin will be collected in Birmingham before bin strike 12-day bin strike planned from early 2025 after crunch talks broke down between Unite and Birmingham city council

Bin workers' strikes start on Monday and will cover 12 dates over the next 4 months. The strikes are because the illegal pay settlements that triggered Birmingham's 'bankruptcy' are being changed to comply with discrimination law.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Hey, Brummies!

Check your bin collection days here:

www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20009/w...

And have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :)

Birmingham bin workers set to strike for twelve days Breaking news as the union representing refuse workers said 12 days of full strike action have been planned

Birmingham's refuse collectors are to strike in the new year.
Birmingham City Council's 'bankruptcy' was caused by equal pay claims from the unlawful settlement to bin strikes in 2017 and 2019. This strike is over making their pay equal.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

MPs have BACKED Sarah Olney's Lib Dem bill on electoral reform. This is a historic day for fair votes.

Today, as we have done for a century, Liberal Democrats are leading the fight for fair votes and making sure that no one can be ignored in our democracy.

When someone dies or is injured on the city’s roads, survivors and bereaved families are the ones most directly affected. However, it indirectly affects everyone within the city too. The total societal cost of killed and seriously injured casualties in the West Midlands for 2023 was £444 million. Road deaths and serious injuries in Birmingham during 2023 account for approximately £205 million of the regional costs (almost 50%). The costs are calculated annually based on estimated real costs for lost output, medical and ambulance, police, insurance and damage to property. Currently every fatality is estimated to cost £2.4 million, and when a person is seriously injured, £271,00015.

A new Birmingham City Council scrutiny report has highlighted the enormous financial burden of road harm, with road casualties costing around £205 million in Birmingham EVERY year.

The current status quo is not only unacceptable on a human level but also economically ruinous.

I've never been a fan of Black Friday. Here's a good example. I've had my eye on a CNC router. £482 on their website. £479 on the Black Friday preview email. Save £3 or a whole 0.6%.

Birmingham bin workers balloted on strike action Workers will be consulted on industrial action over plans that could see dozens lose pay, a union says.

Birmingham's "bankruptcy" was caused by settling bin strikes in a way that broke equalities law. The BBC report that bin workers are being balloted for another strike. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...