Birmingham City Council 'effectively bankrupt'
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Biggy Stardust said:
Predictable & fairly guaranteed income yet still overspending. Plenty of vanity projects.
Impressive.
Are you as knowledgeable about this as you are about the various other topics you post on?Impressive.
LA authority budgets have been cut by between 15% and 25% in real terms since 2010. At the same time demand for services has increased. What do you think happens when income falls and expenditure increases?
Countdown said:
Biggy Stardust said:
Predictable & fairly guaranteed income yet still overspending. Plenty of vanity projects.
Impressive.
Are you as knowledgeable about this as you are about the various other topics you post on?Impressive.
LA authority budgets have been cut by between 15% and 25% in real terms since 2010. At the same time demand for services has increased. What do you think happens when income falls and expenditure increases?
Countdown said:
Are you as knowledgeable about this as you are about the various other topics you post on?
LA authority budgets have been cut by between 15% and 25% in real terms since 2010. At the same time demand for services has increased. What do you think happens when income falls and expenditure increases?
What I would like to happen is that all the vanity schemes be cut from the program. (They aren't, fyi)LA authority budgets have been cut by between 15% and 25% in real terms since 2010. At the same time demand for services has increased. What do you think happens when income falls and expenditure increases?
Birmingham council decided to put a huge cycle scheme from Brum centre out to Brum Uni, casuing chaos in the process & costing a few kings' ransoms. It has almost zero use for most of its length- Brum council were the only people who couldn't predict this in advance.
There are plenty of other examples.
Edited by Biggy Stardust on Tuesday 5th September 11:33
I’m sure that I heard they thought the gender pay gap was sorted and it’s come back to bite them.
I do wonder how they managed to get that so wrong?
In terms of spending though….
Quite happy to spend billions on a tram system to nowhere, not learning lessons from the past when tram systems were removed due to cost and inflexibility.
They could have followed the lead of other cities and introduced trolley buses - cheaper, quieter but no, let’s reinvent the past.
Or a fleet of green energy buses but no, let’s revisit Victorian technology that will result in transport infrastructure failure as soon as a water main bursts or a gas main leaks.
I do wonder how they managed to get that so wrong?
In terms of spending though….
Quite happy to spend billions on a tram system to nowhere, not learning lessons from the past when tram systems were removed due to cost and inflexibility.
They could have followed the lead of other cities and introduced trolley buses - cheaper, quieter but no, let’s reinvent the past.
Or a fleet of green energy buses but no, let’s revisit Victorian technology that will result in transport infrastructure failure as soon as a water main bursts or a gas main leaks.
shed driver said:
In all seriousness, is this country broken? Highest tax take since WW2 and what do we have to show for it?
SD.
If you look at the books, there's an awful lot of money sloshing around in Birmingham coffers but if you look at where it's been spent there is an awful lot on welfare and social spending, in some places of Birmingham 45% of people are economically inactive.SD.
Revenues have not been growing and the status quo is not changing anytime soon.
Blaming the teat of central government funding is all well and good to keep the status quo going but one of the reasons it was choked off was to drive change in local government strategy and spending habits.
shed driver said:
In before anyone else.
Feckless, woke, public sector non jobs.
In all seriousness, is this country broken? Highest tax take since WW2 and what do we have to show for it?
SD.
Well my parents and parents-in-law recently got big pension increases. Have got good use of the NHS of late. Have massive equity in their homes.Feckless, woke, public sector non jobs.
In all seriousness, is this country broken? Highest tax take since WW2 and what do we have to show for it?
SD.
And don't pay much tax. Oh and their favourite haunt, the local garden centre, stayed open during Covid.
Meanwhile schools were shut, school buildings falling apart and local councils out of cash.
All good though, Saga cruises have six new ships on order for all the demand.
oyster said:
Well my parents and parents-in-law recently got big pension increases. Have got good use of the NHS of late. Have massive equity in their homes.
And don't pay much tax. Oh and their favourite haunt, the local garden centre, stayed open during Covid.
Meanwhile schools were shut, school buildings falling apart and local councils out of cash.
All good though, Saga cruises have six new ships on order for all the demand.
And don't pay much tax. Oh and their favourite haunt, the local garden centre, stayed open during Covid.
Meanwhile schools were shut, school buildings falling apart and local councils out of cash.
All good though, Saga cruises have six new ships on order for all the demand.
oyster said:
Well my parents and parents-in-law recently got big pension increases. Have got good use of the NHS of late. Have massive equity in their homes.
And don't pay much tax. Oh and their favourite haunt, the local garden centre, stayed open during Covid.
Meanwhile schools were shut, school buildings falling apart and local councils out of cash.
All good though, Saga cruises have six new ships on order for all the demand.
Lol. Spending money on the last of their voters while they are still alive? And don't pay much tax. Oh and their favourite haunt, the local garden centre, stayed open during Covid.
Meanwhile schools were shut, school buildings falling apart and local councils out of cash.
All good though, Saga cruises have six new ships on order for all the demand.
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