"Worried About The Future" | Cllr Alex Bip On Birmingham City Council Declaring Bankruptcy

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  • Опубліковано 5 вер 2023
  • Cllr Alex Yip joins TalkTV’s Ian Collins to discuss Birmingham City Council declaring bankruptcy after being hit with a £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.
    In a statement declaring itself in financial distress, the local authority said it will "tighten the spend controls already in place and put them in the hands of the Section 151 officer to ensure there is complete grip".
    Yip says: ''Nobody has been able to get hold of John Cotton. He is not answering his emails. I have emailed him and got nothing back.''
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 37

  • @imbonkers3629
    @imbonkers3629 10 місяців тому +14

    Just a couple of years ago the sold off the airport and N,E,C arena for £800 million, and still £760 million in debt, we need a criminal investigation on all councils, because 7 are bankrupt and dozens more to follow, what have they done with trillions because all our services have got worse 🙈

    • @Tomara710
      @Tomara710 10 місяців тому +4

      Stuffed it in their pockets .

    • @sabrinam6895
      @sabrinam6895 10 місяців тому +1

      Buying electric cars and worrying about climate change I bet!

    • @saragonmcenany6229
      @saragonmcenany6229 10 місяців тому +1

      About that investigation- needs to start with Lord Whitby and former councillor Alan Rudge. Stephen Hughes and Eric Pickles

    • @sabrinam6895
      @sabrinam6895 10 місяців тому

      @@saragonmcenany6229 and they go and lecture other countries about their corruption, lack of interest in climate change, and these people are the most corrupt. People who fail to see this are plain ignorant or secretly love what’s going on at the moment

  • @hellsbells7271
    @hellsbells7271 10 місяців тому +11

    They need to explain why they pay a taxi service 17 million pounds a year to ferry kids back and to to school.
    Wouldn't a school bus be cheaper.
    That is an extortionate amount of money to pay out and it's probably 16 and a half million too much.
    This needs investigating.

    • @imbonkers3629
      @imbonkers3629 10 місяців тому +1

      Lessons will be learned let’s move on 🙈

    • @susanwestern6434
      @susanwestern6434 10 місяців тому

      The disabled Muslim children, due to inbreeding, obviously can't use a bus.

    • @user-dl6pn9kp8m
      @user-dl6pn9kp8m 9 місяців тому +2

      Council back handers to their relatives.

  • @gwheregwhizz
    @gwheregwhizz 10 місяців тому +3

    I'm quite happy to only receive essential services in exchange for a council tax bill for essential services.

  • @Roundhead75
    @Roundhead75 10 місяців тому +8

    I bet you 100% there are diversity and inclusion managers on the payroll , probably at the 100,000 a year mark.

    • @user-dl6pn9kp8m
      @user-dl6pn9kp8m 9 місяців тому

      Absolutely, they have an equalities division.

  • @patricktracey7424
    @patricktracey7424 10 місяців тому +2

    increasing council taxes decreasing or stopping public services and yet there staffing levels remain the same , they have more cash to spend than any other council in europe should it not be less work less staff, redundancies, pay cuts and stopping there golden pensions. then find out who the incompetents were who caused this.

  • @susanwestern6434
    @susanwestern6434 10 місяців тому +5

    It's Alex Yip, not Bip. Please check information before posting.

  • @imbonkers3629
    @imbonkers3629 10 місяців тому +4

    He will stay on holiday then resign with his gold plated pension 🙈

  • @ryanlynock7546
    @ryanlynock7546 10 місяців тому +2

    you will own nothink and be happy ,,,klaus probs paid for his holiday

  • @Roundhead75
    @Roundhead75 10 місяців тому +3

    You get what you vote for.

    • @user-ey6rl3oy7p
      @user-ey6rl3oy7p 10 місяців тому +1

      No, you hope you get what you think you paid for. Then you look closer and you can see they are just as bad as the last lot.

  • @jensenswang8135
    @jensenswang8135 10 місяців тому

    Kirklees is next - another council with questionable spending practices.

  • @eleveneleven572
    @eleveneleven572 10 місяців тому

    They need to rename the Labour leader Brave Sir Robin......RUN AWAY !!!!

  • @patricktracey7424
    @patricktracey7424 10 місяців тому +2

    perhaps they took lessons and advice from wee krankie sturgeon and the SNP.

  • @cchan824
    @cchan824 10 місяців тому +2

    Maybe get his name right

  • @pomebiosolutions9009
    @pomebiosolutions9009 10 місяців тому +1

    Does that include more money for Ukraine???

    • @joeboy9781
      @joeboy9781 10 місяців тому +1

      ....let's hope it's not more "things", because watching the news, these conservatives are going to lead you to participate in the war.....
      ....Russia warns of an "escalation" if the US places nuclear bombs in the United Kingdom.

  • @angelachanelhuang1651
    @angelachanelhuang1651 10 місяців тому

    Birmingham is a popular town

  • @dorothyparkes4831
    @dorothyparkes4831 10 місяців тому

    If women had been given equal pay in the first place this situation would not have arisen

  • @sabrinam6895
    @sabrinam6895 10 місяців тому

    Over bloated workforce as well I bet- many posts probably not even needed!

    • @andrewthomas695
      @andrewthomas695 10 місяців тому

      Ah, yeas. There it is. The old bloated public service argument. That may have been true in the 80s, but in 2023 what you are seeing is 40 decades of tax cuts, efficiency dividends, restructuring, and layoffs reaching their natural conclusion. What do you think happens when you vote for tax cuts and more services at the same time? And now everyone gets to suffer. Justice. Finally. Enjoy your small government utopia. Nobody deserves in more.

    • @sabrinam6895
      @sabrinam6895 10 місяців тому

      @@andrewthomas695 and I suspect you are a Labour supporter

    • @markwalker2627
      @markwalker2627 10 місяців тому

      Actually no..big cuts by 13yrs of Tory rule have reduced staff