Birmingham City Council effectively declares bankruptcy
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2023
- Birmingham City Council has announced it is effectively bankrupt after being hit with a £760m bill to settle equal pay claims.
In a statement the council said all new spending, with the exception of protecting vulnerable people and statutory services, must stop immediately.
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Never knew a whole city could declare bankruptcy until today.
Well _Detroit_ beat them to that dubious accolade by some years….
Detroit did the only reason, detroit started getting "Better-ish" it's because they are under a planned economy not only by the state but by the feds too IIRC
I believe Cleveland went bankrupt in the 70s beating both.@@makara80
Because they're allowed to borrow money from banks independent from treasury for some reason.
On this basis council tax payments should be ceased on the fact that this council are guilty of conducting bad business. Who wants to do business with a corporation that clearly practices bad business
Follow the money. Every single person responsible for the management of the money should be transparently investigated.
This should have been done before it's to late now all those who are responsible for this should have their pension contributions and other entitlements suspended with immediate affect and pass legislation immediately their accounts need to be audited and made public any government guilts should be mark to market showing any unrealised losses if their is any and if their is any unrealised profits
That costs money...
@@DarrenSmith-zz6fk, Is it too late to investigate deeply to find if there are crimes and punish the culprit?
A very laudable statement, but we both know that will NEVER happen, the people responsible have already appropriated the funds and sealed themselves off from prosecution. At best that fat bird who was speaking for the council; and her ilk, will end up 'carrying the can'
The problem speaks of more wrong than that...
This plainly presents how flawed our current government is, as a whole.
The fact that those in power can allow one of the predominant cities in the country to go bankrupt, is an absolutely alarming failure of our governing systems.
But we, the people, will likely be content with simply being mildly alarmed and allow it to pass by with just apologies and half-hearted 'reforms'
I’m so bored of parties blaming the other when it’s the public who always loses out. There needs to be accountability without excuses
Riiiiight, and how do they find accountability without scrutinising each other?
@@thelambsauce7307easy they're all in it together. We must rid idealisum of currency and start trading resourced based.
Always seems to be labour areas from the rotherham rochdale heywood scandals. Where these problems exist. Tho
@@cheatingREFSandVAR they're all of the same bird both wings that's why nothing changes. Nothing gets better. No good man or woman wants to rule or con'troll others. So they wear a nice mask but are still bad people and always have been.
Mass non compliance will end their way then we can focus on the way it is the only way ie of the way humanity should live from. It creates full unity and power from that unity.
Higher council tax incoming!!!!
How can we the public know that there was no corruption involved without a public inquiry? This is outrageous and all involved must be scrutinised and held to account.
Leftwing parties get investigated????😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its labour mate it will be transphibic or something. This is what happens when socialism is allowed to go in challenged.
@@cheatingREFSandVAR So true.
I know how this works being in the civil service. Call a council of experts to discuss a project, they all get paid millions for showing up. They draw up a budget, 70% of which goes into their bank account. Project ends up using the rest of its bloated funding in unecessary ways to justify receiving it so they will continue to be able to claim that amount for future projects. Suddenly a pothole being fixed costs 20 million
It's not labours fault when they were in charge they had 3 billion for all services required in Birmingham council in 2010 but the Tories have cut the budget to 600 million that's an 80 per cut but people still need there bins collected etc so labour have had to borrow to keep up demand but there's no other choice unless u want to shut down multiple council services
Britain is at breaking point, something drastic has to be done to take the stress off the British people, hard working taxes is being wasted on things not beneficial for British families. Needs major investigations!
Nothing drastic is going to happen. The British public is too apathetic and stuck in their own ways, scared of change. They will just grumble and carry on as always,
according to the dark web @@InputArchive things are afoot ,not nickin trainers from JB sports either "Eat The Rich" seems to be gaining support
@@InputArchivedrastic change from those in charge, not from the public. Stop blaming the public when it's us who are being let down.
Needs a market based economy based on merit and competition. Instead of government mis-spending on woke policies.
It’s Brexit. Not complicated.
Let's start by examining the councillors pay, pensions and expense accounts....
Well the pay will be a quick examination. They don't get paid. Maybe if the population knew the first damn thing about the jobs they elect people to this nonsense wouldn't happen.
id give my left testicle to see this actually happen, and then my right one to see it shared to the public with no redaction's.
@@VelvetMetrolink True, along with the pay and expenses of each MP being easily accessible.
Make them empty-out their pockets, more like.
That would be tiny compared to the overall budget of BCC: £3.816bn.
I've worked to bid on contracts with various councils around the country. You'd be shocked at both the level of incompetence, but also bungs that take place to secure contracts, even on relatively small contracts that don't exceed £50k. But £100m? Even some light skimming off the top on contracts like that will leave the beneficiaries able to walk away and retire on. The only way to tackle this, is for central government to launch a full investigation which will likely find criminal activity and thus criminal charges brought. These people need bringing to justice and locking up. It'll be a warning to other councils involved in the same. Any council that goes bust must be fully investigated, and no, simply blaming "gov't cuts" doesn't cut it.
Politicians are just as corrupt as these are the country is insolvent the bank of England is also insolvent at this present time we are going to see a debt market meltdown this will result in a credit freeze everyone needs to understand what's really going to happen real money assets are the only things that can't bankrupt and has no counterparty risk bonds stocks which will also fall and fiat currencies will go to 0 we have 1 percent of purchasing power left in the pound
I'm afraid it's the same as in any other country - nobody will face charges and made accountable, as this fraud and incompetence appears on every level of authority. Fatal disease, that can't be seen, but leads society to shambles.
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Brought to justice
Don't crow about it, produce the evidence and blow the whistle.
Council tax, rent from council houses etc. Cash flowing in at all times. Quite impressive that they can go bankrupt.
Labour run............no surprise really
@@SamG-py7ej It's not Labour ran lol. The Tories run the government, and give X amount to that area, whether it's Tory, Labour, Greenparty or any other one.
Just because a different party is in that area, doesn't mean it's ran by them.
It’s a never ending supply of money, whether a business or individual can pay it they don’t care. They’ll enforce it whatever the cost. These people are not commercially aware.
@@Sir-Bane lol that old chestnut......... blame the national government! Labour have a majority and are in control of the day to day running and finances for the council. Nobody else is to blame for the mismanagement of public funds, but always someone else's fault lol
@@SamG-py7ej Tories be like "it's the council's fault acktchyually" and then make sure councils are unable to raise any money through means other than council tax 🤡🤡
£100 million IT foul up - how many of the responsible staff and councillors were binned as a result ?
Name and shame
None, it’s always “sorry” and “we should’ve done better”. No accountability what so ever!
They were told and told that it was not cost effective, that it would fail, that it would be a huge cost - they ignored it.
It's corruption. Politicians are robbing us blind.
@@AA4PJM Yes I remember that happening, absolute disgrace. The cost and legal wranglings cost the tax payer billions.
Surely that means people don't need to pay council tax if council's not competent enough? Of course not.
it will means they will be paying double ;-)
I don’t think it’s incompetence but more of a criminal/white collar trade trading. Either way, let’s assume both as they clearly think there is no repercussions for this
It was a court ruling ordering them to back pay female council workers bonuses that they had been paying to male workers among other things.
@@SamG-py7ejCorrect 👍🏻 liberal wokeism at its finest. It is a destroyer of society after what has happened here If this doesn't change things then nothing will
Council tax is not even obligatory, but that will of course be denied, argh. It is unlawful, just like other taxes, utility bills, etc. Here are two great documentaries that I like to share :)
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All sorted now mate.
RICOLAaaaaaa
Did they do it via a town crier walking the streets ringing a big bell and shouting "oh ye,oh ye,hear ye,hear ye!!!"?
If I can remember, Birmingham council had the bin men pay dispute and a contractor that were to maintain the road infrastructure valuing £200+.
It was handed back about year or two later, and so many councils just handing contracts to their mates as well, short changing the local taxpayer.
How much is the Labour ran council wanting for its council assets?
When is the bankruptcy auction? looking for a bargain for Scotland, Thanks
I can relate to council staff awarding contracts to their mates, corruption at it's highest level and this is no joke.
@@Arsenal-81Me too I've seen it on the construction side of things.
@@ScottishRoss27 As usual in the central government minds, too big to fail. So our tax revenue will be siphon off to cover for their failings.
More tax raises will come when during the autumn budget statement.
All the back handers that is given out to there pals and the ones thst get it are worse than the people that genuine doing a proper job not winging it for what happened to have the dogy stuff that put on the walls. Who got a back hander for that hellish job the councils. Should be shut down as they are the biggest there the biggest lot of frauds with the money
The school spokesperson was an "inclusion officer" why do schools have inclusion staff?
Basically not a real job
@@DrJams It's corruption: a way of channelling taxpayers' money into the hands of friends and family of existing council staff.
£760 million on equal pay claims, £100 million on white elephant I.T project, £100 million on commonwealth games. "Tories did it."
Not tory supporters accidentally admitting that the Tory policy of pitting councils against each other in a CoMpEtItIvE MaRkEt is actually a money-making scam
What is going on?
Nope. Labour failed
"Labour has been in power at the Birmingham City Council since 2012, with their majority increasing by leaps and bounds in every election since then."
Sshhh dont tell people that youll kill the lie of "vote labour for a better britain" 😂
Record breaking pay settlement was awarded in 2012 due to inequalities of pay under the previous (Tory) City Council. Current City Council have already paid out £1.1B due to that settlement against the ousted Tories and are still liable for £760M over a decade later, hence effectively bankrupt.
Short version: Tory fk-ups are fking expensive.
The tories cut funding by 60% since 2010 don’t blame labour 🤡
@@flujab1707goes beyond the party rep and more into individual accountability.. which won’t happen as it never does
Labour have that area, but the money distribute still comes from the Tory government, as well as specifics on contracts. As someone else put, it's literally down to the corrupt people at the head, which most already know.
I work for a council and the senior manager has been effectively sacked from an internal audit couple months ago, theres been back handers as well, council is corrupt.
So is he fired or not lol
Of course it’s corrupt. They’re socialists
My neighbour who works for a council said the same thing.
@@HighimHula23 no as was given the option to resign so get to keep pension, wasn't a he was a she.
My dad works at Nintendo, and he says Sans Undertale is going to be in the next Smash game.
They should be investigations as to whether these companies have links any councillors or top ranking officials at the council because it looks like they are seriously a breach on their 'value for money' mantra.
Those responsible need to be put in prison, not apologise!
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The public Audit Office .should be looking at a number of councils who have declared bankruptcy!!!!
corruption, corruption, corruption... Council gave businesses to their "network" without comparing the offer. Bad management. Shameless. So politician should be accountable, and some need to face jail time as an example , otherwise it will happen again.
yep starting at the very, very ,very top... with real terms loss to the nations wealth asa factor in the jail term.... truss and bojo cabal are in trouble
And guess who will have to bail them out. .And those responsible for this must be laughing all the way to the bank. It's strange how this is now come to light . I think a big audit of every council in the country is needed . Because I think this financial debacle could be just the tip of the iceberg on various council accounts.
@@stevemellor655 better idea.... start with the national govt.... the rest is chicken change by comparison
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Over spending in the wrong place.
Over payment of goods or services or ever just plane miss management
Funny here we even pay for the air and they still managed somehow to go broke 😂
Hello
Says they're sorry but then immediately blames Conservative! Shame! They've been in office in Birmingham City since 2012!
Conserative goverment has cut funding for 13 years - the labour council cant decide how much funding they recieve
They can blame conservatives all they like at the end of the day the amount of money wasted and exploited by those in charge whilst depriving the tax payers of what they have paid for is a disgrace! They should be investigated for fraudulent activities and financial mis management!
hold on , how are people broke?
Shame on those Conservatives for not being in power.
I guess the city will have to round them up and put them in camps. Expensive.
This is what happens when your first question is: “what is the Government doing about….?”
Most local councils spend funds they don’t have
Statues and unnecessary symbols
Very odd the councils are still picking up top wages at end each month , public services were cut 4 years ago
plus lots of under the counter property investment dealz.....
How can anyone in their right mind agree a £18M IT system that comes in at £100M. If it was their money it would be a different matter.. It wouldn't happen in the Private sector.
If it was the private sector they simply wouldn't exist given the level of financial incompetence. Will anybody be losing their jobs / pensions or will they be receiving a generous pay off and coming back as a consultant.
Inside job foreigners.
It's "Lessons will be learned" time again
Don't forget, that there will be several "investigations and inquiries" as well with everyone shifting the blame and mass resignations to avoid prosecutions! A 1,000 page document will be released and the whole thing forgotten.
join the club
A total embarrassment! Hope those responsible for the management of the council funding are held to account.
Not a chance
Diversity is our strength !
Nobody held accountable for this.
They just walk straight into a job in another office.
WTF?! and where did they waste money from council tax which is more than 200 quid a house on average!
The council tax system is completely corrupt
Council.... gets free money.... goes bankrupt.... someone's been skimming.
Local councils are unfit for purpose.
I'd love to hear about all the dodgy goings on in a council like that. I bet it would be a real page turner
Simon Amstel; “I like to turn them all at once”.
compared to westminster.......... chicken change, poor attempt at deflection btw
@@BellBeakerBloke trust me bruv.... lol
@@BellBeakerBloke oh yeah mate... nothing to do with the shunts in charge nationally for the last decade and half... its the (insert current thing here) i would say give ur head a wobble but something might fall out ur ear
This country heading in the right direction.
Straight to the bottom
Damn😂
History repeats itself big changes are coming to england trying to wash away our history and revolutions over minor things
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Never mind they will still put imagrints in hotels
Ill correct that. "This countries "cities" are heading in the right direction" - the wonderful beachside and country towns down here in the south/south west are doing just fine.
It's not the Conservatives or labour that's at fault,
but the government as a whole...
When there's competition for power, all that matters is winning control.
Using that power to effectively sustain economy is secondary.
It's time there's serious reform.
@@jmack8767It isn't a nice thing to say, and it is true.
Regardless of who is responsible for that county council, If that council goes bankrupt, it speaks of a much wider and larger failure of the government as a whole.
Labour failed to control the responsibilities in the council but the Conservatives failed to ensure labour didn't mess it up so badly.
Labour can easily take the blame and Conservatives take the back seat, but it simply shouldn't have happened, and it's therefore government system that's at fault for this happening.
The Conservatives have themselves, directly made numerous similar mistakes
Question is, what is the annual income from c tax, parking charges and council owned properties. Tell me the input and then the output.
Excellent point
More and more is taken by Central Govt. Councils don't get the funds to spend.
Looks like income is less than expenditure, excessive borrowings, being overcharging/corruption for public services.
The output is off the scale because fat chavvy single mums get given houses and their benefits outweigh our taxes. If Birmingham is fucked then the other councils won’t be far behind either.
Unfortunately sorry doesn’t solve people’s problems
" I DECLARE BANKRUPCYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!" - Michael Scott and Birmingham city Council
Bankroooptsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy,
BUT BUT BUT diversity is our strengh lol
A terribly foreign workforce.
The majority of the workforce is white British.
MONEY COULDNT BUY A WORSE COUNCIL. Have been sadly lacking for many years a lot caused by employing under qualified people as part of equality and equal opps. 17 days AVERAGE sick days per year off each per employee. Only thing they never cut was their own pensions and still have loads working from home which is another expense the council simply cant afford. I agree whole heartedly with this guy Jason.
You'd be shocked at both the level of incompetence, but also bungs that take place to secure contracts, even on relatively small contracts that don't exceed £50k. But £100m? Even some light skimming off the top on contracts like that will leave the beneficiaries able to walk away and retire on. The only way to tackle this, is for central government to launch a full investigation which will likely find criminal activity and thus criminal charges brought. These people need bringing to justice and locking up. It'll be a warning to other councils involved in the same. Any council that goes bust must be fully investigated, and no, simply blaming "gov't cuts" doesn't cut it.
I ask this from a genuine perspective, why does work from home effect their budget? Thanks
@@DerekRoddy8 they will have found a way
They'll just find laziness 🦥. Which is not a crime.
The system gives no incentive for politicians not to be incredibly lazy. Especially, since election or not, their paycheck is unaffected.
I just have a quick doubt should I continue to pay 150£ of council tax ?
We need strict immigration policies & transparent spending systems.
This is appalling. Where is all the council tax & council rental money going?
What now?
How much were the counsellors' bonuses last year?
It would depend on what other responsibilities they took on.
Big investigation into corruption has to be carried out by independent experts.
Bet the mps arnt struggling though
Imagine how much is sent overseas
Commonwealth games ring a bell anyone?
So where the all money gone they takong each month millions from taxes
Birmingham has a large immigrant population I believe. I'm surprised because I would have thought the sheer strength from that diversity would have propelled that city forward.
They are all Doctors apparently 😂
They have allowed the bill to grow 100million to 760million are they going to lose their pension and houses to pay for this because they should
NO CHANCE OF LOSING THEIR PENSIONS.
@@burtonfootballer5408 Women dominate voting, so bias laws towards them - custody, employment, healthcare. Men have lost their traditional rights to put their wives down, so we are overpopulated. Instead we must pay taxes for women social issues and womens rights bureaucracy. It is unfair that Birmingham can no longer bludge off its people to pay for this.
Disgraceful!. Both parties should be ashamed and stop blaming each other....people come first..
Yes, keep blaming both parties like they are equally responsible when one party been in power for the last 13 years
This is what happens after years and years of corruption and greed!!!
Sorry isn't a enough.
Another mess Labour as caused .
Cut the mps pay 🤷🏾♂️make them sell their 2nd and 3rd houses
Jesus… Birmingham would be the last you’d expect to be bankrupt as a city, that is so crazy and sad 😢
Lolol
@@chahan691So nothing to do with local mismanagement and corruption than?
Dont worry, Allah and Superman, other made-up stories, will come to the rescue.
Mad thing is, many cities and towns will follow. I swear this country is now slowly decaying
@chahan691 So it's OK then?
better than ineffectively declaring it
About time that all council's every expenditure was laid open for public scrutiny every step of the way.
IT bodge-ups, expenses claims, and the building of 'projects' for extreme costs (when we know full well that often the project doesn't justify the cost, council managers rarely able to grasp what the true cost of a renovation/new build should be).
The above make up just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to money wastage in a county or city council. So it's about time the public could 'see' for themselves exactly where that money is going while it's in the proposal stage, and could protest if they feel that money does not deserve to go there.
Can someone explain or give a video link of what happens or the effects when a city declared bankrupt? Especially what the local would experience?
No.
The government will send in a team of agents who will take over the running of the council. They will then put a stop to all non-essential services, basically anything the council doesn't have a legal requirement to provide. It's not going to be good for locals.
Best thing about Birmingham is the road out of it
Just done a bit of research..
The media often describes issuing a section 114 notice as ‘bankruptcy’, but in fact, local authorities in the UK cannot go bankrupt. A section 114 notice means the council cannot make new spending commitments and must meet within 21 days to discuss what to do next.
That’s why they are calling it “effectively bankrupt”. Not legally bankrupt but cannot legally commit to new expenditures, and cannot service existing obligations. In layman’s term, broke.
Country is done, 3rd world here we come
That opening sentence had me lacking so hard as if I didn’t read the title before clicking 😭
Run out of other people’s money,funny how often it happens.
I wonder what the CEO of that council earns? Gotta be at least six figures .Bet it's more than the PM.
its over 200 I think
F.O.I
Billy Connolly said " don't vote for politicians,it only encourages them"
I remember that equal pay dispute. Part of the decision was that dinner ladies were entitled to the same pay as dustbin men because it was decided they are both on the same grade (which someone somewhere has made up). No allowance was made at all for the more physical nature of bin work or the difference between working inside or out. Nuts really.
yep. Same sort of thing with the Asda equal pay claim a few years ago. The checkout women wanted and got the same pay as the warehouse men, because sitting on your arse all day at a till in a pleasant, climate-controlled and light space is the same as running around like a blue-arsed fly and shifting pallets of stock in a cold dark warehouse.
@Hereford1642: can't they just rotate the jobs?ladies doing dustbin work every other week or every other fortnight or so?sounds really fair
The solution to this is to have more male dinner ladies and more female binmen, obviously.
That sounds sarcastic but I'm serious, lol
The new buzz word is work of ''equal value'' - which basically means those doing less phyically and demanding jobs can over-value their work and demand more pay.
@@EleventhFloorBelfry female binmen will = higher cost of bin collection service as special accommodations will have to be made to account for women's, err, everything physiological.
The amount of money these buggers take from us and the relentless reduction of services, this can only be incompetence and or corruption.
This country is crumbling
Birmingham Council bankrupt in the post Brexit wonderland. Unbelievable.
It was over the second Mohammed was the most common baby name.
@@limpa756oh shut up
tbh idc if this results in death just straight up throw all the migrants out
Coudenhove Kalergi plan
My Brother''s friend used to work at management level in Birmingham city council and he used to write fake invoices for contract works that diddnt exists... he got himself a rolex and a BMW over a space of 3 years. He then moved to a new job elsewhere
So, £1+ billion already paid. £760 million still due to be paid. This is due to unfair pay for women. How many women are they employing to amount to this number? Or is it a compensation figure, meaning civil servants, whom by no means are on a bad wage as they are because I've seen council jobs floating around, are getting a compensation from the public? There's just simply no way unfair pay is amounting to £2 billion because they are getting paid, just not equally.
Even if they were paid an average of £100000 less over their service, £2 billion means there have been 20000 employees affected by this, and again, they are paid, just not equally, so I doubt the difference is even £100000 per person affected.
Surely this has to be a compensation figure, and weirdly, the public is compensating the rich, and yes, in relative terms, they are rich, because again council jobs by no means pay a bad wage to start with.
Birmingham about to turn into Gotham City
Or Detroit of course. 😉
Danny G tried to warn us about Birmingham
How what about council tax and public money where is it?
Remember when Unite spent £110 million to build a £10 million conference centre? The contract went to McCluskey's friend, if i remember correctly.
I feel sorry for the people living there. Not only they have to suffer living in that hellhole, but it's also a broke hellhole.
i dont they voted for it , lmaooooooooooooo howling
@@user-jy8gx5ky4v fair point. Their self-made suffering
It’s ok if we stop spending on the immigrants which is 6 million a day. Sorted there u go. Start with upgrading hall green.
So if the council services become very limited then why should the people pay so much council tax? This needs to get reduced now and if it doesn’t get reduced and the services are indeed limited then we should go on strike and no one should pay the tax
Guaranteed the head of the council still gets + of £150,000 a year and expenses paid
The accounting department has some explaining to do lol.
Birmingham is the second largest city in the Uk and my parents’ home so why is this happening? Instead of helping the people, the stupid mps blame one another, squabble amongst each other, waste money on war mongering and things we can’t afford and don’t offer any solutions to any of this. Poor Birmingham. This is beyond sad. Hope something can be done to help this wonderful city. 💗💗💗💗💗
Not my fault. Not my fault . Not my fault
We need to think of a new way to on how we run this country all this. Corruption is fucked up
Easy. Elect different people. Not tory, not labour, not lib dem. A completely new set of politicians.
The current crop are like football referees, doesn't make how many mistakes are made, they're still there. Enough is enough.
All caused by the Honorable Politicians as usual.....
Honestly with the way money is wasted in the UK it doesn’t surprise me that they’re bankrupt. It’s a complete miss management of money.
I would suggest a investigation into the council itself something is not right
Importing nearly 800000 none brits in last 15 years might have something to do with it....never mind the supported accommodation scam
And the rest!
I thought all that diversity (immigrants on benefits) were supposed to be a strength? What happened?
FFS!
@@rufdymond. Yes. Someone admonished me by sighting the Birmingham Council as those to blame Not The £50% ethnicity of Birmingham ! She should therefore go and take a look at the Council staff and see the irony of her remark …. The two go together … just my opinion . Nothing racist intended because this weight of ineptitude impacts everyone Black and White … just my opinion,,
And we still invite the world to come over
Greed, its always the same.
Too many claiming, not enough working.
How can a city within "one of the best economys in the world" become bankrupt
The lack of accountability from Birmingham council is astounding
Let me guess will they be a smart city courtesy of Blackrock money?
Interesting
No one noticing the equal pay award there as quite a big expense? People push for what they believe is morally right but that has literally cost Birmingham 760m quid. Madness.
Well this is because they are having to pay the money, plus compensation, legal fees, etc, for years of NOT having equal pay in one lump sum.
If they had equal pay from the beginning, then they would not have been taken to court by all the workers who found out they were being underpaid for years. Yes, the pay for council workers should have been lower, for sure, but they messed up by making people do the same job for different wages and hoping nobody found out. Spread out across the decades of unfair wage gaps the money would not have caused sudden bankruptcy.
Plus this is one more debt on top of a whole swathe of losses caused by corruption and mismanagement. Being forced to pay people money the council essentially embezzled was the girder which splattered the pulverised remains of what used to be a camel. If they had done what was morally right from the start then the council would not have been in crippling debt.
They should have dealt with the problem at the time instead of ignoring it then. An old workmate whose wife was a dinner lady got that much in owed pay they retired and went to live in Malta and apparently she is now owed more. TOTAL INCOMPETENCE and their neighbours in Malta are probably the idiots that were running the council at the time who probably retired 15 years early on a full pension paid for by yours truly the tax payers
@@burtonfootballer5408 I remember the decision was that dinner ladies were entitled to the same pay as dustbin men because it was decided they are both on the same grade (which someone somewhere has made up). No allowance was made at all for the more physical nature of bin work or the difference between working inside or out. Nuts really.
Corruption nothing to do with equal pay. Read why Thurrock council went bust, Leader was investing money in wind farms on the sly. Way out off their depth. @@kingintyellow
@@kingintyellow Lol. More ideological/political "gender pay-gap" shenanigans
What does this mean for other cities like London and Manchester etc?
That is a very good Question. I'm sure the mayor has it all under control!!!!.🙄
I’m scared of Andy ‘fingers in too many pies’ burnham ruining Manchester 🤣
About time they started stealing their own money😂😂😂😂
Don't let the people responsible resign, fire them!
Oh it's not bad yet. Wait 5 years.