If a person goes bankrupt they can't run the same business that made them bankrupt So how does that work for the council? They would need to shut the council down and cease to exist
@@hellonearth9347why would you think rules that apply to you would apply to the government? Next you will be telling us a company can't hold their own courts, despite that being the mechanism for councils enforcing the taxes they collect on behalf of the central government.
Pity people living within the Birmingham area CAN'T cancel their Council Tax... I'm thinking that 'Borrowing' will be reclaimed through some of that too... 🤨😒
Why are all councils suddenly in debt council tax has never been so high and services they offer are virtually non existent I could go on ......councils & BBC go hand in hand
Not just shut it, they demolished it as well so it was worth less. The shows they say are going to bring money into the City were the shows already being produced in the City until they closed them in 2004. Stinks of backhanders and corruption.
Exactly, borrow for essential services and the BBC are NOT an essential service and will bring NOTHING to City. As soon as the Birmingham gravy train dries up they will shut it down and move to the next City offering them a larger handout.
@@nickjohnson7277 oh they do they all earn massive salaries far higher than the private sector & they have pension schemes well protected unlike us they are corporate companies some are DUNS registered which means they have shareholders
I'm from Birmingham and live in one of their city council flats. I'm 66 years old and a pensioner. I've been waiting for a move to a bungalow due to sever health problems. It's been nearly 5 years since my illness but I'm still waiting. The council have never given a sh*t about the people only themselves, and like the BBC, there high salaries.
I was in Brum earlier in the year for the first time. You can see where the council have focused their attention on, just making it look touristy by the Bull Ring the further you go the more run down it is. When I looked out my hotel window I could see both posh and poor parts. What is that old closed down white building near Park Regis?
Councils are another law unto themselves!! If we had been been declared Bankrupt, how could we lend money to the BBC??? Would it be possible?? I doubt that! If the council has this much floating around, how could they have been declared bankrupt at all? They have some nerve, certainly!
Mate I used to live in Digbeth, next to the bus station when I was at uni. For the 9 months that I lived there, I do not recall a single weekend during which we wouldn’t have to call an ambulance for a homeless person, completely pissed out of it, laying in our entrance. I’ve moved out of Birmingham but it still boils my blood that instead of helping homeless, BCC decides to spend money on something so ridiculous. INSTEAD OF SPENDING MONEY ON OUR TOWN, OUR PEOPLE, they just give our council tax money like it’s nobody’s business (I stayed in Birmingham after uni at the beginning of my career so I believe I get to say it’s our money since I contributed). I loved Birmingham - people were absolutely lovely and the town really had some nice sites. But seeing what BCC are doing, I’d never move back. They’re driving away people who love the town and instead bring in a corporation that robs them blind. So dystopian.
Digbeth is now under redevelopment. Unfortunately, it's being developed for the middle classes, and Old birmingham is being demolished. I use the pub on the corner by the coach station, and it's empty most of the day as the old residents have been forced out. It used to be the place to go for entertainment, as was the Adam and Eve pub. Sadly, no more.
Thing is, government (departments) do not need to follow the bankruptcy process a private business, or individual would have to. They can and are doing, just carrying on making whoopee with easy come, easy go extorted public money. Central government just print more (QE); thereby causing rampant inflation due to debasement of the value of the currency. Totally corrupt and bankrupt.
you can own a TV and not pay the licence fee, can watch movies or whatever you have on DVD's or an external hard drive or use it to watch youtube or connect it to your pc/laptop
Doesn't matter who runs the CON cils whether it's the CON searatives or LIEBOUR they the CON cilors are all CORRUPT and that's the story all over the uk.
@@stuartd9741 Thats where the Sunday-Thursday late night 1000-0100 Becky Want show comes from up Salford and then Joanne Good Friday & Saturday comes from BBC Radio London.
As a Brummie currently living under Birmingham City Council’s exorbitant council tax hikes this year since declaring bankruptcy, this is an absolute piss-take now! I’m also 99% sure that this would be the 2nd time the BBC have moved their studio in Birmingham since the year 2000 too (Pebble Mill > Mailbox > this ‘new Typhoo factory’ site). What exactly are we the people paying for here?!?! 🤬🤬🤬😤
You can surrender your licence early and get a refund for each complete month unused. I did but they were slow to refund so I sued the BBC and won damages and costs.
I suspect that the Council own the site/ building and are letting it to the BBC and Council Members are desperate to get "jobs" as Extras in the BBC sitcoms.
It's not the council paying anything. Its the people's money they are taking & giving to the bbc, it is a monopoly. Councils don't work for the people. they are companies, corporations and all are listed on Dun & Bradstreet. They have a duns number, that means they are businesses. A business cannot have a monopoly so if you are in a town, city and only have one council and that council is dictating to you where your tax payers money is going and you have no say. Does what that council are doing - giving the peoples money away when most don't want to fund this project, does that not break the Statute of Monopolies Act 1623? Yes it does. You can't have a monopoly so the people need another council. There is nothing to stop anyone setting up another "business" and calling it an alternative council. People need a council in their towns who actually are there to benefit the people.
It must be really exhausting for these tech companies. Their sad low vibrational lives of continually chasing and trying to hide a simple thing the rest of us call -The Truth. They can delete as many comments as they want. The TRUTH will always be heard. People are waking up thankfully!
I can only say thank you Jon, because thanks to you I ditched my licence years ago. I can only imagine how the Birmingham rate payers are feeling at this moment, and the sooner the Beeb has to fund itself the better. This 'loan' frrom their council in Birmingham is a slap in the face to their rate payers, and is appalling.
Is this the same Birmingham City Council that is so cash strapped they could go pear shaped? The residents and council tax payers in the Birmingham area should have a say by way of a referendum.
I've had three knocks and two fines since 1995. Fines were under the old system when just possessing a device capable for TV reception was enough for a fine. First time I told them at the door that I had a TV but it wasn't hooked up to anything other than a VCR and computer. The flat didn't even have an aerial fitted but I got a fine. Second time I bought a DVD/HDD/VCR machine to convert my VHS tapes to DVD, and the shop I bought it from had to send my details to TV licensing. That was around 2008. Third visit was around 2017 and I let them in the house to show that my TV wasn't hooked up to any aerial, thinking that would stop them visiting. The man didn't have the foggiest idea of how to operate my equipment, only asking me to flick through the channels on the TV, then he left. I have all kinds of boxes and equipment around the TV but he didn't ask about any of that. Didn't seem to know what he was doing at all, so probably not used to being invited in. Anyway, two years later and the letters started again. I have ignored them ever since, and your channel has helped me feel good about doing that. Never again will I let them into the house, and if I know they are knocking then I won't open the door unless I'm in the mood to make a little video for Chilli 🙂
@@ElectrowaveI was done in 98 as I had £42 worth of TV licence stamps, they said I don't have a TV licence. I got a £50 fine which I didn't pay as I asked for community service instead when it went to court. Since then I've decided not to pay for shite programs and repeats. I told the shop I bought my TV from a falce name and address. I noticed they don't ask anymore when you buy a TV about the TV licence!.
@@davarosmith1334 Yes, I think that was dropped some years ago. Not sure what would happen if cash was paid, would they still require name & address? As you say, just make something up 🙂 I bought mine through a catalogue. The demand that came through from TV licensing had my details as well as the details of my purchase on it.
BBC Started at Pebble Mill then went to the Mail Box And now the old Typhoo Building. What's wrong with Pebble mill or the Mail Box? I thought Birmingham Council were Bankrupt..
I’m also from Birmingham and are disgusted at yet again the council putting money into something other than what’s needed!! Together, the BCC and the BBC are not helping! So glad I cancelled my license years ago! Next, not paying my council tax??
Laurenston place in Dover at one point the road goes to a single lane. This is becasue a wall collapsed, Dover councils answer was to fence it off with Site fencing, no lights or cones. This happened over 10 years ago, Still not fixed.
I could well imagine there is money changing hands at the top, hence the government not really caring about the ordinary people resulting in their uncaring attitude regarding the dreaded TV license.🤔
Correct, they pissed away 125 million on an ERP project because they wanted it completely customised to use their 25 year old dog shit processes in a system designed to streamline things, it turns out it didnt work and now need to spend a further 100 million correcting the damage they have done. I have worked on similar projects of this scale and it would cost 15 to 20 million. They even came to the company I work for and were willing to offer over industry rate to get us to fix it, we rejected their bid because despite the money we didnt want that stain on us (typically my day rate is £750 a day, they were willing to go up to £1200 for my level and £1800 a day for a project director)
The main question should be is who owns all the other properties around the typhoo building and also who's getting all the contracts to renovate the whole area! We had the same in liverpool with joe Anderson and he had his fingers in everything one way or another.
Firstly, as per all projects of this size, the £70 million budget will no doubt escalate to over £100 million. Secondly, Didn't Birmingham City Council recently go bankrupt??? (Debts included £200 million in cab fares - don't know who owned the cab companies, but similar sounding names to some of the councillors 🤔). Scandalous.
Interesting. Plymouth council is going to do yet another 40 million revamp and intend to borrow the money. Not quite bankrupt yet?? But all this hugh spending ... like aren't we in a cost of living disaster?
Investment to raise property prices is not going to help council tenants. If anything, it'll put rents and council tax up even higher . Bull sh*t baffles brains !
Construction costs are constantly increasing on large projects, I'm sure the final cost of this will be far more than £70m, making this far worse, many more people to be harassed for a licence they don't need. Your channel is amazing, thanks for keeping us updated.
I got a new letter today. If I don't contact them, they're going to have to continue their investigation into the "Legal occupier" at this address. I think after two plus years that they must have Inspector Clouseau working my case as they've not found out that Dick Dastardly and Muttley live here, and we have a despicable plan a foot of door slamming should they actually turn up.
We had one put through my mother in laws letterbox yesterday, who died 12 months ago. Despite the fact we'd contacted licensing and explained the house was empty, they've already sent two letters plus a visit card pushed through the box. This new letter, all in red ( 😰 ) states " officers have now been authorised to visit, we can stop this by buying a TV licence", blah blah. Interestingly, they say if contact them to say we don't need a licence they may still come round.... just to check. " If you continue watching TV you will also have to pay for a TV licence " - not clarifying the difference between live broadcast and non. Ambiguous in order to create {{{{{{ FEAR!}}}}}
And to think BBC Pebble Mill Centre, Birmingham was demolished years ago, when it could've been refurbished. Now the site of a dental hospital. Funny, that, as watching BBC is like having yer teeth pulled.
Birmingham City council, next year are stopping weekly Bin collection from next April, which is going to cause, filthy footpaths, rats, and black bags strewn across roads, 🤬🤬🤐🤐🤐
Council Tax doesn't go to the council, it all heads off to the Treasury and they divvy it up and sends some back.........so you are paying for some of it from the Treasury pot Jon........you pay any tax, no one knows where it'll end up!
Is that the same Birmingham city council that spaffed £125 million on an ERP project I can confirm only costs 20m tops if it was a private company.? not to mention the estimated additional £100m cost to fix it?
i had one of those letters the other week. i know i do not use it or any of my family! its another scare/scam tatic. ps black belt barrister did a vid on it not long ago.
Footnote: Apart from BBC's Mailbox site here in Brum, it also rents a drama department at Birmingham University in Selly Oak. And so it goes on. Ker-ching.
Give it a few years, and the entirety of the BBC Licence will be coming from an additional Council Tax payment. There's NO way that the current Govt are going to let the BBC fail, due to reduced subscribers, and/or having to compete fairly in the media entertainment market place via a Pay-Per-View model. Once a threshold has been reached, due to people refusing to pay etc, the Govt will step in. Guaranteed !
I cancelled my license three years ago. Best decision I ever made. I was utterly sick of their anti-British, box-ticking, ridiculous presenter-wages BS.
Why hide yours. Shove it in their faces. Use all of their acts, statutes and laws against them. They only apply to the legal fiction dead corporate entity (in ALL CAPS; or e.g. MR / Mr Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx). They were originally enacted by parlyement for the people to use against tyrant governments. But the tyrant councils switched things around without saying anything; and now apply them fraudulently against the people. Speak to them about the Local Government Act 1888, section 79: (2) All duties and liabilities of the inhabitants of a county shall become and be duties and liabilities of the council of such county. The The Fraud Act 2006. Re the uttering of false instruments designed to make someone believe they need to pay money to the council. Penalty for fraudulent conveyancing is up to 10 years in prison. The Theft Act 1968; involving False Accounting. The Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889. The Interpretation Act 1889. Re payment enslavement. The Terrorism Act; 2006. You will hear nothing more from them...
I cancelled my TV tax years ago, I can take great solace in that I won't be paying for any of it. Governments and this ghastly corporation excel at wasting other people's money and don't really care.
I did not renew my tv license April....I have had lots of letters and now 2 visits...I said 'off you go' they went. I hope the visit isn't going to be monthly
Services for children, young people and families in Birmingham face a funding drop of more than £100 million after councillors approved what are thought to be the biggest cuts in local authority history. (Meeting 5/3/2024)
BBC spent a fortune on a new Eastenders set , that was a flop. I cancelled my license fee and told as it was on direct debt ( cancelled direct debit) it would stop in January 2025.
Is it just me or is Birmingham City Council the very Council to declare bankruptcy year ago because they wasted local taxpayers funds funds and wasted the city's money ? or am I thinking of someone else?
It's not the BBC to blame, its the government who keep this old fashioned tax going. After 27 those bastard's will slam the rubber stamp down for another 10 years of uninterrupted TV licence crap!
All Birmingham council taxpayers have to wonder about is what proportion of that bribe (sorry, council grant) to the BBC is sliding back into councillors' back pockets. 10%? 20%? Any bribery total inevitably includes that percentage that slips back to those who enabled the bribe. It's how such things work. Councillors on the take - with no conscience about where that money is ultimately coming from. Dodgy plans. Dodgy contracts. Dodgy finances. Nothing even remotely new to see here in local councils, or the Broken Biscuit Corporation. Just comfy old boys' clubs, including every central government ever in power.
Just re subscribed Jon 🙄 On a similar subject of BBC wasting money, I spent some time making a UA-cam video backed by a Delia Derbyshire track that is 60 years old and (I thought) should be out of copyright. I tried to upload it and it came up that it had been copyrighted by the BBC in the 1980's 🤔 Why would the BBC copyright 60 year old music using licence payers money other than to annoy us UA-cam creators?
I visited Digbeth late last year to go to an exhibition at the Custard Factory. I was DISGUSTED! I didn't recognise Digbeth at all. It has become a soulless place. And the Custard Factory was no longer the place I used to go clubbing at 20+ years ago. I was so sad, I no longer want to go there.
I may be stating the obvious here But i think i know what's going on here. .. According to the figures presented in this video. The bbc is getting a new studio complex in Birmingham, for £0. part paid by birm council, and the other part by private enterprise.. .. This is the same as the private/public finance initiative championed by Labour in the 90s. That left a lot of new nhs hospitals costing health trusts an absolute fortune in ridiculous lease/maintenance costs. (All private of course).. .. So what this deal will do is allow the bbc to have a new complex "off the books" because it is mostly funded by private enterprise. . This is why governments like PPFI deals as it can hide a lot of government spending "off the books" .. On the jobs front, i can see only a partial benefit to the local jobs market in specialized (niched ?) media posts, kind of a limited niche job market if you ask me.. Nice work if you can get it....
You want to see the state of the roads, over grown grass verges and they got money to give to the BBC. Good job I cancelled my TV license about 3 years ago, wish I could do the same with the council tax.
what do you think of the chances that the council leadres that signed off on this have recently or are about to buy the land this will be on and will soon be having the BBC paying off their mortgage on it making the descision verry profitable for them personally. stuff like this is prety much standard practice in a lot of organisations from charities to doctors surgeries - makng descisions on behalf of the organisation in a way costs the organisation a fortune over time but lines the pockets of descision makers
Been sent my 10 day notice to comply ....or I will get investigated...its been more than 10 days ! They have been sending letters since last December! ! Just because I won't answer them !
If the council did the place up for residential housing it would go to house the Boat people! If they sold it for residential it would be made into 'to expensive to afford for the average Joe' luxury housing!
As with any construction project, the initial price will likely not be enough. With inflation, material and labour costs going up and likely delays, it will run over the estimated schedule and cost more money. That being said, I wonder what the end cost of all of this would be and if the council will end up forking out more money.
Wow, where is Birmingham City Council getting this £14 million from ? They declared themselves bankrupt a year ago 😲😲😲😲
They are borrowing it and are just servicing the interest. This debt will be on their books for a very, very long time (just look at PPI).
If a person goes bankrupt they can't run the same business that made them bankrupt
So how does that work for the council? They would need to shut the council down and cease to exist
They’re all under the U.K. Plc which get money from central banks which get it from the Unfederal With no Reserves. Go figure
@@hellonearth9347why would you think rules that apply to you would apply to the government? Next you will be telling us a company can't hold their own courts, despite that being the mechanism for councils enforcing the taxes they collect on behalf of the central government.
@@hellonearth9347ssshhh.
Cancelled my licence last week. No longer funding this corrupt institution. Thank you for opening my eyes, CJC.👍
Gooood👌I'll get you a Pint
What’s the best way of doing it please?
I hope you get fined, because I am willing to bet that you're breaking the law now.
@@occamraiser so you don’t know anything you’re just a hater here, here
Pity people living within the Birmingham area CAN'T cancel their Council Tax... I'm thinking that 'Borrowing' will be reclaimed through some of that too... 🤨😒
Socialise the costs, privatise the profits.
That's a good expression. And very, very true. Noted. 🙂
BBC = Bye Bye Credibility.
You mean socialise the debt, privatise the profits.
Im a brummy and birmingham city council are in debt already ,jobs have been cut,services stopped this is an utter disgrace
You know why, housing newcomers!
Get out of Birmingham while you still can
Why are all councils suddenly in debt council tax has never been so high and services they offer are virtually non existent I could go on ......councils & BBC go hand in hand
Stop paying your rates/council tax.
@@Janet-v7vthe council tax goes to the government first not the council that says it all.
They shut Pebble Mill studios in Brum some years ago saying they didn't need it anymore 🤔
Agree, 💯😕
There agenda is now to ingratiate themselves with the Demographic.
Not just shut it, they demolished it as well so it was worth less. The shows they say are going to bring money into the City were the shows already being produced in the City until they closed them in 2004. Stinks of backhanders and corruption.
@@WhiteDieselShed
land worth more than the studio?
Apparently however, the building was faling apart due to concrete cancer so it had to go.
How can the council borrow money when they're bankrupt!!! Defo something dodgy going on me thinks🤔
Exactly, borrow for essential services and the BBC are NOT an essential service and will bring NOTHING to City. As soon as the Birmingham gravy train dries up they will shut it down and move to the next City offering them a larger handout.
Simple, stop paying the licence fees, that’s all
optional subscription fee
And the bbc do NOT pay the HMRC any income tax on the money they get from the licence fee
Dinosaurs that don't realise Their days are numbered 💥
@@nickjohnson7277 oh they do they all earn massive salaries far higher than the private sector & they have pension schemes well protected unlike us they are corporate companies some are DUNS registered which means they have shareholders
Labour will renew their charter for another 10 years (so would the Tories though).
I'm from Birmingham and live in one of their city council flats. I'm 66 years old and a pensioner. I've been waiting for a move to a bungalow due to sever health problems. It's been nearly 5 years since my illness but I'm still waiting. The council have never given a sh*t about the people only themselves, and like the BBC, there high salaries.
I was in Brum earlier in the year for the first time. You can see where the council have focused their attention on, just making it look touristy by the Bull Ring the further you go the more run down it is. When I looked out my hotel window I could see both posh and poor parts. What is that old closed down white building near Park Regis?
Councils are another law unto themselves!! If we had been been declared Bankrupt, how could we lend money to the BBC??? Would it be possible?? I doubt that! If the council has this much floating around, how could they have been declared bankrupt at all?
They have some nerve, certainly!
Mate I used to live in Digbeth, next to the bus station when I was at uni. For the 9 months that I lived there, I do not recall a single weekend during which we wouldn’t have to call an ambulance for a homeless person, completely pissed out of it, laying in our entrance. I’ve moved out of Birmingham but it still boils my blood that instead of helping homeless, BCC decides to spend money on something so ridiculous. INSTEAD OF SPENDING MONEY ON OUR TOWN, OUR PEOPLE, they just give our council tax money like it’s nobody’s business (I stayed in Birmingham after uni at the beginning of my career so I believe I get to say it’s our money since I contributed).
I loved Birmingham - people were absolutely lovely and the town really had some nice sites. But seeing what BCC are doing, I’d never move back. They’re driving away people who love the town and instead bring in a corporation that robs them blind. So dystopian.
Digbeth is now under redevelopment. Unfortunately, it's being developed for the middle classes, and Old birmingham is being demolished. I use the pub on the corner by the coach station, and it's empty most of the day as the old residents have been forced out.
It used to be the place to go for entertainment, as was the Adam and Eve pub. Sadly, no more.
Birmingham City Council declared themselves bankrupt in September 2023
they lied .
They just stripped back on public services like minibuses for special schools.
Thing is, government (departments) do not need to follow the bankruptcy process a private business, or individual would have to. They can and are doing, just carrying on making whoopee with easy come, easy go extorted public money. Central government just print more (QE); thereby causing rampant inflation due to debasement of the value of the currency.
Totally corrupt and bankrupt.
I’m so pleased i don’t own a TV and have to pay the licence fee, crazy what’s going on in Birmingham what a complete sham.
you can own a TV and not pay the licence fee, can watch movies or whatever you have on DVD's or an external hard drive or use it to watch youtube or connect it to your pc/laptop
@@u45uify thanks for that 👍🏻
@@u45uify You'll find you can use it watch anything you like, without a BS TV licence
3 tvs no licence all legal
Don't connect to live TV either by Aerial or over the net
I'm a proud Brummie lived here all my life our council has been labour run for ever I rest my case
Doesn't matter who runs it be it the CON searatives or LIEbour they are all CON men/women who are at the top in every CON cil throughout the country.
Doesn't matter who runs the CON cils whether it's the CON searatives or LIEBOUR they the CON cilors are all CORRUPT and that's the story all over the uk.
I got a lovely letter of the BBC today it went in my bin more wasted money by the BBC
A pretty Red Envelope⁉️😂
@@miniward9182 Yup I thought it was a invite to the Labour party 😀
Why do BBC need another studio.
They probably are going to start a new channel for immigrants🙄 I wouldn't put it past them. 🤨
What about BBC Salford?
Not enough studio facilities there?
Lineker has probably requested his own personal studio.
@@stuartd9741 Thats where the Sunday-Thursday late night 1000-0100 Becky Want show comes from up Salford and then Joanne Good Friday & Saturday comes from BBC Radio London.
@@escapism6617He wouldn't go to Birmingham.
As a Brummie currently living under Birmingham City Council’s exorbitant council tax hikes this year since declaring bankruptcy, this is an absolute piss-take now! I’m also 99% sure that this would be the 2nd time the BBC have moved their studio in Birmingham since the year 2000 too (Pebble Mill > Mailbox > this ‘new Typhoo factory’ site). What exactly are we the people paying for here?!?! 🤬🤬🤬😤
They won't be getting any money out of me 😂😂😂
For god sake just don’t pay it.
Dead on
But...what about their tv detector van??
Lol😅😅
@@kippertrace5808 no such thing 🏴
Not gonna be renewing ours when it runs out this time thanks to you John.
Bbc absolute shit!!! 💩💩
Just stop paying it right now. Why wait?
Stop right now and get a refund - I stopped years ago with the help of chilli's videos
You can surrender your licence early and get a refund for each complete month unused. I did but they were slow to refund so I sued the BBC and won damages and costs.
You won't regret it, much better entertainment on YT
26 years ago I woke up and stopped coughing up for the shite TV licence!
We haven't had a licence for over 4 years now.. We had 1 vist never answered the door.. Keep getting their letters they just go straight in the bin...
why should the council be paying anything if its going to be a bbc building
You'd need access to private offshore accounts to answer that.
I suspect that the Council own the site/ building and are letting it to the BBC and Council Members are desperate to get "jobs" as Extras in the BBC sitcoms.
It's not the council paying anything. Its the people's money they are taking & giving to the bbc, it is a monopoly.
Councils don't work for the people. they are companies, corporations and all are listed on Dun & Bradstreet. They have a duns number, that means they are businesses.
A business cannot have a monopoly so if you are in a town, city and only have one council and that council is dictating to you where your tax payers money is going and you have no say. Does what that council are doing - giving the peoples money away when most don't want to fund this project, does that not break the Statute of Monopolies Act 1623? Yes it does. You can't have a monopoly so the people need another council.
There is nothing to stop anyone setting up another "business" and calling it an alternative council. People need a council in their towns who actually are there to benefit the people.
It must be really exhausting for these tech companies. Their sad low vibrational lives of continually chasing and trying to hide a simple thing the rest of us call -The Truth.
They can delete as many comments as they want. The TRUTH will always be heard. People are waking up thankfully!
@@brianlopez8855 even if the council owned the building or site it would not be required to pay towards the bbc converting it.
I can only say thank you Jon, because thanks to you I ditched my licence years ago. I can only imagine how the Birmingham rate payers are feeling at this moment, and the sooner the Beeb has to fund itself the better. This 'loan' frrom their council in Birmingham is a slap in the face to their rate payers, and is appalling.
Birmingham council is bankrupt. something dodgy going on there
Last I heard, Birmingham city council was bankrupt. 🤷
I heard that too! How can they afford to do this? Katie Price in charge?
As a bankrupt, how can they legally borrow any money?
@@earthisslunaranomaliesandb3809 Different rules for different folk, I guess.
Most councils are now bankrupt
No, not bankrupt, just corrupt.
Is this the same Birmingham City Council that is so cash strapped they could go pear shaped? The residents and council tax payers in the Birmingham area should have a say by way of a referendum.
Corruption and back handers are going on here.
Legally TV licence Free since 2009 and I have had a load of letters but no knock at the door😂
Same here
I've had three knocks and two fines since 1995. Fines were under the old system when just possessing a device capable for TV reception was enough for a fine. First time I told them at the door that I had a TV but it wasn't hooked up to anything other than a VCR and computer. The flat didn't even have an aerial fitted but I got a fine. Second time I bought a DVD/HDD/VCR machine to convert my VHS tapes to DVD, and the shop I bought it from had to send my details to TV licensing. That was around 2008. Third visit was around 2017 and I let them in the house to show that my TV wasn't hooked up to any aerial, thinking that would stop them visiting. The man didn't have the foggiest idea of how to operate my equipment, only asking me to flick through the channels on the TV, then he left. I have all kinds of boxes and equipment around the TV but he didn't ask about any of that. Didn't seem to know what he was doing at all, so probably not used to being invited in. Anyway, two years later and the letters started again. I have ignored them ever since, and your channel has helped me feel good about doing that. Never again will I let them into the house, and if I know they are knocking then I won't open the door unless I'm in the mood to make a little video for Chilli 🙂
Legally gun licence free since 1984
@@ElectrowaveI was done in 98 as I had £42 worth of TV licence stamps, they said I don't have a TV licence. I got a £50 fine which I didn't pay as I asked for community service instead when it went to court. Since then I've decided not to pay for shite programs and repeats. I told the shop I bought my TV from a falce name and address. I noticed they don't ask anymore when you buy a TV about the TV licence!.
@@davarosmith1334 Yes, I think that was dropped some years ago. Not sure what would happen if cash was paid, would they still require name & address? As you say, just make something up 🙂 I bought mine through a catalogue. The demand that came through from TV licensing had my details as well as the details of my purchase on it.
BBC Started at Pebble Mill then went to the Mail Box And now the old Typhoo Building. What's wrong with Pebble mill or the Mail Box? I thought Birmingham Council were Bankrupt..
"£55 million coming from private investment.".....
Why do I suddenly sense the fingers of BlackRock in this particular pie?🤔
Don’t forget the BBC sold the purpose built Tv Centre in London now they are doing this.
Yes and they demolished Pebble Mill in 2005, and already make the shows they claim to be bringing to the City elsewhere in the City.
The BBC are greedy for money for their staff's champagne lifestyle
They need the money badly to make their loser woke tv programs, Doctor Who is not doing well under funding from Disney the series is in doubt😅
4yrs licence free saved me £££, keep it up cjc
and me
I’m also from Birmingham and are disgusted at yet again the council putting money into something other than what’s needed!! Together, the BCC and the BBC are not helping! So glad I cancelled my license years ago! Next, not paying my council tax??
You mean your still subject to the extortion of illegal, and fraudulent Council tax?
I thought Birmingham council was bankrupt?
they lied like many others around this country.
Laurenston place in Dover at one point the road goes to a single lane. This is becasue a wall collapsed, Dover councils answer was to fence it off with Site fencing, no lights or cones. This happened over 10 years ago, Still not fixed.
I could well imagine there is money changing hands at the top, hence the government not really caring about the ordinary people resulting in their uncaring attitude regarding the dreaded TV license.🤔
I'd be raging if I lived in Birmingham. Full stop.
No need to rage. Just need to withdraw consent to be subject to the corrupt WEF allied state's extortion, larceny, embezzlement and racketeering.
So they found a way to bypass the licence payment and get the money straight from the council instead.
Wasn't it Birmingham council that went into special measures last year because they went broke??
Correct, they pissed away 125 million on an ERP project because they wanted it completely customised to use their 25 year old dog shit processes in a system designed to streamline things, it turns out it didnt work and now need to spend a further 100 million correcting the damage they have done. I have worked on similar projects of this scale and it would cost 15 to 20 million. They even came to the company I work for and were willing to offer over industry rate to get us to fix it, we rejected their bid because despite the money we didnt want that stain on us (typically my day rate is £750 a day, they were willing to go up to £1200 for my level and £1800 a day for a project director)
The main question should be is who owns all the other properties around the typhoo building and also who's getting all the contracts to renovate the whole area! We had the same in liverpool with joe Anderson and he had his fingers in everything one way or another.
Why oh why do we put up with this .Soon they will kill the goose that laid the golden egg . More and more are waking up
Firstly, as per all projects of this size, the £70 million budget will no doubt escalate to over £100 million.
Secondly, Didn't Birmingham City Council recently go bankrupt??? (Debts included £200 million in cab fares - don't know who owned the cab companies, but similar sounding names to some of the councillors 🤔).
Scandalous.
Interesting. Plymouth council is going to do yet another 40 million revamp and intend to borrow the money. Not quite bankrupt yet?? But all this hugh spending ... like aren't we in a cost of living disaster?
All they seem to do that BBC is build new buildings all over the UK.
Gov state media for the sheep
£14.3million!!!! That's the equivalent of almost 1yrs sick pay for Huw Edwards!
Didn't Birmingham Council declare bankruptcy last year?
Investment to raise property prices is not going to help council tenants. If anything, it'll put rents and council tax up even higher . Bull sh*t baffles brains !
Any thing the councillors or government touches will fail all the do is look after them selfs😤😤😤
Brains are bullshit.
Construction costs are constantly increasing on large projects, I'm sure the final cost of this will be far more than £70m, making this far worse, many more people to be harassed for a licence they don't need. Your channel is amazing, thanks for keeping us updated.
I got a new letter today. If I don't contact them, they're going to have to continue their investigation into the "Legal occupier" at this address. I think after two plus years that they must have Inspector Clouseau working my case as they've not found out that Dick Dastardly and Muttley live here, and we have a despicable plan a foot of door slamming should they actually turn up.
We had one put through my mother in laws letterbox yesterday, who died 12 months ago. Despite the fact we'd contacted licensing and explained the house was empty, they've already sent two letters plus a visit card pushed through the box. This new letter, all in red ( 😰 ) states " officers have now been authorised to visit, we can stop this by buying a TV licence", blah blah. Interestingly, they say if contact them to say we don't need a licence they may still come round.... just to check.
" If you continue watching TV you will also have to pay for a TV licence " - not clarifying the difference between live broadcast and non. Ambiguous in order to create {{{{{{ FEAR!}}}}}
Ignore everything. Do not answer the door, to talk to strangers. Follow your parents advice. They have no legal powers whatsoever.
Birmingham council were bankrupt not so many months back
Birmingham City council declared bankrupt in 2023 ? … what the F is going on !!!
And to think BBC Pebble Mill Centre, Birmingham was demolished years ago, when it could've been refurbished. Now the site of a dental hospital. Funny, that, as watching BBC is like having yer teeth pulled.
I had a letter 2 weeks ago stating that I’d watched iPlayer
NO I HAVE NOT
Talk about cheek!!
Insidious
Birmingham City council, next year are stopping weekly Bin collection from next April, which is going to cause, filthy footpaths, rats, and black bags strewn across roads, 🤬🤬🤐🤐🤐
agree with johnburns they are cutting services to the residents but putting council tax up this smacks of corruption to me
I thought the BBC quite recently moved all operations to Salford?
The Southerners being shipped up don’t like it. It’s too Northern for them😢
@@enkisdaughter4795 Chuckle. That's probably true!
And when Birmingham goes vehicle free, we can fund their travel expenses too.
Council Tax doesn't go to the council, it all heads off to the Treasury and they divvy it up and sends some back.........so you are paying for some of it from the Treasury pot Jon........you pay any tax, no one knows where it'll end up!
I do in there private pensions
Yes. It goes into a Consolidation fund. Most of it goes to the WEF, and the Vatican.
Is that the same Birmingham city council that spaffed £125 million on an ERP project I can confirm only costs 20m tops if it was a private company.? not to mention the estimated additional £100m cost to fix it?
Chilli, as an aside, have you covered the recent ' we can see you're using iPlayer via your IP address ' letters I've heard about?
It's bollox
i had one of those letters the other week. i know i do not use it or any of my family! its another scare/scam tatic. ps black belt barrister did a vid on it not long ago.
Footnote: Apart from BBC's Mailbox site here in Brum, it also rents a drama department at Birmingham University in Selly Oak. And so it goes on. Ker-ching.
The Labour Party runs the council and their financial incompetence is infamous. They cut care services to pieces where I worked. Appalling people
Give it a few years, and the entirety of the BBC Licence will be coming from an additional Council Tax payment. There's NO way that the current Govt are going to let the BBC fail, due to reduced subscribers, and/or having to compete fairly in the media entertainment market place via a Pay-Per-View model. Once a threshold has been reached, due to people refusing to pay etc, the Govt will step in. Guaranteed !
Their contract renews in 2027. What's the bet that Labour will keep this TV tax going with an update?
I cancelled my license three years ago. Best decision I ever made. I was utterly sick of their anti-British, box-ticking, ridiculous presenter-wages BS.
What happened to pebble Mill?
Hey yeah, they already have a tv studio there. I remember watching Pebble Mill at One.
Didn’t need it allegedly it was demolished ……………
@@KarenG.-qs7wc childhood memories!
They won't even hide their utter contempt for us.
Why hide yours. Shove it in their faces. Use all of their acts, statutes and laws against them.
They only apply to the legal fiction dead corporate entity (in ALL CAPS; or e.g. MR / Mr Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx). They were originally enacted by parlyement for the people to use against tyrant governments. But the tyrant councils switched things around without saying anything; and now apply them fraudulently against the people.
Speak to them about the Local Government Act 1888, section 79: (2) All duties and liabilities of the inhabitants of a county shall become and be duties and liabilities of the council of such county.
The The Fraud Act 2006. Re the uttering of false instruments designed to make someone believe they need to pay money to the council.
Penalty for fraudulent conveyancing is up to 10 years in prison.
The Theft Act 1968; involving False Accounting.
The Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889.
The Interpretation Act 1889. Re payment enslavement.
The Terrorism Act; 2006.
You will hear nothing more from them...
Birmingham is now a non British community , fancy the new HQ moving there .
Wonder if it will have a Minaret.
Birmingham City Council were declared bankrupt. How can they continue to fund the BBC?
I cancelled my TV tax years ago, I can take great solace in that I won't be paying for any of it.
Governments and this ghastly corporation excel at wasting other people's money and don't really care.
As they say "you couldn't make it up " I wish every licence payer would stop paying tomorrow. It would end this travesty.
Showing how a Council is a limited company as listed at Company House and Dun & Bradstreet 🤔
I did not renew my tv license April....I have had lots of letters and now 2 visits...I said 'off you go' they went. I hope the visit isn't going to be monthly
Services for children, young people and families in Birmingham face a funding drop of more than £100 million after councillors approved what are thought to be the biggest cuts in local authority history. (Meeting 5/3/2024)
BBC spent a fortune on a new Eastenders set , that was a flop. I cancelled my license fee and told as it was on direct debt ( cancelled direct debit) it would stop in January 2025.
Bankrupt my arse
Is it just me or is Birmingham City Council the very Council to declare bankruptcy year ago because they wasted local taxpayers funds funds and wasted the city's money ? or am I thinking of someone else?
Isn't Birmingham suppose to be hosting invictus next year.
Birmingham city council is not operating in the interests of its citizens. BBC can fund themselves. Stop this corrupt behaviour.
Are they only using black & Muslim builders, plumbers, electricians, architects etc etc?
It's not the BBC to blame, its the government who keep this old fashioned tax going. After 27 those bastard's will slam the rubber stamp down for another 10 years of uninterrupted TV licence crap!
Didn't Birmingham City Council declare bankruptcy last year?!
All Birmingham council taxpayers have to wonder about is what proportion of that bribe (sorry, council grant) to the BBC is sliding back into councillors' back pockets. 10%? 20%? Any bribery total inevitably includes that percentage that slips back to those who enabled the bribe. It's how such things work.
Councillors on the take - with no conscience about where that money is ultimately coming from.
Dodgy plans. Dodgy contracts. Dodgy finances. Nothing even remotely new to see here in local councils, or the Broken Biscuit Corporation. Just comfy old boys' clubs, including every central government ever in power.
Just re subscribed Jon 🙄 On a similar subject of BBC wasting money, I spent some time making a UA-cam video backed by a Delia Derbyshire track that is 60 years old and (I thought) should be out of copyright. I tried to upload it and it came up that it had been copyrighted by the BBC in the 1980's 🤔 Why would the BBC copyright 60 year old music using licence payers money other than to annoy us UA-cam creators?
I visited Digbeth late last year to go to an exhibition at the Custard Factory. I was DISGUSTED! I didn't recognise Digbeth at all. It has become a soulless place. And the Custard Factory was no longer the place I used to go clubbing at 20+ years ago. I was so sad, I no longer want to go there.
Great information jon
great video.
Back handers sounds more like it
Book deals/speaking tours and directorships 🤮
Nice work, Chil keep it up!😊
Have cancelled licence and hopefully with others will be on the way to another 500,000 less payees
I may be stating the obvious here
But i think i know what's going on here.
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According to the figures presented in this video.
The bbc is getting a new studio complex in Birmingham, for £0.
part paid by birm council, and the other part by private enterprise..
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This is the same as the private/public finance initiative championed by Labour in the 90s.
That left a lot of new nhs hospitals costing health trusts an absolute fortune in ridiculous lease/maintenance costs.
(All private of course)..
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So what this deal will do is allow the bbc to have a new complex
"off the books" because it is mostly funded by private enterprise.
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This is why governments like PPFI deals as it can hide a lot of government spending
"off the books"
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On the jobs front, i can see only a partial benefit to the local jobs market in specialized (niched ?)
media posts, kind of a limited niche job market if you ask me..
Nice work if you can get it....
You want to see the state of the roads, over grown grass verges and they got money to give to the BBC. Good job I cancelled my TV license about 3 years ago, wish I could do the same with the council tax.
You can, you'll get loads of threats then nothing
The BBC just cancelled daytime soap Doctors, filmed in Birmingham, because they said they didn't have the local studio budget anymore!!
All the same work sheet is going on around this world
what do you think of the chances that the council leadres that signed off on this have recently or are about to buy the land this will be on and will soon be having the BBC paying off their mortgage on it making the descision verry profitable for them personally.
stuff like this is prety much standard practice in a lot of organisations from charities to doctors surgeries - makng descisions on behalf of the organisation in a way costs the organisation a fortune over time but lines the pockets of descision makers
Imagine living in Birmingham and had just cancelled your tv license and then discover that your council tax is being given to the bbc.
So what happened to 'The Mail Box', the ex-Post Office site the BBC moved into when they closed Pebble Mill?
I'm glad I don't pay a single penny to those money-burning bastards. Absolute pisstake!
Been sent my 10 day notice to comply ....or I will get investigated...its been more than 10 days ! They have been sending letters since last December! ! Just because I won't answer them !
If the council did the place up for residential housing it would go to house the Boat people! If they sold it for residential it would be made into 'to expensive to afford for the average Joe' luxury housing!
Leeds city council are the same with student accomodation and new footbridges that we dont need
As with any construction project, the initial price will likely not be enough. With inflation, material and labour costs going up and likely delays, it will run over the estimated schedule and cost more money. That being said, I wonder what the end cost of all of this would be and if the council will end up forking out more money.