Birmingham Council granted injunction banning protests after year-long bin strike

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/birmingham-council-granted-injunction-banning-36758274

#BrumBins: Dispute reaches stalemate as council ends talks and union accuses Labour of “shambolic mismanagement”

READ HERE:👉 https://bvoices.uk/4ll9L9D

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#refuseworkers
#BirminghamCityCouncil
#BirminghamBins
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK
#B31Voices #BVoices

Parliamentlive.tv

Westminster Hall

"The English councils’ current financial gap [is] about £4bn a year, which could have been filled more than twice over by the money #JeremyHunt used for that...cut in #NationalInsurance. He seems to still think that councils must sink or swim:...he & his allies in the rightwing press have reprised old and stupid rhetoric about millions supposedly being wasted on “consultants” and “diversity schemes”."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/17/birmingham-britain-state-cuts-austerity-local-services

#ukpolitics #austerity #Birmingham #BirminghamCityCouncil

Birmingham’s cuts reveal the ugly truth about Britain in 2024: the state is abandoning its people

First it was austerity. Now it’s something even worse: the suggestion that people didn’t need vital local services to begin with, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian

After being messed around by #BirminghamCityCouncil over an incorrectly issued PCN from back in 2022, and after they ignored the fact it was issued to the wrong address, refused to correct it, tried to triple the payment, tried to take me to court... and lost and had the PCN cancelled, losing the court fee in the process.

They have now 'correctly' issued the PCN, and I now get to pay ÂŁ60 instead of ÂŁ190 and they finally get money 15 months late and after wasting much more trying to screw me.

Birmingham City Council signed off on a two-year ÂŁ300M cut last night; they're skint. Broke, the cashbox is empty!

Like it or not, it's due to poor management, two binmen strikes, hosting the Commonwealth games, investing in a shite IT system that cost more than its worth. Being found guilty of underpaying women for years, and yet a union guy was threatening further strike action while others seemed to think there was a magic wand or a printing press in the council basement that was able to continue haemorrhaging money.

What was the total bollocks stock answer that's always given: "Central Government caused this." 🤦‍♂️
#cuts #BirminghamCityCouncil

Some days, something just makes you smile and laugh

Today it's the fact that the incompetent idiots at #BirminghamCityCouncil have been ordered by the #TrafficEnforcementCentre to cancel the PCN and charge certificate against me.

They sent the PCN to the wrong address, refused to issue it correctly, refused to consider my representations and refused to issue the NoR (Notice of rejection).

They also waited 12 months between sending the PCN and telling me of this.

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#BirminghamCityCouncil is instructed to sell off a third of its assets, because they've been deliberately underfunded to leave cash for dodgy govt deals.

So now they'll have to pay rent on top of funding services. Not going to end well.