"Chronic Inefficiency!" Isabel Oakeshott Talks Birmingham City Council Declaring Bankruptcy

Isabel Oakeshott talks to Mike Graham about 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".
Oakshott says: "The cherry on top of this story is the boss going off on a swanky holiday to New York".
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[@elainewhitelock5347]

What a mess this whole country is in. Appalling.

[@michaelsrowland]

Did you hear that Germany now refuses to send wanted criminals to England because of the state of English prisons.

[@jeffatkins6890]

Never allow fools financial control , it’s been common knowledge for a long time , the mayor of London a prime example

[@nowgrownup]

And Manchester

[@mihai-danut6955]

Same in Bristol

[@user-wx6fl3pc1x]

Run by Labour Party , of course.

[@fencer39]

And the country is run by the Tories. not much difference. really

[@nowgrownup]

​@@fencer39big difference the government has no control over council ..London Council Labour Khan ULEZ...Manchester Council Labour 350 million on the refurbishment of the town hall Burnham..says it all

[@JMB1891]

But they’re financially responsible 😂

[@anthonyclegg1511]

Several tory councils have gone bankrupt, under the tories.

[@WeRemainFaceless]

@@nowgrownup you think the government being in total control of how much public funding local councils receive, equates having no control? Aww little one, maybe politics isn’t for you. Leave it to your superiors.

[@TheLastSongbird124]

Wonder if the people responsible for this mismanagement were employed under the Diversity & Inclusion system, people who fitted some of that criteria but without the ability, skills and experience to do the job?

[@tonyblakemore2355]

The swanky party council leader shouldn't meet D&I because he's white and middle aged. Maybe he's thick, if that is now a new criteria of D&I.

[@alanfrost4661]

100% you can bet on it

[@lotusvisionlondonlimited4804]

Unless public servants are held accountable , these mismanagement of public funds will repeat again and again. People involved must be punished , with ban to serve public office anymore! Also a police investigation to ensure that there are no misappropriation of public funds. Incapable labour council. Watch out for, someone would next bravely say ,we have no choice but to increase the council taxes.

[@patricktracey7424]

there's an old adage if you are not qualified for anything and don't want to work but get paid a good salary and get a golden pension join a council where you will be surrounded by lots of people identical to you.

[@georgemorgan8056]

Time these corrupt and unaccountable scumbag politicians, both at local and national level,were paid a few visits at their homes.

[@paulmorgancollings7833]

To be fair, the boss is probably in New York to compare just how much their respective cities have spectacularly sunk. I see a lot of similarities between them.

[@georgemorgan8056]

Yeah,both run by socialists.

[@nolickspittle4753]

Wrong he's probably picking up training tips on diversity training!

[@patricktracey7424]

more like Total Incompetence by overpaid people who couldn't run a day nursery could apply to all councils. raising taxes, cutting services but retaining the same staff levels and golden pensions for failure.

[@stumac869]

All they have to do is spend other peoples money and they can't even get that right. Why are these incompetent fools paid so much for so little.

[@kaynine1958]

I use one fuxin bin, I am sick of finding out most go into landfill, and sick of having huge gloppy coloured bins making the house look like a broken lego house.

[@Usman-zp6ig]

DO NOT PAY THE COUNCIL TAX BILL!!!! IF EVERYONE STOPPED PAYING FOR 6-12 MONTHS WE'D SEE A REVOLUTION.

[@chrisspencer6502]

Chronic inefficiency?! If you mean they lost court and had billions in Back pay

[@rogermoore5761]

I am not a bit surprised this has taken place. Too many people on the gravy train.

[@ryanwisbey3387]

Thurrock council filed 114 last year. Fir decades theyce been siphoning off funds. There needs to be an independent audit of these councils starting from circa 1985

[@onlyme8117]

One lucky guy ( jameel Malik ) landed a £17 million contract transporting the kiddies to school and back. Many councillors have invested in HMO,s

[@michaelsrowland]

He was charging the council £200 for a 2 minute ride

[@onlyme8117]

@@michaelsrowland. . Be fair, it was for both ways.

[@Michael020]

Good british name

[@michaelsrowland]

@onlyme8117 OK. I apologise I thought it was just one way

[@unibks4382]

@@Michael020 Like Lady Malone.

[@deanwalker38]

FULL audit accountability from my cities councilors and civil servants .

[@user-mr2dk2wh7f]

I thought they sold the golden goose,NEC. To finance the ladies pay claim?.

[@nolickspittle4753]

One council took a £20M lease and doesn't use the building and are still paying the rent!

[@Traderhorn]

Time all these councillors were prosecuted for financial irregularities and miss management and face prison, these Questionable private companies being awarded overpriced contracts, and probably many Brown envelopes being handed round to these little dictators.

[@pauledwards5954]

The problem is that you can't take them to court as the courts are part of the same system that is rife with corruption which we can all see

[@Paul-pz3us]

Time to start the people’s courts at the courthouse public building county court and start bring these man and woman who act as public servants before the people to answer why their dereliction of their duties with the people’s money and why these man and woman believe their entitled to such high wages when everyone else gets minimum wages. Like to here their answer whilst taking public money out of the public purse to line their pockets and lifestyle.

[@Michael020]

We all know who paid for the holiday...us

[@Ann-bm5qg]

Apparently Birmingham have smaller bins as well!

[@pauledwards5954]

They All need bankrupting people should not keep funding this corrupt system

[@user-hh8tf4tb9q]

Did I hear there are a further 5 Councils in trouble, 1 Labour, 1 Liberal and 3 Conservatives?

[@timg1246]

You don't know what you heard ?

[@acquiesce100]

Nobody cares anymore

[@grumblegroan]

Appalling councillors on crazy money for doing a crap job there's the problem

[@anthonyclegg1511]

Did they criticise the tory councils going bankrupt.

[@grumblegroan]

Which ones ?

[@anthonyclegg1511]

@@grumblegroan all of them that went, or are facing bankruptcy. Lets face it the UK is bankrupt and trashed under the tories. Cameron, Osborne, Hancock, Johnson and Truss etc. Are to blame.

[@matthewprince9705]

If these councils were badly run for years, why didn't the Tories see what was going on early? Take charge and start running them right? Oh yeah, the Tories believe in the market and letting businesses and councils go to the wall and buying them up cheap. Look how many property developers are moving in on councils....

[@martinsigley3957]

How much do we need to pay the top "management" to do a proper job? How many hundred thousand? After all, they do not have to search for paying customers!

[@bear1245]

Road repairs. Where the local council brings a bag of tarmac and just stamp it into the hole. Of the slurry mix they cover all the sins with.

[@MariamM-hq5od]

NHS service cute in Birmingham

[@paulshorney3465]

😳😳

[@tommay1959]

So he’s not entitled to a holiday

[@bear1245]

No, not when he’s been up to no good with taxpayers money. Not a good time to take a holiday is it?

[@tikidas]

India laughing!

[@bear1245]

Stop noncing children you haters

[@_Archambaud]

Get those disabled working.!

[@fencer39]

Double council tax for second home owner ?.....should make it 5 times. Can afford 2 homes then pay the tax and shut your whining

[@mattymc6802]

The solution for a council wasting money can't be give them more money

[@Renegade1127]

You will get services for 12 months every year - 2nd home owners get services for maybe 1 or 2 months. Shouldn't YOU be paying more than them? Shut your own whining.

[@fencer39]

@@Renegade1127 They get services for 12 months. The services and infrastructure are in place it's just that they don't use them. Everything need paying for. And If you live in or near those areas that are saturated with second homes then you would understand why they should be charged more . Nice troll btw !

[@deborahwyndham-lewis5188]

I couldn’t afford two homes but my circumstances meant I couldn’t move into my new home which was 70 miles away as something happened with family and had to pay rent, bills and council tax for two properties out of savings as I wasn’t working! Things are not always that simple actually

[@bear1245]

Exactly there’s a housing crisis and 800,000 second homes are taken up by the wealthy!

[@avagrego3195]

"Sexy"???

[@WeRemainFaceless]

Oakeshott needs to learn her place and keep her dirty little beak out of things she has no business being involved in. She wont like what happens if she doesn’t.

[@grumblegroan]

You are a disgrace

[@MyPAPAH1]

why hasnt Deborah Cadman and these incompetants been sacked