Why this city went BANKRUPT

[@AdamJX602]

Guys why don’t you crank that music volume up abit, I could almost hear people talking in the video

[@georgeclayton]

😂😂😂 right? Mix is awful

[@razwanakram4446]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@arcan762]

I think the audio guy is trying to get a job in Hollywood 😅

[@chips8388]

@@arcan762 Probably BBC documentary sound mixer in training.

[@imnottellingyoumyname3050]

The sound in politicsjoe videos so beneath the level the rest of their content. It's consistently amateurish. So sorry if it's one individual who's been hired and is reading this criticism but a lot of people mention the sound and nothing ever changes. Does someone need training / are you hiring the wrong freelance person?

[@17dragoncut]

Lots of examples like this all over the country of vulnerable SEND kids having services removed. Its a DISGRACE.

[@garyh1572]

Tory budget cuts over 14 years. If you have ever voted Tory, then you're part of the problem.

[@0NEisN0THING]

It is. Its tragic. And the media tries to blame women. This isnt democratic. The people didnt choose this. We have to take back the power. This can only be done by taking back our economy. Through workers occupation. Through democratic revolution, through allocating resources off need, not profit

[@Car_Porn]

Don’t be silly we have to pay for hotels for all the new doctors and lawyers who arrive on dinghy’s

[@steffmay7969]

i read the last bit in the voice of liz truss

[@ldn876]

The music is horrible and not needed.

[@burgundycobalt5665]

This is my city. It's really concerning and disgraceful to see how it has gone downhill in recent years. 😢

[@fleurtaylor7311]

14 years of austerity and cuts to all public services.

[@Peppamonkey23]

Heartbreaking to hear these stories. The nonsensical situation of Robert and his sister find themselves in, if he was put into care, that cost would be significantly more than the £16k that keeps him with family, and a sister that truly loves him.

[@ShakirahIbaad]

Costs of full time care for someone with Robert’s disabilities would be astronomical in a care home. My Grandmother is in a home and receives the minimum care package, her fees are over £4000 a month. I can only imagine what it would cost for Robert to stay in a nursing home.

[@LimeyRedneck]

Tax. The. Wealth.

[@gothgurlfriend]

DISGRACE. Cmon Labour, DON'T LET US DOWN. Please.

[@NeurOldies]

Music is toi loud, esp for us neuro spicy folk. Sorry, would have liked to hearbit alknasbi kive in brum, but music was too distracting, i couldn't listen. If there's a re-upload in the future without the music, I'll try again

[@hyper_fn_al1459]

music's a bit loud, tough to hear ed

[@philmcgroin]

I'd like to know more before making an opinion. If she works from home, freelance, why can't she take her son to school? Quitting her job seemed extreme. Is that the only option

[@BurningTNT]

Remember how she mentions that his school is pretty far? Two trips every weekday is a pretty significant chunk of time out of the hours you can work Also doesn’t mean that a bus pass is an acceptable arrangement from the council. If trying to use the adjustment being offered is more likely to cause injury to the person then it’s not reasonable And frankly, outside of those hours she’ll be doing the work a carer would be paid for with no support. Right now our care system is massively propped up by unpaid carer’s like family members and carer’s allowance just is not enough to keep people afloat. If it would cost her 8k a year to sort cabs then that still less than they’d be paying a carer for those outside of work/school hours she’s covering

[@wc08amg]

This is what happens when the funding of local governments is dependent on the political party in charge of central government. Are there any Conservative led councils that have experienced such drastic cuts as Birmingham? The councillor at the end said that under the Tories, Birmingham lost £1 billion of funding. This was a political choice because the people of Birmingham dared to vote for a party other than the Tories to control the council. If a local government organisation goes bankrupt, that is a specific failure of central government.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

As a Birmingham resident I can tell you that street lights have not been dimmed and our house hold rubbish is still collected every week

[@burgundycobalt5665]

The changes are happening from next year.

[@burgundycobalt5665]

The changes are happening from next year.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@burgundycobalt5665 Who has said !! it has been mentioned but nothing more has ben said

[@ShakirahIbaad]

Same where I live in Birmingham. I know the council was considering it, but has yet to be implemented.

[@duncwoodbridge7152]

I love my city but it's been woefully mismanaged by labour council after labour council after labour council now they're in charge of the UK budget watch this space ..

[@Kazelrov]

It's sad to see my city in this state.

[@Christian988.]

It's terrible, and I thought Wolverhampton had gone down hill, but it seems Birmingham has fallen MUCH MUCH further.

[@spaghettibolognese1084]

Born and raised here and sad to say as a young man I'm looking to leave and never return. Council only pumps money in the centre while much of the suburbs are left underfunded. The city is becoming increasingly lawless, reckless driving and litter lining the streets :(

[@Car_Porn]

Don’t talk wet the council pays 100s of thousands of ppls housing benefits and hotels for the new doctors and lawyers who arrive on dinghy’s

[@ShakirahIbaad]

Our previous mayor was a Tory and he was responsible for funding the city centre more than anywhere else in the city. It’s disgusting.

[@yc9129]

6th biggest economy in the world. Time to tax capital gains properly and time big business pays its fair share

[@rufdymond]

That won’t fix anything….the whole country need a major reboot.

[@markysgeeklab8783]

Capital gains is just another way to protect the wealthy by ensuring other people can't become as rich as them and that they don't have to pay tax on their assets. High CGT is like a high income tax rate, it hurts the people who are not wealthy much more than the people who are wealthy.

[@HeavyMetalPowerBottom]

All because of a computer error really what an absolute shambles

[@ShakirahIbaad]

It really is. Government contracts for IT are always given to private companies and often it’s who you know not what you know. They don’t hire those with the best skills and knowledge and this is what happens as a result.

[@HeavyMetalPowerBottom]

@@ShakirahIbaad thanks for explaining further

[@markysgeeklab8783]

Probably because they tried to implement a new system and when they realised they had fucked it up they decided to throw in more money than they had in the attempt to fix it instead of cutting their losses and going back to how they used to do things. Just a guess, but probably a good one.

[@sidco123]

If only Birmingham City council could find a way to blame immigrants for this and not financial mismanagement they could get away scott free.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

What are you talking about?

[@Yyyllluuubbb]

Why have you got the sh*t music on in the background? I can’t you or anybody else talk 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Use the captions.

[@azillliasmith2734]

@@CuriousCrow-mp4cx no good for the blind and visually impaired.....

[@mrmeldrew693]

So glad I don't live in my hometown anymore. It was fine in the 90s.....now it's a dump at best and dangerous at worst.

[@Car_Porn]

I thought all the new doctors and lawyers who arrive on dinghy’s pay their way and help the nhs

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

And as a resident Brummie I am glad you don't live in Birmingham as by the sounds of it you know nothing of modern birmingham, it was not fine in the 90's I can tell you that, now Birmingham has been totaly rebuilt and the Cars have been forced out of the City Centre, Birmingham now is a modern cosmopolitan multi racial City and is not a dump or Dangerouse

[@mrmeldrew693]

@peterwilliamallen1063 yeah OK, parents and sister still live there - so I have to venture back into that hell hole periodically. I'm in the countryside about an hour away by car and may as well be on another planet. Been for a stroll around Sparkbrook/Handsworth/Lozells/Aston recently?! I'm sure the council have pumped huge amounts of tax money into a couple of square miles in the centre - the rest is rotting.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@mrmeldrew693 Birmingham is no more a hell hole as you put it than any other big City in the UK or the rest of the World and yes I have travelled in those areas and they havent changed at all and how is the rest rotting, why don't you stay with your yocles, suck on a piece of straw and have a pint of Cider then take the horse and cart back to the straw thaatched cottage mate because you definately do not live in the real world.

[@ShakirahIbaad]

Honestly Birmingham was also rubbish in the 90s. I grew up here and still live in a nicer area of Birmingham. Birmingham has always been neglected and ignored by central government.

[@KieranKelly-o9s]

Birmingham is still a great place to live with a great mix of immigrant cultures

[@bdunnigan73]

This is the cost of mismanagement. The problem with many in local government is that it's seen as a way to be noticed for higher office or seeking influence. It's a role that is meant to serve the local community by administering the services they depend on. When they (local government management/politicians) take their eye off the ball and ignore administrative issues, and wade into other irrelevant or indulgent issues, then you start to get errors like the pay settlement and IT failure costing a fortune when it could have been avoided by proper controls. We see it with this Palestine issue being hoisted into local government. It's a foreign affairs matter to be dealt with by the UK government. Local government needs to stay in its lane and do its job.

[@matt69nice]

Palestine is a foreign affairs issue, but it is also an ethical issue to support an apartheid regime. People must have the freedom to boycott if they feel strongly about an ethical issue, just as you'd expect them to have the freedom to donate to a school building project in Africa if that's how they wanted to use their money.

[@bdunnigan73]

@@matt69nice Then enjoy dysfunctional government taking time to do their job. You can't have it both ways. You either want them to fix the potholes (or other local issues) in a timely fashion or you want them to pontificate on moral issues. Me? I'll take them doing their job first, pontificate after.

[@matt69nice]

@@bdunnigan73 they don't need Israel to fix the potholes, let them make their point then get on with the rest of what they do. If you think they're 'taking time' over this issue you don't understand how local govt even works. It's a procurement policy, it doesn't take any time whatsoever.

[@ashm4938]

After working in a senior consultant on several major IT projects in NHS, TFL and several councils, I can tell you first hand that they are an utter cavalcade of fuck ups. Convoluted policies, terrible management and overly complicated management hierarchies, the insistence on moving theirs crappy and old 20 year dogshit processes onto new systems designed to streamline processes (but we piss tonnes of money on customisation just to support the dogshit old processes). TCS scored a lovely 575 million 5 years contract last week (£50 says that will be 900m after 5 years) to support our entire tax system which is currently being run on ECC... an application that comes to its end of life in 2026, and SAP wont offer any support work if it truly goes down (IMO that is a security concern given 760 billion of money is that at one one time). The government hasnt even submitted tenders yet looking towards the upgrade to S4 HANA. On and the funniest thing, this endless hole of money they have, consultants in my area we typically get paid £350 to 800 a day from junior consultant to project leads contracted to private companies. yet every government contract we got, they were very willing to offer £700 to 1400 a day.

[@ShakirahIbaad]

@@bdunnigan73 I would hope they are intelligent and capable enough to do both. It’s not one or the other.

[@JT-si6bl]

Reports like this will be cited. Why are there only 56k subs?

[@arcan762]

566k*

[@JT-si6bl]

@@arcan762 >5.6m

[@michaelvdunne]

Did the council not get a subsidy for hosting the commonwealth games if not why not.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Ask the Conservative who cut their budget by 49%?

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Although the Commonwealth games were held in Birmingham it was funded by the West Midlands combined authority

[@ShakirahIbaad]

Birmingham didn’t get any benefit from hosting the Commonwealth Games. Our Mayor at the time was a Conservative and he lied to us that it would bring wealth and opportunities to Birmingham. He also built a tram line for it, which had to be ripped out and replaced after only two years because it wasn’t built properly.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@ShakirahIbaad Birmingham City Council is a Labour Council and has been for years and the Mayor you are refering to was Andy Street who was the Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands not Birmingham. The Commonwealth Games although held in Birmingham was funded through the West Midlands County Council with help from local concils and came in under budget and Birmingham and the West Midland gained a lot of benefits from the Commonwealth games in tourism and new sporting facilities and the sharing out of the profits from the games comming in underbudget. As far as the Midland Metro is concerned it wasn't that it was not built properly it was the previouse administration before Andy Street ecame Mayor of the West Midlands used inferior metal for the tracks leading to them having to be ripped up and replaced, but before Andy Street took over the Midland Metro just stood still, then when Andy Street took over the Midland Metro started to rapidly expand and he had plans for new stations in the Mosely area and at Castle Bromwich, expanding the tram system, what happens the dozy people vote a labour mayor in based on Syria and other rubbish now the tram network will stand still again and these new stations are being delayed.

[@NA-zs2sw]

"£16,000 is peanuts". £16,000 _per person_ is not peanuts. That's probably 6-8 homes' worth of council tax.

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

Care is Labour intensive so I imagine that money is mostly for a year's worth of care work. Having been a care worker myself, I know that care workers do vital work but earn very little, so that £16k pa is stretching a long way over a 12 month period. And the people who are being paid a low wage are by necessity likely spending that money in the local community, so it's circulating in the local economy and doing good multiple times over. As a tax payer, Id happily pay more tax if I could be certain it would be spent on valuable services like this. Not many people need this level of care and we are all just one bad day and a road traffic accident away from needing it ourselves.

[@evildude951]

Did you not hear that the alternative is FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND?

[@acd1373]

She is essentially volunteering to take care of her brother, she’ll get carers allowance I imagine but it’s a tiny amount of money, the alternative of her and the day centre taking care of him together would be massively expensive 24hr care- the minimum wage alone for that (so not imagining costs, supplies or overheads of any kind) comes out at over £100k, so yes, £16k per person absolutely is peanuts.

[@Car_Porn]

That’s peanuts we pay sometimes £300 for 4 star hotel a day for the new doctor or lawyer who arrives on the dinghy everyday we get around 300-1000 new doctors we have to pay for

[@BurningTNT]

Yeah it’s peanuts compared to the cost of 24/7 care in the home or at a centre. The frankly criminal part is that she does the work of his carer for 19 hours a day and still has to contribute 3k to the costs. If she can’t get those 5 hours personal time and that leads to a breakdown the council would have to pay for that 24/7 care. The only reason they don’t have to pay more is because she willing does a lot of work for either a little money or none at all Hell employed carer’s are required to have breaks/not go over a certain number of hours and she’s well over that

[@katejackson7432]

wudnt it be great if there was comunity based nhs and social care how much money wud be saved on private taxis stupid distances, adapting social housing, extra costs for familys n carers from jupt day t day all going about seperated n swimming against the current.

[@BoogieKnight1976]

There’s no doubt way to many bosses and managers in the organisation that are paying themselves huge salaries from the budget for the odd meeting. The money they do spend is a total waste like cutting back ancient trees .

[@mikeflynn4373]

GovCorp is winning.

[@raquetdude]

Please cover basic tax schemes, no government is willing to reform them on the major scale that’s required. Last time it was attempted (poorly) there were the poll tax riots. The issue for majority of councils are SEND related (special education) and adult care. Council tax needs major reform especially with housing .

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[@Scrumpys]

Harry's mother can get off her butt and take him to school just like all the other proper parents out there who don't scrounge for other people to spend for her.

[@jh1544]

Wasnt really exsplained why she can't drive him into school. Might not have a licence / vehicle?

[@ShakirahIbaad]

Specialist schools for SEND kids are few and far between. The distance to drive or accompany her son in a taxi would mean she can work as the journey there and back takes hours.