"Worried About The Future" | Cllr Alex Bip On Birmingham City Council Declaring Bankruptcy

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  • Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
  • Cllr Alex Yip joins TalkTV’s Ian Collins to discuss 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".
    Yip says: ''Nobody has been able to get hold of John Cotton. He is not answering his emails. I have emailed him and got nothing back.''
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Комментарии • 35

  • @imbonkers3629
    @imbonkers3629 Год назад +14

    Just a couple of years ago the sold off the airport and N,E,C arena for £800 million, and still £760 million in debt, we need a criminal investigation on all councils, because 7 are bankrupt and dozens more to follow, what have they done with trillions because all our services have got worse 🙈

    • @Tomara710
      @Tomara710 Год назад +4

      Stuffed it in their pockets .

    • @sabrinam6895
      @sabrinam6895 Год назад +1

      Buying electric cars and worrying about climate change I bet!

    • @saragonmcenany6229
      @saragonmcenany6229 Год назад +1

      About that investigation- needs to start with Lord Whitby and former councillor Alan Rudge. Stephen Hughes and Eric Pickles

    • @sabrinam6895
      @sabrinam6895 Год назад

      @@saragonmcenany6229 and they go and lecture other countries about their corruption, lack of interest in climate change, and these people are the most corrupt. People who fail to see this are plain ignorant or secretly love what’s going on at the moment

  • @hellsbells7271
    @hellsbells7271 Год назад +11

    They need to explain why they pay a taxi service 17 million pounds a year to ferry kids back and to to school.
    Wouldn't a school bus be cheaper.
    That is an extortionate amount of money to pay out and it's probably 16 and a half million too much.
    This needs investigating.

    • @imbonkers3629
      @imbonkers3629 Год назад +1

      Lessons will be learned let’s move on 🙈

    • @susanwestern6434
      @susanwestern6434 Год назад

      The disabled Muslim children, due to inbreeding, obviously can't use a bus.

  • @gwheregwhizz
    @gwheregwhizz Год назад +3

    I'm quite happy to only receive essential services in exchange for a council tax bill for essential services.

  • @susanwestern6434
    @susanwestern6434 Год назад +5

    It's Alex Yip, not Bip. Please check information before posting.

  • @Roundhead75
    @Roundhead75 Год назад +8

    I bet you 100% there are diversity and inclusion managers on the payroll , probably at the 100,000 a year mark.

  • @patricktracey7424
    @patricktracey7424 Год назад +2

    increasing council taxes decreasing or stopping public services and yet there staffing levels remain the same , they have more cash to spend than any other council in europe should it not be less work less staff, redundancies, pay cuts and stopping there golden pensions. then find out who the incompetents were who caused this.

  • @Roundhead75
    @Roundhead75 Год назад +3

    You get what you vote for.

    • @Mary-c6e5e
      @Mary-c6e5e Год назад +1

      No, you hope you get what you think you paid for. Then you look closer and you can see they are just as bad as the last lot.

  • @jensenswang8135
    @jensenswang8135 Год назад

    Kirklees is next - another council with questionable spending practices.

  • @eleveneleven572
    @eleveneleven572 Год назад

    They need to rename the Labour leader Brave Sir Robin......RUN AWAY !!!!

  • @imbonkers3629
    @imbonkers3629 Год назад +4

    He will stay on holiday then resign with his gold plated pension 🙈

  • @ryanlynock7546
    @ryanlynock7546 Год назад +2

    you will own nothink and be happy ,,,klaus probs paid for his holiday

  • @angelachanelhuang1651
    @angelachanelhuang1651 Год назад

    Birmingham is a popular town

  • @cchan824
    @cchan824 Год назад +2

    Maybe get his name right

  • @patricktracey7424
    @patricktracey7424 Год назад +2

    perhaps they took lessons and advice from wee krankie sturgeon and the SNP.

  • @pomebiosolutions9009
    @pomebiosolutions9009 Год назад +1

    Does that include more money for Ukraine???

    • @joeboy9781
      @joeboy9781 Год назад +1

      ....let's hope it's not more "things", because watching the news, these conservatives are going to lead you to participate in the war.....
      ....Russia warns of an "escalation" if the US places nuclear bombs in the United Kingdom.

  • @dorothyparkes4831
    @dorothyparkes4831 Год назад

    If women had been given equal pay in the first place this situation would not have arisen

  • @sabrinam6895
    @sabrinam6895 Год назад

    Over bloated workforce as well I bet- many posts probably not even needed!

    • @andrewthomas695
      @andrewthomas695 Год назад

      Ah, yeas. There it is. The old bloated public service argument. That may have been true in the 80s, but in 2023 what you are seeing is 40 decades of tax cuts, efficiency dividends, restructuring, and layoffs reaching their natural conclusion. What do you think happens when you vote for tax cuts and more services at the same time? And now everyone gets to suffer. Justice. Finally. Enjoy your small government utopia. Nobody deserves in more.

    • @sabrinam6895
      @sabrinam6895 Год назад

      @@andrewthomas695 and I suspect you are a Labour supporter

    • @markwalker2627
      @markwalker2627 Год назад

      Actually no..big cuts by 13yrs of Tory rule have reduced staff