Birmingham council's financial struggle is 'austerity coming home to roost' claims councillor | LBC 

A familiar story - if you restrain budgets or cut budgets repeatedly, sooner or later the system will break.

Surrey nearly went bust, but the Tories saved it by changing the funding formula. Would they have done that if it was a Labour councill?

Every council should declare bankruptcy. The services they are supposed to offer aren't fit for purpose.

Conservatives should keep their pointy fingers in their pockets, some of us remember the collapse of Tory run Northamptonshire.

Zalenzky as all the money they need to go to Zalenzky off shore account and take bank some of that money 💰

Nearly a billion wasted on commonwealth games .such poor decisions cost u in the long run.

What a disgraceful mess the Tories have made of this country.

As long as the MPs and the king get their pay rise. That’s all I care about really. 🥴

Local councils have done well but this situation was bound to happen. Westminster has squeezed to hard in order to feed their greed. Look at the billions Sunak has wiped off the books. We are in an absolute mess.

As ever, the Tories Baldrickesque cunning plans 'to make savings' end up costing far, far more than being sensible would. The kind of people who never change the oil in the car and blame everyone but themselves when the engine blows up and costs thousands to repair/replace.

Biggest Local Authority in EUROPE? What ignorance at the BBC. Looking at budgets, GDP, Population for European LAs and Municipalities Birmingham is very low down on the list of Important Cities.

How a city going bankrupted in 2023 when more billionaires In our society than ever

£17 million on school taxis £2 million changing 5 road names the list goes on

The Tories have destroyed the public services in this country. Slashing funding for local government was always going to come back and bite as some many services were provided by councils. Sunak and the Tories fixation on Austerity whilst protecting the rich is to blame. That simple.

Demands go up, funds go down.What could possibly go wrong ?

I don’t blame the council, I blame the government. They knew this and worse is coming and are doing nothing. Government leaders far interested in serving themselves and their own needs.

They have bled it dry these councillor's should be in a prison cell

Commonwealth games was a waste.they lied about the benefits.

The worst council in the uk to go with the worst accent in the UK. How apt.

Council staff on over 100k ! To many overpayed ,and under funded ,normal tax paying people being robbed by government and then fleeced by councils =where's our money going ??

Where's all the money we "saved" from brexit?

So I’m paying taxes and I can’t even expect my streets to be clean lol wow!

One of the reasons is that a huge Pakistani immigrant population depends on social benefits. No one wants to call it out or address the problem.

All I care about is Prince Andrews job....when he was working for us....is apparently not public information for historians. Seems sick.

This country is going south fast

the country is a right off.

The councils have no money? I’ve not heard of any payoffs concerning council members? Is that we’re the budget is going ,,on their bonuses?

Man things have really turned bad for the Brits!😢

everyone knows what Birmingham is

People just think this stuff is about bits of paper, society is on the slide 😐

Why are they wasting people’s money on all of the things they’ve spent it on instead of core services? Why aren’t they building council homes instead? What about the council that spent £650m on building huge office blocks? Why were they allowed to do that? Why were councils paying women less than men for the same job? Why are they allowed to store hundreds of millions in investment funds? It’s all a con…

When the organism has died, the organs stop working, one by one.

thx to the government for cutting Labour Council funding over the 13 years

This happened because Birmingham city council has given all their employee including all their managers high income and throwing monies away like bonus and presents…specially the managers having parties and having girls in the weekends. Look at all their managers what the wages are like…..specially when they knew Birmingham council is in crisis. Cut all the police officer, teacher head teacher wages.. If they don’t do any work sack them..I don’t see why does your department have to have 10 and 20 managers

How much have we given to UKRAINE??!!!! BILLIONS!!!CRY😢

If the government has been cutting the amount of money they give to councils it begs the question - just where is all that money going? On top of that my tax is sky high, my NI contribution is sky high, my car fuel is sky high, my food bill is sky high, my gas and electric are sky high - just more and more money going to central government.

So Birmingham is going to become more of a shitole 😢

Victoria show the way DONT HOLD A SPORTS EVENT YOU CANT AFFORD

"It appears these savages cannot govern themselves."

Austerity will never, ever drive an economy forward, and it is a particularly anachronistic way of looking at economics in the modern world.

We been in austerity for ages now ffs it's a joke all oney government get

The government certainly has a case to answer here but there has to be some mismanagement on Birminghams part too. After doing some reading it seems that Birmingham’s annual budget is around £3.2 billon for a local authority of around 1.2 million people. I then looked at Manchester just the council not Greater Manchester…..their annual budget comes in at around £736 million. I was quite shocked at that figure (unless I’m reading it wrong) if you consider that Birmingham council is twice the size of Manchesters but has over 4 times the budget, then something is very wrong. If anything it should be Manchester that is in trouble, not Birmingham. If I have got these figures incorrect then it wouldn’t surprise me, but that was the information I could find.

Maybe Ukraine could donate some of their money to help.

Wasn’t national insurance increased to pay for social care? Where does all this tax money go?

An Asian taxi driver got a 17 million pounds contract from the council to drive his community to school, and people wonder where the money went 😂

Net zero is obviously more important to the politicians🙄

Labour have 50% more council's going bust over the Tories, and people want Labour in Power! 4 Labour council's bust 2 Tory council's bust 1 Lib Dem council bust

Next is Tower Hamlet Council will go bust thanks to all the Bangladeshi in East London who wants everything free….cut all the budgets and they staff pay…sack all the unnecessary managers…save every penny

Send more to Ukraine. Sheep asleep, agrees to everything

Birmingham is a Great city.. And i love it always ❤. Home is where the heart is. That said, they spent on stuff not super neccessary. The construction schemes in Stechford, Sellyoak , Perrybar/ Witton and elsewhere, not entirley neccessary cost multi millions . They pay way too much to landlords for HMO schemes, Common wealth Games Should have not taken place post covid etc, was totally unafordable. Poor decision making by some of the councilors.

Council should have mass redundancies

Tories already trying blame Labour for this 🤦‍♂️

The Tories have squeezed Labour councils.

Why are the council spending money on anything that isn't essential? Cull all the fat cats on six figure salaries - that's where the money is going

No one is ending up in prison.

And labour’s answer to the problem is what?

All councils should have been proactive i have been predicting this Britain is bankrupt they should have held protective assets to mitigate inflation and other risks clueless when it comes to financial matters

Ready to be bankrolled by Blackrock with esg conditions.

Not surprising given the effects of austerity in the UK. Do not think it would matter which party ran it. If you keep slashing services and funding whilst demand expands then this happens.

Well done Mr Meldrew. You’ve got it off your chest and you will sleep better tonight!😂

I do wonder if this whole thing is showing where devolution needs to change. High streets are not pulling in the rate for council that they used to because most of the shopping is done online - for which the council get no funding for - but in theory the central government does through normal tax's. Also older people that need care will retire to the coast for example which puts a strain on care in the region without bringing real benefits

- Is death by hanging a possibility .. ? IF NOT : what are the possibilities .. ?

Similar story. Spending more than you tax.

Overspending not underfunded - stop pouring money in net zero

When you have millions going to “their” hotels? What do you expect?

Council tax going up again like every year.

Street cleaning? - have you been to Birmingham, pretty sure they stopped that years ago

Don't fkn understand i pay soooo much tax i can buy a new tesla each year... how the fk is this possible

Great video

If the other councils are also insanely retrospectively applying back pay for inequality matters then its just madness!

50 percent it the govertment ,30 percent is the local govertment and 20 percent is the local fault ,where do you want to start to fix the problem?

Not funding public services properly great idea Tories. Everything is broken everything. To the young generations remember what Tory policies mean and what a disaster it all is!

I wonder if they are going to bring in contractor services into the council. Most council contracts are so badly negotiated with external contractors that they always end up overpaying for subpar services.

I wonder how the tory councils are doing ?

Parasite can't survive on their own they need host

It was down to bad investments encouraged and enabled for this government.

Labour in business

The Tories are laughably bad. It's corporate manslaughter at this point isn't it?!

Then you have the Khan tax, for WHAT??

Does the UKs Brexit freedoms not help local authorities any?

Well done torries

Slough council already filed for bankruptcy 2021

Thing is birmingham's economy has grown by 36% since 2010. If there was progressive taxation in birmingham and more local powers granted as well as central funding they could easily pay for their needs.

Go woke go broke😂

Imagine even after looting 45 trillion Dollars from India and still becoming bankrupt 😂😂

This is a big win for British Democracy, we should reward Sunak a medal. Assume that city should run the public transportation is a evil communism idea, glad the bus gone, more freedom for UK.

Plenty money for Ukraine

Croydon: First time?

13 years.

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The main problem is not the budget is the spending as typical politicians most of the counselors are elected on spending promises and now Birmingham is caught in perfect storm/recession,inflation,less taxes collected,high social demand and less subsidizing from central government/.Personally for me both sides of politics are useless when it comes to managing money is better to let a professional accountant or auditor run the budget .Politicians are useless.People will suffer because of it and Birmingham is just the start....

WHST ABOUT TORY NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNCIL?

Get woke go broke.

Both Tory and labour run councils have gone bust

Thurrock council

It's the pensioners creaming off the state and they can't keep getting away with it

You know torries are blaming labour for this

What do you expect when youre spending millio s evrry day to put illegal mi grants in hotels

Too many spongers

Go on Sunak keep funding Ukraine…