Birmingham bankrupt

[SkyBlueFlux]

Couldn't we just have give out early doses of morphine to care home residents and sterilise children entering foster care?

As children who were looked after by the local authority as are more likely to grow up to be abusive and neglectful of their own children and commit violent crimes, the potential savings are both astronomical and immeasurable.

I'll write to my local Tory MP and suggest it's something that should be discussed at conference.

Think you’ve gone too small here. We could take the Huxley approach and have a class of epsilon untermensch that do all of the work for us while receiving minimal food rations and are constantly high on drugs engineered to keep them socially unaware.

Your bin men won’t need paying that way and we educated folk can all enjoy a glut of effectively free services. It’s really a no brainer.

 

[threespires]

I might be able to afford a massive house in Sutton Coldfield if that happened!

Have always quite fancied one of those gaffs on Roman Road!

 

[threespires]

My **** of an MP. Thanks for reminding me!

we've all got our crosses to bear

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Have always quite fancied one of those gaffs on Roman Road!

 

[metalblue]

Stop digging. In a recent study it was found that councils had taken a huge cut in central government funding, and when you look at Birmingham specific, they’d also taken a huge hit because of Brexit as they had something like 40% exports to that area.

All you have to do is go and find the detail, it’s all there, free on t’internet.

Wait what!? Birmingham city council was exporting goods to the EU? For real?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Wait what!? Birmingham city council was exporting goods to the EU? For real?

I think he’s referring to the high percentage of goods exported from the City by businesses. Think he’s alluding to greater consequent business failures, higher than the national average.

Which impacts on revenue.

I think!

 

[metalblue]

I think he’s referring to the high percentage of goods exported from the City by businesses. Think he’s alluding to greater consequent business failures, higher than the national average.

Which impacts on revenue.

I think!

I don’t see significant business failures in Birmingham since Brexit, ignoring if that was the cited reason versus something like covid. Certainly nothing equating to 40% of decline in business rates received by the council he cited.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I don’t see significant business failures in Birmingham since Brexit, ignoring if that was the cited reason versus something like covid. Certainly nothing equating to 40% of decline in business rates received by the council he cited.

Don’t think he did tbf, but it’s definitely going to be nowhere near that figure.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I think he’s referring to the high percentage of goods exported from the City by businesses. Think he’s alluding to greater consequent business failures, higher than the national average.

Which impacts on revenue.

I think!

You are right, my friend, and it should be down to individuals to understand the reality before gobbing off.

 

[metalblue]

Don’t think he did tbf, but it’s definitely going to be nowhere near that figure.

Ah re read it he was making two different points in the same paragraph. One of which is unrelated to the finances of the city council.

What would have been relevant is, I would expect, they lost some EU funding however (that should have been replaced with that domestic fund but that all went a bit quiet after a bit of a fan fare… possible due to covid) and if they decided to keep funding that directly it would have had a significant negative impact.