Birmingham bankrupt

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Health service, Water, Gas, Electric, Transport, Postal Services, all totally fucked due to shareholders

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

The post office don't deliver parcels or letters do they?

I love the sarcasm. In theory yes, in practice no

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

The media run this country. Corrupt as fuck. Owned by the wealthy, print what benefits the wealthy (look at teams playing in red for easy examples). We may as well live in China, Russia or Korea.

And there is the point. They even make you think what they want, thus allowing them to take even more while you’re distracted.

They sell you a dream of being part of the establishment, then set policies to take away what you thought was yours and pass it around themselves.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The post office don't deliver parcels or letters do they?

They do to my house - fucking daily most days as my daughter loves a bit of on-line shopping lol -may get a desk set up in the porch marked "RECEPTION" to greet them - maybe a few leaflets for local attractions ha ha ha

 

[west didsblue]

I love the sarcasm. In theory yes, in practice no

Royal Mail deliver letters and parcels. The post office sells stamps and envelopes.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Royal Mail delivers fuck all except dividends to shareholders. The post office sells stamps and envelopes.

Amended

 

[MouldensChippy]

No, I comprehend perfectly well.

People who kick up about good terms and conditions obviously aren't particularly fussed if they are diluted.

Who is kicking up about about good terms and conditions ?

Apart from yourself that is !

This thread is supposed to be abouth Birmingham council filing for bankruptcy (in as much as a council technically can), but as usual it's turned into perceived left vs right with personal jibes being thrown, and most ly by the usual folk.

Back to basics, the management of the council is disgraceful at the executive levels. They knew all about these costs for many years, yet never budgeted for them, just the same as our government knew about the costs of the concrete in schools many years ago, and through more than one or two administrations. Is that competant behavior ?

Yet it will be the good old taxpayer bailing these shysters out whilst they face no repercussions, or swan on to their next executive club job !

 

[goalmole]

Public services should always be run by government with the sole intention of providing the very best services possible.

We should all welcome that and be willing to pay for it.

Making profits from essential services is exploitation.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

We are paying a £31bn for the Trident replacement, for a start

The painful truth is that government spending has not kept up with the population or the demographic of the population (we have lot more elderly people living longer than ever)

You do make a point about expensive contrats, mainly given to companies wo have some form of connection with the Tory party

Assume when you say Trident you mean the ballistic missile sub replacements.
Just curious if you consider them worthwhile? (And I don't mean value for money)

£205 billion ......

Lifetime cost of replacing Trident is at least £205bn, latest estimate suggests

The latest estimates take into account decommissioning and other related costs of renewal

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Vic]

Who is kicking up about about good terms and conditions ?

Apart from yourself that is !

This thread is supposed to be abouth Birmingham council filing for bankruptcy (in as much as a council technically can), but as usual it's turned into perceived left vs right with personal jibes being thrown, and most ly by the usual folk.

Back to basics, the management of the council is disgraceful at the executive levels. They knew all about these costs for many years, yet never budgeted for them, just the same as our government knew about the costs of the concrete in schools many years ago, and through more than one or two administrations. Is that competant behavior ?

Yet it will be the good old taxpayer bailing these shysters out whilst they face no repercussions, or swan on to their next executive club job !

Every council knows about what's coming.

Black hole in town hall budgets rises to £5bn

Unison warns some councils will be unable to provide basic services.

www.bbc.co.uk

The good old taxpayer? The ones who voted for Tory tax cuts paid for by cutting funding to councils and now complaining about the consequences? That's you, that is.