Birmingham bankrupt

RabidCity said:
Trident is 3bn per year. It also provides jobs and country security. I agree we could scrap it, but it won't even tickle the sides of the problem.


HS2 is a waste, but most of it is already sunk. Scrapping it doesn't give us the money back.

It's not even coming close what we need.
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There’s always reasons why stuff shouldn’t be cut and that we can do it locally.

Now we can’t.

It’s time to discuss things asap.
 
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.
 
RabidCity said:
And this is only being realised now? Why didn't they make drastic changes? If I lost 40% of my income, i'd downsize my house, stop all luxuries and look at all options to grow my income back to where it was.
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How would Birmingham “downsize”?
“We’ve decided not to be the 2nd largest city in the country. We’re fucking off and moving to Clayton. It’ll be a squeeze but the football will be better. And anyone fancying 103 square miles of empty land smack bang in the middle of the country should get in touch with our estate agent. Ta”
 
johnnytapia said:
How would Birmingham “downsize”?
“We’ve decided not to be the 2nd largest city in the country. We’re fucking off and moving to Clayton. It’ll be a squeeze but the football will be better. And anyone fancying 103 square miles of empty land smack bang in the middle of the country should get in touch with our estate agent. Ta”
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I might be able to afford a massive house in Sutton Coldfield if that happened!
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
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.
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I like it, Logan's run-esque. As long as the cut off ages isn't 21. :)
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
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.
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Are you reading Cruella's conference speech?
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
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.
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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.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
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.
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Wait what!? Birmingham city council was exporting goods to the EU? For real?
 
metalblue said:
Wait what!? Birmingham city council was exporting goods to the EU? For real?
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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!
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
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!
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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.
 
metalblue said:
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.
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Don’t think he did tbf, but it’s definitely going to be nowhere near that figure.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
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!
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You are right, my friend, and it should be down to individuals to understand the reality before gobbing off.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Don’t think he did tbf, but it’s definitely going to be nowhere near that figure.
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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.
 
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