"That Is OUR Money!" - James Whale's FURIOUS Rant On Birmingham City Council Declaring Bankruptcy
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- Labour-run Birmingham City Council has declared itself effectively bankrupt after being hit with a £760million bill to settle an equal pay claim.
Europe's largest local authority confirmed that it cannot balance its books, adding all new council spending in the city, with the exception of protecting vulnerable people and statutory services, must stop immediately.
James Whale brands the council as "incompetent" and "amateurish" after they issued a financial distress notice.
"They have to realise this is our money, there is no such thing as Government money!"
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Incompetent and corrupt
Definitely
Corruptly incompetent !
I suggest they know exactly what they are doing !
...but are they diverse?
Dont forget woke Lgbt and ethnic led
@@stirlingmoss4621 It's nice to see someone has got their prorities straight ! Yes , they're very diverse and that's all that matters . End of .
Birmingham council pays out 30 million pound for consultants. Thats a ridiculous amount of money to waste .
Dont' forget £11M paid to a taxi firm charging more than £200 a day to take a child three miles to school and back. The council is totally corrupt and there should be lengthy prison sentences involved for all.
Jobs for the boys.
Corruption in birminlamabad?
I don't beliiiiiieve it!!
I don't think people understand that, when they're told x amount has been spent on x, it's 90% bs, it's simply a way to launder taxpayers money@@johncolley3317
But how else will cousin Abdul get paid? He got banned from cabby driving after what he did to those girls
Every single counsellor in Birmingham should be sacked and NEVER be allowed in politics or any government job ever again. The fact is, nothing will happen to them.
There is never any accountability in any job these days.
I think the Muslims might have something to say about that
@coventrypunx1014 couldn't care less what those that worship peadophiles think. They're nothing more than child rapists, and I value roadkill more than those child rapists.
James is absolutely right, any so called Government money, is our money!!
Then lobby the Tory central government to release more funds to the Labour local council, it's like he has a grain of truth, but then veers due to kompromat. Gotta keep those photos from becoming public!
The council is busy spending money on expensive " diversity" projects . If i lived in Birmingham , i would not be paying council tax for them to waste it on woke friendly street names like they have done recently .
But you don't live in Birmingham, you live in Moscow and work at the IRA. Seriously, if you boys spent less on influencing politics in the UK and more on the war effort, you'd not be losing quite so badly.
Diversity projects did you think of that 😮
When mentioning social care does that include the thousands of migrants wanting SOCIAL CARE, which I will say, I dont want a single penny going towards any migrants.
👍
BUT UNFORTUNATELY.STILL PAYING HIGH TAXES.WHERE DO YOU THINK ITS GOING?.
Not sure where is all that social care people talking about... name one stupid social care handout
They need to STOP spending money on woke projects, diversity & equity/equality departments and HR and go back to basics and essentials.
The woke bureaucracy is simply another layer of administration, one whose only actual function is to disrupt the operation of the other layers. All these woke commissars should be sacked immediately!
Not very likely. Those who are most in favour of increasing things like; diversity, equality, intergration & multiculturalism etc., are the ones established in the positions of authority, influence - and control of the finances there.
I just wonder how many of them are, actually; gerenationally established, indiginous, Anglo-Christian, patriotic, white British.
LIBLABCON all the same, regardless of promises none of them have or will improve this country and are intent on wrecking our lives, we are all far worse off after decades of working and paying in and massive technological productivity gains, none of these people know how to run a country. We have a Labour Mayor bringing in ULEZ to crush the working poor, a Tory gov sitting back watching it happen whilst handing out foreign aid like confetti and offering high class accommodation and perks to criminals and a labour council who mismanage money, declaring bankruptcy so anyone thinking of voting for LIBLABCON must be insane. Reform or an independent for me.
WHAT A PARADOX.WOKENESS.IF FOR THE SLEEPING.
Go woke go broke
Well said James - as a brummie I can tell you we weren't consulted on whether we wanted the games - the commisars decided
They budgeted £19 million for a new it system which has cost over £100 million. That is incompetence, nothing else.
The councils employ people into non jobs and they the higher ups are on ridiculous salaries. Instead of paying themselves so much they should use the money to provide service that have been paid for.
Already deep pockets getting deeper . Simple.
Labour councils wasting money on distorted ideology......shocker !!
Yeah, who’d have guessed
Croydon Council has been declared bankrupt too...they are a Conservative council. There are several others too, this is nothing to do with the ideology of the councilors it's the cost of running fundamental services whilst the funding and budgets, which are set by Whitehall (Central Government) have been slashed.
@@ChrisGeorge-yp7jv conservative councils are just as ideologically driven as the other main parties, the ideology is the problem presently, totally unrealistic and the results are obvious to all except the gullible
How are you boys getting on in Ukraine? Badly, I hear...
@@jack-a-lopium 🤣🤣🤣 different subject, are you lost ?
I'm totally stunned that he didn't try blaming it on Brexit.
well all the money we got from Brexit... you got your £10,000,000 Brexit dividend too right? you personally got like an extra £50,000 right? you know with all the Brexit success?
@@johng.1703 An you win today's clown prize.
@@Dezzasheepdidn't you get your Brexit benefits? or are you on the dole now? because those Brexit benefits are on the increase.
Actually post Brexit UK is so much better off with all the Brexit dividends, maybe central governement can allocate some more funding for Birmingham from the Brexit gold mine?
@@johng.1703 What's that got to do with Labour running up £760million debt? Typical loon going off topic.
They put up council taxes and still didn't have enough money to run the council.
BUT STILL NOT HUNGRY.OR IN DEBT.LEGENDS.
Ah yes but you miss out the MASSIVE Tory cuts like a good right winger eh..? Sunak even caught out telling Tories that he deliberately moves money from labour councils to Tory 1s but we cant have the whole truth can we😂😂
the world does not revolve around Britain.
@angelachanelhuang1651 er its a story about Britain so whar are you on about????
A taste of things to come from Labour
Yeah because everything has got better after 13 years of conservative government.
Schools collapsing
Water pollution
NHS waiting lists over 7.5 million
More food banks than McDonald’s
But but STOP THE BOATS.
Right, people think the Cons are bad. They're just Labour driving the speed limit, Labour-lite.
@@BattleBro77 so in your eyes the country is better after 13 years of conservative governments?
They don’t care about the working class of this country or if they did why is every public service worse?
@@Fabbydabby1 Neither do Labour! "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." We need reform, vote Reform👍
@@Fabbydabby1- If the Tories are bad - in spite their mantra of ‘small government’ - Labour will be far far worse, setting up all sorts of woke quangos to waste our money even more effectively.
I wouldn't let Labour or the Tories run a bath........
Trouble is it's either or
They wouldn't put the plug in
I am a brummie lived here all my seventy years and watched over the years my city being distroyed by Labour controll, the money was spent on non-essential projects plus fraudulent contracts, it was a better city under the Tory administration with cleaner streets excellent bus routes happier times all around town now I am frightened to go to the city centre no English spoken thefts and assaults, our city has been classed as the second most dangerous place in the country, WELL DONE TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO VOTED LABOUR.
We live in a single-party state masquerading as a two-party state.
@@SmartCookie2022 That is the problem, people have this mindset, so nothing changes. I will be voting Reform👍
Mr WHALE is perfectly correct. Tory or Labour, there is no such thing as "Government money" The public purse is filled only by taxation.
Correct. The problem is they are spending other people's money, not their own. There's little to no personal responsibility when that happens. It was the council that went bust, don't forget. Not, the councillors, taxpayers, social workers or any of them.
like bank bailouts. taxes and more taxes yet they blame us for not being rich. yet the megawealthy dodge paying taxes...
Tax payer money AND what the government borrows which is repaid with tax payer money in the end only plus interest.
Make local councils corporate bodies with the elected councilors as directors, legally and financially liable for the consequences of the decisions they make.
@@russellblinman2560🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
I am sick to death bailing out banks, power suppliers and now fecking city councils!
And water companies.
and economic migrants posing as refugees
Too many immigrants bringing in ALL families (not just their own) abusing the system that Liebour started.😊
Thats how Labour stay on power.. Free handouts payed by woking class.
Everytime someone shouts racist ,bigot as Gordon Brown did, to people who are genuinely concerned to the impact of mass immigration on their much needed infrastructure and services, it becomes the elephant in the room , growing and being PROVOKED TO RAGE, at t some point at the people in their ' cushty' feather- bedded jobs ,riding over the local parish councils ,who do know EXACTLY what their communities need and tell county councils in neighbourhood plans.
However neighbourhood plans are now used as a blunt instrument as an excuse to build too many houses without thought to the provision of basic infrastructure.
Buiilders , architects and proprty developers, removing ditches and ponds as flood defences, to build on, but not providing ADEQUATE DRAINAGE FOR RAINWATER ON PAVEMENTS INSTEADS OF FIELDS.
NO provision to more ,CLEAN, drinking water, sewerage, waste collection, let alone provision to hundreds of thousands more people for education, jobs, welfare NHS with often non existent public transport!
Would that be conservative Labour? I just don’t remember the Labour part in the conservative and unionists party.
Both parties hate British people and openly admit it most immigrants have come in under tories
Brilliant comment ... Did You think that up Yourself ??
If we bail them out will it come from our Overseas Aid budget? Birmingham is a foreign city.
Yeah ask money from Pakisthan... all the money they have is what they got from Birmingham via Western Union
Government departments appear not to understand what public money is. Once they get their grubby mits on it they treat it as if it belongs to them. Councils stopped providing services themselves, giving this over to private companies who bleed our finances dry. The people must find a way of defunding this corrupted process.
It's called pass the buck, which the cons Party use frequently.
Absolutely spot on!!
No they don't and that's the problem. They know this it's somebody else's money. If it was their own money, they wouldn't spend it like they do.
Well said James! 👏
We've no teeth left to be kicked in.The guys right, amateurs from top to bottom. Professional in spending other peoples money. This has to stop now,these people are not accountable.
Public institutions that are funded by taxpayers know that normal economic constraints do not apply to them. They will be bailed out by a reducing taxpayer base
Which private businesses can prosecute its customers for not paying MORE, for POOR SERVICE?
How dare these councils waste taxpayers money, especially on frivolous projects. They should stick to their core responsibilities!
Core responsibilities, to council workers.. Their CORE,responsibilities is to ensure they all work from home doing pilates and receive TAX reduction and expenses for energy bills from their non council workers as taxpayers!,
cool. tax the japanese
That city has most Pakistanis where ever they are misery follows.
Auditors need to go in to find out what the councils are wasting the money on
They have, in the case of Thurrock council, but it was too late.
you mean the same auditors that also provide all these consultants to them as well
How much was spent on ulez project which was rejected by the public if they held a consultation they would have seen it was wasted money
The government is rife with money wastage while ignoring all important things not funded. Local councils are exactly the same.
This is what the whole country will be like when labour take over...
What is happening in Birmingham, will happen to the UK if labour win the next General election…. It was ever thus .
%100 I have lived long enough to have watched this happen over and over again. Labour in worse then Conservative especially Kier and his side kick.ugh ugh
What's the national debt right now? What about the Tory councils who went bust?
So, what happens to the council tax payments, where will that be going if the council have declared bankruptcy?
To pay the workers for equal rights !
50 years of EU and Socialist policy has crippled us. The system has collapsed due decades of slippage. over 40% of council spending is on adult social care (whatever that encompasses). Education, Refuse, Higways all around 7 % each. AND the council is only able to cover 50% of the bill. We arent earning enough wages to be able to pay the ££ required to support the system.
No it's not , more women in the work force probably have replaced alot of men who were in such positions , I see a direct correlation,
The women through their lazy attitudes at work and filling quotas has crippled this economy, shortage of housing, road works a disgrace,
@@thebeesnuts777 you cant deny that council tax only accounts for maximum 50% of council bills. Thats nothing to do with Sex, its the system falling on its arse due to the affordability of services and paying council tax. The globalisation project i.e destroying industry and shipping manufacture abroad since the 70's has destroyed the economy the tax system was based upon.
Too many people on benefits for no reason other than laziness so not contributing to the tax revenue means no money for central government to give each local council. However local councils wage bills for CEO’s, directors etc are astronomical . Despite having these people who are supposedly experts on the payroll they are not providing the service. We managed perfectly well when we had parish councils run by members of the public.
@@twistedsister2568 no no, council tax doesn't pay unemployment
LIBLABCON all the same, regardless of promises none of them have or will improve this country and are intent on wrecking our lives, we are all far worse off after decades of working and paying in and massive technological productivity gains, none of these people know how to run a country. We have a Labour Mayor bringing in ULEZ to crush the working poor, a Tory gov sitting back watching it happen whilst handing out foreign aid like confetti and offering high class accommodation and perks to criminals and a labour council who mismanage money, declaring bankruptcy so anyone thinking of voting for LIBLABCON must be insane. Reform or an independent for me.
They are supposed to be public servants but they act like Lords.
This is years of fat salaries and endless draconian schemes which have backfired massively as Birmingham residents resisted fines.
Already deep pockets getting deeper .
If you want things to change then you gotta stop paying . Only when you actually refuse to pay will councillors become accountable . Til then, it's spend, spend, spend. And next year they will put up your council taxes.
Civil disobedience is the best option, refusing to pay, or not pay. If we choose to follow the same old same old, and let councils and government keep pushing us closer to the gutter, then we are a subservient coward people. Sometimes people MUST make a real stance that leads to a better life. I'm not for violence, violence gets you nowhere. But refusing or refusal is a strong message to government.
But the politicians are for violence. Multicultural populations are always violent.
Eventually, I think non-payers is bound to happen. Gen Z will lead the revolt, with my own Gen X fully backing Gen Z. Becos for Gen Z, this is a fight for mere survival. Low salaries, no housing solutions, burden of debt & reduced quality of life. They will be forced into non-compliance. Why should Gen Z pay for a non-existent quality of life?
"not their fault" is not something real leaders say.
💯 they are in the position responsible for distributing these budgets therefore they ARE responsible. If they receive more money it will still be wasted. This is a combination of gross incompetence and I suspect some criminality as well. Needs to be independently audited and people held accountable for this catastrophe waste of taxpayers money. It’s disgusting. Always the taxpayer picking the tan for literally every failing by all these bodies. When will it end? It’s a joke.
councils have raised taxes and drastically cut services yet there staffing levels remain high, if you are providing less services you need less staff.
well said , why is this logic missing in councils ? fat salaries i reckon
James Whale nailed it. Our councils are run by people with little business experience, but enormous power to spend large sums of our money, while paying themselves well.
Not only that, care costs for keeping people alive, who have no quality of life and wish to pass away are continually increasing…pointless waste of money, that benefits a few people who run care homes.
Sadly most people who work in care home are only on minimum wage and the owners know that the government will top up there wages. Its just greed
I’m chronically ill but I don’t wish to die yet thanks .
@@sallyhilton2276 Very sorry to hear that, and certainly not directed at somebody such as yourself, and hope you make a recovery, but my current experience makes me very angry. My mother had a stroke, is paralysed, and been in a bed for a year. She wishes to pass away, and is off all medication. However, if she gets a chest infection, unless she can remember to refuse antibiotics, the Dr will issue them to cure the infection. Even signing a letter stating her wishes can be ignored. All the system is doing now is prolonging her suffering and mental torture. (and she is paying for it...). Watching a once string and independent person suffer in this way is painful for all and as a society, we should have mechanisms in place that allow people to make a dignified choice to end their lives on their terms.
Maybe not in my life time, but one day due to the rising costs. difficult decisions will need to be made on this
The other sad thing is that many of the people in care homes are funding themselves because they have a property which has to be sold to pay their bills. Meanwhile those who have never worked and never paid into the system, are being cared for alongside them at no cost. So many young people and some older ones cannot afford to get on the property ladder and know they will never inherit the family home and will never get the chance of being allocated a local authority house.
Need to be careful about making assisted suicide an option and having people (who have likely paid tax and NI all their lives) feel like they’re a burden.
Councils need to stop wasting money on unwanted projects and rubbish, if they just ran the key public services and stopped all the vanity and woke projects they would be able to work.
@freebeerfordworkers😂😂
LOL the horses have bolted. ALL systems, regulatory bodies are all corrupted, and there will be no fixing anything.
The rot has begun and it is irreversible.
The books need scrutinising, see how much was wasted or went on friendly contracts
I d like to know how much of the budget is spent on migrants in that place
The government have no money 😂its our taxes and hard work
@@SmartCookie2022 the government allow this to happen so yes it is
Birmingham Council gets £3.8 Bn Annually the vast majority of that budget goes on Adult Social Care Many of those people will have gained Citizenship in there final decades as care costs are not covered in the places they have come from.
The Initial Mandate of Councils was to look after The Highways.
Within the Adult Social Care Sector the Bosses of these Companies see the Councils as a Cash Cow. Pay the workers Statutory Minimum Income whilst they Ride the Halal Gravy Train.
Yes, they all scratch each others backs. I remember a guy coming from India to set up "Care homes" and charge extortionate prices down south. Guess wot his Brother-in-law did for a living- an older Adult Social Worker feeding him tips on how to successfully run care homes to extract as much profit as poss. Dishonest ppl, calling their racketeering business "Christian care homes." Nothing charitable abt them.
Consanguinous marriages result in severely disabled people with little to no quality of life. We pay billions a year in disability to one community! How hard is it to actually enforce some civility and ban marrying first cousins and siblings
You would have to rewind to the 1970s when the first wave arrived, when President of Uganda Idi Amin kicked all the Indians out.@@slypork5030
@@slypork5030if these marriages are banned they will just find a corrupt way to do it anyway or cry Islamophobia till they get their way.
Ah, another saddo who blames all his ills on foreigners
I wonder how much they spent on anti car campaigns, inclusivity training, and wrapping police cars in rainbow colors
Every council currently in financial strife have high migrant populations, migrants flock to cities where they can be among their own, so basically, the cost of housing, feeding, protecting and policing these migrants is now bankrupting cities! London wont be far behind when massive numbers of businesses are forced to close and people cant work! Add that on top of migrant costs in the capital and it can't be far behind... All Labour councils, all migrant heavy areas, this is Britain's future under Labour! They will open the flood gates to migrants due to the fact that 80% of ethnics vote Labour, and we will see more and more councils going bust trying to cope with costs! That money has to come from somewhere and far too often its our pocket!!
If local authorities were run efficiently funding wouldn't be an issue for what they actually do.
Absolutely, stop wasting it on woke rubbish and changing names on signage, well said James…
There's no demand for 2 million for 'woke' Street signs. Councils spend on virtue projects not on service delivery !!!!!!!
Shame we dont know the demographics of the council workers. Like most tax payer cash stolen it ends up abroad and cant be reclaimed.
Usually there is a trail leading to "Pakistan." Our Politcal correctness is not only silencing us, its bankrupting us.
Did the same happen in Tory bankrupt councils? Do you blame P - for everything wrong in your life?
At one time councillors did not get paid . They did it to help. Once they started to be paid like anything else it is abused. By all. Council meetings all food and drink free. Fares for getting there free. Even if they share a minibus they claim individual train fares etc etc etc.
I worked for BCC for 5 years in the 80's and have friends who are both working there or recently retired.
Its a mess. Always has been since the 1970's.
The corruption amongst Labour councillors is legendary with expense fiddles and dodgy planning approvals.
The staff situation now is that they can't recruit good people, good people wont touch it. There are ethnic/religious cliques amongst the politicians and staff . Any suggestions for improvement are canned by unions/politicians. The job of senior managers is simply to survive and find ways around obstacles put in their way. There is no accountability and the local elections are, as a judge said, run like a banana republic.
It needs a thorough root and branch clear out.
Exactly the same as the NHS!
This local authority should look up the meaning of governance of public money.
Can you imagine these local councillors having control over your taxes
If the country is billions of pounds in debt , why should it be any different for local councils ?!
We have a labour council that is cutting services. Libuarys, leisure centers, swimming baths, street cleaning, road repair, all gone. Yet Labour gets voted in every time.
Immigrants that voted them in come from countries that t don't care for clean streets, libraries etc.
Why you think that is 🤔.........
What choice do you have the bad or the really bad
They all need sacked. And Bussines people put in. Not a bunch of arse holes. Thst can’t. Run a chimps.tea party
This is what you get with socialist ideologies !!
And what have had in the last thirteen years of shambolic cons Party government.
The socialist likes to exclaim about "late stage capitalism" being the root of all the modern world's issues when in reality, it is early stage socialism we find ourselves in.
The problem with all local authorities is that they can not retain or recruit quality staff. And that includes the tory run authorities, too.
Clever people are well aware of this and are usually the first to leave if someone of a lower IQ is promoted over them and are happy to do a lesser paid job, which entails more risk and is performance related.
Within the public sector, everyone gets the same pay, regardless of attendance and effort.
I know of a chap that was so vital for the everyday functioning of a local council's IT department that the management refused to promote him.
Every time he got to the end of the finishing line - when competing a project, there was somebody waiting there ready to take away the prize from him.
About thirty years ago, a newly opened chemical plant started recruiting in the northeast. Having plenty of new vacancies, they contacted many of the local recruitment agencies for candidates. After a while, it was clear to them that a certain demographic was identified as problematic. In the following months, all recruitment agencies were notified not to send them any prospective employees who had previously worked in the public sector.
First time witnessing a panel discuss a topic that didn't make my blood boil.
James Whale is bob on with everything he said.
Good talk.
a jab pushing ponce more like@@yakovshani240
@@yakovshani240 he's a shock jock who's job is to rile up the gullible
This is par for the course with labour good at giving away other peoples money
Yeah, cause the Tories are proving to be so much more capable. 13 years and what we have to show for it? Nothing works, from ambulances to schools, and everyone is poorer, except for of course the super rich, who are significantly richer.
Imagine seeing that, and shitting on Labour. Absolute nutter...
Fill pot holes, take out rubbish and keep the street lights working .. why do you need highly paid consultants and bosses to organise such basic things - I imagine non have even worked in the private sector - total shambles in Birmingham and many other councils across our cities
Absolutely right. And stop spending money creating cycling lanes that hardly anybody uses.
@@kjmcindoe6408 haha yes - I cycle sometimes and thru “green Islington “ the lanes have so many potholes and sudden end of lanes they unusable - most cyclists take their chance with the general traffic
Adult social care is ASTONISHINGLY expensive.
£1 million per client A YEAR is not uncommon.
Normal client £200,000 p year p person.
While they cut support workers pay on 17k a year.
We could learn from our Asian or Arabic family structure. By looking after our elderly parents at home, is far better for them and cheaper in the long-run. Build an extension to home to accommodate elderly parent with a wall and door-way in-between. Pay one council tax, reduced bill if Dementia diagnosis too. Pool in finances. Pool in care. Pool in driving. Pool in house cleaning. t's a win win situ. It's call the extended family.
The average person does not have the money or space to just build an extension. Most families don't have the luxury of someone not working so they can stay at home with an elderly relative or children. Often elderly people have medical issues that require care that can't be fully provided at home. Elderly people want to hold on to their independence for as long as possible, it's often a medical issue that ends this. I know all of this from experience, I looked after both my mum and my mother in law for years. 40% of the elderly in care homes have dementia, this is very difficult to manage at home. You are underestimating the issues if you think car pooling and house cleaning is even an option.
It is as James Whale said, amateurs who can't do their jobs. Nearly every management role now is filled with a person who just can't do their job well at all, but they somehow get by by being covered by other poor managers. The lower down staff keep picking up the pieces. Speak to some of them for long enough and you can see there is nothing going on in their heads.
There's a scary prospect, incompetent, corrupt councils being able to raise taxes. I would strip them of most of their powers
We live in a world of increasing numbers of remote workers renting. Councils no longer have a monopoly. Its easier to move away when they charge higher taxes and provide lower services. Birmingham will likely see people voting with their feet rather than the ballot box. Which is frankly the only language they understand anyway.
BIRMINGHAM PAYING THE PRICE FOR HOUSING THE 3RD WORLD 😢
There is no democracy there is no tory or labour - the sooner people realise this the better for everyone
James Whale the only one who makes sense
Tories have been rubbish,but labour would be calamitous quite frankly.
Even if money was cut,surely you cut the clothe accordingly.
Don’t overspend if you don’t have it!!
We need to deal with the corruption. At all levels
Blame the government for everything, the fact that Labour left this country in such a financial state the government didn’t have much choice about cutting funds
Sorry but Conservative will leave a bigger mess
@@paulinepalmer2085 that may well be the case but the Labour Party didn’t have to pump billions of pounds into the economy to keep it going due to Covid.
@@paulasser1589 you mean give billions to cronies in dodgy contracts
@@tsaxondale2499 that may be the case, but still had to spend it. Labour would have had to do the same. Where’s there power there is corruption on all sides
Wow! Just checked what Birmingham Councillors were paying themselves, Well over £150,000 and that's only the top twenty councillors, now that big money for running a council into bankruptcy. R.
Of course it's Birmingham council fault they wasted money on unimportant issues. If they didn't have enough to start with the should have spent wisely. Shame on them trying to blame others.
The problem with all local authorities is that none are held to account on spenditure,
They act like the money belongs to themselves and are completely careless.
Then, the taxpayers need to pay more simply due to the complete incompetence of the local government
We, the public, are so screwed under this crupt system.
Why can’t we just look after ourselves…. Putting tax payers money to commonwealth games is shocking!
Why don't we have an anti corruption police that tackles corrupt politicians local and national as well as corrupt public sector workers Inc police and emergency service workers?
Why would take work?
The ENTIRE system ALL systems ALL regulatory bodies, ALL agencies are corrupted just look at those in the U$, it's in the UK now, it has ARRIVED!!!
As usual there will tons of "democratic "debates, finger pointing, meanwhile nothing changes, welcome to the illusion of democracy, you think you have a say but you don't.
And who would police the anti corruption police? It hurts to realise this but no-one is in charge or cares, it's just one big self serving mess.
@chrisgraham...who is to police the policing police? When they are all bent, they cannot be straightened.
My goodness James Whale is eternal, he must be drinking from the fountain of immortality. I remember watching him on tv when I was a kid in the early 90s & he was old then.
Any other job and this level of incompetence and corruption would deserve sacking and prison!!!
most of them work from france and spain
What does Spain or France have to do with this?
@@giantorres3352 Lots of uk council workers are working from France and Spain!
Or greater Germany as its known.
What was already complete NONSENSE has now turned into MADNESS! We're being "governed" by lunatics!...
There are too many people allowed to abuse our benefits system.
Here’s another one for you........all those people who claim and receive attendance allowance for looking after themselves!
Well done!
Most people on benefits are in work
This is happening all over the country I live in Bradford and the things the council is getting away with is unbelievable
I'd be investigating the books
We have had dealings with our council over nearly five years ago over a big issue locallly so we got to know all the ins and outs of the council. We discovered a massive wastage of money and they are criminally incompetent. Not only applies to the councillors but council officers. Yes the waste of money and we have evidence of that is jaw dropping.
I'll bet none of the near million quid salaries will be slashed.
Take a long hard look Britain if you vote Labour this will be the outcome for the entire country, labour have always shocking at balancing the books; Dianne Abbott, enough said!
Equal pay while largely correct, expect when your paying a woman or a man who’s been in the job less time than someone else the same bloody wages.
That’s not equal pay that’s just in job rewards and pay bands.
This explains why Section 106 makes up almost 9% of the price you pay for a new house in Birmingham.
Didnt labour leave a note at the end of their last goverment saying there was no money left lol
Some things never change
How did the people who made the claim against unfair pay think this was going to be paid for? Councils don’t have reserves of cash for this type of incident/claim. If you are suing the council to the tune of £1.7bn you are damaging everyone! Honestly hell mend them. Everyone will suffer due to lawyers and NGOs who make a huge profit off the back of the taxpayer every time!
If there is bankruptcy or debt in councils it means they are spending beyond their financial means,does not matter if there is less money from government
All down to incompetence and corruption, but this is what you expect from Labour.
When local authorities had more control of their finances several such as Daventry District Council lost millions in the Icelandic Banking disaster. Nobody except Mickey Clarke saw that coming.
More local referendums on how money is spent. Let the people decide it's their money after all
Yep, erm they are called "council elections"
How about the £2 million Birmingham council spent on renaming streets with 'woke' names? It's a cruel world.
The Worst Council ever ..
I think that title should go to Glasgow City Council. Corrupt and Rotten to the core.
Warrington made roads one way to stop covv19 and blew 60m on investments
Let’s not forget Rotherham council who covered up the child grooming scandal and not one of them arrested by the just as corrupt Rotherham police farce
Lots of competition for this position .
The perfect example of go woke, go broke.
I wonder how many millions were spent on rainbows
You cannot truly grasp how much money councils waste unless you've worked for them. It is unbelievable.
"we are not in chaaaaarge of the Commonwealth"? Yes, yes we are and we also give extortianate amounts to the system.
The thought of my local council having tax raising power is after a labour government the second most frightening thing I could imagine
Mike Buckley......A joke of a man who wouldn't even see a great big boil on the end of his nose.
He can't see the end of his nose because Blair's backside is in the way 😂😂😂..
They should be ordered to reveal how much was spent on woke policies and promotions.
Labour councils are incompetent BUT! I’ll be dammed if I listen to anything JK has to say
You just have done🙃
They can not budget no excuse , its our money and its been wasted, they should all be sacked and have a public order audit before they run out of cash made into rule.
I believe Council’s need to be able to focus on statutory functions ONLY and divert funds accordingly.
I know a Council that spent £15m on a Transformation team while having a debt of £15m.
mine found 190 million for a bridge we dont want or need ( subway is the smart idea & less than 100 mil ) we have holiday camps patrolled by police yet the camps are closed for refurbishments - yet full of people ...strange that init :/
@@mcfcguvnors there are a lot of excellent blaggers in senior posts with no concept of what councils really do.
They sway Councillors and other more traditional managers trying to seem innovative and bang!…. Useless bridge or over priced ICT system.
Greed, corruption, back handers.