How is this making the news now? I thought Birmingham always was like this

by SkanelandVackerland

12 comments
  1. Hey, Luigi, how did Naples handle its garbage? You might send a couple of those ~~mafiosi~~ virtuous citizens to aid Barry.

  2. Don’t attack us for striking. This is all relatively unique to us we’re not Piere

  3. The council os effectively bankrupt. Workers are on strike, trying to get blood from a stone for an unskilled job, that’s going to lead to serious health consequences for a million people.

    Birmingham is and will continue to be a dump, just a shame it’s literal now.

  4. Imagine being in Naples but without sunshine, beautiful womens and great food, just the garbage.

  5. It just got worse and worse over time. They weren’t able to keep financially afloat properly to begin with, then they lost a lawsuit. Basically, they were accused of sexist payment regimes because the mostly female office cleaners got paid less than the mostly male bin men. I know, the latter is clearly more demanding than the former, but no one ever said people were smart, and by this point we know quite a few old-fashioned claims about gender and sexism don’t actually seem truthful or defensible now. Birmingham somehow lost the lawsuit (I’m guessing they couldn’t afford decent lawyers and they didn’t have political cachet on their side), and now owed those suing cleaners money. How to save money? Cut the pay of the binmen, then fire a bunch of them. Naturally, binmen went on strike.

    This seems about right for that particular city, may the gods forgive us for ever letting it exist.

  6. Daily reminder Birmingham was one of Europe’s richest cites per capita until it was strangled by central government planning. We like to have a laugh, but let us not forget Birmingham didn’t die, it was murdered

  7. They have a bunch of canned articles written, and whenever it’s a slow news day they throw a few out.

  8. Have shit shitty. Have shit inhabitants. Place shit inhabitants in shit city, wait for shit inhabitants to destroy basic infrastructure like garbage colleting in shit city. Let shit inhabitants die from the inevitable diseases and the collapsed health care system. Barry always was a true gentleman.

  9. “The Managing Director of Birmingham City Council, Joanne Roney, earns a salary of £295,000 per year**”** I guess we know where the council money is going.

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