Army called to rat-ridden Birmingham bin strike to tackle ‘public health risk’

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/army-called-rat-ridden-birmingham-35049632

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18 comments

  1. HGV drivers shortage? Let’s call army. Covid issues? Let’s call army. Waste disposal disputes? Let’s call army. Ohh well…

  3. Meanwhile in other areas of the city there are no mountains of rubbish and household refuse collection goes on basically as normal 🤔🤷‍♀️

  4. Could just pay people what they deserve. Another glimpse into what professions actually matter in society. At least we can take comfort in knowing that footballers and financiers can bag £250k a week. We’d be in real trouble if those lot took a day off.

  5. Once again the army is called in go bail a government out. These people are there to keep us safe fight for us. While we talk about war with Russia in a far off land it seems shameful that we are taking them off of this and collecting bins

  6. Wouldn’t it be easier to come together as a street, or several streets and pay for Biffa or another company to come round and do a bin collection? Between quite a few houses it shouldn’t be too much of a per household cost?

  7. Surely it would be cheaper to just pay what is due?

  8. *Planning, not actual picking up rubbish.

    If Birmingham council wants a full MACA task it’ll cost more than settling with the workers because they’ll be charged wages+allowances, all vehicle costs, food, accommodation and every other incidental expense occurred by the MoD as per the policy.

    This is by design because A: the MoD can’t be out of pocket supporting other departments issues and B: it prevents other departments just using them as a free labour pool.

  11. The army shouldn’t be used to prop up failing councils.
    This will damage morale in the military.
    I hated it when I was in and we were used to dispose of cattle infected with foot and mouth disease. Being used as security during the Olympics was the final straw for myself and quite a few others I served with.

  12. Take in 3rd world people get a 3rd world country. But let’s keep supporting them anyway 👍😂

  13. There’s a rat in mi kitchen, what am I gonna do?

  14. Pay the binman a fair salary. And where has the council tax gone, what was it wasted on. You don’t pay the council tax, you are taken to court so what should the consequences be for the council who bankrupted themselves??

  15. They should get the councillor who bankrupted the place to collect the bins. Sure it’s not their job but it’s not the armies job either 

  16. Pity they aren’t being brought in to clear out the vermin that treat their neighbourhood like this.

  17. I’m just wondering how much extra space there could have been if people did simple things like ripping up boxes, flattening cans and screwing up plastic bottles to let all the air out and compact everything as much as they could before putting them in the rubbish/recycling.

    And maybe not flytipping old fridges, prams and beds and things like that too.

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