{"id":22197,"date":"2025-04-15T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22197\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:28:15","slug":"withdraw-offer-of-help-in-birmingham-bins-crisis-says-wolverhamptons-tory-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22197\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdraw offer of help in Birmingham bin&#8217;s crisis, says Wolverhampton&#8217;s Tory leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wolverhampton.moderngov.co.uk\/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=2258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Councillor Simon Bennett<\/a>, leader of the opposition Conservative group in the city, accused Birmingham Council leader John Cotton of disrespect after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/wolverhampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolverhampton<\/a> offered out-of-hours use of its tips to help ease the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a conference call between local government minister Jim McMahon and West Midland council leaders to end the month-long dispute.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood Walsall and Wolverhampton councils said they were unable to help with bin crews or vehicles, but offered the use of their tips to dispose of the rubbish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.walsall.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walsall Council<\/a> leader Councillor Garry Perry said he received no reply to this offer, and has now withdrawn the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Bennett called on Wolverhampton Council to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cheek of Councillor John Cotton, leader of Birmingham Council, to not even acknowledge the support offered to them by Wolverhampton and Walsall is despicable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4269c53e-8239-4de4-b24b-c832bc81a74b.jpg\"   alt=\"Councillor John Cotton\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Councillor John Cotton<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Bennett said he backed the decision by Councillor Stephen Simkins, leader of the ruling Labour group, not to provide either crews or vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I urge him to withdraw the offer of tip support following a lack of basic courtesy form Councillor Cotton. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s up to the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Simon Bennett, leader of the opposition Conservative group in the city, accused Birmingham Council leader John Cotton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,728,4884,379,12,285,16,15,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-22197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114342455261702003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}