Birmingham

[vetran]

It's what people voted for. Although it was run by the tories and libdems for a few years.

Its what Mr Islam, Mr Afzal and Mr Kazi voted for ?


BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Judge upholds vote-rigging claims

[Flashman]

Says it all really:

Birmingham is 'national disgrace' says Ofsted chief inspector - Telegraph

It is a third rate city thanks to Birmingham city council.

Birmingham, our second city, is third rate - and its children are paying the price - Telegraph

Show me a dysfunctional society and I will show you a bunch of lefties running it

Birmingham's has a glitzy city centre now. Designer shops and expensive residential apartments galore. But outside the green zone the place is as bad as ever.

The City Council is in massive trouble, as servicing its £ 1.5 billion debt is not being helped by 11,000 claims under their Equal Pay Bill, amounting to over £ 1 billion pounds, and which will require major assets to be sold off, including the National Exhibition Centre.

A prestige development from the early seventies, the well styled Alpha Tower on Broad Street, is on the market around £ 10 million pounds, or about a quarter of the figure it changed hands for in 2008, as it has lost its major tenant, the profligate Birmingham City Council.

Birmingham Chamber of Commerce now has half the workforce it employed in 2007, due to : reduced public funding for business support and training , which has all but dried up.


Yam cawnt polish a turd.

[vetran]

The council just blame the government which the electorate believe as the vast majority have no clue as to how local authority works.

I have came to the conclusion that councils should be run by corporations on fixed term contracts who are duty bound to allow the electorate the choice on what they have to deliver.

one of the scariest things I encountered around education provision was meeting one of the Slough Borough Council Education officers. He was a poster boy lefty telling us that Grammar schools were rubbish, He missed the fact that apart from the Acadamies the non grammar schools in Slough are feeder schools for prison and low earnings and the Grammar schools are in the top 20% in the UK.

I tried to keep a straight face he sounded like a fat Peter Sellers in 'I'm alright Jack'.

[darmstadt]

Just move a few miles down the road: Solihull the best place to live in the UK? Absolutely | UK news | The Guardian

[vetran]

Just move a few miles down the road: Solihull the best place to live in the UK? Absolutely | UK news | The Guardian

went there for a few days on a training course, mediocre food and the town was dead by 10pm.

pleasant enough but would prefer Windsor or York for shopping.

[quackhandle]

Thanks, I will.

Mmmmmm......lesbians......

She knows her onions.

(Deffo NSFW)

qh

[Old Greg]

Just move a few miles down the road: Solihull the best place to live in the UK? Absolutely | UK news | The Guardian

I go there occasionally for shopping, but I find the town centre pretty sterile, to be honest. Inoffensive enough, I guess.

[quackhandle]

Needle attacks in B'ham

Not meaning to diss Brum, I quite like it.

qh

[Old Greg]

Needle attacks in B'ham

Not meaning to diss Brum, I quite like it.

qh

I enjoyed working in the city centre for a couple of years, but the shortage of green space is pretty shocking.

[Mich the Tester]

I enjoyed working in the city centre for a couple of years, but the shortage of green space is pretty shocking.

I worked in Aston for a year and there was plenty of green mould on the window frames.