Cuts hit across Birmingham. Erik Pickle's man puts the boot in after Trojan hoax. Restucture of the restructure, with additional cuts and consultation of the cuts of the cuts. It's getting tough here in Birmingham, but at Christmas time it's important to reach out - think of those people worse off than we are.
Birmingham City Council is 'consulting the people' again about Birmingham Budget 2015. We get to choose between spending money to maintain a half functioning Library Service, clear up the remnants of the Bin men, or skeleton adult care provision. Parks, youth services, any profitable part the Council, heritage & arts are pretty much out of the picture already.
It's important to visit the survey, although it's increasingly hard to have 'positive ideas about the future of Birmingham City Council'. At first I thought the best thing to do would be to campaign to raise council tax, but as @politicalhackuk helpfully makes clear with graph after graph, no amount of increased council tax, or other income can really deal with the root cause of our problems.
That's why I propose everyone working should send a pound a week (or whatever you can spare) directly to George Osborne to redistribute to his friends, colleagues and other bankers. If nothing else, it will reduce the bureaucracy and hedging necessary for party funds normally raised from bankers and other investment specialists.
It works in America so why not here? I've done the maths. The Daily Mail suggests there is a record 30 million in work. If we all contribute £1 a week, that's nearly half the wealth of the cabinet in a week! A pound a week would be £1.5 billion a year, which while this wouldn't make a huge dent in the debt of £(insert any figure you like, depending on what your trying to prove) billions we owe (it could, however, pay for a knighthood - at present cost, it could collectively buy four Houses of Lords).
Newspapers highlight Russel Brand's bullying tactics when discussing bankers. Is Russel Brand blaming poor bankers for the financial difficulties leading to the poverty we (and bankers all in it together) face in the investment sector?
If we aren't prepared to pay our bankers, how long will it be before bankers are taking handouts at food banks (and sell it on for huge profits)?
Birmingham City Council is 'consulting the people' again about Birmingham Budget 2015. We get to choose between spending money to maintain a half functioning Library Service, clear up the remnants of the Bin men, or skeleton adult care provision. Parks, youth services, any profitable part the Council, heritage & arts are pretty much out of the picture already.It's important to visit the survey, although it's increasingly hard to have 'positive ideas about the future of Birmingham City Council'. At first I thought the best thing to do would be to campaign to raise council tax, but as @politicalhackuk helpfully makes clear with graph after graph, no amount of increased council tax, or other income can really deal with the root cause of our problems.
That's why I propose everyone working should send a pound a week (or whatever you can spare) directly to George Osborne to redistribute to his friends, colleagues and other bankers. If nothing else, it will reduce the bureaucracy and hedging necessary for party funds normally raised from bankers and other investment specialists.
It works in America so why not here? I've done the maths. The Daily Mail suggests there is a record 30 million in work. If we all contribute £1 a week, that's nearly half the wealth of the cabinet in a week! A pound a week would be £1.5 billion a year, which while this wouldn't make a huge dent in the debt of £(insert any figure you like, depending on what your trying to prove) billions we owe (it could, however, pay for a knighthood - at present cost, it could collectively buy four Houses of Lords).
Newspapers highlight Russel Brand's bullying tactics when discussing bankers. Is Russel Brand blaming poor bankers for the financial difficulties leading to the poverty we (and bankers all in it together) face in the investment sector?
If we aren't prepared to pay our bankers, how long will it be before bankers are taking handouts at food banks (and sell it on for huge profits)?
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