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Britain’s second-largest city effectively declares itself bankrupt amid $950 million equal pay claims

Birmingham's council provides services for over a million people.

Britain’s second-biggest city effectively declared itself bankrupt on Tuesday, shutting down all nonessential spending after being issued with equal pay claims totaling up to £760 million ($956 million).

Birmingham City Council, which provides services for more than one million people, filed a Section 114 notice on Tuesday, halting all spending except on essential services.

The deficit arose due to difficulties paying between £650 million (around $816 million) and £760 million (around $954 million) in equal pay claims, the notice report says.

The city now expects to have a deficit of £87 million ($109 million) for the 2023-24 financial year.

Sharon Thompson, deputy leader of the council, told councilors on Tuesday it faces “longstanding issues, including the council’s historic equal pay liability concerns,” according to the United Kingdom’s PA Media news agency.

Thompson also blamed in part the UK’s ruling Conservative Party, saying Birmingham “had £1 billion of funding taken away by successive Conservative governments.”

The UK economy still can't cope with the consequences of Brexit

“Local government is facing a perfect storm,” she said. “Like councils across the country, it is clear that this council faces unprecedented financial challenges, from huge increases in adult social care demand and dramatic reductions in business rates incomes, to the impact of rampant inflation.”

“Whilst the council is facing significant challenges, the city is very much still open for business and we’re welcoming people as they come along,” she added.

A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told reporters on Tuesday: “Clearly it’s for locally elected councils to manage their own budgets.” The spokesperson added that the government has been “engaging regularly with them to that end and has expressed concern about their governance arrangements and has requested assurances from the leader of the council about the best use of taxpayers’ money.”

The council’s leader John Cotton elsewhere told the BBC that a new jobs model would be brought into the council to tackle the equal pay claims bill.

The multicultural city is the largest in central England. It hosted last year’s Commonwealth Games, a major sporting event for Commonwealth countries, and is scheduled to hold the 2026 European Athletics Championships.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/05/economy/birmingham-council-bankrupt-uk-gbr-intl/index.html

Birmingham lule pii. That Brexit has turned out to be more of a curse than blessings to the United Kingdom.

It's the fallout of pride. Pride goeth before a fall. They wanted a return to the days of imperial Britain where they are lord over other nations but today all they got after Brexit is disgrace and a bleak future.Check my signature for free stuffs!

let us blame tinubu

Shebi Britain wants to stand alone and aloof ni, they will lick their wounds for a very long time.

Your economic is in shambles, with aging population, and unnecessary finance of proxy wars, yet you dey break away from EU without concrete economic roap 😆

It's a bad time to travel go school, tourism, work, and flex in UK. The taxes will be bigger than Olumo rock 🤣

UK citizens and the Jakpad population, the shege is coming, rumbling like a great storm.

Brace up, winter is coming 😁

This is the type of news APC use in deceiving Nigerians into thinking that they should be content with their disastrous government.

DONT BE DECEIVED!! BRITAINS WORST IS STILL 10 TIMES BETTER THAN NIGERIAS BEST!!

Think twice before Japaing

Naija Japarians to the rescue

This is what happens when the government over taxes its citizens , a rise in tide lifts all boats , the uk government is over doing too much it need to step-down on actions and activities not necessarily for human existence

Dead country.

The world is currently distressed and economies are crashing!

But for bad leadership, only African nations have what it takes to survive.

But they'll never want us to get it right with leadership, so that they can keep having their way, pilfering our natural resources 🫤

Ok

VikingKing:
This is the type of news APC use in deceiving Nigerians into thinking that they should be content with their disastrous government.

DONT BE DECEIVED!! BRITAINS WORST IS STILL 10 TIMES BETTER THAN NIGERIAS BEST!!

You are but an Animal!

Brexit

People sold their homes to relocate to this God Forsaken county where its easier for a camel to through a needle than for a human being to make it

VikingKing:
This is the type of news APC use in deceiving Nigerians into thinking that they should be content with their disastrous government.

DONT BE DECEIVED!! BRITAINS WORST IS STILL 10 TIMES BETTER THAN NIGERIAS BEST!!

I think many of us don't understand a thing or just choose to be plain stupid.....

The Uk has what it calls the waiting list....7.6millon people in the England are waiting to see the doctor....
In Wales 70,000 people are waiting to see the doctor for the past 18 Months...

The other day...doctors talk about Gambia paying $4000 to doctors....but they won't tell you that the cost of studying medicine in the Gambia is $4800 per year....

What is the cost of studying medicine in the UK? £9,000 pounds per year... people will go to ife or Lag or last for #25,000 per year and be asking to be paid the same with those that go to school with $4,800 and £9,000

What is the cost of housing? Or electricity or health insurance? Or transportation?
The only thing cheap in the uk is food and that is rising as well...
And when we talk of Minimum wage... what is the difference between the politicians and the Civil servants ? What most of them take home is far greater than their salary

Their system is no longer working...they now need new breds of Slaves....

You may curse APC and PDP or APGA....

But never curse Nigeria....when you compare countries do it holistically

But how is their currency still very strong? What do they sell? These whole thing I don't understand at all.

VikingKing:
This is the type of news APC use in deceiving Nigerians into thinking that they should be content with their disastrous government.

DONT BE DECEIVED!! BRITAINS WORST IS STILL 10 TIMES BETTER THAN NIGERIAS BEST!!

U r truly an anim

Ok

UK whenever chop dey copy America the sponsor proxy war. The form strong goat.

Essential services is the real deal which is unavailable in Nigeria.

At least, the city is able to provide essential services to the citizens.

Whats happening in the UK this days

I don't want this country to cast oh...

The British elders should find a solution

captainamiedi1:
But how is their currency still very strong? What do they sell? These whole thing I don't understand at all.

they are an exporting nation

Are they taking refugees?

Asians/Pakistanis full Birmingham

dem go hear wheeen, USA will soon them since china has started making their own chips BRICS is arising

Japa people don't mind

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