Local councils in crisis: How Birmingham residents feel the impact

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With many local councils facing financial troubles and some declaring bankruptcy, we ask Birmingham locals how they feel about the state of their council. What impacts are they noticing on local services, and what changes would they like to see?

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00:00So when the local council said it was a version of bankruptcy, my understanding is effectively

00:10their systems can't really pick up all the inflows of coming in and outflows.

00:17I think the local council has made some decisions which affect local businesses. With the new

00:24clean air zone, that's affected the Birmingham city centre quite a lot. So a lot of businesses

00:29they are struggling. High rates on the business rates have gone up. So I think all of these

00:33things should be taken into consideration. They should rethink their strategy. They've

00:38put up new bus lanes, they've reduced parking for businesses. So overall these things are

00:43affecting local businesses and local people as well.

00:47Regarding Birmingham, it's obviously to do with the non-climate to the women and they

00:52haven't got to sort that debt out. Those women are owed a lot of money and it's got to be

00:57paid and it's bankrupted Birmingham basically.

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