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  • 4/15/2025
Matthew Stadlen has branded the ongoing Birmingham bin strikes an "unacceptable state of affairs" as rubbish continues to pile up on the streets of Britain's second largest city.Hundreds of workers have been on all-out strike for more than a month, leading to significant disruption across Birmingham.Political commentator Matthew Stadlen told GB News: "That is a totally unacceptable state of affairs. I don't care how they resolve this dispute. It needs to be resolved."The Government ultimately is responsible. It has to sort this out because there is a public health crisis, as far as I can see, on the streets of our second biggest city, where children are growing up."The streets are rat infested. There is no excuse for that."READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00It is so official, and that is a totally unacceptable state of affairs.
00:06I don't care how they resolve this dispute, it needs to be resolved,
00:09and the government ultimately is responsible.
00:12It has to sort this out because there is a public health crisis,
00:14as far as I can see, on the streets of our second biggest city
00:17where children are growing up on streets which are rat-infested.
00:21There is no excuse for that, and until that is addressed,
00:25questions like, is Britain broken, are going to be answered
00:27by far too many people to say, yes, what it is,
00:30because in Birmingham at the moment, the situation is broken.
00:33Yeah, and guess what, the Unite Union in Birmingham are blaming,
00:36guess what, the Conservatives.
00:38Adam Cherry, Matthew Sadlin.

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