Birmingham Labour - own your failures

Responding to the latest budget developments, Councillor Roger Harmer said:

“Birmingham Labour keep blaming the council’s financial woes on central Government cuts.

“It’s precisely because of these cuts that their failure to manage the council have been so damaging to our city.

“This council has faced the same headwinds as everyone else – Covid, rising interest rates, soaring inflation, a flatlining economy and Brexit.

“It’s their failure to manage Equal Pay, their failure to implement Oracle and their failure to manage the budget that has led to the disastrous situation that we now face.

“These failures are totally unacceptable, and entirely the fault of Labour.”