Birmingham City Council (2)

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Financial Incompetence Personified.

Yet again the city council has fallen foul of yet more incompetence spending other people’s money!

Not only does it own £760m in retrospective equal pay liabilities (this is in addition to further £1.1bn paid out for the same scheme over the last 10 year).

And then there’s the ongoing farce relating to upgrading their IT systems, which was originally budgeted at around £20m back in 2019, but typically it went way over budget due to poor project and financial management. As a consequence the budget has ballooned to around £100m, with the council scratching around trying to find almost £50m to cover the shortfall.

Two examples of their appalling control of money, and as a consequence the council has offered it 10,000 staff the opportunity to take “Mutually Agreed Resignation”.

No details have been published regarding the cost behind this desperate measure, but what is particularly annoying is that those at the top who made those appalling decisions in the past have got off lightly. No one is pointing fingers, no one to blame, no accountability, and now we find a council deep in debt, threatening to get rid of thousands of ordinary workers, while council tax payers will probably see their bills rise for reduced services.

This form of financial incompetence is all over the public sector – useless middle managers/project managers/financial controllers are clearly not up to the job, and yet they’re never held to account.

The government, the Bang of England, the NHS and other councils up and down the country are all incompetent cunts, and yet three guesses who has to foot the bill!

Birmingham City Council deputy leader Cllr Sharon Thompson added: “This is one of the biggest challenges this council has ever faced, and we must understand how the issues have arisen to prevent a repeat in the future.

“Given the scale of this challenge, we must impose mandatory spending restrictions. But as we have done throughout the cost-of-living crisis, we will continue to focus on tackling social injustice and inequality across our city. We will do everything we can to protect the services our residents rely on.”

Well that’s alright then!

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Nominated by Technocunt.

(And guess what? The cunts just declared bankruptcy)

107 thoughts on “Birmingham City Council (2)”

  3. Councillors fucking incompetent wankers. The cunts they appoint at multiple £100ks per annum as executives also incompetent. But it’s the public sector so this is the norm. Whichever executive cunts sneak away from this will get £200k pa at some other fucking council.

    • Spot on mate, the cunts at the top on even the smallest county get best part of a quarter of a million a year to “work ” a few hours a week for a few years before getting some massive pay off for the rest of their lives and then swan off to an even better paid position for even less effort. Cunts.

  4. Financial incompetence, lack of responsibility, no-one at tje top is ever to blame.

    When I was engineering, If I ‘d spent 20% longer producing a design / report and eaten just 10% into the expected profit, my director would have hauled me in, given me a bollocking. If I made the same mistake twice, I’d have been demoted to the shite jobs, like school boilerhouse surveys.

    My Mom reminded me of an incident some years ago. She was a checkout operator at the co-op. Tills had been going light, and hers was found to be £20 short at cash up. She was interrogated in a back room by the area manager, accused of stealing the money, asked about her home and personal life, told to confess, as “we know you’re guilty – once we get the police in, you’re finished”
    It was later discovered, the same area manager was the one helping himself and blaming staff, across multiple stores.
    She’d worked there 8 yrs at the time.
    Was she ever apologised to for being treated like a criminal, bullied and her integrity questioned ? No – of course not.

  5. I’m half expecting Paddy Power to start offering bets on which council will go bankrupt next. Come to think of it, we could make it a game on here – similar to the Dead Pool.

  6. Incompetent fools.Spunking money as if no tomorrow 🤣🤣🤣.Bring back public hanging.

  7. Quite how you can spend £100m on a computer system budgetted at £20m I’d beyond me, but it’s the shape of things to come if Labour get into power…

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