Feel sorry for people living in Birmingham...

[SausEggBaton]

... if they push this through, due to their own ineptitude of running the council. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxwd1mrwl8wo.amp

[Borin' Baggie]

BCC gets nearly £400m from business rates per year that it's allowed to retain so that's ~£800m from 2024-25 and 2025-26, surely the most common sense thing is to pressure the government to let them keep more than that over the next two years to meet the £300m? Would also be a functional model for councils up and down the country in a similar situation (I have no idea how Woking is supposed to fix the mess there, for example).

[Protheroe]

Birmingham should be surcharging Councillors for their appalling mismanagement of the Single Status issue for over 20 years. They only have themselves to blame.