The ongoing bin strikes in Birmingham have been a source of national embarrassment in our second city. The Labour administration of Birmingham has failed to get a grip on the spiralling dispute with unions that has led to the pile up of rubbish on the streets.
Responding to an Urgent Question on behalf of His Majesty’s Opposition this afternoon, I drew the attention of the Commons to the litany of failure in the city. Labour Ministers and Labour Councillors are failing to support their residents by fulfilling a basic need for many.
I asked the Minister what he would do to ensure the 21,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish would be collected and why the commission appointed to solve the issue has failed. The Minister failed to answer any of my questions, a theme that repeated itself throughout the afternoon.
