The UK's second-biggest city has been plunged into debt and darkness
www.abc.net.au
Birmingham was once a powerhouse industrial metropolis, but now the UK's second city is a shell of its former self as rubbish lines the streets, the lights stay off and children grow up below the poverty line.
  • regul@lemm.ee
    30·
    5 months ago

    What’s needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!

    • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world
      92·
      5 months ago

      The expectation of people to have free or subsidised light to be able to see really is some magic money tree problem caused by labor and migrants.