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·
    10 days 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·
      10 days 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.