The Conservative Group on Birmingham City Council is now working very hard towards the all-out elections that will take place in May 2026 – and this will be our best chance in many years to take control.
Their financial failure is making the delivery of even basic services patchy or non-existent, with dreadful customer service.
Rewarding financially incontinent local authorities, with the consequent demotivating effects on work for their residents, is a road to ruin.
Secret documents have included termination arrangements with officers and reports from external solicitors into scandalous failings in the service provided to children with special needs.
We will also adopt a brownfield first building policy – and stop Labour’s plans for destroying the city’s valuable park land.
The Labour administration is piling on costs but failing to deliver the basics – to the frustration of residents.
This isn’t about protecting the environment – it’s about making life hell for hardworking motorists.
With sufficient campaigning resource, we believe that we can bring the days of this failing Labour administration to a timely end.
Labour wants a new tax that would add extra cars and pollution to some of the areas where air quality is already the worst in the City.
The crisis is bound to put a further strain on Birmingham’s finances. The timetable for the Commonwealth Games was already very tight.
The relocation of a National Express bus depot for the Commonwealth Games athlete’s village will cost £15.5m – eight times more than budgeted.
The structure and management of the council needs total reform. I would reduce the current 101 councillors to around 30.
These are my observations as to how we can up our export game – here are the two game changers. They go together and feed off each other.