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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

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Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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The UK's second-biggest city is so broke they can no longer keep the lights on
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Birmingham was once a powerhouse industrial city but now the UK's second city is a shell of its former self as rubbish lines the streets, the lights stay out and children grow up below the poverty line.
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    lmao chuds downvoting the elephant in the room

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      The UK has spent 12.5 billion pounds on Ukraine in the last 28 months, which at around 5.4 billion per year is 0.4% of the UK’s budget. That’s not an elephant in the room, it’s a mouse under the fridge.

      It’s not being mentioned because it isn’t significant. The downvotes are because obvious disinformation is obvious.

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        Hmm 12.5Billion pounds eh? How much would it cost to “keep the lights on” in Birmingham do you reckon?

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          They could always tax the rich, but sure, let’s pretend that the only possible option is the one that helps Russia.

          There’s a reason why that government is polling so low that it may not even be the opposition in two weeks.

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        15% of UK households went hungry as of February this year, I’m pretty sure 12.5 BILLION pounds could’ve done a lot of them, but instead that money was spent in Ukraine. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/27/health-emergency-15-of-uk-households-went-hungry-last-month-data-shows

        The deplorable regime in UK doesn’t give a shit about its own people, let alone Ukrainians.

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