Today Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is visiting Birmingham to see the 21,000 tonnes of rubbish and rats that have gone uncollected under Birmingham Labour’s bin strike. The visit comes just 48 hours after the Birmingham Labour Leader and Councillors voted to block a declaration of a public health emergency and discussion on how to end the strike and clean up the city at Tuesday’s Full Council Meeting.
Cllr Robert Alden, Leader of the Opposition, said
21,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish and a rat epidemic is what Birmingham Labour have let residents suffer after 13 years in office. While it is welcome that the Government are coming to see Birmingham, Brummies don't want visits; they want clean streets, the rats caught, and their bins collected on time. The best way to do that is a change of control. Only backing the Local Conservatives can deliver that change for Birmingham.
Cllr Ewan Mackey, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, comments,
Brummies deserve to know if the Deputy Prime Minister agrees with the Health Secretary and the Local Conservative Group that the city is facing a public health emergency and action is needed urgently or if she agrees with the Labour Leader of the Council, who voted to block declaring a public health emergency and blocking allowing Councillors to discuss how to end the strike and clean up the city.
