The Labour leader of Birmingham City Council has cancelled the Cabinet meeting planned for Sept 1st which was due to resolve the bin strike in Birmingham. This comes a week after the second deferral of the Council report due to consider the supposed deal the Labour Leader of the Council said he had secured to change his own Labour plan for the refuse service. City Council cabinet meetings can only be cancelled with the agreement of the Leader of the City Council. Instead of holding a meeting to discuss the bin crisis the Council has sent out redundancy notices.
Leader of the Conservative Group Cllr Robert Alden said "Tomorrow was meant to be the day the Council would finally consider possible solutions to the bin crisis. Yet after a month of delays, instead, staff will wake up to redundancy notices. Cllr Clancy promised to deliver a deal to a cabinet meeting on September 1st, instead his Labour Council is delivering redundancy notices".
Robert added "At the end of the July Cllr Clancy announced the City would be clean within 7 days. It's September and the City is still covered in uncollected waste, with some streets not having had a collection for months. In the middle of August, Cllr Clancy announced he had personally solved the bin crisis. It's September and the crisis is deeper than ever. The Labour leader could not get a Labour amendment to the original Labour proposal through his own hand picked Labour cabinet. It is now clear Cllr Clancy is in post but not in power. It is clear to anyone negotiating with Birmingham that an agreement with the Labour Leader is worthless. The question now is will he resign or wait for his group to push him out?"
It is understood the Labour group is holding an emergency meeting on Monday evening to discuss the failings in the way Cllr Clancy has handled the Bin crisis.