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Bin Day Bureaucrats
#council
Bin Day Bureaucrats
The local council is like a mysterious secret society, except instead of world domination, they’re mostly concerned with where you park your car and what colour your front door is. They’ll approve a 12-story block of flats next to a Grade II listed cottage, but heaven help you if you want to convert your shed into a yoga studio—planning permission denied. Parking rules change more often than the weather, and the signs are written in a dialect only ancient druids can read. Councillors argue passionately over flower bed layouts while ignoring the sinkhole swallowing half the high street. It’s democracy at its finest: petty, confusing, and somehow always two hours behind schedule.
MP's Airport Obsession Sparks Fury Amid Birmingham Bin Strike Chaos
- Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Tahir Ali, Labour MP for Hall Green and Moseley, faced a backlash for prioritizing an airport in Pakistan's Mirpur district over Birmingham's bin strike crisis. Despite criticism last month, Ali attended a press conference to lobby for the airport's construction and even gave a speech in the Mirpuri Punjabi dialect, boasting about the attention the controversy had generated, citing views on his Twitter video as evidence of its impact.
