The UK's second-biggest city is so broke they can no longer keep the lights on
www.abc.net.au
Birmingham was once a powerhouse industrial metropolis, but now the UK's second city is a shell of its former self as rubbish lines the streets, the lights stay off and children grow up below the poverty line.
  • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world
    92·
    5 months ago

    The expectation of people to have free or subsidised light to be able to see really is some magic money tree problem caused by labor and migrants.