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Labour has run Birmingham City Council since 2012, but its record is under sharper scrutiny after the section one hundred and fourteen notice and the continuing bin strike. Supporters point to regeneration and Commonwealth Games legacy projects as voters prepare to decide who runs the council next.
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00:00Well to be honest with you if Mickey Mouse and the three bears were standing
00:04I'd probably vote for them rather than the existing people who are in there who
00:08are spending our money without even thinking about it. If they were more
00:13modest and took more care we'd get better value for money and we wouldn't
00:18be bankrupt. I think the roads, the potholes are still really bad, children's
00:24spaces, parks need to be redone. I've always been a Labour supporter but
00:29recently I've had to change who I voted for because Birmingham, the potholes,
00:35the bins, everything, yeah it's just falling down at the minute. I'm not
00:40necessarily happy with them but I don't know whether any other party would do
00:42any better. I think we've had quite a few over the last few years and we haven't
00:45seen much change or anything. I think it would need a whole like revamp and new
00:50ideas and new people. Definitely for a change. I don't know,
00:54really, you know, they're hanging on to money. I believe 200 million quid for the
01:01potholes which they haven't spent. Everything's going to part with them. So
01:08yeah definitely and we seem to have been, if you say it's fraud, been
01:13taken a ride with regards to putting it up in the last two years, the council tax. Now
01:19we're gathering surplus, you know, which doesn't quite ring true to me. A new
01:25administration, yes we need. It's a farce at the moment.
01:29mm-hmm
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