England’ second largest city Birmingham‘s city council on 5 September, declared itself bankrupt, putting a pause on all spending except essential ones. The Birmingham city council issued a 114 notice last Tuesday, thereby joining a string of local authorities, which include Woking, Croydon, and Thurrock, that have announced it did not have the resources to balance its books, the United Kingdom that is now living “hand to mouth”.
So far the Conservative party Prime Minister Rishi Sunak-led government has refused to come to the Birmingham City Council’s rescue. The government had already provided extra funding for the council, at around 10 percent of its budget, but ”it’s for locally elected councils to manage their own budgets,”…
