How to BANKRUPT a NATION
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2023
- IMPORTANT!!! this is a Fool Proof, Step by Step guide on how to definitively BANKRUPT a City, a Country, or the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. WARNING!!! DO NOT watch this tutorial unless you want to be bestowed with this dangerous, powerful, information. This video comes with a 100% Bankruptcy guarantee.
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We making it to Alum Rock with this one!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣
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Hey Geopold! When will you make a video about Antarctica?
I thought you put the library behind prison bars ... that's how it actually looks?
Geopold has become my favorite geopolitical shitposter
Weird how this is such a reoccurring theme for left-party controlled cities.
The fact that's a category of creators on CZcams blows my mind
so true
@@morpon3892 IT IS?! WHERE CAN I SEARCH IT!?
@@morpon3892and they exist on every devolped country as well
As an half Italian person, I feel offended for my country not being slandered, ridiculed, and mocked in any of your videos, even though we provide so much material for that to happen.
Italy existing is a reason why it should be slandered
We don't provide a tenth of the material the UK do. On the other hand, we love to complain even more than the French...
Heh imagine how I feel as an Iranian.
Just consideration for the Roman Empire times
@@treeismyusernamewhyjustwhysound more like you had some problems with italy/italians and now you hate it
This is the problem in the UK. There are no real world consequences for councils bankrupting their town. None at all
The worst they have to face is resigning or being suspended, always on full pay, until they resign or get sacked
They still get their pension and perks
No investigation ever leads to corruption charges and no one ever appears in court
I'll tell you has to suffer real world consequences though, the people of the town they have just bankrupted
BAE is basically trying to bail out my town from becoming a ghost town shithole, creating 1300 jobs potentially (they'll all be going to people outside of the town but that's a different complaint of mine and can't expect anything from them). Our council does absolutely nothing but inconvenience everyone and make everyone's life harder 😂
@@swaggadash9017 Props to BAE, it's a shame they are being sold off to Jerry bit by bit.
@@bobmartin9918 Yeah, as good as BAE is its glory days are gone. Everyone I know that works there, that's most people I know lol, say the past few decades it's been on a constant decline. Way too many people getting into key roles and management positions etc that don't know what they're doing. Only getting the positions with connections and even blackmail in one case. My best mate just does busy work all day and sits on his phone because he has literally nothing to do most of the time.
It’s a problem with national government. We’ve witnessed the largest transfer of wealth in history from the poor to the wealthy during the pandemic.
Most of the handouts (which were very much needed, don’t get me wrong) went to the rich (which is the problem; it should’ve gone to people who need it, not those who need it the least).
This is what happens when you allow concentration of wealth such that they can use that concentration to influence politics, be it by pushing propaganda electorally, or through legalised corruption (i.e. lobbying/donations).
People hate the Tories now, but they voted for them repeatedly over 14 years now. Stupid in the extreme and people here are reaping what they’ve sewn (save for young people who have been shat on their entire life by geriatric lead-addled boomers).
I have working in public sector. It’s designed to make sure not one is accountable. Counsellors say they aren’t accountable as they take the recommendations of the staff. Staff out source to consultants so they can’t be held accountable. The consultants are typical interviewing the staff so they say they can’t be held accountable and wouldn’t sign a contract that held them accountable. And finally competitive tendering means you have to accept the lowest price so you can’t be held accountable. If you screwed up this bad in most private companies you get fired.
For a bit of context, they made a bunch of questionable financial decisions, but the reason they actually went bankrupt was an equal pay lawsuit where they weren't giving female-dominated roles like cleaners the same bonuses as male-dominated ones like binmen.
So they ended up owing over a billion in compensation because they hadn't paid bonuses to a few hundred employees. The funny part is they wouldn't have been sued if they'd never paid any bonuses in the first place.
I think that's got to be one of the very few examples of actual unequal compensation I've ever heard of. Usually it's people not understanding averages and gender preferences in certain jobs that make them believe the myth that women earn less than men for the same work. The council have got to be idiots to not realise that this was a bit of a dodgy prospect when they were dishing out those bonus payments. Normally it's easy to pay one group more or less because of different job titles/roles but obviously in this case you can argue very easily that binmen and cleaners are similar positions, just with a different male to female ratio.
I don't know what it's like in Birmingham but the binmen in my town are a useless shower of wankers so if they get bonus payments from my council I'd be well pissed off. Most of the people who work for the council are bloody useless in fact. Can't say I've ever had a positive experience anytime I've had to deal with them.
couldn't disagree more@@Buu_Tang_Clan 5am bin men work is harder than sweeping town center.
@@Buu_Tang_Clan Why would two completely different jobs require the same bonus?
A bin man very different to an office cleaner. It's a bit like demanding surgeon's and nurses get paid the same bonus for completely different jobs inside the hospital.
@@boostedrecords442 That's entirely your choice mate you're allowed to think different but I disagree with you. I don't think one role is more difficult than the other as they've both got easy and tough parts of the job. I've saw enough of the workload for each role and they are more similar than you'd think. That's how they won this case because most people would say they are the same job. Everyone has their own rose-tinted glasses. Unfortunately It is what it is.
@@basedbrit4206 Because they are similar jobs in most people's minds and most of society see women as victims of evil men, so 2+2 = a lawsuit. In my local council they get paid roughly the same base wage, though bin men do get paid a smidge more which doesn't help. The nurse/surgeon comparison is dumb man. Those are completely different in the actual work, training and just about everything really. You ask Joe Public and they'll say the same.
You seem to be under the impression that I think it's right what happened with the bonuses but I don't. I'm saying that the council were idiots not to realise that the women would kick up a fuss about not receiving a bonus like the binmen did. Most women believe this pay-gap myth so the second they can argue about being underpaid they will. Especially since most people would equate refuse collector & cleaner as roughly the same type of job.
It warms my greasy heart that no matter who you are, where you are, your culture, etc. We all have something that unites us, our politicians and their noble desire of seeing their bank account grow fat and healthy with everyone's money.
Too real.
They should go and insult the Furries. Why? So, they get a surprise in their mailbox. /j
"Communism... finds a way!"
@@precisedime1377Never ever. Its even worse and doesn't fit into Human Mindset. It always creates a small and brutal Elite and a poor Population of uneducated Peasants.
And not even do anything with the money we slaved away. God I love politicians
As a resident of Czechia (Never set foot in West Midlands) I can confirm that Birmingham is the worst thing to ever happen to me personally
Merely possessing the knowledge that the West Midlands exists sends even the stoutest souls into an unrecoverable downward spiral.
I am leaving Birmingham next year. But the Czech Republic has the rudest and most disgusting people in any country I have ever visited. I will never go back.
@@RumminFellow You mean... England isn't really a "green and pleasant land"? I've... I've been lied to? Noooooooo!
I’m from there we don’t want you here anyway we have enough fools 🤣
And look at the demographics.
as a fellow birmingham citizen im so proud that our great city is finally being viewed in such a positive light
As a Pole living in the Łódź region, I approve this beautiful design of Birmingham. It looks like our regional capital city
also, easily beats top 3 cities of Bulgaria just from the snippets shown with the graffiti.
It's really the Polish villages and Małopolska that have nice cities.
Potwierdzam mieszkam koło ozorkowa
Poland is billion times more beautiful, than urban centers in UK
@@n1ls53I have polish descent, man's claiming that citizenship,learning the language and fucking skeddadling from hell Island.
As a Latvian living in the UK, I recommend selling Latvian potatoes to boost up the economy as well as Kvass made from me-
Edit if you don't know what I mean by me-? I mean by what Walter White makes if you know what I mean.
The business man
As a fellow Latvian, I support this message!
I’m going to Latvia next year from UK where do you recommend I visit?
@@DeSlagen8lithuania
@@DeSlagen8maybe nowhere
Building a library in Birmingham is like building a tanning salon in downtown Detroit.
HAHA
😅
I know we alredy read too good thers no point
Thats true for the whole UK, US, Aus,Canada, actually most of the English speaking white countries.
@@wonderwalls3565here in the US the only book that matters is the bible. nobody reads that either though.
I raise you Edinburgh: Tram project was meant to deliver 3 routes by 2011. A decade later, they just managed to "almost" complete the first route, well over budget and having to have the Scottish govt to foot the bill they couldn't pay because they did so well at getting conned by the contractor. A decade of road work for one of the main artery for north Edinburgh (Leith Walk), different contractors digging the same piece of road at different time to move the utilities and finally having to decide whether to paid a multimillions fine to cancel the project altogether or to get a loan to complete it.
Local government can be run by real clown.
Same here I live in Edinburgh and wanna get out
A lot of these places have something in common that you just can't talk about.... and it's an even bigger waste of money.
Birmingham council cant even build normal cycle lanes so I wouldnt expect them to be able to do other normal things like be financially sustainable
so many cities all over the world that will probably go bankrupt like this in the coming months. far too many incompetent people running cities now.
@@danielseaburg9763 Immigrants bad lmaoooo but that has nothing to do with corruption and incompetence of our councils
@@danielseaburg9763
Because many of doctors , lawyers and students get rejected in the process of getting a visa for some god-forsaken reasons (not enough financial resources, no proof of income ...)
@danielseaburg9763
If you think any of those people are in city council making decisions you're straight up insane. By your logic, white people can't run shit.
@@danielseaburg9763 POV: You left the EU to not have immigrants (brown people scare you), but they keep coming 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
as a true Rwandan patriot i disagree, the Commonwealth is flourishing!!
Man, the c0mmonwealth is literally dead. Half the mebers h8 the other half. It serves no purpose anymore...
💀💀💀 of course
Nah genuinely it's quite good love the cricket
Well geopold is about 12yo so can't expect too much from him.
India who just launched two space missions in a month: 🗿
For the record, India isn't perfect however, to rise from where it was, kinda impressive
The standard of living in the UK is being diminished back to Victorian slum levels. Everywhere is so dirty now. Litter everywhere you look, a permanent layer of filth on the pavements and roads covered in potholes that fill up with muddy water whenever it rains. It's terrible. When I go out, I literally feel disgusted by my surroundings and the lack of common decency. Everything's gone to sh!t.
Its bad but not even CLOSE to victorian.
Geopold, fascinating content. CZcams needs more of this, seriously. Keep it going, you're usually 80-90% spot on.
Regards from Bulgaria.
Covering bad looking buildings is Litteraly a North Korea Level tactic 😂
Maybe North Korea are more similar to our countries and you didn’t realise it because you’ve been watching internationalist propaganda (aka, our global system is the only way and everyone must replace their natives for money like we did, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸)
At least those guys are honest hahah
China too, those guys even paint grass and bushes with lush green paint loooool
@@Kaiji... Ik lmao
Don't everyone do it?
As an American, it’s cool to see what the British equivalent to Cincinnati is. Or Los Angeles. Or San Francisco. Or Philadelphia. Or Detroit. Or The Bronx. Or Portland.
Yeah, and it's still worse for the British fiscally.
Thank god I live in the general Pittsburgh area. Everything outside the city might be shit but at least the city isn’t filing for Bankruptcy.
Definitely Detroit
@@Nepetita69696at least South-Detroit gets to participate in the commonwealth games
To be fair, Detroit’s bankruptcy is quite literally not the fault of Detroit’s government but Michigan’s government and the arch-conservative “emergency manager” they appointed as effective dictator. When the 2008 financial collapse hit, practically every city in the US sued the banks for selling them fraudulently advertised housing securities, avoiding the massive bill they’d be stuck with otherwise.
Detroit on the other hand, wasn’t controlled by its people but by emergency manager Kevyn Orr. Orr was a massive advocate of privatizing everything in detroit, he’d already got the power company done and wanted to move on to privatizing transit, schools, and most importantly, their water service, which would be the first private water extractor on Lake Michigan. So, Orr prevented Detroit’s city government from suing the banks and their creditors and intentionally drove the city into bankruptcy in a failed attempt to sell off Detroit’s water utilities, which also service most of the ~3.75-million strong metro area.
"Instead of investing on public transport, train station, or anything that sounds good, build a gigantic steampunk bull that blocks the entrance of the central station!"
Ankara, which has spent over 1 BILLION dollars for a theme park: *Hey, I've seen this one!*
Brian Gerrish once made a video about ugly public art that depresses the local residents. I wouldn't go that far but think most of it is superfluous, a waste of money and gets in the way. What's more depressing are the multi storey car parks, flat roofed concrete buildings, indoor 60s shopping malls with low ceilings and ring roads.
1:12 Easy... India! It is the world's fastest growing major economy. Called by the IMF as a bright spot in the global economy!
In order to "put Birmingham on the map", the City Council had a steam punk bull constructed, that is now blocking the entrance to the Central Station. That is very hard to beat for anyone.
Ask Brazil
Even building a statue of Christ himself couldn't help that country@@capitan_gorgonzolazola .
The city that I live close to (Thankfully not in) applied for "city of culture", despite half the city centre being empty shops, and the other half being phone repair shops, vape shops and American candy shops
Aw man, almost every single "investment" in this video was ludicrous...but I'm sucker for steampunk, so I have to give a big YEE HAW for that bull lol. You can never have enough steampunk, in the very home country of steampunk no less!
The most realest videos I’ve seen this week good job fam
He forgot to mention that Birmingham council spent £760,000,000 on equal pay laws.
its more than that, and its settlements, they have a bill of 760mil and have paid something like 1 billion in the last 11 years out to other similar claims
Should have been paying equally from the start then.
@@jodders619 i think it's based on different jobs. not a real comparison. not really what you would think about unequal pay which obviously doesn't happen anywhere. just a reinterpretation of law to get money, which is a big 'industry' nowadays.
@@_h_r_1_It's where bad and ugly cities go... you built shit since the 50's, there's a moment of reconning at some point.
@@jodders619that's not how meritocracy works
as a northeastern brazilian living in one of the main 2014 world cup city hosts, I can feel your pain
What a contribution...
I actually love this channel so much. I live in Brum and there’s no where else online I will find people complaining about that stupid bull in New Street
If only councils spent the money they spent on street sculptures on cleaning and maintenance instead. But it's "Let's put a bull there to distract visitors from the ugly post war architecture and ring roads." I visited Birmingham and was glad to get away from the Bull Ring Centre after arriving at New Street station and headed for the museums just north of the city centre.
I later discovered a Canal Quarter and Jewellery Quarter there after attending events in those places. Most visitors wouldn't know they existed and even some residents wouldn't know of them let alone go there. When I visited the Jewellery Quarter it was amazingly quiet yet so much to see there. It reminded me of Bruges in Belgium.
We were going to move to Birmingham at one time after my father applied for jobs there to earn more money but didn't get them.
If I could believe they were just 'burning the money' I'd be less angry. But siphoning into private accounts under the pretence of it being for some project or another is actually far more enraging. Knowing they'll get away with every penny.
As a Parisian, I really expected our city council to be the world-top expert on how to waste money.
Yeah they’ll do anything instead of finding a solution to homeless people and drug addicts making any place in the city (except the area next to the river’s sides) look like a dumpster, or the problem of the migrants who keep coming and making the problem even worse, which is also a government issue, and what does President Macron do in his infinite wisdom? He makes it illegal for muslims to wear traditional clothes at school, making them cause even more chaos. At this point, I genuinely think that he just wants to create chaos to pass authoritarian laws to give himself royal-like powers under the excuse that he needs to fix the problem
And that’s why Paris is one of the most visited cities in the world. Oh wait
Not the UK, but had a funny little chat with my mom today. She lives in what in the UK would be considered a council house, or w/e.
Several years ago, "the city"(actually the estate maintenance company) built a nice little gate and fence around the apartment complex. Now the building occupants had access to their own little parking area for a small fee. Call a specific number and the gate opens. Eeasy, peasy. The users paid for the maintenance.
Turn to today and the city decided: "Nah fam! We are assigning you with parking cards you have to apply for from the local council. No more of that calling a number bollocks"
So now the well built gate, that worked exactly as it was intended to... it´s just permanently open. It´s gonna stand there until it doesn´t function, at which point it will just rust away. Now they will have the local parking police coming about and fining the cars that are not supposed to be parked there.
They actually built something perfect. It could not have been done any better. And I would not be shocked if they keep paying the maintenance fee on the gate, despite it not being used. It´s stupidity at it´s fines.
And no. I do not believe they did this to find more cars to fine. I legitimately do not believe they are smart enough to come up with such a scheme.
Believe me the council will no longer be maintaining the gate. That's the entire reason to do this.
Which city are you talking about?
maybe they're just dumb in investing money in reliable simple things, and not in this fancy s@hit.
Tallinn @@L.internet8
democracy makes sure not the brightest but most stupid party followers will get a job.
Love from London, it's shit like this that's edging us towards poltiical backlash and even revolution talk amongst young people. This trails up higher than communities into the government for sure.
Four conservative prime ministers also haven’t helped with any of this, as local council funding is tied to national budgets. Sunak openly admitted to pulling money out of local government in cities and other labour areas to give it to richer, rural areas which vote conservative.
Labour party would do worse
''conservative''
I blame both Labour and Conservative parties for this. The Conservatives for cutting funding and Labour wasting money on vanity projects and redevelopment instead of the basic services and repairs, maintenance and cleaning. Buildings will crumble if not maintained. Places will look unsightly if not cleaned or cleared of litter frequently. I lived in Plymouth in the 80s and the Conservative controlled council would not spend money on anything to benefit the residents only to attract visitors. So a small theatre, cinema or swimming pool that only locals used would be closed and the money spent instead on a huge city centre theatre, lido and leisure centre to attract tourists.
You couldn't borrow a book in the library that was less than two years after the publication date. You couldn't recommend many books for the library to order there. The library department decided what books the residents should read.
The streets on the post war council estates were never cleaned. Only the ones in the centre, inner city and well to do suburbs were. Union Street just outside of the city centre was left to decay and rot. It had beautiful old red brick buildings. I would go there for cheap discount shopping.
As a Cuban, living in USA and Florida this channel gave me 'LIFE'. Now ill go sell some croquetas and some packets of "sugar" so i can feed my communist pet alligator and fund Birmingham economy.
What’s a Cuban? Whats your actual ethnicity? Lol
@@dylanmurphy9389 I’m from Cuba, a person who was born in Cuba, an individual born in the island of Cuba, so a Cuban. Ex Cubans, Cuban People, I’m Cuban, Cubans are amazing, etc
@dylanmurphy9389 Cuban is a nationality , they’re likely mixed Iberian (Spanish/Portuguese), Black and a little bit Taino. My cousin is half Cuban and she doesn’t really look like any one ethnicity. All Latinos are mixed to some degree or another, although I struggle to see how your inquiry is relevant to this man’s previous comment
@@AlexLay you just repeated your made up nationality a bunch of times, what is your ethnicity, who were your ancestors and what did they fight for?
@@cassiopeiathew7406 the complexity of your answer is the reason for my questioning lol and my inquiry is relevant because usually your ancestry tells us everything about you.
I think Europeans would like to know where people with some European ancestry stand and want to understand them more.
I'd say Birmingham is the peak British interpretation of Murphy's Law, but considering literally everyone in that shadow realm of a city is actively trying to make it a worse place to live in I'd say it's the complete opposite.
Does it have something to do with the fact that it's hardly english anymore?
@@joaocosta3374 that isnt the issue, more rundown areas are filled with white majority
@@rapstninja I'm sure it has nothing to do with them voting for that, and actively trying to destroy the white community.... It's in there rhetoric, there policies, there community and there religion. You. Hopeless dope. We literally have laws which force minorities into positions of power.
People like you are the enemy. You know these People vote collectively for themselves, and push policies against the indigenous population, forcing laws to help them, like "Islamic courts" which put them above British Law. They are some of the most racist people in our country, and actively use buzzwords to stop criticism, "racist" "islamaphobia" "nazis" etc etc.
It has already been proven that police actively ignore these communities when it comes to certain crimes, which is why they lobbied for "Islamic courts".
It's never a issue with people like you. It not a issue in Rochdale, Leicester, Birmingham, London etc.
Ignoring context on how it got to this position in the first place, will never get answered because people like you are cowards, that don't like confrontation on contentious issues, and will distort information and facts.
So Birmingham is a load of bull?
Birmingham is minority white so it doesnt matter if the poor zones are more white its still not a white county
How have I only just found this channel! ace work dude !
When i moved to England 7 years ago from Holland I was shocked to say the least. I lived all over the UK and must say that the infrastructure across the nation is of the level of 3rd world countries. Not to mention the old Victorian houses that are full of mold, water leaking everywhere (even new builds) phone and internet cables hanging from poles on every road, narrow roads that makes you think you will get crushed or die, people just parking their cars anywhere they like on the pavement or in the middle of the road. And the most beautiful part is the obsession for roundabouts that will even turn a village into a metropolitan with hour long queues.
We are being held together by Hedge Funds and Merchant banking. If They were all to move away we would be a third world.
Did you ever get to see the 8th wonder of the world: the Devon country lanes? 2 meters wide with towering hedges to each side and certain death heading straight towards you
@@Michael_Chaterdriving in devon truly makes you hate everything about everything
i experienced the same exact thing exactly 7 years ago and now im stuck living in a victorian house that is making my family sicker by the day, i plan on moving back to the netherlands
I learned this late but I will part it on to you.
Keep windows open in the mornings to circulate the air, do not dry your clothes on a radiator, either use a dryer or hang them outside. Ensure there is an extractor in your kitchen and bathroom. Buy a humidity meter and ensure you are in the right zone. You need to starve the mould by creating the perfect air humidity.
@@rapstninja
I'm afraid that public money is rarely well spent in any council in the world. I'm from Spain myself and trust me, this is common.
Surely it can’t be so bad that the entire city is bankrupt though??
di que si
As an Icelander I can confirm, most public money is spent by our politicians putting it in their own pockets. Trying to comprehend how Iceland is the 14th least corrupt country on that list fills me with rage, loathing and despair because I can't comprehend it.
@@oligultonnIcelanderian people are sigma males, even the women are sigma males.
@@oligultonn As a brazillian, oh boy you definitely have so much to experience.
Wait we won't talk about the £700+ millions in equal pay claims the council can't afford or that's part of the joke??
That’s the best part why did he leave it out
@@m_t_t_ literally the main reason this happened lol, that and an appalling, IT system that needed some expensive work, bro just attacked community projects used to attract investors
That would just make it less funny and more bleak
Can you explainn tldr what means "equal pay'?
Basically, the council deliberately and knowingly underpaid certain staff and are now being forced to back pay them.
Bro this vid is awesome, subbed.
Thank you for this instructive and well produced mini-thesis on how the capital of the west midlands chose to exercise its finances. As a sorrowful resident of the nearby town of Walsall, I can appreciate the artistry used to convey this tale as I have bared witness to all topics discussed on a standard X51 journey.
As a person who moved to Birmingham from Hong Kong last year. I am absolutely not impressed by what this city has to offer other than how easy it is to get into uni (thanks UOB). However, the Birmingham council's ability to waste money is nothing in front of the Hong Kong government as they spend 1.07 billion British pounds for 20 miles of high speed rail to connect to the Chinese railway system and a big train station which fail to compete with the already existing coach and plane systems.
Wow HK is one of the coolest places on earth. I visited in 2011. After all its flaws i would LOVE to live in HK, especially compared to Birmingham
@@rockolutheran You will think it's really good until you've actually lived there you can clearly see how I've learnt it the hard way. Especially Hong Kong is now in one of its roughest times in history.
unsurprisingly, the grass isn’t greener on the other side
Haha, talking shit about high-speed rail is the stupidest thing in the world. China is committing genocide on its frontiers, but if there's one thing it does right, it's that its high-speed rail network is one of the best in the world.
@@stevemiddleton5278 nah that high speed rail way is loses about 55 million in pounds every day. And they kept expanding it.
Fun fact: In 2013, the US city of Detroit, Michigan filed for bankrupcy.
No suprises there😂
at least detroit has been improving
@@toiletseat777Detroit's been making a bit of a comeback recently. It made good progress but it got a good ways to go.
Thank you so so much, I came from Paris, where I lived almost all of my life, to Birminghan because of your recommandation and this is the best change of life one could expect. I'm just so sad I missed the games, hope they come back soon!
I would happily pay £200 for a guided tour of Birmingham from you, please make this a thing
Kind of a "Know the world of tomorrow" type of excursion. Very educative I must say.
I’ll give you one for 50, show you all the run down places
I live just outside Croydon and have played in Fairfield halls both before and after the (now bankrupt) council spent millions refurbishing it. It's literally identical and still a venue that gets no events, they have only 4 professional orchestras this year in what is supposed to be borough of culture. The absurd spending has been going on for like a decade, under both tory and labour. It's crazy how deep the corruption there runs honestly
I remember when it shut. 2015, one of it's most successful fucking years and they shut it for refurbishment.
Interesting tid bit. When the council were discussing the future of the hall, multiple members were pictured watching football during the fucking meeting
Also, all of the people who lost their jobs? Yea no support was given to them
I need to stop I could hate Croydon council all fucking day
Was in Croydon two weeks ago. Biggest shithole I’ve ever seen. Was like entering a slum in Baghdad.
When I heard about Birmingham going bankrupt I had two thoughts:
1. Danny G was right.
2. Can't wait to see the Geopold video on this one.
It's always a delight to get up to date with my favorite news source from the rotting husk of a forsaken empire.
My country is currently speed running everything into the ground as well. Good times
Germany? America?
I love it how theres both a birmingham in england and a birmingham in the united states and they are both exactly like this.
As above so below
Lol please tell Geopold to make video about UK birmingham vs US birmingham
you do realize that all of americas town and city names and etc come from the uk? well, the majority of a lot of places, if not most of them.
@@expOsiris yeah, i know, but its funny because most of these towns don't have the "like father, like son" thing that the US birmingham and UK birmingham has got going on.
Getting the number 50 bus is the hardest thing anyone can do in Birmingham, it's like a lucky dip of roadmen, crackheads, shitty teenagers and single mothers all crammed into one stinky vehicle for 45 minutes.
Should be renamed the Hell Ride then 😂
Lol laughs in Number 11C/A
Do you think when AC/DC were making highway to hell did they get the idea from driving into Birmingham?
I agree, I used to go on the 50, most likely going back on it :(, and the worst part about it when 2, 3, or even 4 of the 50 buses are right next to each other. If you miss those buses, you're gonna have to wait for like up to an hour for the next. Absolute joke, plus they got rid of physical bus passes and tickets, like why? The app is rubbish.
Road men seem to be chavs on acid. I remember the old style chavs of the 00s and how colourful they looked relatively compared to roadmen who wear mostly black and dark colours and wear balaclavas under their hoods so you think they are wearing face masks. The police are so stupid they don't recognise them and think the clothes they wear are just fashion choices rather than disguise themselves as they go about drug running and stealing. The old style chavs wore a lot of white, cream, pastel blue and Burberry pattern. Many of them were annoying and anti social but a lot less criminal than road men.
Lol this is both on point and hilarious 😂😂, I'm from Brum and you've nailed it
As an Indian who belongs to the Former "Crown Jewel" of the British Empire, I can attest to the fact that here literally NO ONE cares about commonwealth Games.
No media coverage, aside from if we win any medals, and if you mention about them to anybody they will just shrug it off and start talking about the Upcoming Cricket Matches 💀
It became a rehearsal for the Olympic Games or a consolation prize if you failed to make the Olympic team or if you did but failed to get a medal there.
The Birmingham council should of just built a 100ft solid gold statue of Ozzy Osbourne
Birmingham had a beautiful library. Then they tore that down and replaced it with this monstrosity, because having a shaking-my-spear room on top is worth having a building styled after a roll of foil.
All the more a reason to get drunk in Stirchley.
If you mean the old old library, yes. The you mean that hideous concrete origin, then no
@@sdrawkcabUK You're stark raving mad if you think the current wretched golden hovel beats the brutalist pyramid, except maybe that one central hall from 2nd floor up
@@justanotherredbeard4439 They are equally as worse, but I think the brutalist one slightly edges ahead in ugliness.
New libraries get built as the old one was too small. Cardiff Council built a new main library above an Iceland shop. Why should people have to use lifts and escalators just to use the first floor of a library. Then built a third one on top of fancy restaurants that few people can afford to eat in. There is a small downstairs area with a few books, main desk and soft settees to sit on when feeling tired. But they could have built a separate children's library under the main library instead of having restaurants.
Then they closed the Star centre sports hall in Splott and the swimming pool in a nearby park to build a leisure centre and library complex in the same park when they could have have converted the Star centre sports hall into a library with meeting rooms and extended the existing swimming pool to have other sports facilities. Libraries need to be where the shops are which is why the libraries in Pontypridd and Caerphilly were moved from a back street and park to the town centres to make them more accessible.
@@chico9805It's uglier but at least it isn't as tall.
It's a real crime what people in power have done and are continuing to do to this country and its services. People are desperately struggling financially and with accessing meaningful wages and health care. It's a real problem. We must stand up together and say enough is enough.
It's never gonna happen. We're just gonna keep on bending over and taking it
equal pay payout 1billion, nearly 200m on library, commonwealth games, spending money on changing road names, and yet i see a lot of people blaming immigrants, shows how they are oblivious to whats going on in front of their eyes.
Truly a bankrupt moment of all time
Can we all appreciate Geopold for teaching us helpful shit in a comedic,funny way?
My guy said that australia, canada, malaysia, singapore aren’t flourishing countries
…Well okay… maybe that’s part true depending on how you define flourishing
@@hodb3906 Where're sweet as a nut down here in Australia. But thanks for asking.
Detroiters 🤝 Brummies
Being exploited to literal bankruptcy of their entire city
The ''steampunk bull'' got me in the end! I just had to laugh! :D
It made my day when I find out this sh*tty city council announced that they were bankrupt. When I lived there, as a 20 year old, I requested rental assist (euphemisms for housing benefit. Lived near Broad Street Cineworld). I began a 3 month Gas engineering course and had enough savings to cover my daily expenses for the duration, but I required a partial help with the rent. Imagine my shock, when the BCC guy over the phone said to me "you do not qualify and may have to go back to Germany if you are struggling with living cost."
Forgive me if I indulge in a little bit of schadenfreude. Don't get me started on the Library loool. I moved when it was officially opened and remember reading that it went over budget by like £80m+ hahhahaha.
EDIT: _No waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay_ (my fake Brummie accent tehehe). THANK YOU ALL for taking your time to read my scribbled anecdote.
HAVE A REASONABLY STRESS-LESS WEEK!
All uk councils are run like this, and god forbid you want to actually do something good for yourself, nah you can't get a leg up when you need it we need to spend this money on a 35mill bit of patio that a mates company is coincidentally making, glad I left.
Why on Earth did you come here from Germany? Did you manage to escape this hellhole? Am doing my best but this blackhole of a city has already absorbed all of my human emotions, the only goddam jobs available here are either construction or dodgy call centres that am pretty sure are illegal but for "graduates only".
Steampunk robot is prolly the only thing worth a damn lol
@@mabeSc it was probably back in the days. even so, stuff happens ig
By sheer coincidence I'm actually moving TO Germany in a little under two months time. I don't know how well it'll turn out. But I'm sure it'll be leagues better than staying here in Jersey.
I'm laughing at this from Exeter. You can't hear my laughter because it's drowned out by all the homeless people yelling.
I like how they blamed the conservatives for their frivolous spending.... (I hate both parties, in fact I don't trust anyone in government anymore)
I swear English politicians are all inept to a laughable degree. They make the US look competent. Labour is stupid, the Tories are stupid, the Liberal Democrats are stupid, the DUP are stupid, the Greens are stupid, the "Reclaim" Party is stupid. It's just a series of Mr. Bean-esque antics.
Well to be honest modern Tories are more like 'ultraliberal' so they don't work as a "balancing force/counterweight" at all and I'm fine with making fun of them.
Well it was so.....
@@RafaleKez4 ye they are literally the definition of Neoliberalism
@@stickynorth nah its their own fault for buying all that random stuff lol
You should do more of these
Your videos are gold. Keep them coming!
I was going to say "I hope you're paying ME £200 an hour for a tour" but you wouldn't even catch me passing through Birmingham let alone visiting it.
You haven't seen the nicer parts just north and west of the city centre such as the Canal Quarter and the museums.
The beautiful city of Birmingham in England inspired Geopold to travel the world and get as far away as possible for as long as possible to avoid facing the reality. He lives in Birmingham and there is no escape when you have to go back home.
Bro not even gonna lie; got recommended one of your videos and have been on a binge the last hour and a half, we’ll played Geopoldd well played
They didn't play enough Sims.
A birgham university representative came to our school in the middle east , my friend next to me was from London and I wanted to annoy him. So I asked the representative about birgmingham having the highest knife crime statistics in the UK. She gave me a 5 second silent stare right in the eyes and moved onto say “no,next question”.
I am Italian, I lived in London for a year, and I regret every single moment.
Go to the rural areas if you want a more peaceful time
When an Italian insults your country, you know you f*cked up
My friend Tristano moved to Birmingham recently. Told him its a big mistake, he insists its going to be amazing. Some people need to learn the hard way.
Why?Its still one of the best cities in the world.
This is my favourite kind of British commentary, talking about how shit something is but in a sort-of self-deprecating humour kind of way like you're sharing some great wisdom
Our ancestors saw thousands of years of rain and clouds and said "Yeah! this'll do!" we've been mocking our own existence since they dragged up the stones in Stonehenge.
Looks like the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo got her inspiration from the one of Birmingham. Trust me it's not just in the UK. France is going through the exact same shit. I know you guys don't like France that much but we have so much in common. Really hope UK will hold on ! Let's hope none of our countries fall
Most brits have nothing against French people myself included don’t believe the narrative
French cities are maintained and beautiful at least
Honestly surprised Bristol isn’t bankrupt. The way that joke of a mayor pisses money up against the wall.
We'll get an underground any day now.
That’s what you get with far left politicians
@@dylanmurphy9389dumbass, The UK has a right wing government
@@dylanmurphy9389We had a conservative government for how long now and is anything any different?
Better to be in Bristol than in Brum atm
"How to bankrupt a nation"
**Has flashbacks to the José Sócrates period and Troika**
except that portugal is still around and didn't leave the EU 😂
@@FlanPoirot EU money is the only thing keeping us afloat
No. Don't remind us of that 💀
@@FlanPoirot Thats not better. Even with the EU, we are barely alive. And mostly because of the dickwads we have in the AR. Although, may i have some honesty, they are not as bad as the.... 1st republic
But still MORE THAN 60B€ SITTING IN THE GOVERNMENT'S VAULT, AND WITH SO MANY ISSUES, THEY DIDNT EVEN *START* CONSTRUCTION AT THE NEW LISBON INTERNATIONAL!
Big Jocas just wanted to develop the economy... By awarding funny contracts to his mates, I wish I had mates like him what a legend
Good vid man u got a sub
1:12. Singapore is extremely successful with the highest gdp per capita in Asia, consistent budget surplus, top 3 for least corruption, and a very impressive HDI. Australia, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent Canada, Brunei, and the Bahamas are also doing pretty good.
So, basically Birmingham became what Brazil used to be around the 2014 World Cup
Birmingham is bankrupt and Small Heath (where I live) literally gets no funding and is covered in litter but it's okay, we have a huge bull at the train station now.
Black Country local here, there is no fixing or improving or saving Birmingham now, I propose the only option which is to detonate a nuclear device under the city and just start over again. I’ll stomach the radiation poisoning.
Import the 3rd World become the 3rd World
"huge bull" is coincidentally an apt description of birmingham
I watched Brian Gerrish's video about depressing and ugly public art after he made a talk about it. What is most depressing about it all is the waste of money used to commission and install them should be spent on cleaning and maintenance instead and that they are often installed as distractions from even more depressing brutalist post war architecture with Portland stone or concrete and low ceilings.
I’ve been binging this dude’s videos for two days and I’m not stopping
As someone who recently moved to San Francisco, can confirm that every member of the city council follows this tutorial
>commonwealth economic bloc
>looks inside
>no economy
one time an ubereats driver asked me to walk outside the clean air zone lmao
building a 190 million sterling library that can't keep books and located in a city where nobody reads
pro bankruptcy move
No MP will follow the trail of that money cos they’re all at it.
your the most underrated youtuber
Bro I love you content man. It’s the way I end my night in an explosion of laughter and education 😂
That library is a disgrace to human existence
Barbed wire book prison.
My friend works for a local council and attended a party where their chief executive left yesterday with great fanfare for a higher paying CE job at another council. Under her leadership they spent over £30M building a huge new office which they can't rent out any of the floors because everybody works from home now and SME don't need 5000 sq ft of space 🤣Small change compared to Brum but just another example of useless over paid people getting involved in stuff like commercial real estate they know fk all about.
The change of the road names is such a clear and obvious demonstration that the people running the council just have zero ideas how to actually delivery anything of meaningful value to the local area. Setting about renaming the roads with "hopeful" names really is an admission that hope is well and truly lost.
Anyone who sh*ts on the government this hard earns my subscription.
I think we just need to cut our losses and gate off Birmingham and cut off the electricity, water and food supply. Like the city in dying light.
and then televise the residents of Birmingham trying to survive, finally have something good to watch on BBC
California / NewYork / Detroit moment.
Would pay to watch
@@precisedime1377Literal Texas moment every time it gets a bit chilly
They should do that to half of America’s cities
I honestly think what's so on brand about this library in the UK is that it looks like a fucking prison.
What do you expect from a Labour run council.
Now China can swoop in and create Neo-Birmingham like my favorite video game Cyberpunk!!!
Oi Samurai, wake up ya cont. Got a fooking city to brun
lol@@TheJonesdude
Fantastic mate, this should be played in every school in the country. Incredibly entertaining and informative.
thanks man will be using this in the future
The commonwealth games closing ceremony with Goldie and Black Sabath was epic actually! Some absolute tunes
The government will probably bail them out in return for something immensely stupid too
My based childhood hometown has an awesome library made out of the second floor of an already established building. (It has books.)
Also the town utility company took advantage of the river running through the town and supplies the surrounding cities and my childhood hometown with hydroelectric power, meaning cheap electricity for all.
sounds awesome, where is that?
@@Tom_- Kaukauna WI
You know I was transferring at Birmingham new street a few weeks back and saw the bull and I hoped it was just some art project but in my heart of hearts I knew it was just the local government wasting money.