A Labour MP for a city plagued with bin strikes and piled high with rubbish has backed calls for a new airport to be built in Kashmir. The Mail has more.
Tahir Ali, the MP for Birmingham, has come under fire for supporting a campaign for the new airport in another country.
He took to social media to voice his support for the project in the district of Mirpur, which is within the disputed Kashmir region administered by Pakistan.
He said on X: “There has been a long-standing promise for an international airport in Mirpur, which has yet to be met.
“This causes significant issues to a number of my constituents, who are having to drive over three hours to get to the nearest airport in Pakistan.
“I will continue to push for this cause, and pursue this issue until permission is granted for a new airport.”
But Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick replied scathingly: “You’re an MP for Birmingham, not Mirpur.
“The streets of your city are literally piled high in rubbish thanks to your Labour council. Focus on the UK.”
Bin strikes in Birmingham have wrecked havoc in the city, with residents complaining of rats and mountains of rubbish.
One waste collection lorry was filmed as residents overwhelmed by desperate residents laden with bin bags.
The lorry was besieged by so many people as it attempted to clear piles of rotting waste in the affluent Mosely suburb that a local councillor resorted to calling police.
West Midlands Police said two people have been arrested in connection to the ongoing industrial action, which escalated from a series of one-day walk outs to an all-out strike.
A week on from the strike, and a mobile collection – a bin lorry in a static location allowing residents whose bins aren’t being collected to drop their rubbish off – triggered what one observer called a “binmageddon”.
Citizens turned up in cars filled with black bags of rubbish which they were desperate to dispose of.
The BBC reported that people were seen rushing down the streets to the wagon carrying multiple bags.
Others were seen running down the middle of the road with their wheelie bins, desperate to unload them.
Cars loaded with rubbish were seen parked in the neighbourhood as police yelled at people not to dump their rubbish in the street.
Officers called the collection off early as tempers flared and the lorry reached capacity.
The rat infestation has become so bad the rodents have been dubbed the Squeaky Blinders because they appear to have the city in their grip – much like the Peaky Blinders gang of the late 19th Century which inspired the BBC drama series of the same name.
The Unite union says its members face pay cuts after the scrapping of waste collection and recycling officer roles. But Labour-run Birmingham City Council says its offer is “fair and reasonable”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The letter Tahir Ali signed calling for a new airport in Mirpur was also signed by eight Labour MPs who voted against expanding Heathrow in 2018. Mohhamad Yasin, Debbie Abrahams, Rosena Allin-Khan, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, James Frith, Imran Hussain, Afzal Khan, and Yasmin Qureshi – all Labour MPs who opposed the building of a third runway at Britain’s largest airport – signed the letter calling for an airport to be built in Mirpur, Pakistan. Zarah Sultana MP, who was not in the Commons when Heathrow expansion was last put to parliament, signed the letter. Earlier this year, she called the Prime Minister’s decision to back a third runway “indefensible” in the “middle of a climate emergency.” The News Hub Group has more.
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Thanks for that good news. And well done to Harley-Davidson for leading the pack! Just for fun, have a look at this:
Harley-Davidson bikers in pilgrimage to house where it all started | Daily Mail Online
One public comment:
“I’ve read a lot of Negative posts concerning Bikers ! Myself personally am Not a Biker. Have been around lots of Bikers since my Brothers were Bikers in their youth. Let me tell you this before you start Slating them, if you needed let’s say £25,000 for life saving surgery for a child, I know these Guys and Girls would go to the ends of the Earth to Raise every penny to Help anyone, they don’t ask for Medals or Publicity, they just like to help. I’ve witnessed many Charity Runs in my lifetime and I’m Proud of them, from all corners of the country.”
Remember the huge bikers convention that happened in South Dakota while many other states had a lot of “Covid restrictions” in place
Oh, I hadn’t heard about that— I’ll have to look it up. Well done to those bikers in South Dakota, for defying the Coronahoax restrictions.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally – Wikipedia
462,000 of them in 2020
Covidtards KNOW that this spread covid all over the USA, they can trace lots of cases directly from the rally.
Governor Kristi Noem:
“ “South Dakota’s cases remain low. If you’re worried about the virus, you’re free to get vaccinated, wear a mask, or stay at home. But we won’t be mandating anything.”
Off-T
https://order-order.com/2024/11/27/airport-operators-warn-reeves-budget-will-cancel-flight-routes/
This should kill the international holiday industry. Thousands more jobs will be lost these next twelve months.
As with everything else this is nothing to do with raising money and everything to do with restricting movement and destroying jobs.
While against net zero and the climate change hype, and although there is lots of oil about it is getting more difficult to extract, so think maybe it is too valuable as a chemical feedstock just to burn. Have thought for a long time there is something not quite right with an economic model which relies on flying masses of people over from China and India on holidays to Europe with masses from Europe going the other way. (Appreciate that maybe I have been fortunate enough to travel enough overseas to realise that nice as it is one can really enjoy staying put here)
You may have a point but if that’s the case sooner or later this will be reflected in the price of oil
I’ve traveled enough that the novelty wore off. Also the inside of one computer room is much the same as another the other side of the world. I agree that there will be better things to do with hydrocarbons than just burn them – but trying to replace them with EV batteries is nuts; the technology is nowhere near good enough yet. As for international flying as a commercial service: hydrocarbon is the only game in town.
What a lousy lack of attribution to the bloke who caused the change
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1861183474667004141
Wow, what an achievement for that chap Robby Starbuck! Thanks for giving credit where it is due, and providing that link to his work, because many people like me had never heard of him before.
So 4 years of being ruled by the Blob and its demented puppet in the White House has opened the publics eyes. We can but hope for the same here but so much relies on Reform getting properly organised and a new leader in the next couple of years.
What “new leader” did you have in mind instead of Nigel Farage, who’s been fighting this fight for more than two decades?
I suppose you’re keen to have either the “Johnny-come-lately” Pakistani Muslim Millionaire Zia, or his enemy the “Sour-Grapes” Pakistani Jewish Millionaire Habib, instead of a Welshman, for example, or even a Northern Irish Protestant, or (heaven forbid!), an actual Englishman, like the five current Members of Parliament?
Or perhaps you would prefer a Nigerian woman birth tourist?
Or an Ethnic Oriental person from, say, China to represent British Patriots?
Or how about a Peruvian, just for variety’s sake, since the British Isles are just
“An Empty Space on the Map, to be filled in by people from anywhere”?
After a couple of years of disappointing council elections, byelections, Mr Farage will sidle off stateside.
Bon voyage.
“But is Trump really shifting the direction of the wind? Or was he blown into office once again by voters who had already made up their mind that DEI had gone too far?”
A bit from column A and a bit from column B