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Birmingham council can't reach an agreement to govern. Reform and Labour refuse to work with each other. The Tories refuse to work with Greens. No one wants to work with Islamic independents (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

pro-Gaza independents

In...a local election? What possible role does Birmingham city council have regarding Gaza?

I mean, you can maybe declare a city abroad a sister city, for whatever that's worth, I guess.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

You could say the exact same thing about reform. Literally every single one of their policies requires them to being power in order to to implement, the policies don't trickle down to the local level.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"We will stop immigration and take back Britain's borders by raising your council tax, making your bin collections every four weeks instead of two, closing down your local museum and pocketing the money ourselves"

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This must be all that waste they've been talking about

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

if there has been a significant amount of new immigrant residents locally then there could easily be local changes that can help

peace in gaza ain't coming from birmingham city council

[–] zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

City councils have a lot of power with regards to local governance and procurement, which is targeted explicitly by the BDS campaign. More pro-gaza councillors = more people to vote on divestment from boycott targets.