10th September 2025

Back to school scandal:

Classroom chaos as

£1Billion lost from School spending,
£200million lost from FE College spending, and
£250million lost from Universities spending

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AUTO Blogs from the Blackstuff

8th September 2025

JLR screeches to a halt

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Official: a £684 million Pension Fund surplus in Birmingham City Council Accounts 2025

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Birmingham City Council IS owed at least £1.3Billion by its pension fund.

Chief Commissioner has lost all authority

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Labour’s £200 billion blunder

One of the worst mistakes of any incoming Labour government.
A Scandal.

Feb 27th 2025

The Birmingham Children's Cost (Part Two)

Time for The Birmingham Children's Trust to assert operational independence

Feb 25th 2025

The Birmingham Children's Cost (Part One)

Caller's and Cotton's cruellest cuts – be a voice for the children instead, Labour

January 24th 2025

Letter to the Deputy Prime Minister

Our letter to the Angela Rayner calling for specific intervention in Birmingham to halt 100s of £millions of unnecessary further overpayments to its pension fund, and stop £200 million worth of cuts

Jan 8th 2025

Happy New Year from Birmingham City Council - to all our pension fund investment managers!

Birmingham City Council agrees to increase the expenses of its Pension Fund investment managers to £35.5 million a year, or £3 million a month, whilst agreeing massive cuts to services.

December 29 2024

Chief Commissioner Caller in the gutter

Unable and unwilling to understand the basics of council pension funds, its Gove-imposed Chief commissioner resorts to insults, and enforces cuts whilst ignoring hundreds of £millions due back from the pension fund.

December 17 2024

Here's one they made earlier: how pension funds return surpluses to their councils

Stop dithering, Birmingham. Come clean, Max Caller.

December 10th 2024

How long will it take Max Caller, the Chief Commissioner of Birmingham City Council, to confirm that the pension fund surplus reported last March in the City Council accounts was £417million?

The calculations have been done and the facts are before him, but Gove's chief commissioner refuses to publish the figure. We know what it is, he knows what it is - why won't he tell the people of Birmingham what it is?

December 3rd 2024

If you think you knew why Birmingham City Council went bust, think again.

Could Birmingham actually un-bust itself overnight (and halt the cuts) at the stroke of the Deputy Prime Minister's pen?