29 May 2025, 08:38

By Johnny Jenkins

The Birmingham bin strike has been dragging on for 11 weeks - and yet, most of us are barely paying attention.

I visited Birmingham with LBC’s Tom Swarbrick in early April. What I saw was appalling.

We spent the day travelling around the city, broadcasting live to expose the dystopian conditions people were enduring.

Rubbish was piled high on pavements, bags ripped open by rats that are only growing bolder. Among the waste: soiled nappies, used condoms, rotting food. That may sound dramatic, but it’s the reality.

Some streets genuinely weren’t fit for human habitation. How can this still be happening in a modern, developed........

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