minus-squareRade0nfighter@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcylinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-215 days agoNo doubt fiscal policies put this (and other) councils on the back foot, but it’s reductive to ignore that the thing that tipped them over the edge was bureaucratic incompetence combined with being fucked by the Oracle Corporation. https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/birmingham_city_council_oracle/ linkfedilink
No doubt fiscal policies put this (and other) councils on the back foot, but it’s reductive to ignore that the thing that tipped them over the edge was bureaucratic incompetence combined with being fucked by the Oracle Corporation.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/birmingham_city_council_oracle/