PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR COLLEAGUES - in the hope they might show some interest and act
Dear Max
Your refusal to act on my serious accusations and warnings is unacceptable. It shows you are part of the problem.
You are fully supporting the financial irresponsibility of using public funds to gift the Metro tram extension at over £100 m to Merry Hill Shopping Centre owners (Sovereign Centros and Savills Property Management). This also further wrecks the UK's only principal mainline railway
that would have been of much greater help to ease road and railway congestion in the heart of the UK and, slow climate disaster, than High Scam 2 will ever do.
More importantly, your full support and agreement for all this destruction to benefit the wealthy Establishment, is not only accelerating the climate emergency but is preventing the hundreds of millions for WBHE Phase 2 to be used to help 1.14 million Birmingham people who have had a massive increase in their council tax and smaller increases in energy and food bills.
As you know only too well, where there is the political will, funds can quickly and easily be transferred from one pot to another.
If you Commissioners are people of integrity and honour, you must stop the over £100 m from destroying nature, housing land and public open space at Merry Hill. Keep the tram where Phase 1 ends at Flood Street, Dudley. Or, keep the tram on the railway to connect it to the national railway network at Stourbridge Jct station.
Your apathy, acquiescence and your guilty silence in this folly is tantamount to diverting money from Brummies with cold, damp and mouldy homes to give the very comfortable well off yet more riches. Birmingham CC has always been the leading authority of the seven, in the scandal of Metro tram billions, in price and weight of greenhouse gas emissions, doing so much climate and social injustice since 1981.
With best wishes for wise decision making. REMEMBER: As ever, must level up the rich to level down the poor.
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