You are responsible for looming bankruptcy

It is a scandal that Dudley MBC is becoming bankrupt because of wrong priorities set by all you councillors.

When the Climate, Nature and now, Financial, Crises are worse than ever, you have:

1. persisted with the scandal of spending £650 million pounds of finite resources and in weight of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to destroy the UK's very last principal mainline railway "of national strategic significance"
    "of national strategic significance".pdf
   that runs through Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall between London and Edinburgh.
2. Persisted with spending £1 billion to regenerate your own town centre instead of keeping council taxes as low as possible to help the poorest in our borough.
3. Persisted with moving, all of 1 Km, one 1980s leisure centre from the edge of Dudley's town centre to a little nearer the town centre in Flood Street, to be next to the £650 m Dudley White Elephant Tram.
4. The really ancient (1963) leisure centre was at Halesowen that should have been redeveloped or completely closed when this was first proposed and, instead of Dudley Leisure Centre's wasteful expenditure to move it 1 Km.
5. Persisted with a business plan to run this extravagant, wasteful tram from the prestigious new bus station to Merry Hill SC that will attract Dudley town shoppers into Merry Hill, away from town centre shops.
6. Neglected, overlooked completely, the business plan to run the tram down to Stourbridge Jct to connect with the national railway network.  This is negligent, irresponsible and plain stupid.  The freight trains can run at night because you are supposed to be building in the magic "passive provision" to allow this to happen.
7. Otherwise, terminate the tram permanently at Duncan Edwards Leisure Centre.
8. All your present work to get the tram into Merry Hill destroys nature and landscaping and housing land to worsen the Climate and Financial crises.  Complete idiocy.
9. Dudley town centre and High Plateau both need 1, 2 bedroom, highly Climate/energy efficient, apartments to house our growing population that must be put to work to build a Dudley that is resilient to the Climate, Nature and Finance crises.
10. STOP the waste of taxes on wealth-flaunting, foolish, prestigious projects for our borough.  My Council tax has gone up 50% in seven or eight years.  This is scandalous when inflation has been much lower than this.
11. Sell the two loss-making borough halls but keep the libraries open.
12. The libraries are so essential for people without laptops.
13. DO NOT have anything more to do with commercial enterprises.  They are far too risky.
    
14. This means staying with the successful Enhanced Bus Partnership and NOT destroying it to take on all the extra financial costs and risks that comes with bus franchising.  We have to urgently go into reverse away from looming bankruptcy.