Uniting campaigns across Birmingham for a publicly owned and professionally staffed community library service. Keep our libraries open!
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Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
From Jan 24 - Sep 24, the 6 Gov appointed commissioners were paid £803k in salary and expenses. All paid for by the Birmingham CC tax payer 🤯 they even get accommodation & meals paid for. If you can’t pay for your own food on a salary of £1100 a day 🤦🏼♂️ we’re being shafted.
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
@Ms_SThompson keep all Birmingham's Libraries open! That is the very best tribute @BrumLabour could pay to Benjamin Zephaniah, not meaningless words and platitudes. #SaveOurLibraries
“Every library represents a piece of us. Don't let them take us apart, piece by piece, book by book. In times when we need to get together we need our libraries more & more.” Benjamin Zephaniah
@BrumLibraries @BrumLibraryZine @HallgreenSave @BirminghamPeopA @BrumLabour
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Appalling to visit Harborne Day Centre today and see the place being stripped out by @BhamCityCouncil while highly vulnerable service users continue to use it. What kind of organisation behaves in this way? @joanneroney @RobPocock1 @PreetKGillMP @Harborne_Jayne @BrumLabour
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Harborne Day Centre carers meeting earlier today. It’s disgraceful what’s going on whilst all the citizens are still there
@PreetKGillMP @larry_turner @AlistairCarns @BrumLeader @RobPocock1
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Brilliant piece by @MarkGoughITV @ITVCentral tonight on @BhamCityCouncil’s overpayments into the West Mids Pension Fund. @johnclancy @room_151 @JaneRockHouse @marymcdougall13 a short thread.
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Gove-appointed Max 🪓Caller literally used the Powers of the Secretary of State even to stop @BhamCityCouncil’s own powers of scrutiny.
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
@BrumLibraries has provided a commentary on the current library proposals which has been sent to the members of the @BhamCityCouncil Neighbourhoods Overview & Scrutiny Committee to inform their consideration of the proposals. You can read them here:
birminghamloveslibraries.org…
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Demo against swinging Birmingham City Council cuts on 28th January midday outside the council house.
It may be 2025 but nothing’s changed since 2024 or for the last 14 years for that matter and all we get is yet more austerity.
Say #NoMoreCuts
#BrumRiseUp
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
"Some 175 years after the Public Libraries Act, libraries remain critical for promoting literacy, particularly among those with less access to books at home. It is a sad reflection of austerity that so many public libraries have closed….”
theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Hi @PreetKGillMP, any chance of pressing @BhamCityCouncil for a response to your letter? These are important questions which should have been addressed during the botched libraries consultation, but weren’t.
@BrumLibraries @HallgreenSave @BrumLabour @Cllr_suleman
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Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
I’d strongly encourage @PreetKGillMP to stand up to her govt, pause the cuts, replace the lead commissioner Max 🪓 Caller, and call for a recertification of the west Mids pension fund urgently.
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Has your councillor spent their £40k (each) on improving local streets?
We've launched a councillor survey to find out if they've spent their money and their experience of spending it.
It's in councillor's inboxes now. Please remind yours to fill it in by 31 January!
ALT Has your city councillor allocated your ward's money to improve local streets? Our 2025 councillor survey is now live! Better Streets for Birmingham.
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Maybe its because I'm away from Birmingham for Christmas so can look in with a bit of distance...
But I don't think i've ever felt so exasperated by the city authorities and its almost complete lack of care about anything that makes living here interesting or unique.
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Libraries across the city have been suffering additional closures - Harborne Library has been forced to close an extra day each week for months. All part of the managed decline of a vital community resource. @Cllr_suleman @BrumLibraries @BirminghamPeopA @HallgreenSave
Library still 'temporarily' closed two years later bbc.in/3DxsVI4
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Library still 'temporarily' closed two years later bbc.in/3DxsVI4
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
#HappyBirthdaySuttonLibrary officially opened on 14 December 1974 by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham - E. James Eames. Ref: MS 4341: Branch Libraries Box @LibraryofBham @SuttonLibrary
ALT A photograph - a female figure sat on a chair in the bottom left of the photo clapping her hands and turning her head to the right to look up at a male figure wearing a mayoral chain of office. The male figure on the right of the photograph is holding a rope which has opened a sash curtain. Behind the sash curtain is a plaque which reads - The Sutton Coldfield Library was opened by the Worshipful The Lord Mayor of Birmingham Councillor E. James Eames JP on 14 December 1974.
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Waterstones @UKLaureate @frankcottrell_b is an absolute force for good - here's a reminder of what his time as #ChildrensLaureate is all about.
And he has big plans for 2025, kicking off by bringing together key figures for a #ReadingRights summit in January! Stay tuned...
Birmingham Loves Libraries retweeted
Any cuts made will only increase pressure, and costs, on other local services, such as social care. Politicians, both locally and nationally, need to step up, and end these acts of cultural vandalism.
#SaveOurLibraries