Rob Pocock @RobPocock1
Former Labour Councillor for Sutton Vesey Ward and recent Cabinet Member for Transformation and Governance on Birmingham City Council. Sutton Coldfield, West Midland Joined June 2012-
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Ridiculous comment from @Bobby_Alden. Wake up! Biggest historic damage to Birmingham without any doubt has been Thatcher de-industrialisation followed by Osborne austerity.
Absolutely and Birmingham is still suffering from the effects of the Wilson Government's deliberate attempts to stop the city’s economy growing with the Control of Office and Industrial Development Act 1965
Absolutely right here @CllrMajid . You and I sat in Council as Cabinet Members prepared to be put on the spot without forenotice. Scary but a true public test of competence and accountability. This gang are just running scared!
Should those in power be told the questions before they’re asked? Today, Birmingham’s Council Business Management Committee will consider proposals that would require councillors to submit their Question Time questions in advance, giving Cabinet Members and other office holders
Majid and I may be on different political tracks but credit to him, under his plan the recycling collections would have re-started a month ago. All we have from the Green LD coalition is stupor and silence.
Bromford and Hodge Hill residents are still living with the impact of the ongoing Birmingham waste dispute, with recycling and bulky waste collections still not restored. I have written to Unite’s General Secretary @UniteSharon calling for urgent clarity on the equal pay issue
The Green Party / LD coalition told us all they had ready-made answers to the Birmingham bin dispute. 8 weeks on from the election and it’s evident their own cupboard was empty all along. Big surprise. All they have done is so unravel the makings of a deal we left behind.
Bromford and Hodge Hill residents are still living with the impact of the ongoing Birmingham waste dispute, with recycling and bulky waste collections still not restored. I have written to Unite’s General Secretary @UniteSharon calling for urgent clarity on the equal pay issue
Devolution from London and Westminster to all English city regions is key to national economic renewal. @JaneRockHouse is right that every region should be part of this. Andy Burnham has pushed this model for many years so hopefully Jane will not be disappointed!
It will be really disappointing if the new PM-in-waiting thinks the job is about pleasing his constituents and region and overlooks the rest of the UK. We need to urgently know what he intends to do to help West Midlands and other left behind areas. @AndyBurnhamGM
Another attempt to deflect the real issue. Your coalition literally proposed a cross party Scrutiny team and then ratted on it 5 minutes before the vote. Then dished out all favours just to Conservatives. Simply so they play softball with you. That scandal will bite you back….
@RobPocock1 In how many of the 14 years you ran the council did you give the opposition ANY scrutiny roles @RobPocock1? It was zero, Rob. So why the double standards?
Classic deflection here from Cllr Yip. Address the issue mate. Conservatives double-crossed the proportional option and swallowed all the posts themselves. Plus the cash going with it.
@RobPocock1 Labour Scrutiny Chairs overseeing their Labour Cabinet Member mates for 14 years- stifle challenge, scandal? Do you think this rigorous independent challenge& accountability helped cause Council's bankruptcy right after you declared a new 'golden decade of financial stability'?
"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
Sound advice here
School is open as normal this week, but there are precautions to take to help stay safe in the warm weather.
This glowing article omits any reference to the grubby stitch up where this lovely coalition ditched a proportional allocation of Scrutiny roles in favour of allocating all roles just to the Conservatives. Plus over £100k allowances. Purely to stifle off any challenge. Scandal.
Birmingham City Council shows the way forward richardkemp.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/nat…
Again this is absolute total cobblers. 2026 national school census showed there was actually a net INCREASE of 41 extra new public schools last year. Pay your taxes and stop living in a fantasy world. You are not giving numeracy standards of public schools a great rep here!
@RobPocock1 One independent school closes every four days since Labour put their damage in place. Those denying it and buying Labour lies are clearly supporting the downfall of education and our children’s futures
There is absolutely no evidence of this. #fakenews
Despite @bphillipsonMP Secretary of State for Education’s assertions, #VAT on education is vindictive closing schools and damaging choice @educationgovuk #EducationNotTax @Rebecca_SPaul @vickygrayson_ @EducationNotTax @SteveLawrence_ @DrNShastriHurst alexyip.co.uk/labours-vat-ra…
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Replacing the existing over-centralised BCC by a separate localised governance structure is certainly an option, although other forms are available. What’s without doubt is that we cannot continue with the status quo. In that respect @BoldmerePaul is dead right.
@meirionj @RobPocock1 @Bobby_Alden grow up guys and stop these petty squabbles in public. We all know neither political party can solve Birmingham's problems without breaking it up and we know both Labour and Conservatives have been a disaster for both Birmingham CC and Sutton Coldfield TC and UK.
If Labour had been re-elected the recycling would now have been reinstated. That was in our budget and in the action plan from @CllrMajid . Green LD coalition have stalled this. With no explanation.
@Bobby_Alden @RobPocock1 My mother is having to stockpile recycling for over a year. I’m a Labour member and it’s disgusting that no recycling has been carried out by @BhamCityCouncil and every @BrumLabour Councillor and the Starmer imposed cabinet members have failed this city.
So you’ll have a food waste truck and another general bin truck ploughing round the city on the same day to the same households? In the name of good value services? As well as recycling? Sheer madness. See what happens when a tempting sound bite hits car crash with real world.
This level of disingenuous talk from Labour is why people wanted them gone. Rob Pocock was a member of the cabinet that voted to scrap weekly residual bin collections. If @BhamCityCouncil don't scrap Labour's waste strategy then residents will lose weekly residual bin collections
Weekly collections will continue. As you know.
We pay a fortune in council tax, we are entitled to a weekly collection of our rubbish for goodness sake.
Check the facts Meirion. My fingerprints are on the recovery plan that put the finances back in proper order. The city is solvent exactly because of the job we did under @johnlbcotton’s leadership and a decent Labour government settlement. Tory budgets wrecked the City.
With @RobPocock1 's finger prints all over the financially disastrous record of a Labour administration that bankrupted the city, he is hardly one to talk finance.
That’s exactly the problem Bobby. You lost the vote. The current approved budget is the one set out by Labour and Lib Dems. So your bins pitch is sheer fantasy!
@RobPocock1 You literally voted against our fully funded amendment to the last Council budget meeting that would have saved weekly bin collections and was signed off. Therefore you know its deliverable + affordable. Also cheaper to collect the bins to start with than clear fly tipping later.
Bet you haven’t told them how much extra this would cost the budget and what public services you would have to cut!
🚨 @BCCTories call on the new @BhamCityCouncil Administration to save weekly bin collections. Yesterday I wrote to Birmingham City Council’s new Leader and Deputy Leader, urging them to take immediate action to save weekly bin collections and restore confidence in local services.
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