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Down here to visit my mother-in-law with my wife
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bring my kids with me, two girls, their perception of Birmingham based on the bin strike is what I don't
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And it's somewhere it puts them off living here, either working here or studying here
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They just go, Dad, despite my love for Birmingham, they go, Dad, I'd never live in Birmingham
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And the bin strike sort of exacerbates that perception. No, I'm really not happy about the bin strike
0:24
I want the people to be able to go to work and get the pay they should get. I'd like to ask you if you'd go for £8,000 paid cut and see how you'd react
0:33
Hopefully you join a union and you go on strike and you'd fight back for it
0:37
I can understand their point of view, but on the other side
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when they're leaving Birmingham to have such a bad name across the country
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because everybody's just focusing on it, it's not good for Birmingham citizens to be questioned
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because I get questioned from other people, to say, what's it really like and stuff
