Prof David Bailey

New ⁦@UKandEU⁩ report on ‘Manufacturing after Brexit’ just out co-authored by ⁦@UoB_Business⁩ @dgbailey & Ivan Rajic ukandeu.ac.uk/research-paper…

Nothing says ‘rebuilding trust’ like destroying the possibility of a progressive, stable coalition to govern the city. Has this decision been imposed on us, they can’t really be that stupid? If there was ever an opportunity to tell the national party to fuck off, it’s now.

Chinese-made EVs increasingly visible in Britain: scholar-Xinhua english.news.cn/20260515/a0022…

Hi gang @BrumLabour, has a mediocre PPE grad living in zone 3 told you who your leader’s going to be yet?

@LewisJWarner So nice of @UKLabour HQ to get round to this only a week after the @bhamcitycouncil results in Brum. Why @BrumLabour can’t choose its own leader baffles me.

NEW: I’m told a new Labour Group leader on Birmingham City Council will be appointed tomorrow. The front runner is ex-cabinet member for Housing and Homelessness, Nicky Brennan. The Greens and Lib Dem’s are poised to enter into talks with Labour once a leader is in place.

@dgbailey @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Yes understand the logic . I know the current LD councillors . They are all excellent community politicians with administrative abilities.

@tim_cotterill @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil I recall both the capita service Birmingham fiasco and equal pay issue starting under the Tory-LD council so maybe some newcomers might be welcome?

@dgbailey @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Very inexperienced… LDs and Loval Conservatives have some excellent administrators in their ranks … But as a LibDem I am biased ….

@brumlabour still waiting for @uklabour to colonially appoint its leader amidst the Westminster PM psychodrama. Farcical that other parties having to wait around for talks on a rainbow coalition for @bhamcitycouncil because of @UKLabour’s micro mis-management of the local party.

@tim_cotterill @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Greens got the largest share of the vote so deserve a chance to try to form a coalition with others - ideally with LDs, Indies and Lab once the latter has a leader colonially appointed from London amidst the current turmoil.

No! We need exactly the opposite to this. Commissioners are a problem @bhamcitycouncil NOT a solution. “In the name of God, go!” birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

@tim_cotterill @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Why not Greens?

@dgbailey @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Are you thinking LDs , Tories, Labour and sensible independents can just about get to 51…. ? Or run with a 48 ish ?

@T80GME @BrumLabour It’s weird

@dgbailey @BrumLabour This can’t be normal. I’ve been a member of three distinct conservative groups on three different councils. The idea that anyone outside that room would be determining who was our leader would be incredulous.

Apparently @brumlabour can’t appoint its Leader in Birmingham, because it has to await approval from Starmer or Steve Reed! The last centrally annointed leader hardly worked out well. Utter disregard for local members & elected councillors again. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

@dgbailey @johnclancy @BhamCityCouncil I think they cost us a bob or two as well.

@dgbailey @johnclancy @BrumLabour Until Labour in Brum changes course (no more attacks on its own workforce, end the obsession with developer led regeneration in the centre as huge parts of the city elsewhere fall into neglect, defend/promote the best of the city’s history and culture then the question 1/

New rainbow coalition @BhamCityCouncil shld stress to govt that we’ve had enough of commissioners. Big questions over their role in the bin dispute. They also failed to listen over the grotesque WMPF surplus & claw back money to the city. They are a problem not a solution.

What a farce Birmingham Labour is.

@dgbailey @BrumLabour Well Cllr candidates aren't selected by party members so why should the Leader of the Lab group be any different - centralised control and comand for Labour - Triumph Acclaim - not sure if Keir Hardie and chums seen it that way.

Why Labour is going to die in local government. It’s purely viewed as an extension of the London machine.

@jonwalker121 @dgbailey @BrumLabour They are so ridiculous they would!

@dgbailey @johnclancy @BhamCityCouncil A reminder that the binstrike is still ongoing. 👀

@UniteEconomy @Brumgreens @LibDems @BrumLabour And @brumlabour doesn’t actually have a leader as it is waiting for @UKlabour to appoint one given the lack of local democratic structures in the party!

As the political conversations in #Birmingham continue, there's still one big elephant in the room. The bin strike deal is within touching distance. On the doorstep we're told it was THE single biggest issue. Whoever the party and whatever the coalition that is agreed to run the council over the next three years, the deal agreed needs to be the deal that we can put to the members. And if the commissioners try get in the way, then the @UKLabour government need to be strong enough to move them to one side.