Birmingham residents share election concerns
As the General Election approaches, we took to the streets of Birmingham to ask residents about the issues they believe are most important to voters and their expectations of what the political landscape will look like over the coming years following the election.
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00:00To be honest, I think it doesn't really matter who's in charge or whatever happens because no one gets it right anyway.
00:05And they need more funding to actually help the city and actually do things, and they don't want to.
00:10It doesn't matter where you go in the city, it's dreadful, especially around Handsworth, you know.
00:16Cost of living is a big one, and accommodation, housing for local people.
00:23I mean, where we're standing now, we've got properties that are empty.
00:29And it's a part of my job, it's very serious.
00:33We've got lots of families waiting to get a property, and Birmingham City Council can't help them out.
00:42And going to housing associations, they're all stressed with not being able to supply the type of accommodation that people want.
00:55I think they're going to do it on basic knowledge of the areas of where you live in.
01:01So people are going to grow towards the most person that's looking towards the less politics side of things at the moment,
01:08because that's what people are wanting, less politics.
01:11Well, I think that nobody's learnt anything since lockdown.
01:14The questions are, why is it that an event that was orchestrated in 2020,
01:20to teach the public to come together and be with one another,
01:25only to find that everybody's sort of separated and gone back to their old ways.
01:30It's really upsetting to see.
01:32There were so many good things that happened during lockdown,
01:34such as the police coming together with suspects, different races coming together.
01:40I've never seen anything like it. It was such a diverse and inclusive mix.
01:44Prioritising that above which box they're going to be ticking this year,
01:50is to ask themselves the question, why have we decided to plod on after such a big event and seem to have learnt nothing?