Rayner Summons Just Three Army Personnel to Help With Birmingham Bin Strike – Guido Fawkes

Rayner Summons Just Three Army Personnel to Help With Birmingham Bin Strike

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It is 34 days of bin strike up in Birmingham. Much is being made of a story published in The Telegraph this morning: “Rayner Calls in Army to Tackle Birmingham Bin Crisis.” The DPM has used Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (Maca) powers to “summon Army experts” in an office-based capacity to help deal with the crisis, which was declared a major incident last week. Lump sum payout negotiations have been stalled by UNITE…

Puncturing the spin the MHCLG press office today admits that the regiment of army personnel sent to Birmingham consists of…. three people. They will apparently provide operational support to already ongoing work to clear the bing backlog. Downing Street at today’s lobby briefing says a “handful” of military personnel are present – when pressed by hacks on whether that was actually three people, the PM’s spokesman said that “sounds like a handful to me.” Not even enough to make a squad…