Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[VillaTim]

Probably installing parking meters outside the children's hospital as we speak.

Sadly they already exist there !

[Skerra]

Heck probably thinking of putting a stall, outside the toilets, to sell wellies at £100 a pair but, they will have a yellow lion on them though!!

[Hookeysmith]

These are the same poor kids who have hundreds of pounds in tattoo's,top smart phones and wear designer clothes [although most I would imagine are knock offs]

Of course there are poor families, these I would imagine where mom and dad workhard on low wages, but for everyone of them there are the others who seem to be doing OK.

[PeterWithesShin]

From early this year

Just under half of Birmingham children are now living in poverty - up 10% in a decade. And to get out of it, many of their parents would need to DOUBLE their income.

Birmingham is now second only to London's Tower Hamlets estate when it comes to the proportion of kids living in real hardship. Some 46% are now impoverished, with many of them growing up in overcrowded, substandard homes, with bare cupboards and sharing beds.

"This is social failure at scale," said Paul Kissack, group chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which carried out the research.

The Birmingham rate of 46.4% is a huge jump from a decade ago, when just over a third of city children (36%) were in the same position.

Again.

[RamboandBruno]

These are the same poor kids who have hundreds of pounds in tattoo's,top smart phones and wear designer clothes [although most I would imagine are knock offs]

Of course there are poor families, these I would imagine where mom and dad workhard on low wages, but for everyone of them there are the others who seem to be doing OK.

Is that straight from the Daily Mail?

[astonvilla82]

In general I keep hearing that people haven't got any money, but is that a myth because all I see is the opposite especially in the younger generation,I acknowledge that there is some in society that may be not financially well off

"some" is probably the majority.

I used to work for Birmingham city housing department and the impression I got was that this was not the case

[Stu]

These are the same poor kids who have hundreds of pounds in tattoo's,top smart phones and wear designer clothes [although most I would imagine are knock offs]

Of course there are poor families, these I would imagine where mom and dad workhard on low wages, but for everyone of them there are the others who seem to be doing OK.

Hookeysmith and the Temptations

[Risso]

In general I keep hearing that people haven't got any money, but is that a myth because all I see is the opposite especially in the younger generation,I acknowledge that there is some in society that may be not financially well off

"some" is probably the majority.

I used to work for Birmingham city housing department and the impression I got was that this was not the case

Surely anybody needing the assistance of the council housing department isn't going to be especially well off?

[RamboandBruno]

In general I keep hearing that people haven't got any money, but is that a myth because all I see is the opposite especially in the younger generation,I acknowledge that there is some in society that may be not financially well off

"some" is probably the majority.

I used to work for Birmingham city housing department and the impression I got was that this was not the case

Surely anybody needing the assistance of the council housing department isn't going to be especially well off?

But if they have tattoos and a phone they must be beyond minted

[Bad English]

Edit.

[Stu]

In general I keep hearing that people haven't got any money, but is that a myth because all I see is the opposite especially in the younger generation,I acknowledge that there is some in society that may be not financially well off

"some" is probably the majority.

I used to work for Birmingham city housing department and the impression I got was that this was not the case

Surely anybody needing the assistance of the council housing department isn't going to be especially well off?

But if they have tattoos and a phone they must be beyond minted

No, it’s because they spend their universal credit on such things which means they need to scrounge a house off the council.

Get with the program

[Gareth]

What will be this weeks PR disaster under the chavvy golfer?

[VillaTim]

These are the same poor kids who have hundreds of pounds in tattoo's,top smart phones and wear designer clothes [although most I would imagine are knock offs]

Of course there are poor families, these I would imagine where mom and dad workhard on low wages, but for everyone of them there are the others who seem to be doing OK.

I've read it, re-read it , then read it again. Paragraph 1 had a go only to be usurped by Paragraph 2 .

[Accent Guy]

What will be this weeks PR disaster under the chavvy golfer?

Whatever it is, as long as the end justifies the means, neither he nor the owners will care.

[Mellin]

In general I keep hearing that people haven't got any money, but is that a myth because all I see is the opposite especially in the younger generation,I acknowledge that there is some in society that may be not financially well off

"some" is probably the majority.

I used to work for Birmingham city housing department and the impression I got was that this was not the case

Just do the maths on how far minimum wage takes you and leave the nonsensical anecdotal evidence at the door.