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Full council meeting halted after protester targets leader
Birmingham Post
|June 19, 2025
A BIRMINGHAM City Council meeting was dramatically halted as leader John Cotton faced angry questions over the bins strike.
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During a full meeting of the city council on Tuesday council leader John Cotton was answering a question about the strike from a resident when another man began angrily questioning the councillor from the public gallery.
“Would you take an £8,000 pay cut Cotton?” the man shouted.
“Would you? Come on?
“I'm asking you directly John - would you take a £8,000 pay cut?
“That's what you're expecting hard working bin workers to take.”
This story is from the June 19, 2025 edition of Birmingham Post.
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