"The Council, however, are not the right people to do this stuff. And I don’t think it has anything to do with their resources or even the abilities of the people who work there. The problem lies in the desire by the council leaders for Birmingham to “punch above it’s weight” and do huge spectacular things. Again, not a problem in itself were it not for their inability to do these things."

Big Envy – Birmingham Council’s obsession with big and inability to deal with it | Pete Ashton