Comments on: Birmingham Powerless Fifty

By: Ben Whitehouse

Ben Whitehouse — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:23:49 +0000

Shouldn’t that one person go at the top of the power 50 list? They’ve got huge leverage against local businesses and the council bend to their whim.

By: Ben Whitehouse

Ben Whitehouse — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:15:39 +0000

Can I go on the list?

I have no power, no product to peddle, no influence and don’t seek higher office.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:21:36 +0000

Or people who have power and don’t (for what ever reason) use it. I nominate Birmingham City Council Planning Department Enforcement Division.

By: simon gray

simon gray — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:10:16 +0000

some interesting distinctions here – people who think they have power (or think they should have power) but don’t, & people who other people think don’t have power that should.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:56:37 +0000

Some interesting suggestions so far; keep them coming!

And please keep it civil. The purpose here is to question the balance of exposure and influence of people, not to attack them.

By: HHYYPP

HHYYPP — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:59:12 +0000

Most officers from the West Midlands Arts Council. Take your pick! It wouldn’t be unfair to say that many grand aspiring claims from ACEWM have done little to make a serious impact into a unique regional sense of identity. They have adopted so much from central government directives that we have a devolving ACEWM currently on its knees. What a shame! So I propose ACEWM as a failing organisation. We just needs some names then?. Brum and the West Midlands has its identity which could have been helped along with far more embracing ‘grassroots’ and anti-cultural industrialistion resistance….

By: Nicky Getgood

Nicky Getgood — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:48:55 +0000

Last year's Brummie of the Year John Tighe and Rainbow landlord Kent Davis who, despite having a wealth of support from Birmingham's online community and the backing of the vast majority of Digbeth residents, are seemingly poweless against the kafkaesque Environmental Health slapping Noise Abatement Order on them in response to one person's complaints.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:58:55 +0000

The Birmingham Post – small circulation, little influence.

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:05:14 +0000

I’d like to nominate Birmingham’s very own Alan Partridge, Mr Adrian ‘the Stirrer’ Goldberg.

Ever ever there was a puffed up ‘journalist’ with a grossly overdeveloped sense of his own self-importance, it’s him.

By: obscuranti

obscuranti — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:59:38 +0000

What kind of power wielding you talkin’ bout? I’m an electric arc wielder. Widely known with a bit of power.