Furious firms take to Birmingham's streets over loans crisis

Mar 29 2010 by William Oliphant, Birmingham Mail

FIRMS facing going under because they can’t get loans took their message to the streets to shame greedy bankers.

People from small businesses in the Moseley and Ladypool Road area of the city drove more than 30 trucks, tractors and even an Only Fools and Horses Robin Reliant along the already congested Stratford and Ladypool Roads to protest over banks not giving them loans. One of the organisers of the event, Gurt Singh whose business G&D, RSJ and Timber Sales in Ladypool Road, said: “Basically all the businesses around here are suffering and we’re coming to the stage where we’re facing going under. If the banks and the Government don’t start helping us out then there’s going to be nothing left of us here.

“We’ve got all the community together from Ladypool Road, from Moseley and from Stratford Road to say enough is enough.

“We need banks to start helping and to start lending money and really helping us to do our jobs. We’re protesting with trucks and vans. driving around the area to show people what we’re doing and to show them that we need help.”