> “We also need to know which companies were involved in this, who works for them, as well as information about their client base, where there are links to the Government and Tory party.
FFS. A tale as old as time. How is this information still not transparent in this day and age??
Someone needs to campaign on being the party that *actually* cleans up this shit.
Saw an advertisement (well effectively a Tory proaganda peice) at the top of my street a couple of years ago celebrating a new hospital being opened and how wonderful the government (Tory party) was.
Nothing about it being 5 years overdue £500millon over cost after Corrilion collapsed and it still isn’t open!
Hardly surprising. This government does like to waste eye watering sums of money.
Does this include advertising for Covid and such or does that come under a different line financially? Just thought that might actually subvert this figure somewhat
Edit – re-read the start of the article does appear to, I’m not against that spend for Coronavirus.
The other stuff well that’s certainly more dubious
Wasn’t there something during the covid years about them giving millions to the press as well? No fucking wonder so much of the news feels very pro-tory or just blasèing over so many issues, it’s all sponsored content!
As long as the money isn’t going towards helping people or payrises then it’s all good according to Tories.
This is probably why the unionists are trying to reheat the (false) story about ScotGov spending £125k designing the “Welcome to Scotland” slogan.
Yes, and it’s worked. Look at how many working class or lower middle class people now spout Tory sound bites like ‘at least they got Brexit done’, ‘at least he’s a strong leader’, ‘at least he got us through COVID ‘ etc.
The propaganda has managed to convince some people that the Tories have done a good job, despite us all hurtling towards utter diaster.
During the pandemic it was part of the covid contracts scandal that they spent 250k on a PR firm related to Cummings right?
Before they came out with the STAY ALERT CONTROL THE VIRUS SAVE LIVES and all the terrible slogans and buzzwords.
I wonder how much of this £1 billion happened during the pandemic.
Wonder how much of it was used to mislead some of the public into thinking their covid response was as “world-beating” as they claimed it was.
£1Bn is 0.1% of the annual budget.
So over three years that’s roughly one third of one tenth of a percent (0.0333…%) per year.
I suppose it should go without saying, but informing the public (or at least attempting to) is an important activity.
Labour has the BBC doing their public relations, that costs the taxpayer considerably more.
What a waste of money, I still think they’re cunts.
Well that all pasted me by complete, so I guess that wasn’t exactly money well spent.
I mean, there has been some big events the last 3 years mind.
Covid must have taken a large portion of that.
How is that legal?
Most of the tories are in PR firms, so make sense they invest on their friends otherwise they have to get a real job.
Covid and brexit comms will have been a lot of this. They were definitely needed
Edited to add – by needed brexit comms, I mean the ones telling people and businesses that the rules have changed and they’ll need to do something different to get themselves/goods and services in and out of the country. That info is all gov comms
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> “We also need to know which companies were involved in this, who works for them, as well as information about their client base, where there are links to the Government and Tory party.
FFS. A tale as old as time. How is this information still not transparent in this day and age??
Someone needs to campaign on being the party that *actually* cleans up this shit.
Saw an advertisement (well effectively a Tory proaganda peice) at the top of my street a couple of years ago celebrating a new hospital being opened and how wonderful the government (Tory party) was.
Nothing about it being 5 years overdue £500millon over cost after Corrilion collapsed and it still isn’t open!
Hardly surprising. This government does like to waste eye watering sums of money.
Does this include advertising for Covid and such or does that come under a different line financially? Just thought that might actually subvert this figure somewhat
Edit – re-read the start of the article does appear to, I’m not against that spend for Coronavirus.
The other stuff well that’s certainly more dubious
Wasn’t there something during the covid years about them giving millions to the press as well? No fucking wonder so much of the news feels very pro-tory or just blasèing over so many issues, it’s all sponsored content!
As long as the money isn’t going towards helping people or payrises then it’s all good according to Tories.
Spaffed up the wall https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-historic-child-sex-abuse-spending-spaffed-wall-lbc-police-268729
Edit: spelling
Were they Tory donor Ad agencies?
This is probably why the unionists are trying to reheat the (false) story about ScotGov spending £125k designing the “Welcome to Scotland” slogan.
Yes, and it’s worked. Look at how many working class or lower middle class people now spout Tory sound bites like ‘at least they got Brexit done’, ‘at least he’s a strong leader’, ‘at least he got us through COVID ‘ etc.
The propaganda has managed to convince some people that the Tories have done a good job, despite us all hurtling towards utter diaster.
During the pandemic it was part of the covid contracts scandal that they spent 250k on a PR firm related to Cummings right?
Before they came out with the STAY ALERT CONTROL THE VIRUS SAVE LIVES and all the terrible slogans and buzzwords.
I wonder how much of this £1 billion happened during the pandemic.
Wonder how much of it was used to mislead some of the public into thinking their covid response was as “world-beating” as they claimed it was.
£1Bn is 0.1% of the annual budget.
So over three years that’s roughly one third of one tenth of a percent (0.0333…%) per year.
I suppose it should go without saying, but informing the public (or at least attempting to) is an important activity.
Labour has the BBC doing their public relations, that costs the taxpayer considerably more.
What a waste of money, I still think they’re cunts.
Well that all pasted me by complete, so I guess that wasn’t exactly money well spent.
I mean, there has been some big events the last 3 years mind.
Covid must have taken a large portion of that.
How is that legal?
Most of the tories are in PR firms, so make sense they invest on their friends otherwise they have to get a real job.
Covid and brexit comms will have been a lot of this. They were definitely needed
Edited to add – by needed brexit comms, I mean the ones telling people and businesses that the rules have changed and they’ll need to do something different to get themselves/goods and services in and out of the country. That info is all gov comms