Government Spends £650,000 Promoting Living Wage with Beer Mats and Influencers – Guido Fawkes

Government Spends £650,000 Promoting Living Wage with Beer Mats and Influencers

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While Labour flounders in the polls, they’ve been splashing taxpayer cash to promote their policies. According to a written parliamentary question by Tory MP Richard Holden, the Cabinet Office forked out a staggering £650,000 on an advertising campaign for the National Minimum and Living Wage increase. Never mind that most people would find out about the policy just by looking at their payslips…

That includes £35,580 spent pushing the policy on beer mats in pubs and £19,500 for ‘six digital influencers’ to flog the policy online. For £650,000, you could:

• Hire 24 new nurses.
• Fund 21,666 GP appointments.
• Buy nearly four Lamborghini Huracans.

The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…