With the news that the Government has overtaken Proctor and Gamble as the single biggest spending advertiser in the UK (thanks, Liberal Vision), I felt compelled to blog.
One hundred and seventy eight million pounds. On propaganda.
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DavidNcl said...
16 Jul 09 at 5:08 am
And of course it’s the goverment spend on public sector job ads that keeps the Guardian staggering.
Tim Wallace said...
16 Jul 09 at 9:47 am
On top of local government publicity, running at 450 million per year http://tpa.typepad.com/waste/2007/12/council-spendin.html
That’s doubled in the last decade.
Oranjepan said...
16 Jul 09 at 9:58 am
Communications, mmm, advertising, mmm, propaganda, mmm.
Y’know you could be a Daily Mail copywriter if you could dredge up this amount of highly-caffienated reactionary zeal every morning!
It’s something to aim for.
Marc Bénier said...
16 Jul 09 at 4:12 pm
Well just to add to the fun:
The Tories spend over £2M per annum on communication consultants in East Sussex
Tories spent inxs of £6M on launching the ‘Kent County Council’ TV propaganda channel.
Just what council tax was meant for…..
Charlotte Gore said...
16 Jul 09 at 4:17 pm
Sheesh. Still, if this sort of thing helps towards making people realise that not every single penny of public spending is absolutely 100% necessary that’s half the battle.
Of course, if you’re going to cut Public Spending you *start* with Nurses, don’t you? Only once you’ve got rid of all the Nurses do you think about other things.
DavidNcl said...
16 Jul 09 at 6:47 pm
Can anyone guess what the ratio of “customer contact” or “front-line” (as if) jobs like in the so called public sector to non contact jobs is? And what it is in the private sector?
The North Briton said...
18 Jul 09 at 3:40 pm
Y’all forgot to factor in BBC news programming, eastenders, arts programmes by that marxist Waldemar Whatshisfuck, and the french revolution programme partly by all-round foamer Slavoj Žižek. And no doubt countless others.