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TV Propaganda Bill: £178.7m

July 15th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

I probably should have just tweeted this.

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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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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…..

  5. 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. ;)

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

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