UK DOGE has been analysing potential savings in the GLA – whose budget Sadiq Khan likes to complain about regularly. Yesterday UK DOGE revealed TfL was paying a taxi company £16 million to ferry staff around during strikes…
As it turns out the GLA is also spaffing taxpayer cash on brand insights for its social media accounts. A Freedom of Information request has revealed that marketing firm Brandwatch – which obviously makes a big deal of its commitment to diversity and inclusion – is paid £32,835 on an annual basis for social media ‘listening’ with the current contract running until December. The contract is run by the GLA’s Head of Digital Communications. For that you could:
The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.