The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero splurged over £4 million of taxpayers’ cash to promote its green agenda according to an FOI request sent by the Taxpayers’ Alliance. In the financial year 2023-2024, a whopping £4,356,837 was spent on online adverts for just two eco-campaigns—It All Adds Up and Welcome Home to Energy Efficiency ‘educating’ the public about heat pumps and ‘energy-saving measures’. Naturally most outlets used to promote the climate crusade were on the more ‘progressive’ side of the spectrum…
News outlets include The Guardian Online, Guardian Media, Channel 4, ITV, News UK, while social media platforms Meta, Google, Spotify, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and Pinterest were also deployed to advertise the campaigns. It ain’t cheap going green…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”