SPL : The Miliband strikes back
The initial start up cost of the blog at ODPM was £6000. The changeover to Defra cost £1250 and ongoing technical costs amount to £900 pa. Since I write my own blogs, read comments, and don't have a shadow blogger the admin costs are low: one valiant official spends part of his time posting blogs and comments.
As I reported here a few days ago, David Miliband's blog was claimed to cost £40,000 a year to run. I wrote then that "this strikes me as an exaggeration", and indeed it is - we now learn from Mr Miliband that:
Despite the big comedown, this still seems remarkably expensive for a blog. It seems that, like Rooney, Miliband is still rather costly for those who wish to revel in his reflected glory...
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1 Comments:
It Should be free! Why do tax payers have to pay for his little PR stunt?
There is a good comment on Guido's blog:
"£1250 for the changeover to DEFRA? Bloody hell, as far as I could see it was just ONE jpeg that changed. No wonder taxes are this high when a minor minister can spend over ONE THOUSAND POUNDS on something a 14 year old could do in 5 minutes with photoshop."
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