When it comes to squandering taxpayers’ money, there’s still no place like Brum. Last month the city council’s single biggest credit card payment was for £14,520 – to promote itself on TikTok.
It seems the Nonsensical Agency is ‘raising awareness’ of the city’s ‘Be Bold Be Birmingham’ campaign having set up the account in 2021, which now claims 42,000 followers and 5.5 million video viewers.
You will be proud to know this is now ‘the biggest council TikTok in the UK’.
Mind you, the city spent £17,400 on gift-cards last month in two transactions. No doubt the recipients were very grateful.
While a huge proportion of the March credit card spend of £344,000 went on petrol and charging electric cars as usual, the council also forked out £60 a time for at least eight, and probably, 16 parking fines.
Still, our well-travelled credit cards did pay £15,695 at least for stays in a variety of hotels. The most popular were the Future Inn, Bristol, and the Hilton Hotel at Wembley stadium. No doubt there was a very important goal in mind when they booked that one.
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