Treasury bosses have been criticised for authorising £500,000 of taxpayers’ money to be spent on focus groups and polls amid the cost of living crisis.

Deltapoll, an independent public opinion consultancy firm, was selected to carry out the work with an option to extend the contract for another year which would take the potential total cost to £1m.

“The government apparently has half a million to spend on spin doctors while Jacob Rees-Mogg is threatening to axe thousands of civil service jobs in the name of cost-saving, throwing working people under the bus once again.

“At the start of the pandemic, the Treasury justified their spending on focus groups and polls as an emergency measure to test the impact of different policy options, but now this is little more than a taxpayer-funded vanity exercise for a chancellor desperate to repair his image.

No amount of fiddling with the economy is going to fix it.

We have reached the stage where the elites are simply looting what's left in the coffers before the inevitable crash.

Why do you think we and the US are sending (and creating from nothing) absolutely huge amounts to Ukraine when we are on the verge of the worse economic collapse in living memory? How many people do you think are going to take a cut of the billion supposedly heading to Ukraine from the US for example? (when people cannot buy baby milk or have to pay 0 dollars for it).

We in the UK created 100's of billions of pounds out of thin air and gave it to corporations for "COVID" and the government in the process shut down small businesses and paid healthy people to sit at home and do nothing. Everything makes sense when you see it as a transfer of wealth in only one direction.

Or the CONservatives in Westminister spending £6 million on the marble arch mound!

True W12, but people like the member for medway like it thus way- hit the poorest- leave the billionaires alone- they deserve it!

Nearly as much as that labour council in Croydon wasted on a load of crap…..
oh. Hang on I could be wrong!