Last month, Birmingham City Council ran a £200,000 climate change festival:
"Birmingham City Council had hoped to attract crowds and promote green issues with the nine-day event last month.
The festival featured the erection of a 30ft nickel-plated pylon in the city centre, while £38,000 was spent on “street theatre, waste sculpture, and litter performance activities”."
Fiona McEvoy, Campaign Agent for the West Midlands TaxPayers' Alliance, told the Sunday Mercury:
"The general public are finding it difficult to pay their household bills at the moment, so the council spending thousands of pounds on ‘litter based street performance’ on their behalf is not only indulgent, but insulting to those who really could do with a council tax cut to relieve the burden."
Fiona has written more about the problems with the festival here. In answer to a parliamentary question from Andrew Tyrie the Government have revealed that the Act on CO2 campaign costs £5.5 million a year. Friends of the Earth and Green Peace are also working with seven-figure budgets. Eco-socialism has a huge advertising budget.
