Monday, April 30, 2007

Labour connected PR company receives over £1.5m of taxpayer money?

Apparently, the parent company of Geronimo Communications, Tribal Group, has received £1,588,122 of public money from the Department of Communities and Local Government in the past three years, and a further £289,430 from the Treasury. Geronimo has a former Labour insider as a director.

Same old, same old I guess! I wonder whether the tender process was open, or whether it was just a case of a phone call to a mate?

6 comments:

Chris Paul said...
30 Apr 2007 18:41:00  

They are a recruitment agency aren't they? Does this figure include the adverts they place? And are they in fact on a 10 or 15% commission plus disbursements? I think we should be told.

dizzy said...
30 Apr 2007 19:52:00  

Send in a FoI then. Tribal are quite a big Group with fingers in many industry pies it seems.

dizzy said...
30 Apr 2007 19:55:00  

Almost half of the money to the Treasury was for technical investigation rather than recruitment specifically.

The Laughing Cavalier said...
30 Apr 2007 21:00:00  

you missed the larger amount paid by DCMS on behalf of Prescott's plan to bulldoze Leeds. Prescott's son used to work for Geronimo.

Observer said...
1 May 2007 07:59:00  

Probably Pre-Payment for the next General Election

Chris Paul said...
1 May 2007 09:49:00  

Blogged this HERE. Think this line of outing so called Labour insiders is illiberal McCarthyism! Support Labour. Go on the dole! Very old school and a warning to the people of the UK.




 

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