Lambeth council has come up with a great new way to piss off tax-payers – by spending a big wad of cash on a video about budget cuts.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the council spent £4,630 on a video (clumsily named Tough Choices) to explain cuts to their budgets of 56 percent.

Reported by Time Out. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.