Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys – P. J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian.

The changes apparently boil down to a new color scheme and moving a dot in the website’s logo.

The UK government has come under fire for a costly makeover of its website, which reportedly cost some £532,000 (more than $700,000) for unnoticeable minor graphic design changes.

The work on the website, performed by global ad agency M&C Saatchi (Draw your own conclusions), resulted in the black header of the website turning blue.

The logo received minor changes as well, with the dot in the ‘gov.uk’ moving up and turning turquoise.

The cost of the minor tweaks has been harshly criticized by various parties, who accuse the Westminster regime of grossly mishandling taxpayer money and not following its own proclaimed policy to save more.

Reform UK’s newly formed efficiency body, for instance, branded the makeover a “joke.” 

“The disrespect for taxpayers’ money continues to be astounding. Spending more than £500,000 on changing a logo on a government website is a joke at the taxpayer’s expense, quite literally,” they said. Reform says that the questionable work on the website “is just the kind of thing we have been uncovering in county halls on a daily basis.”

The Starmer regime, one of the most unpopular in history, however, has defended the changes, insisting they were only a part of a broader effort to “brand refresh” websites of various institutions.

It also appeared to point fingers at its predecessors, stating that the lucrative contract was approved before the Labour Party came to power. 

“This was committed to by the previous government, with two of the three contracts signed and delivered by July 2024,” a government spokesman said in a statement to British media. 

“The new government then chose to turn the rebranding and research work into consumer-friendly digital products, including our upcoming gov.uk App, gov.uk Chat and more,” he added without providing any further details.

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