I must have missed the part where taxpayers were funding the NHS instead of building broadband networks. I wasn't comparing Singapore and the UK, just pointing out that its democratic deficits, lack of a health service for all and alarming inequality aren't relevant to its provision of broadband.
Singapore have a completely different model. They built a government subsidised NBN in a similar manner to the one Australia are working on. That the UK has an NHS, at least for now, doesn't prevent it from doing the same.
UK simply chose the worst of both worlds with its approach, being neither free market or building a single NBN.