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[gt94sss2]

[sevenlayermuddle]

 

[licquorice]

I guess they will be offering free electricity, gas and water next!!!

[Alex Atkin UK]

This is not as crazy as it sounds.  In our modern online world, fibre is awfully similar to roads or pavements and could very well be paid for differently if re-nationalised.

I am of course dubious of how it would work, as surely they wouldn't just give everyone Gigabit and call it a day.  But to give everyone say a basic 20Mbit fibre connection and let you pay for a higher bandwidth tier package, would seem sensible.

[Chrysalis]

Corbyn had good idea's early in his reign but he is slowly losing the plot.

There is things that are for the good of the people but this idea isn't it.

People cannot afford food is common, cannot afford rent is common, cannot afford broadband? not such a big deal.  If you cannot afford fixed price broadband you can still probably order food shopping online, do internet banking, those type of things on PAYG broadband services.  Not to mention nationalising BT is not going to be a vote winner, all this policy does is put ammo into those who claim he is a left wing loony who wants to go hard core.

Alex, I am not against government funded rollout, but they don't need to nationalise BT to do that, and I think the idea of giving everyone free broadband is completely stupid.   A clear election bribe as can be.

[Ronski]

It's ludicrous, and just takes in the gullible.

If labour win our country won't be able to afford anything because we would have borrowed too much for stuff we simply can't afford and shouldn't be spending money on, and therefore all the country's income is used to service the debt.

My brother does this, and then wonders why he's broke every month.

[dee.jay]

At the risk of bringing more politics to this forum (there's not a lot of it) - how anyone can vote Labour is honestly beyond me. They are promising all the freebies in the world. People don't realise they are going to be taxed on it, and they'll be borrowing left right and centre to pay for it all. National debt will sky rocket.

[Ronski]

How much tax does BT and the other ISPs that will close pay, how many jobs will be lost?

What about all the pension funds and peoples investments in companies that are nationalised, who's going to get compensated and wheres the money going to come from?

It will get to the point where it's not worth me doing my job, slowly the gap between the minimum wage and what I'm paid is being eroded, therefore I might as well do an easier less stressful job, or not work at all and live the dream on all the freebies to come.

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[sevenlayermuddle]

How long before somebody promises that everybody will be able to get above average download speeds?

[re0]

How long before somebody promises that everybody will be able to get above average download speeds?

[Ronski]

[dee.jay]

Bottom line is it's just another bribe by the Corbyn machine to gain votes, and they'll worry about the consequences later.

Absolutely - praying that everyone simply doesn't fall for it.

[Chrysalis]

Its shocking how far he's fallen.

In January he probably would have got in power from an election, and the policies in place were less extreme and things the country needed.

Now he has a strange EU stance, and coming out with nonsense like this.

Given labour's current polling there isnt a chance this will be enacted as they miles away from the tories polling right now.

[gt94sss2]