British Broadband

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  1. Wat

    Watcher_Of_The_Skies Well-Known Member

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    Yet when Amazon paid less corporation tax in a year than it received in UK government grants then there's no issue. Why do you enjoy being f@cked up the arse?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/money...nment-grants-than-it-pays-in-tax-8617919.html
     
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    Watcher_Of_The_Skies Well-Known Member

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    Right, so your argument is they're not Socialist enough?
     
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    Not wanting to make a case for the water companies as they stole it from us .
    However this is collected water stored, cleaned and purified .piped to your home/buisness etc ready for domestic use .’
    I think that’s what we pay for regards water and all this was put into place by your Ancestors in taxes .
    The fact that private firms were at first given the running of the treatment collection and delivery and instead of investing the profits divided them up among themselves then proceed to put the bills up for investing whilst maintaining their over inflated and obscene bonuses and dividends .
    We’re just trying to stop them taking the broadband franchise down the same route .
     
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    Marlon Well-Known Member

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    Water,Electric, Gas, British Rail, Royal Mail. And coming soon NHS
     
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    they'd be better off putting the money into council housing or privatising the energy providers, you hardly ever hear anyone moan about broadband costs but rent and energy bills cripple folk
     
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    Those should already be spent on’ but this rotten lousy lot in Govt have, and continue to, run- down out public services. Would love to know how much of the money the Tories are promising will be used for outsourcing. Rewarding their rich friends with new contracts for ,in many cases providing poor public services.
     
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    I'm not sure of the detail, but I watched a debate between Farage and Vince Cable and VC said we could nationalise....Farage countered by saying " but not without EU agreement"
    Vince then said " well yes...but they're not likely to say no"....personally I would doubt Germany France or Spain would agree to handing their prime investments over in UK infrastructure and business.
     
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    We haven't tried to nationalise a profit making one owned by an EU government yet though.
     
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    The technology was there, but like all ‘new’ technology there was no current use.

    BT offered to fibre the country in the 80s but they wanted a guarantee they could get a monopoly to supply content. The government was wedded to the idea of ‘competition’, so we remained without.

    that’s the ‘free market’ driving innovation.

    I’m personally embarrassed that South Korea and Malaysia have better broadband than the uk.

    having had access to super fast bb for almost 20 years, I consider it to be a necessity, and can’t imagine life at simple bb speeds.
     
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    Super fast broadband boosts the economy, it’s not a spend it’s an investment. It’s not done to simply reduce costs, but to improve something.

    rent and energy bills can be managed in other ways.
     
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    BT management have halved the price of their shares in the last 5 years, Corbyns just putting them out of their misery.
     
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    Surprised nobody has considered the negative aspects of free broadband. The millions of extra hours wasted on folly, less human contact, more mental wellness issues, more bullying, more faceless hate, less activity more health and fitness impact

    There are a handful of positives, but there are negatives too. Should a state really be seizing companies to encourage such things?
     
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    The internet just like television before it is here to stay. It has also done a lot of good,
     
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    Can you imagine if the NHS didn’t exist and Labour suggested it the tories and their apologists would be shouting health communism.
     
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    Imagine when they realise that the BBC is state owned too.
     
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    Tories broadband is a luxury.

    Also tories want to claim pension credit or universal credit so it on line...
     

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