free telly for everyone!!!!

Imagine if it were already free and the Tories were about to open it up to private competition so you'd have to pay £250 a year to use it.

What sort of asshats would vote for that, huh?

 

Under capitalism it's fine for kids to go hungry, parents eat from food banks, schools to ask the same parents to buy them basic school equipment, hospitals to be underfunded, councils have budgets slashed, banks force people out of their homes, the terminally I'll forced back into work because "they're fit to do so" (work will set you free!).

Yet ask a few billionaire individuals and corporations to pay more tax to avoid these ills and suddenly you're living in some sort of Communist state.

Such is the power of the mental grip on peoples minds to persuade them that their own interests should so casually be disregarded on favour of a handful of the super rich.

Yet the same people will see these things and wonder aloud when someone will do something about it. Then they'll vote Tory.

 

Promised for 2030. Who says Corbyn will be around by then and who says Labour would win two terms
The big joke is that by 2030 broadband will be a totally revolutionised system and not fibre which will be obsolete

 

We have 7% now after years of huffing and puffing,with some places not even getting any high speed broadband. So some might ask what makes you think it will be "totally revolutionised" in 10 years?

 

Because between 2000 and 2010 the whole corporate world spent fortunes upgrading wired networks - whilst a few radicals stood aside and pronounced it a waste of money as the future was wireless.

Likewise - the cost of adding fibre to remote communities is huge, whereas reliable 4g is roughly the same speed with more realistic costs.

Whilst I welcome the idea of getting superfast internet to everyone - I think the government could carry the cost of providing that without having to cover the cost of use. And fibre is what we've used for the last 20 years; is it really what we need in 20 years time? It's not that long since I was supporting video conferencing solutions that actually relied on 3 leased lines costing hundreds a month and which between them were slower than my home Virgin fibre connection costing a fraction of that amount.

 

Well my attempt at humour as opened up a great debate,some clever people on the bbs forum