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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss 23:29 - Nov 14 with 17752 viewsQPR_John

Labour have just announced free broadband for all implemented by nationalising part of BT. Just to be fair I do have an interest as I have BT shares bought through a sharesave scheme when I worked for them and also a pension from BT. Am I one of the rich Corbyn is after?
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 17:02 - Nov 15 with 1776 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

You are mental 😆
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 17:04 - Nov 15 with 1771 viewsClive_Anderson

Actually this has already been tried by the Australian Labor party, with predictable consequences.

It cost a fortune and provided worse service than the private sector at a much higher cost, leaving the taxpayer to foot the bill:

From: https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-announces-vast-national-broadband-plan

To: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7573603/Telstra-chairman-slams-National
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 17:23 - Nov 15 with 1729 viewsheadhoops

Where does it say people in council houses are lazy? Its the benefits culture, largely driven by the labour party, that I'm digging out.

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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 17:24 - Nov 15 with 1727 viewsgazza1

Its real sad that one of our 'so called' leading political parties come up with such a daft and unrealistic idea that they cannot have thought through. It will never happen.

The Tories and Boris aren't perfect but are streets ahead of Labour and Corbyn, John M and the rest of them.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 17:29 - Nov 15 with 1715 viewsDannytheR

Difficult to know where to start.

Don't have a go at people in council housing if you don't mean to have a go at people in council housing.

And whatever "benefits culture" is, you've had ten years of Tory government to sort it out.

Have a good weekend. Hope you never fall on hard times.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 19:55 - Nov 15 with 1619 viewsCaptainPugwash

Arrrrrrrr....
Weppons grade vandalism by Corbin and McDonnell on Beetee share price today.
I wonders if enny Laber Party members sold shares prior to crash?

Yo Ho?
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 20:16 - Nov 15 with 1610 viewsQPR_John

Finished the day at 193 from 195 at the start so hardly a crash.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 20:29 - Nov 15 with 1593 viewsMiss_Terraces

Only 10 years? Seems much longer

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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 20:45 - Nov 15 with 1569 viewsDavieQPR

When Virgin Media, Sky, Talk Talk and every other Broadband service jumps ship , with massive redundancies, they will be reliant on a monopoly. Compensation levels set by a Labour controlled Parliament will make a lot of worried International companies leave Britain. Meaning more redundancies and less people to buy their goods.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 21:40 - Nov 15 with 1523 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

There are McDonalds in Caracas and Hanoi. Multinationals don’t abandon profit. We are literally just doing what they are doing in South Korea, which by some is considered the most de regulated marketplace in the G20.

There will be no redundancies, because the industry (nationalised or not) needs them and is projected to grow in size.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss (n/t) on 21:43 - Nov 15 with 1521 viewsThe_Beast1976

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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 21:50 - Nov 15 with 1514 viewsDavieQPR

Labour have only promised to borrow £20 billion to buy Outreach not the rest. It's interesting to note that China and North Korea are among the few state run Internet countries and we all know about how that is run.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 21:59 - Nov 15 with 1507 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

Labour arn’t running the internet for fck sake. They are just nationalising the infrastructure so they can extend it. The inventor of the Internet has proposed exactly what we are doing, leaving it free of profiteers.

Belgium and South Korea do exactly the same thing. The latter has 97% coverage for super fast broadband. We have 8%.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 22:20 - Nov 15 with 1482 viewsQPR_John

Who will run it then as it will be a free service
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 22:44 - Nov 15 with 1458 viewsCaptainPugwash

Narrrrrrrrrrrr...
Went down 3% on the noos this mornin' an recovered.Luvverly time to get in on the dip.Insider infermation be illegal.

Yo Ho!
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 01:08 - Nov 16 with 1421 viewsPunteR

Free internet? like free water and free air?

Occasional providers of half decent House music.

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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 08:20 - Nov 16 with 1354 viewsCliveWilsonSaid

So it sounds like a lot of people actually agree with this policy in principle. Just a bit sceptical whether the free bit would work.

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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 09:41 - Nov 16 with 1315 viewscolinallcars

I wouldn't classify anything mentioned by either of the two largest parties in recent days as policies. It's more a case of anything they can think of to entice people to cast their votes for them come December 12th.
This is going to be the nastiest election ever. Were it not for the upcoming Rangers games, I'd bugger off abroad until the new year.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 11:34 - Nov 16 with 1260 viewsozexile

Plus took nearly 10 years to build at which time the technology was completely outdated.
No idea why the government should build something private companies will genefit from?
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 11:35 - Nov 16 with 1260 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

Free Internet, like free Healthcare and free Education.
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 13:23 - Nov 16 with 1210 viewsPunteR

Dont we pay for that via tax?

Occasional providers of half decent House music.

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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 13:52 - Nov 16 with 1193 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

Yes, but no more than you pay now presuming you don’t earn more than £80k pa and even then it will be incremental so you still wouldn’t pay that much extra.

The rest of the slack will be taken up by big tech companies like Google and Amazon who currently pay a lower tax rate than you do.

Actually you are a chippy who gets paid cash in hand now and again so maybe not 😆
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 14:08 - Nov 16 with 1168 viewsPunteR

My accountant is a QPR fan and sometimes reads this forum. Everything is accounted for.

Occasional providers of half decent House music.

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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 14:13 - Nov 16 with 1166 viewsWrightUp5hit___

Leaving aside the cost, ownership, damage issues.

If you live in a rural area with a 1mb a week service, and no mobile coverage, you can bet you would, should the unlikely come to pass, still be hanging on years later for improvements. With an official response of " we apologise and are doing all in our power to implement blah, blah blah."
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Government controlling the Internet - a good or bad thing discuss on 14:17 - Nov 16 with 1164 viewsheadhoops

You too Danny

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