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Best thing is that I assume charitable giving in America has tax benefits in the same way it does here...
That's literally the reason. They're not profitable areas so the private providers don't bother upgrading it. Nationalising it is the first steps to start reaching those areas.
BBC at it again
That's also something I'd missed from everyone gleefully pouncing on the IFS saying Corbyn's manifesto was nuts: according to them austerity remains!
That's also something I'd missed from everyone gleefully pouncing on the IFS saying Corbyn's manifesto was nuts: according to them austerity remains!
You can always tell them this cunt is lying (apart from just knowing word his says is complete bullshit) chase he has a subtle smirk. I'm surprised no one in the media has called him out for it.
In other news a fucking idiotic woman on BBC news at 10 said she doesn't think the scruffy twat is trustworthy but she thinks he's a good person. I wanted to punch my TV. We are fucked.
Now imagine a Tory tweeting this.
Jeremy Corbyn is too good for England.
Not looking likely, if the UK rejects him now he'll almost surely stand down and the country will have had its chance for a different path for the next 10~20 years.
Anybody that talks like that is basically covering up for the real reason but don't want to be heard saying what they really think. I've noticed that shift more post Brexit vote. It's that or they are clueless, brainwashed but I think it's mostly hate.
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Our voting system is dumb, when most people don't want to vote for you why can you form government, no wonder BoJo supports FPTP
It's like buying a fixer upper for £1000 knowing it needs £5000 of work to be roadworthy but insisting that you can do it all for your initial £1000 that is now sitting in the garage's bank account.
The idea that public ownership sorts the issues out is madness. The issue is cost. If Labour had set aside the money to do a full rollout then that would be different. But they haven't. Not by a long shot. So there is a better chance of achieving the rollout through government targets, investment and regulation. And a government scheme to make it free for the most hard up.
The fucking balls to included anti foreign-nation election tampering in your manifesto while sitting on a report into foreign-nation election tampering because it's findings would harm your campaign.
A lot.of money has been given to openreach and they haven't done much with it. They can't be trusted to do it.
Not going well is it?
Not looking forward to the American West style bar fight that will occur when there's a new Labour leadership contest.
Not looking forward to the American West style bar fight that will occur when there's a new Labour leadership contest.
Dude if they have a plan to do it, why are you shitting on it? Do you work in government?
Hey guys, just a quickie. Where did the Tories find extra cash for what they're promising without raising taxes?
Where i work most people are on zero hour contracts and minimum wage, yet they all hate Corbyn, it truly is sad what the media has done to this country.
Where i work most people are on zero hour contracts and minimum wage, yet they all hate Corbyn, it truly is sad what the media has done to this country.
Charging immigrants to use the NHS, reversing a planned corporation tax cut and "fiscal headroom" (that will be utterly obliterated after their damaging Brexit deal but let's not sweat the details eh?).
I'm really torn on this Labour WASPI promise as it's a bit of a mockery of their carefully costed manifesto. My worry is that it will simply reinforce in voters minds the feeling that they can't trust Corbyn's Labour to control spending. If they're breaking their own fiscal rules just a couple of days after launching their manifesto, how can they be trusted to follow them when in government?
The Tory manifesto is far too unambitious, the whole country is in agreement that austerity needs to end and yet here we are with a Tory manifesto with austerity still going strong, I really hope it backfires as it should. For comparison the Lib Dem's increase in current spending (who were purportedly continuing austerity according to this thread) is more than 21 times higher than the Conservative's and Labour's (pre WASPI) increase is more than 28 times higher than the Tory's.
They didn't. Either their promises are bullshit (like 50000 new nurses or 40 new hospitals), or they're going to just inflate the debt even more. It's all nonsense.
I can't imagine how I'll feel in the Tories get in. What a horrible Christmas it will be
Well if they are covering up what they really want to say but come out with idiotic statement like that then God knows what they must really be thinking.
I'm going to go on record and say these polls are bullshit. It really doesn't matter what a large percentage of people vote for, it's all about the marginals. I live in the 3rd safest Tory seat in the country and my vote means jack shit. It's really infuriating.
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It's a joke that Boris was on tv during debates saying yes austerity is bad, but when it started he was just the mayor of London, implying he doesn't agree with austerity and he was going to change it. Then he releases this manifesto and it's just more austerity. He's the biggest crook in Britain.
I just don't understand how anyone could vote for the Tories, Boris is a joke & their manifesto is beyond trash. I live in a Labour safe seat thankfully but many of the smaller villages and towns around my city vote Tory which is depressing.
hopefully today we might see the tory manifesto start to crumble
- central policy is a lie
- lying about having a social care policy for months then missing one out
- contempt of suggesting so little for 5 years
might depend on the willingness of the bbc to point out lies though
- central policy is a lie
- lying about having a social care policy for months then missing one out
- contempt of suggesting so little for 5 years
might depend on the willingness of the bbc to point out lies though
Re: the NHS, private operators would rather ONLY take private customers (either self-pay or private insurance), as those are by far the most profitable, especially the former, but there aren't enough of them to meet the "supply" of private healthcare services (and associated cost base). Given how a large part of a private operator's costs are FIXED, this means that you do need a high number of patients to break even, hence why it is vital for private operators to accept NHS patients even if they probably don't make very much profit from it (just like the NHS itself, except that its profits are re-invested/socialised).
What is baseless? About the IOF being effectively a corporate tax rate in disguise? Read this: https://www.cliffordchance.com/cont...ship-funds-nationalising-10-of-everything.pdf
Tory manifesto is so safe and boring.
The only people I can see it appealing to is little Englanders who are perfectly happy with their lot, and live in a bubble.
The only people I can see it appealing to is little Englanders who are perfectly happy with their lot, and live in a bubble.
I know about the costs and issues with replacing the copper fibre network (and no I don't work for BT). Labour are saying there is £15BN to spend. It won't touch the sides and most of that will go in the nationalisation. Along with thousands of jobs. What will they do with the thousands of people they make unemployed?
Then they will need a huge, huge amount more to sort the fast fibre everywhere promise. Like orders of magnitude more.
So the largest portion of the result deciding electorate then?
Also the Tories are incredibly dangerous - the worst incarnation of the Tories I can remember. But the point is that if you think their manifesto is "safe and boring" they've done their job. Because that's the exact thing they go for. "We're a safe but dull pair of hands". Before they rip out the welfare state and privatise the rest of the NHS.
Possibly poor wording on my part - what I mean is that even the parts that they're promoting as "ambitious" or "positive" are completely humdrum in comparison to every other party.
That doesn't exclude the nefarious stuff hidden deep down.
I think it's becoming clear the narrative is more that is woefully inadequate and outright misleading, not to mention mostly bereft of substance and detail.
Yep. And that doesn't include the mountain of lawsuits the Government would be facing if it actually lowballs BT investors.
There's a reason why fibre hasn't been laid out everywhere. IMO, 5G is a lot more cost-effective for remote locations.
They pledged 20.3BN, not including the cost of nationalisation.
edit: also, won't the national broadband require employees to run it?
Cost and somtimes insurmountable difficulties, such as land ownership.
To get to 90% coverage you're looking at between 30 and 50BN. The last 10%? Probably that again plus more on top. Its an absolutely huge problem to solve.
5G might be the way - but equally many of those areas without broadband don't have any 4G either...or at least lots of signal blackspots.
Network providers like plusnet or talk talk basically just pay BT to use their infrastructure and then lump their own cost on top of that to make a profit.
If the infrastructure is owned by the government, then plusnet and talk talk will just be paying the government instead.
If it ends up working like that then I assume labour's mission will be to provide a baseline of minimum internet availability to everyone while the providers will be able to charge more for a faster service.
And regardless - that's still way way off what will be required.
As for employees - what do they do with the ones employed on sales or retention or service management? They will be redundant.
Sad thing is their manifesto probably reasonates, they aren't being reckless with money narrative, brexit/EU is the source of all problems, token more cops, nurses even if it's misleading, throw in some immigration hate.
It sickeningly works for people when Corbyn is made out to be the anti christ on top. I really hope the public they wheel out on the news aren't the majority but I worry.
It sickeningly works for people when Corbyn is made out to be the anti christ on top. I really hope the public they wheel out on the news aren't the majority but I worry.
Labour are promising full fibre for everyone. There will be no plusnet or anyone else. Everyone (in reality its undeliverble but the promise is) will get the full fat fibre free of charge from the national supplier.
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