The Labour Party. All discussion here please

[Mister Gee]

10 minutes ago, Class66 said:

To early to say really as although he seems bunglish  so far, there's not many skeletons in his closet that would come close to the graveyard that Corbyn has stashed away. 

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[nikki-red]

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Edited November 16, 2019 by nikki-red

[kidley]

1 hour ago, banjodeano said:

why did you give farage 25  smackers? you do realise that Farage is an ex banker??

wow, are you serious?, im sure if Corbyn had any skeletons in his cupboard the Tory owned media would have found them...and up to now they have nothing on him...but Boris? hes a proven liar

My Bold 

Mr Farage has never been a banker, he was a broker in the city. just nit picking

[Anna B]

3 hours ago, Albert the Cat said:

It isnt't aimed at business, Anna B doesn't know what she is talking about.

 

The free broadband idea is actually quite simple.  It's an attempt to narrow the social divide.  Labour knows that access to the internet is arguably the most powerful tool for education and think it is fair to ensure that everyone has access to it and not just simply the people who can afford it.  It should be seen as an extension to everyone's entitlement to education.

 

I am not even surprised that the majority of people on here can't see it.  You lot would have benefited from free broadband it seems.

Boris seems to think fast, reliable broadband is important too and is already using taxpayer's money to subsidise private company Openreach. Well, the CEO and his cronies have to get their massive pay packages from somewhere . .

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/openreach-ceo-boris-johnsons-2025-fibre-goal-is-a-stretch

 

The rest of your post I agree with, but he also aims to get Broadband to the people not covered by  the Network (of which their are many) because private companies don't find them profit making.

 

[tinfoilhat]

12 hours ago, Anna B said:

Boris seems to think fast, reliable broadband is important too and is already using taxpayer's money to subsidise private company Openreach. Well, the CEO and his cronies have to get their massive pay packages from somewhere . .

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/openreach-ceo-boris-johnsons-2025-fibre-goal-is-a-stretch

 

The rest of your post I agree with, but he also aims to get Broadband to the people not covered by  the Network (of which their are many) because private companies don't find them profit making.

 

It's an odd thing to suddenly decide to nationalise. But, it benefits everyone, and ironically, if you need to apply for universal credit, you have to do it on-line. 

 

But who is doing tech support etc?

[melthebell]

18 hours ago, kidley said:

My Bold 

Mr Farage has never been a banker, he was a broker in the city. just nit picking

I was just gonna say he's a former stockbroker not a banker but I bet in both he has a lot of well to do folks who would do well out of shorting the pound and other financial dealings to do with Brecht going bad

[Anna B]

14 hours ago, tinfoilhat said:

It's an odd thing to suddenly decide to nationalise. But, it benefits everyone, and ironically, if you need to apply for universal credit, you have to do it on-line. 

 

But who is doing tech support etc?

Just been watching The Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 given by Tim Berners-Lee.

He had some very interesting and pertinent things to say, like access to the world wide web should be a human right that we will all benefit from. It all started to come together and make sense which convinced me Labour has made the right decision.

Edited November 18, 2019 by Anna B

[Robin-H]

8 hours ago, Anna B said:

Just been watching The Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 given by Tim Berners-Lee.

He had some very interesting and pertinent things to say, like access to the world wide web should be a human right that we will all benefit from. It all started to come together and make sense which convinced me Labour has made the right decision.

Access to water is a human right too. Why aren’t they making water free for everyone? I’m pretty sure access to food is a bigger human rights issue than access to broadband as well. Are they going to make food free for all? Why not? 

[carosio]

Inevitably, many of the pavements and roads in Sheffield would have to be dug up again, unless they can do it all with overhead cabling.

Edited November 18, 2019 by carosio

[melthebell]

35 minutes ago, carosio said:

Inevitably, many of the pavements and roads in Sheffield would have to be dug up again, unless they can do it all with overhead cabling.

surely they can just use the potholes...saves on digging