Free Broadband For All

[New Judge]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-50426028/general-election-2019-labour-pledges-free-broadband-for-the-country

Free Broadband for the entire country pledged today.

We're obviously building up to a free house and your own hospital to be offered on the day before voting!

[ummmm]

I don't see broadband as a luxury. Using chosen sites like AB, FB and Twitter are but broadband is essential for job hunting.

My daughter works in recruitment. Most CVs are received via email.

It isn't realistic for some people to get to the job centre on a daily basis.

Anyway....I very much doubt it'll happen.

[anotheoldgit]

It is time that these pre election promises were legally drawn up in a contract and if they were broken legal action should be taken..

[hereIam]

Good point aog.

[emmie]

nothing is free it always has to be paid for one way or another.

[emmie]

surely they will be in the parties manifestos.

[aelmpvw]

//It isn't realistic for some people to get to the job centre on a daily basis//
blimey, they'll find it tough when they get a job then ...

[Togo]

// they'll find it tough when they get a job then .//

They never do. They sit at home all day............. on the internet.

[emmie]

many on here i think are retired??

[Ken4155]

Regarding the 'bribes' question from earlier in the thread; Anne Widdecombe has just featured on the Radio 2 midday news. She claims that she has had 2 calls from the Tory party. The first was to say she had a moral obligation not to stand at the GE. The 2nd (i presume she told them where to go on the first?) call was to say that if she did not stand for election against the Tory candidate, she would be offered "a role in the negotiations."

[ummmm]

ael - not really. You get a job and make the suitable arrangements. Childcare, travel etc etc. Someone could end up getting a job closer to their home than the job centre is.

[Arksided]

AQG... It is time that these pre election promises were legally drawn up in a contract and if they were broken legal action should be taken

100% agree.

[Arksided]

oops AOG.

[teacake44]

@12.20 ha ha ,it would take longer than Brexit to draw up all them contracts. :0)

[hc4361]

I'm hoping that 5G will be affordable within a couple of years making cable internet unnecessary for most - and 5G should be available for every property in the country.

[Old_Geezer]

Legal action can't be possible because either circumstances change and that's used as an excuse for a change of plan, or it's claimed it's still on the To Do list. One just has to take outrageous overgenerous claims with a barrel of salt.

[Khandro]

Labour’s idea is to spend £20 billion nationalising BT Openeach; BT says it could cost £40 billion. The CBI says ‘all re-nationalisation will achieve is to slow down a process that needs speeding up’. Matthew Lynn says in The Spectator, a British Broadband Corporation is Labour’s ‘worst idea yet’. Now BT shares have fallen by three per cent.

[andy-hughes]

I worked for BT at the very beginning of national broadband provision - obviously Mr Corbyn doesn't have a clue about the sheer volume of work involved in providing it thus far, never mind to the rest of the UK, and that is with costs, not free.

Dreams are free - Jeremy has lots of them, but maybe he should chat with the people who are tasked with implementing his rubbish, so they can put him straight in a few well chosen sentences.

[Khandro]

Their naivety doesn't end there, they also wish to sound as though they are cyber victims Matthew Webster writes;

'This week, the Labour Party said that their website had been subject to ‘large scale and sophisticated attacks which had the intention of taking our systems entirely offline. Every single one of these attempts failed due to our robust security systems.’

This sounds dramatic, and in today's political climate we should be concerned, shouldn’t we? Well, no. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCCS) has stated that the attack was no more than a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). This simply means that someone is flooding a website with meaningless traffic. It could be from an international superpower, an alien with superpowers or a teenager in their superman pyjamas.

DDoS attacks are common and equate to digital vandalism, rather than a sinister plot. The NCCS did not record it as a serious incident because a DDoS is part of doing business online. At worst it might slow down your website for a bit. Either way, web hosting companies are good at detecting and repelling such attacks.'

Sorry but no sympathy there.

[fender62]

a lot of companies would shut shop and move abroad...it stinks of big brother socialism, labour = economic chaos

[Bazile]

They should provide free everything - they take enough of my folding in taxes