cantsin
Well-Known Member
that sounds epic - can you remember which fash orgs it was ?
The 2019 General Election
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that sounds epic - can you remember which fash orgs it was ?
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Yeah, long before I moved here.
The place has seriously changed, no sign of fascists here now, we had the first Labour councillor elected 3 or 4 years ago, in 41 years, we now have 10 on the borough council.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Yeah, long before I moved here.
The place has seriously changed, no sign of fascists here now, we had the first Labour councillor elected 3 or 4 years ago, in 41 years, we now have 10 on the borough council.
I know. I bumped into Jim Dean on line recently and congratulated him on the transformation. When I was there the closest we got to a Labour councillor was Jim in the wake of the poll tax, and we were still light by about 100 votes in Seldon ward...happy days.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Entertaining story tbf 
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
hmm
while i firmly support increased species diversity in politics, i'm not convinced i'd vote for a candidate solely on that basis...
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Nice. On the other side there's the candidate who wouldn't allow the Brexit Party standing down to get in his way
General Election 2019: Chorley candidate changes his name by deed poll to include the word 'Brexit'
Humberto
Callooh! Callay!
Johnson may as well keep on lying. He's allowed to and Labour aren't. The thing is, not that you can trust him anyway, what does he offer? A warm fuzzy re-assurance (all a big Bullingdon con) vs honesty and concrete practical help and solutions. Everyone must see what they are doing to the country and its institutions, more of the same is just plain daft.
I think Corbyn could probably be a bit more combative in terms of making it personal. He has clearly called Johnson the liar that he is, to his credit. But Johnson is a fairly wide target for this stuff. There is not much to laugh about when it comes down to it so i don't know. But maybe for example, 'Boris lies so much; he even believes he is a great leader up there with Churchill when he can't even brave Yorkshire or Glastonbury without being driven out and howled down', and so on. That kind of line. Open goals aplenty I reckon for this vain con artist
I think Corbyn could probably be a bit more combative in terms of making it personal. He has clearly called Johnson the liar that he is, to his credit. But Johnson is a fairly wide target for this stuff. There is not much to laugh about when it comes down to it so i don't know. But maybe for example, 'Boris lies so much; he even believes he is a great leader up there with Churchill when he can't even brave Yorkshire or Glastonbury without being driven out and howled down', and so on. That kind of line. Open goals aplenty I reckon for this vain con artist
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
He bears an unusual resemblance to ron swanson
Excellent policy. Will be costly and no doubt criticised but an excellent investment for the country, people and business.
Would prefer to pay for this than subsidise poor private sector service and shareholders.
Britons paying £2.2bn each year to compensate for poor home Wi-Fi
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Small print in the policy...to be done by 2030.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Obviously the openreach network should be renationalised. All the substantial infrastructure work & investment was back when it was publicly owned, it's our fucking network, all post privatisation infrastructure investment has been patchy as fuck and commercially driven. Which is why almost every household still gets its fixed line services down a copper cable from a street cabinet and why people living in rural underpopulated places get half a MBPS if they are lucky.
See also the railway network.
See also the railway network.
One of the problems with boom and bust politics eh?
Where I live the only option for fibre optic broadband is Virgin. The service is mostly okay but patchy (like most) but Virgin like in contract price rises as much as they don't like paying tax.
I work from home and have a smart telly (fwp) so need a decent connection and am stuck with a single supplier.
It doesn't though does it - it's work that needs doing either way, and there is zero chance of any party getting in in 2025 with half the work done and cancelling the rest.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I love the idea of free ultra-fast fibre to the home broadband, and can see the logic in a nationalised network, but I am struggling with the network running cost, which Labour puts at £230m pa, yet the Openreach wages alone are £800-850m pa.
That was put to John McDonald just now on Sky News, he was very good at not answering the question, he waffled on about the retail opportunities of renting the infrastructure to other providers. But, if we all have free ultra-fast broadband, why would anyone pay for the same from another provider.
That was put to John McDonald just now on Sky News, he was very good at not answering the question, he waffled on about the retail opportunities of renting the infrastructure to other providers. But, if we all have free ultra-fast broadband, why would anyone pay for the same from another provider.
There is also the digital divide to address.
People out of work or on long term benefits need to get on line. Health services, benefits and a lot of government services are online.
Luckily there are libraries with free Internet access all over the.... Oh hang on.
People out of work or on long term benefits need to get on line. Health services, benefits and a lot of government services are online.
Luckily there are libraries with free Internet access all over the.... Oh hang on.
Imagine a national health service in the USA? People would go bankruptI love the idea of free ultra-fast fibre to the home broadband, and can see the logic in a nationalised network, but I am struggling with the network running cost, which Labour puts at £230m pa, yet the Openreach wages alone are £800-850m pa.
That was put to John McDonald just now on Sky News, he was very good at not answering the question, he waffled on about the retail opportunities of renting the infrastructure to other providers. But, if we all have free ultra-fast broadband, why would anyone pay for the same from another provider.
oh hang on
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Isn't this a plot point in one of Ken Macleod's books?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Have you not read any of the Snowden stuff?
IMO the 'wrong hands' are a lot of the tech companies...
Flavour
hang the bankers
better off being owned by a handful of san francisco oligarchs, you're totally right
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