#3024

I’m glad, still FFS. I hope she got laughed at when she asked “The Labour Source”.

#3026

I like your forethought. She, also likes cats. Obviously.

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#3027

Really worried about relying on cardiff Council, and the uk and Irish postal systems managing to get my postal vote form out to me in peak Christmas card time in December.

Really glad I don’t vote in a marginal

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#3028

The idea was that Mercury (later Cable & Wireless) would compete with BT ensuring that the market found the best approach to getting cable into the ground and giving the best possible service.

What ended up happening is we now have two or more duplicate networks in most built up parts of the country which are all substandard, because the aim is simply to be a bit better than the other one rather than look strategically to the future, and rural areas that aren’t financially viable are left with the bare minimum service.

It’s a bizarre way to think about nationally important infrastructure IMO.

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#3029

If she’s into Simpsons memes as well then it might actually be all too much for her

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#3030

Totally agree.

My only disappointment is they’re not proposing to do fibre plus 5G everywhere as national infrastructure. I suspect that’s because they know that nationalising Openreach would be much easier than mobile telecoms companies because they were once in the public sector (and the culture reflects that).

It’s like water isn’t it? Several years ago I went to a work-related meeting with the CTO of one of the privatised water companies, and he literally said “we’re a privatised monopoly, so we need to be prepared for the possibility of being re-nationalised one day”, so it’s not like there won’t have been any planning around this scenario.

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#3031

At some point he literally just says Venezuela with no context or follow-up…just what :man_shrugging:

#3032

How is she a journalist? Honestly.

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#3033

Also - massively ironic that the people saying “you can’t nationalise that, you don’t realise how complicated it is, it’s 12D chess all day” are the same people who thought it was fine to move everyone out of the public sector into the private back in the day, with exactly the same degree of organisational complexity, changes to contracts etc.

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#3035

Indeed. Don’t know why they can’t admit they’d prefer to be able to profit from it.

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#3036

Similarly I was at a meeting some years ago with some head honcho of the Association of Train Operating Companies - as in a group who represent virgin trains, southern, GWR etc, so literally the voice of private interests in the rail industry. And he was openly saying that re-nationalisation was inevitable at some point and would probably be for the best overall.

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#3038

Atp0ga

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#3039

christ that looks shite, the fonts are all wrong

#3040

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#3041

The irony is that nationalising Openreach has literally never been easier than it is now as it’s increasingly been separated from BT as an arms length subsidiary because of the failures of “the market” to provide an environment where they were unable to leverage their natural monopoly.

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#3042

That’s socialist internet for you

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#3043

The most effective route to winning any votes off boomers which will be incredibly hard due to their entrenchment as you say, is the NHS. It seems like ATM Corbyns almost falling into lazy “they’re as bad as each other” tropes. The Tory policy to take your house for social care (rightly) put the panics right up em and we could do with something similar tbh. Patel accidentally endorsing euthanasia or something

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#3044

You’ll have to stand in a queue to access YouTube

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#3045

It’s like Ceefax for the 21st century

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#3046

She already believes in killing the innocent tbf.

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