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I agree. It's best to start thinking about what should be run by the state rather than by markets by thinking about which should be universal. Then pragmatism. By this measure I think universal broadband has an ok case.
However, in a poll of 13k non-labour voters only 6% said economic policy was the reason they voted elsewhere.
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Isn't it down to you to tell me why the UK system is better. It is not a free market tho is it, it is an oligopoly at best. Also the gov give alot of tax payer money to the rail companies and the infrastructure, yet companies make profits so is that a free market? Why did the Gov nationalise rail track?
Are you old enough to remember the trains pre privatisation? Do you remember red star parcels? The issue is that happens with road transport is not paying for use of the provided services that tax revenue pays for like roads, hospitals education etc.