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  • Free basic broadband for all may be easier/cheaper to admin than means tested provision.

    In that sense, maybe it wasn't so stupid.

    Free basic: Free for all. Want to have superspeed? OK now you need to pay. And yes that will mean the costs have to be pushed to people that need the superspeed for work, like me. I am happy to pay extra though like the metropolitian lefty elite than I am.

  • Personally I don't think the policy was without merit, I just think that it was pretty clear at the time that it would be received as:

    and was laughable naive as to how people would react to the optics of a left wing party proposing state controlled Internet.

  • to the optics of a left wing party proposing state controlled Internet

    interested in how this is different from the optics of a right wing government proposing state controlled internet?

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