It's not baseless, it's based on previous experience of a Labour government running public services, and specifically running telecoms

Previous telecoms is not fibre.

There is less to go wrong with fibre.

THe nature of fibre isn't the issue, it's the business culture, and the motivations

So the engineers aren't going to go out and fix the faults anymore?

Probably be far slower to do so

So Labour isn't going to hire enough engineers?

probably not

They're going to need to hire more engineers to scale up the rollout lmao

All Pie in the Sky

We'll be happy with our fibre, you can be angry when you're forced over, it's okay

i'll be poorer

and this will make me angry

We've already agreed the prices will continue to drop <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

except we didn't agree the limit to which they'll drop, which will be the current price of broadband

which is double what i'm paying

But we did agree that the costs are lower for fibre, meaning they can drop lower.

That's at current prices, while the transition is occuring

Prices are dropping

And will continue to keep dropping

I can't believe you're going to try argue against economies of scale 🤷

Easily - there's a baseline price it won't go below

And that baseline is lower on fibre

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it won't be

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lul, the UK isnt naming any EC members... effectively right now the EU treaty is defunct

and the EU is making a legal case against the UK about it

hey man... boris sent a letter warning them that an extension would be a bad idea

https://twitter.com/johnmcdonnellMP/status/1195102222545309696?s=19

This is becoming stupid

What else are they going to promise to do for free

Give out free tossjobs at every polling place?

The Labour party promising fibre broadband to the people? Where have i heard this before??? <:thunk:462282216467333140>

Its a dumb idea and will lead to terrible service and internet censorship

Even PeP thinks it's a dumb idea

That's how fucking dumb an idea it is

But it will get them lots of votes

Doubt it

Most people who have fibre already have fibre
Businesses who want fibre aren't going to vote communist

Ask anyone over 60yrs old what it was like when the telecoms were run by a socialist Labour government monopoly