Some things oil the wheels of society and the economy and they shouldn't necessarily exist to make a profit. They certainly shouldn't be in the hands of middle-men who add no value and just skim a percentage. Energy and now internet access fall into this category, closely followed by public transport.
I didn't say it had to be free, quote:
I think 'twas me:
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
I always found the commercial approach to internet somewhat bizarre.
goodlawproject.org
It is perfectly clear to me. Dame Dick is in the government's pocket. They've slipped her a Jimmy Saville and the job's a good-un.The Met are under more pressure...
Before Christmas, we wrote to the Metropolitan Police asking them to explain or reverse their refusal to investigate the unlawful parties alleged to have taken place at No 10 Downing Street in December 2020.
We’ve now received the Met’s response, which raises more questions than it answers, and strongly suggests their refusal to investigate the alleged No 10 parties was unlawful. And now the Met’s approach is under the spotlight again following yesterday’s revelations of yet another party, this time organised by a top No 10 aide at Downing Street in May 2020. Each new revelation makes the Met’s policy of not investigating these breaches more damaging.
In short, the Met says it concluded that further investigatory work would be required before they could decide whether to bring charges, but rather than attempting to do this, they just closed the case.
Their attempts to justify that decision really don’t make sense. First they say they relied on the Government’s assurances that no rules had been broken. Then they say there would have been no point in interviewing No 10 staff about the parties because they would have refused to answer questions that exposed them to a risk of prosecution. In what other crime would police decline to investigate because the suspected offender assured them no rules had been broken? And those justifications can’t both be true; if no rules were broken, there’s no risk of self-incrimination. We’re intent to get to the bottom of it.
It is not good enough for the Met to delegate their investigative duties to the press. We don’t believe they would make such concessions for anyone else accused of breaking the law.
They seem to be operating a two-tier system, with one rule for those in power and one rule for everyone else. And we think that sets a dangerous precedent with serious implications for public trust.
We’re issuing formal legal proceedings to force the Met to revisit their decision. Those in power broke the rules – repeatedly. They should face the same consequences as everyone else.
The Met Police's response raises more questions than it answers about No 10’s Christmas parties - Good Law Project
Before Christmas, we wrote to the Metropolitan Police asking them to explain or reverse their refusal to investigate the unlawful parties alleged to have taken place at No 10 Downing Street in December 2020. We’ve now received the Met’s response, which raises more questions than it answers, and...
broadband is cheap. You can get 15GB download a month with unlimited calls for £8 a month with Vodafone. Honestly, cost is not exactly a debate here.
There is much of this county where Vodafone is unavailable.
in that case, JC should have made that his policy much earlier, not a couple of days before the election.
there were a few TV documentaries exploring the economics of connecting remote rural properties to the internet. They need to link enough properties (in the hundreds) into a hub and connect that hub to the net. In the early days of the internet, I connected some customers to satellite broadbands with a dish. Now we have Elon Musk's starlink $99/month.
That is quite a cost. Plus perhaps £500 for the kit.
Absolutely not. As I made clear in an earlier post the Tories have a habit of stealing Labour policies the moment they are announced, as much as a spoiler as anything else. Corbyn was a victim of that, so a last minute announcement made sense.
Woosh... . You are rapidly moving goalposts here. The rich always had options , the poor less so. The rich could courier parcels and letters anywhere any place any time ... It was the innovation of the Penny Black, so that a letter sent between two adjacent streets in London subsidised the letter going from Barra to Aberdeen. That I believe is what fleec was referring to. Now the provision of quality Broadband replaces Banks, Post Office and Cash machines ..also Libraries and maybe Surgery consulting, and the Employment Exchange, the Probation Service...
It is developing proper party splitting legs
