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[NilSatisOptimum]

No such thing as society huh?

Good luck and enjoy to those who all work hard is my kind of society be that someone who washes up in a kitchen to the restaurant owner...

 

[Agent Blue]

I haven't said anything about taxing the rich, and am merely commenting on the suggestion that their broadband strategy could be funded by ensuring the tech companies pay the tax they owe is fantastical.

Under current legislation you probably have a point but I think there will be different legislation if Labour win the election. I think the amount of tax tech companies will have to pay will change drastically, there might even be a retrospective charge to take into account the length of time they have been paying next to nothing.

 

[tsubaki]

I haven't said anything about taxing the rich, and am merely commenting on the suggestion that their broadband strategy could be funded by ensuring the tech companies pay the tax they owe is fantastical.

That would be ludicrous, though they didn't actually say that their broadband strategy would be solely funded by ensuring the tech companies pay the tax they owe.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

https://www.taxwatchuk.org/corporate-tax-and-tech-companies-in-the-uk-2/ has a bit more information. In 2017, the estimated tax liability of the big 5 was a shade over £1bn, of which they paid around £150m. Even if you assume that Labour will get them to pay the full £1bn a year, that's an absolute mile away from being sufficient to fund this broadband initiative.

 

[tsubaki]

https://www.taxwatchuk.org/corporate-tax-and-tech-companies-in-the-uk-2/ has a bit more information. In 2017, the estimated tax liability of the big 5 was a shade over £1bn, of which they paid around £150m. Even if you assume that Labour will get them to pay the full £1bn a year, that's an absolute mile away from being sufficient to fund this broadband initiative.

It would be, and that isn't how they said they would fund this broadband initiative.

 

[davek]

"stop trying to give me free internet access...it's communist".

 

[The binman chronicles]

Good, neither do I...It’s a question of who can beat Corbyn, a man that will ruin the country. Boris is the only one with the charisma to do it....

That sounds much like the Labour side saying that they can only win with Corbyn and his policies. All wrong imho. It's not difficult to see:

Cameron > Brown (But not by a huge margin and helped by the fact after 3 terms in office the public start pushing for a change)
Cameron > Miliband (Can't even eat a bacon sandwich FFS)

May > Corbyn (Despite her going AWOL)

Johnson = Corbyn (Two leaders who are focused on helping one set of supporters on opposite ends of the scales and think elections are won on who can hand over the most money)

If Labour had a likeable moderate that didn't scare off the centre as much then they would romp home against Johnson. If Hunt had won the contest then Labour probably don't get a look in.

Has anyone seen the full costings or are we supposed to take their word for it?

The differences are they are happy to bandy around figures but they have done the costings and the accountants have confirmed these will cost a lot.

 

[ramacca]

"stop trying to give me free internet access...it's communist".

Stop trying to give me free access to Libraries...it's communist.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

"stop trying to give me free internet access...it's communist".

No such thing as free.

 

[jaycee]

"stop trying to give me free internet access...it's communist".

Imagine some one proposing libraries now,"Free books? Madness I tell you educate the plebs and they will see the truth,Communism at its worse"

 

[orly]

No such thing as society huh?

Goes on foreign holidays too, the ratfink

 

[orly]

Look at the time of the postings, 2nd or 3rd bottle kicking in tme.

Great point. And to his credit, @NilSatisOptimum seems to be powering through til morning.

 

[davek]

Stop trying to give me free access to Libraries...it's communist.

Oxygen...I can never understand how that isn't commodified. We're stealing that stuff everyday.

 

[summerisle]

This whole BT scheme proves that Corbyn and his merry men haven’t a clue and I doubt that people are falling for it.....

 

[davek]

Imagine some one proposing libraries now,"Free books? Madness I tell you educate the plebs and they will see the truth,Communism at its worse"

I will personally picket the opening of any new library. It's the slippery slope to the gulags.