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You basically entrust the man with your tax money. JC sells the idea that publicly owned utilities and services work better than free market economy. He will do so not by raising taxes because he knows voters would not buy it but by borrowing which is basically taking out a mortgage on future...

How can you define who is and who isn't Labour or Tory? For me, both JC and Tony Blair are Labour, both Johnson and John Major are tories. I would rather have Blair for PM, not JC. Blair knows what works. JC is a dreamer at best. Blair did a lot more for the many than Thatcher and Major, JC has...

Blair would have won this GE.

I have no view on the profile of investors. I don't believe that JC would entice investors anywhere as much as Blair did. So the money is going o come from borrowing or taxation. in view that JC's policies rely on the top 5% picking up the lion share, statistics are against him: if there is a...

are you sure your examples all work well? for example state schools work better than private schools? (me, my wife and my children, we all went to state schools), publicly owned forests are better managed than private ones?

there is no real need to takeover Openreach. JC could simply invest into provisioning and perhaps pay for difficult to reach, low return places. But no, he's got to offer it for free. Why? does he hate capitalism?

Trust me, I believe in public services but show me a publicly owned utility that works.

I believe government past, present and future, will never invest enough in replacing old pipes. There will always more urgent pressure on budget somewhere else: NHS, the armed forces, education, care for the elderly, state pension etc Private ownership is a practical way to solve endemic...

that's why JC's plan lacks credibility. Outspending the conservatives is certainly not difficult. Spending intelligently is. For example, nationalising the student loan company is intelligent, cancelling student debts is not. JC has only to be cleverer than Johnson. As it stands, it does not...

I believe in wireless technology.

whichever way you look at it, it's not his money. Someone has to pay for it. It's very well to pretend that the money will come from internet companies or the top 5% earners, it's another thing to make that happen. If the British government increases taxes above the EU's, they will move their...

JC makes regularly poor choices. Free broadband is not the same as free education or clean water or clean air. Investment needs a solid return, whether it's your own money or the national pot.

I've seen the same in network cabling. I can't remember how many miles of CAT5 cables we laid in our customers premises, but they are nearly all gone in the last 10-15 years.

it's still better than digging up pavements for fibre. 4G/5G will be better linked up with millimetre wave band.

No, I don't. I host woosh website on a £50 a year shared server. My mobile phone contract is £7 a month including internet. It's hardly reserved only to the rich.

I used to access the internet with my US Robotics 28.8 kilobit modem connected to pipex. My kids had much less than 10 megabit when they grew up, that was enough to do their homework and play games.

the idea of 'free at the point of service/care' does not work. Successive governments did not invest enough and won't, 4 millions of Brits queueing for elective surgery. Unheard of in France.

I have no problem to support basic provision like nobody pay extra to ride on roads, 10 megabit is sufficient for non commercial needs but JC promises free gigabit internet. the 10 megabit internet can be provisioned cheaply over 4G network.

we pay VED and carbon tax on fossil fuel. The internet is free, government can provide and maintain the main infrastructure but usage should be charged for. If you make home provisioning free of charge then why not bus pass for everyone?

it's still the same pot of money. The problem is Labour rushes through some good ideas. Nationalising BT Openreach to invest £50 billions of public money makes sense but making broadband free does not. Like free local calls makes sense, not free international calls. People have different needs...