[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Not sure how someone stating some services aren’t creating genuine competition makes them a Marxist/Communist - according to that logic, Adam Smith is a Marxist...

Or....

You could just be smearing someone?

oh look, it's Hugh on his big white stallion coming to the aid of JFman, like he needs it lol.

Some one advocating to get rid of all competition and have a single state owned provider is Marxism in it's purest form.

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Originally Posted by jfman

Except it's not comparable with the car industry at all - the most obvious being that cars exist in a worldwide market. I can import a German car, a Japanese car, etc.

But killing the British car market by bringing in all the British car manufacturers into one single govt owned vehicle was fine was it?

I can't import broadband from literally thousands of like for like comparable products. I can buy BT, or a BT wholesale product through a third party. I'm lucky enough to have Virgin as an option.

However there isn't enough competition in the market to drive prices down due to the high fixed costs of installing being a barrier to entry.

So then nationalising Open reach, funding the national build of FTTP with tax money, then giving the service "free" to everyone. There-bye killing off Virgin Media and any other provider, is increasing competition is it? increasing choice? or is it stifling innovation and just ensuring that everyone has the same vanilla product with no chance of having any thing different?

While I'm sure many in the telecommunications sector would rightly be terrified of their cushy jobs

You are some piece of work. Virgin Media engineers out in the street now in sub-zero temperatures fixing faults, cushy are they?

All 15,000 or so employees , the customer service reps on £15K a years revelling in an orgy of greed ?

However to the average household saving £300 to £600 a year and finding broadband through taxation would be beneficial.

Great let's destroy a sector make thousands of people unemployed, so JFman can save £600 a year while he plays himself watching his computer.

Definitely for the many.

The state is already having to massively subside areas that aren't "cost effective" anyway - might as well bring the profitable parts into the fold to benefit the taxpayer

Which bits of Virgin Media are the Govt subsiding?

It's just right wing propaganda because they know their time is coming. Tick tock.

Left wing lunacy, I really hope McDonnell has a few more ideas like this up his sleeve, he doing the Tory campaign the world of good.