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24-08-2012, 08:58
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by andrewb
Take the telephone market. Could you imagine only having the choice of BT? There'd be no reason for them to improve their service, sort out your problems with haste or provide cheap internet access.
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A few years ago, BT told it's shareholders, 'we can invest money in fibre optic cables and improve the system or we can pay your bonuses, we can't do both', guess who voted to get their bonuses?
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24-08-2012, 23:35
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by Less
A few years ago, BT told it's shareholders, 'we can invest money in fibre optic cables and improve the system or we can pay your bonuses, we can't do both', guess who voted to get their bonuses?
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Wonder why the pavement was dug up and why I've had a BT fibre optic post outside my house for over a couple of years.
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25-08-2012, 00:08
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by cashman
I was always under impression that council houses were fer folk who couldn't afford a mortgage? on that basis it was folly to flog em off cheap.
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I agree it was and is a big mistake
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25-08-2012, 00:16
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by Lucysgirl
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Wonder why the pavement was dug up and why I've had a BT fibre optic post outside my house for over a couple of years.
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But where is the money coming from for the fibre upgrade, BT or the government?
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25-08-2012, 00:38
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To be honest I don't care who pays for it. My broadband is slower than dial up and 3G, according to BT website the exchange at Great Harwood which is my nearest exchange living in Rishton are not getting it anytime soon.
I wouldn't mind if the street I live in was cabled, but it isn't, but it doesn't stop me getting bombarded with Virgin Media leaflets every week.
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25-08-2012, 02:49
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by Less
A few years ago, BT told it's shareholders, 'we can invest money in fibre optic cables and improve the system or we can pay your bonuses, we can't do both', guess who voted to get their bonuses?
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BT have been laying plenty of fibre optic cables. They're spending £2.5 billion on it.
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25-08-2012, 07:05
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Grand Wizard Of The Inner Clique
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by andrewb
BT have been laying plenty of fibre optic cables. They're spending £2.5 billion on it.
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They are now, yes.
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26-08-2012, 10:03
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Re: The Tories
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On the subject of cock ups on your way to Berick are ya 
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26-08-2012, 10:40
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Re: The Tories
na telly for me today  
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26-08-2012, 10:42
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Re: The Tories
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na telly for me today  
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Fair weather supporter 
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27-08-2012, 23:49
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by jaysay
Don't forget that she also put the government of the day in charge of the country instead of the Unions, she put lunatics like Scargill in their place, which was a plus for every body in the country
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And that somehow makes up for the destruction of viable, productive industries and communities in this country?..for me that is a disgusting attitude and just goes to show the hell bent ideology you and most tories adhere to.
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29-08-2012, 19:32
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Re: The Tories
it destroyed hundreds of years of social cohesion of which we are seeing the consequences now .full communities conscribed to the scrapheap crumbling hospitals and schools enough money and infrastructure lost so labour had to spend money and keep pumping money into the economy now the tories are doing the same again and we will reap more consequences  
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29-08-2012, 20:45
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
it destroyed hundreds of years of social cohesion of which we are seeing the consequences now .full communities conscribed to the scrapheap crumbling hospitals and schools enough money and infrastructure lost so labour had to spend money and keep pumping money into the economy now the tories are doing the same again and we will reap more consequences  
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Have you moved to Glasgow now. Shame It was OK when I worked there.  
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29-08-2012, 22:09
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Re: The Tories
Mind you the once liberals talk rubbish and are so weak they'd fall down without a tory backbone..
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0...RE87S017201208
I'm not a fan of rinsing the rich for tax and this makes Clegg and the liberals look like the idiots they are.
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