On 8 Mar 2007 04:37:46 -0800,
paul_hale_2007@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
>The UK government took over 22 billion pounds when selling off
>licences to operate 3G. We propose that now is the time for the
>government to invest some of that money in providing free WiFi access
>in ALL towns & cities across the UK. The digital age is here.
>Communication is vital. This country needs this infrastructure to be
>readily available to all free of charge. This action will future proof
>all aspects of business within the UK.
>
>Please sign our official e-petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/FreeAccessWiFi/
>and forward to all your friends.
>(It only takes 30 seconds)
Its a basic fact of economics that you can't spend the same money
twice.
The 3G licences could be paid either as one lump sum or as 50%
initially with the remainder being paid in installments between the
6th and 10th anniversary of licence award with the appropriate
adjustment for inflation and lost interest.
The circa 22 billion raised in the 3G auctions financed improvements
in the health service and education and was either spent or
preallocated by the Treasury years ago to reverse the wrongs of the
Thatcher/Major era. The fact is that for two decades Thatcher and Co
deliberately underfunded public services and squandered oil and gas
revenues on unemployment benefit rather than spending it on capital
projects and real employment.
Her sick spiteful hatred of the working man led to her crushing the
miners and destroying the coal industry thereby making the UK
dependent on imported gas, oil and perversely even coal to support our
basic energy needs despite there still being 200+ years reserves of
coal available a mile or so underground. So unless you can somehow
con Vodafone and O2 etc into buying some more spectrum for a huge sum
of money then your idea is only fit for the bin.
The upshot is there will be no free wi-fi funded from 3G licences.
Blame Thatcher, she wasted a prime national asset in the 80's and 90's
and made us dependent on the Libyans and Russians for our gas and thus
also our electricity. After she's dead and gone and the millions
celebrating have danced on her grave until their shoes are threadbare
she will undoubtedly be revealed as being a KGB agent.
You thought it ended on May 2nd 1997 but the legacy of Thatcher's
Britain will scar the country for generations and centuries to come.
What a cunt.
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