Faster Rural Broadband for Rich Shoppers
Mr Graham Jones, Labour MP for Hyndburn, Lancashire is attributed this weekend to saying that "Faster Rural broadband will only help rich shop online". That’s according to The Daily Telegraph, Saturday 1st of June.
Is it REALLY that possible to be so stupid as to make such a comment or is it possible Mr Jones had been on the pop at the time and the journalists caught him after his 10th pint.
If not, it seems to that the people of Lancashire need to reconsider how they do their voting.. maybe mandatory intelligence tests before the elections?
Read for yourself..
http://hhgrahamjones.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/super-fast-rural-broadband-to-provvide.html
If you read the blog he even seems to think that selling off Telecom was the root cause of problems. I had to say this Mr Jones but I was around at the time – telecom costs in this country were HORRENDOUS before they were split up and things were so bad that you were not even allowed to connect your own phones to the line – the VERY BEST thing that ever happened to Telecom was breaking it up and the most competition we get, especially in rural areas the better. I VERY CLEARLY remember the USA having access to plug-in 2400 baud modems while our own telecoms company insisted we plug mechanical covers over phones achieving a fraction of that speed. I remember them telling me that UK touch-tone phones would be incompatible with the USA phones… I’d need a BOOK to tell you all the things that were wrong with our National phone service.
But then, it would not matter what the Tories did, would it..