General election: Corbyn pledges free broadband giveaway as PM attacks 'crackpot scheme'

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'It will put us at the cutting edge of social and economic change.' JeremyCorbyn says Labour's plan to provide free broadband will save the average household £30 a month, and will be partially funded by taxing big corporations. Get live GE2019 updates:

Labour costs plan at £20bn as BT estimates figure closer to £100bnWatch Dermot Murnaghan live from 9pm on 12 December, see the exit poll from 10pm and a12:05Sky's Diana Magnay asks if this can happen if there's no majority Labour government. Mr Corbyn laughs and says there will be so it doesn't matter.

On public ownership, he says it seems to be a good thing, and points out that BT was once publicly owned. He stops people clapping at the name of Thatcher who privatised it.He says this policy is"social cohesion" and will mean it goes to places where it doesn't work very well.McDonnell: This will transform our livesHow is this paid for?f a multinational has 10% of its sales, workforce, and operations in the UK, they’re asked to pay tax on 10% of their global profits.

"British Broadband will be our treasured public institution for the 21st century, delivering fast and free broadband to every home."This is a mission for everyone to get behind."Mr Corbyn says that Mr Johnson is only offering"copper cables that are already out of date".On the costs, he says the initial funding comes from the pot they have set aside for the Green Transformation Fund.

He said the party would invest 3100bn over five years in"clean transport, clean energy, on insulating people's homes and protecting the environment". "It will end up costing taxpayers a huge amount of money and I suspect it will delay the rollout of super fast broadband hugely."I think there's a difference between government investing strategically where there is market failure, and I'll acknowledge that in some areas there is market failure, and a wholesale nationalisation of the telecoms network.

John McDonnell will today announce that under a Labour government, Openreach will be renationalised and every home and business will get free broadband. The PM said he did take responsibility for the poor A&E figures which came out yesterday and went onto tout figures of more nurses which are in the NHS since he took over.Mr Johnson defended the way he makes his tea while answering questions in an interview today.

 

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jeremycorbyn Nothing is ever FREE. Some poor tax payer, licence payer or subscription payer do where is picking up the tab. Stop trying to convince people that they can have everything without doing anything to earn it.

jeremycorbyn I pay for satellite broadband, is he going to refund my money, and when the company I use go bankrupt, will he bail them out. A deluded idiot. Please don't vote for him

jeremycorbyn What country has free internet for all , would we be the first ? Or is this a play on words like normal?

jeremycorbyn Cutting edge of stupid you mean

jeremycorbyn Idiot! nothings free only fresh air and that's polluted

jeremycorbyn Scraping the barrel here pal.!

jeremycorbyn He is a bigger idiot than I first thought !

jeremycorbyn Careful , in your forecast , dont forget the ' all things being equal ' clause

jeremycorbyn Absolute joker

jeremycorbyn I don’t even pay £30 a month for broadband 😂

jeremycorbyn boltonfire hello anyone out there,or you to busy playing politics whilst students nearly lost their lives~

jeremycorbyn Perfect

jeremycorbyn Absolute Roaster

jeremycorbyn I’ve got to say, that anyone who votes for this lunatic 1970 socialists government including Danny Baker, needs to be stopped from booking package holidays, which of course they never been on, after they became famous!!

jeremycorbyn Complete C U N Tuesday

jeremycorbyn This is such bullshit

jeremycorbyn It’ll put us on our arse......

jeremycorbyn Your socialist friend Chavez in Venezuela used promised something similar, albeit not literally, so good luck with matey jeremycorbyn

jeremycorbyn Christ you’ve got the worst ever Tory PM in office and you come out with this......you should be romping home Jezza and you still keep fecking it up 😔

jeremycorbyn A Marxist government giving everyone free broadband? Be very afraid

jeremycorbyn 30 pound a month, please explain how

jeremycorbyn 😂😂😂

jeremycorbyn JC and labour will tax hell out of working British people.. Unemployed will benefit at taxpayers expenses.

jeremycorbyn Not interested broadband. Tell me something about significant issue socialcare dementiacare. UKLabour Conservatives jeremycorbyn BorisJohnson One million dementia voters up for grabs, maybe more.

jeremycorbyn Didn't labour pledge free university in 2017 which was retracted after the election.

jeremycorbyn Sky 2nd largest market share of current UK Broadband providers - I guess that there not going to be impartial in this debate. They have to protect their shareholders interest. VoteLabourDecember12

jeremycorbyn Vote winner

jeremycorbyn Why should big corporations pay for everyone to have broadband. Unbelievable u want it.Get of your arse get a job a pay for it yourself. Ffs why has everyone else got to pay for other people's luxuries.

jeremycorbyn It will also nationalise a company. Ask Jeremy how that was in the 70’s

jeremycorbyn Petrol and Euro 2020 tickets and I'm in

jeremycorbyn Who needs super fast download speeds except illegal downloaders? Netflix needs about 4 mbps

jeremycorbyn Get on the gala bingo stay at home mums

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jeremycorbyn But the cost of UKLabour will be a lot more than £30 a month thecostofcorbyn

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jeremycorbyn Pathetic

jeremycorbyn Bollocks

jeremycorbyn I prefer full-fat Broadband

jeremycorbyn This is about control Control the internet you control the population. Very dangerous road to go down, should be opposed.

jeremycorbyn the few remaining big corporations, Socialist Corbyn hasn't Nationalized .

jeremycorbyn Nothing is free! More tax to pay for ‘free’ things. FantasyPolitic

jeremycorbyn £80 billion cost. Taxing internet companies £300 million. See the problem ? labour

jeremycorbyn What about free wages?!?!?

jeremycorbyn Socialist's big plan to keep an eye on us.

jeremycorbyn That’s the Monster drinking gamer generation vote won 🙄 next for jezza free pile cream on the NHS for all the lazy shites sat about doing feck all living off their benefits and playing on their games consoles

jeremycorbyn A Marxist! A Liar..

jeremycorbyn More like Labour will put the UK at the edge of social chaos and economic bankruptcy. VoteConservative2019 🇬🇧

jeremycorbyn Good economics there jezza lad

jeremycorbyn Corbyn needs to retire. He has had a stroke earlier this year, why can't these people let it go, find peace Corbyn, leave the UK in the hands of those who love their country and promote patriotism.

jeremycorbyn Instead of free broadband drop the tax on fuel

jeremycorbyn Brilliant idea Jeremy the Tory bots on here confirm that. 🤣

jeremycorbyn And who gets the fastest capability or will everyone get top notch. Who do you complain to when the service is poor.

jeremycorbyn Yeah about that you fucknut

jeremycorbyn And how do you plan to get tax from big corporations? If it was that easy previous governments will have found a way to do it, they’ll find a way of avoiding any tax measures. It will be us, the general taxpayer, who end up paying for this nonsense

jeremycorbyn It’s all about winning now. The damage being done to the economy, the legacy of a poorer future being left for our kids and grandkids, the mounting evidence that UKLabour stopping Brexit is the single greatest act of self-harm that any modern country has perpetrated on itself.

jeremycorbyn Won’t this put thousands out of work at Virgin, talktalk etc etc. Who’s going to pay when you can get it for free. Next it will be free diesel and petrol! The drivers of RR, Aston Martins will pay quadruple to fund it. He lives in a fantasy land!

jeremycorbyn The great labour give away. What’s next?

jeremycorbyn Labour have announced they will privatise NATO, send a rocket to the moon and bring back free cheeese for everyone freebroadband

jeremycorbyn Basically anyone working will be taxed more one way or another. Big companies will leave the UK and we will be bankrupt within the first month with these labour knobs.

jeremycorbyn So what is the Labour party proposing to do with, for example, competitive rural broadband provider Gigaclear? Put it out of business?

jeremycorbyn Enables brexit that’ll cost every single person £2k, saves each household £30 a month. This man is a full blown idiot

jeremycorbyn Thanks for saving me £30/month Jez. Now, about the other £300/month you’re going to cost me...

jeremycorbyn Big corporations like Virginia and sky? Who'll no doubt shut up shop in the UK causing more unemployment. Genius

jeremycorbyn The state of nhs railways homelessness food banks universal credit knife crime suicides etc etc and they think this is good

jeremycorbyn A socialist government & state control of the internet. What could possibly go wrong? Can we have laptops and IPads to use on the free broadband please?

jeremycorbyn Water must be made free too along with gas and electric

jeremycorbyn Mine is £58 a month from Virgin!

jeremycorbyn Spend spend spend-bankrupted noidea

jeremycorbyn When stuff is free people dont appreciate it or respect it Just look at the abuse you see nurses getting from scrotes in UK hospitals

jeremycorbyn I’m looking forward to hearing the next pie in the sky vote buying pledge. What’s it going to be I wonder? 12 months Free Netflix 🤷🏻‍♂️

jeremycorbyn Exactly this. this could be a major change for the ENTIRE UK. compare and contrast this with cameron's HS2 vanity project. as we move further into c21 a fibre broadband system available to all regardless of ability to pay is vital. in the uk uptake/access is 10%. in japan 96%

jeremycorbyn And to think I used to think labour-the pills worked 😁

jeremycorbyn Social care is a complete shambles but don’t worry, under Corbyn’s Labour, the elderly and infirm who have paid taxes all their lives will be able to Tweet from their sick beds.

jeremycorbyn It’s illegal. Report that

jeremycorbyn Do I still get BT Sport app for free with the free internet?

jeremycorbyn The clown makes up more jokes. What about houses that don't have computers? What sites would he restrict? How would he really pay when he fails to get any cash?

jeremycorbyn 4 day working week, free prescriptions, free broadband and you still won't get my vote! If people full for your BS I pity them!

jeremycorbyn Is that just wired broadband? Does it include free calls? Will my mobile internet be free too? NeverCorbyn

jeremycorbyn Don’t listen to him people. He’s lying.👍🏼

jeremycorbyn Free IPad for ever Corbyn vote!

jeremycorbyn UKLabour have lost the plot! Change corporation tax and abolish Council Tax! They are just tinkering around the edges to get votes! Be bold like us HpoolNewsAlerts

jeremycorbyn If this lot get in there will be no big companies left in the country to tax

jeremycorbyn If he gives me free broadband a 4 day week and 20 quid cash he will get my vote I want it in advance please

jeremycorbyn Who on earth pays £30 a month for broad band anyway, delusional idea !!!

jeremycorbyn Ok. And these big corporations, you have assurances they will accept this tax and wont up sticks and move to another country I presume?

jeremycorbyn What was it Corbyn said the other day, “media will do as they are told under a socialist government”. Now they want to control broadband! What could that mean !

jeremycorbyn the maths dont add up, like his budget, this is just another fraudulent budget by marxist johnmcdonnellMP

jeremycorbyn BT have just brought rights to champions league for £1.2bn. I get feeling they won’t be interested in giving anything away for free. Think about it Jeremy. 🤔🤪

jeremycorbyn There won't be any big corporations to tax if Labour get into power

jeremycorbyn Partially funded. Which means tax payers will fund the rest. And it will be a lot more than £30 per household.

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jeremycorbyn Not free then someone else pays in tax the idea is to encourage corporations to come to this country not tax them away

jeremycorbyn There want be an big companies as they will have all left , how can people not sue that labour are a joke party, who will distroy this country given half a chance. Ffs corbyn ideal utopia is venezuela Corbyn and mcdonald are both confirmed Communists.need I say more

jeremycorbyn A bit more than £30 a month. 👌👌

jeremycorbyn What about santa only working one day a year can make him work 3/4 days a year

jeremycorbyn Remember British Rail, British Leyland? Remember the strikes, the lazy bosses and workers, the nepotism. Nationalisation won’t work.........

jeremycorbyn Meanwhile that money could be better spent on NHS police fire service the elderly Broadband is not something a government should be providing FREE you are delusional and out of touch get your priorities right jeremycorbyn

jeremycorbyn Money for free broadband how about money for homeless children and war veterans you muppet

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jeremycorbyn But cost taxpayers billions?...

jeremycorbyn jeremycorbyn and SkySports 1-2-3 while were at it, as it’s all free bumpy

jeremycorbyn I’ve been calling for this for a long time. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

jeremycorbyn Corporations don’t pay taxes, they simply collect taxes from their customers.

jeremycorbyn Bollocks

jeremycorbyn Corbyn and McDonnell controlling the UK internet, what could possibly go wrong?

jeremycorbyn There won’t be any big corporations to tax

jeremycorbyn 1) BT isn’t for sale 2) costing a wrong 3) it’s a private company 4) won’t happen

jeremycorbyn Any union members listening to this, check where your Pension money is invested and pray that nobody from the City of London had the telly on.

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jeremycorbyn british people will be paying for it them selves labour will destroy the country it go like corbyns mates in south america broke skint.

jeremycorbyn Free stuff everywhere from Labour, except one thing and that is the people. We wont be free we will be under the jackboot of the 4th Reich, AKA as the EU. A vote for Labour is a vote for the EU, Communism and Bankruptcy !

jeremycorbyn What big corporations do you mean those big corporations you want to nationalise or who will leave the country when the taxes go up.

jeremycorbyn What a gimmick! This is an Impossible vote begging piece of lying statesmanship so far this campaign! Shame on you UKLabour

jeremycorbyn Pillock can’t even read 😂

jeremycorbyn It would be the bloody tax payer that would pay for it. And as someone who has worked all my adult life I wouldn't want to be paying for 'free' broadband for people sitting on their arses on benefits. I would rather see the money go on NHS or housing or education.

jeremycorbyn Idiots. Under Labour the Rich will move to a different country followed by big businesses! Will SKY News do a story on the insanity of Labour's 'free' giveaways! Off course not! Sky News aren't in the business of logic & truth! Asked Corbyn about terrorist connections yet?

jeremycorbyn Absolutely brilliant, well done Jezza. We can’t trust you with National Security or the economy, but so I’m pleased for free broadband 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

jeremycorbyn No thanks i'd rather pay for mine. Plus by nationalising broadband you're stopping the competetive R&D between providers to be able to offer better services therefore stopping future tech advancment putting us behing the rest of the world! So, No Thanks!

jeremycorbyn This plan also means nationalising BT. Which means Labour would control our internet. Let that sink in. freebroadband

jeremycorbyn Why do I need Twitter to load even faster? I’d rather live on a deserted island than line in the current state of the nation.

jeremycorbyn Come on,free broadband 👌💦💦💦💦💦😂😂😂

jeremycorbyn I wouldn’t let him run a sweet shop let alone a country

jeremycorbyn Surely people aren’t naive enough to buy into this gimmick

jeremycorbyn 'partially funded' so, how much will this actually cost? Bearing in mind the UK infrastructure as it is won't support

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