"It's 97% in Japan. 8 in 10 of us experienced internet problems in the last year. So we'll make the very fastest full-fibre broadband free to everybody, in every home in our country.Labour put the cost at £20bn - a figure that was dismissed by people close to BT, who argued that it would be double that sum.
Sky News' technology correspondent Rowland Manthorpe said the policy would likely prove popular with voters, but suggested other broadband providers could feel"hugely threatened".
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johnmcdonnellMP BT open reach do not give a good fast service there connection is shared out to other so called providers we are getting ripoff smugness of your Sky interview was apparent he should have checked His facts independent report that TORYS implemented says different
johnmcdonnellMP Haha that’s labour for you ! All empty promises! See how we can’t trust labour they just guess
johnmcdonnellMP Well it would, wouldn't it
johnmcdonnellMP Better investment than HS2 which most people won’t be able to afford to travel on.....even if they have the fare......end up in London. £500 for the weekend
johnmcdonnellMP No boom and bust they said - no to austerity they said - we want to get in power - they want to spend Trillions if taxpayers money - to intice the guillable - (outcome) decades more of debt and austerity. Labour for the terrorists no t the Jew.
johnmcdonnellMP Free Broadband for all? Isn’t that what Samuel L Jackson promised in Kingsman? Better start checking behind people’s ears.......
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johnmcdonnellMP Unlimited free porn as well
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Sky Telling people what to read..Social engineering much? What a joke.
Please report accurately: Taxpayer-funded broadband. Like reading the outpourings of a seven year old.
Free broadband & ....
johnmcdonnellMP It’s all bollocks... like they pledged the last election that they would scrap university fees.... just trying to con the public into voting for them... if they won, they’d just cancel it, by saying the last government as left the country in a mess... just lies, all lies!!!
johnmcdonnellMP It’s forgotten that Labour squandered over £10 billion on the failed NPFIT system, computerisation for the NHS! Original estimate £6 billion but if it had ever worked cost over £30 billion! BorisJohnson johnmcdonnellMP
johnmcdonnellMP State controlled internet......
johnmcdonnellMP Free Internet, what a joke, Labour is really getting desperate. They're trying to get the the under 25's who a majority won't even be able to get out of bed to vote.. What's next Labour?
johnmcdonnellMP Are you going to change your fawning and biased coverage of labour, now that they have announced a policy which will utterly destroy Sky's broadband business skynews?
BethRigby johnmcdonnellMP Never heard of Labour boosting an economy!
johnmcdonnellMP And if millions more people can work from home with better internet, within 10 years you get less traffic, less pollution, less stress commuting, more time with your family... (etc)
johnmcdonnellMP If there is that much free money available spend it on care for the elderly police or nhs broadband is not an essential item that needs to be provided Free by the government if anyone thinks it is they this country has its priorities wrong
johnmcdonnellMP It’ll pay for itself in boosting online businessss, save the NHS money, give people more money to spend, help with loneliness and allow kids to get a better education in rural areas.
johnmcdonnellMP Why not make it a cool £100billion.
johnmcdonnellMP Labour bullshit again
johnmcdonnellMP Labour stands by its figures: Also Labour
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johnmcdonnellMP BT are scaremongering. Corporations hate competition, especially when a government wants to provide as a free at the point of access public service.
johnmcdonnellMP More nonsense as they desperately try to buy votes. Tax payers will end up funding the long term debt. Pensions funds will fall. Govt cannot run businesses they are crap at it. He always say “pay a bit more tax” no loads more under Labour not a bit more.
What a bunch of jokers
johnmcdonnellMP What would BT know about , John will be right!
johnmcdonnellMP BT shares fall by 4% after corbyn announces the nationalization of the company... The destruction of our economy has begun and he isnt even PM.
johnmcdonnellMP Yes it will cost less than that because the Marxists won’t pay the market rate for shares - same plan they had in 2017. A party that can’t keep its own website running now wants to run the internet. What could possibly go wrong?
johnmcdonnellMP I know who I would believe .
johnmcdonnellMP the piggy profiteers are squealing foul-no vision just greed-fox news out in force today.
johnmcdonnellMP What a wonderful world under Labour,run by Terrorist loving Marxist governmen,
johnmcdonnellMP £20b is just my broadband bill for the year. It’s a rip off along with the tv license, gas, electricity, council tax and water rates. We really get ripped off in this country compared to other places around Europe.
johnmcdonnellMP BT’s greed coming through thick & fast, they’re terrified of losing any of its monopoly over us.... 98% of South Korea has full fibre, here its 8-10% & even that’s slow & intermittent, we’re lagging behind because of these big businesses having a stranglehold...
johnmcdonnellMP I want my Kitten!
Who gets to buyout the shareholders and bridge the pension deficit?.
johnmcdonnellMP That's just laying the fibre right? Companies can charge what they want for access to data?
johnmcdonnellMP Another freebie from Labour to get votes, which they will never deliver. If Labour continue this way businesses and investors will leave the UK and our country will end up like all the other Marxist run countries, POOR.
johnmcdonnellMP BT would not be an impartial contributor to facts and figures. Labour have had a little more time to cost this. Wait for the debate. votelabour GeneralElection
johnmcdonnellMP BT would say that . Have no chance to rip off customers , will be free!
The Dutch govt had fibre connection to almost every home in Holland way back in 2010. The broadband Internet subscription wasn't free though but way cheaper.
How about free water? Electricity?
Presume it will only work four days a week?
More lies
MP’s will set the price & pay in Government bonds. But they promise it won’t affect pension funds or other savings. Isn’t it just borrowing under another name & I’m sure the MP’s will have a different view of share prices to the share holders. More “Pie in the Sky” politics
I’d rather have better NHS service thanks but no thanks
That picture will be everyone’s screensaver.
Next up, free bus and rail travel - privatisation of transport services...
Cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
State run internet now where have I herd that before comrade
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Delusional and desperate. Its free because our increased taxes pay for it?
Bt workers prepare for payyyyyycutssss
Corbyn is a moron
Brilliant.
You can already get 3 hours free broadband a day at the library, which is free to join.
Free? Ha ha ha.
What does the EU say about state owned companies and free and fair competition? How will Virgin Broadband react?
Will we be going back to having 3 TV channels and test cards from 10pm on a Sunday
Oh yesssssss! And can we have FREE Netflix, Amazon Plus & Sky Sports
Beep rubbish another promise from political posteriors!
Can we just have lots of free money instead
Your swaying me ,just want free gas and electric and my mortgage paid and you can safely say you've got my vote comrades
Brilliant idea
Utter none sense!
And who will pay for it?
‘Free’? No. Probably the most expensive thing youll pay for without knowing your paying for it
Whilst you're at it UKLabour can we have free gas, free electricity, free car insurance, free fuel, free life insurance, free homes free pet food & insurance & free shopping? Throw all them in and you'll get my vote as I hate paying for life's necessities.
When will this madness end?
How embarrassing & desperate are they getting everything going to be free, next they’re be saying our mortgage & rents will be free
The more comments and promises they make the more I am convinced that if labour goes into power, the UK is heading towards self destruction
Offered Strange word to use. Crank.
RUBBISH and ridiculous disparate behaviour on the part of Labour for a vote.....I,would have liked 2 weeks in ibiza for my vote or a new ipad
There's that word again....FREE!!!!!! Nothings Free John, everything has to be payed for!!!!
No way has the finance of this been thought out. And what would be the download speed?
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Who’s going to pay for it?
Not until 2030 !!!!
Total cobblers. Never happen. Sheer desperation from Liebour now.
He's forgotten the bit where we all get free play stations, free Fortnite, COD and Fifa along with unrivalled access to Sky Sports and BT sports. 🤣🤣
Now they really have lost the plot
When did broadband become a right? Chuffing stupid idea.
Not fit along with toxic Corbyn to lead labour
That money should go to the NHS wrongpriorities
Free stuff honest
johnmcdonnellMP is that the same free internet/ wi fi UKLabour promised everyone under Tony Blair ?
and to pay for it?
These fucking jesters man.
Bet sky bt & virgin made up with u 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Along with free laptops or tablets. This way Momentum National Socialist exe Labour government will be able to gather whatever data it wants on its citizens. This data will only be used to control them. The party will be the state, the state will be the party.
broadband controlled by the party? Keeping tabs on us and sending any of us who don't Google the right sites for 're education maybe? Sounds scary to me? besides, what will happen to the man and his wife in the plussnet broadband advert?
Sky news is a bit like the ex speaker of the house......not worried about being biased at all. Has sky news donated money to the labour campaign? Or is giving them nice press and Boris bad press enough?...
lying barstewards
Purchase prize already dismissed by sources close to BT. Not a good start. And rolled out to everyone by 2030. Like they’d still be in power by then.
That huge deficit we had from the last labour government will seem like peanuts after this lot, 30 years austerity to fix.
Labour supporters need to start getting jobs so they're able to actually do the adult thing and pay for it. Bunch of jokers.
“Our State Broadband will be free” - goes on the UK State Debt....boom,boom
labour Wouldn't the money be better spent on infrastructure like housing and upgrading the system .. Compared to other countries the internet speed in the UK is a joke. BT is another company run by bean counters who are driven by profit not service... Same with the Telecoms co's
The one thing I picked up from corbyns interview today which I can’t believe he said labour will end austerity! Well that’s easy now Corbyn as the Tory’s have just fixed your last mess and they can now say the period is finally over ! You are a joke Corbyn and I want you OUT !
It’s not free, it’s taxpayer funded. Only difference is the bill will be hidden in our income taxes.
You are a joke ! The endless money pot
Labour’s panic manifesto is rapidly becoming .....
Does BT know? 🤔
How about water and heating you know... the essentials not luxuries
Where the money coming from Jeremy Corbyn & John McDonnell You to pay for it with high taxes you dont get something for nothing there is a catch.
Free internet still wouldn’t get me to vote for them Labour are a waiting disaster if they get into government
Free as we don’t have to pay so who is going to pay for it and how?
Can I have an Aston Martin?
How does this work in a free market economy? Does this mean I'm freed from my sky contract? Other providers will be out of business by decreewho will compensate the shareholders? More lefty rubbish
Only way I'd vote for UKLabour is if they promised to deliver Brexit and NOT have another referendum to stay in and not tying us in to the EU
Brain dead.
It’s amazing where there going to get all this money from, will be bankrupt within the year.
FREE!!!! EVERYTHING IS FREE I TELL YOU. VOTE LABOUR AND EVERYTHING IS FREE. *How's about a free telly 👍
One can always provide the poorest quality of broadband and call it free.
That's Sky broadband fucked then...
How about get rid of the tv licence ?
We need less not more.
So the government is seizing private businesses now. Looks like a modern day Soviet Union.
And then they'll shut your internet off for wrong think if you speak your mind.
Free student fees last time and now free broadband, Labour will do anything to win. Didn’t work last time and won’t work this time.
'And then, the all the left over money in our treasury will be sent to America to help them pay for The New Green Deal. Get to work, everyone...'
Like my son said, are they really that desperate ?🤣
This is never going to happen though why the fuck do people lap up anything any party promises
Empty promises. Who’s going to pay for this.
Just imagine the Labour Party controlling your internet use....
We've just had 10 years of austerity because of labours last irresponsible mess, they look determined to do it all again. Plus all this feeling sorry for Northern England stuff, try living down here paying £400k for a 3 bed house. Only right are stamp duty, tax gets spent here.
State supplied broadband? is this the USSR? Labour can't event get their 'Digital Platforms' to work properly - whatever a bloody digital platform is-To entrust them with my broadband connection-NO THANKYOU! Let the private sector deliver-I remember British Rail & British Telecom
What? 😂😂😂 Seriously have labour been on the juice tonight? You can’t part nationalise a PRIVATE company! Seriously your daily promises are deluded and couldn’t be further from the truth GeneralElection BTCare
When will labour give everyone their own unicorn?
Sky News offering a full frontal assault on Cons tonight. 'Corbyn offers free stuff', 'Tories useless on NHS', 'Tories wrong on ending FoM, 'People agree with Corbyn', 'Boris useless on floods', 'Boris heckled'. Sky News is certainly doing their part to help Corbyn.
What?
What about the competition ? Are they compensated or also nationalised. There are multiple providers out there.
Throw in free multi screen Netflix too
People didn’t like the idea of public libraries back in the day either. Access to the internet and information therein has shown to increase upwardmobility and reduce poverty. Things like education programs, bill paying and job applications can only be found online in many cases
We cannot afford this. This is nuts.
My BT broadband hardly works now, let alone once every other fuckers using it
Reducing systems of fair competition is economically counter-productive, it's not in-keeping with our naturally competitive nature and keeps overall standards low and entitlement high. Poor culture.
😂😂😂
And this will really work along with their staying in the EU
They just want your firstborn to sell to the labour grooming gangs to pay for it.
I will vote for the party that promises free unlimited BorisJohnsons to all Incels.
What Corbyn thinks he looks like after announcing all his freebies. Pathetic.
Wow this antisemitism is getting a bit much. Free broadband anyone?
Wonder if they’ve actually discussed this with BT. Who also own EE and Plusnet.
And no TV license cost thrown in too 😁
So easy to promise now as if Labour manage to get into power this time, they will be a one term party so their promise by 2030 is simple to promise, that will not happen.
Will it still deliver.. em. You know.
Oh dear. I've always been Labour but this is too far desperateandwillsayanything
Ha ha they really are a joke. Can they privatise the car industry and give me a free merc
BT aren’t everyone’s choice of provider tho UKLabour. I would never choose BT. I parted with £350 in 2007 to terminate a contract between ourselves due to their dismal and shameful customer service. If Labour think mentioning BT saves their ridiculous offer then think again!
Rather the money was spent on NHS than unnecessary borrowing.
It'll be Labour to pay off everyone's mortgage next. Talk about desperate
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍 nice one
Maybe because 60’million fewer people live in Finland.
Can I swap my free broadband for my monthly phone tariff
Which they won't, because this is the country we live in. We'll be much more likely to get climate change deniers and immigrant bashers all over the shop.
If UKLabour chuck in an amazon primevideouk primevideosport subscription they might be onto a winner ! FreeStuff GeneralElection2019
Can we have free popcorn as well. Those Trots in that Labour camp are off their frigging heads.
Will be get free tellys to livestream Netflix through our free broadband on our free extra day off work when it’s a 4 day week? Free popcorn and pizza? Free iPhone to instagram it?
So on Day 1 of a Labour government, all investment in broadband infrastructure ceases. Consumer choice goes out the window because other ISPs can’t compete with “free”. And don’t dare use your government rationed broadband for anything the politburo disapproves of...
Oh sure, that's not gonna put the country in more debt
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