50p tarrif per month on your phone - to pay for broadband.

that's the new government idea - if it gets me 100mbit that's great - but i
imagine they are thinking a pitiful 2mbit.



--
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....

The dog from that film you saw wrote:
> that's the new government idea - if it gets me 100mbit that's great -
> but i imagine they are thinking a pitiful 2mbit.
>
>
>
Everything this government decides will be open to review when the next
one arrives.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, The dog from that film
you saw <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>that's the new government idea - if it gets me 100mbit that's great -
>but i imagine they are thinking a pitiful 2mbit.
>
You've got it in one, yet another stupid idea from a stupid government
and more stealth tax. I get a good deal from Virgin Mediocre but if this
comes in the land line goes, it would probably be cheaper to run the pay
as you go mobile anyway for the small amount of calls we make.

Mike

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Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange

"Michael Swift" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsppH8LA4O+(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, The dog from that film
> you saw <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>that's the new government idea - if it gets me 100mbit that's great -
>>but i imagine they are thinking a pitiful 2mbit.
>>
> You've got it in one, yet another stupid idea from a stupid government
> and more stealth tax. I get a good deal from Virgin Mediocre but if this
> comes in the land line goes, it would probably be cheaper to run the pay
> as you go mobile anyway for the small amount of calls we make.
>
> Mike

I heard that Yorkshiremen were mean but giving up the landline to avoid
paying a measly 50p extra per month?
;-)

George

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> The dog from that film you saw wrote:
>> that's the new government idea - if it gets me 100mbit that's great -
>> but i imagine they are thinking a pitiful 2mbit.
>>
>>
>>
> Everything this government decides will be open to review when the next
> one arrives.

It will be open to review if, in the most extremely unlikely event, this
government gets re-elected. Probably be announce a further dozen or so
times whilst the money is being spent elsewhere.

--
Old Codger
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What matters in politics is not what happens, but what you can make
people believe has happened. [Janet Daley 27/8/2003]

Michael Swift wrote:

> yet another stupid idea from a stupid government and more stealth tax.

In what way is this a stealth tax?

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, George Weston
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>> You've got it in one, yet another stupid idea from a stupid government
>> and more stealth tax. I get a good deal from Virgin Mediocre but if this
>> comes in the land line goes, it would probably be cheaper to run the pay
>> as you go mobile anyway for the small amount of calls we make.
>>
>> Mike
>
>I heard that Yorkshiremen were mean but giving up the landline to avoid
>paying a measly 50p extra per month?
>;-)

Not mean, careful :-)

It's not the 50p it's the extra tax on top of all the others.

Mike

--
Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, alexd <(E-Mail Removed)>
writes
>> yet another stupid idea from a stupid government and more stealth tax.
>
>In what way is this a stealth tax?

Do you really think this shower will do anything they promise, look at
their record, if it ever happens the money will vanish into the general
tax pot and the telecoms providers and ISP's will end up footing the
bill, that's you and me, so it's a stealth tax.

Mike

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Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange

"Michael Swift" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, alexd <(E-Mail Removed)>
> writes
>>> yet another stupid idea from a stupid government and more stealth tax.
>>
>>In what way is this a stealth tax?
>
> Do you really think this shower will do anything they promise, look at
> their record, if it ever happens the money will vanish into the general
> tax pot and the telecoms providers and ISP's will end up footing the
> bill, that's you and me, so it's a stealth tax.

I see your point, a previous instance being the "road tax", now renamed the
vehicle tax.
When introduced, it was ring-fenced to provide road improvements.
It now just goes into the general taxation pot.

George

Michael Swift wrote:

> Do you really think this shower will do anything they promise, look at
> their record, if it ever happens the money will vanish into the general
> tax pot and the telecoms providers and ISP's will end up footing the
> bill, that's you and me, so it's a stealth tax.

I'm not disputing the fact that it's a tax, it's the "stealth" bit I'm
questioning. Sticking it in a press release isn't exactly the most stealthy
way of announcing it, is it?

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