John Beynon

So there’s two things in life that are certain – death and taxes.

The Chancellor of the UK has in his wisdom today announced/confirmed in his pre-budget announcements that a new ‘Broadband Tax’ will be introduced that will be used to;

….fund the installation of “super-fast” broadband to 90% of the population by 2017.

It will be £6 a year and everyone in the UK with a land line will have to pay the tax. WTF? That’s pretty much 99% of the population I’d imagine aiming to raise around £150m a year to fund the roll out.

So, let me get this straight – The government is taxing me to pay a private company (British Telecom) to roll out fast broadband to the population???? I already have fast broadband thanks, I saw the light and left BT’s crappy antiquated copper crap and went to Virgin Media where I really do enjoy 10Mb of speed and can wind it up to 50Mb if I so choose.

It’s also to fund roll out of broadband to ‘rural areas’ – does the government not think that perhaps people move to rural areas to get away from modern tech? Broadband has been rolling out quite steadily over the past years and yes, maybe the UK is behind the rest of the world in speeds but haven’t we got more pressing issues to worry ourselves with like the mess the bankers got this country in and the massive bailouts I’m we are already paying for!!

The good news is the conservatives say they would scrap this ‘legislation’ if they got into power – Labour your days are numbered!

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