On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:45:37 GMT, "Ato_Zee"
wrote:


On 29-Jun-2009, "George Weston" wrote:

Governments might have got away with such stuff as you mention years ago
before the information revolution occurred but now?

They still get away with it. Mr Bean Brown loves soundbites, knowing
he won't have to implement it. Who ever gets in will just absorb the
money, fibre a couple of areas, trumpet how good they are doing,
more sound bites, and put the rest on the backburner until the
next election, then set up a Commission to report on how to move
it forward, to report after the election.
Politicians get us into wars, economic mess, and never reflect
the will of the people who elect them, except when forced into an
embarassing U-turn, like over the Gurkhas.
If the government gives the money to BT they will just absorb
most ot it and only do the easy profitable bits.
Only way forward is to break BT's monopoly on the ducts and
that ain't going to happen.

I fear you are correct. Successive governments have a good record of
being able to "fool some of the people all of the time".

By the next general election there will be too few of us that even
remember the Iraq war/MP expenses scandal/Cash for honours etc. to
count.

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