'Doomsday' plan to renationalise BT

Andrew64

Talk about back to the 70s! The way things are going all of Thatcher's privatisations could be reversed.

'Doomsday' plan to renationalise BT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/15/bt-plan-nationalise

Adebisi

Citizen (Woolfy) Brown

bubblesmoney

there must be some sort of trouble with BTs finances because someone i know was working for BT through another software company. even though the project was ongoing the outside contractor had to pull the plug on the project and relocate their employees out of BT projects because apparently BT hadnt cleared their payments and were overdue and hence the IT company decided to pull the plug on the contract midway through. it was a IT support project. so things might be bad with BTs finances if they arent paying companies they contract out work to. the person i know subsequently relocated abroad even though they were offered to relocate in the uk down south from northern ireland for another unrelated project which was still ongoing. but the said person didint want to keep moving around if that project was subsequently terminated as well. so they opted to go abroad for other projects of the IT company instead of working on any BT contract and have their personal plans repeatedly disrupted.

Rochdale_Pioneers

If its Pension scheme has been so badly managed that we need to pump £10bn in then why not take it over? We need a platform to invest in a broadband fibre optic network anyway - a nationalised BT could do the infrastructure, and sell phone calls to private operators.

amcluesent

It's tempting to think BT run by the mandarins would be better than the current crew.

Then you remember waiting 6 months for the GPO to 'allow' you to have one of their lovely phones, in a choice of 5 colours.

Rochdale_Pioneers

amcluesent wrote: »

It's tempting to think BT run by the mandarins would be better than the current crew.

Then you remember waiting 6 months for the GPO to 'allow' you to have one of their lovely phones, in a choice of 5 colours.

And is anyone suggesting we go back to that? Would the public stand for it? They'd defect - you're conveniently forgetting that BT has much competition for selling phones these days.

halight

The way things are looking everything will all be state owned this time next year

amcluesent

The real reason to nationalise BT is simple - tax and censorship.

Clown is under orders from Barroso to get control of the internet, which they both hate for the freedom of speech it allows. They've tried the paedophile and terrorist bogey-man spin, but people still want to keep the web open.

As BT is the biggest ISP, it'll be easy for the Government to introduce a universal 'web account' so you need to input your ID Card details each time you use the web. Taxation based on time on-line and collation of all content, linked back to your fingerprints encoded on the ID card!

Before anyone says this is a paranoia, check out how the government has twisted arms in the police etc. to ensure that the Phorm profiling and content inspection system could be installed and used (secretly) by BT. Just testing...

If you've done nothing wrong etc. etc.

vivatifosi

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

And is anyone suggesting we go back to that? Would the public stand for it? They'd defect - you're conveniently forgetting that BT has much competition for selling phones these days.

Are we talking the same BT that wanted £210 to change my main socket as its faulty - a 5 min job, saying that only they are allowed to do it?

sons_2

They are not saying it will be nationalised, they are actually saying that the government have created plans on how to do it should they need to. The government is trying to think ahead for once instead of reacting to problems. I don't understand why people are criticising Brown or the Government for this.

Cleaver

Andrew64 wrote: »

Talk about back to the 70s! The way things are going all of Thatcher's privatisations could be reversed.

'Doomsday' plan to renationalise BT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/15/bt-plan-nationalise

The poster just above me beat me to it, but this article isn't about plans to renationalise anything. It's about the government taking steps to risk assess a large company going under in light of recent events and coming up with business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Which sounds very sensible to me.

I guess the headline 'Government creates sensible business continuity plan' doesn't really attract the reader as much.