[The_bluester (Paul)]

Again, when someone can find an equity funding model (Which requires a financial return to work) to build a public hospital or operate an existing one I will start to put some weight on that one. And the "Faster porn" line is going to get from me the disdain it deserves. It did when Richard Alston trotted it out about a deacde ago too. Actually it earned more than that when he said it, more like ridicule and he did not remain comms minister for a great amount of time after that. Not that his replacement was a whole lot better.

Are you going to argue so stridently against the libs model too? Because on your own logic you should. They plan use the same sort of funding model to spend about two thirds as much to build a vastly less capable network that from your point of argument you must regard as unnessesary too and better "Spent" on hospitals.

Edited to add, it is a bit like arguing that you should not borrow money for an investment property because you have power bills to pay on the one you have now, and they are only going to get bigger.