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Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

Friday 15th November 2019 20:29 GMT yakitoo

Re: @JIm84

"the railways were utterly worn out after WW2 and needed massive replacement of equipment."

Which the the owners were unwilling or unable to do, so the public purse picked up the bill.

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