It was announced yesterday that the £6 per year per land line tax to fund rural super fast broadband would be going ahead.

The idea is that this tax is spent on providing broadband for the 30% of homes that experts think will be by-passed by commercial fast broadband plans.

Interestingly this appears to relate to the outlying rural areas which have few people, yet deserve to be connected.  I have no issue with that.

What I am curious about is areas like the one I live in where the speed of connection in our property is often less than 500Kbs on a line that should support a minimum of 2Mbs.  We live in the middle of the UK Silicon valley, it just appears that it is up some deserted side alley!

So the Government imposes more taxes and yet again fails to deliver anything.  It really is time for a major change.  This labour government should be taken to the knackers yard.