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(Via @paulwaugh) Really good new for those who use their smartphones in other EU countries
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"Clegg made much of the fact that the EU is abolishing roaming charges for mobile phones. No more shocking bills when we upload our holiday snaps to Instagram or Tweet from Tuscany.
Except that, in order to make up the shortfall, the phone companies will need to charge more than they otherwise would in their general tariffs. In other words, the EU is obliging non-travellers to subsidise travellers.
It's hardly surprising that EU officials, MEPs and multi-national business executives favour the measure: it will benefit them enormously. Human nature being what it is, this makes them imagine that everyone else wants price regulation as much as they do. They genuinely can't see why taxing the majority to subsidise the minority is unpopular."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100265921/the-margin-of-nigel-farages-win-was-game-changing/
No mention of if the affiliates have already cast their vote.
The "trigger ballot" process is the standard reselection process for sitting Labour MPs. The MP should get the nomination from at least 50.1% of the CLP branches to be reselected. At this stage he's not up against anybody else...it's a simple "yes/no" to reselect the sitting MP.
If he doesn't get the support of majority of branches, the selection is opened to other contenders (and can't be an AWS).
Benton is about 800 years old
They're making our point for us now!
Hannan's wrong. This is highly competitive market and the mobile networks will have to swallow most if not all off of the lost revenue.
If the EU was mainly about sensible reforms like this, I could become a supporter. Sadly most of its projects are foolish things like the Eurozone, unlimited migration and the Common Agricultural Policy.
[EDIT: admittedly, it's a market which has seen consistent falls in unit prices. So they may just fall more slowly than they otherwise would!]
Supermarkets are stonkingly competitive, but if the price of wholesale rice (say) rises, they all put their prices up to preserve the margin.
Of course you can't vote for Van Rompuy, or anyone else that runs the shop.
I bet that next April I'll do even better. That's the nature of the mobile market.
Sad.
An impact on your critical faculties, one might say.
I shall change my text alert tone from Never Going to Give You Up to Ode to Joy.
We all have our nemesis to hate.
This will benefit well off people who travel a lot. Whoopee. It's the tax cut before the election, and does not change the disgracefully undemocratic pile of cacka that is the EU.
It's a bagatelle, like the boiler scrappage scheme, or free laptops
Should be popular, and benefits everyone, not just those OAPs who travel a lot.
Oh, okay then. The EU should legislate so all phones have to use a standard charger.
Thoughts?
Wasn't any in the desert though, they should do something about that.
Virgin - unlimited data £15pcm. That's 3G however.
Very competitive market and Hannan's laughable squirming fools no-one.
Unless you are still under contract they saw you coming...
And from 2015 you won't. Just this once, everybody lives!
WWHVRD?
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-a-great-step-forward-for-the-free-internet
Anyway may I be so sad and pathetic as to say I am not jumping for joy at this change as I largely believe Hamman's points to be valid .
Price fixing is generally bad and whilst this case is not the worst example of it, it surely is overblown in its significance to the general population as a whole (who do not do European travel every month)
If Nick Clegg and others think this will make people love the EU then I'm afraid I do not agree
Will I be able to sign up with an operator in Latvia and use it exclusively in the UK at the Latvian rate? Or the same for a Latvian signing up to a UK operator, should the pricing work best the other way around?
Now that would open up competition and push down prices!
I am sure mobile data is a wonderful thing but it is not something I have ever made work for me. Can I be alone in this? I doubt it.
It's full of Nazi Homophobes.
There's something intensely exciting about going walking in Andalucia and watching premiership footie on a giant TV screen on the same day.
Clearing up the fraud systemic within the EU would gave every one of the citizens within its borders free mobile phone usage for life. But let's face it, eyes are closed to the fraud as the price required to make the EU palatable.
Unless you know the right pubs and can speak a bit of German....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2595611/Cut-tax-rate-sees-revenue-climb-9billion-Amount-paid-wealthiest-soared-50p-rate-reduced.html
Labour have been murmuring about slashing student tuition fees in their manifesto. For example, Osborne could shoot this fox - and give the LibDems a lifeline on this toxic topic for them.
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6865827584/h8D6C7612/
I am so sorry Bob. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess. I have been tapping your wife, day and night when you're not around.
In fact, more than you. I'm not getting any at home, but that's no excuse. I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will accept my sincerest apology with my promise that it won't happen again.
The man, anguished and betrayed, went into his bedroom, grabbed his gun, and without a word, shot his wife and killed her.
A few moments later, a second text came in:
Damn auto-correct. I meant "wifi", not "wife".
Interesting.
'I believe this may have the scope to allow highly targeted and popular tax cuts ahead of the next election'
Amazing,another £9 billion raised by cutting tax,maybe even Ed will take note and not continue down the Hollande tax route,problem is his party wouldn't let him.
Set to give farage a boost before the euros....goodness.
It's something like Cammos promises of referendums on the EU, so far in the future that the promise can, and I believe, will be broken with impunity.
It won't make the slightest difference to the outcome of the EU elections in May.
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Farage could have taken that attitude but he took on Clegg and is reaping a big win.
He who dares wins - and Eck isn't daring - not like Nigel.
Difference is Farage is the outsider with no government position so needs anything to get on the stage. Salmond is the First Minister why would he want to debate with an obscure failed labour back bencher.
Totally different position , he will wait till Cameron is shown to be a complete fake and coward and in the end wipe the floor with Cameron's monkey.
I'm surprised nobody has commented on how this kills off another Scottish indy scare story, by the way ("you Jocks can't afford indy - think of the roaming charges if you try to phone your granny in Basingstoke!").
Basically, everywhere (UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Spain, etc. etc.) except Italy is seeing economic growth picking up at the moment.