Clearly we have learned nothing in this country about wasting money

We have been waiting seven years for it and will be waiting at least seven more for it to be finished.

The aim of the National Broadband Plan, announced in 2012, was to bring top-of-the-range high-speed internet to parts of the country — smaller towns and one-off homes — that would otherwise be ignored by commercial companies. To level the playing field in the increasingly digitised world.