Kyanar:
tdgeek:
Who built Kiwibuild, who funded it?
Labour built it and taxpayers funded it. Unsure how that's relevant to UFB, a global phemonema, where taxpayers funded it, and network operators built it
Look, I think it's fair to say that at the risk of going off-topic, we can at least credit National on that one with not sabotaging it like their Australian counterparts did with the NBN. I don't think there's anything wrong with giving "the other side" a nod when they do something right, and it does seem to me, as a detractor at the best of times of National, that there does seem to be a lot of effort to try avoid giving National even the barest minimum of credit for anything.
In fairness, some posters (and I think they all know who they are) are equally determined to spin anything Labour does as incompetent, malicious, or purely out of self-interest.
This kind of partisan point-scoring is exactly why political engagement is in the toilet. To anyone looking at it from the outside, it just seems pointless when everything is reduced to petty quibbling.
National were hardly going to sabotage something that was their election policy. I recall being canvassed by John Key prior to its announcement. I couldnt get my head around why a National government would launch a Labour style policy - or have it debt funded by the Government via CFH.
By the time that there was a change of Government in 2017 it would have been extremely difficult to unpick the UFB structure and progress.