2007/06/05
City of Hull - Wilberforce or Will-by-Force?
by
Malcolm Matson
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posted at
2007-06-05 05:50
For over two decades, I have enjoyed a 'hot-and-cold' relationship with the City of Hull and its home grown telecoms operator, Kingston Communications. It is ironic that in the very year when the world looks to Hull and its Christian son, William Wilberforce, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, quietly and almost hiddem from view, the newly elected Lib-Dem controlled Hull Council. commits the most scandalously ill informed act of enslavement of its citizens to the tryanny of the telecoms sector when uniquely, they were potentially more liberated than anywhere else on the planet. I should explain....
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The Lib-Dem council simply made a rational choice to liquidate their remaining share in Kcom as it was apparent that said minority stake gave Council insufficient clout to effectively steer Kcom for the benefit of Hullites.
Interestingly the funds raised (some £107M) will fully fund a cooperatively owned NGN OPLAN, if Council decides to pursue that option.