Ofcom lined up in the cross hairs of any new Cameron govt

This is the sort of thing that's going to have to happen to weed out the roots of the New Labour kickback state and unelected quangocracy.

The Register reports plans to "kneecap Ofcom", sounds good to me.

How about the BBC as well ?

Of course Labour may well have prepared for this by issuing long contracts with large compensation packages that they will expect the tax payer to fund. An incoming Conservative govt should rewrite these contracts, passing new laws if necessary, to put the Labour Quango elite on the same legal basis as the rest of us, so we can fire them all.

Why isn't England's cable network open to competition ?

Recently I received my last phone/cable TV/broadband Bill. It was over £80 for one month !

Over the last year, since I last phoned NTL Virgin to try to prune some of the cost the Bill has risen from about £50/month. I'm just back of the phone after talking to some phone operator in India about reducing the set of services I receive again. I think I've reduced by Bill to about £35/month, but we'll see.

Why stick with Virgin Media ? Well their cable modem service has been good over the last few years, and we can't get reliable TV reception. But it occurs to me that I should have more of a choice. Surely Virgin should be forced to open its network to competitors, just as BT has been forced to do ?

I know Richard Branson has good relations with the Labour government, but isn't it time the free market arrived for cable customers also ? ( OK I understand the original argument about needing to get a return on laying the cable network, but the time period for this is long past ).

I wonder what ofcom are doing about this ?