Playing with figures.

When is 100% not 100%? When it's a Government promise, apparently. The Prime Minister made a promise some days ago that their policy was to provide "superfast broadband digital power creating 100 per cent access to every home." However in his budget statement the Chancellor said "The 50p monthly landline duty will unlock private investment and enable 90 per cent of the country to access the next generation of super-fast broadband by 2017." Of course the difference is that the Prime Minister was careful not to put a timetable on his promise - in other words it becomes an "aspiration" rather than a promise. Yes, we're aiming for 100% - eventually, at some indeterminate time in the future. Slippery customers, these politicians.