UK recycles £440m BT bribe and thinks we should be grateful

The UK government has had the nerve to repackage £440 million clawed back from BT for fixed-line investment as a ‘windfall’.
Since most of that money is likely to be given back to BT to be less rubbish at rural broadband the metaphor would be more accurately described as a polite request to move the pile of apples we gave you slightly to the left.
This is not new money. It has been ‘clawed back’ from the $1 billion or so handed over to BT back in 2013 to do what it