Thanks I T. I didn’t write my full story above.
In the end I said I was happy to go to court and at that point they ‘let me leave’. A truely mind boggling company.

I have registered for this forum purely to try and save you and anyone else from Talk Talk. Signed up , told 20 days to go live ...then after 20 days still no wi fi ..rung to cancel and they said you had to cancel within 20 days.