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Cap On Single Bus Fares Raised …
.... from £2 to £3, Keir Starmer has announced. Not a lot you might think but it's £10 plus per week extra for workers going to and from their jobs, not to mention the cost to those living in rural areas who have no choice but to use buses. He's certainly looking after the 'working man'!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think it was stupid for them to say working people would not see higher taxes. Every other tax they put up will end up costing the working person more. As you say a increase in the cap on bus fares will make getting to work more expensive for many that work in towns and all the other taxes that go up will affect them in some way.
Back of a fag packet calculation, but let's say after holidays and weekends a full time worker works 245 days a year and catches one bus to work and another back. At the moment that's the thick end of £1,000. A 50% increase will increase the cost by the best part of £500. Without wishing to generalise, I'd say it's generally the lower paid that use a bus to get to and from work, so Starmer is going to clobber these "working people" by a whopping £500.
Truly a man of the people.
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