Train fares across England and Wales will rise by 3.8 per cent today. This means that the average season ticket will rise by £120. Commuters can buy a season ticket for one week or any period between one month and a year.
Those who get to work by train typically buy an annual ticket. 11 per cent of British workers take the train to work. According to The Mail Online:
Rail commuters face having to work up to seven weeks just to earn enough money for their annual season ticket under the latest crippling fares hike.
Train fares across England and Wales will surge 3.8 per cent from today – the sharpest increase since 2013.
Linked to the retail prices index, the annual rise will see the cost of the typical season ticket go up by nearly £120, to £3,263.
This is £1,069 – or 49 per cent – more than in 2010 and means fares have risen almost twice as fast as wages since then.
In London, bus and Tube fares will go up an extra percentage point (4.8 per cent).
It comes as workers face a huge rise in the cost of living, with household and energy bills expected to soar from next month, when the Government’s 1.25 percentage point national insurance tax hike also takes effect.
Campaigners fear the latest fares hike will discourage staff still working at home from returning to the office.
Analysis by the Campaign for Better Transport consumer group found the average full-time worker commuting from Brighton to London would have to work seven weeks to earn enough money to pay for their annual season ticket, which is now costing £5,302, up £194 compared with last year.
Between Liverpool and Manchester, a season ticket will rise by £105 to £2,865.
Imagine, needing to work for nearly two months to pay for the means to get to work? How did that happen?
Thatcher’s Britain, that’s how it happened. Maggie sold British Telecom, British Gas, the British Airports Authority and the nation’s council houses. Before her demise, she began the process of selling the rights to distribute electricity in the UK and the sell-off of the railways too.
Her successor John Major would go on to seal those deals.
Trade Unionists and Socialists warned of the consequences of selling off the family silver. We were ignored. Of course, Thatcher broke up the unions too.
The selling of state assets to corporations is treason, something I’ve been saying for years.
In my opinion, this is part of Agenda 2030. It is planned that most people will eventually work from home. It’s part of the net-zero climate change plans. The cost of travelling by trains, planes and automobiles will become increasingly prohibitive.
It’ll be much easier to control the population when the majority are working from home. Businesses will find it easier to get more from employees while paying them less. It’ll be easier to get rid of them too.
People will become increasingly insular and isolated. They will be trapped in their homes.
They won’t be able to holiday for the reasons I’ve already given. It’s won’t be affordable.
I wonder if they’ll vacation in the metaverse in the future. Remember Total Recall?
Before long, it’ll be possible to create immersive experiences in the metaverse that feel like weeks or months have passed, but in reality may only last three minutes.
Your company would happily pay for that.
Employee #25567 needs a break. Send her to The Seychelles on her break. As far as she’s concerned she’s been way for a fortnight. I bet Musk’s Neuralink is already working on it.
