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Welcome to Worst Hot Take of the Week – a column in which @MULLET_FAN_NEO crowns the wildest hot take of the week.
Reasonable take: Seems like urgent reform is needed if the general public is to have a basic standard of living in this country going forward.
Brain rot: Fuck it, give them a discount voucher for All Bar One and up the train fares by 1.6 percent.
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The government’s ability to read the room remains as heedless as a coked up distant cousin trying to involve you in an Aloe Vera night-cream pyramid scheme at your father’s wake. With millions out of work and the economy receding faster than Matt Hancock’s hairline, Britain’s long-suffering rail passengers were informed this week that they will face a 1.6 percent increase on fares in January, despite crashing commuter numbers (for obvious reasons).Pressure has been mounting from campaigners and unions, who have urged the UK government to scrap their policy of an annual increase on fares – a practice that has ensured that ticket hikes have outpaced wage rises over the past decade.It’s fucking typical that in Britain we have public infrastructure that constrains rather than enables the workforce. Piss poor transport links across the UK have acted as an employment barrier for low-income families for too long, with an estimated 21 million households in “transport poverty” – meaning more than 10 percent of their expenditure goes on commuting.All summer, Rishi Sunak has been portrayed as the reincarnation of Nye Bevan for giving us half price off Harvester for 12 days during August, but when an opportunity presents itself to implement some genuinely transformative ideas to reinvigorate the economy and get Britain “back to work” by, I don’t know, freezing inflation at least, there’s no ideas, or cash, in the bank.
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