Labour increasing bus fare cap is 'another winter fuel farce’ | Andrew Neil

“I suspect the two pound bus fare decision is going to come back to bite them.”

Keir Starmer’s announcement that the bus fare cap will be increased from two pounds to three pounds is “problematic” for working people, political editor Kate McCann tells Andrew Neil.

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[bunbwre]

Ask Starmer what a working woman is. That should be fun..

[martinquinn]

Bus fares to work, , has just gone up £32.00. A Month, , Thankyou Starmer...
You are

[bunbwre]

Just off the scale of self centredness. He has no idea what being working class is. He just gave everyone who goes to work on a bus a £10 tax per week. That's making some people £500 a year less well off. The guy is so self-centred that he has no empathy.

[einseitig]

A 50% increase on poor people is terrible.
What is wrong with them? Have they no mercy?
They will be a one-term administration.

[taxpayer]

Remind me how it will get citizens out of their cars and onto public transport when you increase the fares by 50%.
It's not just a lack of 'joined up thinking' it's a lack of any at all.

[MrJohnestall]

Ask starmer, what is a prime minister and what should he be doing ? That should be comical .

[colbr]

A 50% rise on the travel costs of many ordinary working people and the least well off. How is that not increasing tax on the poorest?

[johnblack]

Starmer actually said something true and correct for a change he said things will get better he's right there because it will get better when he's kicked out That is!

[outlaw]

I get 4 buses a day up north, that's an extra 20 quid a week for me, 80 a month, 960 extra a Yr to get to work..

[joncowley]

I identify as a zero % taxpayer, and they have no grounds to not accept that identity! In fact it would be discriminatory to do so!

[aldoner]

So can someone now self identify as a working person ?

[junesmith]

And yet Migrants getting
FREE Bus Passes

[Tensquaremetreworkshop]

He cannot say what a woman is, so he has little chance with worker.

[JustTakeAMoment]

As Kate says correctly here, Starmer can't define what a working person is, but then he can't define what a woman is either, so why should we be surprised by this.

[g.p]

The fact that two journalists can actually discuss when they “think” Starmer said demonstrates just how hopeless he is!!

[RobinHarding-epud]

Starmer hates anyone who is remotely successful . And yet he’s worth 8 million plus and does pay pension tax ?

[aficio]

This government is completely clueless!!
For the love of God get these morons out.
The vegetables are in charge.

[outlaw]

Helping working class lol, so extra 960 to get to work and the other tax rises coming..labour voters are deluded...

[johnblack]

And just why did Starmer cancel the Rwanda flights without having something better to replace it?
There flooding in now they know there's no deterrent.

[YesYes-xbhe]

Industry wants to invest in a new coalmine, opening up new oil and gas in the North Sea. All generating decent jobs, opportunities in their service sectors and most importantly, in taxes.

Yet all turned down because the government didn't need their taxes, just tax the poor and borrow more money instead.