Today the government announced that the YP's railcard would be extended to 26 - 30 year olds.
.@Conservatives have set out plans for a new discounted rail card for 26 - 30 year olds - helping to keep the cost of living down for around 4.5 million more people pic.twitter.com/wKmZgIuIQb— CCHQ Press Office (@CCHQPress) November 21, 2017
The Chatterati on twitter appear underwhelmed by today's exciting announcement…
So The Treasury is now determining rail marketing approaches. More evidence of govt micro management (extending the YP Railcard not a bad idea, mind) https://t.co/GGgXNRcTKm— Michael Holden (@holdmch) November 21, 2017
Declaring an interest. But rail card policy seems to be going down like a cup of sick with 31-35 year olds. Hammered for a decade by fees, rent and graduated into the crashed job market.. What is in it for them, Chancellor?— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) November 21, 2017
26-30 railcard is a good policy (and maybe good politics: cheap and popular, tho doubt it'll move many votes).— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) November 21, 2017
But it *will* piss off a good few people our age for the reasons Harry lists. https://t.co/DnX9PqrlVi
Maybe we should just cut rail fares by a third for everyone instead of giving increasingly large groups railcards— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) November 21, 2017
Fine. Won't help with their commuter fares, but fine. However, needs to be alongside a British equivalent of German BahnCard, or Swiss Halbtax: a bit more expensive (or smaller discount), but universally available. https://t.co/qoWw4fhKwL— [Restricted] Animal (@politic_animal) November 21, 2017
You worry about the scale and breadth of a Budget when the drop two days out is extending the young person's Railcard— steve hawkes (@steve_hawkes) November 21, 2017
"Young people aren't voting for us". "Chuck them a new railcard. That'll do the trick". British politics, 2017. We're all screwed, aren't we.— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) November 21, 2017
Tin-eared Hammond does it again!
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