All you need to know about the new ‘slightly older young person’s railcard’
Early news from tomorrow’s budget is that the young person’s railcard is going to become the slightly older person’s railcard.
You’ll now be able to buy the £30 discount card until you’re 30, up from the current 16 to 25-year-old age limit.
Here are our favourite responses online.
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That new UK rail fare structure in full:
5-15: Yet to understand horror of world half price
16-30: Millennial skintness despair railcard third off
31-59: Forced into a relationship to get two together railcard third off
60+: Sweet release of death baby boomer railcard third off— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) November 21, 2017
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https://twitter.com/MattTurner4L/status/932907937680560128
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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
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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
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Wondering just how old you have to be to think the lack of a sufficiently generous railcard is what's driving younger millennials to Labour
— Gaby Hinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) November 21, 2017
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"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
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£10 minimum wage from age 18 and no university £9,250 fees or another 5 years to buy a £30 railcard? Feel the Cons need to do a bit more to lure younger voters from Corbyn
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) November 21, 2017
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Oh god, the misery of getting excited about the millennial railcard for three seconds and then remembering how old you are. Hold me. pic.twitter.com/jlDQ4TEKIk
— Lauren Bravo (@laurenbravo) November 21, 2017
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The new railcard means the only people who have to pay full price for long-distance train travel will be able-bodied, non-soldiers aged 32 to 59, who don't travel regularly with a partner, or with a family, or in southern England.
— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) November 21, 2017
In case you want a little bit more detail.
Today's Budget announcement to woo the young people of Britain: extending the young persons railcard to 26-30 year olds… 4.5m potential beneficiaries: pic.twitter.com/O08rcWRyzN
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) November 21, 2017
And a final thought.
It’s great that they’re going to extend the young person’s railcard (https://t.co/C1Z0Yf1iMP). It’s also a good excuse to remember the two individuals chosen to promote it in the 1980s. pic.twitter.com/8LYVRjOqOi
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) November 21, 2017
Oh.
