The ‘millennial railcard’ shows the utter disdain the Tories hold us in | Ellie Mae O’Hagan
Young people face a perfect storm of unaffordable housing, spiralling debt and job insecurity. Slightly cheaper off-peak rail travel doesn’t begin to address that
Wednesday was budget day: that time of year when the chancellor moves money around ostensibly to manage the economy, when really it’s to give us all a reason to vote their party back into power come the next election.
And it is with that in mind that we turn to the millennial railcard, one of the measures heavily trailed in the budget’s run-up. The government is promising to extend the cheaper train fares that apply for the under-26s to those aged 26-30, presumably as a way of signalling that it cares about the fortunes of young people. Actually, the railcard functions more as a symbol of the kind of government we have: one that recognises that young people in this country are in economic crisis, but hasn’t got the faintest idea of what to do about it.
Although precise definitions differ, broadly speaking millennials are those people born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s. They are so called because they turned 18 in or after 2000. They are also collectively known as Generation Y
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Source: Guardian Transport
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