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It won't happen, because the pensioner generation who voted to cripple councils and the wider economy over 4 straight General Elections will never, ever be the ones asked to pay the price of that. We'll keep funding free travel, social care and health bills, we'll never tax their property...

It will probably be fine as long as it's your first and only criminal conviction, but you are required to report yourself to the Nursing & Midwifery Council as soon as you are charged...

Hah! He does, actually, like changing his appearance a fair amount - I guess he could try the Shaggy defence if it ever came to it! - but don't think he'll go for this somehow ! He knows what it's like to work menial jobs! And hopefully those examples you list don't go on anymore - they...

That's actually a really nice idea, thank you, I'll throw it out there! (And not a wind-up, I promise, just a guy trying to fix his life up a bit. He didn't particularly expect to ever be employed or securely housed again for various reasons and therefore wasn't perturbed by the prospect of...

Yeah, think he's going to do this! Sadly that just isn't viable - the only other station that'd at all work is also one he'd be recognised at.

Yeah - in this case it obviously created a situation where he had to spend extra money, close to an hour of his own time, and cause himself pain in order to avoid committing a criminal offence as the staff member suggested. Even then I suspect his ticket probably wasn't valid for the "extra"...

Yeah, looked into this. He said he'd be willing to pay a penalty fare, but back-of-a-fag-packet maths on this came to a shade below ten grand, which is obviously a lot more than he'd have paid legitimately and, moreover, an entirely impossible sum. Does seem worrying - if unlikely, I don't...

Thanks, I think he will try that. As per the OP he does normally use an Oyster, but on this occasion was going somewhere this wouldn't have been valid for his whole journey, which isn't an uncommon occurrence - his boyfriend lives outside of London. (I initially told him to get it Railcard...

Yeah as I said, he does always have a valid ticket now. Keeping a low profile is exactly what he wants from here on out! And yes, he's aware of pushing through being an offence hence why he didn't do so, despite the instruction from the staff member (that would've been an interesting attempt at...

I did think that bit was a long shot!! The much, much bigger issue is the refusal to open the barriers/verbal altercations. He very much wants to just be a regular customer at this point. I will relay that sentiment to him haha ! His main concern as I said is the potential employment impact...

So this all relates to a friend of mine rather than me, but curious to see what people here think. All relates to a station in London, not managed by TFL but with some TFL services running through it. This is his local station, and he used to be a regular fare-dodger - nothing overly...

My concern with noises, flashing screens etc for particularly important announcements is that overtime, the geniuses in charges will just expand the definition of "particularly important" again, especially after an incident. One person goes between the train and the platform somewhere = louder...

Who is "the railway", if not for the people who use it?

Yeah I had the slot as 4pm in my mind when it's actually 4.30 - I blame the off-season! Always just like to be ahead of the rush with trains and remember Manchester often being difficult to get a good deal on in the past so wanted to be ready for when they announced the TV pick. Anyway...

Hadn't thought of specifying Via Crewe in the advanced options too - thank you, that's worked! Yep, noted that one down wrong from my research - but there is a valid 2.33pm departure it's now offering :)