Less than the cost of a Spotify subscription. Less than Netflix charges you every month. True, you might not be able to get the latest Taylor Swift remix or episodes of Stranger Things, but the Labour Party is trying to reach out to the streaming generation with the claim that the state costs you less than either your music or TV fix. According to its Twitter feed, someone earning just £82,000 a year has to pay only £8.33 a month for ‘free healthcare, free education, properly funding the NHS, lifting children out of poverty, ending the climate crisis, and ending homelessness.’
You earn £82k per year.
You pay £9 per month for Spotify,
£10 for NetflixAnd £8.33 per month in your subscription to:
Free healthcare
Free education
Properly funding the NHS
Lifting children out of poverty
Ending the climate crisis
Ending homelessnesshttps://t.co/7bUociMEpt— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) December 2, 2019
Wow, that sure sounds like a bargain, although it would have been nice if they could have thrown in Amazon Prime membership and a couple of extra gigabytes of mobile data.
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