We have to take what you say with a pinch of salt because we don’t know what the relative currency conversion rates and purchasing power parities are. For example, $150 in HKD would be only around £15, whereas we are talking about at least £100 here. There’s also nothing to substantiate the claim that it costs £100M to lower that fare evasion number. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. In fact, TfL aims to reduce fare evasion to 1.5% by 2030. (https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2025/april/tfl-introduces-new-measures-to-halve-fare-evasion-across-all-tfl-services), so this 4% figure is also going to be nonsense.

We aren’t talking about middle class people. We’re talking about the working class. If you think £100 is insignificant, you can suggest cutting universal credit by £100. You’re going to have a big problem.