London Borough Offers Half-Price Lime Bike Rides to Asylum Seekers – Guido Fawkes

EXC: London Borough Offers Half-Price Lime Bike Rides to Asylum Seekers

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Labour-run Wandsworth Borough Council is now offering 50% off e-bike rentals to asylum seekers. Courtesy of the taxpayer…

Labour took over London’s seventh-largest borough from the Tories – who had held it since 1974 – in a historic 2022 rout. Since then they’ve been busy at work…

Last year the borough launched its new ‘Access for All’ concessions scheme which offers discounts from 50% to 100% on “key services from gym sessions to swimming lessons, wedding ceremonies to event tickets.” The scheme can only be accessed by:

• People in receipt of benefits
• Children in receipt of free school meals (all ages)
• Asylum seekers/refugees
• Looked after children/care leavers

The council has now announced a “pioneering deal with Lime, Forest and Voi” to offer a 50% discount for e-bike rentals. It broadcast last week:

“If you’re eligible for Access for All, you can now get 50% off rides on Lime and Forest e-bikes, and Lime and Voi e-scooters as part of a new deal we have struck with providers in our borough.“

Labour Council Leader Simon Hogg said this is “about opening up affordable, sustainable travel that helps our residents to access work and entertainment opportunities across the borough. We’re proud that Lime, Forest and Voi have agreed to join Access for All and to operate respectfully and safely. We are making sure that no one is priced out of healthy and sustainable travel.” Bad luck if you’re not an asylum seeker or PIP claimant – you can pay for it in your council tax bill, though…

Read the list of other discounts the borough is offering asylum seekers below: