“If you haven’t yet seen this dramatisation lifting the lid on the reality of zero-hours contracts and payday loans, you should – but it’s not an easy watch.
“I got a traffic fine the other day. I went in the bus lane because I thought you could at weekends (you can’t); £130, or £65 if I paid immediately, which I did, because I could.
“OK, there were two; I got another just a few days later. This time for driving into a road where a signpost clearly said I wasn’t allowed to. Another £65 for quick payment, which again I paid…
“When Jerome Rogers got two traffic fines, he couldn’t pay them quickly. Or at all.
“He wasn’t earning enough as a self-employed courier, delivering blood to hospitals on his motorbike.
“His income was irregular, often pitiful, once just £18 a week take home, after everything – petrol, insurance, £24 a week to rent the equipment he needed to do the job from the courier company – was deducted.”
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