Another budget one. Sorry.

I keep seeing posts about how this budget will be so bad for us all, am I the only one who won't be (personally) directly affected? Or at least, in a negative way?

I get the issues around businesses and NI but I am a civil servant.

I will get a pay rise! Yep, you read that right. I earn NMW so my wages will go up.

And I don't have a 'gold plated ' pension.

I totally get there will be a lot affected but I can't be the only one who benefits can I?

Businesses, small and large are at the heart of any good health economy. Yes it will affect everybody because the costs will be passed on to each and every one of us.

I keep seeing posts about how this budget will be so bad for us all, am I the only one who won't be (personally) directly affected? Or at least, in a negative way?

I get the issues around businesses and NI but I am a civil servant.

I will get a pay rise! Yep, you read that right. I earn NMW so my wages will go up.

And I don't have a 'gold plated ' pension.

I totally get there will be a lot affected but I can't be the only one who benefits can I?

Everyone will lose out as family farms are taken over by investors. Its an awful budget for us, farmers and farm animals.

Name a prince on £12.21 an hour.

Also again posters demanding the UK treat their unskilled workers like princes and pay accordingly, while actually buying their shit from China, sweatshops and enslavement.

Yep

The country voted against its own economic interests for well over a decade, including Brexit, and watched the NHS and schools and social services get gutted while moaning about the lack of provision, and now moan that it has to be righted somehow.

Baffling but not surprising.

There are even fewer partially selective state secondaries in England than there are grammars.

Glad you agree that lots are lying on here about taking their kids out of private school. It has certainly annoyed me that certain private school parents have argued to keep their own kids in private school and their tax bill down by pretending that they care about the impact on state school kids, and in particular disadvantaged state school kids.

Frankly to everyone criticising Labour and the budget what is your alternative?

We have to accept that we committed a massive act of self-harm with Brexit and then with 14 years of useless Tory government spending more than they could afford and letting the health service, schools, local council services and social care fall apart and supporting the wealthy only.

Do people really think that there ever was the possibility of a budget that woulnd't affect anyone's pockets in these circumstances?

Broadly it is a balanced budget, although I want them to go after the super rich who use clever accounting to avoid paying their fair share of tax and curb utility companies current profiteering.

I do have a pension, because it is a legal requirement.
I have never agreed to have a damn private pension. It was forced on me.

Any business that can will pass on the cost, so that will be a cost to consumers, rising cost may lead to increased inflation, which impacts interest rates etc.

Those business that can't pass on the costs will scale down pay rises, recruitment and possibly need to cut jobs.

IFS has said VAT on school fees will raise £1bn pa and 7% of kids joining state sector cost £300m pa so will be a net benefit? Also I do personally think that private school is a luxury which it makes sense in principle to tax. I do appreciate it will be hard for children to switch schools. But as an academy trustee of some schools serving some v deprived communities, I still find it hard to see those who can no longer afford private schools as victims in the big picture.

So what you describe then is not growth but contraction. People stop buying, businesses get smaller, profits reduce, turnover reduces, tax and VAT payable also reduces = less money in government coffers.

'@ChardonnaysBeastlyCat
You will be affected. It just won’t appear on your payslip.
Businesses be passing on the increase on the customers.'

The 'business will pass on the increase on to customers' is a bit simplistic.

Unless a company provides something really essential, customers can vote with the feet and simply stop purchasing products and services that are 'nice to have' but not essential if businesses take this approach.

Or customers will reduce the frequency of purchase and/or amount that they buy.

so unless these business want to fold they need to be realistic in their pricing.

I don't think anyone claimed that no one would leave as a result of this policy. It is certainly in some people's interests to claim a mass exodus though, therefore anecdata isn't particularly useful.

Yet I see the numbers leaving in real life. 10% in DDs year.
Just because you don't believe people doesn't mean it isn't happening/won't happen.

There are even fewer partially selective state secondaries in England than there are grammars.

Glad you agree that lots are lying on here about taking their kids out of private school. It has certainly annoyed me that certain private school parents have argued to keep their own kids in private school and their tax bill down by pretending that they care about the impact on state school kids, and in particular disadvantaged state school kids.

They are the minority and I wouldn’t be surprised if some have no intention to do anything about it. I’m not sure why that annoys you so much - lots lie on an anonymous forum. Even if they are making empty threats, the reality is many children moving into state sector at normal transition points are going to take up spaces at good schools which otherwise could have gone to someone with lower income.

The reality for many who choose the private schools that are on the lower end of the fee spectrum (us included) is that the outcomes are not that different to the top schools in the state sector despite the funding discrepancies (which are not always as much as you would think - fees are under £11k/year for primary pre vat). Had we moved house to guarantee a place at the local excellent primary, I believe my children would have had similar outcomes but we didn’t because of our careers - lack of wraparound and reliable childminders was a big issue.

Current school is of very high academic standard and chances of getting into a selective state secondary are good. As a result, more and more are going for part selective or highly selective (the former do not fall into the 163 figure you have quoted). This is going to be replicated across the country now

It was the only way I could piece together the income I need around a child with complex sen who attends school part time. I have to make use of evenings, weekends and have a very flexible job in the day.

I actually don't mind it as it feels like the chance of losing all the jobs at the same time is pretty unlikely. It has been am uphill struggle with hmrc though.

Geneuine question why do you have lots of little jobs and not just 1 job. Does it work to your advantage or is it just how you've managed to piece together the income you need?