Absolutely rinsed in this budget - almost £1k a year worse off.

If you have any chance of affording it, private school is the only morally right course of action for the parents of so many SEN kids. It’s why we send our SEN child there. I’d sooner live in a tent that subject him to the trauma of mainstream state.

I think Admiral nurses should be funded out of the NHS for all that they do. They do a fantastic job as they are actually directly offering hands on help to those who need it so the help is still going where it should. I donate to them as well because of this reason.

I donate regularly to Dementia UK, quite specifically to fund Admiral nurses. If they weren’t employed I wouldn’t donate. 🤷‍♀️

Have I touched a nerve? People give to a charity because they want their donation in whatever from it is to get to those in need. The charity sector is suffering because people have become disillusioned with the wage bill of charities far outstripping what is actually donated.And yes I do volunteer.

That’s a bit extreme. Leaving the country you live in where all your friends and relations live over extra taxes you can afford because you are loaded. Go right ahead.

This possibly the most idiotic thing I’ve ever read on Mumsnet. Should we abolish all charities that pay any salaries? I’m guessing you volunteer at a charity, yes?

That poster was a single parent yesterday....

Don't you think that the society your family lives in has a huge indirect impact on your quality of life?

Two of the areas earmarked for spending aim to decrease child poverty and increase health spending. Children growing up in poverty are more likely to be involved in crime, substance addiction, have poorer education outcomes and are more likely to end up unemployed. An increase in health spending will hopefully reduce the number of people having to claim disability benefits and if targeted correctly could reduce the number of people with serious mental health crises who are not receiving enough support and reduce the amount of police time spent dealing with this issue.

Don't you want your children to grow up in a country where crime is low, it's not normal to have people sleeping rough, everyone gets an education and a chance to succeed in life, children aren't going cold and hungry, an ambulance will turn up quickly and support is available to people when they need it? Obviously we are currently far away from that, but without at least attempting to fix the problems austerity has helped create, they're only going to get worse.

So the donations made to the charity don’t actually get to the intended recipients, they go to you in the form of a salary?

I donate nearly all of my kids’ old stuff to local charities and baby banks, thanks. I work for a charity. I donate to charity. I think you’ve spectacularly missed the point. Honestly, some people won’t be happy until we bring back the workhouses.

But voluntary local charity stuff and using money locally would.

Even I would have to say say he’s pretty lucky to have one of those as they are not run of the mill

They probably have friends and maybe even relationships they've built in that school.

But voluntary tax donations wouldn’t have any impact.

stop paying school fees, send your DCs to regular school, that save more than £1k.

Yes there are, my husband has one

I agree with your comment first. All this sanctimonious stuff about "yes I want to pay more". You can donate to HMRC..if you want to make real impact. You can actually donate to charitable stuff in Ur local level. Poor person doesn't have shoes. Give them shoes with your money.

Why yet another assault on private sector pensioners with DC pensions while doing absolutely nothing to reduce our costs as taxpayers of funding the enormous liabilities attached to unfunded public sector pension schemes?

There was already a rape clause for those people.

So the point still stands. Everyone on benefits got free money today, and everyone paying for it, making better choices got clobbered.

Bizarre comment

Cool your jets, Ebenezer. You’re a fictional character.

My point stands though that every household has financial decisions to make. Our income is similar and we drive old cars, take small holidays etc because we choose to float 2 kids through uni and contribute to an elderly relative’s care. That doesn’t mean we’re squeezed, though it feels that way sometimes. Squeezed is choosing between feeding your kids or turning the heating on.

You should brush up on your comprehension skills because you misread my posts.

No assumption about who you mix with - how the hell do I know, you’re a stranger. But if you think successful people don’t cite luck then you don’t mix with enough of them. That’s a conclusion, based on what you have written, not an assumption.

To those participating in the bun fight about whether being successful has anything to do with luck - it’s an interesting debate, ignoring the personal insults my tuppence is of course it does.

Depends of how you view “luck”, yes you went to university and chose a good course, worked hard, made sacrifices and that’s all admirable and necessary for success. But take it down to a basic level, could you have done this if you’d had ill health, been born into a family who didn’t support your education, lived in a time when women weren’t “allowed” to even go to university and needed to raise help their younger siblings instead. Most successful people I know are not arrogant enough to think they have been 100% masters of their own destiny - and luck - however they define it - has come into play.

I think the point some posters are making is that the sort of lifestyle you describe isn't possible on £140k a year.