Am I the only one that thinks that the budget is good?!

One thing they could have done was raise the age for free prescriptions to 67. My DH gets his free, and he is still working full time!

No they’re not. It’s 37%.

Only from existing NHS budgets. And £8 billion of existing SEN funding has been removed, now to be funded out of the education budget.

Labour are all about the working class.

A country should raise more tax receipts by having policies to increase economic growth. Not by raising taxes per se.

More economic growth = more tax income = higher employment = improved family income

Not everyone but some people are reliant on benefits due to bad life choices. In any case, having children when you are reliant on state benefits is a bad life choice and having more than two children unless you are very secure financially is a bad life choice. I am now subsidising those choices and being penalised for being responsible and having sensible pension arrangements.

In my line of work, those eager job seeking parents once a child turns 2 are extremely rare. I hate to say but people regularly self pathologise or have another to kick the can down the road.

I don’t have any issues with any of it. The country needs to raise more money. People in this country want excellent public services but don’t want to pay for them. If this means paying a bit more tax, then that’s what has to happen. Scrapping the two child benefit cap may help families in poverty struggle a little less. Tax on electric vehicles is a good thing.

There was funding for health centres wasn't there?

Exactly hard working families don’t get a pay rise when they have another child but benefits families will now? I’m not perfect had my eldest at 16 but didn’t have my other two till I was older and had sorted myself out financially. Grown adults having a multitude of kids and expecting everyone to pay for them is taking the piss

I don’t have any issues with any of it. The country needs to raise more money. People in this country want excellent public services but don’t want to pay for them. If this means paying a bit more tax, then that’s what has to happen. Scrapping the two child benefit cap may help families in poverty struggle a little less. Tax on electric vehicles is a good thing.

Me too. Is the child benefit really going to lift people out of poverty as it’s apparently going to do for lots of people??

One thing they could have done was raise the age for free prescriptions to 67. My DH gets his free, and he is still working full time!

There isn’t one. They’ve decided their voting base is people on welfare.

Pretending to look for work is not exactly a hardship.

My widowed pensioner mum is already living in poverty due to having to pay £55 per month in tax on her state pension and due to the budget is now going to be paying over £130 per month in tax on her state pension. She’s 81 and worked all her life but due to a series of unfortunate circumstances beyond her own control, she’s only got a tiny private pension (£27pm) and is not entitled to pension credit. She’s fallen through the net. She called me crying her heart out. That extra £80 is literally her food budget each month. She’s saying she won’t be able to ever use the heating again and is going to have to sell her car and lose her last remaining independence, just to get through the next year. The last thing she said to me before she ended the call was “Hopefully I won’t be here anymore by the time the car money has gone”. It’s heartbreaking.
(No, I can’t help financially at all as I’m also on an extremely low income and a single parent. Besides, she would never, ever accept a penny from me)

No they’re not. It’s 37%.

It isn't child benefit which has changed. It is the universal credit child element so it will give families on benefits an increase of £293 a month for every extra child included at least until they hit the benefit cap if not working. I would have preferred it to be given in the form of food vouchers tbh as then at least it stands more chance of reaching children.

Scraping the two child limit is a joke? I’m not perfect got pregnant at 15 fave birth at 16 but 4+ kids by 4 different dads and expecting other peoples taxes to pay is surely taking the piss?
I mean seriously? Raising taxes for THIS?? I doubt many people will vote labour again

My widowed pensioner mum is already living in poverty due to having to pay £55 per month in tax on her state pension and due to the budget is now going to be paying over £130 per month in tax on her state pension. She’s 81 and worked all her life but due to a series of unfortunate circumstances beyond her own control, she’s only got a tiny private pension (£27pm) and is not entitled to pension credit. She’s fallen through the net. She called me crying her heart out. That extra £80 is literally her food budget each month. She’s saying she won’t be able to ever use the heating again and is going to have to sell her car and lose her last remaining independence, just to get through the next year. The last thing she said to me before she ended the call was “Hopefully I won’t be here anymore by the time the car money has gone”. It’s heartbreaking.
(No, I can’t help financially at all as I’m also on an extremely low income and a single parent. Besides, she would never, ever accept a penny from me)