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

No, they are all about the benefits class. As shown today.

Taxing working people to give to those who make bad life choices is not being an advocate for working people.

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’m pretty pleased as little impact. Like you, don’t
own a 2 million pound house or own an electric vehicle. Also can’t afford to throw spare cash into pension to dodge some extra tax.

Increased spending should come from growth, this budget will suppress growth. With Covid debt the old spending patterns are even less affordable. We need a chancellor to cut spending not increase it.

I’m not keen. I think it punishes the financially responsible . I don’t think lifting the child beenfit cap will have a substantial impact on raising children out of poverty. The money would be better spent on things like sure start centres and early years education - these would better lift out of poverty

If you understand anything about how the economy works, can you answer why you think economic growth forecast being downgraded, higher unemployment, higher inflation, falling living standards is good thing?

I don’t begrudge a child born into fecklessness a single penny. But I think it sets a tone that the net is there to support those who really should be making better choices. I’d have loved more than 2 kids but we couldn’t afford it.

Labour are all about the working class.

The removal of the two child limit won't benefit all that really need it unfortunatly those that rely solely on benefits and don't have any health problems are likely to loose some or most of the extra money due to the cap.

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

RR announced that SMEs would receive free funding to hire young apprentices, which if it is implemented well should bring quite a few young people into the jobs market. So at least one thing that should support growth!

I've expressed that view on here before and got told I was virtue signalling. I welcome the budget although I think the richest could still pay more.

It's better than anything Mel Stride or the Reform treasury spokesperson would have come up with. A small step forward but nowhere near what I would like to see.

My workplace now has a 500k hole to fill to accomodate the LW increases.

This will be filled by redundancies in the New Year. (We're a struggling business).

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

I'm happy too, though I would have liked a bit more on tightening of tax loopholes that enable entities to avoid, rather than evade, tax.

Unfortunately increasing minimum wages geberally increases living costs for a lot of ‘little luxuries’ so things don’t feel any more affordable.

Conflicted about this, but it’s not the fault of the children of their parents are lazy or feckless. And there are a lot of working parents who need the extra help.

It’s not awful but I am annoyed on a personal level that when we retire in 2028, the tax threshold won’t rise like it should have and so we’ll be dragged into paying tax after carefully planning our pensions in order not to pay tax for 5 years till State pensions start in 2032.

YANBU; I thought it was fine. Obviously not a panacea, but totally reasonable. Most of the criticisms I've seen feel off base to me. I agree with removing the two child benefit cap; the existing system was demeaning and intrusive.

Where is the plan for growth?

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.

I will be a bit worse off but can afford it. If it helps public services then I support it. WC, professional, earn well above average, don’t own a mansion…

I think it’s awful. Freeze on ISA limits, restricted NI free pension salary sacrifice (£2,000 per annum is a joke) they want to punish people for being fiscally responsible.

And another freeze on tax thresholds. They need to shrink the state - not chuck money at it

I agree. We'll be slightly worse off but we were slightly better off to start with so happy to do our bit.