To think my niece doesn’t really get a say on how good or bad she thinks the budget is

So in your world, how poor does someone have to be to be allowed an opinion? You must have a figure in mind if you think your affluent cousin isn't allowed.

Have the responses here made you rethink at all @Dennien?

Why is someone she supposedly loves, inheriting money and becoming very successful a 'very bitter pill'?

You make it sound like it's par for the course to feel that way about her niece??

Sounds like she's one of those with the 'broad shoulders' that Labour are always going on about. Maybe you should thank her for being willing to shoulder the burden that enables people like you to coast through life. How lucky you are.

A very fair point, even though I don't agree with it either.

this.

Are you in receipt of any benefits? assuming that's the case, then she's effectively paying for you. She doesn't have children, so her taxes are funding education and healthcare of yours.

I'd agree that her opinion is more important than yours.

And you just feel jealous of her success and trying to belittle it by saying "she was in the right room".

ETA: people like your niece, young and successful, are usually very mobile internationally. Attitudes like yours and general climate in the UK drive this demographics away. If some proportion of such individuals emigrate, people like you OP will be in big trouble.

So you have 3 children that you can barely afford, she is a high earner and you don’t think she should be annoyed that her earned money from the higher tax she pays is going towards people who have more children than they can afford?
she is entitled to her opinion. Just settle with being glad that you benefited from the budget because she won’t benefit!

Whilst I might agree with her. I'd never say it. Especially in front of someone who is struggling

This jealousy of "rich" people, from those poorer, is very short sighted.

At her income of 100K she's comfortably in the top 10% of income earners.

The top 10% of income earners pay about 60% of income tax.

So they ABSOLUTELY are entitled to have an opinion! As is everyone in a democracy.

If it's true, I am guessing nherited 500k from her paternal grandparents. is a very bitter pill for the OP, on top of the young woman earning such a high salary based on her own work and skills.

Sorry OP, I’m piss poor and I still think your niece has a right to her opinion, and her vote. And you do sound envious, I’m afraid to say.

Surely her opinion matters more than most?! She’s seen both sides! Grew up on a council estate and is now a high earner.

also can’t believe you’ve written this about your own niece, I’m gobsmacked!

OP, with the best will in the world, women died so that we can have our say. Some of the women who helped to propel ‘the cause’ forward weren’t from the working classes, they simply knew that we were as entitled to freedom of speech as men.
As others have said, your niece will feel the budget in the form of taxation. You do not know what her future will bring…similarly, yours may change too.
My political views were very different at 26…and again at 36…and again as I’m mid 40s. Be glad your niece has the right to have her voice heard, however hard it is. Many women would love that chance.

Opened this expecting to read you niece was a naive and idealistic teenager.

Turns out she's a working-age net tax contributor.

Of course she's entitled to a say!

So she overcame a disadvantaged background, has trained for many years to get a niche job in a very precarious industry that carrues a strong salary. A salary that means should she have children she won’t get any of the support you’ve had from the state and you think she’s the one lacking empathy?

I think most of us would like to unsubscribe from paying your benefits OP, including your dear niece.

Ach, just fling off the damn restraints OP, and give that deep begrudgery you feel towards your niece more room to express itself!
Come on, she’s perfectly entitled to be dissatisfied with the Budget for the reasons she cites, and it ought to be no skin off your nose.

I'm assuming she pays tax so sounds like the budget does effect her. She might disagrees with you, but doesn't mean she is not entitled to have an opinion to what direction the country she lives in is going towards. Maybe if she wasnt british, never visited/lived in the uk and hadn't voted then i would possibly agree that she shouldn't be having super strong opinions.

I would imagine there are a few high earners out there today feeling resentful about paying more tax to support those you have children that they can’t afford.

I agree with this 👆

We live in a democracy, I take it you know what that means

Oh dear OP, this didn’t quite go how you thought it would, did it? 😂

So you think a higher rate UK taxpayer shouldn’t have a say on the UK budget because they are young and privileged?

What about those “privileged young people” in the financial sector (who earn the same and possibly more than your niece) whose job it is to comment on and advise clients on the budget and how it affects their finances? You are being ridiculous. Get that sack of potatoes chip off your shoulder.

She made differen choices op you made yours she made hers.
Tbvvvvh i prefer her choice free childless, jym, living with a good mate, good income, girl as it set.

Bit like my life, without the jym and flat mate.

Good for her I say. I hope she spends it well and meaningfully.

with regards to her political views, they are pretty mainstream so perhaps reflect on why you are so angry with her as an individual.

Your envy is dripping venom into your brain. Don't be daft, of course she gets a say.