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

614 replies

isitactuallybadthough · 26/11/2025 18:31

NC’d for obvious reasons.

I mean it seems that they’re trying to help the working class?

I am not on benefits. I’m also not lucky enough to live in a property worth over £2,000,000. But surely the worst off in society will be better off under this? With the energy bill cut and two child benefit scrap? Also books for libraries, national wage increases. I do understand people feeling frustrated at the pension/ISA parts, that will probably affect DH and I but overall I’m pleased as the worst off will be slightly less worse off?

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AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:19

No, it's a total fucking disaster and it also is not sustainable.

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:21

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:19

No, it's a total fucking disaster and it also is not sustainable.

lol….

Staringintothevoid616 · 26/11/2025 23:22

It’s terrible. To lift children out of poverty it would have been better to invest the money into initiatives in schools to help kids out of the poverty cycle

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:23

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:21

lol….

Lol all you want. I'm right and this will become abundantly clear over time. I bet they'll change it ASAP.

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:24

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:21

lol….

More than blooming boris then????? You are having a laugh. Giving a wee bit of sustenance to a few children is comparable to what he and Dominic Cummings did. With billions to their friends for contracts in Covid that they didn’t even take seriously at the start. Until they realised the money that could be made.

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:25

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:24

More than blooming boris then????? You are having a laugh. Giving a wee bit of sustenance to a few children is comparable to what he and Dominic Cummings did. With billions to their friends for contracts in Covid that they didn’t even take seriously at the start. Until they realised the money that could be made.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:27

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:25

Two wrongs don't make a right.

I don’t believe it is a wrong. I think you have been brainwashed to believe that.

2Rebecca · 26/11/2025 23:28

There was nothing to encourage business or reduce unemployment. You need a job to get a minimum wage rise.

ToughTimes88 · 26/11/2025 23:28

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 22:41

This text is ridiculous and wrong.

No, it’s not. It’s fact

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:30

ToughTimes88 · 26/11/2025 23:28

No, it’s not. It’s fact

It was terribly long. I’d have to go back and critique it point by point. There were parts where i could see they were definitely wrong. Others i would have to argue the point. Tbh i can’t be bothered.

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:30

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:27

I don’t believe it is a wrong. I think you have been brainwashed to believe that.

No. I just don't live in cloud cuckoo land. Reeves is not fit for purpose and should have been made to leave ages ago.

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:31

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:30

It was terribly long. I’d have to go back and critique it point by point. There were parts where i could see they were definitely wrong. Others i would have to argue the point. Tbh i can’t be bothered.

Ps definitely not fact though :-)

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:31

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:30

It was terribly long. I’d have to go back and critique it point by point. There were parts where i could see they were definitely wrong. Others i would have to argue the point. Tbh i can’t be bothered.

Can't be bothered, or dont have a sufficient understanding to do so?

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:32

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:30

No. I just don't live in cloud cuckoo land. Reeves is not fit for purpose and should have been made to leave ages ago.

She’s definitely not as bad as truss and that other guy.

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:32

AliceMaforethought · 26/11/2025 23:31

Can't be bothered, or dont have a sufficient understanding to do so?

Definitely can’t be bothered lol….

YetAnotherNewUserMoniker · 26/11/2025 23:33

Americasfavouritefightingfrenchman · 26/11/2025 21:27

Yep. I’m private sector but have a non contributory, defined benefit pension. There are years my employer has put 50% of my gross salary into my pension pot.

You are then in a very small minority.

most private sector pensions are now DC. And you need to be very focussed on retirement to build a decent pot.

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:35

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:32

Definitely can’t be bothered lol….

You just can’t take that a very small very infantisimally small amount of your income will go to mothers (mainly) with small children who are potentially (often) in difficult circumstances. Tbh i didn’t think reeves had it in her to do this. It’s quite obviously the stick they will beat her with. I stand by her on that alone.

ToughTimes88 · 26/11/2025 23:36

Hilarious how people are arguing with what is a clear situation. They’re ’working on issues’ by taxing this, that and the other. And ‘saving’ on child caps etc. when really it will only push prices up in supermarkets etc because they need to pay the minimum wage. Never mind small businesses, of which I know many owners, who already struggle to pay their staff due to rising costs of gas, electric, council rates etc. They’re going out of business in the coming times whereas the huge supermarkets will make small increases across the board which we as consumers will see but they won’t cos we have to pay it. And these owners probably life it up in a tax fee country not having to pay anything.
this country is on its arse. We’re all (most of us anyway) paying to allow some people to live freely whilst we work ourselves into to ground for nothing. It’s disgusting

Mrsnothingthanks · 26/11/2025 23:38

@rainbowunicorn It's all relative - I think £60k a year families are doing well. My husband and I both work and don't bring in that. No other support except CB.

ProcrastinatorsAnonymous · 26/11/2025 23:38

Stardustnush · 26/11/2025 23:13

No. Am feeling rather angry. I am lucky enough to be ok...I also worked damn hard to be this lucky and made uncomfortable choices when needed. I feel this budget is making a mockery of all the people that did the same. There were other options to claw money and there were better options to spend it than lifting benefit caps. It is balanced in the sense that Robin Hood was balanced

Edited

Oh hello.

See my comment above - this is precisely the attitude I was talking about.

First generation university student. We hardly went out at all during our 20s, as we saved every penny we could and worked incredibly hard. We have really lost out on things we will never get back as a result - we have fewer hobbies, have missed out on so much fun and just general chilling out and not working - which there's no way we can do now with young kids. We rented a flat so cold you could see your breath in bed, as it was the only way to live in London and save from our initial graduate salaries. We have done all nighters for work. Time and time again. I once cancelled attending a friend's wedding for work. I don't buy designer clothes and we've never owned a car. My husband and I have worked HARD. Our extended family can't quite understand the hours we've worked (and often continue to work - although it's not quite as intense now in our 40s).

I would be willing to bet I've probably worked as hard as you. As a result, I will be hit by mansion tax and am already paying VAT on school fees - I feel it, but I'm glad to. It's the right thing and the fair thing.

Because... the most important bit of your comment is not "I worked damn hard" - it's "lucky". You are comfortable because you worked damn hard within an economy that rewarded that hard work - not in a broken system where you can chase and chase and chase your tail and never get your head above water.

Plenty of people work hard and are not anything like "OK" - and if we let them sink, we will all be worse off. Not just in some vague lefty "equality" way, but in very real self-interested ways - a society this unequal is a society that falls apart in fundamental area. So if you want anyone to be working in the hospitals when you need them, or teaching in schools, or putting out fires - those who are comfortable need to step up. No matter how hard we worked. Be grateful that your hard work paid off - that's not a given or a virtue - it's dumb luck.

People who will be lifted further from the poverty line after the child benefit cap is lifted are not the problem. They are a drop in the ocean, and the "feckless" ones are a drop of that drop. The right wing press just foregrounds them every chance they get, so working people turn against each other - instead of looking up at those hoarding more and more wealth and resources. You are looking the wrong way. You are angry at the wrong people.

I'd recommend a YouTube channel called Gary's Economics - really smart economic analysis from an ex-trader. He explains things really well, and he's on your side.

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:39

ToughTimes88 · 26/11/2025 23:36

Hilarious how people are arguing with what is a clear situation. They’re ’working on issues’ by taxing this, that and the other. And ‘saving’ on child caps etc. when really it will only push prices up in supermarkets etc because they need to pay the minimum wage. Never mind small businesses, of which I know many owners, who already struggle to pay their staff due to rising costs of gas, electric, council rates etc. They’re going out of business in the coming times whereas the huge supermarkets will make small increases across the board which we as consumers will see but they won’t cos we have to pay it. And these owners probably life it up in a tax fee country not having to pay anything.
this country is on its arse. We’re all (most of us anyway) paying to allow some people to live freely whilst we work ourselves into to ground for nothing. It’s disgusting

Edited

At the end of your rant. Who are these people who you are paying to live ‘freely’? Just wondering?

Slipperati · 26/11/2025 23:40

Mrsnothingthanks · 26/11/2025 23:38

@rainbowunicorn It's all relative - I think £60k a year families are doing well. My husband and I both work and don't bring in that. No other support except CB.

How much of your income do you spend on housing? That sounds pretty tough but you may be in more affordable area?

ToughTimes88 · 26/11/2025 23:40

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:30

It was terribly long. I’d have to go back and critique it point by point. There were parts where i could see they were definitely wrong. Others i would have to argue the point. Tbh i can’t be bothered.

It was long but you have to actually be bothered to understand the facts. If you can’t be bothered, don’t comment because you obviously don’t understand it

ToughTimes88 · 26/11/2025 23:40

Budgetusername · 26/11/2025 23:39

At the end of your rant. Who are these people who you are paying to live ‘freely’? Just wondering?

Haha are you kidding?

ScholesPanda · 26/11/2025 23:41

YANBU
Overall I'd didn't think it was a bad budget.