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

[Dennien]

I’m a single mum, I work full time, I have 3 children and I just about get by.
My niece is 26, she makes almost 100k (got lucky, was in the right rooms either the right people), and inherited 500k from her paternal grandparents.
She doesn’t have uni debt, she doesn’t have childcare costs. She happily pays £500 a month for a fancy London gym, lives in a flat share with her best friend etc.
Today she told me she didn’t think the budget went far enough etc. that Labour are useless and so on. She is a Lib Dem/Tory voter and very against reform too.

AIBU to say that young people in a privileged position shouldn’t really get to comment as they aren’t facing the same difficulties others are.

Yep, and because OP has no way of taking any of her niece’s money away from her, she wants to take away her right to have an opinion instead.

You sound very jealous of her youth and freedom.

She didn’t go to uni, she works in the creative industries, her break very much came from being in the right room. I’m proud of her for succeeding but her success is a niche avenue of an already niche industry that most can’t access.

So, she placed herself in all the right rooms then. Did you?

No one earns 100k purely based on luck! Seriously get a grip, stop minimising her success!

She must be very talented to get the job. Nobody is going to fork out 100k for no good reason

Lol, yes let's have a system where only net beneficiaries of the welfare/tax system get a say, or only those with children, or only those over 50, or only those with a Mercedes benz - that'll work.

Democracy isn't perfect but at least you're allowed to think and have an opinion.

Of course she’s entitled to an opinion! Do you think she shouldn’t be allowed to vote either?

You’re right, only men who own land and are over 30 should be allowed a political opinion and to vote. Given she sounds like a net contributor in terms of government spending and taxes, she’s funding the government spending announced, so of course she gets to have a view.

It doesn’t matter what room she was in, if she was bad at what she does she wouldn’t have got or kept her job.

Ladies and gentlemen, entitlement culture!
As exemplified by OP here.

@Dennien do you think people on disability benefits or are non contributing should also be banned from having opinions?

Her lack of empathy @Dennien?

"she makes almost 100k (got lucky, was in the right rooms either the right people)

Got lucky?

Then that’s even more impressive, no one is chucking 100 k at a 26 yewr old as she was there. And you’re not proud of her, you’re jealous as hell.

I wanted an easy life and not to have multiple mouths to feed and childcare costs, so I didn't have kids. Presumably this was an option for you if you didn't wan to just scrape by? We all make choices.

You can have empathy but still feel stung by the budget, you can have empathy while thinking you’re paying too much tax for what you personally receive in return. If she’s on a six figure salary she’ll be paying a huge amount of tax while using very few services, of course she can have an opinion about that.

She isn’t willing to listen and the policies she supports have no impact on her? Well, if she ever wants to change career, I’m sure Kemi would welcome her.

Also, where is she managing to spend £500 / month on a gym?

Yabu - she lives in this country so she’s just as much entitled to her own opinion on the budget. And that’s coming from a young, single mother who has a child on DLA so probably the exact person she’d judge.

So is she a LIB DEM or TORY voter, which is it?

Coz she sure ain't both!

She’s seen herself ‘try harder and do better’ so that’s why she thinks others can. Yeah, maybe short sighted. But applicable to many. She’ll be paying plenty of tax so it’s good she’s involved in the debate.

YABitter tbh.

you‘re killing me OP. We now need to know what job she does!

also often we have the least empathy with those folks we came from

and yes of course she gets a say

She would say she aligns with the Lib Dem’s more but votes conservative as she lives in an area where it can and does swing Labour to Tory but low hope for Lib Dem. She said if she moved to a constituency more likely to vote Tory or Lib Dem, she would vote Lib Dem.

What if your niece told you that you don’t get an opinion because as a single mum you’re not a net contributor because you take out more than you put into the system?

How would that make you feel?

So you want to limit who can/can't have an opinion? Where's the democracy in that?

????? 😂