After a long wait. The Autumn Budget is finally here!!! 💰

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https://news.sky.com/story/budget-2025-raft-of-tax-hikes-expected-today-as-more-policies-confirmed-13475413

Anyone like to join me in watching the budget today?

Autumn - the NHS is a bloody mess. I spend over 20 years working as a supplier. Numerous Procurement Depts to keep their cottage industries going.

Meetings about very little, silence and then another meeting with cira 15 people and very little decided in a timley fashion.

They are a disgrace and should have a complete overhaul. I have a relative working as a senior nurse. She says its very difficult to sack someone, people are just biding their time until retirement. Its a mess.

Kemi Badenoch is having a field day.

Realistic.

Also: mileage costs on EV’s will take away any incentive to buy, values of second hand vehicles will plummet.

Feckless parents are feckless parents. Giving these parents more money won't help the children in these scenario. The money will seldom be spent in the children's best interests. If you don't care enough to keep your family size to an affordable level and you're happy to bring more and more children into this world into poverty then you're hardly the kind of parent that prioritises children's wellbeing and happiness with any additional money that you're given.

The mileage is tiny.

Yes this has always annoyed me. I bought ages ago and at the time we were paying £850 a month for our flat in London and then couldn't get a lender to accept that we could afford to pay £700 a month in mortgage. I understand they want more of a buffer but it is very frustrating.

Good speech from Kemi, but it should really be Reform responding as the next government.

Please god no, we don't Reform in charge.

Great speech

Could you also tell me next week’s lottery numbers 🤣

Reform have 5 MPs and are quite a long way from being the next government.

Yes, both parties should have massively reformed child maintenance by now. For a start non-resident parents should have to pay half of the childcare costs required to allow the resident parent to work. The maintenance rates are a total joke. It's just another way in which the taxpayer is subsidising feckless people.

Maybe so but it’s still an additional cost - if choosing an EV is a difficult decision anyway due to charging infrastructure etc this will not help

You'd be wanting to win soon. Lottery winning must be on next years tax increase list.

No one wants to risk losing their hard earned savings to 'help the economy', that's what we already pay taxes for. If they brought in FSCS protection for capital in S&S ISAs at least you would know you couldn't lose money.

Maybe they’d be able to buy it selfish landlords hadn’t bought up all the properties.

Agreed, it wouldn't be so bad if the money actually went on the children but I bet a lot goes on nonsense.

It’s just a load of sound bites she’s written down. The mansplaining “joke” also wasn’t funny

Yes that’s exactly the reason why people don’t buy properties. Facile comment.

I saw one woman on TikTok who spends her child benefit on a “stock up” shop of her toiletries. It should be abolished, not increased.

I thought kemi’s jokes were bang on - including the mansplaining

Are you still a Labour voter? There won’t be many.

We were in the same position many years ago, we managed to get a short term top up mortgage at a higher rate that allowed us to buy, probably not available any more, It was pretty risky but was the only way we could buy and the mortgage costs were still less than the rent we would have had to pay at the time.

Not really addressing the actual points of the budget though.