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?

There is FSCS protection. But it doesn’t protect against investment risk, and neither should it.

Yes she did. Tax everything and spend on welfare.

Landlordism is a disease

Do you think she wouldn’t buy the toiletries without it?
or do you think the kids might miss out on stuff so she could still buy them?

That was the best I think I have ever seen Kemi - actually quite impressed given she doesn't see much before.

Are you keeping up with the news at all? Racism, Russian links.. God, the newly elected local reform councillors haven't a clue, they're clearly struggling with the practicalities of running local government. Just watch some of their council meetings, it's painful to watch. It would be a disaster to have them in power.

I meant some slightly more specific criticisms of specific policies really.

All be it the Omni-Fuck-Up it is a bit of an open goal for Kemi to score in...

I don’t care. Fund your own kids.

Absolutely. It was just belittling sound bites. Not really addressing the budget. Let’s be honest, she should have done, what with their being a heads up on it all.

The removal of the two child cap probably won’t mean people will go on to have babies they (still) can’t afford, what it will do is mean that those who should be working more to look after their current families will now have even more opportunity not to and leave it to the Govt.

Agree!

Still well ahead in the polls. You may be happy with the level of bullshit from government but many of us want change.

I agree.
but those kids will be paying mine and your pension. The better they do in life, the better the economy and our lives will be.

Thought Badenoch was great and summed up what so many are thinking. Maybe there’s hope left for the conservatives?

And you're happy that the change comes from a party who can barely keep it's elected members out of prison? The Nathan Gill story should have been huge.

That’s not how the opposition works though

Child benefit is a separate matter to what has been scrapped. Everyone earning less than 60 thousand a year is entitled to child benefit.

What's been scrapped is the 2 child limit for the child element of universal credit. It will unlikely benefit those who have no intention of working and spit out child after child as the overall benefit cap is still in place. Whereas, low income working families who rely on UC would benefit.

There is mass misunderstanding of this 🙄

But it won't though will it? They'll still be subject to the overall cap

I didn’t vote Labour. I just thought kemis speech was awful

She is!! Worth watching the budget to watch her controlling the bunch of idiots

This stood out to me too- absolutely disgraceful. A national embarrassment.

But no one will benefit from the change as there is still an overall benefit cap still in place ? So the only people to benefit from this rule being lifted is families who have disabled children or working over a certain amount of hours making you exempt from the overall benefit cap. So not many existing families will actually see any of the money

I find it so embarrassing when they do this.

They won't through. Kids born into poverty generally end having children in poverty. The way you solve it is reduce the number of kids born into poverty. There is a reason there are more gambling shops in deprived areas. Giving people more money doesn't suddenly make them financial responsible.