Budget 2025

[Rufus Stone]

After months of endless speculation and scaremongering, the day is finally here.

Given the time of year, I wonder how many will liken her to Scrooge afterwards.

[T6 vanman]

Every single poster on PH apart from yourself who obviously will defend her to the hilt

[PurplePenguin]

Rufus Stone said:

After months of endless speculation and scaremongering, the day is finally here.

Given the time of year, I wonder how many will liken her to Scrooge afterwards.

That would be grossly unfair to Scrooge

[Brainpox]

Calling it: we’re all fked

[Andy 308GTB]

Listening to 'The State of It' podcast (Times Radio) last night, they thought that 95% of Labour MPs would be very happy with the budget. They weren't so sure about the markets.

It's basically Keir & Rachel hanging onto their jobs by appeasing the back benches. Which they have form for.

[alscar]

PurplePenguin said:

That would be grossly unfair to Scrooge

Indeed.
He didn’t actually take away and wasn’t responsible for the country’s finances.
At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.

[BrettMRC]

I'm expecting most of us to slap in the middle of a venn diagram of "Working People", "Broadest Shoulders", and "Inherited Tory Failures".

Probably in for the kind of shafting you'd need a VPN to see in this country now...

[NuckyThompson]

Absolutely no confidence that there will be anything in this budget which produces any modicum of hope for the next few years.

In terms of surprises is there anything they haven't leaked that they might use as a headline grabber? Personal allowance to move up i line with pensions? VAT on hospitality to be dropped to 12.5%? They're more likely to drop the VAT threshold to the rumoured £30k imo

[P-Jay]

Brainpox said:

Calling it: we re all fked

I'm waiting for the context, one of the other Budget threads was most full of people complaining about more Council Tax on their £2m house, or because they might not be able to stash £20k a year into their pensions to avoid income tax.

If that's "fked" I wouldn't mind a piece of it.

[GT03ROB]

P-Jay said:

Brainpox said:

Calling it: we re all fked

I'm waiting for the context, one of the other Budget threads was most full of people complaining about more Council Tax on their £2m house, or because they might not be able to stash £20k a year into their pensions to avoid income tax.

If that's "fked" I wouldn't mind a piece of it.

That's not gonna raise jack st. You'll be paying one way or another.

[sparta6]

"Smash the businesses"

[Earthdweller]

[ChocolateFrog]

Brainpox said:

Calling it: we re all fked

Calling it. It'll make a negligible difference to 99.999% of "all".

[macron]

Bingo sheet in this thread

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I like how she's saying people are "dissatisfied with the economy" this morning. So good to see we'll need £15bn of tax increases just to pay for back bencher support for her and Starmer's jobs. Even her own MP's accept this

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/11/25/ra...

[theicemario]

Well done Labour on choosing to destroy the fabric of this country.
Raising the living wage two consecutive years, in the current economic climate, has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

Breaks my heart that we will lose yet more chippies, pubs, all that makes Britain Great, only for those to be further replaced by st American fast food chains, Turkish barbers, vape shops, all that is ruining our high streets and communities. God I hate our politicians. Treasonous s.

[Edible Roadkill]

It’ll be a good budget for the 20,000 families of non workers that have >6x kids. For everyone else it’ll mean less money to spend on the local economy.

I predict an emergency spring budget followed close by IMF bailout.

History has a tendency to repeat itself and I’m seeing a return to 1975.

[Rufus Stone]

theicemario said:

Well done Labour on choosing to destroy the fabric of this country.
Raising the living wage two consecutive years, in the current economic climate, has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

Breaks my heart that we will lose yet more chippies, pubs, all that makes Britain Great, only for those to be further replaced by st American fast food chains, Turkish barbers, vape shops, all that is ruining our high streets and communities. God I hate our politicians. Treasonous s.

How is it that chippies and pubs can't survive with an increase in minimum wage but American fast food chains and vape shops can?

[J4CKO]

P-Jay said:

Brainpox said:

Calling it: we re all fked

I'm waiting for the context, one of the other Budget threads was most full of people complaining about more Council Tax on their £2m house, or because they might not be able to stash £20k a year into their pensions to avoid income tax.

If that's "fked" I wouldn't mind a piece of it.

Hmm, not 2 million but we bought our house 27 years ago for a lot less, thats now apparently getting on for being worth a million quid, in the meantime we have worked hard and saved where we can.

But they are eyeing the equity in our property, which we cant release, as we live in it, we would have to sell up and downsize.

What are they going to do when they have plundered all that ?

[ChocolateFrog]

theicemario said:

Well done Labour on choosing to destroy the fabric of this country.
Raising the living wage two consecutive years, in the current economic climate, has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

Breaks my heart that we will lose yet more chippies, pubs, all that makes Britain Great, only for those to be further replaced by st American fast food chains, Turkish barbers, vape shops, all that is ruining our high streets and communities. God I hate our politicians. Treasonous s.

Interesting take. Can I assume you're not on the living wage?

[NuckyThompson]

Rufus Stone said:

How is it that chippies and pubs can't survive with an increase in minimum wage but American fast food chains and vape shops can?

Mcdonalds are probably offshoring the profit and Vape shops only really need one person behind a counter.

Pubs and chippies need quite a few staff