After a lead up mired in chaos and leaks, the UK’s new budget dropped last week. At first glance it is substantially less terrible than I had feared.
Not everyone agrees of course, because not everyone agrees on anything any more. Yougov did some interesting polling on the public reaction to its individual components , shown below.
Probably the one I’m most confused / despondent about is the negative public reaction to the eradicating of the 2 child benefit limit.
A majority of Britons though this was a bad move. But how anyone could imagine this was the wrong thing to do given it was a policy that condemned hundreds of thousand of children to poverty whilst seemingly failing to achieve its self-declared aims whatsoever is beyond me.
Innocent children should not be punished no matter how poorly you believe their parents have behaved.