'Completely unchristian!' Raging Britons deliver stark assessment of Rachel Reeves's Budget

Asked by GB News host Tom Harwood how they feel about the Budget, one man said: "Well, this is Labour's attempt to address the cost of living crisis, and it's failed from the outset.

"It's failed to address the major issues in the economy, and it's tinkered around the edges with the two child cap and things like that. But at the end of the day, we need some bigger policies rather than just little tinkering."

Echoing the thoughts of the man, another local fumed: "Let's face it, it's always the same, isn't it? The working people get hammered, the people on benefits get extra. It's always the same."

Asked if she believed there was anything "positive" in the Autumn Statement, she admitted: "There was a couple of positive things, but I can't remember off the top of my head now as there was that much to go through!

"I do like the idea of the increase in the child benefit cap but for working people, not for everyone. We've got a situation now where we've got free breakfast clubs, but then they're also going to be getting free money.

"So why do they need the free breakfast clubs if they're getting extra money to be able to feed the families? I do not understand the logic. It's the taxpayer that's funding both."

Responding to Kemi Badenoch's calls for the Chancellor to resign, one Easington local agreed with the claim: "I completely agree, it's been an attack on employers and definitely the rural community.

"The farmers tax I mean, you got to see it on the news today, farmers have been arrested just for parking their tractor up there when other people can burn the Union flag, which is absolutely disgraceful."

He added: "And I also think putting the milkshake tax on, farmers have been trying to have diversity like putting milk vending machines into the farms, and now they're going to get taxed on that as well.

"Which means they're going to charge more, which means they'll lose money because people won't go there, they'll go back to supermarkets for the milk. So I think this is really a tax on definitely the employers and the rural community, big time."

Offering a bleak assessment of Ms Reeves' speech in the Commons, one of the locals speaking to the People's Channel declared her statement "completely unchristian".

He fumed: "I think that Rachel Reeves is completely unchristian, because she's squeezing hard working and middle class families who are the glue of the society that we're in.

"And if we get rid of that, we're just going to spiral into demise."

Asked by Tom if he believes things "might get better in the future" under Ms Reeves, he disagreed, saying: "No, absolutely not. If we're going to be spending more on benefits, if those people are out of work, they're going to be incentivised to be on benefits. How are we going to become more productive?"

Highlighting the impact on young working people, another Easington resident told GB News: "A couple of things kept coming up, like economic stability, and then she was asking us regarding the taxes that we're all going to be paying more for.

"The only way to balance the books was to cut spending is one of her phrases, a direct quote there, but if you're going to tax our workers to pay for a benefit system, that's not productive."

She concluded: "But one of the things I really did want to add to is the fact about young people who are not getting their chances in life. It was great the fact that some of it will be going towards looking after the young people, but plenty of people have said in the retail trade, the hospitality trade, that because they've had to put up national insurances, because they've had to put up the minimum wage and the national living wage, that they simply cannot afford to keep young people on the books or even to attract them in the first place.

"So you've got this real sort of like strange economic activity where you're saying one thing, but the reality is another."

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