People on the street: The budget

With the budget now having settled into the public consciousness, we went out onto the streets of Manchester to ask people their opinions.

Transcript

00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World. Today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about

00:03the budget. It was announced last week and there's been some controversy, as there always seems to be

00:07when a new budget's announced, but although Labour have managed to stick to their plan of not raising

00:11individual taxes, they have hiked up the taxes of some corporations, particularly to do with national

00:16insurance tax. We want to know whether people view the moves as a good thing, a bad thing, or

00:20just sort of neutral. I don't know, there's some stuff that I would like, I think is good. I don't

00:27think any of it is really like enough, like I think that removing private schools' charitable

00:34status is a good step in the right direction. I think it's kind of a middle. Yeah, kind of in

00:39America. It's something to believe as well, if they're coming out with that kind of information,

00:44and we've seen it ourselves, you get me, then it's not a lie, is it? I feel like it's been the same

00:49as last year's budget. I don't know, I mean obviously you've got to have faith that like

00:53things will work out. Whatever way, it's better than the Conservative Party,

00:57and it's better than what they would have done if they were in power.