The Budget: Who are "Working People"?

[@carldalton9482]

That moment of taking down the individual impact over the broader improvement was class!

[@returnoftheredeye]

The media always does this in the runup to elections too. They do vox-pops with the public, and most of them follow the format of "As 'x', I'm gonna vote for whomever is going to look after x's the most." It doesn't matter if 'x' is parents, homeowners, old folk, young folk etc, the individualism is the same.

[@lllordllloyd]

Comedians doing better journalism than journalists, thanks to Murdoch and the BBC.

[@stevemartin239]

Brilliant Matt. This should be shown in schools ! thanks for sharing your wonderful satire!

[@seanduggan3453]

Good one. I especially liked the observation about examining the budget purely in personal "how will it affect me" terms. Although I suspect that the one penny a pint will be enough😂

[@zetectic7968]

Another good one from Goodenough 😃

[@ericajohnson3504]

Perfect Matt, you have put humour at the heart of the budget. Well done 👏👏

[@williamfence566]

It would be amazing to get the country running again if we had a trading agreement with a huge market just on our doorstep . Oh wait !!

[@weswheel4834]

Don't be silly, we are now part of the continent of United Kingdom, and the only other country near enough to us to trade with is New Zealand.

[@williamfence566]

@@weswheel4834 🤣

[@MattGreenComedy]

Sounds like a fantasy

[@NicolasVitaleAlphaNovae]

Don’t worry, the future is with our new partners in Asia: China, Russia,…

[@rosemarystewart7405]

Brilliant as usual Matt!

[@clivemortimore8203]

"Wot about people who use the Bus?" "They don't look at websites".

[@sandrafrancis3631]

👍👏👏👏I liked the definitions of working class, middle class, so true!😅

[@MattGreenComedy]

Thank you! 😃

[@SkyEcho7]

😂😂🤣 'A pint will be a penny cheaper!'

[@m6j159]

Absolutely brilliant! A good laugh before 0700hrs sets the day off to a great start. Thank you, Matt 👍

[@weswheel4834]

Nice illustration there Matt of why the term "working class" would have been even more vague.

[@carolynwestwood6258]

Absolutely brilliant!!

[@andrewmoorhouse687]

Brilliant MG as always. Love the individual vs the wider picture comment. What a shame our so called news media journalists haven’t got that kind of insight. Oh wait, that wouldn’t fit the narrative and keep stoking the culture wars. Mind you I have had a good laugh watching the good old Beeb desperately trying to find some straws to clutch at as to how we’ll all be worse off despite there being exactly sweet Fanny Adams that will impact almost all of us. Wonder if they realise how sad and pathetic they look? Good job Jonathan’s here to make sense of it all for us!

[@debb6393]

Great comment and great video from Matt, was starting to feel like I was going mad watching the news. Why are they so reluctant to mention any positives that will make a better society? I’d rather see an expansion of breakfast clubs so children don’t try to learn on empty stomachs and that’ll make teaching easier and hopefully keep more in the profession and so on.

[@duncanspears9860]

Splendid take Matt, you never disappoint me😂

[@MattGreenComedy]

Thanks Duncan!

[@SusannaSaunders]

I loved the piss take out of who working people are... There is no one who thinks they are a bad driver...

[@kevingiblin4122]

Brilliance😢😮😮

[@jackliv23]

excellent Matt................

[@dianeglanville]

brilliant video Matt

[@notadoctora7956]

Thank

[@william_marshal]

Working people who are people who earn money by working for it rather than people who earn money by letting other people work for them or making their wealth work for them without lifting a finger, in other words working people are everybody except the lazy rich !!!

[@weswheel4834]

Seems simple enough. And they didn't even increase the top tax bands, so if you each £200,000 a year without any other income then you still count I think.

[@meh3247]

Nice dissection!

[@weswheel4834]

But we know the answer now. If your tax just went up then you aren't a working person.

[@marksimons8861]

My inheritance tax liability went up. I will not be a working person when it finally falls due regardless of how I earned it while I was alive.

[@weswheel4834]

@@marksimons8861 I'm not sure what your point is. Congratulations on inheritance tax being relevant for you.

[@catherinemartin6258]

People who spend all their wages by the end of the month just to live.

[@garychown4885]

one of your best.

[@leegosling]

Cloth ears! They said WOKING people. Just in a posh accent.

[@richardjakobek7477]

I believe there is a nice Pizza Express in Woking.

[@roderickmain9697]

Funny because is true. Welll done Matt/

[@KenPassey-hd2mc]

Good stuff as usual Matt. As to your initial question ' who are the working class' I would posit.... Anyone who doesn't vote Tory. 😂😂👏👏👍👍

[@weswheel4834]

But like in the US, lots of working class people traditionally vote for right of centre parties because they get convinced by the old "better with the economy" line, plus the idea that if they ever get rich then they don't want to pay much tax. Pyramid scheme.

[@weswheel4834]

YT has done it again. Whenever I suggest why working class people might vote for that party, YT deletes it.

[@sandrafrancis3631]

But the working class do vote Tory, particularly if they live in Essex!

[@KenPassey-hd2mc]

@sandrafrancis3631 agree, this is the problem. Pork does not want to be educated!!🤣🤣👍👍👍

[@Lindafoy11]

​@@sandrafrancis3631They think it makes them 'Posh' 😅😅.......

[@colinc8966]

Nice bit of observation with your comedy sir

[@georgeatkinson759]

Hola from Spain...I know a millionaire from Rochdale who bought an organic avocado farm over here...he can't stand them...but loves a fried breakfast...working class?

[@Dewsta26]

Lol still got it kidda 😊 #perfect

[@raithrover1976]

Being named Dave, Gary, Scott, Sarah or Kerry = working class. Being named Noah, Oliver, Charlotte or Chloe = middle class

[@K4rmaRules]

So funny

[@Rich-on6fe]

Green is the complementary colour to purple.

[@garryferrington811]

I'm not wealthy, and I love avocado toast. Then again, avocados aren't expensive here. And I also loved Joe Biden's comment. 😁

[@beatrixwillius]

Sounds like every budget in every country ever.

[@tamara3984]

Love it when people say they are working class because their dad was a builder. They might be in for a shock if they ever get round to reading Das Kapital 😂

[@clivemortimore8203]

Or their dad was a "tool maker" in every interview.

[@tamara3984]

@clivemortimore8203 tool makers are in general employees, so that is working class according to Marx.

[@obtuse1291]

Help me Matt. I love latte and keep ferrets. 😂

[@ninja-mouse]

Like all good boys.... I shouldn't laugh so hard, but the delivery was flawless.

[@Kj16V]

This isn't comedy. This is an educational video.

[@timwoodger7896]

Passive income is not work. Money makes money and working keeps you afloat.

[@tsr207]

Matt shows the ridiculous knots that the Labour party are tying themselves by trying to not to show their origins -which is a bit like the tories not having slightly overweight cats who wear top hats and morning dress !

[@ai-d2121]

Whaaahahaha. Brilliant.

[@Mitjitsu]

Next budget, we won't want be taxing earners more i.e. people who make a living earning money.

[@smorris12]

From the endless comments about "Sunak sticking one to Starmer about the budget at PMQs" I keep seeing, the part about individual impact needs showing to 2/3rds of the country.

[@RichardSteeper]

Working migrant paying taxes for the good of us all would confuse the duck 🦆 out of all the grown ups. 🤔

[@ThoughtandMemory]

Good comedy always holds reality up to the light. Better than murdochs hack rags ever will 😂

[@tinagibbs618]

Nice one again.xxxx

[@MattGreenComedy]

Thanks again!

[@MyKharli]

I wish journalists would take lessons here .

[@marksimons8861]

Still no end in sight for the Great Brexit catastrophe.

[@weswheel4834]

Well no. For it to end we either need to find lovely sunny uplands that don't involve Europe in any way, or for enough of the country to loudly want to rejoin that we can sensibly talk to the EU about it. The latter seems more likely than the former, and is still going to take a long time to get to.

[@philjameson292]

Not me for sure, im a layabout

[@mikerodent3164]

I think a lot of TV anchors want to tell us how much they hate their airhead "special subject" reporters (think Bradby on the most unprofessional, overpromoted would-be "journalist" and nepo baby, Peston).

[@passpatout4599]

Apart from children, the elderly and politicians most other people can be classed as "working People". Children do not work these days, the elderly cannot work and politicians just sit around chatting among themselves and getting grossly overpaid

[@cemeteryguestrob9745]

not you!

[@bigN-422]

😂😂😂😂 🇩🇪❤🇬🇧

[@YamsPhysicalCatalogueOfMedia]

Hey aren't you the guy from 2 pints of larger ? If so you were funny in that episode "he farts"

[@Raz_of_The_Void]

Yes, I hear you. We should also take into account what the budget is trying to achieve. But us who dislike it don't dislike the final goals. But the fact that even Labour chose the easiest targets - working class, or working people, or however you want to call us who actually live salary to salary. But you know, when the Tories did things very similar to that, they also had a bigger goal than just screwing people over. Hell, when Thatcher closed the mines it wasn't just to mess with the miners. I imagine that was just a bonus for her. Point being, you'd think Labour unlike the Tories would find other ways to get the money needed in the budget. Like, I don't know, taxing the very rich and wealthy? How about raising corporation tax? Taxing inheritance? Maybe taking a cut to the salaries and benefits Lords get, or even just closing down the house of lords all together? Or how about this - you do raise taxes, but you remove unnecessary taxes such as the TV licence? Point being, people voted Labour to make a change. So far, it's just more of the same crap. 🤷‍♂

[@ThomasCurran-jn5yn]

They are the people who haven't caughton your better off lying at home getting everything paid for you. .but this budget should help get through to them. Relax stop trying