00:00They don't know about the welfare bill, I don't like that, which is crippling us.
00:04I mean, we're grateful for 100 quid, not that it's going to do a right lot
00:08because bills are going up by God knows how much.
00:12It's just floated about the edges, really, which I think Labour do.
00:15I think we need radical change.
00:17We need to start cutting things left, right and centre to get us back
00:20with £3 trillion in debt, are we?
00:22Something like that.
00:25And we need to get back to getting some sort of growth in the country.
00:29Great to see minimum wage has gone up a little bit again.
00:32I think there's a lot of jobs that aren't necessarily unskilled
00:35that are paying minimum wage now because businesses,
00:39especially small businesses, are feeling the crunch.
00:42I did like the idea of social services getting a bit more support and protection
00:46because I think we've got the worst in Europe now, biggest underinvestment.
00:52So I think that would be the thing that would be impactful for my friends in town more.
00:58I think that given we also have the most nature-depleted country in Europe,
01:03that I wish there'd been a whole lot more protection for nature restoration projects.
01:09I like the idea of the gas, the £100 gas, but really it's just a little too little.
01:14I mean, it's supposed to go up by like £500 or something.
01:17And quite frankly, rather than putting it in people's bank accounts,
01:20it should just come off the bill.
01:22Like you put £100 on somebody and you really think they're going to put it towards their energy?
01:25That I wouldn't.
01:26I very much appreciate that they have done away with the reduction on the ISA allowance.
01:31I think in this day and age, people need to be able to have a fair bit put away in
01:36savings.
01:37And by capping the ISA allowance, reducing that down and forcing people into stocks and shares,
01:42when people need short-term investment or their job may not be entirely secure,
01:46we need to have that safety net of having an interest, a tax-free way of saving.
01:51Generally in Leeds, everything's so built up for like students and adults.
01:56But what about the youth?
01:57You know, they need to start putting some funding into the youth,
02:00getting, you know, like youth clubs and things like that,
02:03keeping them off the streets, keeping them busy, keeping them educated.
02:05There was one outstanding thing, which was to separate the price of gas
02:08from the price of alternative energy.
02:10That was so ridiculous.
02:13And big up to my old boss, Dale Vince, for persuading them to do that, pushing that through.
02:19So I think that will make the next 50 years considerably better for everyone in this country
02:24by allowing a bit more investment, a bit more,
02:28making it more attractive for buyers and sellers to use alternative energy.
02:32Raise the threshold for tax-free allowance.
02:36It's due.
02:36I mean, I'm somebody who works on minimum wage.
02:40You raise my taxes any more than it already is,
02:42and I'm going to be out of a house because I won't be able to afford my mortgage.
02:45I think it's nice to see that with the really poor decisions that Rachel Reeves made,
02:51it's nice to see our new chancellor is actually looking at the working man
02:55and making things slightly easier for us because it is definitely needed.
02:59So, I think I think inisations,
