Budget Concerns: Will Birmingham Be Better or Worse Off?
With the upcoming budget on everyone's minds, we ask Birmingham residents how concerned they are about their financial future. Do they expect to be better or worse off, and do they trust the government to allocate funds effectively? Find out what Brummies believe should be the top spending priorities and which sectors need urgent investment.
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00:00Yeah, I think education and health desperately needs more money, and it's been run down to
00:07the bare bones, and you can't run a functional society when people don't have good health.
00:14I think housing is the other area that desperately needs investment.
00:17And so I think, again, if you tax rich people, if you get more money into the system, you
00:25can do some of those things.
00:26The obvious one, the health service, needs a lot more investment into it.
00:32Again, education, I think, needs more investment.
00:38But yes, I do think that with the forthcoming budget, if it's the taxes in the right areas
00:44and stuff going up and everything to bring more money in, and it goes into the right
00:50areas, yes, I think I do trust them a lot more than the previous government to spend
00:56it wisely in the right areas.