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Energy bills, tax and pensions: what does Andy Burnham’s first Budget mean for Newcastle?
From household costs to regional funding, the Budget has implications for families, workers and businesses. But which measures matter most to people in Newcastle? Hear a selection of individual views and see what local people make of the plans.
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00:00It's all very stupid, really, isn't it? I mean, people want jobs, they don't want handouts, really.
00:09Most people would like to have a job with some decent money, not some gurgans.
00:14Although I must say this morning, when I read Healy's attempt to lower the cost of living by reducing cost
00:22of marmalade and gherkins,
00:23I was a bit surprised. I didn't regard those as staples, really.
00:28It's pretty hard. If you look at the landlord issues in the UK and stuff like that, for me, when
00:36it comes to jobs,
00:37I'm not too worried only for, I've got a pretty common idea of what I should be doing with my
00:44course.
00:44I feel like a lot of uni students don't do that.
00:46He just says what he thinks most people want to hear rather than what is actually happening in the world.
00:55Well, there were no, what I would call, real staples on there, and at the end of it, I said,
00:59you know,
00:59families can hope to save, what, £21 by the end of the year, and I thought, well, that's not a
01:03lot, is it, really,
01:04for people who are struggling?
01:06I've got a friend that's, like, down south right now.
01:09He is finding it really hard just to get, like, an internship.
01:11He's a pretty smart guy. He's doing it, like, 2-1, like, one, but he can't really get that.
01:19Well, they need to bring back apprenticeships for people.
01:22When you leave school, you shouldn't be going on the dole or whatever.
01:26You should be going into an apprenticeship to learn a trade.
01:29You should be going into an apprenticeship to learn a trade.

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