'Not enough': Eddie Mair grills Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith amid cost of living crisis
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2022
- Eddie Mair has grilled Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith amid the cost of living crisis. This clip has been taken from Eddie Mair's LBC show on August 10th 2022.
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How does a guy like this know anything about families in need.
The worst people possible are in charge.
He was a disaster when he was the minister for the DWP.
He is my MP and I see him out and about talking to the working class so he does know
Yes they are; and tell me, who voted for them? Martians? It's all very well to blame the politicians but it's the mob who put them into power. Correct me if you think I'm wrong.
@@haleytownsend7544 doesn't mean he is doing what's best for them.
@@paulcosgrove1119 I am one of them them and I voted for him
Tories : In power for 12 years
Also Tories : The economy is going to into recession, "A human disaster"
Also Tories : Writes off 40 billion in stolen Covid grants
Also Tories : Cut Taxes, forces real terms wage cuts
Bank of England : Raises interest rates
They literally don't have a clue what they are doing.
Also Tories: it’s labours fault
They know exactly what they're doing - enslaving the poor by controlling all means of survival. Feudalism.
The sick fact is that they know exactly what they are doing. They shamelessly pretend to be fools, when they are anything but. They have been in power for 12years and this is where they have brought us. A government that cared for its citizens would have saved up the resources to mitigate unforseen difficulties. These people have spent their time lining their own pockets at our expense is
sadly they know what they are doing electorally :(
@@CG-or1re cheating...it'll catch up though lol
IDS is a murderer and should be in jail
Duncan Smith just demonstrated what a 'Stuck record' sounds like.
Well this is the guy who invented Universal Credit and I believe the bedroom tax. So no one should be surprised.
@@iangascoigne8231 Camerons ministers 'invented' it, IDS just happened to be the one to push it through.
@@owstonlad3859 Thanks for the information, though if Cameron’s ministers invented it surely as a minister that would include Duncan Smith?
@@iangascoigne8231 Precisely, IDS was work and pensions secretary 2010/2016, he pushed it through, as a Minister, in 2013
DC is just kicking the energy can down the road with generalisations.
let us not forget it was his party who sold off all the energy. now we pay billions to shareholders instead.
And the Water.
IDS oddly manages to make the rest of the Tory pirates intelligent, well thought and humane
buses, trains,
ok mr Labour parasite, so how would National energy concerns pay for themselves?
Lets remember if you can it was the Labour party that bankrupted the country just before the tories sold off the energy company. Both parties are guilty of destroying our country.
Well done Eddie. Don't retire yet. The country needs you
But he couldn't get a word in.
@@owstonlad3859 Who couldn't get a word in?
His an ignorant twerp.
Why would he retire when he gets paid handsomly for spouting his political beliefs to a London based middle class Champaign Socialist audience?
@@deltakilo75bon61 well if you paid attention you'd notice who did all the rattling.
IDS is worth less than a used sheet of toilet paper.
Is it just me or has the UK completely gone down the drain since Brexit?
Has the PPE contracts scandal between corrupt Tories and their colluding cronies been forgotten?
No and i won't be forgetting either.
You mean the PPE contracts that provided PPE when needed instead of waiting six months for long winded tender bids by companies who only employed Union employees as would have happened under Corbyn.
And 17 billion in fake grants
@@stevebining5379 £17 Billion - nearly the cost of the two ferries commissioned by the SNP that have yet to see water lol.
@@vinnparaffin6082 O'Brian actually thinks he works harder than construction workers - oh the blisters he must have???
I hate this most in need nonsense. I'm a teacher with aspirations to visit Australia next year. For me personally the sacrifice I make will be that trip. I'm not going to choose between eating and heating (I hope) and am well aware others are in far worse situations. That said, why should I just get on with it and pay 4 times what I paid last year to heat my home just to preserve the profits of rich oil companies? It's a joke.
Because a minority of people in the country who are rich want you to sacrifice your holiday so they can be even richer. It is simple, then people like you take your anger out on those even poorer thinking it is unfair they get help and you may miss out. So have the same mindset as those who do not care about you because they see it is unfair they have to skip that extra holiday as well
@@emmahumphries2636 Thanks Emma, although tbf I'm hardly likely to take my anger out on those poorer than myself! I'm a little more 'in the know' than that. Your point is valid though and pitching working class against working class seems to be the Tory strategy here. All the while profits continue to skyrocket.
And tge nerve of Tory supporters go on about Gordon Brown sold all our Gold. At least he didn't sell of our black and colourless gold.
But the oil companies are most in need. Shareholders are in need. Wow so selfish.
I so agree, even people who are not desperate must be so mad because why should you work half the week to give it to these tossers , makes a mockery of life in general 🤬
Wasn't this the guy who was screaming yes in Parliament over benefits cuts
Yep, he's a disgusting creature
This monster has blood on his hands.
shame on those who voted and continue to vote for him
He is the guy who cut our incomes by introducing Universal Credit. What was he thinking?
Yes, and showing his glee.
“If necessary we’ll put in place supports”- this vile man is so out of touch it’s crazy
tories know what they are doing they allready are blaming it all on deep state nothing to see here
Don’t worry Jordan, after this interview Iain Smith went off to shoot grouse on his father in law’s estate.
This vile man should be in prison 😡.
Easing the burden of taxation is NOT the way you solve a recession... It exacerbates the issue.
The government giving people money to grow the economy doesn't and cannot work whilst the country aims to tackle the issue of a recession.
Increasing Tax on the upper echelon of society, and the companies who reap billions in profit is the only sure fire way to ensure peoples hip pockets aren't affected.
Increasing taxation of these groups is the only way to ensure the government can maintain its spending without moving into an economic depression.
Pull your thumb out, stop voting Tory, stop voting Conservative and hold them accountable to the damages they've already caused during their tenure.
Inflation happens because too much money was created during the lockdown, and now the government need to get it out of the system inflation is doing that for the government, raising interest also does that, raising taxes also does that, and lowering the taxes will work against the BOE interest rate rise, People having money doesn't create growth because the pound is weak against the dollar that means import is expensive, also that means the UK government will say goodbye to the dollar reserves, the only way out is a long recession and Austerity anything that come in will not go out the government owe the majority of the debt to itself
Public ownership of public utilities and then the government can simply control the energy prices and that would also stem inflation. You simply buy back shares at their original value plus 5% you simply reinvest the profit. If brexit was about taking back control why do you have foreign ownership of our essential services electricity, water and trains.
Tax cuts will not assist people on UC or people who don't earn enough to pay tax in the first place and those are among the people who need most help.
Totally agree England needs to waken up and stop voting for Tories. After this shower anyone who votes Tory should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
Fully agree. Tories have deliberately choose to rob poor and pay more to rich with their blind ideologies. Economy does not grow by not increasing the incomes of 80% of those in work who are largely in public sectors. Not to forget this Tory government has wasted lot of money in NHS contract, political advisors and publicity.
@@johnhartlepool2349 agreed but at the last election you just couldn’t vote for Corbyn and the rest of his lunatic shadow cabinet so there wasn’t really an alternative.
All the government is thinking about is how little help they can get away with.
It's not a government. Its a self help group or more precisely a help yourself to the public purse group and we cannot fill the purse fast enough to feed their greed.
Totally agree, these tories are vile....
And a total reversal in thinking from when they were keen to give away money to "associates" through dodgy contracts being dished out - socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor! Dido Harding springs immediately to mind. That vile man is my MP but he'll be gone come the next election - loath him!!!
They will think harder once the rioters start burning what's left of the country.
They are thinking as always how best they can conserve their way of life and care not a fig for the little people, not leprechauns.
Duncan Smith always comes out in sympathy with a soft story before going back into the shadows where nothing gets done.
How many took their life because of his legislation .
DC is not an action man!
@@dianamincher6479 no. He's voldamort
He knows nothing!
Universal Credit is a nasty Tory welfare scheme devised by a man that doesn't know the price of mince!
Talk to one of architect of people's problem universal credit does not work. A nasty individual.
100% correct 👍🏼.
Absolutely..evil.
So the idea is to lower taxes to increase spending, while the Bank of England raises interest rates so people can spend less? Am I missing something here?
Nope that's pretty much it... I'm so grateful the government is giving me my extra 20 quid tax reduction....that will pay for the £250 quid rise on my mortgage in May...
Nope, it's completely contradictory.
@renideo decades if misgovernment
The more money they print, the less valuable the currency becomes.
It's a lose-lose deal.
Well not to difficult, Tax reduction benefit the rich, interest rate increases benefit the rich they have money whilst it penalises the poor who have to borrow.
Why are people complaining when they are the ones who voted for the Conservatives time and again ?
Only 43% voted for the Cons in the last election which obvs means 57% didnt.
Our useless FPTP system ensures an elected dictatorship so the Cons are in total power and do what they want with a mostly compliant media backing them,Mr Mair is one of the exceptions tbf.
It’s actually funny looking from the outside. People who voted for Brexit now complaining about the consequences of Brexit despite being told what those consequences would be.
People who vote for the tories complaining about the consequences of voting for that party despite being told what those consequences would be.
Insanity. But I’m sure they’ll all be happy if they can ship off 5 refugees to Rwanda. People starving to death sitting happy that they got less than a dozen people off the island
Some of us have never voted for the Tories. As for those who have, better that they’re seeing the light late than never, I guess.
@@allip4226 The irony is the people most in need voted for these scoundrels
@@mariogmajner6549 The rich and pensioners vote Tory in much larger numbers than the young and poor, so no, most of them didn’t. There’s a few fools in any demographic but they are not representative of the overall picture.
"What people need to understand is..." the utter contempt of these people for the general public laid bare
The fcuktards voted them in.
He's suddenly turned up again,but STILL giving a BS.Youve been in 12yrs ffs
What a totally odious individual IDS is...
IDS, The guy who smashed the benefit system to bits and replaced it with Universal Credit, a system and process that has poverty, punishment and destitution baked in, where 40-50% of claimants work for their poverty.
"working for their poverty" is about the size of it. It's sick making to think the likes of IDS are quite happy with that situation. Talk about "....the poor man at his gate."
There was a program if I remember correctly when he had to live as an unemployed person, he tried and as far as I can remember to do it, he openly admitted he didn't know HOW people did it. Then they put him in charge of the DWP and he made SURE they couldn't.
Many programmes of this type have been done in the past. All resulting in failure of the politicians. After (I lost a few pounds in weight) it is forgotten about until the next would be 'survivor'. Reality TV at its best.
Lancefield Denton....he made such a bad system...making you wait 5 weeks for money means paid per year 5 weeks less.
Same as Osborne ....made pensioners wait 6 years.
Lost thousands.
Quickest money he ever saved the Govt. He actually said that.
Robbery is the way to do it!
I maybe wrong, blame my age, but he was offered a chance to live for a week on benefits by a tv company but declined. Was it some other Tory MP who took the tv companies offer rather than Sir(how did he get that title) Duncan Smug. Got to where he is by marrying into money.
Lancefield Denton...MP's are used to spending the amount a single person gets to live on for a week bills included...on one meal out for them...
People think we have great benefits...but they can think again!
Yet they seem not to grasp the difficult situation now people will face because they don't WANT to.
They waste money....then say they have none for genuine need.
United Nations envoy told them....they just deny his findings.
A looked after country is a happy productive country....the only thing they are doing is looking after themselves.
There was a program about an MP living on the dole in. Newcastle in the thacher era his name was mattew Paris Tory mp he lasted. Less than a week on benefits
Bravo, Eddie, for staying cool while listening to such nonsensical talk from your guest…
He did well. IDS is well versed in BS
I don't know how they do it I'm just watching it on CZcams from across the pond and I can barely stomach it but to actually be on the interview and have to interact with these people by which I do mean the Tories it just blows my mind. And how they can say the things that they say with a straight face priceless.
@@deltakilo75bon61 IDS is the HighLord bullshitter leader of the Liarlords . Defenders of the realm of incredulity.
@@rogerdogger6969 - and the right wingers’ ability to talk incessant garbage without pausing for breath is an amazing skill. Their training camps are truly excellent.
@@ianroscow2407 it has always astounded me I consider it a form of possession by evil demons because nobody who's actually thinking about what they're saying could possibly continue on such a stream otherwise.
Wasn't this was what HIS Universal Credit supposed to resolve??
My UC is housing element and single person element. The entire amount is £60pcm LESS than my rent, never mind CTX, bills, food, etc.
The whole system is broken because the Tories have been listening to their own alternative facts.
I have a child and my UC would be the same if I didn't work. The problem is they say my house should cost £650. If you can find anything for under £900 in my region you'll be lucky.
It's ok Iain Duncan Smith, the direct debit boycott of energy companies and imminent strikes will provide unavoidable clarity to you about how deeply oblivious you are to your party's total failure.
Truss will be banning strikes yeah right
You said it.
Problem is they will ruin your credit rating. Then mortgages and cars will cost more.
Anyone who does boycott I fully support and think you are a hero
@@videowatchr5565 Your credit rating is trashed anyway. If you have a mortgage with no defaults you'll be fine.
@@videowatchr5565 Tory propaganda. You will only lose your credit rating if you get taken to court and lose. That takes months…so save the money and pay at the last minute. And then do it all again. And the people who are desperate don’t give a hoot about credit ratings. They won’t be getting a mortgage or a car. If it stops them using companies like Brighthouse the better for them
Must say Eddie Mair absolutely destroyed Smith, well done Eddie 👏.
Not in the slightest. Mair just comes across as unprofessional and rude.
@@anthonytelford7876 really 🤣🤣🤣 pull the other one.
eddie should have asked dunk does he still pick his nose and eat it
We now see and understand that we’ve been ripped off for years.
What took you so long !!
@@debnbhuy none of that, none of that. They’re here now. We need every vote to get the Tories out of government.
@@celticcheetah6371 I was trying to be amusing hence the exclamation marks !! But I stand by my statement. If people actually gave a bit more thought to politics than watching fecking Love Island then the crooks would not have got in in the first place. I mean what morons vote for the likes of Jacob Rees -Smug !!
12yrs
What took you so long? I and many others knew what was up when Cameron came in with austerity.
I don't think people need to understand, they understand all too well, it's the government that needs to understand!
To avoid offense one might describe IDS as of impaired understanding .
They could get money out quickly when it went to their friends
Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
"We need to get this sorted by September." Does anyone want to tell him September is only 3 weeks away?
Only!!! try switching your electric off for 3 weeks then come back,then tell your children don't worry one day the government will pay enough wage for the poor to live a life ,they will understand totally.
Not to mention the previous 6 months at least the cost of living crisis has been ramping up. But I suppose those first 6 months were just the poor so don't count. Now it's starting to effect the middle classes, Tory voters, so they need to get it sorted by September when the middle class will actually start to feel it. That is EXACTLY what's going on in their heads, this doesn't start in September, my pensioner mother's energy bills have been at least half her benefits for 6 months now, summer for pensioners is normally a difficult time but my Mum was happy as larry summer came around because she doesn't have to heat the house but now without heating it's up to half her benefit, so this talk of September tells you all you need to know, the Tories don't care about the price people are paying, they care about THEIR VOTERS struggling and the poor never vote Tory which is why they still feel they have time before they need to act, it's why there was no help from Jan when this started
@@reluctantsocialist2670 why do you think poor people pay more to have budget key
so Tory voters can say the answer is to learn to budget 😂😂😂
@@reluctantsocialist2670 I tell them voters,
Learn some morales
Learn some principles
Learn values
Learn some manners
Learn respect for life
Like I told my son ,they are free and only free things you get in life
So use them
Still waiting for the trickle down cash to reach me from 2008
Talking of chucking money, Government unlawfully chucked hundreds of millions in PPE contracts to chums and donors alright. Enough is Enough!
🎯
As I listen it is obvious that they DO NOT have a clue rise up get ride of them.
RISE UP AND GET RID
absolutely love that my friend
Keir Starmer needs to have that poster behind him when he's next on the picket line!!
Wakey wakey Keir !
IDS said the same thing at least 5 times as a way of avoiding the issue. Keep it up, Eddie. Keep it up , Martin Lewis.
It's not just people at the hardest end struggling. We're all seeing our wages dissappear into energy bills, raising rents and prices. IDS doesn't give a monkeys.
When did he ever . He is clearly the casually callous type .
he cares about the economy and not the people in it.. a true tory to the core...they only help the working class to help win elections
That's been repeated and nauseam.What are you going to do about it?
Perhaps getting our billions back for dodgy contracts for chum might help Iain?
It will take the people to sort this out we are been ripped off now we can all see it
Still with all the kids around and in charge thinking they own everything what do the real men do apart from work, conservatives always do the same thing blame Labour, as in blames men
Yep! Thats exactly what has been happening... even my friends that were comfortable are finalley angry because this is now AFFECTING THEM... sad.. but true.
EDF is a French company, in France their bills went up by 5% ours went up by 45% and still going up so why are we subsidising France.
Mark Taylor....took a long time for people to see it!!
The problem isn’t quite EDF, but our government who prioritises shareholders over ordinary taxpayers
"Government can't just chuck money out"
Furlough?
PPE Contracts, Track and Trace.
The government are in limbo, with not the slightest idea what to do next.
Agreed. Take energy into public ownership and dispense energy at manageable prices and subsidize the prices where necessary.. But get on it!
Call the company 'The Great British Energy Company!
Ian Duncan Donuts bragging about setting up Universal Credit that leaves those applying for it waiting at least one month without pay - is more proof if we needed of how out of touch he is. What's worse is that he fails to point out that if you become unemployed from this month onwards you won't qualify for the extra payments for these fuel bills because the cut off point for receiving those payments is in September
They also brought uc in to replace working and family tax credits, which were a lot higher than universal credit. So it didn't need to be introduced in the first place. I think it was simply a way of cutting benefits.
When they brought it in a lot of people got poorer.
@@nativeenglishpaul2836 Of course. You receive less money and have to wait longer to have a claim processed. I believe it used to take between 10 and 14 days between you making a claim and it being processed. Now its at least 30 days (assuming everything goes without a hitch, and it rarely does meaning you have to wait at least another week)
He is out of touch just like Liz Truss.
all those billions should be used to renationalise. but their donors wouldnt like that.
Yeah, Socialism always works right?
You are right, we must keep paying foreign companies for our energy, water, and transport it’s the tory thing to do.
@@grimnir8872 France are doing it, 6.5% and a £40 billion package to help people.
China. at just 2.5% inflation. Same as Japan
@@grimnir8872 nationalising your energy so that you're not paying thousands out to foreign energy companies probably works yes.
@@grimnir8872 In this case yes, so try again tory boy
He’s not the solution, he’s part of the problem.
This is the man who was fist-pumping and clapping and bouncing on the spot in Parliament after the proposal to give the healthcare staff a raise was defeated by fellow members of the Tory party.
Yes.True. From that day he was known as Ian 'The Minion' Duncan Smith.
Target help? Those on legacy benefits got nothing through covid.
The case is going through the courts but at this rate it will be next year before we see a penny in our bank accounts!
Save the economy means save the rich
Duncan Smith says that the "people need to understand." When will the government understand that REAL people are frightened now and need action NOW.
what I do not understand is: energy supplying companies are reporting massive income increases which is the result of the price cap increase by such great amount - why are they allowed to keep increasing the cap, if they obviously do not need it?
Because they donate large sums of money to the tory party I would expect.
@@zednotzee7 of course, directly and indirectly
how about the energy price cap actually caps? instead of keep raising it?
The owner class want to keep the money coming in for them.
Ofgem were paid to turn a blind eye years ago.
Don't forget the Tories initially railed against the idea put forward by Labour that there should be a price cap, However as soon as they got into power one was introduced but actually it is just a sop to help out the industry. one would imagine that in a capitalist world prices could be anything a company deemed but the cap price is the maximum, This aids competition, great. But now the cap is the price so the Big 6 are all together.
Boris’s Brexit promise was of cheaper gas! He and his cronies (which included Ian Duncan Smith) should be asked about that promise. Covid is the best thing that happened to the Tories because they can blame it for all those promises they failed to deliver in regards to Brexit. And they personally banked lots of money through covid measures they put in place.
Net zero is being implimented on the quiet, it's what most people voted for at the last election, so people should stop complaing about prices increases. Anyone who voted, Labour, Tory, Green, Liberal, SNP, voted for massive energy price increases. Now it's happening your moaning.
"SIR" Iain Duncan Smith - just think that one through... "SIR"...
Why wouldn't the monarchy Knight a scumbag like IDS?
So was Jimmy Saville.
He was in the Falklands serving for our country he's Sir to me
@@haleytownsend7544 he subtracted live.
@@Wolflairhx1 he was in the Falklands idiot
They may have all the money in the world but when it comes to standards, morality & how they treat people really they are bankrupt on all counts. Absolutely hate these people, all Tories need to be made homeless so they struggle, there always quick to judge or vilify a life they have never had to live. Unforgivable.
great comment and the truth👍
Eddie is simply the best to hold these crooks into account. Thanks for being our voice. Well done 👏🏽
Once again this shows politicians being out of touch and what's worse is that Duncan Smith probably can't understand why people are angry at him.
It's because they are on the rich man's planet, these are the people who complained about how much sammon was on their £8 3 course meal.
He's an arrogant pig who thinks he's very clever. He'll understand when his constituency (of which I'm a member) vote him out!
I doubt that he cares
He knows only too well how angry (some of them) are. He is soiling himself and trying to restore control without panicking the sheep too much. Wait until the the mass die-off starts!
Most people in this country have never been out of Recession since 2007/8.
What is He even on?
That's bound to upset cameron and osborne, they could have sworn that they had us in austerity from 2008 onwards , handed it on to May and bunter to carry on their legacy.
Mind you duncan smiths highpoint was doin a bit of an attempted 'margeret' when opposition leader,larfed!!! I nearly wet myself.
A truly despicable human being. Lowering the burden of taxation does not affect recession as the burden of tax is not evenly distributed at all levels of society.
Tax the rich. Now.
"Human being", really?
@@williamrobinson1453 Fair point Will
Ironically he caused those who was most in need to suffer and die how can he speak on putting it right
How does reducing the burden of taxation address energy prices spiraling out of control, when the government IDS supports has destroyed so many livelihoods by its own actions so that people are unable to earn enough to pay those costs?
It doesn't. Managed decline is quite obvious with this lot. They even write papers about it yet the gullible English right keeps voting them in. Stockholm Syndrome.
I don't believe MPs truly understand what an economic catastrophe is facing society especially the poor ! Doom , gloom, stress, anxiety, despair and hopelessness should just about cover it .. !! 🥵
They know but they do not care.
And riots?
…Tory MP’s
@@NealyLLTory, Labour, Liberal, they're all in in together, don't you worry ..
Of course they do! Deliberate state poverty is a tactic every democracy, monarchy or dictatorship use as a means to keep a population under control. Deliberately make a section of a population poor without once admitting responsibility then you have in place a warning to everyone else that is what will happen to you if you challenge those in power.
This man is one of the key architects of the cost of living crisis. He is personally responsible for massive human misery
we need more journos like Mair
Have you seen his interview with Johnson a few years ago when he called him a liar and a nasty piece of work? It was brilliant.
I'm a pensioner, haven't received a penny yet. Plus they took up to £50,000 from women born in the 1950s.VAT should never have gone on energy and nor should they tax people 30% green levy. That is 50% in taxes on energy going to the government.
How can you possibly avoid a recession when food, fuel, energy bills and mortgages all go up and people just don’t have the spare cash to help keep the economy going?
Cutting taxes? So who’s going to miss out? NHS, public services need that money and they’re struggling as it is.
Businesses will close, people will lose jobs, energy will drive people into debt, people will lose their homes, mental health will decline, living standards reduce, more strain on the NHS.
I think we’re in for a rough ride.
The only people who won't suffer are our mps ,most of their bills are subdisides by the taxpayer on top of £82 ,000 wages ,its a scam
Never trust a politician who expresses the need to do something "at all costs".
The cost of lives
"British Gas owner Centrica has today announced its adjusted operating profit has increased five-fold in the first six months of the year. Britain's largest energy supplier saw its profits rise to £1.34 billion from £262 million recorded in the same period last year." You guys are simply being fleeced.
IDS is not my favourite person remember how he cryed for people who were on benefit and done sod all to help them.
If you don’t receive universal credit but are still on a relatively low wage you probably won’t get any help but have to pay most of your wage on energy. How about a minimum price cap on wages so they double ever quarter
crazy,, universal credit is iike £300 odd quid a month
“ The government just can’t go wham here’s a load of money” IDS said. Only if it goes to their mates like PPE.
yep, the government can't afford to both allow the grifting of the public coffers and provide help to those in need, hard choices have to be made and they selfishly choose the former.
The great anomaly of politics, where someone so grossly incompetent can have such a long lasting career
Aah yes. But you have to be a tory mp.
Ian Duncan Smith The Guy who Had People On Unemployment Benefits go out to work In A Full Time Job For Their Benefits Or They Get Sanctioned If They Refused He`s A Disgrace .
We are already in recession everyone knows this. Except the Tories living in La La Land.
Oh yes, let's ask Ian 'sanction you on your deathbed' Smith what he thinks about the cost of living crisis.
The way he said " supporter of Liz Truss" at the very end was dig and an obvious silent statement saying "she hasn't got a clue"
With Eddie retiring I think he would be ideal as PM, he may not be an expert but just telling the truth would make him leaps and bounds magnificent.
The bankers got 500 billion didn’t they?
Is this the same IDS who lasted 1 day on benefits and had to get his wife to phone in from their 1.5 million house to say he's sick and can't complete a week?
Round of applause to all the people who voted this party in
"we need to get this sorted by September"
Me: *(Looking at my energy bill and care workers wage)* You mean the start of September right....right?
They should have never let it happen in the first place its just tory corruption.
@@wayneford2481
It's net zero being implimented. If your a labour, green, Liberal, SNP, even Tory voter, you should be all for these price increases, because energy use and food production will drop dramatically.
@@leehighland5435 Can you expand on this? In my head electric use won’t go down all that much because people are already using as little as possible, or they’re rich enough to not care. The poor will go into debt because they can’t afford the base amount of electric they need to live, so will have to borrow from the electric companies.
Also, food production going down because people can’t afford food means people are dying or not eating enough to live a healthy life style. I mean, sure, we’ll need to produce less food overall, but it’s over the graves of the starved.
In both cases it’s the poor who suffer for the middle and higher class. Which is pretty much against everything a left leaning political party believes in. Not that we have a decent left leaning party in this country any more.
@@TheTwinn
People who knew what the new world order was, have been expecting these times, this is not shocking what we are seeing happening. Christians have also been expecting it, because it's foretold in scripture, in great detail, even mentions inflation, lawlessness, civil unrest, plagues.
Christians have the bigger picture they have seen the end of the story, so they know what is coming and if your not born again believer in Christ, those days will be terrifying. There is no hope outside of Christ, no party, no ideology, no man can save you from what is coming.
@@leehighland5435 Hey you do you man! I’m atheist but have studied the monotheistic religions for a long time. Find them fascinating. I’m not going to debate those points because we clearly have two very different world views and that’s okay. All the best to you and your family though, hope you’re doing well!
The government seemed to be able to 'chuck money out' for dodgy PPE contracts.
take away money from tories and look how quickly things can be fixed
You know when the Tories are in real trouble because they always roll out IDS to speak for them. Not sure why as he is as thick as a wooden truss (pun intended).
In April, my DD was £85 a month, it's currently £170, British gas wrote to me to tell me they were delighted to offer me a fantastic deal of £370 a month now rarather than £400 a month from Januray *WHAT PLANET ARE THESE PEOPLE ON?*
"Not enough. Not enough. Not enough" Thank you Eddie 💗
So sick of hearing about families. Their lives aren't more legit than mine just because they had kids.
Im on my own, I have a mortgage, I have normal outgoings, I have repairs that need doing on my house, I won't be able to live here or anywhere with these ridiculous bills
What a fantastic interview. Iain Duncan Smith exposes to everyone just how callous he and the Tories really are. Surely now the electorate must realise voting Tory is a vote for billionaires. Certainly not a single benefit for them.
Wasn’t it Iain Duncan Smith who said something like or along the lines of “why help the poor, they don’t vote for us anyway?” May be the only true statement a Tory’s ever made of late!
It must be hard being a millionaire politician.
They were quite happy to throw billlions to their friends and families when the PPE was going
I wish more people who made these decisions experienced what the families who are in serious danger of financial difficulty do experience.
You can't expect to empathise with people who are in desperate need if you're on a salary two or three times the average.
Maybe "you" should help them to lose everything and then they would finally understand. Where "you" is the poor despicable unwashed plebs. Strangely this Energy scam is what happened in Ukraine even though we all know their country is flooded with oil. This is Eugenics by the Elites and they lie all the time. They are worse than cow farts.
mps also have expenses most often worth more than their measly £82k.
@@wayneford2481 and some of the things they put on expenses are, frankly, quite ridiculous.
Not just families, single people also need to eat and heat their homes.
@@allip4226 very true, that was a big oversight in my wording but I did write it with anyone in such circumstances implied. Thank you for adding that, a definite error on my part. 👍
On the verge of vomiting listening to this appalling creature, this lot has caused this situation, what a awful government, they should be sacked.
Sacked?; no, Tory politicians need to be barbarically tortured to death in the most sickening manner unimaginable
You don't need to give out money, you need to force the energy companies to reduce their prices. Ideally, they should all be nationalized.
Certainly valid points and Gordon Brown has given us a steer in this direction.
A complete nationalised approach is absolutely essential. Free markets don't work, and never did for the many worldwide. We must nationalise energy, rail, education. Yes it means an element of central control but the policy is that everyone, regardless of class and income, has access to cheap heating lighting the essentials. These so called hand outs are the sticking plasters needes to cover up the gaping holes in the Capitalist system....it will only get worse....
Tories miss the days of Downton Abbey where 100 serfs work their arses off so that they can live in absolute comfort.
Dead man walking
hes looking old.... come on cold snap do your work... ;)
@@kanedNunable he shall be in jail for what he did to the sick and disabled people
@@jasoncooper9391 yup. and they suppressed the reports that said people would die.
@@jasoncooper9391 Coffey too as she is sitting on the report done into deaths due to sanctions.
@@kanedNunable Coffey is sitting on that report.
Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith, (The killer of disabled, IMHO)
Amazing how our government still seems to find millions for illegal’s coming into our country, but can’t help British people substantially with basic help for bills!!
And the billions they send as foreign aid?
The lack of understanding of the needs of ordinary people is awful. Much worse is the lack of a sense of urgency and the silence from all quarters of the government. Terrifying.
It’s how the tories work…people don’t learn.
Tories don't do quickly unless it's putting something up so that's a lie
Energy companies making record profits with record prices to match, why is the focus on propping up profits with tax payer cash and not clamping down on pure greed from energy companies
The government could simply buy back control of the utilities under national security, you know control 🙄 then they could easily control the retail price , invest profits into new infrastructure , ensuring all the off shore windfarms are connected to the National grid. I would do the same with water. Sorry but private ownership has failed to reinvest and modernise the infrastructure . It's been a terrible lesson but time to return the reins to the people.
When money went to their donors during covid they didn’t need to know where it went…
this is why I'm not a radio presenter... I would have just switched him off. The country needs a total reset.
Mikey moo....but not the "reset" the Tories want to give us... pls.
@@janetmalcolm6191 no... not that reset. My reset would involve getting rid of them.
Mikey moo....I thoroughly agree with that reset...!!