Sunak vows to end UK ‘sick note culture’ with benefit reform
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2024
- Rishi Sunak has set out plans to tackle what he calls Britain's "sick note culture" and a spiralling welfare bill the country can't afford.
One in ten working-age adults are now claiming a health-related benefit, according to new figures.
Many have mental health conditions - many are young.
One charity says the proposals could leave some disabled people destitute
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UK has a sick political problem
It is called Tories
Beat me to it, planted thievery corp mange to steal billions but never enough for the public. Quislings the lot of them.
This deserves the 1k
The clown has just give the Tory's the kiss of death at the next general election.
The little man should Stop the benefits and freebies for the illegal's that hese let invade this country.
I'm not going to take lectures from a multi millionaire who has never needed nor will ever need the Welfare State
man wanted a pat on the back for figuring out how to tap to pay at the tesco
Probably never had to work a hard day in his life
You forgot to add “tax evading multimillionaire”
@KarlBraverman 🙏🙏🙏U nailed
What a horrible geezer
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Facts
we don't CHOOSE to be ill and disabled, we WANT to work yet CAN'T!
Rich ppl expecting poor ppl to work themselves to death
The guy is coming for the disabled and needy instead of billionaires? This is insanity.
@vampireslayer263 They have been doing it for the last 14 years!
He's not going to go for his mates is he?
alot of rotten people welcome this sadly.
Tax the rich
@@user-vj4hs3li8dthat’s the most depressing part tbh
Cynical. Nasty. Out of touch. And wrong about everything as usual.
Get the oligarchy out.
Here's my sick note: "Sunak, I'm sick of you, please go".
Can I put my signature on that
40 billion lost to PPE, what about tackling some of that.
Lost due to corruption
Get the Tories OUT.
Here here
Vote Labour
Awe aye, and get the likes of liebour in?
Eh?
Starmer and the Munter fae Manchester in tae make a difference😂😂😂😂
Yer huvin a giraffe mate😂😂
@@Kevin-eg3mfI'm ngl used to be a Labour supporter but nah this is a man any passion. Just says anything to get in power
@@WeeShoeyDugless best of luck to the SNP. 😊
It's the Tories that are sick 🤮
Absolutely 100%.
Well ... Labour were worse and Danny Alexander is a former politician who'd encouraged George Osborne to get tough on the Welfare State that his party launched. The Liberals are the worst.
True!
Not a single aspect of our lives improved in the last 14 years. They have nothing positive to show for their last 14 years in government, not a single thing.
I agree they are sick on the head we need a general election now for there is nothing left get the basterd out now
I went to the doctors 3 years ago telling them regardless of how much I sleep I was exhausted the next day. I went into work and was falling asleep at my desk and was let go. I’ve had this issue for the 3 years and now through benefits am earning 4 times less than I would be making at work. Does this guy actually think people want to be ill and earn f all from
Benefits?
Have you ever had a sleep study done? This could be sleep apnea and a cpap machine could change your life! Your GP can arrange a sleep study for you it’s an overnight stay. Otherwise things like adhd can cause temporary narcolepsy too. I had it for years and didn’t know what it was and just thought I was lazy or it’s depression etc as doctors had run bloods and everything was “normal”. Late diagnosed at 33 with adhd and have learned so much about it. Basically if you’re under stress or bored your brain just powers down like a computer 😂 don’t give up pushing for an answer! GP’s are useless these days.
It's only idiots and people that have never had to claim benefits that think it's some kind of lifestyle choice. This idiot probably spends more on one day's lunch than people on benefits spend on a week's worth of shopping. Unless you're also a criminal or someone having lots of kids to try and milk the system, being on benefits isn't living, it's surviving.
It's an old tactic from governments, just blame the poor and worst off in the country for the problems, now it's the turn of the sick and disabled.
Sounds like potential narcolepsy, hope not for your sake, narcolepsy can be really dangerous.
@@sarahrobinson518 isn't sleep apnea finding yourself waking up halfway through sleep or having disturbed sleep often?
Due to multitudes of reasons.
I know apnea itself is a condition where your breathing is irregular, shallow, or you straight up have short periods of time where you 'forget' to breathe, depending on the type and cause.
I suppose you’ve checked all the usual things? Thyroid/other hormones/Vitamin D levels/blood tests/other medical tests? Are you hypermobile? Modafinil can help with staying awake, if they’ll prescribe it.
No, we just have a sick prime minister.
This government has been making people sick 😫 🤒 for the past 14 years
Bullshyte, the workforce nowadays are to f^cking lazy to do a days work!!
Ask me why I know?
Because I'm nearly 70, still doing 12 hrs shifts and loving it.
Shower of lazy barstewards if you ask me!!
Nah, people are making themselves sick because it pays so well. It needs to end. Cut all benefits and taxes
Your a legend mate good comment
@@davidcooks2379 You are a sick fool.
@@davidcooks2379 no it doesnt ya melt
Insulting and belittling people..what a disgraceful person.
Well he does believe in the “caste system” so…
Never worked a day in his life
I was a carer for over thirty years for a disabled parent and it practically killed me. I am still suffering the mental and physical effects of those years and I also found out that I have Asperger's Syndrome which means that it was a miracle that I got through it all at all. I would be one of the first that the DWP rules would target because I cared all the decades that the Tories didn't and it practically finished me off. I have sheaves of notes from a clinical psychologist saying that I shouldn't be in a workplace for my mental and physical health's sake but I suspect that Sunak would have the DWP ignore them. What he wants is for me is a denial of existence, any hope of recuperation and an early grave instead. That is his 'perfect' Britain. The last 'holiday' I had was a day trip to Felixstowe in 1976!!!! Previous to that, a weekend in Doncaster to see relatives!!!! It must be one long holiday to have all those resources, SUNAK!
Spot on! Hope you do get better in the end.
It is not as simple as that. It is hard-working taxpayers money that goes to pay benefits. The ‘government’ has no money, except what it takes from taxes. I was a carer too, so I sympathise. I am in a more difficult financial situation because of that, but I have worked in spite of extreme pressures and it can be done. Of course there are exceptions, I don’t doubt that. But I do believe that a lot of the benefit system is abused and exploited by people who expect others to keep them. In my entire life I have had £4 total off the government!
@@petercollins7848 Not being able to drive through dyspraxia tends to limits the options! That's one of the comorbidities that can be associated with being autistic. You really would not rather I be on the road with you, that I promise! Further to the comorbidities is that the executive functioning of the brain tends to be greatly diminished due to the hormonal imbalance between cortisol and adrenalin and dopamine. The latter gets eaten up so that you are on a dopamine drip feed whilst the chronic surges of cortisol and adrenalin start to eat your muscles and organs up - literally - It's like living life constantly on a flat battery and thinking straight and coordinating the day constantly falls off the map. An employer would not want someone like that in their employ, would not want to adjust the work conditions, get annoyed and frustrated - which would make me far, far worse! - and end up giving me the boot and saying good riddance. That is the reality for many who are autistic, especially who have been through it and past middle age. Politicians don't want to hear the truth. The suicide rate amongst the autistic community proportionately far outweighs that of the neurotypical population, simply through chronic stress at trying to interrelate with what is expected of them by the neurotypical society.
@@petercollins7848 A carefully written response and CZcams deleted it. How can one have a carefully explanatory discussion if CZcams incompetently deletes? it is censorship gone mad and they really need taking to task about this!
@@petercollins7848 The physical and mental conditions that I live with, and have lived with, aren't as simple as that either.
Get Sunak out now..
A traitor..
U vote 🗳️ for him?? Vote 🗳️ labour
It’s sad that in the polls he still gets 32% potential voters after all the downfalls, scandals, corruption
Facts
riksha sunak
@@tanyak9349traitor? In what way,genuinely interested to know...?
Get the Tory’s out for good
Throw them into a super max prison with those in buckingham palace, MI6, EDL, BNP, UKIP, Labour, Ahmadiyya, LGBTQ, etc...
Never mind that automation is taking jobs, never mind zero hour contracts, never mind people with long covid, never mind anyone who is a corporation registered abroad but trading in the uk dodging many millions, never mind having empathy for anyone who paid onto the system for many years who fall on hard times , this shows how wicked the Conservatives are and what like empathy they have yet turn a blind eye to the tax dodging super rich not paying tax.
It made me feel truly disgusted the fact he's announcing these cruel measures with the words 'Social justice' ironically plastered behind him. The Tories have had 14 years to fix the country, but instead used the opportunity to create an ever widening gulf between the rich and poor. They have hit society from every possible angle and utterly decimated systems that were there to protect the vulnerable. Rolling back reforms and safety nets to the Victorian era which they seem so fond of recreating, where low paid workers had little protection from wealthy businessman, life expectancy was low, and poverty became a trap. Their ethos is cruel, arrogant and devoid of any iota of empathy for those unfortunate to not be born into a privileged life. The only good thing about Sunak's latest plans to kick people when they're down is his advisors are totally oblivious to just how despicable they make this government sound, and seem determined to treat most of the country and it's citizens with contempt. Surely there is some way to force a general election before they can do any further damage and take us all to the point of utter societal breakdown.
How to lose the next election.
Dead Conservative Party walking.
@@mrchekaman1917 Walking the mile; Walking the mile; Walking the green mile.
If only. ..
You'd be surprised. A lot of people are resentful of disabled people who "get to sit around all day doing nothing" and "don't have to worry about going to work or paying the bills." Envy is a powerful motivator. If enough poorly educated people believe the wheelchair user next door is the reason their life sucks, they'll happily vote Tory, and Sunak and pals know this.
We live in hope and prayer!
The people are just sick of the Tories. 14 years of endless failures. Tories out. General Election now.
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Yes... but don't forget.. the majority of those years were under EU rule.
@@notjustforhackers4252 What's got to do with it? We have been in EU since 1973!
Don't vote the to rys in re for m that brought us down this path lots of independent part teas out there like Heritage or independent etc
@@notjustforhackers4252 Yeah, and we've been thriving since Brexit, haven't we?
Classic Tory shaming. I remember the 80's when the Tories came out with "Single mums are a drain on society" and many of the people of the UK, rather disgracefully, seemed to agree. Totally ignoring the fact that sooooo many single mums are that because men deserted them. Or because their spouse had died and left them widowed. So easy for the establishment/politicians to come up with ways of scapegoating their own failures.
The country is a mess. I could've told them that 'tax cuts' may be what wealthy people want but that other things have a priority too.
Mental health crisis isn't going to be helped by hitting the struggling even further.
Try stopping A boat first.....then deal with YOUR OWN FRAUD
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2 simple rules for life;
No.1 - Never trust a tory
No.2 - Never forget rule number 1
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Will the Labour be any better? I do not think so.
No.3 Right wing Labour = Tory.
Something the left and the right can agree on. The tories are toast.
@@garygeorge-wi7co Labour have never in their entire existence treat the people of this country with such utter disdain!!!!
So many people sick, sick of the tories.
More work for less money and stress that's why people are sick
Tory was an old Irish word for "thief"
so pick on the sickest people in society and HE doesnt even pay his taxes in the UK. He sends his billions to the Cayman Islands. Utter disgrace picking on easy targets.
Untill we actually are allowed by the chequred floor building elites to be allowed to pick our leaders ! Untill we have a leader that was from under thick cream from societys struggling catagory we will have zero empathy and more sick and heartless policies
I personally know 7 people who are capable of work yet live on benefits.
These people are sick alright. They think the world owes them a living.
The UK needs a leader like the creator of big issue magazine because he automatically will understand what is needed and whats missing but for a person like that even to come to power is a miracle and will probz die from a strange uncanny illness out of the blue 😮
@@fredmercury1314 Are you a stooge for the Tories?
@@fredmercury1314I take it you’re not their GP. I doubt you know they are capable of work. No doubt lovely to their faces while reporting anonymously to DWP!!
They always resort to changing benefits when they mismanaged the country!
no doubt so they can give a tax cut to the rich near the election.
Well someone has to pay for the losses their failed policies they have caused?
They target the vulnerable to top up their own retirement fund.
So true and the most vulnerable suffer , all the benefit scrounging refugees have to go British people first
Create an aspirational uk..what’s that then..owning a Range Rover..a new shiny kitchen and all the other rubbish they get us to buy...😎
Fibromyalgia Warrior Here ! Exactly ! Some medical conditions fluctuate not only daily but can change moment to moment week by week month by month ! I'm not capable of work. I also have multiple mental health issues and chronic pain & chronic fatigue. These are all genuine & a nightmare to live with, they are certainly not an excuse preventing me from working. Who would live with these conditions & situations given the choice?
All of the problems in British Society right now and Sunak's priority is to clamp down on the sick and disabled. How utterly disgusting.
Why does Sunak keep picking on the disabled people ,its because we are easy targets, he should be ashamed of himself, If the NHS was fit for purpose,then there would be less waiting lists and less sick people, So stop blaming sick and disabled people....
He picks on poor people, disabled, unions, trans people, doctors, nurses, protestors,
@@dean9235 Totally agree Dean.....
he's not picking on disabled people. You guys are making it about them. He is talking about people who claim benefits when they can work. For example, people can just keep failing job interview after job interview to keep claiming benefits. The majority of people on benefits aren't doing this but a proportion are and that should be clamped down on.
@@AF2277S
He is picking in disabled people
@@AF2277S And according to the Tories most who are sick can work regardless of disability. The simple fact, this will bring more attrition to the disabled etc making life even worse. Some will even take their life's because of it. That's a win/win for these politician's cos it's saving money regardless. Zero fuks are given when you become old or disabled. Doesn't matter if you worked all your life or had side effect's of a experimental drug which was forced down your throat. They only want people who work and are good sheep.
delivering this speech in the centre for social justice, what a joke
Pure disgrace
Well announcing less support for social care at the centre for social justice is still better than announcing that he's unilaterally scrapping the only major infrastructure project in Manchester, while visiting Manchester.
@@monged4life442pity he don’t announce his leaving!
What a joke, Don't you mean , What a sick joke no pun intended but it's truly is a sick joke
@@markmccormack635 and he gets to be the prime minister!?
We have a sick rogue government problem.
Disgusting behaviour rishi no other way of saying it😮
The UK has a Tory problem.
@@Celticsamuraiblue that’s part of the reason I live there! Sadly that doesn’t get us out from under the Tories. Yet. Problem is ensuring that we don’t homegrow our own!
@@Celticsamuraiblue 🤣🤣🤣 No, you just vote for people who take away your ability to speak freely!!
@@Celticsamuraiblue what are you on about? Scotland isn't a hive mind, there's more than one voter in the country.
@@Celticsamuraiblue what are you rambling on about, primitive?
Not for much longer.
We have SICK politicians , they ALL need to go .
its all being done on purpose, nothing to do with being sick. Control, manipulate, tax and enslave or remove. Power and Greed...selling out, always been the way of politicians
its always the hyper rich shitting on the people at the bottom.
Sick of the slavery this day and age.
People are sick of sunak
None of the Public voted for him! So why put up with it. In polls he was even less popular than Liz Truss who herself only would have achieved 0.3% if an Election was held.
simple fact is we're getting poorer - cuts need to be made somewhere.
@@pondeify Maybe the reasons for the existence of sick note culture might point the way to why we're getting poorer.
@@pondeify stop throwing your money down the toilet then and do something productive with it.
@@pondeifyHow about cuts in military spending
Britain doesn't have sick note culture, it has a 'Tory blame victims' problem.
Not at all, they simply have a sick politicians culture
Aint it just amazing how its always the rich politicians that call out sick disabled people.
They want the special needs in the army . No kidding cannon fodder .
The tories need to go
And Labour lib dems and green party..there is no climate change
We need to change the government NOW
There is enough money for israel, enough money for sunaks universities abroad, enough lee -way to allow huge corporations to dodge 100,s of millions in tax paying whilst they register the companies abroad, there are still people with long covid, there are people who are sick with mental health because there jobs are zero hour contracts and not full time, there is plenty of money to be made being a supermarket and again automation are taking more and more jobs have become obsoleat. In 14 years all this uncaring government has done is made life harder for the many whilst the rich don't care, sunak is a fake another Thatcherite cut from the same cloth as cameron may johnson and truss all have zero legacy. General election now. Oh there is aways money, we get this rhetoric before every tory general election picking on the vunerable.how we have not had someone to take out one of this lot is beyond me as they just think they can do what they like, well one day one person may just one day have enough of it all, and they have the nerve to be afraid, they help onebody but themselves.
Tax the big businesses and the wealthy instead of picking on the poor. His actions are treasonous as far as I’m concerned.
Sick of the Tories
Yep. Vote Reform
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@@j7ech402 That is a thousand times worse.
@@j7ech402 Tories in a different garb mate. I agree about immigration and cultural issues but they're just the same on the economics - all about enriching a tiny few
Yes we do have a sick culture we are sick of spineless prime minister's who no one voted for....
Yeah..funpak comes from a caste system,where the poor are deemed as worthless,and punished so they don’t get the drippings of his large nose.
How often do we see Westminster empty. The most idle people in the uk
Yes..idle,drones who languish on sub restaurant barns canteens ..second homes,travel expenses ..one rule for them n one for everyone else.
How about clawing back some of the millions paid for dodgy PPE deals? How about the exorbitant track and trace debacle? What about 400 million unpaid tax the Treasury won't chase up? Shameful and pathetic.
What about certain workers who went on furlough money and many kept on working through it.
If the DWP assessed the Tories, they would probably find them unfit for work.
Or a disclosure Scotland, criminal background check we have to go before we get the job, that lordscum and Mp's south of the border would fail and lose their jobs #toriesout sickening behaviour most if not all of them.
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And the £86,000 per annum is it, that they earn, plus expenses and money from their own businesses and any inheritance as well ?
Leave the mental health alone and look at the mental in your government
Why doesn't he concentrate on stopping the boats, who have committed a criminal offence entering the UK illegally
Probably one of ian duncan smiths ideas, the most vile man in politics in england.
The billionaire kid telling the poor to graft🤡
Who elected him? Answer. No-one. How dare he presume to tell the sick and disabled among us to get to work!
The billionaire's husband 😂
@@user-sb3sn8di1s 💯% credit where credits due (to Rishi's wife's dad).
@@MrBoggins1234i agree 👍🏽
We have over 6 million waiting for ops on the NHS. Maybe sort that out first Sunak
Mental . First they have a smoking problem now they’ve got a sick not problem ? What kind of boll 🔒s is this? Total 🔔 END!
I’m going to use that 🔔 I keep getting censored thanks . Freedom of speech gone .
It has a notably sick culture in Parliament.
Of course he's punishing the poor. If this was really about money, he'd be closing the tax loopholes that mainly benefits people like him.
So true! He’ll never so that though because if he closed certain loopholes it would mean his wife would have to pay tax.
Maybe Sunak and his wife should stop ripping off the taxpayer. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Ironically Mr Sunak's Birthday is May 12th, this is International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. One Of The Worst Invisible Misunderstood Disabilities There Is !!
Tell me about it I’ve had it since 2006 it’s got worse .
Start looking after people then. The people in this country are miserable and so many are barely scraping a living.
If he wants fewer people to be depressed he could call a general election. That would cheer people up.
lol, comment of the year...
Gaslighting is typically the last resort tactic. He keeps pouring the heat over NHS after swindling the funding and resources over the years.
Not really , same b’stards get elected
@@ssuwandi3240 I agree, He and Liz and Boris's decisions got us all here....
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Living is a full time job for people with pain and conditions and those who are not well in whatever capacity. Putting doctors against their patients and threatening the sick is truly unacceptable.
Well said!!! I would love to give poohnak my disabilities for a few days to see how he would cope with being in pain constantly every minute of every day, he would be crying his eyes out because of the lifestyle change due to the disabilities, he makes me sick the stuck up arrogant piece of S***
Since austerity to pay for the evil that is the banking system, they've been happily killing the vulnerable off, it makes me sick to my stomach, I hope to god the British people finally see that their is value in all humans, not just those that can be ground down in their jobs to make richer people richer, so they can buy a better super yacht than their rival, there has to be more than this.
Everyone important ..the tories don’t do anything for the common good ,and they won’t change,cos they can’t change the fabric of who they are and what they stand for..having one wife beating bunch of poor haters in ,it’s not fair at all .
The problem with our country is the multimillionaires in parliament that have no idea what its like to live on benefits.
why do you act like as if being on benefits is hard?... scrounging free money because you cant be bothered to work is a lot easier than working... and a lot of people who are on benefits throw their money away on cigarets, the problem with our country is the lower class benefit sponger scum
@@internetpolice3123 yes Iain Duncan- Smith when he brought out Universal Credit said he could live on £10.00 per day , and he lives off his millionaire wife?
You shouldn't be on benefits iff your able to work, should you?
No one deserves to live for free at working people's expense, welfare culture is a poison consuming society
stop the public from voting for them then
Someone needs to deal with the sick Government culture ASAP.
Our country has been desperately crying out for a British Lee Harvey Oswald.
How can a billionaire talk about ppl who are sick? Hes probably got his own doctors,therapists,councillors, he wouldnt know the first thing about depression, and anxiety.Hes never had to deal with money troubles, never had to deal with housing problems let alone the cost of living, hipercrit. Hes sending billions to ukraine. Sending ships wherever the USA are when we dont want to be involved in any kind of war.ive been driven to suicide to get away from my life in the past, im constantly worrying about being blown away with a nuclear weapon. I even save my empty water bottles incase there's a war. He doesn't have to worry, hes got his own private bunker on his own private island. Thanks for your support Sunak. Thanks alot.
Where's the ceasefire from DWP against disabled and vulnerable citizens?
Welfare reform has a body count of around 120,000 and rising
#BeingSaneInInsanePlaces
As someone who suffers from mental health the benefits is not enough.
Took me literally years to get help after a mishap the NHS made resulted in me losing almost all my mobility. Anyone looking in from the outside has little clue what the process actually is like. The tribunals you have to stand in front of, the constant fear mongering that the very support that allows you to eat can be taken away. I wish I could work.
@@user-rl6wr2ny7f If you can type, you can work.
@@user-rl6wr2ny7f me as well I want to work but it’s hard for me but remember we are strong because we are still here.
It's hard to get PIP. I know it!!
From mental ill health. Or mental illness. Mental health is a positive thing.
Worst pm ever his disregard democracy sickens me
Jobs are over working employees for min wage that cause physical or motional tear though, most workplaces are even 0-hour contracts with no holiday, this guy has no clue ... get him out all ready.
These poor people cannot do normal jobs . Not there fault . NHS on its last legs , junior Doctors on strike , GPs leaving on mass for pastures new .. where they get the respect they deserve with no sign of any new ones to replace them . What about the millions of fit young boat men sitting in 5 star Hotels . recent empited OAP homes , gated complexes etc etc all getting paid for nothing??? Plenty of rubish to pick up on the Motorway and central res , Lots of plastic on beaches, rivers and parks to be cleared . put them to work , paying tax . finding somewhere to live and to see how hard it is to live here , they might earn enough money to buy a boat from home office to go home on
What he needs to do is look at all the tax payers billions they stole during covid and leave the disabled alone.
Vile people who need to be kicked out of power. No sound minded person wants this garbage ruling us.
meanwhile others working till 68 for pathetic money
Then get taxed when retired.
They don’t have any time for retirement! Disgusting!
68? I'm still working part time and I'll be 76 next month (May) with no prospect of ever stopping.
We've got to,too many freeloaders to pay for.😖
Educate yourself then, blame blame blame
UK workers have THE LEAST RIGHTS in Europe. It is time for the Tories to step aside
Rishi should come and work on a building site for two weeks this summer and then see if he needs a sick note
People off sick and disabled are not off because they want to be, tories have really hit rock bottom- disgusting
The last 14 years of the Tories is the reason why there are so many people on the sick with depression.
It will triple under Labour
Was just about to come on here and comment the exact same thing
@@meridianleeward6370 hello future teller
I totally agree with you
@@meridianleeward6370 is that all you got? " it will triple under labour" I'm no labour fan , but I can tell you if the government ministers and the rest of the rich actually paid the taxes they should do then there would be plenty to go round. And if we git the 30 billion back for test and trace and all the other monies stolen by the tories there would be plenty too. So get a life
"If this was about cost we would just freeze benefits!"
The PM is a fool! He has no idea about the working class!
Cutting benefits would leave more money for migrants.
Another thing, PM saying "work pays" but it doesn't. Many people face terrible working conditions, very long hours, no work/life balance, bullying from superiors, and all for a pittance that doesn't even cover living costs! As a result, millions are on universal credit just to top up what employers keep insisting they won't pay. Over 60% of the benefits bill is spent on the state pension. Then a much smaller amount makes up disability benefit. The massive increases in unemployment are due to a national crisis entirely of the Tories own making. Extremely punitive austerity cuts to all public services for 14 long miserable years. Billions squandered on Nightingale hospitals during Covid that were never used. Billions more squandered on HS2 financial mismanagement. But they still blame and punish those who not surprisingly can't cope with it all anymore. The crisis in people's health is the result of a broken society. One where healthcare, food, warmth, sanitation, and dignity are now seeming to look like luxuries more and more can no longer afford. These things are human rights! Take them away, and broken Britain is what you're left with. There isn't truly an epidemic of illness. There is an epidemic of extremely pernicious attitudes from the bigots running the country, that is sickening people to the soul. If people were treated with respect and dignity, and actually PAID for work they do, almost none of these problems would exist.
Beautifully said.
Very well said. It's all becoming like 1984 horror film
Low wage ,low growth economy wich uses Agency's who make millions on the backs of its workers 😔
I know people that do 10 hour shifts and get enough money to pay the bills! and not much else
House of Lords are a bunch of benefit bums
I think Sunaks tax position is sick ..... Never vote tory
Defiantly wouldnt
I used to work for the money advice service, I think a lot of people assume that people claiming disability benefits/pip are scroungers and they're not. Those are the hardest benefits to get and the process when you apply is very, very intrusive and most of the time they actually say no to people. Most people with mental health problems are still on UC but are marked as having limited capacity for work with work related activity meaning that they still have to work with their work coach to prepare themselves for work. Very rarely is a claimant marked as limited capability for work and work related activity. So they're not paid mass amounts of money every month like the general public seems to think that they are. They get £360 to live on for the month which isn't physically possible. I think it's disgraceful that the government is going after people with mental health problems and disabilities instead of stopping migrants and immigrants flooding into the country and going straight into the benefit system. They're the reason why the benefit system is a mess. Not disabled people.
£360 a month on top of housing benefit, UC itself, and then disability benefits come separately - ultimately amounting to just a bit under minimum wage. And then there's reductions to council tax, helping to keep the bills affordable. They're not living on £360 a month and I know that you know that, but for the benefit of anyone else reading your comment, you forgot to mention the other ~£700. This is the internet, you can't leave things to the imagination, half of the people reading your comment won't bother looking any further into it before they start making important decisions.
FBI agent- . You cannot get a council tax reduction unless you’re severely mentally unwell, which is very hard to prove. Plus you cannot get council tax reduction for physical disabilities. The extra £700 in benefits is extremely hard to get and you have to go through brutal assessments which most people fail. You make its sound like the system is so easy, but it’s not.
@@vicki8210 if you get lower-rate PIP then you are eligible for reductions, and the brutal assessment is literally just a form where you have to score retard points for things like being unable to cook your own meals, unable to wash, etc. You just need to fill it correctly so that you get enough points to lose the game, you can ask Citizens Advice or some similar organisation to help you with that. What most people do is just fill in the form as if they're filling in their Twitter bio (i.e. they just whine like an angsty teenager), and of course that gets them nowhere because life isn't the internet, so then they do the only thing they know how - they take to the internet and start whining about it lol... which then gets picked up by journalists, activists, and other such grifters who make fat stacks convincing people that the benefits system is a lot tougher than it really is.
Just about to make life even harder for already struggling to survive....
So, after making half the country sick by their policies he's going to try and force those sick people into appalling work conditions or starve and freeze.........luckily it's him that will be out of that job soon.
And he will still get his P.M pension of over £160k per year, and lets not forget he is a billionaire.
Appalling work conditions? You mean... work?
Some of us were already starving and freezing, and these magical jobs that don't exist with employers who would never hire us would never pay even close to as much as full disability benefits.
@@mydogeatspuke So what you're saying is, because you failed at life, you're better off pretending to be sick and living for free off everyone else, than getting a job?
Spoken like a true socialist.
Perhaps if the NHS weren't falling apart due to systematic neglect by the Tories, we wouldn't have so many sick people, and if workplaces treated people as humans instead of commodities, maybe more people would be willing to work through it.
perhaps if they hadn't poisoned 80% of the country
@@user-wu1dv6jk5s I'm not sure which poisoning you're referring to - is it the discharging of raw sewage into our waterways? or perhaps it's the fact that; thanks for the sugar tax, all our drinks are now full of artificial sweeteners? or maybe it's the poisonous ideology you're talking about? After all, they've poisoned us against foreigners and each other. Or perhaps you're talking about the systematic neutering of gay kids that's been happening under supposed "gender affirming care"?
I dunno, that's just the first ones that come to mind, perhaps you were thinking of a different 80% poisoning?
Because the NHS did so well under Labour...
The country is £12 trillion in debt. Even Labours magic maths can't save you from reality.
@@fredmercury1314It DID do quite well under Labour, actually! Gordon Brown found more money for the nurses
@@fredmercury1314 Nobody buys the austerity nonsense anymore.
We should've borrowed more when interest rates were low, austerity was the biggest mistake the Tories have made.
And yes, the NHS was considerably better under Labour, the stats prove it.
The irony is that Personal Independence Payment is paid regardless of whether someone has the ability to work. It is based on whether someone can travel, mobilise and do daily tasks, irrespective of work. Although I'm not sure how the government can expect people who cannot cook, shower, use the toilet or travel themselves, to be able to work (as those are some of the criteria required to receive disability benefit).
This gov’t has made people sick, both mentally and physically!
This is ridiculous! We need to improve peoples health! We don’t need to be stripping healthcare judgements from clinicians!
The decisions should not be left in the hands of non-specialists, especially for relatively rare conditions. Put bluntly, the patient will often know far more about their disability than the non-specialist.
never mind the sick , how much is it costing us on illegals, sought that out sunak .
Well said, Sort out the ILLEGAL ECONOMIC IMMIGRANTS that come across and sponge money,houses benefits and the NHS, there the people that should be focused on.....WE ARE FED UP WITH THEM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS COUNTRY.
MPs making up to £80k a year and then claiming the same again in expenses (that they don’t actually need)
But no… lets take the money from disabled people who are just trying to survive.
I’m sick of hearing this “we’re all in this together, we all need to make sacrifices” routine from people who are doing anything but.
Politicians make fine decorations, and there are bare lampposts all over the country.
The only sick ones are the tories.
The Government ALWAYS seem to latch onto this as a problem. Disability is NOT a lifestyle choice. It's often a byproduct of working oneself into an early grave anyway. The disabled are an easy target that has been latched onto by successive regimes. We're marginalised from Society anyway so our voices are weak and further weakened by this sort of attitude. Disability can happen to anyone at any time during their working life. It's horrific to think that we're going to be facing further iterations of poorly trained, poorly qualified people who have quotas to fill in terms of slashing costs. This has been tried before and always ends up costing more money than it saves. Idiotic and facile approach to solving a perceived problem that is not going to be reflective of an often complex reality.
You'd think with the failing NHS, we'd have less pensioners, and considering they're the ones taking a majority chunk of the benefits bill home, it would make sense if that was part of the plan. Except they went and defied the odds, probably because they lived through at least one war. So now it's onto the disabled, stuck in inaccessible housing with significant care needs they can't afford to have met by thieving local authorities hiring illiterate and incompetent social workers who spend their days chatting on Teams instead of doing any actual work. I'd love to be well enough to work, to have a reason to get up at all let alone in the morning, but I can't even wash my own hair or get into my own garden, so I guess that means I should work from home because that will definitely make me feel better.
"Disability is NOT a lifestyle choice."
It's such a farce that this even saying. Almost as bad as homelessness is not a lifestyle choice. People don't choose to be on the breadline because it's easier than putting in a day's work!
I don’t think people like to confront the fact that disability is relatively common and this could be them at any moment, given a bit of bad luck. If people were rational, they’d be worrying more about what life looks like for them or their kids in the worst case.
Looks at the absolute shambles ATOS Healthcare was. A French, "Preferred contactor" who caused needless suffering to millions. They cost the Government MORE money than they were paying out in PIP anyway. Is this just another case of jobs for our mates again? The disabled can suffer it. They're good at suffering after all... Tory scumbags. Even Ian Duncan Smith quit last time as it was too much for him to bear.
Usual tatic attack the least powerful and most vulnerable. Welcome back to 1936.
Find somebody vulnerable to blame.
If anything I'd say we have the opposite culture, no one dares ring in sick, we drag ourselves in rather than lose a days wage or let down colleagues.
The UK has a sick making work culture.
Totally agree, due to the poor level of sick pay in the UK and the fact you have to wait 3days before the sick pay period kicks in you have people worried sick about not being able to pay bills, or getting behind with rent or other essential payments and then being forced back to work when not fit. The govt aren't satisfied with killing pensioners in care home due to COVID, they are now starting a concerted effort to kill the rest of us, well done sunak if we all die prematurely, who the F*CK is going to be left to vote for you.
People are dropping like flies because they can't get an appointment for love nor money yet your answer is push them back to work whilst still unfit to work.
I've recently been off work due to a longstanding back problem caused by a car accident 24yrs ago. I have compressed discs in my back, I still work but can't lift much and if I'm stood still for long periods in a cold environment or bending/stretching then I'm in agony for days.
CAN Domeone Elaborate, I'm A Bit Slow mate. Literally Don't Get This Statement😂
@@ryanbrown7613 They're saying the work culture in the UK is what is making people sick.