A country where cheese is fitted with security tags | James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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The psychology of someone willing to vote for another 4 years of what we've had for 13 years is fascinating.
I’m 70 and was born into an extremely poor working class community. I have never seen such levels of poverty and despair as I see today. Mega rich and people in absolute poverty.
Where are the orators, thinkers and articulators speaking up for working people? What happened to the party of Bevan, Foot, Corbin etc? Without a political route people will choose the alternative path. A deadly seed is being sown.
Totally agree.... crime is going to ROCKET over the next 12 months - many have NO CHOICE or they will STARVE to death.
We are turning into a third-world country.
We are turning into a third-world country.
As I have said many times; the 1% won't understand what they have stolen until they are introduced to those big slicey things the French were so fond of.
James earns enough and lives in Chiswick where houses average about £2m. He is not helping you. He is the resounding face of champagne socialism looking down on you from his ivory tower, so he can get listeners for his target. Capitalism doesn't care about you, socialism doesn't care about you. So make sure you take some time out to make a success of life yourself for you and your families. Don't listen to excuses. People like James make you feel like a victim. You are better than that. Go and smash life. And if you make enough, then help others. ❤
I worked for a supermarket 10 years ago when sat on the till one day a bloke came up and asked for a carrier bag i gave him one but as my eyes followed him to the doors of the shop he was putting goods in the bag that me nor my colleague had served him so as my job i rang for a manager who spoke to the bloke turned out it was all outta date food he'd took from the bins at the back of shop but couldnt carry it all 😢what was even sadder was when my manager went to take the items off him due to the risk of off food , the bloke shouted n the whole shop at this point was looking and said (im desperate and hungry please ) he literally begged for that food that hed rooted out of a bin,my manager ended up letting him have it, but desperate people need help not constantly judged from then on in i just ignored shop lifters as to me if ur risking getting arrested for food thats just sad no1 deserves to go hungry 😢😢
Most disabled people on unemployment benefits,have worked and paid into the (NI) National Insurance system.
I have contributed 40+ yrs into NI.
Unlike the dinghy arrivals James loves but will not house!
I lost my job as a hgv driver after a mental health crisis i was then given a diagnosis of Boarderline personality disorder and chronic depression with suicidal tendency i tried to go back to work a few times and each time my mental health was made worse i also have chronic kidney failure if i am forced into work it will be a death sentence
Anything else you can think of?
Sorry to hear that, all the best for the future.
@@nick1065Short or long the party of the rich don't care.
@@Matt-rq3bu thank you
Just play along , they can't force you into work , anymore than you can force someone to give you a job . if you just do what they require then at least your money is safe,
In your situation , and I say this with due respect , you'll be liability in the workplace , wouldn't stress yourself about it .
"Living it up at taxpayers expense". Now that is exactly what the Tories have enjoyed for years.
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Narcissism is blaming and accusing someone of doing exactly what the Narc is doing
I think labour have been doing that too
@@user-qo4fh2se5dHaving to leave your family behind isn’t an easy choice. FYI immigrants get less than a fiver a day, if they’re lucky. Immigrants contribute to tax if they are processed timely - the tories just take, whilst accusing others!
@@robbaker1841 Exactly! 💯
Three years ago I lost my job and ended up on Universal Credit for about a month.
I was entitled too 525 pounds a month.
My rent is 550 a month.
Totally living it large.
Now I was advised that they beleive the average price for a one bedroom property in the area on which my housing benefit aspect was calculated was 300 pounds a month.
Searching today the cheapest I can find within ten miles is 475 in a house share.
I have no idea how people survive on benefits.
Everyone of them now claim the extra benefits for sick the majority of WRCA claimants are for anxiety and depression extra 350 a month then claim PIP for an extra topup it’s crazy but that’s how the live on it also your 2 children’s money as well the system is easily exploited you can also if people are desperate for cash apply for uc claim for everything you can then get an advance for 1500 before uc have even decided if you are entitled to anything once they decide that you obviously aren’t entitled it’s to late you got 1500 it’s nuts what claimants are doing to remain on benefits rather than work
IN my book stealing food from supermarkets because you're hungry is not theft .
How do you know that those people who steal are hungry. Theft is theft no matter what
Your books wrong. People were far poorer in the past and crime was lower.
In the past we never had the richest one percent of society owning fifty percent of the nations wealth .
@@twisteddancer7773less than 400 euros isn't a crime anyway, well, now that you're out, you can jail people starving. Your reputation is already in the toilet
If that person could prove the food stolen was eaten and not sold off yo make money then that is not theft .
If you're long term sick it's absolutely frightening when the government (DWP) start talking of tougher sanctions, restrictions and even tougher assessments. One bad decision by an unqualified assessor can literally throw your life into turmoil, and in a worse case scenario, even death.
These callers were amazing and lovely. So glad they're saying how it is. Until this happens to someone you know or to you, people don't realise how bad the system is. It's the worst in Europe. Very sad
I'm a british citizen living in france on minimum living allowance (due to ill health and disability) and I'm so glad that I don't live in the uk, it's frightening to hear what's going on in the UK!
Nothing to do with Brexit.
@@alansmith4655Riiiight, keep telling yourself that.
@@allip4226 Poverty was increasing long before Brexit.
@@alansmith4655 yes and no, britain can now go lower then before and can limit excess by far stronger because they dont have the minimal thresholds by the EU anymore.
But britain is far above most EU countries right now
What about the thousands who leave the labour force every year due to death? They save the Government millions.
The entire purpose of giving less help to the poor is to provide the wealthy with even more. No matter how much wealth many of these people have they will never be content until they have it all. Millionaires never say, "I have enough and I am content with that." Billionaires, that is those who could feed an entire country for a year without blinking, can never say, "I have more than enough to live out ten lifetimes so I shall feed the starving." (There are tax incentives even for that!) Both groups see the poor as a drain on their wealth or potential wealth adding, "Why should I pay for them?". The Tories are in place to provide the means for the wealthy to take from the poor and the poor continue to vote for them. We get what we vote for!
The little english get what they vote for but why shld the other 3 countries in uk, one, Scotland, a sovereign nation, be subjected to that party when we didn't vote for them. The uk is not a democracy, lt should be dissolved.
As someone who have met many wealthy people, I confirm that's exactly how they think.
The biggest benefits scroungers are MP's.
😂😂😂
We got rid of our security guard and yes the store is raking it in. Staff are expected to do the store front role at the basic rate with no training. Until someone gets badly hurt nothing will change 😮.
These big supermarkets just want to outsource their security costs to the taxpayer. If they don’t care enough to employ security guards, why should we?
You know who is living it up at the taxpayer's expense, The King.
yeah because he's the king innit
Yes and the rest of them.... Prince Andrew comes to mind.
But you all kowtow and worship the Royal Family!
@@walter3433we in the US rejected the king, why can't you?
@@HammerStudioGamesunfortunately the boot lickers are the majority
We can go back to pretty much any year and hear the Tories slamming immigrants, benefit claimants, idlers etc etc.
They fit it with security tags, but what's the point? The police don't turn up and you aren't allowed to grab them.
Because the Tories f'ed it all up
Really?? Do they run out with tags, going EEEEEEE as they run out the door?? Aren't they banned from the store?
I think that security guards are allowed to "grab" people like that, you know. Anyway. I remember they used to be a LOT more strict in shops, in the UK in the 90s and 2000s; I remember some poor guy in the recession of the 90s, obviously wanting to steal a toy for his kid (it was coming up to Christmas) ROCKETING out of a non-automatic glass door in the old Woolworths in Newquay, Cornwall (he nearly knocked me over: would have done if he'd exited one door down!): running up the steep hill at the side of the Woolworths - and a uniformed male shop assistant in hot pursuit of him on foot! The thief apparently soon lost his nerve though: and dropped the stolen goods somewhere at the top of one of the paths: but I heard the shop assistant on a walkie talkie or something; saying to his colleague that they should look for this guy in the car parks in the streets above the town, or something! 🙄 Definitely a very zealous shop assistant, and no store detective, either! (Nowadays they would just try and track the guy on the CCTV cameras that have mushroomed everywhere, though.)
And in the 2000s, shops like big supermarkets had policies that stated they would prosecute every shoplifter, no matter how trivial. I suppose preferring to push the burden of shoplifting kids (because it was mostly kids and teens then doing it) onto their cash-strapped council estate parents. I wonder why they stopped doing that? Maybe because the parents wouldn't/couldn't pay the fines/restitution? 🤷🏻♀️
Security guards are
Unless your in Manchester
I work in retail, and the store that I have just left were adamant that we as floor staff were expected to challenge shoplifters. We were asked if we would be willing to wear a high visibility vest (like a security guard would wear) when working in aisles that contained high value goods. This was in a very deprived area of Edinburgh, where there would be a high chance of personal injury or a risk to personal safety (several staff have been threatened while I worked there). I refused to wear the vest and indicated that it wasn't in my job description to intercept shoplifters or risk my own safety to apprehend them. I was on just over minimum wage and I just wasn't prepared to have to do a security guards job when it was a purely financial issue that they didn't have a security guard there.
I’m currently working as a security guard, whilst training to be a teacher as a mature student. Yesterday, I was threatened with a flick knife.
You come to expect these sorts of instances, but as a father-to-be, it doesn’t make them any less terrifying.
I’m back in work today, because I’m on a zero hours contract and my paltry wage of £11.50 an hour, doesn’t afford me the means to take days off when required.
I literally can’t complete this diploma quickly enough!
Getting me in a job, is having decent mental health care, counselling at hand rather than waiting 6 months plus to get some. But I'm getting near 60, twoo kids who are disabled, carer to one, wondering why UC deduct all of my carers allowance as a "taxbale income" 🙄
Poor you….
I also hate Lady Margaret Thatcher and The Right Wing, Conservative/Tory Party!
Now I am listening from outside the UK, however the part about shame from the public does apply everywhere. My wife is on benefits because of her medical situation and I constantly keep hearing some comments about her not working and "why not just do something about it". I don't think anyone of them would enjoy her situation at all, besides the amount of money she gets from the state is completely unlivable, it's less than minimum wage, if she didn't live with me she would've to find probably at least two roommates to afford a flat outside the city.
I hate how people just lack any amount of empathy.
Hi James I love listening to your show, it's thought provoking stuff.
I am long term disabled, I have several conditions that make my mobility painful, at the moment I can't even walk to local shop, and can't always drive because sometimes I'm too unwell. And I'm pretty sure I'd be sacked from a job for days I'd have to have off due to this and drs appts.
I DO NOT sit around, I push myself to do daily tasks, I help neighbours out, comfort friends through crisis, I'm a shoulder to cry on, I am soon starting a zoom training course to work as a UNPAID volunteer, because I have alot of life experience with disability and life in general. I feel I can give comfort and support to others suffering. The government make my blood boil they haven't got a clue.
I've helped out during COVID doing people's shopping that were to scared to leave the house.
I also brought up a sick child (heart condition) and was a single parent.
We are not supported, and it makes my heart cry that people like me are struggling so hard, but we want to give back to our community.😭
Also if you have serious conditions employers are scared because of insurance etc, I saw this a few times with my son and it's heartbreaking.
Thank you for highlighting these things James.❤
The victim massive out in force again.
@@nick1065 that's actually a really nasty and unfair thing to say, why would you say that, I don't feel like a victim, I'm highlighting what millions of people are going through. Think what you like. Hope you NEVER have to live on the breadline.
Did I ask you for anything?, if you don't like what I say don't read it.
@@embee5057 Thank you for sharing your story. I've become mobility disabled recently (hopefully short-term) due to an accident, and it has been eye-opening to see how people with disabilities are treated.
@@embee5057 I’ve lived on the breadline…had bailiffs at my door and pulled myself through. Never ONCE blamed anybody or anything though…just got on with it. And that’s the difference between us.
Very well stated, Embee. Ignore the nasty comments from people like Nick who haven't an ounce of compassion and empathy in them. You've demonstrated that you do have those qualities. Unfortunately, some people are incapable of putting themselves into the situation of another human being.
Further to the people who want to work but are unable to, we need to ask: Where are the unemployed & where is the employment? If the unemployed aren't in the areas where the employment is available then it's a failure of government as they haven't enabled the economic conditions (or transport links) for employers to be in the areas they need to be in.
No it’s a failure of socialism of benefits. If they take benefits away all those people will be in work by tomorrow
Go past any high street up and down the country and you’ll see jobs advertised outside.
@@nick1065 what about the skilled employment a la car manufacturing etc?
@@rononel8046 Millions are claiming unemployment and sickness and are capable of work but choose not to. And to all the work shy out there….power to you all!!!
@@nick1065 let me guess, you retired in the 90's and you think you can still get a job by handing out printed copies of your CV? *facepalm*
On the child situation, you don't know how bad screaming at a child is until you're the third party. Speaking from experience, the distress the shouting from my mum towards my son when he displayed an opinion was absolutely unreal to witness. It was quite a shock. I drew a line and cut contact.
Generational trauma is a real thing, and I'm thankful that in the modern day that we're correcting it.
Staff should do nothing to physically stop shoplifters. Trained and appropriately paid security staff should be hired for this. Corporations can use the billions they have saved by cutting checkout staff forcing customers to queue up to serve themselves. Not sure if this is happening in the UK but in Australia, major department stores have redesigned stores with the self service points in the centre of the store so now every customer is treated like a criminal and must show their receipts and allow a bag check sometimes a regular staff member or sometimes a security guard. Corporations then cry rivers of tears over shoplifting (despite price gouging and record profits).
Yes we are getting that in the UK, with some people being injured when shopping trolleys suddenly stop.
I buy cheap generic Baileys from Aldi. £4.79 per bottle. It always has security tag stickers on it which sound the alarm after I pay & leave. So every time I have to go back to a checkout and show my receipt so I don’t look like a thief.
I always laugh and tell them it’s dumb to security tag a product that costs less than a fiver.
Today I was told they have to tag everything because they’re losing so much product to theft. That’s how bad it is. Security tags on products under a fiver because this government have reduced millions to abject poverty
So why buy cheap Baileys then? If you’re really that poor don’t indulge so much!!!
@@nick1065 who says I’m poor? I just don’t wanna pay 15-20 for the real thing when Ballycastle tastes more or less the same in my coffee.
@@hazmatproduction4562You’re an O’Brien victim so you’re poor ok? Just deal with it!!
@@nick1065 household income of 110k but yeah you go on assuming I’m poor. I’m just sick of watching our country go to the dogs because of rampant Tory corruption and embezzlement of public funds.
@@nick1065 I could shop at Waitrose without batting an eye, but like you said in your first assumption, I don’t overindulge & waste money just because I’m lucky enough to not be one of the millions in utter destitution thanks to our lying, corrupt government & their years of defrauding the taxpayer
After nearly two decades working in the most rewarding job, mental health nursing.
Can safely say have witnessed the carnage our benefit system creates for individuals and families.
We can sort these problems if we want to.
I know a bunch of people who want to just needs more to say it out loud too, just maybe.
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I wish I could have caught this one live. I would have called in. I am on UC at just over £700 a month. Out of work because there is almost nothing suitable for my needs and skills in my area. I am wasting £425 on that a month for rent and being evicted because my landlord wants to raise the rent. There's no social housing available, still having applications processed by 2 councils and every private place is even more expensive than where I live already.
In the same boat mate worked from 13 to 58 and my work caused me long term health probs hope things improve for you.
My local Co-Op was closed the other day because they had two separate instances of people coming in and robbing them at knifepoint in the space of 3 days.
The shoplifters waited until it was two new young staff members on the tills.
The mother of one of the young men who were working that day said they had been left alone in charge of the store because the Co-Op was trying to cut costs.
The Co-Op has responded by hiring a security guard that they had previously removed to save money and allowing the staff to put the CCTV on while the store is open.
They also posted an A4 piece of paper warning customers that CCTV is on in the shop.
It's scary to go there on my own now, and sad because all the staff are really nice and helpful. However, I also have empathy with the thieves as so many people are struggling these days.
I place the blame fully at the Tories feet they have no empathy for anyone and don't care about the sick and the poor because, as my boyfriend puts it, the sick and poor don't vote Tory.
What do you think Labour will do? They probably will make it illegal not to shoplift
Yes that's exactly what Labour will do. Mandatory shoplifting. Love to the family@@anonomous8719
@anonomous8719 if you actually believe that, then I pity you.
@@anonomous8719 how do you live living in such fear all the time?
Gosh, did you think that up all by youself? Or did you need help? @@anonomous8719
I'm on the sick from my nursing, no longer on pay. Not receiving any benefits as cannot cope going to the benefits office as my CPTSD is really really overwhelming at this time as are very dark thoughts. I don't have a computer and when the money left in the bank runs out I don't know what will happen to me 😢. Feeling ashamed enough as it is without the tories adding to it all 😢
You should not feel ashamed.
The Tories have no shame to what they have done to all of us.
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@@nick1065I'm glad you are getting a laugh out of me and my situation. Because I'm a decent human who has dedicated her life to helping others I still hope you never find yourself in my situation. It's a difficult place to keep living.
@@Evie3331 Because a new government will make your life SO much better yes?
@@nick1065 I've not got the energy to get into a debate about politics. Hopefully by the time any election happens I won't have to endure any decisions. I'm talking about being humane nothing more nothing less.
I'm currently in receipt of employment support allowance (ESA) due to a number of medically diagnosed long-term chronic illnesses. I live alone and was refused personal independence payment (PIP) on the basis that apparently, none of my illnesses exist.
Same her mate diagnosed with limited capacity for work but according to pip Im fit as a whatever.
If the NHS was properly resourced there would be fewer people unable to work because of illness/disability. The longer a patient waits for treatment the worse their illness becomes. Invest in the NHS and its staff and much of the problem would be solved.
I keep my curtains closed 24/7 so I can ignore the world while i'm at home. I still work most days lol......maby they keep curtains closed to keep heat in perhaps?.......its a well known fact - curtains insulate your home.
It seems to me that many people and I include myself of old, have no idea how close they are to falling off the edge - one missed payment, one erroneous decision by a judge, an illness, a death, one redundancy or a firm in insolvency away from being that person whose life unravels.
OAP’s pensions classed as benefit outrages me.
People are working for a deficit.
They’re not going to bother.
It’s a waste of time.
Michelle Mone lives it up at the tax payers expense.
I remember Brexers saying that they would be happy to eat powdered egg if it meant that Brexit 'got done', Well, it seems they'll get the chance, as long as they can afford it.
So James Is saying some shop lifting is now justified?
Thats what's happening across the pond in California.
Why not.
I love the title, You are certainly my favorite radio "operator" ,James.
Would you like some cheese on it 😅 this country at a all time low 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Just cuz there are jobs available it doesn’t mean everyone is qualified to do them.
Or do they mean go do seasonal work on a farm?
tories want people to work for £2.0 per hour ...like under thatcher
If cheese is fitted with security tags that is also Liz Truss to blame...
This country is mental....
Well done for sharing your views on punishing children from such a personal place. Cruelty breeds cruelty even sociopathic behaviour. If people don’t have the patience to teach their kids without violence, don’t have kids!!!!
As my mum always says to her boss:
If you want a security guard, hire one, I have a cashier wage and do a cashier job.
If you see someone stealing, keep walking. If it is a desperate mother, she doesn't need the hardship, if it is a smackhead, you don't need the slashed tyres (happenned to one of my mum's coworkers...the shop did not cover anything)
As someone who lived through Thatcher, this is all depressingly familiar.
As someone who has two children under the age of 10, and was regularly smacked by my parents as a child.. I can understand getting angry at your child.. But I've never denigrated or smacked either of them.. nor would I want to...
Anything but tax the rich more what a surprise from the Toff Tories.
Who provides the jobs?
@@anonomous8719 Who takes all the cream and moaned when a Labour government brought in a minimum wage.
I know... maybe we should.shift all disabled people to rwanda????.. give it time the tories will come up with THAT as a policy.
As far as I am aware, it is for disability allowance that there is the least amount of fraud... and yet it always seems to be us that gets targetted...
All we can do is make sure we’re at the polling station to vote these Tory criminals out at the next election. Don’t forget your photo ID.
Least amount of PROVEN fraud.
I love James o'brien so much ❤
I know of a bloke that does £ all, gets fetched and carried, and gets a dole payment of £125,000,000 a year
Sounds like a right Charlie...🤔
@@popeyedish Just got that, Long live the Monarchy 😎😎😎😎
I always have my curtains closed, because people are nosy. The uk unless it is red hot is always raining so it feels warmer with the curtains closed. Plus I am training to be a nurse so when I’m at home after the kids have gotten to school I want to walk around in my pjs and warm robe
cheese with security tags...Welcome to post brexit britain
also i have not had any post for a month...post office carnt get people to deliver
Why not minimum wage to £11, living wage is higher, so how does anyone live on minimum wage 🤷🏻♂️
Why do you pay people a living wage?
@@anonomous8719 I don’t, I’m used not a user, I was raised to be fair, not as useful as being selfish in the world I currently live which is not the world I was born in.
The maximum wage is what £11 an hour...
The German word is " Besserwisserfrust"
People who are milking the system won’t call, that should be pretty clear. There are many people, like the callers, who deserve all the help they receive, and some should get more. Trouble is many of us know people who could work, and some do, and receive these payments. It’s a very difficult situation.
There are people who milk any system. In the case of benefits it's almost infinitesimal compared to that of tax cheats.
I agree and would argue the Tax cheats cause more damage to society.
There wernt many homeless on the streets either during covid that also changed when the government kicked them all bk out on the streets 😢
its not the people who have been in power for the last 13 years. or 20 years. or even 40 or 60 years. its the power who have always been in power. at least 100 years.
In Bristol, we have found for it, the pool table we are sinking so divers can do it under water. Guess who will love that.
shoplifting has gone up with the introduction self service tills.
Not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US, most grocery stores are purposefully understaffed in addition to relying on self checkout.
I would love to see LBC do a debate format between James and Nick about all these issues our country is facing.
I owned my own small games publishing company. I contracted covid and pneumonia in the same month and became deathly ill.
Forward 3 years, I'm receiving UC and have been waiting 30 months for PIP. My hearing was the other day and got an apology but I'm yet to receive any money. I haven't had it yet and Hunt wants my scalp for his base? Nope. I've been selling my possessions to survive and would turn to 'direct action' before indentured servitude.
I suffer from extreme pain and long term incurable chronic illnesses so there's little they do to scare me.
That fraud and coruption crew need to get down to parliment that would keep them busy for months
Please add an small note when mentioning “living wage” was used to be known as the minimal wage, which is not what living wage is meant to be.
How about "Fremd-Schämen" : to shame/feel uneasy if someone else makes something wrong/ a fool out of himself ? Greetings from Berlin
First caller says he’s been signed off 100% by his doctor yet the Fellas had to battle it out with the Government for two years ? How is it that an unqualified Civil Servant has been given the power to attempt to overrule a qualified Doctor ?
Try dealing with Centrelink in Australia. I think they are required to deny any application for help at least twice before it's processed. (Just like in that movie). And the average 2hr wait on the phone doesn't help.
Maybe the USA can send the UK some government cheese and humanitarian MREs…
I live in a council flat next door to 2 crackhouses. They are confrimed by council crackhouses. One is also a predator against children. Both are in receipt of benefits + rent + discretionary payments you wouldnt believe that take them to 2k+ monthly income. I work 45 hrs, need a car and make 1700. The measures taken by the tories gave never affected them, but they have multiple other genuine claimants. Their measures are not targeted towards the abusers. They are targetting vulnerable people who do not understand the system and can be taken advantage of. They dont care about us. I have multiple chronic conditions and am entitled to nothing.
Saw two ancient ladies having their bags searched in Aldi,neither had stolen anything
I've ended up listening to this for the second time.... it was a released some weeks ago, however listening to it again at around 1:18:00.
I'm not much of a shopper, and so it may have been a year ago but I went into Primemark and noticing they had self-check out till. I thought I'd use them. I paid for the goods and set about striding out of the area; I walk quite fast; and I nearly knocked myself out!
I had not seen the transparent sliding barrier and walked straight into it and felt myself ricochet back nearly ending up on the ground in a heap.
Apparently, you have to press a button or scan your receipt to open it. The place was heaving and everyone just started at me.
Clearly, some of us are completely out of touch with today's shopping experience.
The Tories are taking the mickey.
If you get stabbed trying to protect company property you will become one of those people who "chose" the bennefit life
These people are given targets of how many people to sanction that they must meet, regardless of justification or not
Stores need to hire security to deal with shoplifters. Cashiers and stock-boys shouldn't have to deal with that.
Can i make a suggestion to those of us who cannot afford therapy? I found that writing down my problems and worries and burning the paper helped me.. I don't know how it helped, but it did.
Even the Bible doesn't condemn people who steal to feed themselves. If I see someone stealing from a supermarket I will offer to pay for their food!
Wut? Which bible is that, the WIndows Bible? The Christian bible most certainly does not have much nice to say about thieves, it suggests all sorts of barbaric punishments for stealing. FYI: "“Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft." So basically, according to the bible, if you steal and have no money you are subject to slavery. Exodus 22:4.
@@jamesrowden303Depends which part of the Bible! The New Testament and Jesus are different. "If a man steals your cloak, offer him your coat." 🙂
@@oneoflokis & @jamesrowden303 - You're both pretty much confirming of how little use the Bible is as a moral guide. You can support pretty much any moral or ethical stance with some part of the Bible. Even abortion!
Bro they're stealing to resell ffs
Huh? thou shalt not steal?
It happens for certain goods at my local supermarket here in Spain.
It must be difficult in Scotland, with locks on the food, and locks on their wallets, shopping must take all day..............................
When I go to see my GP, neuro and endocrinology consultants, when asked how long have I been retired or stop work, their faces usually drop when I say I'm still working, and just had to go down to 3 days, but at the end of the day who else will pay my £960pm mortgage? Thank the gods for my PiP!
Carl Beech gets his cheese for free.
Another factor why sick levels may be worse in the public sector is because some of the people work in healthcare where other people are sick. Also it’s in the name ‘Public’ more interaction with people maybe?
With regards to trauma.
You remember the past it is not to make objectivity accurate record of the past. It is so that you can use it to prepare you for the future and with trauma your mind won't leave you alone ad nauseum.
James Pennebaker's written emotional disclosure paradigm suggests that emotional disclosure about stressful events leads to improvements in physical and psychological health.
You must go through the emotions until they are expressed and then process it until its not so overwhelming. It will feel worse before it feels better.
As a great man once said, "you are what you do. If you do nothing, you are nothing".
They are coming for 1.5 million disabled people on the Support Group of (ESA) Employment and Support Allowance. Those on the Support Group of (ESA) are the most disabled people in the UK.
I'm on it, and they are scrapping it this year.
@@MsCharlieBrown78 Migrating 1.5 million disabled people onto New Style Employment and Support Allowance,under the (UC) Universal Credit banner,is going to take at least two years. The Labour Party will be in government by then. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary,Jonathan Ashworth has announced that Labour plans to “fundamentally reform” Universal Credit in order to “simplify” the system and “better incentivise” people moving into work.
really? I had my letter a few days ago which said they are implementing it over the next few months.@@Nemo59646
Worked in a homeless unit for a year, 5% wanted to better themselves, the 95% had no want to improve themselves, happy living on the fumes...on another note, didn't a tory in the early 80's attempt to live off benefits for a week? And found it impossible, nothing has changed nor ever will
Country where people are stealing so much cheese.
Protect cheese at all costs
Easiest thing in the world is to go after vulnerable but lets put it to them will they close nondom tax answer no, will they go after companies that are making record profits on the back of peoples poverty the answer is no , will they go after companies that made records deals of tax payers money answer no could go on and on
Chief Of Morale could do with out door heaters up here.
The problem is that many of the politicians making these decisions don’t understand the realities of ordinary working people.
It’s why Osborne felt comfortable making the curtains closed comment . Night shift workers didn’t occur to him ,because I doubt he’s ever done it or knows people who have within his social circle.
It’s also notable that while we seek to remove money from some of society’s poorest and most vulnerable we still pay for Prince Andrew to live in luxury..
Hi ptsd. Hi navy. Come fly my seagulls. They need you. They are great. Very smart. They will be trained to pick up in command by the end of the week. Get to k ow them.
Surviving in £100 a week,on long term sick atm after being in work for a number of years. But I've worked through therapy, fixed myself and I'm off to uni next year to get back into work! Benefits do not give you a comfortable means if living at all
.. Jeremy Hunt and the rest of them are able and well paid - they have no idea
Employers are not obligated to pay the living wage, why would they when they can pay the minimum
This is the country were we have baby food banks
I thought. I know i will have a mug printed with his name snd give it to someone by accident. I need a venue to start.
Planet o brien, this is the place where all the immigrants are a clone of cameron shah .
Shop theft: I noticed in Walmart the USA last month, have put all the things they deem high risk into locked glass cupboards with a button to call an assistant (who may or may not come over). For people that have never been to a Walmart in the US, they are hard to grasp gigantic, so there is a lot of stuff behind glass now. Plus, when you ask for whatever you want, you don't get given it, the staff member will take it to the till, where you have to ask for it when you are paying for your stuff.
Poverty
Sorry. "Skaghead" ???
Addicts are people too. Please stop perpetuating the notion that they are worth less than other people!