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- James O'Brien condemns the 'rank' Universal Credit change that'll force recipients to take any job after 4 weeks or face benefit cuts.
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I remember feeling very lucky to live in a country that took care of its citizens, I worked full time in care for many years but felt secure because I knew if I lost my job, I wouldn't starve. Not now, I'm absolutely disgusted at the low down tricks, the nastiness and total dishonesty this embarrassing government has put the most vulnerable people in society through. It's bullying on a grand scale. I hope the Tories collapse under the weight of their own bullsh*t, never to return.. Ever.
When my job was made redundant I went to the Job Centre and set up a claim. Two weeks later I went back to sign on. That was the last time I went, I basically decided that £70 a week wasn’t enough to compensate me for the loss of my self esteem. I refused to have an unshaven, scruffy, unqualified and disorganised, petty Civil Servant quizzing me about how I was best using my 20 years experience and my MBA to find another job. I genuinely feel sorry for people who aren’t as lucky as I am, and aren’t able to do that.
Well said.
They can always just get a job..
@@jobbyomoron8478 You obviously have never been in such a position! I hope your luck continues.
@@2ag816 it’s no luck. It’s called hard work.
I worked for the Jobcentre/Benefit Office system for nearly 20 years in the 80's and 90's. EVERY couple of years saw it become less and less generous. I am disgusted but not surprised by this.
Same old thing, penalise the poorest and most vulnerable again whilst at the same time just wipe out £4bn on fraudulently claimed furlough and spaffed £37bn on a failed Track & Trace but go after someone on £70 a week.
Nothing new same old same old!
It’s despicable. All they care about is serving their corporate overlords and shafting the people of this country.
TAX ON PASTIES
@Jo Bloggs and no one would ever need to work because they have a magic money tree.
@@jobbyomoron8478 there you are again, are you a paid trolley for the Tories? They do that you know..
@@jobbyomoron8478 You really need some education
I've given up thinking the Tories can't sink any lower. I've been proven wrong too may times now and I've learned from that.
they can and they will, useless
Rodger Quinn
The Tories are lower then vermin.
I’ve given up thinking the majority will stop voting for them.
You mean even lower than Blair’s govt. who were responsible for 10’s of thousands of innocent deaths!!!
@@tariqjoseph3562 no.... because generally the majority of people know better. Get with the program mate🤔
There's a massive staffing shortage at the moment, the majority of which is minimum wage which is not a 'living wage', employee loyalty is at an all time low, staff will move on for an extra 50p an hour and I don't blame them, companies deserve to go under if they cannot retain competitive salaries and benefits.
When Tony Blair was running the country there was a scheme or programme called the new deal for unemployed jobseekers, if you've never had a phone government will give you a phone, they will send you to Topman or Burton's for a new tie or suit choose all paid for to get a job
@Jo Ol What if the business cannot afford to pay more?
Had my contract terminated 2 months in for no reason when UC forced me into the Kickstarter Job. Still recovering from the sanction and only have £69 for this month. Evil.
@Jo Ol yes that's SO true, Greedy employers are, in my opinion a Big part of the problem! 😊 Added to that, since That trade "deal", other people are Literally... Given jobs over others. Look around.
More 'kick the poor' schtick - all because Boris is trying to deflect negative attention away from himself. Again. Like he always does.
doris is finished
People should be expected to work.
@@jobbyomoron8478 selfish tory
@Jo Bloggs ah yea the old “disabled” people card.
@@saltney17 yeah I mean expecting people to work for a living eh… oh the selfishness of it
This does not affect me personally, yet I'm appalled. It was inevitable and obvious. Send EU workers back and create a shortage of trained labour through market forces. As a consequence: 'take any job, plebs. Think of the poor tax payer.' Welcome to the system that persuades the poor to vote for the rich to have more while labelling people who have paid into the system as benefit scroungers. I recall that a certain Jeremy Corbyn was going to replace UC with a system fit for purpose. Instead we got Brexit done BADLY to benefit the disaster capitalist and tax avoider while labelling those who suffer as scroungers. Britain is broken.
Always been this way, society and culture is like a 30 year old wedding cake looks perfectly fine to eat but it's rotten inside.
England is broken, its England that’s voted them in time and again. The rest of us know the tories and their likes
@@boxtradums0073 If Scotland and Wales voted labour instead of SNP and Plaid Cymru, there might be a big enough labour majority to get the tories out. Those two parties aren't even fielding candidates in English seats so they're never going to get a majority enough to win an election.
@@GLYDR the SNP would work with Labour. The SNP are basically Labour they just want independence.
@@boxtradums0073 That too
I've been on UC for a while. The staff there have been incredible looking after me at a time in my life where I was at my wits end. I am so glad I paid into the system all of my working life and look forward to again. I will continue to try and stop the Government ruining our welfare systems.
Forcing people to do garden work when they're not in That field or sector is the same old bulshit from David Cameron
@@Blacktolite Stinks of the poundland slavery all over again.
that doesn't make any sense.
Meanwhile... the Tories give themselves pay rises, change the rules when they don't like them, break the law & walk away & line each others pockets with taxpayers money.
Er excuse me. But the Tories did not give themselves a pay rise. It was an independent body and Parliament voted for it. Oh and by saying Parliament I mean all parties voted. Not many voted against it. Some sweeping statements you’ve made are typical of the uninformed and lefty propaganda. Fortunately there are more intelligent people in this country who thankfully ignore this kind of twaddle dished out by oiks like O’Brian and the left wing commies.
@@KG-vn8ou you really are living in a dreamworld!
@@1966babysnakes well old mate it’s a dreamworld that gave the tories an overwhelming majority at the last election. Got Brexit done...almost🤫. So what dreamworld are you living in🤣
One thing people are forgetting is that employers CANNOT be forced to employ people. This is just the stick approach and will fail
It wasn't so long ago though when employers were being paid to take on people who were being forced into mandatory work placements or sanctioned with no job at the end of the end. Anything is possible with this set of monsters . . .
@@jak6326 Yep, think it started when Cameron was leader
Disastrous policy only orchestrated because of Boris Johnson's demise
abolish the embarrassing government
Cruelty for it's own sake, to distract from their own greed, corruption and incompetence.
It's practically impossible not hate them; because for *them,* this is just a game...
As with all politicians of all ilks.
You have to WANT to work in care , shoe horning people who need compassion into a role they resent doesn't work out well for the recipient of that care .
Precisely.
its like sending Mike Tyson ballet dancing .
Exactly what they want. They want to make the health service toxic and take away that unique attitude in the NHS that puts patient care at the centre of everything
The Care industry needs people who want to do the job . Forcing somebody into doing this work , who have no interest in the job will result in substandard care , which will be dangerous. This is of course if they pass background checks . The easiest solution is to pay a decent rate of pay , which is probably doing more to keep away those who would like to to it , yet can't afford too.
exactly
Spot on, when I was working in a community dementia care team we did client-focused in-reach to nursing and care homes which included my giving moving and handling training. A large proportion of the staff, especially in the private sector were really unsuited to the job and did not like it. The staff turnover was very rapid and despite some really excellent and compassionate staff this meant that the quality of care was undermined. This is really a demanding and highly skilled job, a vocation that requires real compassion alongside the skills, and it should be rewarded appropriately and recognised for what it truly is.
Exactly my experience, it's not a profession like it should be, carers are just the dregs of the dole office now or newly arrived immigrants. My fathers carers were so bad, couldn't even manage a simple catheter, I had to give him his chemo meds because I didn't trust the carers to do it after seeing the standard of the people being sent by the care company. Pay into the system all your life and all you get is neglect in the end.
@@michaelel650 Michael, I worked in the "care" sector for four years. It was a dismal experience: poorly paid, poorly staffed, and poorly managed.
Working twelve hours shifts for £7.83 an hour, yet the residents pay £1500 and beyond a week. The care providers are asset-stripping companies, with families
having to bear the appalling brunt of funding the cost for their loved ones. If those places want first-class staff, pay them first-class money.
@@robjones2408 Totally agree, not all private care providers are as bad but too many are just as you say. There must be a better way of organising an economy to reflect skills and the contribution to society that each individual makes. Now we have asset strippers, exploiters, and the ruthless and irresponsible who rip off the rest in line with neo-liberal ideology.
Take care and stay well. All the best to you for now and the future.
pretty sure this is LEVELING DOWN
tory voters are stuck in 1972
We're ALL back in 1972 thanks to the Tories.
@@mickeythompson9537 1872 more like.
they're already talking about Boris returning to more Conservative values. I take it they mean more Thatcherism?
Try getting another job when you're in your 60's....most employers don't want to know.
your kids will have to work to 75. its crazy. yet life expectancy is actually going down.....
Im in my 50s and its pretty much a nightmare too
Indeed yes
It’s never been any different. It’s always been tough to get a job on your sixties.. blimey everybody’s talking as if these issues are new and have arisen because of the current govt. it’s bullsh*t. Did Tony Blair and his band of merry men improve the lot of the working man, well I’m one of them and my answer is no he didn’t. So don’t whine and pine on about issues that have been around for eons and probably nothing much will change in the future. I don’t care who’s in govt the poor or less well off always get the rub and anybody suggesting different is either a liar or deluded. I’ve seen em all come and go and it’s been the same old story. We moan about the Tory grandees and businesses taking the Mickey with salaries, but what about the union leaders who are on 250k plus a year.
Anyone who voted Brexit or Tory and has this problem , ask them two questions , did you vote Tory or Brexit , you won we all lost enjoy,
The EU is not the answer. Not ever.
Listening to this was like listening to my own thoughts about how the likes of JRM are consistently able to tap into the psyche of many lower/middle income people and get them to despise aspects of our society that they are primary beneficiaries of. A tabloid headline about an immigrant family abusing the system often does the trick but that just means we need to, as always, keeping improving the system - not abandon it. Any more than the reality of crime means we have to abandon freedom.
Exactly! Biggest con of the modern political system. The wolves don't even need to dress in sheeps clothing anymore, or even hide it, to have the sheep line up in droves to be eaten. They've even managed to get the sheep to fervently deny that they are even wolves and proclaim that they are infact sheep too despite their own eyes contradicting it, or even that they are being led to the slaughter. If it wasn't so deplorable, it would be ingenious how they've managed to pull it off and make the very people it affects the worst campaign and defend the most for it. Truly incredible!
You study for years for the system to tell you to work in McDonald’s at 25
The torys putting the n into cuts
I'm a final year psychotherapy student working pretty much full time, unpaid as a member of the bereavement support team at a local hospice. I don't have time for a "side-hustle" or part time work and I feel absolutely no guilt about claiming universal credit to pay for my course fees and food.
Of course, what I'm doing is completely illegal and plenty of people would happily label me a scrounger, but here's the thing...
When I qualify in July, I have a full-time, well paid job waiting for me. If the Jobcentre had it there way, I'd quit my studies and go and work in a minimum wage job until I keel over. It's completely ridiculous that trying to better myself, and provide a valuable service to the community is forbidden, but working myself to the bone in a dead-end position is A-OK
Typical tyrannical policy from the Tories. My brother is qualified to Ph.D level, he has been spending 30+ hours a week looking for appropriate employment and undergoing online interviews for over 4 years with no luck, only recently in the last 8 weeks has he been on JSA, with this new policy he will be forced to take up a cleaning role paying a utter pittance in the form of Minimum Wage job. The Tory Government’s definition of a “Living Wage” is an absolute pittance.
And in honesty who will employ him for a cleaning role? Employers will know that he is overqualified and has no experience so will give the job to a 'more suitable' candidate. I am sorry he is in this position, and I hope he finds something appropriate soon
I want to see boris to lose his job, and after 4 weeks, I want to see him start picking vegetables
He wouldn't know the difference between a cabbage and a cucumber, well.on second thoughts I think he would, oh memories of a cucumber ❤❤❤❤
@@1gerard47 and why would he numb nut. He’s probably got an IQ greater than you or I can imagine. Don t underestimate these politicians sunshine. They’ve got cosy little, jobs, just like this labour left supporting O’Brian on the Labour Broadcasting Company (LBC).
How else do claimants want it to be ran? Are they supposed to just give us money when we don't want to work?
Spot on analysis... Terrible change... and yes i am working
Tony Blair had the new deal scheme where if an unemployed person did not have a phone have no tie for work suit trousers or shoes all will be subsidised by the government
@@Blacktolite Tony Blair is also a criminal so..
@@Huwberts_Emporium I absolutely agree Tony Blair is a criminal also worse a real leader who actually trying to sort out the bulshit
@@Blacktolite stop talking about a million years ago.... we should be in a better place and not looking at the past so far back
James, it's a pity that you and most of the main stream media put so much energy into making sure Corbyn didnt get elected. Talking now about trusting people who care more about others, sounds a bit contradictory now.
Glad he didn’t get elected. Country should be thankful. In fact they were. However you are correct about why the country turned away from labour in such a big way. O’Brian is a miserable presenter and even this post typifies why people are switched off. All of it including a lot of the comments here is left wing bullsh*t. If people here are saying it’s unfair to ask medically fit and able people to try and get work despite their calling while receiving taxpayers money, then most people in the country I’m sure would find that an unreasonable position to take. I was unemployed in the Blair days, who I supported, wrongly, at the time. I was asked to provide evidence of work or attempting to get work after six weeks, so what’s really changed much from them. I suggest not a lot.
@@KG-vn8ou I'm surprised you feel that way about Corbyn. The working class and anyone earning up to 80k would have better of under Corbyns policies, and I'm sure not so many would have died with covid. It wasn't an extreme left wing agenda, just a fairer deal for the many and not the few. In fact we nearly toppled May in 2017. It was only the centrists within the labour party that sabotaged us. Still waiting for the Forde report that will show that, but will probably never see the light of day. SIR Kier and his broken pledges is everything you need to know about him. Best wishes to you.
And here it beggins - They need to force people to work the jobs that the foriegners were doing! I hope people enojy the leveling up in job prospects getting provided here by the torries !!
I think that perhaps forcing people into a job that they either cannot do, or are not qualified to do is a recipe for disaster!!!
As a Hungarian living in the U.K., it’s seems to me that this government follows the path of Orban. As he had a Soros scholarship here in Oxford, I don’t know who taught from who... 🤔
Well done James. I totally agree. I always feel its like an insurance policy to help you when you need it. And no you don't remove something from people because of the few who abuse it.
They have to find the £4billion they wrote off as fraud from somewhere, James. Same old same old...go after the poorest.
You don't even get your first payment after 4 weeks.
i paid 180 tax and ni for over 10 years working 6 days a week, wen covid took my job the govt said take 75 quid a week and be grateful
Create a worker shortage in the lowest paid sectors of the economy, force those who lose their jobs into poorly paid work.
This is shockingly unbelievable: Quote "Always trust people who seem to be sticking up for people that aren't them, who seem to be sticking up for others" Who could that be James - pause to think - you mean someone like JEREMY CORBYN who you love to defame and hate. Beggers belief. Noam Chomsky said [paraphrase] Those with privilege call for change but as soon as someone comes along that would make change they fight against them. Sums you up James O'Brien to a T.
It takes about 3 months from interview to start of jobs these days!
The interview system in the past was personal and eye-to-eye. They got to sum you up with some intelligent questions as to your background, interests and fitness for the work. Now, you have to fill in multiple forms, often prepared by a sub-contracted firm asking ridiculous questions, often of a psychological basis, and designed for the brains that can manage to tweak the truth. If your brain is wired to be honest...then forget it. Almost certainly they sign up the people most unfitted for the job.
This is why I don't bother with the job centre there is no motivation whatsoever its actually depressing and detrimental to your health.
The 4 weeks thing is what you would do if you wanted to de-skill the workforce.
For 2 years been my mother's carer. Housebound, struggling as dementia gets worse. A year ago, I got made redundant. Started claiming carer's allowance. Realising I could no longer take on a full time, senior management role again, I take a low paid, very casual basis, part time job to continue to provide care, but support my family. Now being chased as a fraudster, carer's allowance stopped, payments being "recovered". Meanwhile writing of £4 billion of fraudulent Covid debt is fine, £ billions of never to be seen again dodgy PPE contract money has disappeared. I am still left as a carer for 40+ hours per week & trying to hold down a part time job. Next they will be asking me to sell my Mum's house, use a of her savings & put her in a care home.
Don't let them fight back
That Therese Coffrey is the meanest unempathic and uncaring woman I’ve ever come across as an MP.
ts programmes like benefit britain etc that turnrd some against the vunerable benefit claimants
I just found a job so am not on the system anymore, but had this change gone through a few months ago it would have directly affected me in a very detrimental manor, honestly I'm lucky, and others in future (and possibly myself as well should things not pan out) will not be :/
make em suffer, make em beg for bread , they will do whatever we say when their bellies are empty. STARVE EM INTO OBEDIENCE AND THEY SHALL BE FORCED INTO BEING GRATEFUL FOR WHAT LITTLE THEY SHALL RECEIVE, = = CONSERVE A TORY POLICY, ,,, ,,,,,,,,,,FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS PAST AND PRESENT.
It only works for so long before people start fighting back. The tories dont want to be in power they want out so they can lay the blame for the failure of brexit on Labour.
The Tories really are the nasty party. Cruel and despicable.
Of course.
Selfish immoral greedy cretins is the best way to describe the tories.!!!!
But hey, at least we didn't get dangerous Jeremy Corbyn amirite?
Yeah... and all that 'chaos' of a Labour government, eh?
You probably cut your cloth according to a life and income. The system has encouraged debt with car finance etc. It has pushed people into mortgages. When you get a job that doesn't match your income and lifestyle then you lose your car , your home and who benefits from that ? It is cynical, cruel and vicious.
I was waiting for this one since the fruit & veg pickers shortage crisis. It’s a repeat of Tebbitts “get on your bike”
And what exactly is wrong with taking any job available to feed your family ?
@@soundssimple1 Can you feed a family on min wage? The cost of living crisis that Tories want to talk about suggests not.
@@soundssimple1 jobs taken when you are doing for survivial only typically means you will be a poor performer or average at best. This is why we have poor service in the vast amount of jobs. Employers WANT people to be interested in the work they do because they KNOW workers being forced or coerced wiil prodce poor quality work
@@atomiccritter6492 Hi, I don't agree with your first two sentences, a very poor view of the UK workforce and lastly it is up to each employer to take on who they choose, ie their choice after all.
If someone can come all the way from Africa and get a better job than you with zero qualifications you are doing something wrong. Learn from it. Work harder than everyone else and you won't be ignored. It always pays off.
This country is done its over
I think it's disgusting I'm currenlty dealing with mental health issues to the point I don't feel comfortable leaving my house. I'm currently doing therapy online and now with that they have done is making my health worse I'm supposed to get phone calls from the advisor in the job centre asking how my health now they put me for a walk in interview from a job centre miles away from me that I've never been to before.
In Ireland a single childless unemployed person gets €203 a week + rent + medical subsidy. What’s the U.K. dole?
around 75 quid i think
My daughter lost 38% of her benifits. In order to receive the remainder she has to work as a "media interface technician". What does this mean? She has to update the local librarys Facebook page and respond to posts on their site.
The site has fifteen posts a year. No comments for six years. But she's now "employed".
now, forced labour from the conservatives. ( no pun intended)
Mr James o Brian Well said 👏
America... here we come! Food stamps next.
I posted when the worker shortage was really hitting that it wouldn't be long before those on benefits would be forced to fill the gap or lose their benefits .
My German relative gets a 13th months wage in December, and received two thirds of his 100k wages in benefits when made redundant. This gradually reduces over time but is designed so he and his family dont fall off a financial cliff edge, if made redundant.
We in the UK are the working poor of Northern Europe.
Blame English people they vote for the tories
@@boxtradums0073 Strawman argument. They are all completely incompetent and wasters of the public purse.
@@napoleonbonaparte7883 and English people vote for them FACT ! England is 85% of the population so only their vote matters and given 40% of the English electorate voted for them I’d say it’s England’s fault the tories have spent double the time in government than Labour
@@boxtradums0073 So everything would have been better under Labour? Come on...
@@boxtradums0073 How about we blame the Government for not fulfilling their manifesto promises instead of the people who were trying to vote for a better future?
Government is corrupt to the core and the first past the post system stops us removing these people.
I am on U Credit, left one job [after handing in notice 3 months before] in March 2020 to start new job in April 2020, which did not start because of COVID, was not allowed to go back to my job so they could furlough me, as was public sector and it was against the gov rules, plus could not claim benefits for 6 months as left my job on my choice. Been looking since, i am a 59 ex R Marine, with a degree, 2 masters and a Phd, I am looking for jobs at around 50% of my previous salary, because i want a job, not a career, as will hopefully retire in 6 -8 years. Plus i am waiting for a complete left knee replacement. The Job Centre people wanted to know why i did not want to take up other things like warehouse work or leaflet delivering, dispite my consultant providing medical evidence that my knee would not be able to take it and there was a likely risk it would fail leading to me having to use a crutch...........The Tories are doing more damage to this country than any other organisation has ever done.
One tip - do not point out to the people at the U Credit or J Centre when the documentation contains spelling or mathimatical errors, they do not like it, dispite them realising it was wrong.
Hit the nail on the head.
Why do the poor have to suffer even further in this pandemic we also contributed? In meantime, sadly we couldn't take these billions of contracts that Boris gives to his pals.
We didn't close the country for so long enriching Bojo mates.
The whole idea that it’s only the poor that has suffered during this pandemic is ridiculous and pathetic. Even ol Boris suffered with it, so stop spouting claptrap for goodness sake. Your making me misty.
@@KG-vn8ou I and you have to get to an agreement or I am being pathetic. Or you are simply a Bojo and his mate absolutely detached from reality.
For your selection of words, you clearly benefit from all this circus. 😇
@@LuzdoSol00 I don’t see why we have to agree as you’ve clearly stated you think only the poor have suffered. Over 150,000 people in the UK have died through this pandemic and to suggest that it’s only the poor that have suffered is a ridiculous thing to even suggest and is even insulting to those people who have lost loved ones who are not in your “poor” bracket or whatever that is. But then it’s suits the Labour or lefty narrative doesn’t it. Unfortunately for Labour this no longer works and is a major factor in the trad labour voter (so called red wall) deserting them at the last ballot box.
@@KG-vn8ou You see, we became so invested in our politics that you forgot that go without saying for these lives lost through this pandemic are grieving loved ones. . If you asked me what's the worse thing that happened in this pandemic that really broke me.
I have to say our elderly in our care homes that work so much for me and you enjoy our freedoms and not poverty.
Stop to assume because I endorse compassion over political parties I am some kind of victim for being poor. It's the out of touch from both parties Labour and Conservatives I am talking about. Both parties have lots to answer, and clear nobody cares.
Compassion over contracts that distributed to Bojo's friends in which a legal inquiry already told us was that was the wrong approach.
Is that clear?
@@KG-vn8ou If you care pop in your nearest foodbank and have a word with people you may be surprised.
You know who would have made the benfits system fairer? A Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn. Given that James O'Brien put a lot of effort into discrediting Corbyn and the left, all this concern comes across as pretty shallow and insincere.
Absolutely typical.
exactly, everything you say...... I agree 100%
Classic tory skull buggery
Nice one.
I totally agree
The Tories are playing to their rabid base of entrenched reactionaries in a bid to massage them through their current throes of buyer’s remorse. The worst kind of Tories suffer from a collective Victorian delusion that work is by definition virtuous and its opposite, and by brutal extension those without it, somehow lacking moral fibre. We’ve all been conned into this to one degree or another as it is a concept that has been honed and weaponised against the working class. This is why it’s so easy to deploy and later she’ll be able to qualify, revise and back track to her heart’s content, but getting the base worked up in a lather of distraction is all that matters right now.
Another one spouting claptrap! Work seen by most people is not virtuous, more like a necessity. It’s also socially pleasing and some of us even find it rewarding.
I was unemplyed for 5 months and i remember meeting some jsa officers who were trying to scoot you straight into anything which i actually wansnt against as id lost self confidence but luckily one officer encouraged me to find something in my career and even helped organise some training which went on my cv and helped me finally land another job, although an hours travel away it has pretty much set my life up 8 years ago to give me so much that i have today. So i can sympathise with the problem with this change. When really its targetted at the few people trying work the sytem and get away with not working and yet impacts people who unfortunately fall on hard times.
So your happy to punish the majority for a “few people” in your words..
@@aktarhussain4437 i dont think i said that at all. Im not happy with the changes affecting everyone else and i thought my story explained that.
@hognoxious erm no i think there maybe be a small minority and that domt want to work but i think the majority are struggling with life, situations, background, lack of skills and opportunity. Your words not mine
@@jacknapier6991 as long as “you’re alright Jack”
If you dont sign on as unemployed you lose your National Insurance qualification because they pay your contributions for you. Its a nasty trick.
Try becoming disabled and having the audacity to claim universal credit.
With twelve years of employment and over twenty years owning and running business I have paid more than three million pounds in income and corporation taxes. Trying to claim the most modest of incomes from the DWP has been an exhausting and degrading experience. Having an incurable condition hasn’t stopped constant reassessment to the extent that it’s no better than harassment.
Dealing with the HMRC is child’s play in contrast to the DWP.
If you think as I did, that the vulnerable in our society are looked after with the taxes you pay, think again.
How will this help employers, who, having taken on a new employee, find they leave at the first opportunity. Or is this the government "levelling up".
Who said anything about helping employers. This is purely designed to make the unemployment figures look better.
@@Taladar2003 exactly, i hope it catches loads of tory voters in this net.
There will be a lot of chaos in this ..i tell you ..Imagine Mike Tyson as a ballet dancer ...or Micheal Gove in a boxing ring ..or aa ex Royal Marine knitting dresses ...you know where im coming from ..
Or an assassin as a number10 junior aide.
That is very messed up.
Very well said! 👏
Great system, you pay in but you get nothing back. In the current system it takes more than 4 weeks to get any money anyway.
What if I was making 35k and they put me to 16k job. Are they going to pay a shortfall for my bills? Am I going to be kicked out by my landlord or my bank???
No... and yes!
@@minnie5301 the system is a scam. Unfair. How dare they treat people like that who were paying for decades in? It's already almost impossible to get anything when you are own or part own your home. I understand this rule for people working less than 5 years or something but this is disgusting to treat people like that. Anyway that is the will of the people. We voted to get rid of Benefits claimants and they delivered.
@@jerryorange6983 absolutely. Let's see if hard times hit them and they'll see the harm that is being caused
@@minnie4218 it can hit us. When people vote against "them", the government does it to them. I really hate the system, I pay my all taxes being aware that I am too rich to get any state help if something goes wrong but too poor to keep going without my work.
Sack the staff, then steal there U/C
Without Social Security, people without work would have nothing, be made homeless and have to beg or steel in order to eat.
In this sense, Social Security is as much about everyone's security as the individual without work.
Being a teacher, I was offered a job in a slaughterhouse. (Somewhat like my father's wartime experience - whatever your skills you were given any job they felt like, such as weeding.)
Don't do it. You're better than that.
@@unusedsub3003 isn’t that a bit of job snobbery? That qualified people shouldn’t stoop to do jobs deemed to be beneath them. Is that a new labour policy yet to be announced?
@@KG-vn8ou I agree working in a slaughterhouse would be an amazing life experience
in the 90's I was made redundant as an accountant and at the insistence of my parents I had to sign on at the jobcentre so that my NI contributions were covered by the state, I told them I didn't need the jobseekers allowance but they insisted on paying it so I just donated it to a homeless charity, however they also insisted on sending me to job interviews for roles I had no relevant skills or experience in and no surprise, I didn't get the jobs - wasting my time, the employers time and wasting an opportunity for the right person to be interviewed for the role.
I worry that these rule changes will see people forced into taking jobs they don't want and may not have the skills to do at the expense of other people who want and need those roles, then they leave the employer in the lurch when they find the role they do want and quit.
Considering how long the recruitment process seems to be at some companies, perhaps on a case by case basis there should be some flexibility given to those who can demonstrate they have made a big effort to find the right job and/or are still in an active recruitment process - maybe shortlisted/interview scheduled, that kind of thing.
Define a job?
Is it a contractual 40hr week paid salary with holiday, sick pay and pension.
Is it hi today, gone tomorrow.
Is it you work for me when I call you but the agency will pay you, nothing to do with me if they don't.
Is it a trial session for a few days, see how it goes, we might keep you on thing.
Is it well you work for me but your self employed?
So what is work anyhow in the 21st century?
I once got sanctioned, this was when on JSA, I left a job and got reduced benefits for a period, which was no big deal, in later life got UC, this was due to moving homes, never got sanctioned on UC, as always played by the rules, so pleased that I hadn’t had to put up with applying for UC in now times, can now put it all behind me, as a retired on the full state pension, every day see down trodden people going into a job centre plus, all very sad, if making a new claim.
Remember the amount of people who died due to their sanctions. Plus austerity. Now cost of living crisis. Fuel bills and £20 cut from UC. Now they plan sanctions on that. And don't forget how many in work that also get UC. The more you work. The more they take. If your on benefits. They take that too. Tory voters. Thanks.
Beautifully expressed. Thank you.
The only thing this guy has expressed is verbal Diarrhea.
Well said James
Yes indeed, it is pretty much certain this won't affect a white, middle aged, middle class, very rich, very posh, hugely expensively privately educated multi-millionaire living in very expensive Chiswick down by the River Thames.
Oh it Will affect them but positively as the Tories can now cut taxes for them
General election NOW!
The tories have never been any different, I left school in 1983 , this just reminds me of the “Nasty party” as was…… Is. I for one am not surprised.
I lost my quantity surveyor job in early 90s (discrimination which I eventually settled) unemployed for nearly 6 months and did end up getting a care workers job. It was far more worthwhile but it took 20 years to get back to same income levels! I lost my QS skills over time making it impossible to return. Totally against only giving people 4 weeks to have to do the same. My life was irrevocably changed , no holidays for my son or posh parties. I had to get over losing my career which takes a lot longer than 4 weeks.
I just watched a Ben Elton interview from the late 80's and he was talking about a bill to ban violence in tv programmes and said that it was only because the Government were in trouble so they did things like that. We are seeing the same thing now.
I’m in the US. Love this guy.
Well said James. Always targeting the people that can't fight back. So sad
Excellent James. This is the government they voted for.
I was atracked when i said on a few occasions....Bring on the pain BORIS!! The sooner this governments Brexit and policies hurt many people, the sooner we all have to look at this government the country elected!!
England elected !
@Jo Bloggs England the collective did wether you like it or not !
What's the point paying in then ? Ridiculous, I'm sick of this lot know
Their response would be: "Yes, and whats the problem?"
I have told my "social security" story ad nauseum. But if anybody wants to hear how vile the system is , I'm more than happy to tell my cautionary tale.
Battery chicken farmer interviews data input programmer. Should go well.
Bell of the end.
Born in 62, grew up in the 60s and 70s.. seems like such a golden era, more so now.. shameful what has become of this country, and these people.. I failed at school, for various reasons, and I took and passed o level English a few years later, at night school, for next to nothing. And if people now wanted to do the same, it would either be impossible or ridiculously expensive.
Absolutely disgusting and demoralising
If there wasn't a benefit life line, there would be a revolution in Britain. 😂😂😂
absolutely spot on.
Cut the benefits. Work for a living