The Real Reason 11 Million Are Not Working in UK
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It is Brit laziness and started around 40 years ago.
You are a outright LIAR!; while there are 9,000,000 economically inactive working age people, only 1,400,000 of those are unemployed; the rest are NOT unemployed because they are either in education or training, or are disabled, or caring for a severely ill relative.
@@CarlosAlberto-ii1li That's hilarious coming from a Spaniard! The only reason you have an economy is because of British tourists and investors. Barcelona FC was founded by an Englishman. Your national team passes the ball so much because they are too lazy to run with it!
@@CarlosAlberto-ii1li That's hilarious coming from a Spaniard! The only reason you have an economy is because of British tourists and investors. Barcelona FC was founded by an Englishman. Your national team passes the ball so much because they are too idle to run with it!
@@CarlosAlberto-ii1li That's hilarious coming from a Span Yard! The only reason you have an economy is because of British tourists and investors. Barcelona FC was founded by an Englishman. Your national team passes the ball so much because they are too lazy to run with it!
I'm a former technician and the reason people Dont want to work is because the money is crap and toxic work environments. Quantity over quality and a revolving door of staff.
Exactly this.
It has always been like this, something else has changed.
@@VincentRE79expectations due to improved living conditions.
@@VincentRE79 Nope, the value of pay has been slacking more and more behind in comparison to the needs of living.
And the welfare system provides an incentive not to work
The notion that people are opting out due to idleness is a neoliberal myth. Speaking as a former university lecturer I can confirm that even this sector has been totally transformed into a profit oriented service industry driven by growth mania and the ambitions of a careerist elite. Despite working in much-needed tech disciplines (physics and engineering) I retired at the earliest opportunity from a chaotic, toxic work environment. This is the legacy of 40+ years of neoliberalism - and no, I’m not a raving lefty either. Let’s hope the future holds a more rational approach to economic development than a rentier economy presided over by ruthless monied entitled toffs.
Of course you're a raving lefty, you use phrases such as 'neoliberal myth'.
Hit the nail on the head. Good comment sir x
You sound like alayabout > You never worked in the apalling conditions I worked in yet I worked untill I was 70!
You worked as a university lecture and took early retirement. Truly the struggle is real.
@@alanmarr3323 And your point is...?
Working seems more like punishment than working. Poor management makes it 100x worse than it should be. There is an awful abuse of power when people earn a management position and no one wants to be a victim of them.
Your comment ought to be the top rated one
That started in the 80's when thatcher pushed it and based it on the american Hellish model. Prior to that you could get really good employers, smaller businesses who valued people who worked for the. Once big business took over workers became drones, a number and the service industry is one of the worst!
Recently left a company that a lovely lady that had worked at the same company for 17 years had retired.. a week too early to get the miserly 5% bonus, at the advice of her director. She worked until the end regardless. Family run business. Poor management exists beyond large corporations. Wasn't all bad, the owners, sons of the original entrepreneur, all had lovely new cars. And it was a bad year, so they'll be fine. Good luck Janet, you are a beautiful soul.
@@CleverContrarian many thanks 👍
Stop being a victim blaming others. Plenty of good places to work.
I worked in I.T. for 20 years and in that time I received just two days of training. No investment in staff, no career progression, no employee care, awful colleagues and managers with blame culture, hiring managers lying to you about what the job actually entailed. I gave up caring and just went for the money - I didn't care what I did in the end.
What job did you move into?
Join the club! I've been in IT since 1994 and have had the same experience.
I am 3 years into my career in software development and I can relate.
36 years for me. Only training was in the early years when I worked for the NHS. Recently made redundant and seeing how long I can manage without a job as my skills are so outdated. Thought about training for newer tech but the market is so messed up that I'd probably be senile before I found something.
I can believe that. I have a degree in computer engineering and, before I retired, was gobsmacked at the level of knowledge of IT personnel. Shockingly low.
How do we have a system where some of those who work need to rely on benefits? Why is the tax payer subsidising inadequate wages?
Tax threshold
@ihshaikh because of capitalism where profit for the sake of profit is the only thing that should be focused on
Tax credits were a good idea on the surface, and they DID help, but they didn't address the root cause of why they were needed.
The terms "Living wage" and "Minimum wage" are used interchangeably by politicians, but they mean very different things.
Corporations just aren't held accountable by Governments enough, but it should be law that ALL jobs pay at least a living wage.
@@nebularain3338 the market is what makes wages the way they are. You can’t just expect pay increases if the demand for the job allows it. It’s not corporation creed , it’s just the market
@@xMrjamjam immigrants are good for business because they accept lower wages
I am economically inactive through choice. I am well under the state retirement age, perfectly fit and have never been eligible for benefits. I paid into the state pension and after I got the full contributions they raised the retirement age by 2 years. So I decided I would retire early and live off less money so I pay virtually no tax. I'm not going to work myself to death so the government can give it away and squander it.
Good on you for taking action and not just accepting the situation and making yourself ill.
Perhaps the government will be giving it away or squandering it on looking after you in your old age?
Why is the fact that the state pension age has moved a couple of years changed you whole life?
Our life expectancy has gone up by 10 years since 1975, pension by two years at most for men. Back then we expected just seven years of retirement, now we can expect 15.
@@grolfe3210 I can afford to look after myself
@@grolfe3210Average life expectancy is actually declining now and has done for a few years.
Almost the same here. Economically inactive, under 60, physically and mentally fit, not eligible or ever have been eligible for benefits and worked full time since the age of 18. I have paid more in NI contributions than most people for the 40yrs I’ve worked from a good career and decided to get out of the rat race after I lost my mum as I realised life is too short. Why should I work if I don’t need to? I’m financially secure, own my home outright, have saved up all my life and live off the fruits of my hard labour. For anyone who can quit working without sponging off the government I say good luck to them, for those not working and sponging off the government but are physically and mentally able to do so, get back to work!!
Wages are far too low. You need to earn £45,000 a year before income tax to afford childcare for two children and most people dont earn anywhere near that so theyre better off not working. I earn £80,000 and still feel poor due to housing costs
You either live in Central London or spend too much.
That's not true - my wife and I together are on 6 figures and we live in Cardiff.. yet with mortgage, daycare, groceries etc. it feels like we are just getting by
@@travellingtom6091 I spend too much trying to live the lifestyle I grew up with when my parents were student nurses. I drive a Toyota, live in a modest 3 bed house in Devon which is £100,000 below the average house in my town. Had one holiday in 6 years. I have a motorbike which is my only enjoyment in life. Shoot me
@@emrebennett2857 How?!!! Break it down for us.
I consider myself extremely fortunate to be able to get by on £7,500/year... S**t's tough out there in the real world.
My primary objective was to retire as early as possible because I hated my J.O.B (Jackass of the Boss). My managers didn't care about what I did and had no interest in my career progression and were only interested in their own progression. My UK directors were desperately trying to sell off the successful tech company I worked to foreign companies so that they could buy a large yacht and retire. The middle management I worked with were awful and had constant tribal battles to win one other each other. By 54 I was part-time and by 56 I was in the financial position that I could retire. So I had the last laugh. I can spend more time with my child which I really value.
In 2020, I was 59 when I got thrown out my job because of Covid. Like many others, I was forced to look at my pension, savings, debts etc. As I had no job at all, and got zero help financially I had to make a few difficult choices. I moved to Bulgaria (where property is cheap), bought a house outright and settled down. We can manage on what we have. I went back to work for 6 months or so in 2023, but frankly I prefer being at home. I'll be 64 this year. I claim nothing from the UK Government, or Bulgaria.
funny how the East came to the West for a future, now the West comes to the East for retirement.
Wages are so low you cant see a long term vision of prosperity through work anymore. For Gen Z and Millenials the hyperfocus on wealth in social media and politics is highly unmotivating
The more you work the more you get taxed.
@@jayc342009 exactly, i get paid less per hour for doing overtime then my basic salary, because of tax. is it worth going to work all day saturday for only half a days money.
People aren't stupid, pay them fairly and people will work.
Sir
I am 60 years old I have made applications to over 100 jobs since getting a lung infection in November whilst at recycling plant which was the only job I found.
There is a trick being played on the British "want to work" working people. I have made 10 applications to "a leading supermarket" alone, of which seem to have preferences to employ one race of people, of which are exploiting a visa loop hole.
I am not 100% but I can and want to work and your video does not represent my present position.
Thank you Chap 🇬🇧👍✌️
diversity quotas screw domestic workers
Considering the average salary (£35k) no longer allows you to have an average life (3 bed house, 1 car, 2 kids, 1 holiday per year) why would people bother working? Even couples on average salary each are struggling right now.
Why do you assume two kids? Nobody forces you to have them.
@@tancreddehauteville764 because the average person has two kids. I’m saying that the average salary should give you an average life but it does not.
@@christopherspriggs4179 clearly only the rich should be allowed to breed peasant /s.
A lot of this is due to women going out to work too. It causes inflation as two incomes get applied to one household. Net result we are no better off but 2 people labouring and home life suffering. Great outcome!
@@tancreddehauteville764 Funny, because the birth rate has been on decline hasn't it? I wonder why?
In 1980 I had a mortgage on a 23000 pound house, and I was truck driving and earning 150 pounds a week. Then in 1989 I sold up and moved to Greece. That house today is going for over 250.000. But is a truck driver on 1.500 a week???
Cost of housing vs wages in Britain has exploded due to immigration.
@@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 almost deliberately
This. 1991 House £65000 to £650000 2024. Wages £18500 to £40000. You can’t do it now.
@@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311
Educate yourself. Its because of Quantitive easing in the financial economy and lack of building houses
@@user-pp5lv6dl2k "lack of building houses" - engage your brain please. Since almost all of the increase in population is due to immigration, why would there need to be so many houses built without immigration? Study found 89% of the increase in cost of housing is due to immigration. Google it
Work for what exactly ? the wages are terrible the money is being devalued almost every second, sky high inflation, unaffordable homes, younger generations getting poorer the list goes on
Bent greedy corrupt private firms who do not give a shit about you and rob your wages every month .
Younger generations will never be able to afford a home and to have a family either, life is pretty meaningless for them.
@jayc342009 I don't have those things. My life is far from meaningless. People find enjoyment in life that doesn't include kids/house/car.
I cannot say why, but parts of some uk towns have sky-high levels of long-term unemployment .....Bradford, Luton, Burnley , Blackburn, Blackpool, Stoke . Its almost as if the people living there have rejected our society and our culture.
It's more, or at least equally, that society has rejected them. Actually offer them a decent job, and I guarantee most will be interested. (But of course, doing so would be communism, which is bad, so it won't be done.)
Hi lugo. Blackpool is 98% white British. What are you trying to imply?
Can't say about most of where you said, but as someone from stoke over half of it is boarded up and run down. Go into any towns high street and all you see is building after building of boarded up out of business stores, restaurants, bars etc. then the odd nail salon and Turkish barber. There's nothing here and the few places still standing are getting more automated so even those jobs are slowly disappearing aswell.
@bobbyboyderecords the only implications I can see made here are by you. What has ethnic origin got to do with this?
@@bobbyboyderecordsBlackpool isn’t 98% white lol…..maybe 40 years ago
I definitely think that the uk coukd do with moving a lot of university courses to apprenticeships.
They are making bank off of foreign students. It’s a business for universities not a place to actually make the future bright. They only want high performing students to say theirs is the best and to get the most money from that good feedback. I actually heard a university president or whatever they’re called shout out loud in a graduation ceremony that ‘I want to DOUBLE international students here as they’re so good for our university and culture and country’ what I actually heard in translation from bullshit to English was ‘we’re making so much fucking money I want to make even more’
We've all got our wires crossed. University should be about studying an area of interest, it's not directly correlated to a job. College education should be more technical and hands on, but try getting a job in most decent paying fields without a degree and it's impossible.
Rising mental health problems are due to the system
People have seen to forgot that they created all those University places to try and replace all the apprenticeships in industry that where lost when manufacturing was out sourced. So I dont really see the the point in bring them back without the industry to employment them.
Construction will always have places but there is still a limit to how many are need, if we train 100,000s of plumbers a year all you will do is lower the wages of plumbers.
Training in the trades now is at a big low.
Plumbers and electricians are not even shown how to lift, and properly put back, neither carpet or floor board.
Trainees only learn with modern fittings in sterile training rooms. They have not a clue when faced with the array of old fittings in the houses in their area. This causes damage to customers houses. As well as inefficient, uneconomic systems and houses. In terms of cost and heat/energy losses.
The problem was that Tories were meant to turn around and under what Tony Blair but they carried it on. Labour is back in by default now and they will carry on with their plan and drive the UK into the ground even worse as both main parties have the same policies.
I earn 48.5k. I take home £2.7k per month after tax, NI, pensions and shares.
I’m grateful for my salary but in no way do I live an extravagant life.
£2.7k is nice. If you live on half and save rest for buying rental properties.
Nobody thinks that's extravagant. It's definitely comfortable though for a single adult
For that income do you have to spend a lot of time at work ?
You're very lucky
that literally takes the p1ss 48.5k ... and you take home just under 3 k I hope you dont work long hours.
I worked in a Job Centre from 2021 when restrictions were still in place but lifting, there were two main reasons:
1. The under 25’s brains are fried by social media and tech use, every other young person had mental health issues with no services available to access. When you asked them about work, many wanted to be ‘influencers’
2. People no longer desire to work as they have little hope for the future. Far easier to adjust one’s life to fit in with your benefit entitlement than to attempt to progress in a society which taxes you so heavily you can barely afford to survive after working anyway. There were also those which received more in benefits per month than I did in my salary, and they would still complain it’s not enough.
Glad I no longer work there as it was so depressing.
What do you earn? What benefit gives you more than that?
@@ericritchie6783 it was between £20-30k, for some families with kids, especially lone parents, housing element of benefits included you could receive in excess of £2000 every four weeks.
I’m based in the south so that may skew things however that is a significant sum especially when some are working all month and not clearing that amount.
@@ericritchie6783 You'd have to have a few kids to receive that much benefits. Basic UC is £393.45 a month, less than £5000 a year.
What was the pay like?
It gives you time. One thing you will understand when you are on your death bed. Time is not something you can buy. Why work all the hours of the week when you can do other (cheap) things with your life.
Alot of people not working-->More Job openings--> Applying for a job --> Get rejected for no reason.😂😂😂 What a cruel world.
there is a reason. actually, there are 5million reasons. cheaper too.
Easy to point the finger ay. Lazy thinking.
Critics say there is a skill supply shortage, arguing that many fields of education lack quality and market application, but I think studies should be carried out on the unreasonable demands of employers. It is often the case that simple work is now advertised with requirements that ask for far too much skill and experience.
I agree. I have been looking for IT roles for many months. I have years of experience in the fields applied for even to be told by recruiters your CV looks perfect for the role. I then get rejected just because I have no experience of one single what I consider the least important thing. I then see the job is still advertised 6 months later. It's not that employers cannot find people, they want a unicorn 🦄
@@David-bi6lf Some "employers" list jobs without necessarily needing any more employees. They can continue to collect the most recent CV details for data analysis, and frankly if it's not illegal to list vacancies with no real intent to hire, then its a very advantageous political lobby tactic adding pressure towards adjusting the Labour market to better suite employers over workers...
Employers want ready made staff because training costs time and money, trying to pass this back to the state by calling it a skills gap is crazy. This is never going to happen as skilled people are (generally) always in demand. University should always be about studying a particular field of interest, not just about training someone for a job. But try getting in most decent paying technical fields without a degree and it's at best difficult and likely you'll be paid less, or at worst totally impossible.
I in 7 adults have literacy of an 11 year old or less, nearly 50% of adults have the numeracy of an 11 year old. That's really scary.
@@hilarygibson3150 That's just how the tories and reform even more so like it. It means people vote for them. 😜
My perspective on work definitely changed after covid. I chose lower pay for a less stressful work environment. I haven't looked back one bit!
once you get a taste of not working, its difficult to go back to that slavery
I am French based in the UK for a long time. The couple of times I had to claim benefits, my family were chocked by the amount. Here everyone gets the same amount but in many EU countries, calculation is based on your last salary lol.
So did it encourage you ti get back to work sooner?
Also, what's the overall standard of living compared to France?
Indeed I have been made redundant twice and both these times are the only two occasions I have ever needed to claim benefits. You quickly find out there is no reward for working when times get tough and if you have built up savings the deductions vastly outstrip the interest you could make thus they are quite clearly expecting you to use your savings.
@@Jay-xr3sb I went back to work when I found it - I never avoided work
How much did you get a month?
I got ill after having the vaccine and have had heart and autoimmune problems. They make me feel like I'm the problem with the country even though I've worked full time since i was 17 and now I'm 40. I think no one is talking about the fact it went up after the vaccine I was forced to have or lose my job. I had it got ill and lost my job anyway. Now waiting to be forced off disability and forced back to work or not be able to pay my bills or feed my kids.
Problem is the high income tax. It taxes workers. You pay for absolutely everything the state does while if you make your money from non work related things it costs you barely anything. This incentive props up assets and decreases the value of labor significantly. Jobs go abroad and all we do is import to consume, if we don't generate any value however we end up without any purchasing power for that consumption. The only people benefiting are those who take advantage regulaatory loopholes and get interest from abroad. Perfect example is London's financial sector (which is essentially just US and China investments) versus the rest of the country.
I think a lot of people used to work even when they were sick or injured but now people don't want to live their life just enduring suffering. They want to be supported. And community doesnt exist anymore so they need to go to the gov first.
Things are very overwhelming, politics, cost of living, low paid jobs always seem to be in customer service, will never own your own home. No national pride either.
Im not saying ppl arent motivated to work but things feel very hopeless
True for many young adults, what are they working for? Unaffordable housing, low wages, increases cost of necessities like food...why bother. The system is clearly not working...actually no it works pretty well for the wealthy.
@@jayc342009Spot on mate.
The definition of 'economically inactive' is far too vague. Politicians (Tories and Reform mostly) use it and then pin everyone who is 'economically inactive' as 'scroungers'. The fact of the matter is most people who ARE on working benefits such as universal credit HAVE jobs but still need a top up in order to survive and continue working, then there are the genuine sick and disabled, most of whom want to work and run a normal life but literally cannot because of their health in a country where our health system is a wreck (thanks, Tories!). The remainder are a small number of people who should not be expected to be economically active and Labour will need to separate those from the rest to ensure they are NOT treated badly like they are now. People with severe autism cannot be expected to face the working world because there is no way they will function in it, yet they have to jump through loopholes and face the evil that is the DWP who literally care not a damn and try to fill a quota of 'getting people back to work' with no care or compassion for the individual.
Thanks for mentioning neuro diversity, yeah it does seem like that might just be lumped into "mental heath and stress" stat.. And then that's just all reduced to issues of "confidence and anxiety" when not necessarily much to do with that.
Thing is you can also be unemployed and still make the effort to do volunteer work, the economy being as it is doesn't necessarily value all kinds of work that might otherwise have educational or environmental value, or value to the community.
When they say "not working" they just mean not financially employed basically which is a little unfair.
Very well stated.
Most inactive people over 50 are ex public sector workers on massive gold plated pensions, my brother in law just retired at 53 on a sergeant police pension , don’t believe me watch any buying homes abroad programme, they are all ex public sector, rarely private sector.
Reforms platform of "face to face" pip checks. Do reform know why there currently are not those checks? Because nurses refuse to work that job. They are not esa workers, they did not get into their roles to persecute sick people.
I can't remember the last time a politician of any party referred to 'scroungers'. Are you able to let me know which particular politician you are referring to, with the quote ?
The UK lacks earnings-related unemployment benefits, unlike most other developed countries. This makes it spectacularly ungenerous to workers in their capacity as workers.
It ranks among the least generous in the developed world, especially for unemployment benefits.
While it performs slightly better for families with children, it still falls below average compared to other wealthy nations.
The system provides minimal income protection, particularly for workers, and has seen a significant decline in generosity over the past few decades.
Benefit generosity in Britain fell sharply in the early 1980s and has remained low compared to almost all European countries since then. The generosity of unemployment benefits in particular has collapsed, showing the highest percentage fall (44%) of any benefit among comparable countries.
The UK is also rated 4 out of 5 on the International Trade Union Confederation's (ITUC) Global Rights Index, meaning there are "systematic violations of rights" for workers.
This rating of 4 puts the UK with the USA and ranks it among the worst in Europe, with only Turkey and Belarus having a worse rating of 5.
This poor performance is evident in restrictions on strike actions, allowing the use of agency workers to break strikes, and overall limitations on workers' freedoms and protections.
We're not a wealthy country, London and the mega rich skew the figures. We're in further decline and can't fund an aging population.
You want even more expenditures for people who are useless to the economy? Increasing emoluments to unemployed is an incentive to stay unemployed. That is why the UK economy is falling so rapidly, everybody is holding out their hand for money.
@@Jay-xr3sbtrue. We are the sixth biggest economy in the world, yet in terms of GDP per capita we are the twenty seventh country behind most of our European neighbours including Ireland who are number three!
Increasing benefits? Must be a joke.
I think the benefits should be raised to a level where nobody has to go to work. It’s a pain in the arse?
Uk employers are ageist when it comes to recruitment if the algorithm doesn’t like your CV then no human will read it fair enough but I have to chuckle when i see the headlines people don’t want to work
Human HR even worse than any AI.
We are taxed to death (AND AFTER) in the UK
the majority of my incomes goes to tax. Im sick of it. What do i get for this? VIRTUALLY NOTHING. none of our services work.
This country is just done and labour arent going to fix anything.
Taxes are designed to keep the plebs down and to prop the wealthy up.
You get to feel good about housing foreigners in hotels you can't afford yourself and later, you get to subsidise their large families. What more do you need from life?
@@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 gen 0 side
@@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 :) this is so true. I earn a lot, and I'm constantly lookin got mnimise my tax anyway I can including taking salary in benefits. I don't care what anybody says. I'm not supporting the people we now have ... the majority just don't fit my definition of "decent people" so I won't spend my money on them.
Going to work is costly. Car /insurance/petrol 5k before you even get a paycheck 11.44/h reality in small towns or rural areas.
I am 81 and am living in the Central Europe. I worked in China for decades and had a strong opportunity to return to working in London some time ago. Even on a lecturers salary living in London is an unenviable condition full of trying to make ends meet. Central Europe ,because they have their own low value currencies offers much better living conditions for a third of the cost if you have a pension from the UK and/or online work for the UK from Central Europe..
can't afford a golden Visa, no chance of moving to Europe.
Rise in poverty causes mental health problems. Constant stress on how can afford to keep roof over your head or get a roof over your head is big problem.
then do something about it? you shouldn't be allowed to just turn around to your fellow citizens and say "your problem now".
Awesome. Brilliant content. Spot on. Well said.
I have for the last year been waiting for treatment for an ankle issue, cardiac problems and a double hernia and I’ve been struggling to do 3 days a week as a carpenter. My partner is a nurse and was off sick for 9 months before she finally got the all clear and is now back to work. It is NHS back log which is keeping the working age out of work. Funny that many of my retired clients are being dealt with straight away by the NHS. Its almost as though there is an2 tier system in the health service atm.
Easy way to get people working, pay them enough money so they can live instead of a subsistence existence.
they still won't do it. And since when was working a choice ?? Regardless of how much you earn.
The reason is computers have been used to make people in warehouse and distribution ( 20% of the workforce ) more efficient ( like robots ) . They are simply being worked into physical and mental in health.
We are at a position were robots are just about to take over their jobs but right on the cusp of this a very unlikely generation are being expected to work like robots under the control of computers.
8:20 bringing up children isn't just "beneficial for families" it is an absolutely essential service to humanity snd your fellow countrymen, older generations and younger. It's mostly a public good in terms of economic impact. But the costs are overwhelmingly private.
Think about it in terms of economics. I have children but my neighbour doesn't. Fast forward 30 years who is paying my neighbour's pension?
Mental illness being the largest contributor to the inactivity is interesting. Mental illness is serious, sometimes fatal illness which is woefully under served by NHS/public sector. However, it is also almost certainly the case that some, maybe even many, people who are current out of work due to anxiety types of illness, would find their mental health improves by getting a job and critically having the daily routine that having a job entails. Sadly we have a system of benefits that increases anxiety, that has no or virtually no interrelationship with the NHS to assist those people to work up the courage to take the difficult and often panic inducing step of getting back into the jobs market
The trouble is mental heath is not necessarily all to do with "chronic anxiety" or lack of "confidence" or structure and purpose day to day. In many cases yes your right getting a meaningful and realistically structured job would be great, however the jobs available to many would simply not be and could just make things worse.
@ericritchie6783 most MH claims I see are BS.
get a job and you'll feel better, we don't do that, we just throw money at people
@@sparkymmilarky The trouble is if your not really in the position to tell the difference, you might come across a few examples that are laying it on a bit too thick, then that'll just be your disposition towards people's MH issues in general.
It seems like some people have an easier time spinning BS if they just have the knack to do so, like in many areas of society.
So then other people trying to make a genuine cases with the slightest of nuances, who might not be prepared to lay it on thick enough get fobbed off over and over.
The assessment process encourages just laying it on thick to try and convince a random heath professional, following a formulaic administrational consultation working under a private profit firm, who don't necessarily have any experience with the given condition they're assessing...
They only have to had any kind experience in an area of heath such as being a "general nurse" or "physiotherapist" ect which is not necessarily related to what's indicated on the claim...
@@ericritchie6783or corrupt doctors who may know the patients or have bias on cultural or ethnic lines to give them all the green ticks necessary to earn as much as possible. This may come across as something a lunatic with no insider knowledge may say but without giving much away I know how these things operate across the government. Corrupt ‘officials’ (doctors, lawyers, responders etc) there’s a reason it’s not mentioned much as obviously it’s because it ignites the racial divide and it’s sensitive in that regard however you can’t pretend the truth isn’t happening that’s pure conspiracy against the population. 72% of Somalis live in tax payer funded social housing. That’s OVER FOUR TIMES the self identified native British population. Do you think Somalis are 4x more likely to be disabled? if you don’t point these facts out the divide in politics and society will increase.
@@Aaron19987... I wouldn't know about any of that, it's definitely not a doctor that's knows the claimant though when claims are reviewed.
Just a "health practitioner" employed by an independent assessment contractor for profit, employing people with, presumably, targets to complete as many consultation reports as possible over a certain period, perhaps with bonuses for completing extra I'd have thought.
9:18 You pretty much gave the answer.
1. You asked “several employers” - but didn’t ask several (also inactive) employees.
2. Just before, you mentioned that “anxiety, mental problems” were the single largest statistically known group.
Now, if (more) working people feel anxious in or out of work, what does that tell us about “the economy”? Could it be a sign that our economical model is flawed, by not expressing metrics for this outcome?
Why is “growth” easily measured as GDP, while “losses” from this increased anxiety are measured in “some degree of nonconforming personal attitudes”? What happens to capital value if those “socioeconomic negatives” were given a metric, and held against GDP? What happens if ecological constraints are given values, and held against economic growth?
I think questions like these are behind the increasing sense of individual precarity, but cannot be easily expressed. Even most economists can’t, as doing so is also precarious for their careers (according to numerous campus supervisors). Sociologist do, though - but “economy” has way more political influence.
In a political economy, after all…?
Thanks, an interesting video.
Good video. Very informative
Two conversations spring to mind. I graduated with an engineering degree. I hit the post-Cold War perfect storm and could not find a job for a year. I paid a visit to my university a decade after I graduated and after meeting one of my old profs I realised they no longer taught my degree, "Since that sort of work is now done in the Far East we no longer see the point in teaching it. In fact you'd be hard pressed to find an institution in this country that does". I lost a technician job after twenty years and on the day I was sacked my boss said to me, "Look Ged, in five years time nobody will be doing what we do". He was spot on, five years later my firm was shut down and all my colleagues made redundant. We have very pressing employment issues.
The trouble with vocational qualifications is that society sees them as second class and attaches the noun Trades to them. Somebody to fix the plumbing or build an extension/new property not somebody of value to society. Rant over.
It’s a consequence of the class system. But it is changing, not least because of the large number of graduates with no obvious skills
I disagree. With A.I. trades people are the only ones with guaranteed employment. University education is pointless.
And yet we are massively short of sufficient skilled trades people in the construction industry - for most of the last 30-40 years we have had this problem and "solved" it by importing skilled people from poorer countries in EU. The sad fact is that the average of the skilled trades people we have is getting older. Plumbing, electricians, high quality plasterers for example now earn very good wages
I view the term ’trades people’ as derogatory. If you have the skills & qualifications for certain job then you are a professional.
Anyone with their head screwed on right will recommend young people become skilled in a "trade". Good, reliable work. Partly because of shortages, partly because it can't be automated within the foreseeable future.
Another good job many people don't even know exists is agronomist. There's a shortage there, too. My Dad earned very well indeed and had head hunters trying to poach him at the age of 63.
Oh wow you made one from my question haha, thanks! That was insightful
For my part I'm 65 but Waspi, working part time from home, would love to go back to employment in teaching but waiting for a vital operation on the NHS. If I got the op now I could be back in September, but the waiting list is 18 months minimum.
All excellent points but there was an omission of the role of ageism (...I'm not a fan of ..."isms" but let's call it like it is) in the workplace. This may disincentivise senior workers from re-engaging with the workplace, should they be pushed off the ladder at any stage, say by an employer's "re-structuring". In many white collar contexts the assumption will be that new entrants will be young and you'd have reached a managerial position by middle age. This effectively freezes out senior workers trying to get back on the ladder in new sectors. For those who manage to do this, a culture of banter assuming you'd have a view on who you fancy on Love Island etc effectively makes the senior person a pariah. A lot of work needs to be done in changing the culture of employment if valuable human capital isn't going to remain on the sidelines.
May be people have finally woken up to the fact that the most valuable thing we have is time , and to sell it cheap so that someone else can profit is maybe a little distasteful, so they would rather play the system .
You did not mention the real problem until the very end "low wages".
The average full time wage of 19k in 2000 would need to be 42k today to have kept up with inflation it is in fact 36k.
So many people in full time work are still on in work benefits. In Fact most of the benefits bill is paid to people who are in work.
but it shouldn't. If the benefits weren't paid AND we stopped all immigration it might force employers to pay properly. Why would an employer pay properly right now ?
@@garethwilliams4467 yes, I think I would reduce the immigration first.before plunging people into poverty by removing benifits.
But I still hold to me first point. The problem is not unemployment, that is only at 4%
The problem Is people who ARE working often full time and are still broke.
@@patdbean A few things ... 1) you will never see real pay increases whislt we're growing our population by almost 1 million per year. And those people are mostly the worlds poor - they will undercut you at every turn. 2) Unemployment has alwyas been a useless metric - especially now with the zero hour contract where people just get their hours reduced to zero and not actually made redundant 3) If we start to see big pay increases for menial jobs, you can expect massive closures and automation to take those jobs away (eg California) 4) There is no way out of that for alot of people, governments can't really reverse globalisation (different ot immigration), we will never bring manufacturing etc back home 5) The only answer is learn to live with less, especially less consumerism for the masses - for those with brains /drive etc there is still money tobe made. But I think we're looking at the end of public services.
@@patdbeanbut if you are working and broke is it your fault ? Did you try hard at school (most people grew up in working class families and went to state school), did you do your homework ? Did you make a lucrative career choice ? What are you spending your money on ? what have yo spent your money on in the past ie did you invest it/start a business ?
@@garethwilliams4467 I don't think it has got anything to do with growning up in A house with work or not.
It is just over supply of labour.
When I started working in IT support in 1986 I started on 8k a year. The skill/experienced and qualified people 10 or so years older than me were on 15-18k a good wage 1986.
And by the millenium i was older experienced and qualified and on 15k (spot the problem?)
By 2005 18k
By 2010 20k
And today the people who I know who are still in The game are on 23-25k
Can anyone see the problem? The pay is going up to slowly. And the spending power of those wages is doing nothing but fall.
If you look at the UK average wage. The 19k in 2000 needs to be 42k today to have kept up with inflation, it is infact 36k
Ive noticed a massive change in attitudes in the work environment (at all levels) and I even think it feeds into the early retirement phenomenon too
There’s a lot of employers who want fully qualified, experienced staff but who also want them to be apprentices so they can pay them a fiver an hour. One employer was looking for an `’apprentice retrospective risk assessor” and then there’s the employers who, if they can’t get an apprentice in, will be looking for under 25s because they are cheap.
And yet the previous government introduced a Visa system where over the last 2-3 years 100s of 1,000s of people from India,Pakistan,Nigeria plus their dependents into the country .
Sky News recently investigated an care agency in Brighton .
A chap from Pakistan paid a "visa agent" 20K sterling to get him a job at this care company and organise his visa.
He his wife and 4 kids arrived.
Even if he worked 50 hours a week which he isnt ,he's won!.
His 4 kids get to go to school
His entire family get to use the NHS and they get to live in a stable Western country!
If he and his family gets to stay
The British taxpayer is out of pocket 100's of 1000s just paying for his kids education.
Rather than raise wages they chose to displace our own population.
The businesses have toxic workplace. I’m 74 years old and still work full time so I have seen a massive decline in respect by the management for skilled and competent workers. Work is just not conducive to mental health any more. Quick fix and cheap and so what who does the job. To me the minimum wage has been a depressant. Businesses think that is all they have to pay. Poor management and this pseudo con that the business cares about the well of the workforce. It used to be pleasant to be in a Team and make progress. That has gone.
The real unemployment rate is probably about 10%
Its all due to mass immigration which pushes growth which pushes land and property prices exponentially whilst lowering wages. In the 1950s if you lived in a slum hard work could get you out of that and you had a future. Now you have thousands chasing every available job and a place to live. Mass immigration impoverishes the majority and for some working is simply no longer worth the effort. In the next 3 years 1.6 billion jobs will be lost due to Ai its already hitting Banking Warehousing Administration and Retail Shopping. On top of that you have HR departments on a youth cult trip which sees employees reaching 50 and are thrown out to save paying them a pension. When all this impacts poor people they have no hope and no chance so they hit the sick and who can blame them.
There are many people out there willing and able to work. But you have to have experience every time. Companies don't want to train people. Definitely revolving door situations.
Chances are they employ the best liars then or else no one would have a job. You don't get born with it.
Unemployment by ethnicity.
The overall unemployment rate in 2022 was 4%
White 3%
Combined Bangladeshi and Pakistani 9%
Asian ‘other’ 7%
Black 7%
Why break it own by ethnicity also where did you get the figures
@@jimpaddy79 because the media like to portray white British, 3%, as lazy unemployed. But the reality is different.
Also the figures show what people believe about those from the Indian subcontinent: 9% !
The figures come from the government website (gov.uk) report:
Unemployment
Published 28 November 2023
Last updated 26 March 2024
RUclips doesn't let me include the link.
You ever watched benefits britain
@@EmmanuellaUdofia nope.
He made them up.
Theres far to many people scamming the system like being a carer for someone and access to a car but using it for other reasons. Far to many people on the sick for things like epilepsy or alcoholism. We are to soft as a worker who works 7 days a week to survive it really pisses me off!. I know loads of scumbags who are taking the piss out of the system frustratingly.
You also need to look at the disability rates in the Travellers, Bangladeshi and Pakistanis especially. It is a combination of inbreeding and fraud. How else to have rates over 1/3?
And then their women don't participate in the labour market.
There are millions now and it counts. Every single below average person who comes here drags us down, endless people coming here to earn below median income.
Mass Immigration has caused wage and productivity stagnation whilst exacerbating the housing EMERGENCY and driving overcrowding and lowering housing standards. This is because the Law of Supply and Demand is valid for housing and labour supply too.
Mass Immigration is not sustainable in any way not economically, culturally, socially or environmentally.
You need to address this reality.
Your statistics aren't right. Bangladeshi's have 10% disabled rate at 16-49 vs 6% for 'other white'. Indians and Chinese are both below 6%. Much higher rates for gypsies/irish travellers - though they aren't 'immigrants', are they?
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/disability/articles/protectedcharacteristicsbydisabilitystatusenglandandwalescensus2021/2023-05-17
I see it a lot where I am, older people from Muslim countries, the Carribbean, Africa, etc who don't speak or barely speak English so clearly haven't been here long enough to integrate with our society or work and contribute, but maybe have been brought over by younger relatives to use our healthcare and elderly care. Are these younger relatives working enough to make the equivalent contribution of two elderly people's lifetimes? or are they taking from what the rest of us, natives as well as long term immigrants, have built up through our working and taxable lives. On top of that you have irresponsible inbreeding bringing in a greater proportion of disabled children which could be avoided and take even more resources from childcare as well as creating a tragic life for the kids themselves.
I'm not against immigration but it should be reserved for those people who value our culture and lifestyle and want to contribute towards it while integrating into the country.
At this point, we're basically working and paying taxes to subsidise our own replacement and colonisation by people who hate us.
@@dumbguy1007 "long term" there are no Good Ones, only takers
inbreeding depression, yes
outbreeding also causes health problems i.e. mixing
it's supposed to replace us, obviously, see quotas for jobs. I've been told I'm "too white" for certain jobs. We have double relaxed darwinian selection, a side effect of long term r-selection if you read r/k theory in the book by castalia house.
Your graph at 1:00 looks relatively flat knowing the pop increased like 20% between 1970 and 2020. Just a side-note 🙂
My back has been wrecked by my working life. Chronically understaffed, ever increasing demands on the worker, longer hours, faster pace of work demanded all the time, inability to have a lunch break or even get to the toilet as no staff available to oversee while you take an essential break. Wages no longer cover the most basic essentials like shelter, food and energy especially for the working class. It appears that only those at the top can make progress by making life harder for those in lower positions than them. When you're ill your told to meditate 🧘♀️ as if that would solve your working and financial woes. It's a joke.
I’m 55 and stuck in a well paying job I hate but have no chance of retiring till I get a state pension if I reach that age . My company is full on diversity with no interest in me because I’m straight and white so career progression is nil. Training is non existent but they will spend a fortune on diversity hires and signage , aggressive Hr who target anyone who stands up for themselves driving you out for legitimate issues . Toxic management who treat staff like crap and seem to enjoy it and circle the wagons around each other . At 55 it’s too late to change career and having a contract does give me some safety as they cannot sack me or treat me like they do to an increasing number of agency staff . If I leave I would be lucky to find work at my age and would have no chance of getting a contract anywhere . Sickness is frowned upon and punished with a three strikes and your out rule . Even having unite as an embedded union just means them caving every time there is a new pay deal they give up some terms and conditions to keep in with management and I was even threatened by my union to shut up or else suffer consequences so I changed my union and at least they are on my side. As for the young white males they see no future and know they will be living under their parents roofs with no chance of their own homes , raising a family and diminishing returns on their labour with no career progression allowed. I’m trapped and to subsidise my family I must carry on working in a job I hate , where I’m not wanted , not appreciated and treated poorly but anyone seeing me doing what I do is not likely to bother starting on that treadmill to hell .
Stop Agencies running the UK it’s expensive 😊
Offshoring of colossal factories have left lots of British without tertiary eduction unemployed. On top of that, the crumbling and creaking NHS also exerts ruinous impacts on the public health which has tanked Britain's economic output and productivity. As stated explicitly by Keir Starmer previously, Labour will not click on the spending button while taking over the reins which insinuates that the harrowing status quo won't be improved any time soon.
Retirement ages pushed back, NHS crippled, higher expectations of productivity, lower wages compared to cost of living and constant monitoring.
Then confusion as to how general mental health is awful.
Tories, "what we did is your fault".
Poor management has been a UK cultural problem since the 1960s & this has an impact on sickness rates, retention rates, & productivity. Local Govts are no longer major employers & one of the primary drivers for decline in the high street retail sector. Likewise, the skill shortages in the NHS means longer working hours, less breaks & higher levels of stress taking into account more bureaucracy & more managers. Nurses prefer to work nights & weekends as a consequence of poor management. 50% of Managers are unqualified, & those who are qualified don't seem to be strategic thinkers or supervised appropriately. Managers have little integrity & rarely know how to motivate, coach & develop teams. A lack of opportunities is down to poor strategic decision-making by Govts & employers. Benefit system including pensions is one of the worst in Europe. People have had to become more frugal with what they have because of poor policy decisions. Cuts in benefits & wage stagnation has a ripple effect on local economies, often leading to stagnation & decline of specific industries, eg, retail, hospitality. There are very few good employers & the UK economy is highly dependent on sub-contractors & the self-employed that drives higher prices, eg, house building. Higher unemployment & economic inactivity (underestimates volunteers) is down to poor strategy by govts & employers, eg, resource planning, managers performance, & lack of investment in existing employees & new employees, eg, apprenticeships, to ensure optimum productivity & efficiency. The number of successful tribunal cases has tripled, particularly for those over 50 who may have been victimised in one way or another by incompetent underqualified managers. Higher prevalence of medical conditions means more people will retire earlier to guarantee at least 5 years of a good quality of life. This will have a wide ranging impact on employers to deliver what employees & customers want. For example, 20% of UK farmers will retire by 2027. Govts fail to create the right conditions to improve outcomes for anyone. When Govts fail at everything, they blame the unemployed, the disabled, the immigrants. What's the point of regulations, policies & guidance if Govts & employers can just ignore them, eg, health & safety?
I have people tell me that 5hey have given up their jobs as they were going to lose benefits, this is crazy, job seekers should be for 3 months only while you find a job or can be allocated one
The same thing is happening in the United States since the late '70s when you drastically increased welfare programs especially disability. I live in a very poor area of Northern New York when the factories left in the '70s because unions in labor cost got too high The vast majority of these people just went all the sudden on disability everyone has a bad back and all of them work under the table part-time make more money doing this and pay wayyyy less tax. Literally all of my neighbors fall into this category there's seven of them within 1 mile of my house most of them are in there '50s by now perfectly able to work It just don't want to. You know you can always work for yourself you don't need to work any toxic work environment or get paid too little by the man for all you guys that think it's so easy to create a great job that pays well with great work-life balance go start a business and see how easy it is.
Thankyou once again for a well informed and researched video, always nice to hear the truth behind the the numbers rather than political rhetoric we've been given over the last few weeks.
In our town we have a local jobs listing on our local town internet site. I went through it the other day. Every single job was via an agency, so every single job was such that your wages get cut by the agency. The agent can take 50% of your earnings. The problem is what you get for that 50% is negative in value, because it is all about protectionism. Why can't these firms just advertise directly? I skip all agency ads myself. I will only sign a contract with the firm who wants the work doing. With agencies you introduce a level of indirection.
50% how is that legal?
@@seabreeze4559 It's just through contracts. You sign a contract with the agency saying you agree to it. The firm paying the agent signs another. This will continue for as long as people sign contracts with these agents, who by the way are making a fortune in today's economy, considered to be one of the most profitable sectors, yet it contributes a lot of negative value, i.e. intentionally creates restrictions which are harmful to the other two parties. It gets worse even when the agent uses product tie ins so if you want to buy product A you have to buy product A and B where supplier B is force marketed onto you. The people who run these agencies are generally lawyers and know nothing of the sector they provide for.
All the money is made in the middle. Producer and vendor often extorted.
I graduated in 2020, worked pretty much nonstop for the past 4 years on pretty ok wages for the area.
Ive decided after rent, costs, and taxes going up alot faster than my wages "fuck it", and im going back to uni and moving back in with my parents.
Ive worked like a dog for the last 4 years and gotten absolutely nowhere, deapite being a qualified engineer with tonnes of experience.
Companies dont care about their employees, dont want them to progress (it means creating another vaccancy for them to fill), and dont want them being payed anymore than the bare miniumum.
So honestly, why should I work?
I quite strongly hold the belief that a properly functioning healthcare system pays for itself. A healthy population (physically and mentally) is an economically productive population.
The problem we have right now is that things are getting bad enough that we need a chunk of forward investment which won't pay for itself for a number of years, while political parties and less aware voters are only looking 4 years into the future.
Not enough healthcare emphasis in the education curriculum for starters... Healthcare should treat wellness before it treats illness.
People have just got used to relying on free healthcare instead of looking after themselves, their wellbeing and their diet.
@@dan44zzt231 Not necessarily to do with employment if people have or not.
As others have mentioned here, good health education is also very important. Prevention is always better than cure.
Things will still always go wrong for many people at some point in their life though, and we all need to be able to be treated appropriately so we can get back to work and continue being productive. Whether that's something relatively easily prevented like obesity or diabetes, something we often don't realise is a problem until after it hits us like mental health issues, or whether it's something that just comes with age and the wear and tear of certain careers, like knee or back problems or RSI, the chronic pain of which can be debilitating on it's own.
I quite strongly hold the belief that a properly functioning healthcare system doesn’t. It costs a lot. The Attlee government of 1945 claimed back then that having the world’s first single-payer health system would pay for itself because our labour productivity would immediately speed ahead of France, Germany and Italy, boosting tax receipts. That’s not what happened. France, Germany and Italy spend the money we spent on the NHS re-tooling their factories. As a result, they got richer, and could then pay for better health provision from their larger pay packets.
Health technologies become ever more expensive, we have ever more elderly patients, and we wind up with a dysfunctional health bureaucracy which prioritises DEI officers over surgeons, etc.
Employers do not reply back to people….
Especially if you don't have high qualifications.
I'm not paying heavy taxes towards this crap show. As long as I can pay my bills and buy food, I'm alright. I like learning myself using the infinite information and free courses on the net but if no one is going to adequately compensate me, forget it.
I won't fund my replacement either.
Wages have not increased in relation to cost of living so in effect same job now to 20:years ago means much worse quality of life !!!!!
Well some of the problem is that the government has increased the state pension age, in my case from 65 to 67, as a sufferer of chronic osteoarthritis it is unlikely I will be able to reach 67 despite working for 46 years solid, does that seem fair to you?
I was always expected to learn on the job over time. The one exception was as a telecoms engineer where to progress i had to pass courses that were provided by btt who i warked for. When? Way back in the 1970s.
My son has severe skin allegies so keeping a job is hard for him. He under performs then he leaves job one and gets into another. But it is a struggle because of his health. He will soon start another but his health is really bad and that affects him mentally.
I am out of work due to my health but have not got into benefits.
As I have let my house out and moved in with my son to save money. I feel tired all the time and don't have the energy to do much, started with physical problems with bad back and knee and now I suffer memory loss. NHS giving poor serviced so we cannot get proper help from Drs. We are both on waiting list for test and not getting the problems sorted, that is holding us back from going back to work and stay in work.
Free gym membership would help people like us as I go swimming once a week, I cannot afford more sessions. My son would benefit from sauna to help his skin but he cannot afford it
omega 3, d3 drops, cutting sugar from diet
“We do want to match people to the right skills and that might take time.”
Yes, but economists want to push round pegs through square holes as quickly as possible if it means muh green GDP line to go up.
“Many sectors like lorry drivers, fruit pickers, carers, medical staff; they say there’s a shortage especially of native-born workers who don’t particularly want to go down that career path for whatever reason be it economic or personal.”
Economic = bad pay; personal = too far away. I hardly doubt anyone would pass up a fruit picking gig if it paid £1m/yr, even if it were 5 hours each way to get there.
"Bringing up children can be beneficial to families"
I’d hope so lol.
"many people who have to stay at home to look after family would actually like to be out working"
No, I think they would rather do anything other than having to look after family, I don’t think most people necessarily want to go back work. If anything, they’d probably want a break!
The reason why there are so many unemployed and not seeking work, if it isn’t because of an illness, retirement, between jobs, or having won the lottery, my guess would be that Britain is now the ‘juice isn’t worth the squeeze’ economy, where most people will work merely to subsist, in an society that’s unwittingly introduces more competition into an already overworked, underpaid, exhausted people and economy.
@0:56 But didn’t the Benefit Payment system change in the early 1970’s?
Lots of work/jobs out there but hard to find stuff that goes anywhere.
I've done my fair share of graft, delivering and tedious retail. There's more in me than lifting things up and putting them down 😂
I am a skilled labourer and landscaper done it for 30 years as soon as they hear my date of birth. We will call you back you can hear them scrunching up the note.
What are all these economically inactive, working age people living on? What do they do for money?
The rising levels of sickness do not surprise me. The UK's population has always been chronically unhealthy due largely to choosing to live American-like lifestyles i.e. poor diets and minimising physical activity by driving everywhere (hence why we have some of the most congested roads in Europe). Any attempt by governments in the past to advocate healthier living has always been met with cries of "NANNY STATE". Unfortunately, reality is the ultimate dictator, and actions ==> consequences, with those consequences sometimes coming to pass in the future. Unfortunately we seem to be trying to adopt American-like attitudes in the workplace with exploitation and some of the highest levels of inequality in Europe (one contribution to that illustrated nicely with that net income change per income band graph in the video). We need to stop being so insular and start adopting a combination of personal and collective responsibility.
I think nanny state criticism is valid as the UK managerial class only propose solutions that involve sanctioning and penalising people's behavior. They almost never propose solutions that actually create an environment that makes want people to adopt healthy habits of their own free will.
I have type 1 diabetes, severe liver problems, bone thinning and various nutrient deficiencies causing various problems (partly from celiac). I was able to study for one hour yesterday. I was thrown off esa because I didn't answer a checklist properly.
I have known others with similar intractable problems. People's issue is not that they are not exercising enough. It's that NHS waiting times just let people stay sick, and dwp makes the problems worse.
Generalizing about the US is one of the worst eurotrash habits. Look at US productivity. And wage growth.
But these people are not sick. They just see the (too generous) benefits system as an excuse for not working. Benefits should be capped and time limited for all but the most needy.
@@kevinsyd2012 Say you were to try and do that. Distinguish the genuinely sick from those that are screwing about. It would cost about 10x as much as it currently does. Perhaps more. PLUS, in my area at least, if you are applying for an office job, the recruiter will have about two weeks of back to back interviews for one role. So the jobs aren't necessarily there.
Doctors are not paid lie detectors. People in the health fields generally object to having to do anything like that. So if symptoms are reported to them they believe the individual. To actually understand the data that would be needed, such as blood test results and such, PLUS, the experience and intelligence to fit symptoms into context, the government would have to hire a lot of VERY SKILLED medical professionals, doctors, consultants etc. Out of a group of people that have employment options and doesn't like doing that kind of work. The NHS is low on staff anyway.
The following story is true. I know that the left lie whenever the facts are lacking in their narrative, but I am not left and have not been since 2015. I have lost a lot of "friends" over this. But I used to have a female friend, who had one of the most difficult problems. She confided to me after I got a book in the area that she thought the problem was borderline. But she would go to doctors and they would ignore her. She had been seen by doctors since her 20's and no one could do anything (but she never saw a psychiatrist on the NHS!). So she would NEVER be approved for help under a strict system. But she did one of the only things that a borderline can do to truly prove her symptoms. She killed herself. She jumped off beachy head.
So in order to get around these problems. The government doesn't do anything about those that are scamming the system. I looked up the ESA checklist that I "failed" and it is online on disability charities etc. If I had the energy and intention to get ESA it would just be a matter of following that guidance which people that lie are more likely to do, as a general rule good liars will put as more effort into lying than they would incur telling the truth. So the government if doing the whole thing properly would have to distinguish between skilled liars such as addicts, that are the most skilled liars on the planet for all the practice, and difficult situations like the immediate last one where the cost of failure is high.
Instead what they do is hire workers for probably like £27k and give them a checklist.
There is a ticking time bomb of those that have taken their pension at 55, in some cases cashing in a defined benefit pension. A significant proportion of these people are spending at an unsustainable rate.
My industry was absolutely flying for years still Tony Blair opened the flood gates for cheap Labour. Wages stagnated and skills dwindled as the work force lost motivation.Brexit was like flicking a switch cheap Labour fkd off home and it started to pick up.
Obviously the establishment weren’t too keen. And now we’re stuck with Calamity Keir. We’ll be back in the 70’s before long. I’m not wearing flares for anyone.
Might have something to do with people getting terminally ill younger because the NHS is not functioning.
terminally? how?
@@seabreeze4559 Name your poison, Children dying of Cancer due to a mixture of genetic deviation in one or both of parents, environmental aspects (forever chemicals, increased radiation density due to progressive command 5G, 6G. Our grandparents lived to 100 and now we are told to accept 50% will die of cancer) Small ailments turning into severe illness due to lack of diagnosis and treatment at an early stage, disassociated medical fields so not one has a full overview. Treatment of symptoms not true root cause. The deliberate non functioning aspects of modern society are endless but we turn a blind eye either because we are over socialised or medicate ourselves into a stupor or more commonly we are running around like chickens just to survive.
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I worked in finance. I gave that up for a less stress job and UC. I have 4 children and my childcare bill is around 50k a year. My wife would happily stay at home but we would be penalised by the tax and benefit system. So we both now work part time to qualify for UC.
They said this on GBnews yestersay that there are lots of people like me that UC gets you near enough the same as working full time. I actually get more.
Employer's drive for 💰 profits (dividends) with the government creaming off (taxing) incentifies the relatively low wage culture.
This is boosted by second parents [now] having to work coupled by a sources of overseas labour accepting in their experience relatively high wages 🤔
One big factor is Outsourcing. I've just had 80% of my team laid off because the organisation has decided to outsource their jobs to a company in India. Many jobs that used to be done in the UK are now done remotely from India.
The culture is get by on as little staff as possible, putting more strain on the staff that are still working, eventually causing burnout and sickness. I purposely work as little as possible whilst raising my children so I don't have that happen.
I'm lucky that I bought my house about 14 yrs ago so by the time kids came, I was well into paying my mortgage down and didn't get caught up in paying over the odds. I do feel sorry for the ones starting out.
3 months retired now at the age of 61. 10yrs down the pit and 35yrs driving trucks, and in those 35yrs driving trucks i must have done the hours of 60yrs in a normal 8hr day job. Im living off my own personal pensions and tbh I didn't want to carry on paying tax to fund the shite and destruction of my country by corrupt people.
People can call me whatever they like, I've done my time, but there are some people who's objective is to get everything for nothing..
I am working 15 hours a week part time but isn't enough for the government they want people to work more hours.for years they told us to work 15 or 16 hours now they want people work more hours. but employer doesn't have more hours to give.
Great video and very interesting. Thank you. One thing in unemployment you did not mention that for capitalism to work we need a certin level of jobless to make sure that they would not drive up inflation due to shortage of labour. Flakiness may also may be due to too much going on rent, food and energy costs and one will tend to think what the heck, why bother I am just filling my landlords pockets. Also have you a video of the effect of too much money flowing to the rich and superich. Would a wealth tax help? Cost of family also far beyond man people.
Wages are too low and the tax system disincentivises you from trying to earn more. Add on aggressive inflation and the reality is that work isnt lucrative. Also a lot of the jobs are mind numbing and manual only in place because businesses don't invest in better infrastructure and system. labour is so cheap just through people at the problem. After covid people began to value non monetary things, time with family, general well being, health, travel etc.....
Yesss, exactly. The more you earn the more tax you'll be paying. This doesn't affect the wealthy though, they have their loopholes.
Answer: Torynomics. (Loads of jobs eg in retail are just part time anyway.)
Immigration has helped big industries to keep wages down, Immigrants do not know the wages are way too low and make life difficult for all.
If the government did something about it, none of this would have happened. But hey, no one likes to talk about legal bribery aka lobbying