Kwasi Kwarteng: 'We have created a culture in which people can, as a lifestyle, opt not to work'
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2024
- Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, co-author of Britannia Unchained, argues that Britons must work harder if the country is to compete with China and India.
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He says purpose of the welfare system has been distorted since its incarnation in postwar Britain and that people should no longer shy away from manual labour
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What a joke. Hope more people see this interview today ten years later
I'm from Germany, who can speak the truth, the Britons are lazy and unproductive.
Brazil , china , India. They all have one thing in common. Economies grown on the back of workers paid very little living in poverty. Is that what he wants for the uk?
Absolutely hopeless. It would have been much better for our country if this guy had never worked in his life.
why doesnt he go work long hours in the field for little pay..
yes thought not...
case closed
Lol
decent wage instead of modern slavery please, thank you. race to the bottom this is.
2:37 “People in China have it great! They even get 2 minute breaks when they work 16 hours a day! On the condition they work really fast of course.”
So 10 years ago, he's criticising Labour for "borrowing money, in many ways, to try to pay for the entitlements that they were giving".
Riiiiiiight.....
Now just why did Kwarteng wine and dine with his Hedge Fund boss a few weeks ago ? I doubt very much they discussed bendy bananas.
Now how did his parents manage to emigrate from Ghana , as students, and manage to fund his Eton education ?
He won a full bursary to Eton so he is obviously academically gifted but also arrogant and lacking judgment. You can be academic without being real world intelligent. Intelligence comes in many forms.
@@mattbod Privately funded coaching works wonders to give the illusion of ability.
Six unemployed people per single Job vacancy in the UK. Perhaps its time we stopped shipping high skilled jobs overseas to China and elsewhere and started employing and training local people, rather than importing unskilled immigrants to fill the low skilled, low paying jobs in the UK? Greed is the problem and the Champions of Greed, such as Kwasi Kwarteng are not the solution. Tory rule will be short and their view from the opposition benches will be long.
This comment aged well! Truss and Kwarteng are now incentivising U.K. workers and being slated now. They cannot win. They are bringing jobs back to the U.K. and making sure their hard workers are rewarded. What else do you want?
@@RS-jb1lf How are they incentivising workers? What kind of staple work options for what kind of living wages?
@@RS-jb1lf Truss and Kwarteng are all mouth and no trousers. Before we go further please explain to me why the Bank of England have had to reintroduce Quantitative Easing to the tune of £65 BILLION directly as a result of the Truss/Kwarteng mini budget, why the pound and housing market collapsed ?
@@RS-jb1lf your comment aged well too, didn't it?
@Kit Well normally the poor working conditions that's wrong for a British person or otherwise. If it wasn't for the poor conditions working staple tasks for basic pay wouldn't be so bad.
Yeah it's easier to accept such poor working conditions at such low pay when the cost of living where your from is much lower than the country your working in. After a season of hard dawn to dusk graft being crammed in 4 people to a caravan, I suppose if your wage magically becomes 3 times more over the course of your journey home it's, well not "quite" so bad as if it didn't is it..
“Look at successful economies in Brazil, China, India…”
Oh, so like Brazil, are you going to create the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world for 56 million welfare recipients? And you’re gonna create high speed public rail across the country like China?
I don’t want to wish horrible things on anyone, but this conservative party are really bringing the worst out of me. 😒
And he has created a culture in which people are opted out of living in a home. NICE
This government kills. The EQA 2010 & Article 2 HRA 1998 should prevent such actions of continued abuse of disabled people. The number of deaths is in the region of 300,000 since 2013. Shameful
The irony of him talking about people being out of a job...
Another tory so very detached from the majority of working people's actual lives. Interesting seeing this 10 yrs later after the chaos of his mini budget.
Is he referring to all the rich Tory donors who have just received a rather large tax break ? Living off unearned income generated from property & investment portfolios !
But he is borrowing money to give tax cuts to the rich and that is very reasonable?
Pain for the poor isn’t a problem?
This is a shameless personality !
This man hasn’t aged!
give him another 5 months as chancellor and he'll be grey as a squirrel
@@sammerchant2522 Guess not.
Indeed. He's still as arrogant as before.
I guess it depends on how you define "model that works", financially the wealthiest and business owners create more profit and bits of it just about trickles down to the poorest, however they still have real poverty. For the time being, they're expanding and re-investing (altho can't last forever). Yep, i agree that sometimes it is better to be on benefits rather than work, surely that concludes to the intro of a living wage (that way it's not a race to the bottom). Minimum of £9 an hour
I thought being a full time house wife was a central part of their ideology..???
This is UK, not USA.
You opted to work and got fired and then got your boss fired
Well he’s just lost his job . Maybe he can leave politics and work on a farm.
And he’s not the only one to lose his job now unironically
Is this guy real?
Has anything he ever says made sense? 'i was an academic' but I became a useless fool...now that makes sense.
The funny thing about your comment is that without the "and not the least there should be WORK." part it your comment would have been rightwing nonsense :)
If UK wants to be out of the mess then they have to cut costs, reduce the size of the government and stop allowance and compensation given to the MP's. Government jobs like "street naming officer" should be taken out, increase the tax for the rich, no tax for the households earning 40k or below, impose inheritance tax to the KING.
Says a man who went to prestigious Oxford university
Is he vegan?
This is so relatable.
Its not the flipping welfare state thats the problem, its the fact that british businesses dont like to pay people a proper living wage to get the job done….so we give the job to 10 desperate immigrants living in one bedroom….lift the minimum wage and stop subsidising the profits of multi billion pound businesses by forcing people in work to seek benefits to survive…
I see everyone in the comments carefully ignoring the biggest takeaway from this video this alleged British welfare culture. Can any of the experts in the comments section shed light on this please. Is it true or false?
So what exactly can you learn from Brazil, China and India?? enlighten me pls
Cameron, Johnson and now kwarteng. Wow! The standards of an Eton Education are shockingly bad. A litany of abject failure on the playing fields of Eton.
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you do not understand mr kawasaki that a wage in this country sent back to lets say Romania is a lot of money If you try to live on that wage in this country you find it worth less. Its so expansive to live in the uk he really doesn't understand this You designed the hmo for migrants who pile into a 2 bed tea arced house share the rental at 5 to a room for 12 months claim benefits and leave millionaires This is your own fault. And on way to turn down the heat is to stop farming tax payer money to Ukraine full stop we can not afford it. You and truss are deluded
It was Blair and New Labour who swung the gates open to mass cheap labour from the EU
in 2004.
This drove down Brit. wages causing poverty.
Labour's fault totally.
Sadly loads of people do subscribe to all this waffle.
I agree totally with what you are saying, but Kwasi is simply arguing we have created a culture in which sometimes it is better NOT to work rather than to work as you get more benefits than working. This means some people actually choose not to work as a lifestyle. In China everyone must work or they go hungry. That is not good, there needs to be a safety net which is why benefits were created, but it should only be temporary not a wage that helps your lifestyle. And the chinese model works.
How's this comment's aging process going?
Ffs - this specimen was expounding his drivel a decade ago
Lower taxes and take benefits away. Simples 🙃
This man talking on economies what a joke
top chap...Old Etonian...son of Ghanian immigrants - just goes to show what can be achieved.
@@AFndjdj7373 Nigel said he was right to do what he did
lol.
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@@WiiNV kwateng not an immigrant
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L🤣L I'm sure Nigel the 🤡 would've supported Kwasi's Dual Nationality Ghanian parents when they arrived as Students 🙈🙊🙉
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