Most work benefits go to those in work. We have toomany companies who can only satisfy shareholder demand for profits by paying wages no one can live on. If they took a lot less out in dividends , they could pay wages that didn’t need a tax payer top up.
When they refer to 'benefits claimants' are they referring to MPs who don't do anything in their constituency, or those installed into the House of Lords and cop £300pd for doing nothing, and the PPE scroungers?
I am registered blind. I am qualified to postgrad level in Law and I have applied for hundreds of jobs. Never mind that I can do the job, find an employer who is not scared to employ a registered blind person. On the one hand I am told by the far right that I am feckless and I need to work. On the other hand I am told by potential employers that my skills are not a good fit or that somebody else is better suited, or ... The excuses are endless. I ended up working self-employed and I scrape by. If you want disabled people to work then force employers to stop discriminating against them.
You are a star Marina, common sense in British politics needs an eloquent advocate & there you are absolutely nailing it! Bless you & may your influence & wisdom continue to spread far & wide! I say again, Thank you & bless you. 👍🫶🍀
It still amazes me how the media doesn’t talk about the levels of state support given to the wealthy. £850bn of QE, bank bail outs etc. it has massively boosted asset prices
@@lesliefuller1456 nice straw man argument. Yes if I moved to a poorer country I would be relatively wealthier. What does that have to do with my point that the taxpayer has helped the rich get richer?
@@jamespeters7775 nothing I suppose, but stop whining. You are one of the most fortunate people on this earth. There are trillions of planets in the universe and we are one of those and there are millions of species on this planet and you are one of around 7 billion of your species, enjoy what little time you have, cos before you know it, it’ll be gone.
Ban "Fire and rehire" and similar mid-contract changes. Improve the minimum wage. If any employee also needs to apply for Universal Credit, their Employer needs investigating. By all means assess the long term sick with an independent (Non-political) review panel. Have the government as an employer of last resort. Find jobs/make jobs that include training and self improvement to help people feel valued and able to rise up the pay scales.
Excellent video I am currently working a part-time job and seeking help from this scam restart scheme to obtain a second job. Work coaches and employment advisors hold no qualifications, no skills, no working brain, and no empathy. They have also been very condescending to anyone who isn't working or is not working enough. For example, the advisor put me forward to work without public transport, like at 3 a.m., the pathetic excuse they use told me to ride a pushbike at 3 in the morning for 14 miles. The DWP pays these third-party private companies thousands of pounds to get people off the benefits system, which results in bullying and corruption you earn 4k they get paid 5k in return. What a scam.
Those companoes literally exist to provide free (i.e. taxpayer funded) labour to select employers, by funneling people on benefits into full time work "internships" with the promise of a job afterwards.
Strange, CEO’s should have massive salaries and benefits to motivate them, whereas everyone else should have lower salaries and benefits to motivate them. Is this a two-tier system; am just asking questions…
CEO's take all the financial responsibility for a company, they also ultimately take all the legal responsibility too. They also work 24/7, cos if shit hits the fan they are the ones to deal with it. That call can come in any time, when the "workers" are off shift, CEO's dont go off shift, if a decision is needed the CEO is there and required to make it any time of day and day of the week/year. Workers do not have any of that responsibility, their responsibility is to turn up to work and do the job they are employed to do for 8 hours of the day then they get to go home and that's the maximum responsibility they have to handle. Come hell or high water they are paid at the same time each week/month, doesn't matter how good or bad of a job they do they get paid. If a business fails, the CEO bares the responsibility for it, he has to pay off all the debts and face any potentialy legal ramifications for the employees/companies actions, worse case scenario for the employee is they get sacked. Many companies offer Pay based on performance, those jobs exist and you earn precisely what YOU make for yourself. However those jobs aren't as easy as a 9-5. Options are out there for everyone in relation to the jobs and pay they do/get. You also have a choice about what job you do and the pay you get.
Hi Marina, the 9.4m is a red herring as you point out, there have always been approx 8-9m economically inactive people for many years because this includes students, early retired, family caregivers, stay at home mum/dads, temporary sick, long term sick, jobseekers and actually the number of people not wanting work without any of those reasons (eg potential “life style choice”) is just 1m, which compared to the headline 9.4m is nothing.
I have always been baffled as to why you would pay someone more on benefits than the minimum wage take home amount. I can see why some people just give up and never get out of the cycle of despair and defeat
What about if we gave everyone, regardless of who they are, a basic wage to live on? Would cut out a lot of admin costs spent assessing people and checking up on them. There is a huge and growing gap between rich and poor in the UK, one of the biggest in Europe, and the extremes of deprivation we see in this country put us to shame. The recent A level results data shows that private schools did better than state schools, that the results in the south did better than the north of England. If we want to level up we need to think differently about these things
When you see the truth on how the system works, how it really works & what's happeneds to people at the hands of the people who make it work if your not disgusted or horrified go deeper it won't take long to find what your looking for combine it all together you will lose motivation to live never mind work.
Farage gets paid £96,000 a month for working 32 hours for a company that loses money and that is seen as alright. But it's wrong for someone who works on the railways which are in a position to pay out dividend to the French government among other international investers, to get a bit more which is realtive to just a few decades ago still less than they used to earn. I say keep the money in britain and give to people who spend the money in the economy i.e. workers.
Why are you concerned about someone else ??? Earning money in a private sector???? Hey guess what. YOU are the reason you earn so little. Do better and the world will reward you
I now have a job but a couple of years ago I went to a job fair that I had been told about by the job centre. Got to the place. The woman at reception didn't know about the job fair and so went off to find someone who did. Came back with another woman who informed me that due to lack of space for the job fair it had been moved to a local college and the job fair had taken place the day before but no one told me. Made me feel insignificant and that nobody at the jobcentre wanted to help me find a job until I was eligible for RESTART. They helped me.
You are either lying or on below min wage or u21. Just googled, most entry level roles are 11.50+ so if you leave your job and become a sales assistant you will be better off.
@@Kyphraindeed I'm in a proper real stem analyst role and I still get only 1600 after taxes. Id be wealthier cleaning toilets. Companies are a fking joke.
@@jammydodger1449 What? 11.60 an hour based on 40 hours is around 1700 a month after student loan deductions and NI. Most jobs even pay 12PH (outside London) too.
Stop making thousands of people redundant and then blame them for their poverty. Pay people a real living wage in line with the cost of mortgage, rent, bills and food prices, instead of forcing people to barely survive on paltry minimum wage. Tax the disaster capitalists with their obscene profits in times of dire need for the majority and then properly fund public services. The majority of people should be seen as too big to fail, instead of greedy banks.
"Tax the disaster capitalists with their obscene profits in times of dire need for the majority and then properly fund public services." Im sorry what? Can you please explain to me why someone else should pay for you? I never understand this line of logic. Person A makes a dumb fucking mistake, makes a shitty choice. Person B argues Person C who is successful and Rich and didn't make those choices should now have to pay for the mistakes/choices of Person A. Please make it make sense. Its not my fault you make stupid choices/mistakes, why the fuck should my money be taken from me at gunpoint and given to you? This only encourages people to make those same stupid choices/mistakes. "Oh yeah I fucked up again but dont worry, government will bail me out" The problem is we fund people who are money sinks to this country and then try to penalise the successful for it. We should be promoting the successful ones and using them as a shining example to the rest. We punish those who excel in life and reward the mediocre, thats not how you create a thriving community or society. We also give the government too much of our money to spend on things we dont want/need. This country and the taxes it takes is the same as a household and its monthly income. A household has to balance its books each month based on what money comes in, that household then adjusts its lifestyle to suit. However in terms of the country, we spend taxes like its an infinite resource, we send money overseas to other countries who have things even we dont have. Taxes should be used to maintain this country only and never be spent overseas. It should be used to inprove the infastructure of the UK which enables us to offer services to companies across the UK which generates us cash. I would spend taxes first and foremost on energy generation, water, travel, and infastructure. Bus/Trains etc run by Government, Water operated by Government and not for profit. Energy Gas/Oil/Nuclear and Solar/Wind should all be operated by Government and provided to people at cost, not run for profit, this then handles most people's basic needs. Grants should be given to Farmers who produce our food which handles another basic need. Then what's left is used on assisting those who struggle, but it should never pay for them, the minute to replace someones need to work and produce you make them reliant and dependant on that system.
@@mrmagnificent-kb4ek tax those that can afford tax the most, instead of taxing the most of those that can’t. It is perfectly simple. “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we can never satisfy the rich.”
People need to be led. Not punished. Not ignored. Not left to lead themselves. They need leadership. That is what is missing across the progressive spectrum and that is the black hole that darker forces play with to the detriment of society. If you want people in work then lead them from A to B. Give them training. Give them hope. Give them a vision. Lead!
It really isn’t that hard. A billionaire exploiting you on poverty wages isn’t success it’s abuse, it’s exploitation and unsustainable as we’ve seen for 14 years. Punish people and they feel shit about themselves and never thrive. Lift people up and you have a boosted economy and a healthier, happier nation. 14 years of punishing Tory policy that never balanced the books only giving their mates billions of taxpayers money proves hurting people isn’t morale boosting is ideological and exploitative. Rich people are not the success story. The measure of happiness is not by excess at the harm of others.
In Germany the job agency used to (not sure if they still do) help you writing your CV, printing and posting it. They provided train tickets or bus fares if the interview was not otherwise obtainable, and also offered training on skills like type-writing, computer usage and all that. Here they tell folks they have to apply for whichever job is out there and record it - brill idea if I am not a brickie, Lorry driver or have the teacher qualification, but hey lets apply no matter that I do not have any qualifications for the job! And support with getting to an interview is "look on this website, dress nicely" and that is that. No question if someone is so broke they can barely afford some food, no support with getting there. How do you get up the ladder if you are at total rock bottom?
There are areas of the country where the mines, shipyards, all the industry has gone. Towns with nothing, where the biggest employer is the council. How do you get people into jobs that don’t exist?
Very sensible head on those shoulders. Ive been saying for ages, scrap the job centres, (or shrink them significantly), and use the money for initiatives to help the people who want to work, get to work. I know it’s not a popular idea with a lot of people, but if we’re spending government money, use it to make childcare affordable, help with travel costs, two free meal deals a day for the first three months.
I am healthy able and willing to work. Cant find a job that actually pays. I had to sign up to Job seekers asked them what training and back to employemnt support is available and i was told "you have not been on benifits long enough to access return to work support". The job centere DOES NOT HELP PEOPLE RETURN TO WORK. It just exsists to keep the unemployed from kicking off and demanding the right to have a job!
@@Dagda01 yet MP's voted to give themselves pay raises over and over and over again when us normal people are struggling to pay bills. Millionaires are given tax breaks big corporations are bailed out and us normal people have to pay out to bail out.
I totally agree with her people don’t want to work, I run a business and when we advertise for staff half of the people we ask for interviews don’t even turn up so clearly going through the motions so they can keep there benifits. Why then don’t the job centre ring and ask why they didn’t get the job so I can tell them they didn’t even turn up for interview, then stop there benifits then they have to get a job.
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I love it when business owners who can't spell have trouble getting employees and then blame it on the people who they didn't want to employ anyway or, as you say, clearly didn't want the job but were forced, on pain of destitution and starvation, to apply anyway. What's wrong with the jobs you're offering that's stopping skilled, motivated people from applying for them?
Not my experience at all. Some employers GHOSTED the interview when I showed up, they weren't there. I gave 40 minutes of patience because I'm a decent guy, then told it's been cancelled. This was TESCO express, if you're wondering.
Who are these Robber Baron Landlords? Would they the Private Landlords proving the vast majority of Social Housing because Local Authorities won’t? Social Housing System would collapse if there were no Private Landlords
@@jodders619 the real issue is waste. Love them or loathe them but Reform were right when they said every public body needed to have their budgets reduced by a minimum of 5% Bloated 6 million public sector workers in this country creating no wealth. Compared to pre lock down they are 5% left efficient which costs £20 billion a year and reduces their quality of service Worked as a private consultant in the public sector all my life and waste and inefficiency is huge. 5% saving is the tip of the ice berg What does Starmer do? Give them huge pay rises 4 day weeks and tells them they can work from home when they like
The country is broken. Why would you want to work and continue paying tax into a broken system! Yes there are alot who abuse the system but when you work hard for years and see it doesn't get you far for the stress you take home, you want to give up, there is no reward for working anymore the average person can't save we are working to live and there's no reward at the end when your body is broken and mind is struggling to hold on....what's the point??
In America, everyone, from the CEO of Amazon to the Janitor at Mcdonalds, all think they can get rich if they work hard. Here, people think if they work hard they will just get taxed more. Being wealthy has also become a dirty word in the UK. Until someone addresses this mentality we will remain a country on benefits.
High business rates rent prices over the roof energy prices increasing my high street looks like a covid lockdown everything shut down my nagging work coach goes seek more hrs.
If you want a large number back into work or to increase current hours worked, you need employers to require people to employ. At the moment there are about 900k job vacancies across UK, but if you exclude the jobs which require specific qualifications or experience from this number, then the number of jobs available to most jobseekers is only around 500k. For most job vacancies advertised, employers have large numbers of applications, so no shortage of people who want to work. Very unlikely economy will generate 4 million jobs.
In my experience (I’m not unemployed) but I know people on low hour contracts based on the jobs they do. Firstly the pay in minimum wage, the hours are no more than 20 a week, so not a lot of money, then if they work as second job as many have too, they are heavily taxed, benefits reduced How does that work, if you have a well paid job earning £100k plus, yes you are taxed, but if you invest your money then any “passive income “ is taxed as capital gains at a much lower rate. Work only pays if you’re rich.
Universal Basic Income. Now. Our economy and society has changed RADICALLY over the last 5 years and will continue to change just as radically and at a faster pace going into the future. We need radical ideas to cope with this. The old ways will no longer cut it.
Job guarantee programme: The onus is on the state to give someone a job if they can't get one in the private sector. A person walks into the job agency and says "I want a job" and the agency is legally obliged to find them a job. Pay people a living wage to do something useful and at the same time create an employment history and develop skills and experience so they will be more hireable in the private sector. For the >0.1% of people who are true layabouts and can't be arsed to do anything useful for anyone, well, it's better for them to be economically active with a handout that they can get by on, because all the money they spend goes directly to someone who is doing productive work. Such a system is no more expensive, and ultimately of greater benefit to the country than punitive, soul crushing, guilt based approaches to unemployment.
If your average person earns around £1500 a month working 5 days a week compared to getting £800 & rent paid for on universal credit for doing nothing, people will take the pay cut & be on universal credit & do whatever they like. Reward people for working & people will want to work. There’s nothing worse than slugging it out all week only to pay your bills & have nothing left whilst the dole head next door gets everything paid for, £200 Nike trainers & has a takeaway every night.
Universal Credit needs to be truly universal and be an untested UBC that pays for survival. Private and public sector pay will have to increase to tempt people off UC, so wages will naturally rise. Minimum wage will no longer need to be legislated because the market will have to set its own relative ‘minimum’ that is pegged to some % above UC. Workers couldn’t be exploited with low wages because you could always refuse a role or quit and live a basic life on UC.
@@AName-pp8di Exactly what I’ve always said! If people don’t want to work they shouldn’t be forced to lie to get money to survive, they should get a standard amount every month & they’re happy living like that so be it . The people who want to work should be helped into work, people who are working or have been in long term employment & earn under a a certain amount should be rewarded in whatever way they can be to entice people into it. Unfortunately, none of this will happen.
I heard it said that the quality of our society relates to our tolerance of those who don't work etc. I doubt, for most, that it's an attractive lifestyle. And if we spend more, as I'm sure we will, trying to force a few recalcitrant people into work, than we would just paying benefits, who wins? Practicality should prevail. Let's spend the money we blow on a few benefit cheats chasing the tax evaders who rob us of millions.
No jobs i have been turned down 12 times this week for jobs, sent forty copies of my cv out with letters this last three weeks not a single reply. You need experience to get the job but you need the job to gain the experience
All the new businesses where I live are ethnic owned, who don't even live in the area, who don't hire native English people at all. Then they send our money to their own indigenous countries instead of putting it back into the British economy, and our native people and countries are far poorer for it. Both current and historic ethnic immigration are the cause of 99% of our problems in Europe. But 'multiculturalism' is 'our strength', not, as I believe, our annihilation, right?
I'm unemployed and the job centre is useless. They outsource getting you a job to outside companies. This is the JOB CENTRE they have one role get you into work and they don't even try.
As an employer I contacted the local job centre and said I have 2 permanent positions, low skill, minimum wage, but would suit a youngster we could train up, and give opportunities to in the future if they work hard. They gave me a 12 page form to fill out, which I did, then 8 weeks later a lady rang me to say they were going to put my advert up the next day. I told her, I needed these people 6 weeks ago, so I went and got them. Unbelievably incompetent- I'm offering jobs and you want me to fill out forms then don't bother contacting me for weeks? I won't use them again. I'd tell anyone- there's jobs if you really want them - just don't use the job centre.
When I left school in 1980 there was terrible recession following a decade of socialism. At job centre , there were cards pinned to a board and you selected something that you could be suited to. Then you took the card to an advisor that would pull out an application form from a drawer. It was that simple. Today it’s online or through an agency that the employer has to Pay in order to get staff. In essence simplicity has been replaced with costly bureaucratic processes.
There is a simple solution: If a company is not paying every single employee the living wage, it should be illegal to pay dividend to shareholders or bonus to directors. Permissible to pay minimum wage - the company might be a startup, trying to recover from a disaster, but in that case - no dividends or bonuses. This should be treated the same as taking money from a bankrupt company. As a fat capitalist with the waistline to prove it - i am revolted by the idea that my competitors are using MY taxes to undercut my prices! (Set the living wage high enough to actually live on, not just survive - more money in the economy means more profit for ME! (Save Austerity for the 1940's)
I've worked every day since I left school in the mid 90's. I'm on less than 30k a year, zero debts, pay 900 quid a month to a landlord with no prspect of ever owning my own home. If I could rewind my life back to the mid 90's again I wouldn't enter the workforce. I'd stay on benefits for my entire life. There is ZERO incentive to work in the UK. You'll never own your own home without a well off mummy and daddy giving you a handout, so you'll spend your entire life enriching older generations property portfolio's. Ram it.
Sympathise with you.with the cost of homeowner ship and rental costs today,you are working for you wages to be drained from your bank account with in days of being paid so you’re unable to save a meaningful amount and very little disposable income. In the80s under Thatcher things did get better despite a housing boom-doubling of house prices was possible to buy using 3 time annual wage and MIRAS relief. Today all mechanisms that improved and advanced the working class are being stripped away. Working for nothing is creating a disincentive. I was motivated to extra hours to pay for world travel and save up to retire as soon as possible. Unskilled hard low paid work in all honesty isn’t enjoyed by those unlucky enough to have to do it.
Wona hear a joke , benfits are too high , i live next door to a family that has never worked yet they go to benidorm every year , but this year they come home otherday from benidorm and then went out and got 3 puppys , wlf Now ill tell you before i get hit by the haters , these people dont want to work , perfectly fit to work , juat dont want to work , that ia just one example of many i could give you
I don't think that the vast majority of unemployed will say "I'm not going to work, this is my lifestyle". The people that I have known that lived on benefits were afraid that they didn't fit in or were afraid that when they were disrespected or bullied (which happens a lot in the workplace), they will respond in a way that gets them fired or even prosecuted. If there are truly "feckless" people it really is a minority within a minority. That being said I would rather £400 pounds a month go to those people who are satisfied living on the breadline than hundreds of Million given away to cronies in government contracts, £150k of tax payer money a year to tory created peers, like Boris Johnsons illegitimate daughter or the billions that are not gotten by foreign companies that take money out of our economy and bank in tax havens.
The more companies pay on wages , the higher the products and service will cost so you won’t benefits . Also with industries like fast food takeaways , nail bars , phones etc shows that no body is really skint , they just haven’t a clue on how to manage money properly . Kids nowadays have far more money than I ever did . iPhone in the back pocket , vape in one hand and a macdonalds milkshake in the other ! That’s kids nowadays
@@minnie5301I live in the real world I’m afraid . I live in a poor area of Nottinghamshire where a large amount of people do not work . Who exploit the system who claim separate to their live in partners ,who claim depression but work cash in hand . I see people on benefits with their nails and hair constantly done . I see children of benefit parents wearing real designer cloths and who get £30 plus pocket money . Nobody is skint . Nobody in today’s world is skint , they prioritise their money wrong . When I was young we got £2 for the shop and that was it ! No macdonalds then ! No flannels , no virgin media or sky , no iPhones or sim contracts , super fast broad band , no Vietnamese mail bars , no sunned shops etc etc ! The local warehouse are desperate for people and pay for a year for a night shift that a police man gets in his first 3 years but nobody wants to work because they get more on benefits . I live in the real these people arnt strangers to me , they are family and friends . I know all the tricks to get pip ! The working man has had enough of supporting these lazy people !
From gov.uk "77.5% of people on Universal Credit in April 2024 were from the white ethnic group. All other high-level ethnic groups combined totalled 22.5% of Universal Credit claimants in April 2024"
If they are here illegally and not registered then they wouldn't be able to claim any kinds of benefits. You are getting asylum seekers and illegal immigrants mixed up the two don't mean the same thing.
You should be able to take a five year break from tax. Save for a house, kids, etc. Have the money when you need it rather than having to wait until you can plow money into a pension for tax credits to then immediately pull it back out
education & training, workshops and work placements need to be included in any reform bill to encourge long term unmeployed adults to acquire skills, health advice as well as acquring qualifications alongside paid work experience that will inspire individuals looking for a change of career to be more valued as people not as an emp[oyment statistic
The education system doesn't teach the everyday skills to be successful, I've seen so many people with degrees and mountains of debt, and they can't get a job in subject they are qualified in.
Sit around watching TV all day, or spend 45 hours every week scrubbing other people's faeces off toilet bowls to be 20 quid better off... Hmm, a difficult decision...
She's absolutely correct, the system is entirely punitive, far tilted towards more sticks than carrots & about as supportive of many people as the pack of hounds is supportive of the foxes welfare!
Labour want to introduce 6-9 new taxes this year depending on who you listen too. How that is supporting normal working people, I do not know. Labour do not want anyone to progress or succeed. Why under Labour should you save for a pension? I want to see more industries come to the UK - Starmer is hopeless. Octobers budget will be burtal.
The higher rate of tax above £50,000 is so stupid. It absolutely nails single income households, (who are not rich) and lowers productivity. I put extra money into an AVC to get around it and my uncle only works four days a week now because it makes working extra not fruitful enough. I thought Labour were supposed to be helping us workers?!
@@mrmeldrew693 maybe in England, not in Scotland our bands are way lower, and we pay a higher percentage. Think it’s 42% and kicks in around 43k Band has barely moved in the last decade
I agree I am on £50k and it is barely enough to live on as a second person with the only discount being 25% off council tax (it should be 50% based on 2 adults living in most homes).
Apparently Labour are aren’t they….extra 40k appointments per week and 2 million procedures per year in their Manifesto not to mention 4500 new Nurses. What have they done so far? DIDDLY SQUAT other than to get Junior Doctors massive pay rises they can’t afford
@@PaulCarr-l7o oh they can afford it, but the only solution they are doing is further NHS privatisation, which just costs the tax payer more and leads to further collapse.
tell you what's worse is getting up in the morning going to a job you hate , is finding that after you have done 37 hours in the job you hate ,you still haven't got enough to pay all the bills .
@@kylekeenan3485 "nothing worse" is an expression not meant to be taken literally . but i do recall working 60 hours a week digging land drains ,and thinking and mean it, that if i had to do this the rest of my life i would rather be dead ,but i was really well paid for that . and that was not the worse job i have had .
we dont even need everyone to work. we have record levels of employment. and beig poor isnt a lifestyle choice, nor are ppl trapped on welfare unless the dwp has purposely trapped them for political point scoring (which would very very ilegal), plus its ll a made up lie by middle class freaks and jealous working class types who feel everyone must do as they do. same crap from the 18th century the ills of society, and the more recent war on want and wars on poverty.. we are on the cusp of automation, full automation or most industries, we already live in a country where over 15 million robots do the work of over 20 million people. no one is squaring that circle, the only answer we get is "full employment" and "work sets you free".. nope nope nope, no fuqing way.
Lets be honest there are a lot people who genuinely need help from the state who are either mentally and physically disabled,but i would say there are just as many con artists and layabouts who don't,i mean i even know a few around my area who took early retirement at 16,the funny thing is and maybe it's a working class thing i would never grass them up.
On the opposite side of the coin there are people that have inherited wealth who won't go out to work ( by 'work' I mean proper jobs, not "cutting ribbons' or ' playing sports'.
You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get the experience without the job.plus theres to much red tape stopping people from getting into work. I keep getting turned down because I can't drive ten years ago i could walk into any job now nothing. I won't learn drive cuz of my epilepsy it would make me a danger on the roads
Nonsense, if you're earning 40k, you are on way more than half the population of the UK. You inability to manage money is no one's fault but your own. Its not you employers job to pay you more, because you waste it
@@MinkieWinkle I'm doing fine thanks. Nearly mortgage free and have a decent investment portfolio. It was a general take on the reality of the world we live in. 40k is a poor wage still, I know people who earned that in the late 80s.
People can moan all they want but those of us who have a backbone make it work. We get out there, find a job, maybe progress within it and we pay our way. Dont think we're all rich and working our magical dream jobs just because we arent on benefits. We are just out there paying our way and keeping our heads held high in the process. We often feel like the cash cows as we contribute a lot but receive very little, but id rather be in this position than being one of lifes persistant takers.
The super rich can leave at any time and take their money with them. This country needs income, we need industry. The government/uk business owners sold it all off to foreigners so all that income goes to those countries instead.
Pay someone £20 an hour in a supermarket and seriously, nobody in their right mind will ever be nurse, police or teacher for an extra £5 an hour because those are hard jobs
Thts bs! Those jobs are vocations people do those jobs on poor wages already and do the jobs they love because they believe in the good of the work itself. Not everyone is a money hungry fool. Some people believe it or not actually care about their society and that’s their main motive for doing these jobs.
That is the dumbest argument ever. People actually want to be teachers and nurses and police officers. No one wants to work in a supermarket. It’s no one’s ambition to stock shelves or sit on a checkout.
Poor excuse. If benefits weren't there, people would have to find a job. I do a job that I don't particularly like, before that I did a job for 22 years. Simple fact is, a lot of people are lazy and this country rewards it.
Life style , millions of migrants have come here and straight into work with agencies job centres stopped sending people to jobs years ago and that's the problem.
Been in low paid minimum wage jobs from age16. Hated work,who doesn’t when it’s repetitive and dirty on top of 12hr shifts. Retired at57 I had the good sense to balance spending and saving by doing loads of overtime. Mortgage paid. I’m very lucky,today I doubt some of it is achievable. The work incentive for low wage earners is non existent and working when none of the money you’re earned isn’t yours.
The people themselves need to take a little responsibility for sorting their own problems out. Think about how much the country could be improved by the labour of 4M people. The strange thing is that the country already has the people it needs to make itself better. Some of them (and others already in work) are more willing to complain about everything that is wrong than do anything about it themselves. It's just that no one party or organization has found a way to harness this labour and apply it for the good of the community and the country. Refurbishment, building property, litter, potholes, schools, NHS. Think about how much better 4M people could make where we all live. Could government find a model to pay people to volunteer then convert them into FT employment? I volunteered once when I was unemployed and could not get a job, then I was offered a job when they saw what I could do.
Labour were punitive on benefits (and asylum seekers, and travellers, and muslims) last time, and they'll be punitive this time too. On this, they really are no different to the Tories.
Let me tell you that you will always have jobless people, regardless of benefits or not. Too many people has this imaginary utopia in their heads where they think everyone wants to work.
Most work benefits go to those in work. We have toomany companies who can only satisfy shareholder demand for profits by paying wages no one can live on.
If they took a lot less out in dividends , they could pay wages that didn’t need a tax payer top up.
A hugely inspiring person. Marina you are so well read and so eloquent.
As ever Marina. Top work.
When they refer to 'benefits claimants' are they referring to MPs who don't do anything in their constituency, or those installed into the House of Lords and cop £300pd for doing nothing, and the PPE scroungers?
As ever fantastic from Marina 👏 you should definitely stand as an MP next time
I am registered blind. I am qualified to postgrad level in Law and I have applied for hundreds of jobs.
Never mind that I can do the job, find an employer who is not scared to employ a registered blind person.
On the one hand I am told by the far right that I am feckless and I need to work. On the other hand I am told by potential employers that my skills are not a good fit or that somebody else is better suited, or ... The excuses are endless.
I ended up working self-employed and I scrape by.
If you want disabled people to work then force employers to stop discriminating against them.
You are a star Marina, common sense in British politics needs an eloquent advocate & there you are absolutely nailing it! Bless you & may your influence & wisdom continue to spread far & wide! I say again, Thank you & bless you. 👍🫶🍀
The education system is hopelessly out of step with the reality of the current and future jobs market.
When we want to incentivise rich people, we give them more money. When we want to incentivise poor people, we take money away.
@@stewartboughtflower6261 perfectly put.
It still amazes me how the media doesn’t talk about the levels of state support given to the wealthy. £850bn of QE, bank bail outs etc. it has massively boosted asset prices
@@jamespeters7775 😂😂😂😂 you are one of the richest people on this planet.
@@lesliefuller1456 nice straw man argument. Yes if I moved to a poorer country I would be relatively wealthier. What does that have to do with my point that the taxpayer has helped the rich get richer?
@@jamespeters7775 nothing I suppose, but stop whining. You are one of the most fortunate people on this earth. There are trillions of planets in the universe and we are one of those and there are millions of species on this planet and you are one of around 7 billion of your species, enjoy what little time you have, cos before you know it, it’ll be gone.
UBI + earnings on top. That would fix the whole mess.
Talks sense again 👌
You make more sense tan most. Thanks.
You're right, she has a lovely tan and she's definitely more tan than most.
Ban "Fire and rehire" and similar mid-contract changes. Improve the minimum wage. If any employee also needs to apply for Universal Credit, their Employer needs investigating.
By all means assess the long term sick with an independent (Non-political) review panel. Have the government as an employer of last resort. Find jobs/make jobs that include training and self improvement to help people feel valued and able to rise up the pay scales.
Excellent video I am currently working a part-time job and seeking help from this scam restart scheme to obtain a second job. Work coaches and employment advisors hold no qualifications, no skills, no working brain, and no empathy. They have also been very condescending to anyone who isn't working or is not working enough. For example, the advisor put me forward to work without public transport, like at 3 a.m., the pathetic excuse they use told me to ride a pushbike at 3 in the morning for 14 miles. The DWP pays these third-party private companies thousands of pounds to get people off the benefits system, which results in bullying and corruption you earn 4k they get paid 5k in return. What a scam.
Those companoes literally exist to provide free (i.e. taxpayer funded) labour to select employers, by funneling people on benefits into full time work "internships" with the promise of a job afterwards.
Fantastic again
Strange, CEO’s should have massive salaries and benefits to motivate them, whereas everyone else should have lower salaries and benefits to motivate them.
Is this a two-tier system; am just asking questions…
CEO salaries should be capped to 10x the lowest wage. That's the only way to increase salaries lower down.
CEO's take all the financial responsibility for a company, they also ultimately take all the legal responsibility too. They also work 24/7, cos if shit hits the fan they are the ones to deal with it. That call can come in any time, when the "workers" are off shift, CEO's dont go off shift, if a decision is needed the CEO is there and required to make it any time of day and day of the week/year.
Workers do not have any of that responsibility, their responsibility is to turn up to work and do the job they are employed to do for 8 hours of the day then they get to go home and that's the maximum responsibility they have to handle. Come hell or high water they are paid at the same time each week/month, doesn't matter how good or bad of a job they do they get paid.
If a business fails, the CEO bares the responsibility for it, he has to pay off all the debts and face any potentialy legal ramifications for the employees/companies actions, worse case scenario for the employee is they get sacked.
Many companies offer Pay based on performance, those jobs exist and you earn precisely what YOU make for yourself. However those jobs aren't as easy as a 9-5.
Options are out there for everyone in relation to the jobs and pay they do/get. You also have a choice about what job you do and the pay you get.
Hi Marina, the 9.4m is a red herring as you point out, there have always been approx 8-9m economically inactive people for many years because this includes students, early retired, family caregivers, stay at home mum/dads, temporary sick, long term sick, jobseekers and actually the number of people not wanting work without any of those reasons (eg potential “life style choice”) is just 1m, which compared to the headline 9.4m is nothing.
I have always been baffled as to why you would pay someone more on benefits than the minimum wage take home amount.
I can see why some people just give up and never get out of the cycle of despair and defeat
Top woman, your husband is one lucky man, gorgeous and a socialist 🤣
What about if we gave everyone, regardless of who they are, a basic wage to live on? Would cut out a lot of admin costs spent assessing people and checking up on them. There is a huge and growing gap between rich and poor in the UK, one of the biggest in Europe, and the extremes of deprivation we see in this country put us to shame. The recent A level results data shows that private schools did better than state schools, that the results in the south did better than the north of England. If we want to level up we need to think differently about these things
Well said Marina!
Marina is so smart. She gets it.
When you see the truth on how the system works, how it really works & what's happeneds to people at the hands of the people who make it work if your not disgusted or horrified go deeper it won't take long to find what your looking for combine it all together you will lose motivation to live never mind work.
Farage gets paid £96,000 a month for working 32 hours for a company that loses money and that is seen as alright. But it's wrong for someone who works on the railways which are in a position to pay out dividend to the French government among other international investers, to get a bit more which is realtive to just a few decades ago still less than they used to earn. I say keep the money in britain and give to people who spend the money in the economy i.e. workers.
They got the money AND the trains are still cancelled over the bank holiday because they want to be on holiday given an inch they took a mile
Why are you concerned about someone else ??? Earning money in a private sector???? Hey guess what. YOU are the reason you earn so little. Do better and the world will reward you
I now have a job but a couple of years ago I went to a job fair that I had been told about by the job centre. Got to the place. The woman at reception didn't know about the job fair and so went off to find someone who did. Came back with another woman who informed me that due to lack of space for the job fair it had been moved to a local college and the job fair had taken place the day before but no one told me. Made me feel insignificant and that nobody at the jobcentre wanted to help me find a job until I was eligible for RESTART. They helped me.
I work 40 hours a week to make 1600 a month, a family on benefits gets 1800 for 0 hours…and 6 kids…
You are either lying or on below min wage or u21. Just googled, most entry level roles are 11.50+ so if you leave your job and become a sales assistant you will be better off.
@@Kyphraindeed I'm in a proper real stem analyst role and I still get only 1600 after taxes.
Id be wealthier cleaning toilets.
Companies are a fking joke.
@@jammydodger1449 What? 11.60 an hour based on 40 hours is around 1700 a month after student loan deductions and NI. Most jobs even pay 12PH (outside London) too.
Stop making thousands of people redundant and then blame them for their poverty.
Pay people a real living wage in line with the cost of mortgage, rent, bills and food prices, instead of forcing people to barely survive on paltry minimum wage.
Tax the disaster capitalists with their obscene profits in times of dire need for the majority and then properly fund public services.
The majority of people should be seen as too big to fail, instead of greedy banks.
"Tax the disaster capitalists with their obscene profits in times of dire need for the majority and then properly fund public services."
Im sorry what? Can you please explain to me why someone else should pay for you? I never understand this line of logic.
Person A makes a dumb fucking mistake, makes a shitty choice. Person B argues Person C who is successful and Rich and didn't make those choices should now have to pay for the mistakes/choices of Person A.
Please make it make sense.
Its not my fault you make stupid choices/mistakes, why the fuck should my money be taken from me at gunpoint and given to you? This only encourages people to make those same stupid choices/mistakes.
"Oh yeah I fucked up again but dont worry, government will bail me out"
The problem is we fund people who are money sinks to this country and then try to penalise the successful for it.
We should be promoting the successful ones and using them as a shining example to the rest.
We punish those who excel in life and reward the mediocre, thats not how you create a thriving community or society.
We also give the government too much of our money to spend on things we dont want/need.
This country and the taxes it takes is the same as a household and its monthly income. A household has to balance its books each month based on what money comes in, that household then adjusts its lifestyle to suit.
However in terms of the country, we spend taxes like its an infinite resource, we send money overseas to other countries who have things even we dont have.
Taxes should be used to maintain this country only and never be spent overseas. It should be used to inprove the infastructure of the UK which enables us to offer services to companies across the UK which generates us cash.
I would spend taxes first and foremost on energy generation, water, travel, and infastructure. Bus/Trains etc run by Government, Water operated by Government and not for profit. Energy Gas/Oil/Nuclear and Solar/Wind should all be operated by Government and provided to people at cost, not run for profit, this then handles most people's basic needs.
Grants should be given to Farmers who produce our food which handles another basic need.
Then what's left is used on assisting those who struggle, but it should never pay for them, the minute to replace someones need to work and produce you make them reliant and dependant on that system.
@@mrmagnificent-kb4ek tax those that can afford tax the most, instead of taxing the most of those that can’t. It is perfectly simple.
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we can never satisfy the rich.”
People need to be led. Not punished. Not ignored. Not left to lead themselves. They need leadership. That is what is missing across the progressive spectrum and that is the black hole that darker forces play with to the detriment of society. If you want people in work then lead them from A to B. Give them training. Give them hope. Give them a vision. Lead!
It really isn’t that hard. A billionaire exploiting you on poverty wages isn’t success it’s abuse, it’s exploitation and unsustainable as we’ve seen for 14 years.
Punish people and they feel shit about themselves and never thrive.
Lift people up and you have a boosted economy and a healthier, happier nation.
14 years of punishing Tory policy that never balanced the books only giving their mates billions of taxpayers money proves hurting people isn’t morale boosting is ideological and exploitative.
Rich people are not the success story. The measure of happiness is not by excess at the harm of others.
Decent jobs , decent wages
Keep going Marina, great job. 👍
Wealth transfer of 2008 - 2020 was the problem.
In Germany the job agency used to (not sure if they still do) help you writing your CV, printing and posting it. They provided train tickets or bus fares if the interview was not otherwise obtainable, and also offered training on skills like type-writing, computer usage and all that. Here they tell folks they have to apply for whichever job is out there and record it - brill idea if I am not a brickie, Lorry driver or have the teacher qualification, but hey lets apply no matter that I do not have any qualifications for the job! And support with getting to an interview is "look on this website, dress nicely" and that is that. No question if someone is so broke they can barely afford some food, no support with getting there. How do you get up the ladder if you are at total rock bottom?
There are areas of the country where the mines, shipyards, all the industry has gone. Towns with nothing, where the biggest employer is the council. How do you get people into jobs that don’t exist?
Very sensible head on those shoulders. Ive been saying for ages, scrap the job centres, (or shrink them significantly), and use the money for initiatives to help the people who want to work, get to work. I know it’s not a popular idea with a lot of people, but if we’re spending government money, use it to make childcare affordable, help with travel costs, two free meal deals a day for the first three months.
I am healthy able and willing to work. Cant find a job that actually pays.
I had to sign up to Job seekers asked them what training and back to employemnt support is available and i was told "you have not been on benifits long enough to access return to work support".
The job centere DOES NOT HELP PEOPLE RETURN TO WORK. It just exsists to keep the unemployed from kicking off and demanding the right to have a job!
The job centre is there the same way HR exists.
Half the time the jobs don't pay enough to even live after yer bills there's 0 to eat
@@Dagda01 yet MP's voted to give themselves pay raises over and over and over again when us normal people are struggling to pay bills.
Millionaires are given tax breaks big corporations are bailed out and us normal people have to pay out to bail out.
I totally agree with her people don’t want to work, I run a business and when we advertise for staff half of the people we ask for interviews don’t even turn up so clearly going through the motions so they can keep there benifits. Why then don’t the job centre ring and ask why they didn’t get the job so I can tell them they didn’t even turn up for interview, then stop there benifits then they have to get a job.
I love it when business owners who can't spell have trouble getting employees and then blame it on the people who they didn't want to employ anyway or, as you say, clearly didn't want the job but were forced, on pain of destitution and starvation, to apply anyway. What's wrong with the jobs you're offering that's stopping skilled, motivated people from applying for them?
Not my experience at all. Some employers GHOSTED the interview when I showed up, they weren't there. I gave 40 minutes of patience because I'm a decent guy, then told it's been cancelled. This was TESCO express, if you're wondering.
Go on yerself Marina! 👏👏👏
Well said indeed ✊️
If you want people to work pay them decent wages and stop price gouging from the likes of robber baron landlords and corporations.
Who are these Robber Baron Landlords? Would they the Private Landlords proving the vast majority of Social Housing because Local Authorities won’t?
Social Housing System would collapse if there were no Private Landlords
@@PaulCarr-l7oyeah but most private landlords dont house the homless
@@PaulCarr-l7omost people unemployed are homless
The real issue is taxation, national insurance, VAT, TAX THRESHOLD
@@jodders619 the real issue is waste. Love them or loathe them but Reform were right when they said every public body needed to have their budgets reduced by a minimum of 5%
Bloated 6 million public sector workers in this country creating no wealth. Compared to pre lock down they are 5% left efficient which costs £20 billion a year and reduces their quality of service
Worked as a private consultant in the public sector all my life and waste and inefficiency is huge. 5% saving is the tip of the ice berg
What does Starmer do? Give them huge pay rises 4 day weeks and tells them they can work from home when they like
The country is broken. Why would you want to work and continue paying tax into a broken system! Yes there are alot who abuse the system but when you work hard for years and see it doesn't get you far for the stress you take home, you want to give up, there is no reward for working anymore the average person can't save we are working to live and there's no reward at the end when your body is broken and mind is struggling to hold on....what's the point??
It's by design
Can`t stand the sanctimonious ex cop , how many times does he remind us he was in the force
People are fed up of being slaves of the system
In America, everyone, from the CEO of Amazon to the Janitor at Mcdonalds, all think they can get rich if they work hard. Here, people think if they work hard they will just get taxed more. Being wealthy has also become a dirty word in the UK. Until someone addresses this mentality we will remain a country on benefits.
High business rates rent prices over the roof energy prices increasing my high street looks like a covid lockdown everything shut down my nagging work coach goes seek more hrs.
If you want a large number back into work or to increase current hours worked, you need employers to require people to employ. At the moment there are about 900k job vacancies across UK, but if you exclude the jobs which require specific qualifications or experience from this number, then the number of jobs available to most jobseekers is only around 500k. For most job vacancies advertised, employers have large numbers of applications, so no shortage of people who want to work. Very unlikely economy will generate 4 million jobs.
In my experience (I’m not unemployed) but I know people on low hour contracts based on the jobs they do. Firstly the pay in minimum wage, the hours are no more than 20 a week, so not a lot of money, then if they work as second job as many have too, they are heavily taxed, benefits reduced
How does that work, if you have a well paid job earning £100k plus, yes you are taxed, but if you invest your money then any “passive income “ is taxed as capital gains at a much lower rate.
Work only pays if you’re rich.
Universal Basic Income. Now.
Our economy and society has changed RADICALLY over the last 5 years and will continue to change just as radically and at a faster pace going into the future. We need radical ideas to cope with this. The old ways will no longer cut it.
spot on as always Marina.
She’s right.
I'm not working to pay tax to kee0 politicians a the boat crew
Job guarantee programme: The onus is on the state to give someone a job if they can't get one in the private sector. A person walks into the job agency and says "I want a job" and the agency is legally obliged to find them a job. Pay people a living wage to do something useful and at the same time create an employment history and develop skills and experience so they will be more hireable in the private sector. For the >0.1% of people who are true layabouts and can't be arsed to do anything useful for anyone, well, it's better for them to be economically active with a handout that they can get by on, because all the money they spend goes directly to someone who is doing productive work. Such a system is no more expensive, and ultimately of greater benefit to the country than punitive, soul crushing, guilt based approaches to unemployment.
If your average person earns around £1500 a month working 5 days a week compared to getting £800 & rent paid for on universal credit for doing nothing, people will take the pay cut & be on universal credit & do whatever they like.
Reward people for working & people will want to work. There’s nothing worse than slugging it out all week only to pay your bills & have nothing left whilst the dole head next door gets everything paid for, £200 Nike trainers & has a takeaway every night.
Universal Credit needs to be truly universal and be an untested UBC that pays for survival. Private and public sector pay will have to increase to tempt people off UC, so wages will naturally rise.
Minimum wage will no longer need to be legislated because the market will have to set its own relative ‘minimum’ that is pegged to some % above UC. Workers couldn’t be exploited with low wages because you could always refuse a role or quit and live a basic life on UC.
@@AName-pp8di Exactly what I’ve always said! If people don’t want to work they shouldn’t be forced to lie to get money to survive, they should get a standard amount every month & they’re happy living like that so be it
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The people who want to work should be helped into work, people who are working or have been in long term employment & earn under a a certain amount should be rewarded in whatever way they can be to entice people into it.
Unfortunately, none of this will happen.
That will lead to super infaltion @@AName-pp8di
I heard it said that the quality of our society relates to our tolerance of those who don't work etc. I doubt, for most, that it's an attractive lifestyle. And if we spend more, as I'm sure we will, trying to force a few recalcitrant people into work, than we would just paying benefits, who wins? Practicality should prevail. Let's spend the money we blow on a few benefit cheats chasing the tax evaders who rob us of millions.
Make first 25000 tax free
All the while importing more ‘economically inactive’ by the boatload!??. 🤔😳
Eloquently and succinctly put, let’s be honest
No jobs i have been turned down 12 times this week for jobs, sent forty copies of my cv out with letters this last three weeks not a single reply. You need experience to get the job but you need the job to gain the experience
I have 2 Eng degrees a PhD and 24 yrs of UK experience and Intl, managed over 5,000 people, over 390 rejections in the past 12 months
All the new businesses where I live are ethnic owned, who don't even live in the area, who don't hire native English people at all. Then they send our money to their own indigenous countries instead of putting it back into the British economy, and our native people and countries are far poorer for it. Both current and historic ethnic immigration are the cause of 99% of our problems in Europe. But 'multiculturalism' is 'our strength', not, as I believe, our annihilation, right?
I'm unemployed and the job centre is useless. They outsource getting you a job to outside companies. This is the JOB CENTRE they have one role get you into work and they don't even try.
There’s plenty of unskilled labour jobs out there . Stop being picky
As an employer I contacted the local job centre and said I have 2 permanent positions, low skill, minimum wage, but would suit a youngster we could train up, and give opportunities to in the future if they work hard. They gave me a 12 page form to fill out, which I did, then 8 weeks later a lady rang me to say they were going to put my advert up the next day.
I told her, I needed these people 6 weeks ago, so I went and got them.
Unbelievably incompetent- I'm offering jobs and you want me to fill out forms then don't bother contacting me for weeks? I won't use them again.
I'd tell anyone- there's jobs if you really want them - just don't use the job centre.
When I left school in 1980 there was terrible recession following a decade of socialism.
At job centre , there were cards pinned to a board and you selected something that you could be suited to. Then you took the
card to an advisor that would pull out an application form from a drawer. It was
that simple.
Today it’s online or through an agency that the employer has to
Pay in order to get staff.
In essence simplicity has been replaced with costly bureaucratic processes.
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@@thebazgaz
Need to look at the percentile of homes where certain people ban other family members from working. baby farms for benefits
There is a simple solution: If a company is not paying every single employee the living wage, it should be illegal to pay dividend to shareholders or bonus to directors. Permissible to pay minimum wage - the company might be a startup, trying to recover from a disaster, but in that case - no dividends or bonuses. This should be treated the same as taking money from a bankrupt company.
As a fat capitalist with the waistline to prove it - i am revolted by the idea that my competitors are using MY taxes to undercut my prices! (Set the living wage high enough to actually live on, not just survive - more money in the economy means more profit for ME! (Save Austerity for the 1940's)
I've worked every day since I left school in the mid 90's. I'm on less than 30k a year, zero debts, pay 900 quid a month to a landlord with no prspect of ever owning my own home. If I could rewind my life back to the mid 90's again I wouldn't enter the workforce. I'd stay on benefits for my entire life. There is ZERO incentive to work in the UK. You'll never own your own home without a well off mummy and daddy giving you a handout, so you'll spend your entire life enriching older generations property portfolio's. Ram it.
Sympathise with you.with the cost of homeowner ship and rental costs today,you are working for you wages to be drained from your bank account with in days of being paid so you’re unable to save a meaningful amount and very little disposable income.
In the80s under Thatcher things did get better despite a housing boom-doubling of house prices was possible to buy using 3 time annual wage and MIRAS relief.
Today all mechanisms that improved and advanced the working class are being stripped away.
Working for nothing is creating a disincentive.
I was motivated to extra hours to pay for world travel and save up to retire as soon as possible. Unskilled hard low paid work in all honesty isn’t enjoyed by those unlucky enough to have to do it.
Wona hear a joke , benfits are too high , i live next door to a family that has never worked yet they go to benidorm every year , but this year they come home otherday from benidorm and then went out and got 3 puppys , wlf
Now ill tell you before i get hit by the haters , these people dont want to work , perfectly fit to work , juat dont want to work , that ia just one example of many i could give you
Whos the idots you or them?
I don't think that the vast majority of unemployed will say "I'm not going to work, this is my lifestyle". The people that I have known that lived on benefits were afraid that they didn't fit in or were afraid that when they were disrespected or bullied (which happens a lot in the workplace), they will respond in a way that gets them fired or even prosecuted. If there are truly "feckless" people it really is a minority within a minority. That being said I would rather £400 pounds a month go to those people who are satisfied living on the breadline than hundreds of Million given away to cronies in government contracts, £150k of tax payer money a year to tory created peers, like Boris Johnsons illegitimate daughter or the billions that are not gotten by foreign companies that take money out of our economy and bank in tax havens.
We need a real living wage.
The more companies pay on wages , the higher the products and service will cost so you won’t benefits . Also with industries like fast food takeaways , nail bars , phones etc shows that no body is really skint , they just haven’t a clue on how to manage money properly . Kids nowadays have far more money than I ever did . iPhone in the back pocket , vape in one hand and a macdonalds milkshake in the other ! That’s kids nowadays
@@minnie5301I live in the real world I’m afraid . I live in a poor area of Nottinghamshire where a large amount of people do not work . Who exploit the system who claim separate to their live in partners ,who claim depression but work cash in hand . I see people on benefits with their nails and hair constantly done . I see children of benefit parents wearing real designer cloths and who get £30 plus pocket money . Nobody is skint . Nobody in today’s world is skint , they prioritise their money wrong . When I was young we got £2 for the shop and that was it ! No macdonalds then ! No flannels , no virgin media or sky , no iPhones or sim contracts , super fast broad band , no Vietnamese mail bars , no sunned shops etc etc ! The local warehouse are desperate for people and pay for a year for a night shift that a police man gets in his first 3 years but nobody wants to work because they get more on benefits . I live in the real these people arnt strangers to me , they are family and friends . I know all the tricks to get pip ! The working man has had enough of supporting these lazy people !
It’s all about incentives.
Funny how She never mentioned the 1.4 million illegal immigrants on Benefits!..
Where did you get that number ?
From gov.uk
"77.5% of people on Universal Credit in April 2024 were from the white ethnic group. All other high-level ethnic groups combined totalled 22.5% of Universal Credit claimants in April 2024"
Illegal immigrants can’t claim benefits. The clue is in the name.
If they are here illegally and not registered then they wouldn't be able to claim any kinds of benefits. You are getting asylum seekers and illegal immigrants mixed up the two don't mean the same thing.
why is len goodman there
You should be able to take a five year break from tax. Save for a house, kids, etc. Have the money when you need it rather than having to wait until you can plow money into a pension for tax credits to then immediately pull it back out
education & training, workshops and work placements need to be included in any reform bill to encourge long term unmeployed adults to acquire skills, health advice as well as acquring qualifications alongside paid work experience that will inspire individuals looking for a change of career to be more valued as people not as an emp[oyment statistic
Who is this lady? She is brilliant, talks pure sense which is very strange these days
The education system doesn't teach the everyday skills to be successful, I've seen so many people with degrees and mountains of debt, and they can't get a job in subject they are qualified in.
Sit around watching TV all day, or spend 45 hours every week scrubbing other people's faeces off toilet bowls to be 20 quid better off... Hmm, a difficult decision...
She is brilliant
She's absolutely correct, the system is entirely punitive, far tilted towards more sticks than carrots & about as supportive of many people as the pack of hounds is supportive of the foxes welfare!
Labour want to introduce 6-9 new taxes this year depending on who you listen too.
How that is supporting normal working people, I do not know. Labour do not want anyone to progress or succeed.
Why under Labour should you save for a pension?
I want to see more industries come to the UK - Starmer is hopeless. Octobers budget will be burtal.
The higher rate of tax above £50,000 is so stupid.
It absolutely nails single income households, (who are not rich) and lowers productivity.
I put extra money into an AVC to get around it and my uncle only works four days a week now because it makes working extra not fruitful enough.
I thought Labour were supposed to be helping us workers?!
What did the Tories do over the last 14 years to help you workers?
@@terrancedactielle5460 raised the personal allowance several times.
@@mrmeldrew693 maybe in England, not in Scotland our bands are way lower, and we pay a higher percentage. Think it’s 42% and kicks in around 43k
Band has barely moved in the last decade
I agree I am on £50k and it is barely enough to live on as a second person with the only discount being 25% off council tax (it should be 50% based on 2 adults living in most homes).
@@martynsmith8120if you can't live on £50k you got some major issues!!
No incentive to work
If you want people to work, why not clear the NHS backlog and see who’s still getting signed off?
Apparently Labour are aren’t they….extra 40k appointments per week and 2 million procedures per year in their Manifesto not to mention 4500 new Nurses. What have they done so far? DIDDLY SQUAT other than to get Junior Doctors massive pay rises they can’t afford
@@PaulCarr-l7o oh they can afford it, but the only solution they are doing is further NHS privatisation, which just costs the tax payer more and leads to further collapse.
Nothing worse than getting up in the morning going to a job you hate.
tell you what's worse is getting up in the morning going to a job you hate , is finding that after you have done 37 hours in the job you hate ,you still haven't got enough to pay all the bills .
@@fig1115 yup, and the lady in the vid is correct - working min wage job does not give you enough to live on - so why bother working?
Plenty of things worse than this, a terminal ilness springs to mind.
@@kylekeenan3485 "nothing worse" is an expression not meant to be taken literally .
but i do recall working 60 hours a week digging land drains ,and thinking and mean it, that if i had to do this the rest of my life i would rather be dead ,but i was really well paid for that .
and that was not the worse job i have had .
@@kylekeenan3485 FFS stop being a knob
we dont even need everyone to work. we have record levels of employment. and beig poor isnt a lifestyle choice, nor are ppl trapped on welfare unless the dwp has purposely trapped them for political point scoring (which would very very ilegal), plus its ll a made up lie by middle class freaks and jealous working class types who feel everyone must do as they do. same crap from the 18th century the ills of society, and the more recent war on want and wars on poverty..
we are on the cusp of automation, full automation or most industries, we already live in a country where over 15 million robots do the work of over 20 million people. no one is squaring that circle, the only answer we get is "full employment" and "work sets you free".. nope nope nope, no fuqing way.
Lets be honest there are a lot people who genuinely need help from the state who are either mentally and physically disabled,but i would say there are just as many con artists and layabouts who don't,i mean i even know a few around my area who took early retirement at 16,the funny thing is and maybe it's a working class thing i would never grass them up.
On the opposite side of the coin there are people that have inherited wealth who won't go out to work ( by 'work' I mean proper jobs, not "cutting ribbons' or ' playing sports'.
You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get the experience without the job.plus theres to much red tape stopping people from getting into work. I keep getting turned down because I can't drive ten years ago i could walk into any job now nothing. I won't learn drive cuz of my epilepsy it would make me a danger on the roads
Wages are extremely poor. They have been since the 90s. I remember when 40k was classed as a good wage. It doesn't touch the sides now.
Nonsense, if you're earning 40k, you are on way more than half the population of the UK.
You inability to manage money is no one's fault but your own. Its not you employers job to pay you more, because you waste it
Earn 40k in London and try even thinking about buying a home to live, much less survive.
@@MinkieWinkle I'm doing fine thanks. Nearly mortgage free and have a decent investment portfolio. It was a general take on the reality of the world we live in.
40k is a poor wage still, I know people who earned that in the late 80s.
People can moan all they want but those of us who have a backbone make it work. We get out there, find a job, maybe progress within it and we pay our way. Dont think we're all rich and working our magical dream jobs just because we arent on benefits. We are just out there paying our way and keeping our heads held high in the process. We often feel like the cash cows as we contribute a lot but receive very little, but id rather be in this position than being one of lifes persistant takers.
Well said.
Tax the super rich; reduce taxes on working people
They already pay enough - watch them leave
The super rich can leave at any time and take their money with them. This country needs income, we need industry. The government/uk business owners sold it all off to foreigners so all that income goes to those countries instead.
@@robertnozick3889 can't take houses and land with them can they? They are super rich because you pay your mortgage to them
Raise the tax threshold like a certain other party had in their contract 😂
Pay someone £20 an hour in a supermarket and seriously, nobody in their right mind will ever be nurse, police or teacher for an extra £5 an hour because those are hard jobs
Thts bs! Those jobs are vocations people do those jobs on poor wages already and do the jobs they love because they believe in the good of the work itself. Not everyone is a money hungry fool. Some people believe it or not actually care about their society and that’s their main motive for doing these jobs.
People don’t just work for money - if there is job satisfaction and a sense of well-being, people will often choose hard over easy.
That is the dumbest argument ever.
People actually want to be teachers and nurses and police officers. No one wants to work in a supermarket.
It’s no one’s ambition to stock shelves or sit on a checkout.
@@tonedowne some people might take great satisfaction from working in a supermarket - it takes all sorts.
@@thegolem797 Sure, but it’s not a calling is it. Any job is only as good as the people you work with.
When you have not worked for a long time,it is hard to work.
Poor excuse. If benefits weren't there, people would have to find a job.
I do a job that I don't particularly like, before that I did a job for 22 years.
Simple fact is, a lot of people are lazy and this country rewards it.
Life style , millions of migrants have come here and straight into work with agencies job centres stopped sending people to jobs years ago and that's the problem.
Straight into jobs? Are you simple?
Been in low paid minimum wage jobs from age16.
Hated work,who doesn’t when it’s repetitive and dirty on top of 12hr shifts.
Retired at57 I had the good sense to balance spending and saving by doing loads of overtime.
Mortgage paid.
I’m very lucky,today I doubt some of it is achievable. The work incentive for low wage earners is non existent and working when none of the money you’re earned isn’t yours.
The people themselves need to take a little responsibility for sorting their own problems out. Think about how much the country could be improved by the labour of 4M people. The strange thing is that the country already has the people it needs to make itself better. Some of them (and others already in work) are more willing to complain about everything that is wrong than do anything about it themselves. It's just that no one party or organization has found a way to harness this labour and apply it for the good of the community and the country. Refurbishment, building property, litter, potholes, schools, NHS. Think about how much better 4M people could make where we all live. Could government find a model to pay people to volunteer then convert them into FT employment? I volunteered once when I was unemployed and could not get a job, then I was offered a job when they saw what I could do.
work does not pay...
I disagree.
@@TheLRider well it rather depends doesn't it ?
@@TheLRiderwell your opinion means sweat f all
We did warn you but you kept acting like Starmer was some kind of saviour
Cheers captain hindsight, any more post event advice?
I dread to ask but: what has Heir Starmer done now?
employment will go up if you send all the immigrants home including the legal ones.
I hope that's spray on, not sunbed or her skin's gonna end up wrinkly af.
I think shes got Greek / Turkish Heritage so got that Olive Skin Complection not Sunburn.........
Labour were punitive on benefits (and asylum seekers, and travellers, and muslims) last time, and they'll be punitive this time too. On this, they really are no different to the Tories.
Stop using self service and there will be more jobs on tills.
Let me tell you that you will always have jobless people, regardless of benefits or not. Too many people has this imaginary utopia in their heads where they think everyone wants to work.
If you want to encourage people to pay housing benefits,and rates then the minimum wage is worth working for