As a disabled person from birth i really appreciate you work , i was one of the first to be assessed fit for work by IDS ,when i went to court the judge was open mouthed when he saw the state of me . they said 75% found fit for work , The computers were riged to find you fit. it cots way more than it saved , they were using hotels for court cases on Sundays .
Agree but is that fair on small businesses who are hard working through this mess? Or is it okay for everyone to have this attitude? Can we all be on the dole?
@@Raspberry1994 It's not small/medium businesses' fault OR workers' fault. It's large-scale rent seeking and low productivity. If workers/businesses are low productivity and then have to spend half or more of their already low salary on rent then what else are we supposed to do?
@@Raspberry1994 if they can't afford to pay someone a wage so they can live on it, is it not their business model that's wrong? Why should the workforce suffer?
It just means the business model is no longer suited to the economic model we have had forced upon us Have a look into gdp expectation of the 1970s through 1980s and the ballance of single property owning mortgage holders between 1992 and 2012 for an idea of what has been broken @@b00ts4ndc4ts
I'm on UC right now, I'm 58 years old with poor health following a mini-stroke and early signs of COPD. I had an interview with the National Careers Service which signposted me towards physically demanding jobs. I sat in a cafe with some friends on Monday and burst into tears and wished I was dead because the system told me I am a failure. This IS the reality of life on "benefits".
@@oscarwilde5473 well if you’ve not built things up for the future at the age of 58, I would suggest that’s maybe a you problem. Sure bad things can happen. But you plan ahead of time for them right? Hence expressions like “saving for a rainy day”.
@@danh5637 Well he wouldn't have to go through the degradation of claiming something that he has paid into for the whole of his working life if he had built up savings and assets. Something people like you fail to grasp is that the majority of people in the UK have less than £800 in savings in their bank accounts and are living from one pay day to another they didn't get any trust funds or inheritances from mama and PaPa. Surely you would have built up some empathy during your lifespan.
How is it that a pension is now lumped in with the benefit system, which conveniently severely distorts the benefit figures? Pensions are not a welfare benefit, we have paid into this pension for a lifetime. The figures need to be separated.
Anything paid out is welfare nhs education all the same, but I get your point, so most likely in pipeline is you won’t be able to retire unless you can prove illness or have private adequate wealth again if you can work one hour week until u die then u get by lower rate universal credit in work benefits
Channel 4 hit job on the poorest sponsored by the labour party ( let that sink in) I remember when they did a similar thing back in the late 80s on the psychiatric hospitals and look what happened then, the ill left in society to fend for themselves often with very bad outcomes.
It's so tiring to be disabled and constantly demonized by these nasty, vile journalists. The anxiety we are feeling now, is unreal. There will be deaths because of these cold, callous sociopaths.
What always seems crazy is that compared to other similar countries we spend so much less on everything that helps people but people just act like the state of life in the UK is normal for a first world country and that there is no alternative way for things to be.
@danielpledger7445 You've reminded me of a rather prophetic quote from Noam Chomsky ~ “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
Yeah because the previous government, in its infinite wisdom (and I use the term loosely) closed down all those £2 a day disability specific non jobs about 10 years ago.
One thing that is always ridiculous is working age benefits include working tax credits and child tax credits which only exist because of the failures of the post thatcher privatised economy. It's like the winter fuel allowance, it shouldn't be needed by so many pensioners in the first place! But we have a broken energy market and poor housing stock for so many, it's hardly a wonder. And the welfare state with it's tweaks and cuts - earn a few £ a week and suddenly you don't get a free prescription anymore. UC is a mess. ESSA, they close your claim down after three months so you have to make a new claim and wait 5+ weeks if the job doesn't work out. The claims should be held open indefinitely if you have a chronic health condition. Doesn't mean you'd be getting money but it would give people security that if they have a relapse, find that the job is not compatible with their condition, or are let go, they don't have to go through a whole claim from scratch again.
You can only get so many slices out of a cake and if the 1% keep taking bigger slice then the rest of use share a smaller part. Just like the economy, as living standards have gotten worse more and more people have become millionaires and billionaires.
I'm sick of the constant denigration of benefits claimaints, they should focus on people who are really struggling with disability not on those who grift both of which are easy to find.
Just because the right thinks because SOME who COULD work choose not to, we're ALL workshy slaves to the benefit system! I've been called that and a LOT worse both online and to my face.
The show is on UA-cam and it's pleasantly surprising to see the vast majority of comments lambasting this utter garbage. But perplexingly it has nearly 4 thousand likes.
I was going to pile on it myself, but I thought I would let other people do it. Unfortunately, this stigmatisation still exists, though I think it's becoming far less since more people are becoming reliant on the welfare state, only to find out it doesn't really work anymore!
@Christopherhoggins Yeah, many no longer really use the dislike button since UA-cam basically deleted it to please the whingeing type, the type who whinge because of people actually liking it, those who believe that everyone should think exactly as they do and like and dislike exactly as they do.
It's strange that all the people with money have never had a job when your born rich everything is put on a plate for you and they will be the ones that moan about the poor
I was in an accident at work when I was 35. I went from disposable income and house renovations to disabled and treated like a criminal. Forced poverty and unbelievable biases I spiraled to a breakdown. Benefits are a punishment. They came for my house, my savings, my pension. They forced me into debt and refused to offer a formal diagnosis so my care is limited. This is not a choice! I have been crippled by the DWP and treated like a criminal even though I paid into the system and contributed and had perfect credit before my accident.
Really appreciate your content, I find the subjects relatable. 2 suggestions- on welfare, as the highest proportion of benefits are to people of pension age, yet pensioners are struggling, the winter fuel cut etc. Though your viewers may be younger most ppl have older family so it might be of interest. 2/ Couple of vids ago on housing, which is an interest of mine too, there’s around 1 million empty homes in Britain, and rising. These are houses left empty, some derelict, investment properties, ex council properties, lots of reasons. Some years ago there was a TV program about this. How to get more homes back to livable conditions, reclaim the houses! Also the possibility of converting unused buildings into housing.. I’ve a lot of thought but I’ll leave it there bc I can be really longwinded!
One idea someone mentioned to me was to build on golf courses. Not only are they a shocking was of land, they are incredibly bad for the environment because of all the water needed to constantly maintain the greens.
Try explaining it to people you know on the economic right. The blankness of the stare you get when you explain to them after they blame "the benefits"(yes the ones I know refer to people on benefits as benefits) for the rubbish economy, that without the economic stimulus benefits provide that the UK economy would collapse overnight. If they come up with a reply they normally just prove they don't understand basic economics by comparing government finance to a household budget.
@@danielpledger7445 if there are any readers on the bullshit, economic right reading this. let me explain. you give a poorer, *person on a low to very low income* benifits. the tendancy is to spend every penny they have due to poverty premiums on all sorts of things. they go to the supermarket, spend their beneifits, and prices are really high on basic foods btw, and those benifits are recycled into the pay of the staff at the supermarket etc. I do wonder how much shop lifting has increased the costs of things at the supermarkets though, so beneifits are even more squeazed. then people have to pay electricity bills, gas bills, etc etc. every pound spent generates tax to the government, stimulates economic growth.
I've been disabled all my life, didn't get a penny till I was just turned 17 (April 1993), and 30 years later I'm on PIP at enhanced rate because it'll be 9 years on Friday since I was declared medically unable to work (even though I've been doing voluntary work since 1994), some of the stuff I've had said to me both online and in person because I can't get a job is literally unrepeatable in civilised conversation, by right wing eejits who think all disabled people should've been drowned at birth.
Thank you for sitting and watching it until the end, because I sure as hell couldn’t! Had to click off around the 3min mark because my eyes were rolling into the back of my head. Thanks for summarising the main points.😅
Fantastic video mate. It’s so frustrating how this narrative is constantly pushed and accepted. Definitely keep out of the comments - this place is toxic enough for those of us who are a bit more anonymous. Must be absolute hell for you guys with your heads above the parapet!
19:49 what we need is a full understanding of the state of the planet. bringing children into this, with the certainty of a harsh reality, is at least irresponsible, and from perspective of the children having no say in their creation, is evil.
How is it possible for any organisation to be unaware of the extreme right wing views of Fraser Nelson. It completely discredits any semblance of fairness and balance in the reporting of Channel4.
I have been watching your videos for a while now and they are always fantastic, as a young person (20 in 3 days hah!) who is on benefits due to the fact I have to be a carer for my disabled sister (I am on UC and I claim carers allowance) I struggle to get by but I am doing better mentally on that than I was working 8:30am - 1:30am 6 days a week in a retail job. The state of jobs currently is horrific, large companies are getting away with what is borderline slavery, giving minimum wage to their hardest workers and their workers still cannot get by on what they are paid.
You are the type of young people that will change the future, friend. Thank you for sharing this. As someone who's young age is fading, it's horrible to see that things haven't really changed, but the fact that people like yourself are noticing gives me hope. I hope as your name suggests that you enjoyed the little edit towards the end of the video 😂
@ the Anakin bit actually played whilst I was writing my comment! It made me laugh :) I am very strong on my political beliefs, I attend protests, I pester my local MPs non stop, I try my best to educate and understand others regardless of their background because if we all yell, the noise drowns out who we are and what we stand for. I was furious this past election about my "friends" who didn't vote. I fought for everyone to make their voice heard, a vote never made is a vote for the opposition! I will also name and shame my past workplace, I worked for a CeX franchise store. To any young person reading this, never work for them, they will work you to the bone which I had to learn the hard way, work what you are worth!
I braved watching the whole thing and I kept saying to myself, he just doesn't get it! and he never has ever had to deal with challenges typical for disabled people! So when I looked Nelson up and it said he was editor of the Spectator, suddenly it all clicked. Channel 4 should've made it clear who he was and that it would obviously be biased. Conservatives genuinely don't believe our struggles are real. Even though it's right in front of them, they still deliberately don't see it. The truth is austerity made us sicker, Brexit made us poorer and Covid as a result properly caught us with our pants down! We are still massively dealing with the consequences of all 3. As a country we have literally no capacity at all if anything were to go badly wrong and that terrifies me. It's hard to tell if Labour is remedying any of the gigantic mess but if they are, we won't notice for a long time at all. Also wouldn't surprise me if the complete lack of council and affordable houses is why welfare spending is so high. Rent goes up every year and the state is effectively subsidising landlords and rip off rents with housing benefit, whilst councils seem to no longer own enough temporary accommodation for the demand, paying fuck knows what to put families in hotels. It's a disaster. Also disability benefits are ridiculously hard to get now. I only got PIP after fighting for a year and going to tribunal and that was my 2nd attempt! From someone who was awarded lifelong DLA as a child! Beyond that so many things functionally wrong with the DWP, wouldn't surprise me if it was on the brink of collapse, like all our public services. Ironic when the Tories made it this way.
Pre pandemic mental health system was struggling but established. Its all short term, group, online and zero diagnosis so limited symptoms based treatment approach. Limiting mental health problems to 6-8 hrs with a stranger on the phone IS NOT A SOLUTION its making it much worse.
We have a system of exploitation that would denying freedom enslave the 80% for the upper 10% whilst we are subsisting on poverty-stricken wages and a benefit system that chucks people off fiscal cliffs so the King and aristocracy can pay less into the society they led into India to rob in one of the most evil acts in history millions died suturing famines caused by British rule in many cases; It's easier to see the complacency when they are poking eyes out and sending you blind to work for these very-nice venture capitalist with visions of everyone else struggling to find fair in a rigid and plutocractic vassal state that won't pay for basics the working class and underclass need...Yet they need to lobby for Israel or fossil fuels or banning protest whilst we hear about scandal Ayer scandal from infected blood, spy cops, hacking, Grenfell, NHS consulting, etc. What happened to basic standards under this elitist imagination is they've tripled and we are looking to be ungrateful for the first time in eons.
That latest documentary on the so called benefits scandal is a joke by channel 4 I personally no of a freind on esa from life long disability now been forced onto uc and they've done nothing but take money off him make his life harder and waste over 6 hours of his life now on the phone trying to sort out payments council tax ect and they still fucked that up and they've left him sort 1000 pound a year ? And he was promised there'd be no losses 😂
Too many free loaders who Know how to play the system and have the attitude that they don’t need to work and the tax payer can pay for their life !! Get rid of this broken system which is being exploited by people who should be working. I don’t want to pay for these low lives!!
i notice this myself. commenting on YT, said something about to the effect 'ch.4 at it again. employing right wingers. first niall ferguson, then johan norbert and now half nelson '.
14:40 anyone who talks like that from there can safely be taken at face value for doing everything that is found in the investigation behind this video
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At some point a Labour MP will probably rise up through the Bs of current day politics and will make meaningful reforms to welfare, nhs etc. Probably won’t be in my lifetime though.
The last time Labour did that they brought in ESA, outsourced to ATOS & created the work capability assessment that had 0 mental health criteria in its initial form leaving many suffering for years whilst it crawled through the courts. Lots died in the meantime but it did eventually get ruled as unlawful discrimination in the high courts. Now that happened under Gordon Brown, someone who's campaigned against child poverty since despite being responsible for a lot of it & he's been suspiciously silent on Labour's latest benefits attacks outside the child benefit cap.
Well how about removing pip winter fuel payments etc and give that money to more deserving nhs staff in mental health surely even if disabled persons is able to work one hour week in flexible workforce they can get by on lower rate of in work universal credit everyone’s winner, no? Nice
Those who need benefits should get them. However from my own experience the system is broken and there are lots of fake claims. My neighbour is registered blind and gets benefits. However he recently climbed on his roof to replace broken tiles. Just one example of some people on benefits taking from the system and away from the hard working poor. I know loads of people who play the system
Maybe,but the likes of Nelson then profound that all claimants are fraudulent,leaving minimal coverage or sympathy for the overwhelming majority of genuine cases.
@emmethone2852 The real reason there isn't enough money is that there is a limited supply and a large proportion of that money is spent on fraud or stupidly. Another example. I have two neighbours of mine both badly disabled. Neither can drive. Each has a new four wheeled drive SUV provided to them new every two years. Each car is in the £30 to 40k bracket. Their helpers arrive each week and decide to either drive them round for a couple of hours. Go for a walk or stay in. I drive a 2013 car worth less than a £1k which I fund from my pension. I accept people need help but we all have to wake up.
The system's been broken for years IMO, at one time, getting a penny out of the system was akin to getting blood out of a rather large stone, mainly because nobody understood the forms! Now everyone can fake the forms and get everything on a plate.
As a veteran of the Scottish Independence campaign I can’t help but notice that the political Anglosphere has turned against their former heroes. Scots warned you in 2014 about characters like Fraser Nelson, Michelle Mone, Pat McFadden, John Mctiernan and any number of extreme Scots Unionists. But you were too busy patting them on the back for their sterling efforts in saving your precious Union. Now it’s come back to haunt you. Not feeling a great deal of sympathy I have to say.
Yes we need to address youth issues. But the problem is not the Marxist notion of inequality. It is Austrian economics misallocation of resources. That is why our money goes no where. Not enough houses, sky high electricity and gas(net zero), Our markets are not working to reduce prices. We need to do what Millei is doing in Argentina. Once prices start to come down on the things we need, people would be alot more happier. Right now both conservatives and labour follow WEF socialist economics. Leading to an inflationary melt down. Everything we are seeing is the thing cracking about to blow up. We will see a crack up boom at some point too. People will realize our markets are screwed. YOu want children, you need the inputs to be cheap: housing, food, energy prices. What you are suggesting is Marxist bread lines. Yes Fraser is being stupid, the above issues are far more important than those on benefits right now. The people we have working right now are pissing in the wind economically.
As a disabled person from birth i really appreciate you work , i was one of the first to be assessed fit for work by IDS ,when i went to court the judge was open mouthed when he saw the state of me . they said 75% found fit for work , The computers were riged to find you fit. it cots way more than it saved , they were using hotels for court cases on Sundays .
Welfare spending has gotten larger because more people who work clame universal credit because they wages aren't enough to live on.
Agree but is that fair on small businesses who are hard working through this mess? Or is it okay for everyone to have this attitude? Can we all be on the dole?
@@Raspberry1994 It's not small/medium businesses' fault OR workers' fault. It's large-scale rent seeking and low productivity. If workers/businesses are low productivity and then have to spend half or more of their already low salary on rent then what else are we supposed to do?
@@Raspberry1994 if they can't afford to pay someone a wage so they can live on it, is it not their business model that's wrong? Why should the workforce suffer?
It just means the business model is no longer suited to the economic model we have had forced upon us
Have a look into gdp expectation of the 1970s through 1980s and the ballance of single property owning mortgage holders between 1992 and 2012 for an idea of what has been broken @@b00ts4ndc4ts
And inflation. 25% since 2021
I'm on UC right now, I'm 58 years old with poor health following a mini-stroke and early signs of COPD. I had an interview with the National Careers Service which signposted me towards physically demanding jobs. I sat in a cafe with some friends on Monday and burst into tears and wished I was dead because the system told me I am a failure. This IS the reality of life on "benefits".
Its the zero hour contracts Absolutely evil
Surely you’ve built up savings and assets by 58?
@@danh5637 Things worked out well for you so far, have they Dan?
@@oscarwilde5473 well if you’ve not built things up for the future at the age of 58, I would suggest that’s maybe a you problem. Sure bad things can happen. But you plan ahead of time for them right? Hence expressions like “saving for a rainy day”.
@@danh5637 Well he wouldn't have to go through the degradation of claiming something that he has paid into for the whole of his working life if he had built up savings and assets. Something people like you fail to grasp is that the majority of people in the UK have less than £800 in savings in their bank accounts and are living from one pay day to another they didn't get any trust funds or inheritances from mama and PaPa. Surely you would have built up some empathy during your lifespan.
How is it that a pension is now lumped in with the benefit system, which conveniently severely distorts the benefit figures? Pensions are not a welfare benefit, we have paid into this pension for a lifetime. The figures need to be separated.
Anything paid out is welfare nhs education all the same, but I get your point, so most likely in pipeline is you won’t be able to retire unless you can prove illness or have private adequate wealth again if you can work one hour week until u die then u get by lower rate universal credit in work benefits
Channel 4 hit job on the poorest sponsored by the labour party ( let that sink in)
I remember when they did a similar thing back in the late 80s on the psychiatric hospitals and look what happened then, the ill left in society to fend for themselves often with very bad outcomes.
It's so tiring to be disabled and constantly demonized by these nasty, vile journalists. The anxiety we are feeling now, is unreal. There will be deaths because of these cold, callous sociopaths.
What always seems crazy is that compared to other similar countries we spend so much less on everything that helps people but people just act like the state of life in the UK is normal for a first world country and that there is no alternative way for things to be.
They hope we will believe it.
@danielpledger7445 You've reminded me of a rather prophetic quote from Noam Chomsky ~ “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
Spectator Fascist, punching down again to tell us it's the poor who have all the money.
A better NHS will prevent so many people getting sick.
Companies are desperate to recruit but can't?
Yeah, maybe because you are not even paying peanuts.
Yeah because the previous government, in its infinite wisdom (and I use the term loosely) closed down all those £2 a day disability specific non jobs about 10 years ago.
Check out who the production company. Who made the show.
Benefits street was made by Love productions owned by sky!
One thing that is always ridiculous is working age benefits include working tax credits and child tax credits which only exist because of the failures of the post thatcher privatised economy. It's like the winter fuel allowance, it shouldn't be needed by so many pensioners in the first place! But we have a broken energy market and poor housing stock for so many, it's hardly a wonder. And the welfare state with it's tweaks and cuts - earn a few £ a week and suddenly you don't get a free prescription anymore. UC is a mess. ESSA, they close your claim down after three months so you have to make a new claim and wait 5+ weeks if the job doesn't work out. The claims should be held open indefinitely if you have a chronic health condition. Doesn't mean you'd be getting money but it would give people security that if they have a relapse, find that the job is not compatible with their condition, or are let go, they don't have to go through a whole claim from scratch again.
You can only get so many slices out of a cake and if the 1% keep taking bigger slice then the rest of use share a smaller part. Just like the economy, as living standards have gotten worse more and more people have become millionaires and billionaires.
@b00ts4ndc4ts indeed
Thank-you for doing this. It’s much appreciated and needed.
Thank you for telling me about it. It was truly as bad as you said it was!
Thanks for this video. It irritated me when I viewed it. No investigation into the tax avoiding rich.
First time I've seen this channel. Keep up the good work!
Thank you friend!
ASK NELSON TO DO A LOW PAID JOB FOR 6 MONTHS AND SEE HOW LONG HE LAST, THEN ASK HIM WHY HE DOESN'T WANT THAT JOB
Nelson is a member of the Tory party
@@mmcc5846 OF COURSE HE US LOL HE WILL BE LORD NELSON NEXT LOL
I'm sick of the constant denigration of benefits claimaints, they should focus on people who are really struggling with disability not on those who grift both of which are easy to find.
Just because the right thinks because SOME who COULD work choose not to, we're ALL workshy slaves to the benefit system! I've been called that and a LOT worse both online and to my face.
The show is on UA-cam and it's pleasantly surprising to see the vast majority of comments lambasting this utter garbage. But perplexingly it has nearly 4 thousand likes.
I was going to pile on it myself, but I thought I would let other people do it. Unfortunately, this stigmatisation still exists, though I think it's becoming far less since more people are becoming reliant on the welfare state, only to find out it doesn't really work anymore!
It works out that around 3% of watchers like it. What you can’t see without a special browser extension is that it also has 1200 dislikes
the likes push it up the list for views, and people can view the comments below the video, view the shit, read the truth.
Yeah because of terminally stupid right wingers who believe every piece of crap printed in the Daily Mail.
@Christopherhoggins
Yeah, many no longer really use the dislike button since UA-cam basically deleted it to please the whingeing type, the type who whinge because of people actually liking it, those who believe that everyone should think exactly as they do and like and dislike exactly as they do.
It's strange that all the people with money have never had a job when your born rich everything is put on a plate for you and they will be the ones that moan about the poor
My mental health team discharged me so I applied for pip so I could get therapy! Underfunding just leads to further costs
I was in an accident at work when I was 35. I went from disposable income and house renovations to disabled and treated like a criminal. Forced poverty and unbelievable biases I spiraled to a breakdown. Benefits are a punishment. They came for my house, my savings, my pension. They forced me into debt and refused to offer a formal diagnosis so my care is limited. This is not a choice! I have been crippled by the DWP and treated like a criminal even though I paid into the system and contributed and had perfect credit before my accident.
Really appreciate your content, I find the subjects relatable.
2 suggestions- on welfare, as the highest proportion of benefits are to people of pension age, yet pensioners are struggling, the winter fuel cut etc. Though your viewers may be younger most ppl have older family so it might be of interest.
2/ Couple of vids ago on housing, which is an interest of mine too, there’s around 1 million empty homes in Britain, and rising. These are houses left empty, some derelict, investment properties, ex council properties, lots of reasons. Some years ago there was a TV program about this. How to get more homes back to livable conditions, reclaim the houses!
Also the possibility of converting unused buildings into housing.. I’ve a lot of thought but I’ll leave it there bc I can be really longwinded!
You could call the first one ‘How the government is m*rdering our OAPs 😱 Featuring “let the bodies pile high” by Bojo 🥹
Love all of these subjects. They have been put on the list!
One idea someone mentioned to me was to build on golf courses. Not only are they a shocking was of land, they are incredibly bad for the environment because of all the water needed to constantly maintain the greens.
and losing money to wellfair is only happening if people save the money, if they spend it, no money is lost at all.
Try explaining it to people you know on the economic right. The blankness of the stare you get when you explain to them after they blame "the benefits"(yes the ones I know refer to people on benefits as benefits) for the rubbish economy, that without the economic stimulus benefits provide that the UK economy would collapse overnight. If they come up with a reply they normally just prove they don't understand basic economics by comparing government finance to a household budget.
@@danielpledger7445 if there are any readers on the bullshit, economic right reading this. let me explain. you give a poorer, *person on a low to very low income* benifits. the tendancy is to spend every penny they have due to poverty premiums on all sorts of things. they go to the supermarket, spend their beneifits, and prices are really high on basic foods btw, and those benifits are recycled into the pay of the staff at the supermarket etc. I do wonder how much shop lifting has increased the costs of things at the supermarkets though, so beneifits are even more squeazed. then people have to pay electricity bills, gas bills, etc etc. every pound spent generates tax to the government, stimulates economic growth.
I've been disabled all my life, didn't get a penny till I was just turned 17 (April 1993), and 30 years later I'm on PIP at enhanced rate because it'll be 9 years on Friday since I was declared medically unable to work (even though I've been doing voluntary work since 1994), some of the stuff I've had said to me both online and in person because I can't get a job is literally unrepeatable in civilised conversation, by right wing eejits who think all disabled people should've been drowned at birth.
Thank you for sitting and watching it until the end, because I sure as hell couldn’t! Had to click off around the 3min mark because my eyes were rolling into the back of my head. Thanks for summarising the main points.😅
Fantastic video mate. It’s so frustrating how this narrative is constantly pushed and accepted.
Definitely keep out of the comments - this place is toxic enough for those of us who are a bit more anonymous. Must be absolute hell for you guys with your heads above the parapet!
19:49 what we need is a full understanding of the state of the planet. bringing children into this, with the certainty of a harsh reality, is at least irresponsible, and from perspective of the children having no say in their creation, is evil.
I couldn't even watch it when I realised Nelson was in it.
And you, Doc, are doing a good job. Well done, you have very much the same views as I have. Good luck with this project!
Another winner, doc ❤✊️
You are the best
Love this channel
How is it possible for any organisation to be unaware of the extreme right wing views of Fraser Nelson. It completely discredits any semblance of fairness and balance in the reporting of Channel4.
Over 40 years of government inaction on housing has lead to welfare being spent on private rents
I have been watching your videos for a while now and they are always fantastic, as a young person (20 in 3 days hah!) who is on benefits due to the fact I have to be a carer for my disabled sister (I am on UC and I claim carers allowance) I struggle to get by but I am doing better mentally on that than I was working 8:30am - 1:30am 6 days a week in a retail job. The state of jobs currently is horrific, large companies are getting away with what is borderline slavery, giving minimum wage to their hardest workers and their workers still cannot get by on what they are paid.
You are the type of young people that will change the future, friend. Thank you for sharing this. As someone who's young age is fading, it's horrible to see that things haven't really changed, but the fact that people like yourself are noticing gives me hope.
I hope as your name suggests that you enjoyed the little edit towards the end of the video 😂
@ the Anakin bit actually played whilst I was writing my comment! It made me laugh :) I am very strong on my political beliefs, I attend protests, I pester my local MPs non stop, I try my best to educate and understand others regardless of their background because if we all yell, the noise drowns out who we are and what we stand for. I was furious this past election about my "friends" who didn't vote. I fought for everyone to make their voice heard, a vote never made is a vote for the opposition! I will also name and shame my past workplace, I worked for a CeX franchise store. To any young person reading this, never work for them, they will work you to the bone which I had to learn the hard way, work what you are worth!
I braved watching the whole thing and I kept saying to myself, he just doesn't get it! and he never has ever had to deal with challenges typical for disabled people! So when I looked Nelson up and it said he was editor of the Spectator, suddenly it all clicked. Channel 4 should've made it clear who he was and that it would obviously be biased. Conservatives genuinely don't believe our struggles are real. Even though it's right in front of them, they still deliberately don't see it. The truth is austerity made us sicker, Brexit made us poorer and Covid as a result properly caught us with our pants down! We are still massively dealing with the consequences of all 3. As a country we have literally no capacity at all if anything were to go badly wrong and that terrifies me. It's hard to tell if Labour is remedying any of the gigantic mess but if they are, we won't notice for a long time at all. Also wouldn't surprise me if the complete lack of council and affordable houses is why welfare spending is so high. Rent goes up every year and the state is effectively subsidising landlords and rip off rents with housing benefit, whilst councils seem to no longer own enough temporary accommodation for the demand, paying fuck knows what to put families in hotels. It's a disaster. Also disability benefits are ridiculously hard to get now. I only got PIP after fighting for a year and going to tribunal and that was my 2nd attempt! From someone who was awarded lifelong DLA as a child! Beyond that so many things functionally wrong with the DWP, wouldn't surprise me if it was on the brink of collapse, like all our public services. Ironic when the Tories made it this way.
Pre pandemic mental health system was struggling but established. Its all short term, group, online and zero diagnosis so limited symptoms based treatment approach. Limiting mental health problems to 6-8 hrs with a stranger on the phone IS NOT A SOLUTION its making it much worse.
2018 was 6 years ago
Great job can’t wait for the one about the north
Bye the way idk if you done a video about new labour but I think it would be a good idea if it hasn’t
I'll put it on the list. I have often beat them with a stick in other videos, but I haven't explored the New Labour project as a whole.
@@DrJoeLovelacenice I love your vids glad I found you’re channel
Liz kendal. Never done a day's work in her life!
12:45 that 25bn housing benefit is worth further scrutiny, especially in terms of where it goes
We have a system of exploitation that would denying freedom enslave the 80% for the upper 10% whilst we are subsisting on poverty-stricken wages and a benefit system that chucks people off fiscal cliffs so the King and aristocracy can pay less into the society they led into India to rob in one of the most evil acts in history millions died suturing famines caused by British rule in many cases; It's easier to see the complacency when they are poking eyes out and sending you blind to work for these very-nice venture capitalist with visions of everyone else struggling to find fair in a rigid and plutocractic vassal state that won't pay for basics the working class and underclass need...Yet they need to lobby for Israel or fossil fuels or banning protest whilst we hear about scandal Ayer scandal from infected blood, spy cops, hacking, Grenfell, NHS consulting, etc.
What happened to basic standards under this elitist imagination is they've tripled and we are looking to be ungrateful for the first time in eons.
That latest documentary on the so called benefits scandal is a joke by channel 4 I personally no of a freind on esa from life long disability now been forced onto uc and they've done nothing but take money off him make his life harder and waste over 6 hours of his life now on the phone trying to sort out payments council tax ect and they still fucked that up and they've left him sort 1000 pound a year ? And he was promised there'd be no losses 😂
Too many free loaders who Know how to play the system and have the attitude that they don’t need to work and the tax payer can pay for their life !! Get rid of this broken system which is being exploited by people who should be working. I don’t want to pay for these low lives!!
brilliant !
6:33 It looks like she's being judged on Masterchef.
i notice this myself. commenting on YT, said something about to the effect 'ch.4 at it again. employing right wingers. first niall ferguson, then johan norbert and now half nelson '.
14:40 anyone who talks like that from there can safely be taken at face value for doing everything that is found in the investigation behind this video
Professor of the producer classes Joe Lovelace
"The shocking lies about the benefit system."
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The cost is rising coz inflation 2021 to now is 25%. Stop falling for their nominal costs nonsense people
At some point a Labour MP will probably rise up through the Bs of current day politics and will make meaningful reforms to welfare, nhs etc. Probably won’t be in my lifetime though.
And probably won't be a Labour MP
The last time Labour did that they brought in ESA, outsourced to ATOS & created the work capability assessment that had 0 mental health criteria in its initial form leaving many suffering for years whilst it crawled through the courts. Lots died in the meantime but it did eventually get ruled as unlawful discrimination in the high courts.
Now that happened under Gordon Brown, someone who's campaigned against child poverty since despite being responsible for a lot of it & he's been suspiciously silent on Labour's latest benefits attacks outside the child benefit cap.
@ nah it probably will cause it won’t be a Tory and FPTP won’t let any other party get a majority.
I hate the left-wing channel 4. After lying about Nigel Farage.
Meh, Farage deserves everything he gets IMO, the man is a total clown who makes even Boris Johnson look vaguely intelligent.
Well how about removing pip winter fuel payments etc and give that money to more deserving nhs staff in mental health surely even if disabled persons is able to work one hour week in flexible workforce they can get by on lower rate of in work universal credit everyone’s winner, no? Nice
Fraser Nelson and Owen Jones ..... I'm off.
Those who need benefits should get them. However from my own experience the system is broken and there are lots of fake claims. My neighbour is registered blind and gets benefits. However he recently climbed on his roof to replace broken tiles. Just one example of some people on benefits taking from the system and away from the hard working poor. I know loads of people who play the system
And that right there's the crux of the problem, because some are on the take, the right thinks everyone's at it.
Maybe,but the likes of Nelson then profound that all claimants are fraudulent,leaving minimal coverage or sympathy for the overwhelming majority of genuine cases.
@emmethone2852 The real reason there isn't enough money is that there is a limited supply and a large proportion of that money is spent on fraud or stupidly. Another example. I have two neighbours of mine both badly disabled. Neither can drive. Each has a new four wheeled drive SUV provided to them new every two years. Each car is in the £30 to 40k bracket. Their helpers arrive each week and decide to either drive them round for a couple of hours. Go for a walk or stay in. I drive a 2013 car worth less than a £1k which I fund from my pension. I accept people need help but we all have to wake up.
The system's been broken for years IMO, at one time, getting a penny out of the system was akin to getting blood out of a rather large stone, mainly because nobody understood the forms! Now everyone can fake the forms and get everything on a plate.
As a veteran of the Scottish Independence campaign I can’t help but notice that the political Anglosphere has turned against their former heroes. Scots warned you in 2014 about characters like Fraser Nelson, Michelle Mone, Pat McFadden, John Mctiernan and any number of extreme Scots Unionists. But you were too busy patting them on the back for their sterling efforts in saving your precious Union. Now it’s come back to haunt you. Not feeling a great deal of sympathy I have to say.
Yes we need to address youth issues. But the problem is not the Marxist notion of inequality. It is Austrian economics misallocation of resources. That is why our money goes no where. Not enough houses, sky high electricity and gas(net zero),
Our markets are not working to reduce prices. We need to do what Millei is doing in Argentina. Once prices start to come down on the things we need, people would be alot more happier.
Right now both conservatives and labour follow WEF socialist economics. Leading to an inflationary melt down. Everything we are seeing is the thing cracking about to blow up. We will see a crack up boom at some point too. People will realize our markets are screwed.
YOu want children, you need the inputs to be cheap: housing, food, energy prices. What you are suggesting is Marxist bread lines.
Yes Fraser is being stupid, the above issues are far more important than those on benefits right now. The people we have working right now are pissing in the wind economically.