I was made redundant in June this year. I must have applied for 200+ jobs in 3 months and I heard back from 5 of them. It is beyond demoralizing job hunting these days, and I'm 30 with 12 years of working experience. Can only imagine what 18Yos feel.
Are the listings still inundated with fake "sales" Jobs making it impossible to even sift the few genuine ones out of the spam soup of pyramid schemes and scams? When I was signing on it was an absolute nightmare.
After I left university, I was job hunting for nearly a year and that was 10 years ago. I doubt things have improved since then. I was forced to go to an office to job hunter for a whole hour or loose my benefits. I was just sat their looking at all the job applications I had already looked at the previous few days. Sometimes there can be less than 100 new job listings a week. For me a large portion I just weren't qualified for and I could look at all the new listing since the last time I looked in about 10 minutes. At one point they had the nerve to say I needed to start applying for jobs that were over an hours drive away. Bear in mind I couldn't drive, (still can't) so had to rely on public transport.
I fit this description. 24, never had a job other than some volunteering, and still struggle with the idea of working. I have been diagnosed with ADHD just this year and am waiting on an autism diagnosis right now. Every time I bring up my neurodivergence. I'm quickly shut down by comments like "oh everyone has x nowadays" or "stop labelling yourself", despite struggling with social situations and homework since I was only 4 or 5. This definitely impacts my ability to work as both deadlines and social interactions can be a challenge for me, but I think our generation has seen the impact of work on our parents. So many including myself grew up with a sense of stress and anxiety constantly, how tired and irritable our parents would be after work. How year on year everyone is being squeezed tighter and tighter by a hyper capitalist system. We have grown up only to learn that work is a key cause of stress, depression and anxiety, and we are rejecting that.
Travel. Get anything as work over the next couple of years, save like mad and travel go around Europe, do everything you can get your hands on and live an exciting life. I did it and spend several years on the dole beforehand.
@greglyons2526 this isn't a bad idea tbh...broadens experience and resilience. My son has ADHD and Dyspraxia- just come back from travelling Europe with mates
@JimmySnail what a bizarre comment. It's not about managing when it suits them. Clearly your kids aren't disabled if they dont need support. My son is disabled from birth, but he works three times as hard as any neuro typical person on activities of daily living due to his executive functioning difficulties. He went travelling with his friends who understand his disability, love him, and were willing and able to support him to go travelling. You won't get a rise off me . I feel sad for your kids having an ignorant parent.
I mean it's too expensive to live alone, to find a partner isn't the easiest of things especially one that works and contributes to the household. Also seeing everyone who is working hard still be skint and food banks pop up everywhere, then when trying to make sense of it all you have political parties acting like absolute morons, making no real progress with anything and pretty much sinking the economy. And there's so much more. Young adults are seeing this constantly and it kills the drive to get going, whats the point? This is before mental health comes into it
A major government study was commissioned to understand this phenomenon. That is, people not wanting or not being able to work. It was discovered that they were sick and not idlers. That study was in 1842. This lead to the 1848 Public Health Act. Successive Public Health advances, continued to improve the situation. So, we have been here before. Public Health has been largely abandoned in the UK over the last 15 years. We are back to Victorian levels. Nevertheless, the results are the same as in 1842. Our bodies have not changed in that time. It has resulted in people being too sick to work. The answer is improved "Public Health."
@@firefox5926 I am retired now, but I studied Public Health for 4 years at university. The problem is now very topical now, but no-one realises it is a subject with it's own cadre of experts. I saw Andrew Mar discussing it recently. He had no idea what he was talking about.
When I was 39 years of age I had non Hogkin Lymphoma for the second time and Had to have a bone Marrow Transplant. I was off work for 2 years and lost my job as parcel delivery driver. Had a young family my wife worked 2 part time jobs for the NHS any benefits I got was about £400 a month and if I went into Hospital the benefits were stopped. When I was fit I signed on at agency as a driver and was all so applied for and got a full time driving job with a car body repair company. Recovering cars for insurance repairs. The hourly rate was £4.50 a hour that was in 2002 . This company was the only one that was willing to give me a chance. Due to the health issues. At 64 years old I an still working. But looking forward to retirement. Family did say all those years ago I would not go back to work if I was you. My response was I want to live and not just exist and see the world.
Why should people work themselves to death to receive a less than subsistence living? You want to find the problem? Look at the top of society, not the bottom.
Worse than the 15 hours a week 6:00 am starts are the 15 hours a week 8:00 pm or 10:00 pm finishes which nearly always include weekends if you work in a supermarket. When do you get a social life ? I did it in my 50s until I was 66 and my friends stopped asking me if I was coming out to a "do" or a get together because the answer was always, "I can't - I'm working" I didn't have a social life for 15 years. By the time I retired, my friends were just posts on Facebook - they'd all moved on.
Why did James interrupt the lady at 2:14:03 when she began to speak about the politics around the problem? She was going to say something really serious about politicians in Ethiopia. She went on saying "the reality is"; "I must stress this"; "those who governs us so badly"; but then suddenly James interrupted her. I do not think that was necessary James. Please James or LBC, let me know what you thought you were doing.
Travel to jobs is often a problem. If you can't afford to run a car the bus service doesn't make it possible to get to work. Work in walking or biking distance is rare for many. At one time jobs were located near peoples homes. Not everyone lives in cities where there is public transportation.
@@geoffreynhill2833 I see an edit, but I don't see where she mentioned the swiftness of public transportation can you give us a clue about what you are talking about?
@geoffreynhill2833 it's never the speed of public transport that is the issue. It's the lack of the 5am bus that will get you to the job at the 6am start time. It's the busses that only run every 20 minutes during peak morning hours so if the bus driver refuses to stop because the bus is overcrowded (this happens quite often) then you are going miss your connecting bus and end up an hour late for work. It's the bus services that stop running at 9pm so you can't get back from your late shift. It's the bus routes that all manage to avoid coming within a 20 minute walk of your workplace. It's the bus routes that force you to go through a town centre and transfer to a different bus company so you need to pay for 2x day tickets because they aren't integrated between the companies. Scheduling, routing, integration. Public transport is so broken in the UK that it looks intentional.
I think something missing from the "what are they doing all day" is the warped sleep schedule. Once you're opted out, many find themselves waking up at noon or later and going to sleep early in the morning. When you think of it that way, them doing nothing while they're awake makes sense; there's not much to do in the outside world at 2am.
Especially if kept awake by noisy neighbours who party all night. One neighbour who works long hours and is very work focused. I had to take sick leave because of an anti-social drug dealer living in a flat below her. Then there were repercussions because she complained so she moved her boyfriend in to protect her. He even has to drive her to work or walk her to the bus stop. Drug dealers do their work at night. They use vulnerable people living alone in a flat to host parties for them at which drugs are sold, bought, and taken. That happened to another neighbour, and I only complained to her directly, not to the police or the council. I wish I had been more suspicious of a crowd of people turning up together after 11 pm. for a noisy party instead of seeing them as inconsiderate friends of hers. Then reported it to the authorities after realising it. Now I realise those weren't friends of hers after finding out about County Lines. I used to see a man in her flat a lot who I suspect now was the drug dealer who invited those guests.
A lot of them had severe stress, have been around smokers or lived near a nuclear power station. There were cancer clusters around them. There is around a chemical works near me.
I'm all for getting young people to get jobs and weinding them off benefits. But they should stop the tax avoidance of the rich storing their money in tax havens and the buying up of assets. Also they should stop utility companies from syphoning off public money. And they shouldn't make things more difficult for small to medium businesses by raising their national insurance, in an already difficult time. Seems like a mistake.
Gina hit the nail on the head. In the employment support sector it's the cut cost, straight out of high school or middle aged non-qualified non-social workers who are expected to "address" multi-year chronic conditions, intellectual disability and the mental impact of long term unemployment, living at the bottom of the barrel, in 12 weeks like some magical fairy in Cinderella. Which is why non-profits fill the "professional expense on a qualified" gap,. Those of us in the sector run on a constant "contract renewal" fear of NO JOB. So you have those who are scared that their work will be gone trying, within a metronome 8/32 timeframe, to help those who haven't had any job for between 6 months and 10years and the longer termers with multiple barriers and alcohol and drug abuse. So the govs "reform" the system every four fkin years, changing the expectations, breaking the long term building bonds that have been established, making those who are eligible (and making strides) no longer "eligible". This isn't even speakiing to intergenerational welfare. It's insanity.
If you are unemployed, you have visit the job centre advisor every week for 30 minutes, your jobcentre advisor will ask you, to show evidence of the jobs, you have applied for in the last week and also the jobs which they have told you to apply, You have also universal credit journalists, to enter jobs search, and constant daily messages about, jobs, training and job fares, If advisor doesn't think your, fulfilling your job seeker agreement ,you can be sanctioned for 3 months, which could make you homeless, after 13 weeks you are put on the restart program with a private company , attending 3days week 10 am_ 4pm workshop, on why and how to get back to work , Do every think, you would put up,this instead getting a job, taking home £400 per week instead £85, per week and all thistle hassle,
@@christopherwhittaker2620He's addressing the general belief some people seem to have that young people are abusing benefits like jobseekers and refusing to work. You're the one not understanding.
Having worked in tech project management for almost two decades, I've noticed how digitalisation and automation have been reshaping the workplace. Many tasks have been streamlined to help companies 'do more with less,' which often reduces the need for larger teams, especially at entry levels. Offshoring was another big trend, particularly pre-Brexit, but automation is arguably the more transformative force. I think we're seeing these incremental changes add up: in knowledge-based jobs, companies don't need as many junior employees to handle repetitive tasks-experienced professionals equipped with advanced software are delivering more output. It’s a complex issue, but I remember conversations in the 2010s about how tough it would become for younger people to find entry-level opportunities as they were actively being automated. Just my perspective, but it feels like these trends are becoming harder to ignore.
people upset about the bandaid song have incredibly poor English comprehension , none of the lyrics are problematic, and the lack of support for all the great it did is incredible "do they know its Christmas time at all" refers to all the trappings of Christmas we take for granted like giving and receiving gifts, eat drink and be merry etc etc. which for people suffering famine would not have, hence "do they know its Christmas" if none of the trappings are there
Maggie took over after the industrial unrest of the Winter of discontent. Inflation was 25%.Unemployment in Northern Ireland, and the north of England were hard hit. When Harold Wilson left office he said whoever takes over they would have a tough job.
Around 5 years or more ago Tories did same thing to me. They chucked me off sickness into JSA. I tried to do the right thing by going to sign on. I didn't cope. JSA chucked me straight back to ESA within a month. ESA then took me to court to try and stop my ESA. I had to live on 70 quid a fortnight for 2 years while the court case. By the end of this process the Benefits Agency had made me even more mentally ill through stress and poverty.
Exactly right, it's even like that for the older and more experienced workforce. Security and continuous development (i.e. a career) is hard to come by for everybody. First, free work to gain work experience and training, then one temp contract after the other. They can employ you for a long time by maybe offering a new contract again, but also let you go at any minute, nowadays. Without reasons. Low pay and bad treatment, but no prospects. And they wonder why people are not motivated to put their all into it anymore like they used to... 🤷♀️
Even less at the Hospital. I spent four or five years trying to get permanent work there then Covid came along and my GP said not to work under my immnuity isusues. Then they strike you off if you don't apply for work. It's utterly ridiculous.
@jamessomers8955 Really? Have you seen the number of applications young people make who don't have experience and can't drive to specific locations without public transport?
They need hope with the aim of allowing them to buy a home, find a partner, bring up a family and retire comfortably. Along with health and social care from the cradle to the grave. The tories have stolen this hope.
The landscape of working has changed. I recently came back to the uk for the Euros, many of my friends now work as streamers. They get paid, so it’s a job. 2 of my friends have gone into onlyfans…. These jobs don’t show up on the stats. People make money now in different ways. I work in recruitment in Australia. I see kids making money hand over fist doing things that they want to do. No one wants to work stacking shelves or in low paid, high stress roles that offer zero benefits…. It’s life. No one wants to travel 2 hours a day to work a 10 hour shift for minimum pay…. People nowadays do dropshipping, trade on stocks and shares, code, advertising sales, marketing, sales, so many things….. All can be done from anywhere in the world, or just at home. We grew up in an era of buying, this is slowly dying out in the new generation. Work life balance is much more important. And it’s so much easier to achieve when you don’t spend money consistently on “stuff” you don’t need…. People are staring to consume less.
@christopherwhittaker2620 Universal Basic Income.... proposed as a remedy to the 4th Industrial Revolution, aka the great reset. Where, due to AI and automation the majority of us will be surplus to requirements. We will be paid this to stay at home and do what we're told.
You have to spend 35hrs per week on searching for a job, if you don't you can get sanctioned... and many do. The Internet does make it easier, but you have to look on the jobsites recommended by the DWP. There is a point you reach when you are applying for jobs that you're not qualified for, and this is advised by your job coach. Which is ridiculous, imo.
Get people approriate medical service (like NHS) and then those still able to work, a decent wage. That affords the transport costs. Why doesn’t he talk about the real issues, but relies on his Starver friends?
If he talks about the real issues then he has to confront the fact that Kier has gone full steam ahead worse than the previous government who he spent years slandering.
That guys parents work full time and pay all the bills while their son works two days a week and does whatever. It must be nice to be an eternal child but his parents won't be around forever. Time to grow-up.
would have loved to call in for the first question here, may have to write up an email or a letter to JOB. As a young person who went to university through COVID, employment has been really tough and my mental health has suffered massively
Well, it comes back to the old saying about walking in another man's shoes tied with those who judge and throw stones, which of them is without sin? Judging the jobless by people with secure and well paid jobs.
People on benefits are living to survive. People on minimum wage are working to survive. Why switch from living to survive to working to survive when you can sleep till 11 each day ? In order to make it work you would have to guarantee a wage of at least £25 an hr which would not be viable because buisnesses can not afford to pay it. Start by getting energy companies in line and getting food prices down. Then find a way of getting rent prices down and build millions of houses. Then close the borders. The billions spent on immigrants is crashing the economy. Its also putting a huge strain on hospitals. Sat in your bubble JImmy you dont see what we see. Go live on a council estate for 6 months and you will see. You are clueles.
Saying you must treat all men as a potential threat is an odd thing for James to say, you could apply that logic to certain groups of people which would outrage James
Time for Universal Basic Income for all humans Everyone should have a basic amount to live on Then extra for any work they do Frees up people to pursue creative and voluntary activities - a healthier less judgemental world - our current systems are inadequate and only making people more sick and creating more division and inequality. Needs a BIG overhaul 💪
Exactly. So far this Labour government seem to be exactly like the Tory government. We just voted out. Targeting pensioners and targeting young unemployed people as a way to fill. I suppose a £22 billion hole left by the Tories is the exact kind of thing James O’Brien would be criticising literally a few months ago. Now he seems to be bending over backwards to try to find a way to justify what Liz Kendall is proposing. I genuinely like and agree with a lot of things James O’Brien says, but since labour have come into power and have dropped a lot of the things they promised when they were in a position, I have seen a different side to Mr O’Brien. One of the things being messy hypocrisy.
@@christopherwhittaker2620 To be honest he has always been this way it's just it is becoming more apparant since he is getting exposed. He wrote a book on how to be right for crying out loud. 😂
I'm assuming the guy at in the spiking conversation is paying his minimum wage bar staff not minimum wage for the extra responsibility that is a supervisor, assistant manager, bar managers job? Bar staff job is literally to serve, nothing else, coming from someone that's been in the industry 20 years, the last 14 as a manager. I would never expect my staff to take that as there responsibility and be punished for it. Minimum wage = minimum work in my view
People are geographically locked out of some jobs. If you have a mortgage and family you cant just move to abother part of the UK for a job . It isnt reality.
I'm a 40 year old dude, out of work for 4 years because the country i live in forbids me to take work... I have every other stereotypical privilege, and yet, I am both forced to be jobless AND judged for it even though finding any kind of work would actually be criminal.
1st, why is that? 2nd, I'm sure there are still things you can do, legally. Is this just for some time, so that you can look forward to something changing soon? Are you in England? What kind of work would you do?
Why does James say to people who mention suffering trauma, in a hushed tone "I,m sorry" it's like that other old waste of time "thoughts and prayers", it doesn't matter if your sorry.
I don’t know but the same comments get pasted on media drowning out the real comments but on this video about internal British issues still gets the bot comments. You see it when Russia or china even Israel and Palestine. Must just be a complete automatic comment system
I have neither the time nor the energy for bots, trolls, or ignorant keyboard warriors to which I will neither respond or reply 🤔 Thank you for your understanding !
The ongoing reservation I have about Keir Starmer is the fact that he he took the title "SIR" which according to the late Reverend Ian Paisley is like becoming a member of " The House Of Frauds " It effectively makes him an undercover worker for the establishment, and when push comes to shove he will always throw his lot in with the elitists. I saw lots of things very differently to The Reverend Ian , but on his " House Of Lords " observation I agree entirely. .
37:07 yes but you were living on the fat as it were of what came before on the fat of the 60s and 70s that was then used up in the 80s and 90s as a sort of false economy a bubble of unreality that is now becoming unsustainable you lived off the public wealth accrued and built before you while not replacing what was used and now that stock is gone
If Ed sends that 11 billion to Africa, will they tell us how they got mocked at school for receiving it. Probably kinder and more respectful not to send it, give the pensioners their heating money back.
Hopefully he won’t as he sounds and behaves like an MP for USA. I watched him talking in the parliament he was defending USA’s interest over the UK’s, he also said that if it was not for the USA, the UK would be totally defenceless. Anyone who has a minimum national honour would question his behaviour. He promoted Brexit, now all figures shows it was a bad decision. Even Bank of England say, we somehow have to make a trade agreement with the EU to get the economy back on track.
Do you even know what the term woke means? Or are you just another gammon using the word woke to describe every single thing you dislike or disagree with? That’s a rhetorical question by the way. You will probably need to look up what rhetorical means
@@brianferguson7840 Blackrock are a real estate and asset mamagement company who monopolise. Headed by Larry Fink who Kier Stalin has been meeting so no surprise he is coming for our pensioners and farmers. He has to free up some homes and land for Larry.
I was made redundant in June this year. I must have applied for 200+ jobs in 3 months and I heard back from 5 of them. It is beyond demoralizing job hunting these days, and I'm 30 with 12 years of working experience. Can only imagine what 18Yos feel.
Are the listings still inundated with fake "sales" Jobs making it impossible to even sift the few genuine ones out of the spam soup of pyramid schemes and scams? When I was signing on it was an absolute nightmare.
After I left university, I was job hunting for nearly a year and that was 10 years ago. I doubt things have improved since then. I was forced to go to an office to job hunter for a whole hour or loose my benefits. I was just sat their looking at all the job applications I had already looked at the previous few days. Sometimes there can be less than 100 new job listings a week. For me a large portion I just weren't qualified for and I could look at all the new listing since the last time I looked in about 10 minutes.
At one point they had the nerve to say I needed to start applying for jobs that were over an hours drive away. Bear in mind I couldn't drive, (still can't) so had to rely on public transport.
Have my sympathy mate happened to me a few times over the years
Hang in there eventually it will all come to you don't loose hope
I fit this description. 24, never had a job other than some volunteering, and still struggle with the idea of working. I have been diagnosed with ADHD just this year and am waiting on an autism diagnosis right now. Every time I bring up my neurodivergence. I'm quickly shut down by comments like "oh everyone has x nowadays" or "stop labelling yourself", despite struggling with social situations and homework since I was only 4 or 5. This definitely impacts my ability to work as both deadlines and social interactions can be a challenge for me, but I think our generation has seen the impact of work on our parents. So many including myself grew up with a sense of stress and anxiety constantly, how tired and irritable our parents would be after work. How year on year everyone is being squeezed tighter and tighter by a hyper capitalist system. We have grown up only to learn that work is a key cause of stress, depression and anxiety, and we are rejecting that.
THIS. Plus Access to Work funds have are over 8 month waiting times currently.
Travel. Get anything as work over the next couple of years, save like mad and travel go around Europe, do everything you can get your hands on and live an exciting life. I did it and spend several years on the dole beforehand.
@greglyons2526 this isn't a bad idea tbh...broadens experience and resilience. My son has ADHD and Dyspraxia- just come back from travelling Europe with mates
@JimmySnail what's funny?..
@JimmySnail what a bizarre comment. It's not about managing when it suits them. Clearly your kids aren't disabled if they dont need support. My son is disabled from birth, but he works three times as hard as any neuro typical person on activities of daily living due to his executive functioning difficulties. He went travelling with his friends who understand his disability, love him, and were willing and able to support him to go travelling. You won't get a rise off me . I feel sad for your kids having an ignorant parent.
I mean it's too expensive to live alone, to find a partner isn't the easiest of things especially one that works and contributes to the household. Also seeing everyone who is working hard still be skint and food banks pop up everywhere, then when trying to make sense of it all you have political parties acting like absolute morons, making no real progress with anything and pretty much sinking the economy.
And there's so much more. Young adults are seeing this constantly and it kills the drive to get going, whats the point? This is before mental health comes into it
A major government study was commissioned to understand this phenomenon. That is, people not wanting or not being able to work. It was discovered that they were sick and not idlers. That study was in 1842. This lead to the 1848 Public Health Act. Successive Public Health advances, continued to improve the situation. So, we have been here before. Public Health has been largely abandoned in the UK over the last 15 years. We are back to Victorian levels. Nevertheless, the results are the same as in 1842. Our bodies have not changed in that time. It has resulted in people being too sick to work. The answer is improved "Public Health."
wish you had rung in :)
@@firefox5926 I am retired now, but I studied Public Health for 4 years at university. The problem is now very topical now, but no-one realises it is a subject with it's own cadre of experts. I saw Andrew Mar discussing it recently. He had no idea what he was talking about.
what about folk looking for jobs endlessly who get nothing?
When I was 39 years of age I had non Hogkin Lymphoma for the second time and Had to have a bone Marrow Transplant. I was off work for 2 years and lost my job as parcel delivery driver. Had a young family my wife worked 2 part time jobs for the NHS any benefits I got was about £400 a month and if I went into Hospital the benefits were stopped. When I was fit I signed on at agency as a driver and was all so applied for and got a full time driving job with a car body repair company. Recovering cars for insurance repairs. The hourly rate was £4.50 a hour that was in 2002 . This company was the only one that was willing to give me a chance. Due to the health issues. At 64 years old I an still working. But looking forward to retirement. Family did say all those years ago I would not go back to work if I was you. My response was I want to live and not just exist and see the world.
Imagine coming of age through Tory austerity. All services cut to the bone. Young people have never been given the chance.
Makes you wonder what all the money is being spent on instead. I'm always hearing how many jobs are unfilled. How many are currently on benefits.
Infrastructure neglected as well which is why there was flooding after a day of heavy rain.
@@ukqwerty999Unfilled as people don't have the qualifications for them or the pay is too low.
Why should people work themselves to death to receive a less than subsistence living? You want to find the problem? Look at the top of society, not the bottom.
Worse than the 15 hours a week 6:00 am starts are the 15 hours a week 8:00 pm or 10:00 pm finishes which nearly always include weekends if you work in a supermarket. When do you get a social life ? I did it in my 50s until I was 66 and my friends stopped asking me if I was coming out to a "do" or a get together because the answer was always, "I can't - I'm working" I didn't have a social life for 15 years. By the time I retired, my friends were just posts on Facebook - they'd all moved on.
Why did James interrupt the lady at 2:14:03 when she began to speak about the politics around the problem? She was going to say something really serious about politicians in Ethiopia. She went on saying "the reality is"; "I must stress this"; "those who governs us so badly"; but then suddenly James interrupted her. I do not think that was necessary James. Please James or LBC, let me know what you thought you were doing.
he does it with almost every caller, its rude af
Yes this is something James need to work on. Some humility and genuine curiosity. Yet when someone interrupts him he gets quite indignant
It’s my show, and I like the sound of my own voice J.O.
He does it all the time whether he agrees with them or not.
@@Liverpoolboy01 😂 100%. He knows how to be right...
Travel to jobs is often a problem. If you can't afford to run a car the bus service doesn't make it possible to get to work.
Work in walking or biking distance is rare for many. At one time jobs were located near peoples homes. Not everyone lives in cities where there is public transportation.
It's all the private cars on the roads that are slowing down public transport, Gloria !!! 🤔
@@geoffreynhill2833 I see an edit, but I don't see where she mentioned the swiftness of public transportation can you give us a clue about what you are talking about?
@geoffreynhill2833 it's never the speed of public transport that is the issue.
It's the lack of the 5am bus that will get you to the job at the 6am start time.
It's the busses that only run every 20 minutes during peak morning hours so if the bus driver refuses to stop because the bus is overcrowded (this happens quite often) then you are going miss your connecting bus and end up an hour late for work.
It's the bus services that stop running at 9pm so you can't get back from your late shift.
It's the bus routes that all manage to avoid coming within a 20 minute walk of your workplace.
It's the bus routes that force you to go through a town centre and transfer to a different bus company so you need to pay for 2x day tickets because they aren't integrated between the companies.
Scheduling, routing, integration.
Public transport is so broken in the UK that it looks intentional.
I think something missing from the "what are they doing all day" is the warped sleep schedule. Once you're opted out, many find themselves waking up at noon or later and going to sleep early in the morning. When you think of it that way, them doing nothing while they're awake makes sense; there's not much to do in the outside world at 2am.
Especially if kept awake by noisy neighbours who party all night. One neighbour who works long hours and is very work focused. I had to take sick leave because of an anti-social drug dealer living in a flat below her. Then there were repercussions because she complained so she moved her boyfriend in to protect her. He even has to drive her to work or walk her to the bus stop.
Drug dealers do their work at night. They use vulnerable people living alone in a flat to host parties for them at which drugs are sold, bought, and taken. That happened to another neighbour, and I only complained to her directly, not to the police or the council.
I wish I had been more suspicious of a crowd of people turning up together after 11 pm. for a noisy party instead of seeing them as inconsiderate friends of hers. Then reported it to the authorities after realising it.
Now I realise those weren't friends of hers after finding out about County Lines. I used to see a man in her flat a lot who I suspect now was the drug dealer who invited those guests.
I feel you. And if you got it bad, imagine how we are in the USA where workers have even LESS rights.
It's many things.
Not everyone who has cancer smokes!
A lot of them had severe stress, have been around smokers or lived near a nuclear power station. There were cancer clusters around them. There is around a chemical works near me.
I'm all for getting young people to get jobs and weinding them off benefits. But they should stop the tax avoidance of the rich storing their money in tax havens and the buying up of assets. Also they should stop utility companies from syphoning off public money. And they shouldn't make things more difficult for small to medium businesses by raising their national insurance, in an already difficult time. Seems like a mistake.
And they should return vat from 20% back to pre crash levels of 17.5%
Gina hit the nail on the head. In the employment support sector it's the cut cost, straight out of high school or middle aged non-qualified non-social workers who are expected to "address" multi-year chronic conditions, intellectual disability and the mental impact of long term unemployment, living at the bottom of the barrel, in 12 weeks like some magical fairy in Cinderella. Which is why non-profits fill the "professional expense on a qualified" gap,. Those of us in the sector run on a constant "contract renewal" fear of NO JOB. So you have those who are scared that their work will be gone trying, within a metronome 8/32 timeframe, to help those who haven't had any job for between 6 months and 10years and the longer termers with multiple barriers and alcohol and drug abuse. So the govs "reform" the system every four fkin years, changing the expectations, breaking the long term building bonds that have been established, making those who are eligible (and making strides) no longer "eligible". This isn't even speakiing to intergenerational welfare. It's insanity.
If you are unemployed, you have visit the job centre advisor every week for 30 minutes, your jobcentre advisor will ask you, to show evidence of the jobs, you have applied for in the last week and also the jobs which they have told you to apply,
You have also universal credit journalists, to enter jobs search, and constant daily messages about, jobs, training and job fares,
If advisor doesn't think your, fulfilling your job seeker agreement ,you can be sanctioned for 3 months, which could make you homeless, after 13 weeks you are put on the restart program with a private company , attending 3days week
10 am_ 4pm workshop, on why and how to get back to work ,
Do every think, you would put up,this instead getting a job, taking home £400 per week instead £85, per week and all thistle hassle,
True Dat !!!!😢
@@christopherwhittaker2620He's addressing the general belief some people seem to have that young people are abusing benefits like jobseekers and refusing to work. You're the one not understanding.
Having worked in tech project management for almost two decades, I've noticed how digitalisation and automation have been reshaping the workplace. Many tasks have been streamlined to help companies 'do more with less,' which often reduces the need for larger teams, especially at entry levels. Offshoring was another big trend, particularly pre-Brexit, but automation is arguably the more transformative force.
I think we're seeing these incremental changes add up: in knowledge-based jobs, companies don't need as many junior employees to handle repetitive tasks-experienced professionals equipped with advanced software are delivering more output. It’s a complex issue, but I remember conversations in the 2010s about how tough it would become for younger people to find entry-level opportunities as they were actively being automated. Just my perspective, but it feels like these trends are becoming harder to ignore.
people upset about the bandaid song have incredibly poor English comprehension , none of the lyrics are problematic, and the lack of support for all the great it did is incredible
"do they know its Christmas time at all" refers to all the trappings of Christmas we take for granted like giving and receiving gifts, eat drink and be merry etc etc. which for people suffering famine would not have, hence "do they know its Christmas" if none of the trappings are there
"Poor English" lol. Your own punctuation is appalling.
A strong workforce relies on a strong health service.
We was told to protect the NHS during covid now that seems to not matter.
@ibexdnb2879 Aye, and people were ordered to adhere to each and every pathetic slogan.........
Maggie took over after the industrial unrest of the Winter of discontent. Inflation was 25%.Unemployment in Northern Ireland, and the north of England were hard hit.
When Harold Wilson left office he said whoever takes over they would have a tough job.
Around 5 years or more ago Tories did same thing to me. They chucked me off sickness into JSA. I tried to do the right thing by going to sign on. I didn't cope.
JSA chucked me straight back to ESA within a month.
ESA then took me to court to try and stop my ESA. I had to live on 70 quid a fortnight for 2 years while the court case.
By the end of this process the Benefits Agency had made me even more mentally ill through stress and poverty.
Then they had to pay me back dated for that 2 years. What with the cost of the court process they saved nuthin for the taxpayer.
Crazy. Tbh many people don't claim the benefits they should have and the amount unclaimed is more than the amount claimed!!
What job would you send the young to work at? Many jobs are temporary contracts now. In six months out and unemployed again.
Exactly right, it's even like that for the older and more experienced workforce. Security and continuous development (i.e. a career) is hard to come by for everybody. First, free work to gain work experience and training, then one temp contract after the other. They can employ you for a long time by maybe offering a new contract again, but also let you go at any minute, nowadays. Without reasons. Low pay and bad treatment, but no prospects. And they wonder why people are not motivated to put their all into it anymore like they used to... 🤷♀️
Even less at the Hospital. I spent four or five years trying to get permanent work there then Covid came along and my GP said not to work under my immnuity isusues. Then they strike you off if you don't apply for work. It's utterly ridiculous.
Plenty of well paid job opportunities on building sites around the country......but that requires hard graft....Something the young are allergic to.
@jamessomers8955 Really? Have you seen the number of applications young people make who don't have experience and can't drive to specific locations without public transport?
"The more you look into it the madder it is" ... Democracy, James O'Brien 25 November 2024
They need hope with the aim of allowing them to buy a home, find a partner, bring up a family and retire comfortably. Along with health and social care from the cradle to the grave. The tories have stolen this hope.
It's a global issue, do some reading. Well you can't hence you voted Labour.
@@Dynasty1818Tories drained the UK.
The landscape of working has changed. I recently came back to the uk for the Euros, many of my friends now work as streamers. They get paid, so it’s a job. 2 of my friends have gone into onlyfans…. These jobs don’t show up on the stats. People make money now in different ways.
I work in recruitment in Australia. I see kids making money hand over fist doing things that they want to do. No one wants to work stacking shelves or in low paid, high stress roles that offer zero benefits…. It’s life. No one wants to travel 2 hours a day to work a 10 hour shift for minimum pay….
People nowadays do dropshipping, trade on stocks and shares, code, advertising sales, marketing, sales, so many things…..
All can be done from anywhere in the world, or just at home.
We grew up in an era of buying, this is slowly dying out in the new generation. Work life balance is much more important. And it’s so much easier to achieve when you don’t spend money consistently on “stuff” you don’t need…. People are staring to consume less.
The snore to end all snore..
2 peas in a pod...just embarrassing
Over 2.5 million people have now signed that petition.
muppets the lot of them. going back to tories will just hurry us into worse issues.
A whole generation primed for UBI. You couldn't make it up!😢
What is UBI ?
@christopherwhittaker2620 Universal Basic Income.... proposed as a remedy to the 4th Industrial Revolution, aka the great reset. Where, due to AI and automation the majority of us will be surplus to requirements. We will be paid this to stay at home and do what we're told.
@christopherwhittaker2620 I just answered you, but face book deleted my comment. It stands for Universal Basic Income.
Edit: youtube 😅
@ thank you. Much appreciated 👍👍
But UBI allows for initiatives which are often creative and can suit people who are neurodivergent or have mental health conditions
haunted by war and the horror not stressed because of hurt feelings! embarrassing!
"I did catch covid, despite being high risk"
I'm convinced that people don't know what many words mean...
🙄being high risk meant being shielded. So despite being high risk he caught Covid.
Both Sweden and Australia has a system where you have to apply
for a Job every day to continue to get the benefit. Easily done
thanks to the internet.
You have to spend 35hrs per week on searching for a job, if you don't you can get sanctioned... and many do. The Internet does make it easier, but you have to look on the jobsites recommended by the DWP. There is a point you reach when you are applying for jobs that you're not qualified for, and this is advised by your job coach. Which is ridiculous, imo.
They already have to show evidence, that they are looking for work. Educate yourself 🥴
Get people approriate medical service (like NHS) and then those still able to work, a decent wage. That affords the transport costs. Why doesn’t he talk about the real issues, but relies on his Starver friends?
Spot on.
If he talks about the real issues then he has to confront the fact that Kier has gone full steam ahead worse than the previous government who he spent years slandering.
If u were a regular soldier who was shell shocked u got shot but if u were an officer you got sent back home to a phycoatric hospital
Yes in 1929
Yep. It was Thatcher. Norman Tebbit was the chief enforcer.
My partially blind brother who works had to appeal for his PIP payments
That guys parents work full time and pay all the bills while their son works two days a week and does whatever. It must be nice to be an eternal child but his parents won't be around forever. Time to grow-up.
would have loved to call in for the first question here, may have to write up an email or a letter to JOB. As a young person who went to university through COVID, employment has been really tough and my mental health has suffered massively
Well, it comes back to the old saying about walking in another man's shoes tied with those who judge and throw stones, which of them is without sin? Judging the jobless by people with secure and well paid jobs.
People on benefits are living to survive. People on minimum wage are working to survive. Why switch from living to survive to working to survive when you can sleep till 11 each day ? In order to make it work you would have to guarantee a wage of at least £25 an hr which would not be viable because buisnesses can not afford to pay it. Start by getting energy companies in line and getting food prices down. Then find a way of getting rent prices down and build millions of houses. Then close the borders. The billions spent on immigrants is crashing the economy. Its also putting a huge strain on hospitals. Sat in your bubble JImmy you dont see what we see. Go live on a council estate for 6 months and you will see. You are clueles.
My daughter has been looking for work for years, can’t get her first job and it’s depressing her- midlands..she’s a student so not inactive
Saying you must treat all men as a potential threat is an odd thing for James to say, you could apply that logic to certain groups of people which would outrage James
Andrew Marr didn't take Iain Duncan Smith to task on his views on sickness benefits.
Africa should get together and write a song about us
Frankie goes to hollywood , Power of love .
Relax. Come to it.
@ Was referring to Xmas 1984 and Band aid .
@@stephenhorslen6075 And I was referring to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. 🙂
@andrewstevenson118 my favorite 'Christmas ' song
@@gregchew8225 Really? I'm gonna say "Snoopy's Christmas" by the Royal Guardsmen or "Stop the Cavalry" by Jona Lewie.
in regard to the spiking, the culprit can be found through the girl who knocks the drink, she knows something...
In 80's 90's you had a choice take whatever job yts or city and guild course
Every government tries to control the benefit budget
Time for Universal Basic Income for all humans
Everyone should have a basic amount to live on
Then extra for any work they do
Frees up people to pursue creative and voluntary activities - a healthier less judgemental world - our current systems are inadequate and only making people more sick and creating more division and inequality.
Needs a BIG overhaul 💪
Tory Starmer .
Exactly. So far this Labour government seem to be exactly like the Tory government. We just voted out.
Targeting pensioners and targeting young unemployed people as a way to fill. I suppose a £22 billion hole left by the Tories is the exact kind of thing James O’Brien would be criticising literally a few months ago.
Now he seems to be bending over backwards to try to find a way to justify what Liz Kendall is proposing. I genuinely like and agree with a lot of things James O’Brien says, but since labour have come into power and have dropped a lot of the things they promised when they were in a position, I have seen a different side to Mr O’Brien. One of the things being messy hypocrisy.
It comes as no surprise. Tory, Labour or whoever will do the bidding of the global elite like Blackrock..
@@christopherwhittaker2620 To be honest he has always been this way it's just it is becoming more apparant since he is getting exposed. He wrote a book on how to be right for crying out loud. 😂
We kNOw wHaT wE VoteD FOr
I'm assuming the guy at in the spiking conversation is paying his minimum wage bar staff not minimum wage for the extra responsibility that is a supervisor, assistant manager, bar managers job? Bar staff job is literally to serve, nothing else, coming from someone that's been in the industry 20 years, the last 14 as a manager. I would never expect my staff to take that as there responsibility and be punished for it. Minimum wage = minimum work in my view
People are geographically locked out of some jobs. If you have a mortgage and family you cant just move to abother part of the UK for a job . It isnt reality.
Perhaps you would consider playing the status quo video of the song. You are in the army now
I'm a 40 year old dude, out of work for 4 years because the country i live in forbids me to take work...
I have every other stereotypical privilege, and yet, I am both forced to be jobless AND judged for it even though finding any kind of work would actually be criminal.
1st, why is that?
2nd, I'm sure there are still things you can do, legally.
Is this just for some time, so that you can look forward to something changing soon? Are you in England? What kind of work would you do?
What country do you live in and why don't they let you work?
Why does James say to people who mention suffering trauma, in a hushed tone "I,m sorry" it's like that other old waste of time "thoughts and prayers", it doesn't matter if your sorry.
It seems disingenuous. I'm sure it isnt but it sounds it at times
Wonder where the added bot comments actually come from
They come from a few countries
Could bot comments be coming from.............
Bots ?
Is bot an abbreviation of robot ? Or bottom ?
I don’t know but the same comments get pasted on media drowning out the real comments but on this video about internal British issues still gets the bot comments. You see it when Russia or china even Israel and Palestine. Must just be a complete automatic comment system
Can you please let me know what is the kind of thing these bots are saying in the comment section? Thanks in advance.
James o mouthpiece for this government seems to be flummoxed for some reason
I have neither the time nor the energy for bots, trolls, or ignorant keyboard warriors to which I will neither respond or reply 🤔 Thank you for your understanding !
@@brianferguson7840but you just responded to him
@@brianferguson7840 yet here you are😅
@@brianferguson7840 Help in anyway, shape or form, is what this person said, seemingly coming from a troll or a bot?
not sure the onlyfans millionaires will want to be forced back into the office or warehouse to earn min. wage...
400k labour supporters. He he, talk about a backfire.. The generation that didn't know the true Labour they voted for. Ha ha ha
what r u doin, with respect???!
Thatcher years.
On your bike…NormanTebbit!
ITS JUST LIKE LISTNING TO JEREMY KYLE,
Where is Sangita?
I honestly cannot stand this guy
Which song are they talking about ?
The ongoing reservation I have about Keir Starmer is the fact that he he took the title "SIR" which according to the late Reverend Ian Paisley is like becoming a member of " The House Of Frauds " It effectively makes him an undercover worker for the establishment, and when push comes to shove he will always throw his lot in with the elitists. I saw lots of things very differently to The Reverend Ian , but on his " House Of Lords " observation I agree entirely. .
I bet you think Nigel farage is the man of the people
@@ForDaCulture679he is not but Starmer is also a joke being a Sir heading the so called Labour Party would you not agree?
I agree.
That's some incredible mental gymnastics you are performing there.
@@coppershark1973 how can you justify Labour Party leader accepting a medieval title and using it?
Joseph, what on earth are you on about?
Maybe we should be looking at child rearing. Young people who have had very little discipline in their lives. Parenting needs assistance.
How big is your mug?? A pint? 🍺
More like a litre
37:07 yes but you were living on the fat as it were of what came before on the fat of the 60s and 70s that was then used up in the 80s and 90s as a sort of false economy a bubble of unreality that is now becoming unsustainable you lived off the public wealth accrued and built before you while not replacing what was used and now that stock is gone
If Ed sends that 11 billion to Africa, will they tell us how they got mocked at school for receiving it. Probably kinder and more respectful not to send it, give the pensioners their heating money back.
Dream on😂
James thinks because this caller can have a conversation, the caller could get a job...
Terrible grammar
@christopherwhittaker2620 I'd rather that than a hateful attitude...
👍👍
They spend their days writing press releases for James to be the Liebour shill for.
Grow up.
Grow up into what??@@christopherwhittaker2620
@@christopherwhittaker2620 It's true though. James would never admit he was wrong...
@ sorry I’m a bit confused by your comment. What is true please ?
I tbink james will actually cry when Farage makes massive headway at the next GE
Hopefully he won’t as he sounds and behaves like an MP for USA. I watched him talking in the parliament he was defending USA’s interest over the UK’s, he also said that if it was not for the USA, the UK would be totally defenceless. Anyone who has a minimum national honour would question his behaviour. He promoted Brexit, now all figures shows it was a bad decision. Even Bank of England say, we somehow have to make a trade agreement with the EU to get the economy back on track.
@kemalistdevrimturkaydnlanm168 let's come back to this thread in 2029
I think you'll be surprised.
@@MCDONALD6969you’re insane
@@catherinemartin6258 I have a successful business which is self made before 35 so in what way am I insane - please expand on your opinion.
@@catherinemartin6258 Don't be rude
What a woke bloke O'Gobby is 🤭😂😂
Do you even know what the term woke means? Or are you just another gammon using the word woke to describe every single thing you dislike or disagree with? That’s a rhetorical question by the way. You will probably need to look up what rhetorical means
I get "O'Gobby" but what does woke mean?
@@christopherwhittaker2620Keep crying because you lost the debate.
Seethe. Cope. Deny.
@@RichardGallagherthesecond what debate did I lose ? And stop chatting 💩
@@christopherwhittaker2620 Insults instead of debate and all because you lost.
Seethe. Cope. Deny.
Taking orders from blackrock
What is a black rock ?
Does it have to be black, other colours of rock are available.
@@andrewstevenson118 like the one where people have the belief that bots waste time on O'Brien threads....
@@andrewstevenson118 dobryy vecher.
@@andrewstevenson118 👍🏻🇷🇺
@@brianferguson7840 Blackrock are a real estate and asset mamagement company who monopolise. Headed by Larry Fink who Kier Stalin has been meeting so no surprise he is coming for our pensioners and farmers. He has to free up some homes and land for Larry.
Simple answer ,to way are they, who , are ,they , all in your country England in Westminster ,cesspit of absolute bullshite
Your comment makes no sense and the grammar and punctuation is that of a four year old
But politicians "gaming" the system, is ok. Ok Starmer 🤦♀️
tories did it for 14 years whys it not ok now?