Why does Rishi Sunak want to cut benefits from 'sick, jobless people'? | LBC
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Setting out his reform plans he announced that benefit payments could be withdrawn from some people with mental health problems, who would be offered treatment instead. Charities slammed the proposal pointing out that 1.8 million people are already waiting for mental health treatment on the NHS.
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Plenty of money for wars, nothing for broken NHS system, the education sector and the poor.
Speak to any current serviceman and ask them about the state of the armed forces.
Nhs had recieved 500 billion but waste it on transformer surgeries and illegals nhs needs to be scrapped not given more money
@@SovietskikhSunak never cares enyway
NHS has more money per year than its ever had.
More is spent on benefits per year than in any other previous year. Look it up.
But then you won't will you because the truth doesn't fit with your BS does it!
Billions sent in aid to countries, that never improve, because not much of it sees the ground.
Any government that preys on the sick and homeless isn't a government for the people.
Well said 🎉
Forcing people to commit suicide should be a criminal offence!
Exactly!
It makes it seem like people with long term conditions don’t want to be better. Most would give everything to be healthy, to be ‘normal’. There is already a guilt and shame around not working and I do worry suicides will rise if these plans go ahead.
I thought it was an offence?.
This government want the poor to fade themselves out, this government is pure evil.
Take this to the European human rights .
He's married to the daughter of a billionaire, but he's chipping away at the already pitifully low benefits paid to sick people. What a guy
Britain will become just like India under his rule. Hungry people will beg for food in the streets and will become homeless
Yep. He's a Tory politician
Remember the promise of Brexit. Singapore on Thames! This is a step in that direction.
WE ARE BECOMING MENTALLY UNSTABLE BECAUSE OF THIS COUNTRY
Don't you mean because of the Conservatives?
Exactly. Plus poverty, stress, poor-quality housing, and, oh yeah, Long Covid!
Sunak is twisted. A billionaire taking money off our poorest. Disgusting
This is what the English have voted for, over decades. The ruin of the UK is some achievement, well done England
Blame the English voters
Voters down south entirely to blame
Let's see what comments get removed by the shadow ban today, all saying the same thing in different wording.
People who get p.i.p arent the poorest lol
More mental health issues
More suicides
More struggling families
More crime
More pressure on services
More waiting times
More for the poor NHS !
They deem that as success
😢
And the government gives your money away
I am 63 and suffer from Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, have Arthritis in my hands knees and hips and have Morton’s Neuroma disease. How in Gods name am I expected to work? The threat of stopping your payments is scaremongering! This man has to be stopped!!! I’d like to see his money being stopped!!!
He shouldent be in that job ,
Im in very similar position but thought Id be thankfull that I reached pension age recently at 66. I bet Labour and the Tories will be making us poorer .....I think a tory MP called us old codgers...... all of us are in danger with the tories or labour in power.
Im so angry that if there was rioting I do my damdest to join in!
With your health I doubt if they would cut benefits. I think he's targeting those that play the system and believe me there are alot
@@Missy-mn6cc This is ridiculous. The VAST majority of people that get denied PIP and challenge it have the decision reversed once it goes through the court. The statistics about benefit fraud include numbers from clerical mistakes made by the system and people that get underpaid and not given the money they should receive. Plus whatever does get wasted is by a mile cancelled out by the vast sea of people who should be receiving them and don't have the ability to withstand the disgusting process of proving how unwell they are and the mentally ill people who have conditions that affect their whole lives, but which aren't accounted for in the paperwork and the process of getting approved. When the checkmarks for you don't exist, you don't get to tick them. I'm one of those people. I suffer every day, I live in a never ending state of fatigue and have a whole list of mental health disorders. I would not get the points for PIP. I wouldn't be able to withstand the process even if I would. I am 100% unable to work and the only reason I have a job is my employer being my friend and letting me only do the very easy tasks that don't demand much from me physically, so I'm sitting near him for most of the day not really doing anything. How many employers do you know who would do that for a disabled person? Who else will hire me for what job exactly? I'd be absolutely fudged without my current job. I have no idea what I could possibly do then.
@@Missy-mn6cc Sadly, it doesn't matter what's wrong with you, if you don't have the mental strength to fight, you can and will lose everything.
Of course, the minority fiddling the system know just how to work it all, and so 'toughening up' the system will only hurt the innocent.
In order for sick and disabled people to work there needs to be employers willing to hire and pay them. They never talk about that side of the equation.
especially people with mental issues: employers really struggle, they are scared (It is more unpredictable than somebody in a wheelchair)...it is called prejudice and it exists. My nephew experiences this every time he applies, or even goes for interviews.
Sir,
You have given the best reply nobody on earth will hire sick people and no people on earth want to be labelled as sick people
Well said !
Its the same with the age thing , im 51 and lucky to be in employment, however , if I lost my job tommorrow , is a new employer going to hire me or a much younger and cheaper person !
You cant win with this governement unless your earning 6 figures a year .
This governement is so out of touch with real life .
Company will not want to fit the bill for ill works time and time for people who are not reliable to even turn up for work even if there do how it affects health and safety in the work place and other works will be insane
Wouldn't it have been useful to have a meeting with business leaders & Employers to discuss how they would reorganise their workplaces to accommodate people with heath conditions.
Shameful by Sunack & his crue to give a speech in the Centre for Social Justice. GENERAL ELECTION NOW.
Plenty of money for wars but no money for the most vulnerable in society???
💯 but the state of the armed forces is alarming.
Yes Sir,
The rich rules the land same landlord policy hate the poor and disabled
@@AC_Milan1899The state of our politicians reflects the state of our country?
And plenty money also spent on ppl arriving on dingaa
I totally agree with you! It’s disgusting
Money for Ukraine, Money for Isreal, no money for your own people. Can someone explain?
They want the disabled dead, that's it. Nothing complex.
Politicians don't care about you.
We keep voting for the same party's hoping for a change in our fortunes when history proves otherwise.
..Sunak certainly hasn't 'explained' so far! i don't think he's capable.
Money the warmonger nations .. Its sick that those countries don't or will not support the UK ppl . It's cheaper to pay for treatment .. Well then pay for my geno threapy .. I am game so are 20 thousand others ..
£650 billions for the banks in 2008, £450 billions for business during covid but not even £10 billions for the NHS while battling against the same covid. Can’t people see what’s wrong here?
yes the taxes those buisness and banks pay pays for your tax credits.
@@mawdeeps7691Jog on
The banks and most businesses pay very little in the way of tax.
Companies like Amazone, Google, Meta, pay virtually no real tax.
So sit down and go back to sleep
Yes, it's called privatised profit, socialised risk. Win win for 'them' and a lose lose for us ordinary schmucks
@mawdeeps7691 The tax that I pay on my pension does also. I worked for that pension and I don't mind what I earned, helping those who are poorly paid. What I object to, is subsidizing the profits of those businesses that exploit their employees, and paying tax that finds its way into the coffers of the PEP shysters who are Tory Party donors.
There are some Tories who donate more to the Tory Party than they do to the exchequer, and they don't do that for my benefit or yours.
@@mawdeeps7691 lay off the booster jabs jeez ! You’d think you’d have woken up by now.
People are becoming sick with the stress of life in this country.
HOW RIGHT YOU ARE , WELL SAID ❤
That's what they want .
Indeed
Thisss!!!
So true low wages, high tax and terrible leadership it’s no surprise everyone is feeling it
Didn't this guy marry a billionaire. The disdain for lower income people is astonishing.
Don't forget he was ashamed to admit he had working class mates.
He clearly married her for money, shows how greedy and power hungry he is
@@MrSmith_ He was probably ashamed because it was a lie - he immediately denied having any working class friends.
@@MrSmith_ he hasnt got working class mates
No she only had 700 million quid but was the daughter of an Indian billionaire. Sunak with a piddling 250 million is a low income person by comparison and I think we should all have sympathy for him because living in such poverty is tough 🤣
Get him and his cronies OUT - he wasn’t voted in the first place!!
No premier has ever been voted in , that's not how it works 😫
@@The-General36we know how it works. He wasn't voted in by his own members and achieved PM status by default after the other candidates all dropped out, one by one.
Yes !!!
I'm a mental health nurse. This is all true. We can't do our job. The government don't give us what we need. His new plan is beyond offensive because it clarifies his lack of knowledge, awareness and compassion towards the situation. It's been dire for years. Even before COVID and Brexit. It just gets worse and worse.
As previous patient in psych wards with depression many times between 1999-2020 i can honestly say the decline in both help from hospitals as well as community mental health is now atrocious. I can't even get any help anymore. The government have a lot to answer for
The Poor and the Sick are easy targets with no power or voice.
The only voice the infirm of us have is our voice if only we used it
I honestly think it is the poor of any kind they really really don't like at all.
And labour are just as twisted.
@@Coelacanth1It falls on deaf ears when we speak.
"sick".... riiiiight.
@@AdamDaviesSussex So nobody has ever got sick? Even during the pandemic? Riiight.
Sunak and the Tories need to be voted out ASAP
They will be.
and then what? labour spending money you don't have? ahaha
My thoughts too, I will be voting reform Party this year.
If the Tories managed to get this horror show through before the election, Starmer would give some lame excuse and keep it
Lolllll and labour going to get uk back on the straight ? Labour been busy budding up to imams . No thanks
One of my friends, ex-colleagues and a professional, had a massive nervous breakdown, was diagnosed with bipolar, amazing guy, great at his job. He managed to get a job without disclosing his health issue and was immediately dismissed years later when they found out. He now cannot get a job for love nor money. Thanks Rishi, you absolute plank!
Disgusting. My husband managed (somehow) to work 40 years. He clearly has had issues since childhood. He got into smoking dope at grammar school. He gets addicted to hobbies. He can’t do things without taking it to excess. His family ignore his problems. All his employers knew he was super intelligent (a systems analyst), but gave no support. Now he is a pensioner struggling with addiction.
@@jennifersivewright3117 if you can afford it??? Get help privately. You'd probably be waisting you time with NHS,..one size fits all. If you can't afford private consultation, get a loan and don't pay back...try and rip off the very system that's making you ill, if you can. Worse case sinario, if you decide on my advice reg loan...as long as you do not open the door/let in bailiffs.... there's nothing they can do (use the back door only)....but if you go 'this' way.... there really is nothing they can do as long as you don't let them in, regardless of their rhetoric. (Sovereign Empowerment)
He took money for Israel and no money for poor sick people😢,Shame! Shame.
What's wrong with this man? He is unelected and abusing his position
Should Never have been in Power, Why was he able to be Shoed IN.
That's mad, i just thinking the same
Never forget : hes no backbone- hes just a puppet for big Men in Grey Suits running our once great country.
Every time we think this is the worst PM in our lifetime, along comes the next one to prove us wrong.
RS is under Cameron thumb...the Roman empire is still alive...
Including and since CaMoron
Are we forgetting Liz Truss now.
We suffered Thatcher now we are suffering her hand puppets.
@@caldwellfisher5288Sunak is worse…
"Gosh!!! Why are therir so many sick people??" 1) Lack of mental health provision, 2) Covid19 and Long Covid, 3) The largest waiting lists in history, 4) People too poor to afford real food, 5) Overworked. 6) Can't get a doctor's appointment.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
The scare mongering
Overworked and underpaid
Drug and alcohol addiction is so over looked in mental health
Sunak is vile. Punching down to the most vulnerable whilst robbing us all blind and grifting like crazy.
"Most vulnerable"..... Lazy dossers. Now people work from home, there is no excuse for the majority to sponge from the minority. 54% of households now are economically inactive on living from state borrowing as the other 46% cant work harder to pay any more taxes to foot the bill for the majority to have a free lifestyle.
Ids brought the policy in to steal from the unemployed working poor and the vulnerable
He is. But dont worry, nothing on this will get done or change. Its a political stunt before the election to try to win some right wing votes. He has also stated its a pledge for the manifesto. So in other words he would do this if re elected in November. And there is zero chance of that happening. So he can go and bleep himself. Irony is Cameron spouted all this in 2010 with his austerity drive. He put in Duncan Smith to force it all through and they started their crusade of tipping people out of wheelchairs etc....And it failed. It was so wrong, so controversial and so badly done that it was dropped and tailed off. What actually happened, was, for every person who had their payments stopped by ATOS with no medical evidence to back the ATOS team.... The person claiming then went to appeal and a Doctor etc over ruled ATOS and reinstated the money. It was a disaster for ATOS and the government. The ATOS contract was taken from them in the end and not renewed. There were so many problems and staff at ATOS were getting death threats and physical attacked so often as they were unprepared and unqualified to deal with mental health patients. This will all end up the long grass with the minimum of fiddling at the edges but a lot of noise for a short period of time...sooner the election comes the better. Sunak is a snake.
It's "virtue signalling" for their electorate. Anyone more moderate will not vote Tory for sure. They're after the nutcases now.
The fact he called it a "life style". I didn't CHOOSE to have Autism, I didn't CHOOSE to struggle sometimes with simple tasks like brush my teeth, have a shower, wash the dishes. I didn't CHOOSE to have crippling social and generalised Anxiety, which has made me scared to go outside or to meet up with friends and go places. I didn't CHOOSE to have PTSD from past events of an alcoholic mother and being abandoned left right and centre.
My sympathies are with you. Thank you for stating your autism and the anxiety that goes with it. The more autistic suffers tell the world about their condition, the better . To all of you out there, stand proud.
Late diagnosed autistic with anxiety, depression, ptsd and lower limb disabilities here. I relied on PIP to live, it took 2 years and a tribunal to get. If it wasn't for a very understanding sister, I'd not be here today. The DWP will turn down a person with no legs just because they didn't fill the forms in exactly how they want.
Let's go to the main root causes of mental health issues: a toxic work culture, cost of living crisis, covid, having to work more hours for less pay. The list goes on!
@@Mr.Glitch If you can hold a pen, then you are classed as, "Fit For Work"... Now all that they need to do now (before they get sanctioned) is find a £40,000 pa job (a living wage), where all that's required for you to do 8 hrs a day is, hold a pen! (and maybe tie a couple of shoelaces).
The sad thing about people aka society they blame the person for things that happened to them than the people that are doing it to us, because it's easier this way than to solve economics of exploitation.
We all know there are plenty of benefit scroungers in the UK, but the problem is that the genuinely needy are tarred with the same brush by government. They perceive anyone needing help from the state as a complete low life, who is by default 'swinging the lead'. Even if that person as worked and payed into the system all of their life.
No benefits cutting from Ukraine zelensky, Israel and MPs.
I’ve had anxiety and depression since aged 20. I’m now 58 and have been a carer for my wife since 1995. We claim benefits and have a standard of living that is scraping the barrel accordingly. Last holiday was 2009, we literally ‘get by’ but that is all.
Accessing mental health services is a lottery and involves a very long wait for a ‘one size fits all’ policy that has become increasingly difficult to engage with. Yes Mr Sunak, a ‘bit of anxiety’ is something I’ve had to live with for my whole adult life. A life that feels like it was strangled at birth. I mean who would ‘choose’ a life like this?
Disgust. Deep,Deep Disgust is what I feel for this man.
Same here.....I am beyond Distgusted. General Election Now.
Why you on pip
@@wendyj400Why is your English broken?
@@KaeMaiden the English are broken badlry broken no wot ah meen?
@@KaeMaiden😂😂
Little Sunak a curse on the British people.
And one we did not vote for
A deliberate and planned curse
Poverty and lack of mental health provision is biggest problem. Suicide rates are also high. Sunak and other people like him have grown extremely richer in last 5 years. How about taxing them so can train more psychologists and psychiatrists?
My brother had a catatonic mental breakdown, severe depression to the point he didn't eat, sleep or wash, he was confused, and unresponsive, & if it wasn't for me, my brother would be dead by now, he wasn't even well enough to claim benefits, it was his family, me, his sister, who helped my brother, my brother suffered severe PTSD, he was fearful for his life, his anxiety was so bad that my brother, without me, would be dead because he would not even be able to claim benefits. So for Rishi Sunak to say that people with mental illness are claiming benefits is ridiculous because my brother was so confused & so unwell, he could not claim any money from the DWP, he wasn't even able to see his GP to be referred to the mental health team, I had to help him with that also, and even then it took over a year for the mental health team to get involved. Rishi Sunak sits in his golden throne, in 'la-la' land, totally out of touch with reality and what is really going on, and does not even bother speaking to people, like me, in the real world. I am furious at this man who sits in 'judgement' targeting the most vulnerable in society who needs protection, not unfair, judgemental and untrue accusations, that are a breach of human rights and defamation on someone's character, even unpaid carers, and the things he says are totally untrue. I feel sad, angry, frustrated, upset, insulted, and so helpless, and worried about how we are going to survive, more worrying causes severe stress and PTSD. Thank you very much Rishi Sunak for causing us so much distress we will need therapy!
I want to remind everyone that many, many businesses CLOSED DOWN during COVID and after COVID, in our town a huge department store called Debenhams closed down, Marks & spencer closed down, NEXT closed down, River Island Closed down, Beals closed down, Accessories closed down, Wilko closed down, HomeBase closed down, with many many more CLOSING DOWN, and all because of COVID, this is WHY the unemployment rate has gone up SINCE COVID, and not because people want to claim benefits, but because, they had no choice to claim benefits, if you become unemployed they need to claim benefits. Rishi Sunak is blinded to the real world where businesses has closed down, and this is just in one Town, this has happened in many towns including London, it is reported that perhaps Boots in our town will close down too. How can people go back to work if businesses close down at a rate that has seen unprecedented business closures since COVID??? The government is to blame for what happened, this Tory government. Then they want to shift the blame on the sick and disabled, propaganda designed to throw us off from the real issues of unemployment, so we don't blame a Tory government for their failures. Its like bullies in the playground targeting the most vulnerable with no voice or power to fight back against this injustice.
Rishi will be out of office before he has the chance to implement it.
unfortunately, they could impliment this in a month...but that's assuming they have any competence.
@@wheyayeman404 Sunak trying to appeal to the far right brexit lovers because he's failing on the migrant boats. He's all talk , no walk....
This is the maddest thing.unless they are completely insane they know really they wont win the election so they want to put the boot in on the most vulnerable people in society.this is the party that millions of british people were conned in to voting for because of brexit.please dont make same mistake again.
@@Dark_Bandonfar right? It's talk like that which puts men like this in power. Shelve the falsified morale superiority, you're no better.
Let's hope so
Sunak’s (latest) 5 point plan;
1. Marry a billionaire’s daughter & tell people to work harder for less money
2. Accuse people of committing benefit fraud while writing off BILLIONS in taxpayer money to fraudsters
3. Fly around in your helicopter to press conferences to announce policies based entirely on cruelty for those less fortunate
4. Replace actual doctors with bureaucrats who have been on a 3 day training course
5. Laugh like a demented madman when someone calls you out on your failures
But it’s all about looking after the taxpayer eh?
Haha, the only 5 point plan he's actually achieved!
Love this........1000percent correct👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍
Spot on! 100%
6. Spend people's tax money featuring Rattatoile Sunak aka "Home Alone "advert !!! His face is better suited for doing a driver's role in Bollywood flicks !!
@@EPIPHANY544 😂😂
Sick world we live in with people like sunak leading us.
If not for the safety of having a benefit, I would indeed most likely be dead not in work and that’s the sad truth.
I was born with a disability and I work full time. I have done all my life, and I have a university degree. This is getting nauseating, this is what cowardice looks like, always targeting the most vulnerable in society.
They will only get away with their plans if we let them
I worked from leaving school. Found jobs again after getting made redundant 3 times. Coming home from work one night, I was hit by a joyrider that ran off. I was left with injuries, that eventually impacted my work. Not all of us are workshy and it's not a choice.
So as someone who is disabled and has worked all your life so why should someone else with a disability not have to work if they can? You should be encouraging others to do the same.
@@keithmarshall8796, there's nothing wrong with encouraging people to work IF THEY CAN... the point is reducing benefits for people who CANNOT WORK....duh
I've had a chronic condition from birth, I've qualified for benefits since I was a child but never received a penny. I've been a grafter for 40yrs, paid my way and a net contributor to the country so explain to me how so many people with a "bad back" or "mental health issues" have been allowed to not work or contribute for most of their working lives?. What we need is to abolish the nanny state that Labour left and the Tory party continued and get back to people doing something to contribute if they genuinely can't work. FFS you can work from home as a call handler so why are so many people unable to work and pay their way?. The jobs are there so don't use that as an excuse.
Q: "What's wrong with this man?"
A: "He doesn't have working class friends."
His failure and he blame on venerable poor ill people
He doesn’t care, all he is interested in is the rabid right wing voters he thinks will get them back in.
Ill from what alcohol poisoning
A 1% wealth tax on £10+ multimillionaires raises £22+ billion a year. That's £2,000+ for each child per year in the UK. Tax workers less. Tax wealth more.
He has no friends
I work with young adults in a hostel, we see them getting sanctioned and unable to get pip due to their mental health letting them down to the point that they cannot jump through the hoops needed to in order to claim it already. The people in the hostel are not living their best lives, the ones that aren’t working need to eat whilst they work on their mental health and build a better life for themselves, I am dreading how much worse this is going to get for them, it’s not going to motivate them into work.
there is no support or help to get back into work. People want to work but need support to do it.They have scrapped all support workers or services that assist the sick and disabled to rehabilitate and reintegrate
is what rishi just did by calling disabilities a ''lifestyle choice'' a hate crime?
Discrimination .
It’s a hate crime
Is class discrimination a hate crime?
It should be.
This is so evil, what are schizophrenic, bipolar, OCD and chronic depressed people going to do.
Get a job, stop being lazy making excuses?
@@flinnray1393
Ignorance is bliss eh ? You have no clue at all what some people are going through , I work , but in the past I needed some help to get through some problems. Many of these people want to work and get into society.
@flinnray1393 with that one statement with no idea of the pain it involves for these people & their family around them shows everything I need to know about your character. An intolerant lack of empathy individual with no thought for anyone other than yourself someone I would never wish to meet or have anytime for. 😡
@@flinnray1393 Aren't we the profiteer then ?
@@flinnray1393 Sounds like the upperclass argument that needs an excuse to clarify their income
I dont know anyone that gets £950 a month
Does he forget that he made his money from his Pharma company. Meaning these people he wants to destroy are the people who keep him able to afford the private spar in his weekend home
If this was about looking after taxpayers' money, he'd be closing the tax loopholes that benefit people like him and his family. But of course it isn't. It's yet another chapter in Tories' antagonism against the most disadvantaged in society. Austerity on steroids. He and his party devastated this country's socioeconomic fabric in the last 14 years. They don't have a single positive to show for their time in government.
That's unfair, surely it's a positive for all the Tory donors who were only millionaires and are now billionaires thanks to the hard work on cosy Tory cronyism, amoral tax avoidance loopholes, undeserved bonus incentives, relaxing of red tape, lack of corporate accountability, control of most of the media, and the carving up and privatisation of public services. What an unprecedented list of achievements. Maggie Thatcher eat your heart out!
@@MrDiddyDee You're right, all that takes real hard work.
Close the borders
He cant stop benefits it's illegal under human rights act 1996 which states no one including government has the right to torture or cause physical suffering to human being so deprive food to people is torture so people take government to court sue them it will cost pm then benefits total muppet I'm on uc I have PTSD minor brain injury and dvt want to work been going for interviews they dont want to know cant get disability benefits as not enough points on system
Close the tax havens.
The rich guy telling the poor guy “you’re just faking. Life is not that difficult.”
I know people struggling with mental health not claiming benefits but struggling so badly that suicidal worries plague the family and the access to help is so confusing and little.
The man is divorced from reality! He occupies the same planet of the working class but lives in a very different world!
He's running out of time, and clearly out of ideas. Reheating the "scroungers vs strivers" distraction and trying to force feed it to the country seems like his only option. Pathetic!
The welfare bill is through the roof and unsustainable - that makes it more than relevant
the Tory Party are the ultimate scroungers
An absolutely disgusting piece of proposed legislation. Wants to penalise people who are struggling greatly with life, on a daily basis, but is quite content to throw our taxpayers money, hand over fist, at all the illegal dingy divers entering the Country on a daily basis.
We all know that MPs are corrupt, but this particular Government takes that to a whole new level !
@@mogznwaz The bill for immigration illegal and legal is even more unsustainable as is the bill to pay useless politicians and all their hidden expenses. For every person that shouldn't be on benefits there are two people who should be but are not.
@@mogznwaz Squirrel! 🐿️👉🏿
If they want people to stay in work with long term conditions then deal with the discrimination of employers towards people with conditions.
I couldnt agree more. Discrimination is absoltely rife just hidden more elaborately
Absolutely right. I'd love a job, but it's another full time job trying to figure out which employers are serious about employing disabled people, and who's just wasting your time. Honestly, if the Government matched me to a job tomorrow, I'd give 110% to make it work. It can't be done through the job centre because that excludes all of us who would be exempt from working anyway. There needs to be another agency that doesn't simply exist to fluff up the unemployment statistics. I'm partially paralysed from the neck down. I've got cracking admin skills and three Degrees (yes three!) If any employer can make it work for me, that paves the way for other employees with a bad back, or people who can't work without quick access to an accessible toilet. A couple of months extra training would qualify me to help support colleagues who might be struggling with anxiety and depression. There must be millions of people in that position. I can't drive or use public transport. My husband would need to get me to work, but why shouldn't he have Carers' Allowance if his work is contributing to the economy, too. The problem is that I'm *too disabled* to be considered unemployed.
You nail an interview, you are praised by your CV and work history, the moment you mention a mental health illness, even one you manage to keep "under control", PTSD for example, you never hear again from that employer. The worst part? You are legally "forced" to disclose it as it could be reason for dismissal not to. Employers are legally "forced" not to discriminate but they just hire a different candidate. Game is rigged.
@@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158this is unfortunately the case for physical disabilities too. People seem to have this idea that employers want to have a diverse workforce, so they WANT to hire disabled people (physical or mental). This is absolutely NOT the case. Employers avoid you like the plague as soon as you disclose any form of disability, because it doesn’t benefit them. Why would they want to hire someone who can only work limited hours that they have to make accommodations for, when they could hire an able-bodied person who can work full hours. Employers simply aren’t willing to make any adjustments or go out of their way to accommodate you. I’ve noticed that a lot of job applications now have a mandatory yes/no question of “do you have a disability?”. I legally have to answer yes, even though I know that doing so will guarantee that I won’t get the position.
This guy should be jail very sick man honestly people we need to protect our old people and the disabled get rid of the Tory’s but we got money for other countries and war how about spending it on our own people
I used to work in a hospital. I suffer not only from a physical disability but from the mental trauma at seeing how they treated my mother resulting in her death from hospital negligence and medical negligence. I was on a waiting list to be seen by a team who would help with my mental state. I waited over 8 months and never got the help even though I was staff. They are utterly digusting and I left on the grounds of ill health. I don't regret ever leaving as I saw what was happening in there. I still suffer from the trauma and I will never recover from it.
The British people have suffered enough - leave them alone. Stop sending our money abroad and spend it on our sick, disabled, unemployed, elderly and homeless.
Hear, hear I agree totally. In fact Id say that its a treasonous thing to spend british taxes on things that are foriegn unless the public are asked directly if its ok.
Wishful thinking's not going to change Tory Government policy's! I used to believe in the establishment! woe is me!
I agree 100 per cent
So many people sick, sick of the tories.
Aye the government and what the government has done is a cause of mental ill health, certainly the continuation as just imagine what fear does, then imagine what constantly being blamed does.
Labour and lib Dems are the same. All the same.
@@HazzR8 tell that to everyone else who just cant stop voting thinking the next secret society puppet presidant is going to lead us better in every term for 100s of years...
They need a note then!
am tied of tories
So glad to hear Dr Sarah Hughes stress just how difficult it actually is to get PIP in the first place, AND that the almost mandatory appeals almost always get overturned because an actual doctor is involved.
It's got to be one of the most dehumanising systems for disabled people in the western world.
My daughter falls into this category. She has been homeless for three years, has a brain tumour and so many bad things in her life that she has severe depression. We were just getting things on track and looking at flats (all over priced). Now back at square 1. The fear of losing her benefits has cancelled all hope.
I have never claimed benefits in my entire life. The thing is though this is an absolutely disgusting policy from an absolutely disgusting government fronted by an extremely disgusting excuse for a human being.
but there are many playing the benefits system , like the bulgarian gang who scammed 52 million of benefits from the taxpayer 2 week ago
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Bulgarian's shouldn't get UK benefits in the first place. It should only be for the British people.
@@davidmccann9811 the welfare state should be available for anyone who pays taxes in the UK ... Bulgarians welcome to claim if they've paid into the system. Tax avoiding Tories shouldn't be getting their parliamentry homes bought for them off our backs. Focus on the real enemy. You've more in common with a working class Bulgarian then you ever will a true blue upper class English Conservative.
indulge your brain a bit and read what Sunak is saying before mouthing off
@@davidmccann9811that's discrimination. Stop being a Reform parrot
The Tories cruelty knows no bounds.
This.
They don't want a happy, healthy, productive workforce, apparently? It's idiocy masquerading as cruelty.
You're right of course. But the most bewildering thing about this is why now? Why when they are on the floor in the pols do they want to make it even worse for themselves. Its inconceivable that they think this will do anything other than turn even more people against them. And the worst part is they cant get any legislation though before the election so its like shooting themselves in the foot with both barrels. Sunak is politically useless now it seems he is also clueless.
will be more of the tax payers cruelty, DWP will refuse they go to court Tax payers will pay for lawyer disabled rights staff docktor DWP staff etc, so it will be more money to be spend from tax payers,
Cruelty is the point
If this goes threw I have a feeling crimes like shoplifting and other theft will rise dramatically
And because the police, courts and prisons have been massively underfunded by corrupt tories, there's very little anyone would be able to do about it.
Unless they're a Labour deputy leader, then there's infinite police resources to go over a case that's already been looked into.
Worse crimes than that ....
As somebody with Autism and PTSD the majority of British workplaces talk the talk, but the reality is they are not interested in taking on people with mental health problems, disabilities or those with gaps in their employment. Those who do manage to get a job are quite often pushed out as managers are clueless how to support them in their role.
Same issues as me exactly. Employers love to employ me because I tick the diversity boxes. They don't support me because I don't "fit in" or "cause problems". I've whistleblown quite a few times because of the autism/PTSD where others were scared to. They really don't appreciate being told they've broke the law. One care company I worked for were sxually abusing people in their care who had similar issues to me. Me and coworker whistleblew. Fired us both within a week. UK isn't ready for us in the workforce. I've had 8 jobs and only one was genuinely supportive
Its disgraceful. Does the man not realise by issuing all these threats and things, he is making people who are ill worse. Im disabled & have been medically retired due to my worsening health. By Sunak talking like this it sends my pain through the roof because of all the worry.
i know right, i’ve been on and off work with mental illness for years, not once have i ever been asked, ‘what would it take for you to be able work?, what jobs do you think you could do?’… that might be a start before threatening cuts… not to mention the difficulty finding a job having had past mental health… it’s a joke how is it even being taken seriously
Me too!
Send him packing, get him out of office now!! 800million in his back pocket this guy has no idea what it’s like living on the breadline.
Well said
Sunak is richer than the king of England and has never wanted for anything in his life. Why would he even understand or even care about poor or ill people?
If this country was more similar to Italy he'd have been wearing concrete boots a lot sooner than expected.
That's easy to answer = BECAUSE THERE IS **ALWAYS** MONEY FOR WAR BUT NEVER ENOUGH MONEY FOR THE POOR.
That's because of the depopulation agenda
Does anyone remember ATOS and how they persecuted seriously ill ppl? .....and it's STILL GOING ON!
I had a PIP assessment, it was one of the worst experiences of my life…….. I have MS, and couldn’t work with pain and fatigue, but I still got turned down. I couldn’t face reapplying, so I never did.
Horrendous and cost more than it made. All to get few pretending they had bad backs n claiming. Pediatric Prof assessing mental illness and visa versa
80% of cases after being taken to tribunal were reinstated. Causing stress and 100s of deaths.
@@sandimoo that's what they want!...for you to give in! When you are ill, you can't function etc, etc but if you take your time and fill in the forms and when you've had enough put the forms down and attack it another day. As long as you know that they will reject your claim UNTILL you take it to tribuneral! Tribuneral is totally independent of dwp and dwp are trying to deter ppl from taking it further. Their mission is to try to stop ppl going all the way to tribuneral. I have been fighting these b*****ds for years and I have always won due to perseverance but it's hard when you're low and no one to help....take your time is the best advice and never give in....detach yourself from the process and plod on with your claim....you have nothing to lose as long as you don't let them wind you up and let make you feel as though you're not ill enough.
They need to investigate and stop benefits, for those in the House of Lords, and Parliament first. The real ' benefit' scroungers.
Expect crime to go up if this happens
It Will rents go up wages don’t go up a joke
I've got no issues paying for people on Benefits but I've got big issues throwing millions and millions at looking after illegal immigrants coming here with no right to being here
Right on
100%
Yes man !! And they all seem to have no probs getting top PIP N the rest as they know how to play the system..
Second that!
Same. Some people who have been sick or disabled recover and return to paying tax. People often forget that. If I recover from my illness I could be one of those contributors in the future, and I will be happy to pay out for benefits. But not for illegal immigrants and wars.
My son, who is autistic, has been reassessed and reassessed for PIP, he finds it enormously challenging and frightening, i talk for him as his recognised appointee, this has been going on since was diagnosed virtually at 6 years old i have had 3 requests this years already, the last assessor , who had no health qualification which understood autism, i resorted to asking her if Jesus had returned to earth and performed a miracle. He no longer had autism..now he is terrified that he will lose his pip and his enhanced UC. You get him into work Sunak, and you can take the responsibility if he commits suicide. I am sick of them all
I’m in the same position with my 22 year old son . Big hug
@@gabrielahatter1987also there are so few jobs available anyway.
I empathise with you..its so wrong the stress that person is causing is awful. 😢
Everyone just has to hold on a little longer, this shower will be out soon. Let's hope it's not a case of meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Sadly they will more than likely be worse @Mo.867
I remember the Tory slogan "We Are All In It Together".
What lies the Tories told.
The reality was the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.
With food banks in every community cuts to public services and the safety net forcing UK men, women and children to use food banks to survive.
Mental Health...From the trauma of having this mind rotting government for 14 years.
The fact that Sunak is leader of the tory party says it all.The tories should be outlawed and imprisoned for the theft from the poorest in our society.
Have we forgotten Cameron's austerity back to work scheme that killed 120. 000 sick and disabled before Ian Duncan Smith crawled off in Shame and the scheme later scrapped now its wheeled out again
330,000 according to a recent very extensive an indepth report.
@@wheyayeman404 even at half of the guardian's 120 k its horrific
IDs created universal credit and found sick fit to work who later died they made him a sir,
PIP isn't even for people who can't work. You can claim it while working full time, with no earning threshold. Someone who can self propel a manual wheelchair due to paralysis but has a 50 hour a week job that pays 300k a year can still get PIP lol. It's for personal care and mobility needs. The reason he's trying to go after PIP for mental illness is that their new Universal Credit plan will only award the health component to people who have a PIP award. So you can be too sick to work but not so sick you need a carer or specialist equipment (just as an example, you really do need to be profoundly unwell physically or mentally, or both, to get PIP and even then it's not guaranteed, literally nobody is getting it just because they're a bit sad sometimes without having a dishonest doctor and stellar acting skills, and immense luck) and because you don't need that additional day to day support, you will be considered fit to work.Campaigners worked for years to get the work capability assessments changed as they were causing measurable harm to disabled people, and so the government has agreed to scrap them.. and replace them with this, which is so much worse, because it doesn't even have anything to do with what it's aiming to deal with.
This is much worse he said if the disabled and sick haven't found work after 12 months with the help from the work coach all benefits will be stripped, also doctors getting stripped from signing sick notes and giving that power to other specialists
I went off sick in 2010 for knee replacement when I was self employed. Im a veteran and the stress of trying to cope with the benefits system caused me mental health issues that I was not aware I had. I was eventually diagnosed with PTSD,s and complex mental health issues. To this day I have never recieved any treatments because I was told none are avaiable. I secretly recorded most of the assessments I was forced to attend and if I knew how to get them put up on line I would.
Every assessment I had to attend told me I was fit for work and everyone of them was overturned at magistrates court where a judge and a doctor assessed my case with evidence provided that these assessors ignorred. On several occasions the judge allowed my covert recordings.
I had one asessment where despit having an appointment I had to wait hours. When I went i to the room to be assessed the HCP was very aggresive. She actually
terminated the assessment stating I was verbally abusive, not answering questions. The audio and video recording I took shows clearly this was not the case. She just wanted to go home on time !
Everything for ALL THE ILEGALS though!!
We have to remember this is someone that asked a homeless man in a soup kitchen if he works in business??? The man is like a robot with zero capacity for emotional empathy or critical introspection!!!
He told us he has no working class friends. He had to borrow someone else's car to pretend he was putting petrol in an average car. Then didn't know how to use a contactless card to make a simple payment. He's so well connected to the average Brit, isn't he?
@@hg82met Wow, shocking!!!
@@bearbaler1456You should look up the video, it's deeply hilarious until you remember this is the man who thinks he knows how people should live.
they always rise to the top!
@@cupguin thanks, I'll have a look at that.
The amount of people working and still having to claim some sort of benefit because work does not reflect the cost of living is scary.
They like to portray people that claim benefits as 'work shy', but fail to highlight that a huge percentage of people claiming benefits have jobs. Many work full time.
@@davidmccann9811 no most dont work more than 20 hrs a week and because of this are better off than thoose who work 40+.
edit source Analysis by Civitas of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data from 2020-21 showed a record 54.2% of people (36 million) now live in households which received more in benefits than they contributed in taxes.
Some of these benefits take your wages of you £ for £. If you earn too much in the month. Then take away 45% in the £ depending again on earning that month
@@purplevelvet69 proved my point
@@mawdeeps7691 Yes I was agreeing with you, just adding a little info. Also those saying people only work 20 hours and no more isn't true either. If you have children age 3 or over you have to try find work for 30 to 36 hours. So the more you earn the more they take off you, you can also get sanctioned on not finding the hours
I am one of those people who suffer with mental health issues and i cant even get through to my GP surgery. Last time i suffered with depression this bad, i was offered medication as no treatment was available. With the lack of funding for our precious NHS, there will always be people who are off work long term until they can see a professional to get well, mentally and physically. The work culture is also one where your bosses make you feel like you cant take time off if you are ill.
And now he's even saying they will cut unemployment benefits after a year. I still remember Cameron and Osbourne talking about Labour camps for the unemployed but back then we had human rights.
This man is making the whole country sick 😊 just Resign . Useless for the ordinary folk in the UK 🇬🇧 Country & Citizens. Enough is Enough .
Absolutely agree...Sunack, Johnson & the rest of the Tory debacle have certainly made me 🤮 sick & utterly disgusted in why our country has sunk so low.
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Thirteen years of Tories has made the country sick and depressed. It's called having no hope
NEVER forget the people who gave these goons an 80 SEAT MAJORITY.
Many of them are dead now.
Yes the REFORM goons!
Well the North had better get their head around things. If they still want Tories they are mad!!
Brexit voters
No-one elected Truss or Sunak, the country was in a much better state in 2019...
He’s doing this as needs the money to look after illegal immigrants as they are more important 🤬😡🤬😡
Don't be silly.
Meanwhile, a number of people are currently looking for work after their roles were made redundant due to cut-backs by employers.
Luckily, there are around a million vacancies they can apply for.
Most of the UK’s benefits bill is spent on pensions and housing benefit. Most of that housing benefit money goes directly to private landlords. We never hear anything about trying to claw back money from greedy landlords do we. I wonder why that is? Could it be because most Tory MPs are landlords?
Correct!!!!
like jeremy hunt
If the state still owned social infrastructure we could have all benefitted yet they sold these all off to their wealthy mates
Boom! We need to hear this a LOT more - broadening the conversation to bring people into realising that housing benefits go almost exclusively go to paying private landlords for their second, third and fourth homes. If the landlords start struggling, maybe they should consider getting jobs...
I would argue that pensions aren't a benefit. People have worked and paid for those pensions. It's their money. Not the government's
Because Sunak is cruel and lacks compassion.
Because he has no sole 👿 he is the Devil 👿😈👹👹👹☠️☠️☠️
He isn't cruel, just utterly indifferent.
I have suffered with schizophrenia for 25yrs .the stress of office politics at work would make me ill .
if your benefits are stopped
Please file an appeal against the government
Can't afford to look after the sick but can afford £12billion for UKraine, plus arms for other countries Wars... hmm..
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Exactly!
Hang on....so he wants to save a bit of money? Yet how many millions are being spent on these illegal immigrants hotels?
3 billion a year just for ilegals, 3 to 4 billion promised to Ukraine yearly. Legal migration is even way more because majority are dependent on us, very few self sufficient bringing money into the country.
They are top at wasting money but moan enough about saving some.
And how much was splurged on C0 v id measures? I've heard something not far off £400B ? And they're wondering why there's no money for anything now, wow.
What about the billions in fraudulent Covid contract that Sunak wrote off
And billions for Ukraine how much have we given them know ffss pisstake this is
You hit it right on the head where did rishi sunak get his medical degree. He has pushed the NHS to it's breaking point in my opinion he is just trying to line his own pockets before being voted out.
No one on pip gets 950 per month, the very most you can get for both components, and there are very few who qualify, is £798..The vile, lying so-called DWP boss should be sacked for his blatatnt lies, saying those on pip receive 'thousands.' What an absolute disgrace he is still in a job, and all tory MP's are the real scroungers with their expenses on top of their ridiculous wages....
We've seen this before in 1997. When the game is up, the mask slips. Arrogance, cruelty, pathological hubris and selfishness are the Tory way. Always has been, always will be.
Yet we continually vote them in. Even traditional working class areas fell for Boris's lies. The stupidity of the British public knows no bounds.
Will we vote 97 way?
So you think millions of people scamming the taxpayers is ok then? Because that’s EXACTLY what’s happening.
@@mogznwazMate, from your post, I can see that it's pretty obvious you have NO idea what's happening.
@@dannycarter1966we do not vote the tories in, the first-past-the-post voting system allows the tories to win and the fact the more people vote for non-Tory parties than do.
My aunt has autism, she requires hearing aids, she has problems with her legs and lungs stemming from birth issues. Shes 68, she can't function by herself. She lives with her mother (my grandma). She's addicted to her computer, she can't understand basic things, she's difficult to get along with, she's physically unfit and she's only getting worse. Care workers can't seem to help her and have about had enough of trying. The doctors can't help her, in fact she can't even manage to get a doctors appointment without my grandma's help because they just keep blowing her off. Every job she's had she has been treated terribly at and she had a terrible performance.
By no means can she function as an adult on her own. No chance of it. Living with her is a nightmare for my grandma and being around her enough anyone could see that. Literally everything about her is difficult.
Last month her PIP was taken off of her with no notice or indication that she had done something to deserve it. Her care worker wasn't sure why either. She's now got to survive on her UC and it's not enough for my grandma to look after her well and all of my uncles are pitching in to help financially.
It's just not acceptable Sunak. Not acceptable at all. You can't treat people like this. Everyone deserves to live.
Get help from CAB to appeal the PIP decision
Appeal asap
@@Jules-fx2sc don’t use CAB. Use your local council’s welfare rights department. Much better.
Surely everyone who is effected by this horrible man should write to their MP and to the PM demanding that the PM resign.
The majority of people with mental health can't even manage to apply within time limits unless you have a support network
He wants to look at the politicians wages. Cut their wages. They never take a drop.
The UK has the 6th largest economy in the world. Where is all the money going? It's certainly not going into our public services or helping the vulnerable in our society.
I read that the UK has the 5th richest economy in the World, but only the 12th highest standard of living in Europe (just 50 countries). Work that one out.
It's going into offshore tax havens. We're being robbed and asset stripped
Illegal immigrants and work shy benefits claimants
Wars, and funding isreal
Zelensky
I think the public must be properly informed as to just how many non British born people are on benefits and in housing. There is a reason we can't afford anything, that money is just vanishing, the debt keeps on going up and we get not a lot of bang for our buck .... labour is just more of the same .... we need total reform.
Vote Reform!!
He probably doesn't believe they are sick.he shouldn't be funding the Eukraine War, and needs someone to blame. The Government are to blame for wasting the people's money.
A lot of people don't claim benefits because it's already a nightmare filling out the form...
19 billion goes unclaimed. Mostly from people who genuinely need it. They make it difficult to claim. Yet all the time they want benefits cut. NO ....Tories want all benefits GONE.
When my dad could no longer work, due to a cancer diagnosis, the nook we had to fill in to claim any benefits was unbelievable. If I didn’t have somebody to help fill them out, he wouldn’t have got anything. My dad worked his whole life paying into “the system” and claimed for all of 2.5 years, then died.
@@mandyboyns9321 I believe that. The forms are a nightmare!!