Are British workers lazy? Feat. Nelufar Hedayat & Angela Epstein | Storm Huntley

[@janebufton1960]

Work doesn't pay for the average worker.

[@dianecameron137]

so yes they are lazy then if this is the kind of comments

[@janebufton1960]

@dianecamero people got to live,, people got to survive. If you are working on £25 a month and welfare is £600 ,a month. That's not laziness, and comments isn't going g to change anything g to enable people to live and survive. And feed themselves. If welfare is generous and working isn't. People are going to choose survival.

[@JoeMarine]

But benefits do?

[@JamesMead-w6d]

@@dianecameron137some people are beyond clueless when this is the sort of comment

[@EchoBeach501]

There's an old saying - "You get what you pay for". If you pay people a pittance, and give them derisory annual pay-rises (if they even get one), whilst giving your shareholders and your executive mates whacking great bonuses, then don't be surprised if your staff don't go the extra mile.

[@reinholdmueller4882]

Weren't Tories in charge during COVID and ruined the workforce with the furlong scheme, and getting paid while staying at home. It's a bit rich for Tories to complain about the British people.

[@pjl7592]

Remember the three rostrums,always remember the three.Religious symbolism is everywhere .

[@vincentblack7467]

No..!! Sold out for cheap labor..

[@busterbuster1641]

Why work hard these days. No point.

[@Jimmyboy-c3po]

Then you get criticised and shamed

[@bowjana8128]

Exactly

[@claudiafigueiredo4979]

This program just keeps talking about the same topics

[@willyhill7509]

75.5% of UK working age adults work which is one of the highest rates in the world, the OECD average is 68.5% and the USA is 70.5%, both parrties are as bad, calling the working class lazy as an excuse to bring in migrants to undercut wages absolutely disgusting Tories and Labour.

[@larskaminskidk]

The difference is that the many countries that have a lower employment rate than the UK. There the "not active" people cost the state lots of money in various transfer incomes, which means higher taxes.

[@willyhill7509]

@@larskaminskidk Immigrants also have a way higher unemployment rate than British citizens, only 50% of Muslim adults work which brings down the overall rate. They use the number of economuic inactivity as an excuse for immigration and that makes the situation worse not better.

[@dianecameron137]

so why cant the care homes get workers the cleaning the hospitality the builders trades

[@jujutrini8412]

This country is rubbish at helping disabled people. Loads of disabled people reluctantly have to give up work due to illness and literally fight tooth and claw to hang onto their jobs but because they don’t get a little help from the government eventually have to give in to the inevitable and stay home - sometimes far earlier than they would have to according to the progress of their illness. If they want disable or sick people to work HELP THEM TO DO IT!

[@neilmutch2994]

How many job vacancies are there. 9 million economically inactive and 1million job vacancies. The country need full employment to drive up wages. Wage growth has fallen way behind what it should be.

[@waynegibbons339]

Now it's a different world you can be the hardest worker in the place and at the end of the week you haven't got enough to pay the basic bills rent alone takes 3 quarters of your wage that's what it's like now

[@janebufton1960]

I worked 13 or 14 hrs without a break. Sooner, or later there will be a bur. Out. Money or working conditions is very bad too.

[@theresamoute4056]

Why work hard when all you get is taxed taxed and more tax. Better off not working.

[@TonyLinden51]

It is not the tax that is the problem. After all, so many at the bottom of the heap pay so little. The real problem is the working condidtions and the pay.

[@janebufton1960]

No industry,, very little wages or salary to live on. For some welfare is more than wages. To much academic skills and no proper apprenticeship jobs which pats a living wage. ZERO CONTRACTS AND PART TIME JOBS ONLY. GIVE PEOPKE DECEBT WAGE. NOT £25 a month. Yes. I did sat £25 a month. Not 25k a year. Can a politician live on £25 a month?

[@Yappymatty1979]

Storm should be ashamed especially because she's seen it in Scotland she's awful

[@TSGracchus]

Not sure anyone phoning in Channel 5 at 11.30am can judge anyone else about hard work

[@thebemusedone1901]

If someone cures my cancer, I'd happily go back to work.

[@miguelb6282]

Well improve workers rights and PAY

[@bowjana8128]

There just no incentive to work

[@davidlewis658]

You cannot claim Jobseekers. It doesn't exist. All UC claimants are obliged to agree to commitments to secure employment. There is no six month rule. 40% of UC claimants are in work. 'Claire from London' is blatantly lying.

[@hannahb950]

Given so many in full-time work need UC it shows that Corporations are getting subsidised by taxpayers because they pay way workers too little and b) minimum wage is too low.

[@scotthendry6298]

Every country has lazy people 100% Problem in the Uk is some people are better off on benefits Anyone choosing not to work should get SFA

[@pdempseyful]

Who is better off on benefits? Most people who claim them are actually working.

[@samuelbennington6728]

If you're better off on benefits than you would be in work, you're likely to also be disabled claiming pip. You cannot feasibly live on £392 per month. If the UK had quality jobs and less competition with cheap imported labor more people would be working

[@pdempseyful]

Watching this program will totally destroy your soul.

[@jivasrocks]

05:15 the japenese are not productive !!! Nelufar Hedayat needs a reality check

[@ruthhadfield9726]

me and my husband both work full time and we struggle at the end of the month. we can never afford our own house, we have been in our property for almost 5 years and always paid our rent on time, we have a landlord doesnt fix anything in the house, and we are the ones to get the blame for it. we are busting out butts every month just to pay someone elses mortgage who feels like they can treat us like sh*t. someone has to change

[@neilsmith154]

They are talking about the 2.8m sick and the fact that it is has increased by 1m.

[@busterbuster1641]

When my CEO earns 500x what I do, why would I work hard?

[@hannahb950]

We can't get fruit pickers in UK..... Many will work fruit picking for the right wage.

[@Holidayhome-spain]

What are these two on about? They've never worked a tough job. 😂

[@TheGirlInGlasses]

Average UK salary is £37,000 a year and average UK rent is around £1300 per month. If you earn £37,000 (which a lot don't in the poorer parts of the UK) after deductions you can take home around £2,400 a month. After rent, food, travel , bills etc you aren't left with a lot. That's the struggle a lot of British people face. It's easy to become disheartened when you are working hard for little reward. The UK has a pay problem. Wages are painfully low compared to the cost of living. Side note - no wonder many like working from home, travel can be extremely costly! I for one would rather save £200 a month in travel than go to the office daily just so Starbucks and Greggs can stay in business!

[@alf494]

Where are the jobs, maybe someone doesn't want to work in a call centre with no way of moving up

[@ldn876]

Big up Clair 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Westerhousen]

Nanny state wont let them.

[@danpepper2525]

Or Angela maybe people have woken up and won't give employers their everything when company's give us scraps.

[@johnclark5115]

Not lazy, just efficient

[@Anthonydawn-fd6ox]

Some are lazy some are not

[@SuperLittleTyke]

We are lazier than German workers. I lived and worked in Germany for 12 years and German workers don't spend a lot of time gossiping around the water cooler. We started the work day at 8 a.m. which was a lot earlier than in Britain. We had 30 minutes for lunch in an excellent subsidised canteen, then worked until 4 p.m. British workers love going to interminable meetings where a manager plays the big cheese for half an hour and nothing is decided - except to schedule another meeting. And we Brits always have a negative attitude, a can't-do approach, whereas in America and in some European countries, notably Germany, a can-do attitude prevails.

[@splottcardiff3993]

The Tories got sacked because of their out of touch stance on things - Have they not learnt anything 🤦

[@lynnehale7177]

too right there’s some people on benefits & there’s nothing wrong with them. They have too much time on their hands.

[@lordveteran9126]

Sure I'll work...AFTER I'm GIVEN a 5 star hotel/ house. A mobile phone... my Bill's paid and 3 meals a day..... nhs care would also help.... and by today's standars .... its NOT NEGOTIABLE.... equality first then we can talk about the work

[@busterbuster1641]

Storm Huntley = they keep mistaking the C for an H in her name.

[@pjl7592]

Scottish freemasonry,her mum's a builder I'll have you know 😂

[@lenevec4138]

I agree there are a lot of hard working people but also too many lazy and entitled people

[@FreeUKBCFC]

Storm C. Change the topics you're show is a boring leftie show. How can anyone take this show seriously.

[@jacksoncrate]

I thought this show was a comedy? Is it serious then?

[@larskaminskidk]

We see the same problem all over Europe and it is largely due to an overly generous welfare state. If the UK and Europe are to survive in the long term, we must get rid of this generous welfare state.

[@jamesbirch130]

Of course it's all down to the welfare state rather than the cuts to the health system...

[@DCDPM]

Vote for Farage and you'll get your wish. No NHS, no welfare, fox hunting legalised and guns decriminalised. In other words, a tin pot United States.

[@janebufton1960]

I agree

[@tariqjoseph3562]

Madness, you’ll just send the country into mass poverty and health issues. Did your thick bigoted head know that far more people that can claim don’t, most likely as they just don’t realise they can, than the people that claim fraudulently? I’m guessing you didn’t know that.

[@janebufton1960]

@larskaminskidk if welfare is more than. Wages or salary. The government must relise that people will eventually not want to go out to work.

[@JohnnyinMN]

British workers might not be lazy, but they sure do not accept jobs that they feel is 'beneath' them. I'd say they are 'picky.' The high tax rates aren't helping. Plus, it doesn't help that your socialist benefits are easy to obtain and generous. England is creating a 'dependent' mentality which eventually leads to laziness.

[@lovelybitofbugle6762]

Geeza job!

[@totallybored5526]

I’d leave a well thought out comment, but I really can’t be bothered

[@user-jz5bj8gz2h]

As a British woman who has travelled a fair bit.... I can say yes I think we a re little bit lazy.

[@KevinDuggan-l9o]

If you want people to work harder, give them an incentive. At the.moment you can work as hard as you like and its no garuntee of even a cheap house. There was a time when CEO pay was about x30 that of an employee now its north of x300. Put legislation innto prevent CEO's from creaming all the profits. Give workers a decent wage and a cjance.of bying a house. If not then be prepared for britain to be uncompetative

[@LisaSmith-c7v]

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