In full: Sunak announces measures to end Britain's ‘sick note culture’

Rishi Sunak is set to give a speech this morning on 'ending sick note culture' in the UK.
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[@Brownhair123.]

The same PM who asked a homeless man if he worked in business? He hasn't got a clue.

[@JohnSmith-ti2kp]

I find it ironic and hypocritical to hear a government person say that people need to work more.

[@Romulan2469]

Especially coming from a multimillionaire with questionable sources of income.

[@paulinesmith706]

No hospital appointments! No doctors appointments! No dentist!

[@lw1zfog]

don’t moan about it, just pay more Council Tax ! 😂

[@sil_ww]

ghost surgeries

[@paulinesmith706]

@@sil_ww now had message from Barclays saying I can now see them in the library ffs

[@italifacts1461]

34:00 _Did he just say that mental health conditions are not a medical issue? Oh boy._

[@healthiswealth1452]

The government are the reason many have mental health problems

[@someguy9607]

he said not every mental health condition is a medical issue. For instance - schizophrenia - is a medical condition, transgenderism, lazy-assism, dead-insidism - are not.

[@chucky2316]

@@someguy9607 and his qualifications to make those decisions and assumptions

[@queenofhearts9186]

@@chucky2316he’s not said his own thoughts they have a medical team they seek opinion and advice from and also their feedback.

[@tomsharratt9671]

Watch alcoholics and drug addicts kick off

[@endangerdenglish]

This is the bloke that refers to us as peasant stock.

[@HarrisonDaPro]

PLEASE JUST RESIGN THIS IS TAKING THE PISS EVEN WATCHING THIS IS MAKING MY MENTAL HEALTH WORSE

[@hivemistressherguineapigfa8563]

I hope someone shows him the same understanding when he has an illness he can't shift...🙄

[@italifacts1461]

_Unfortunately, should he ever be in that situation, his personal experience is likely totally different to the majority._

[@cazziem]

Unfortunately, he is wealthy so doesn’t have to try to get an appointment he just pays. Not an option for most of us

[@24Roxyx]

This is not going to go down well for the government and people living in glass houses. Glad I've got my popcorn 🍿 ready 😂

[@KarlBraveman]

Call a general election Rishi. That would improve the mood and lessen the anxiety of millions

[@chucky2316]

He's had it and knows it but wow why stay in a position that is no longer tenable

[@user-xb4le4og8e]

Nobody takes notice of Sunak anyway even the House of Lords ignores him

[@minkleymcmoo5248]

Evil never dies.

[@karinburt8168]

How stupid does it sound for a politician to lecture us on WORK. The cheek of it.

[@italifacts1461]

12:00 _I feel he fundementally fails to grasp where the sick note sits in society. Changing the name has no bearing on it's function. Because, if they were fit for work, a sick note wouldn't be issued in the first place._

[@Lizardforce]

I have heard Minge farts make more sense.

[@FuuzBeeen]

ew but probably, yes.

[@suegeew9727]

The rich are getting restless.

[@Romulan2469]

The most important thing he could do is tax the rich but no keep on punishing the poor. His days in power are numbered.

[@chucky2316]

Social justice would be to have a general election wouldnt it rishi please dont prolong it

[@Brownhair123.]

I've been on jobseekers allowance. My so called advisor just pretty much read a script, never looked me in the face once and just ticked boxes.

[@ohno521]

Deal with the main issue illegal immigration

[@Land-of-reason]

Probably cutting benefits to pay for the migrants.

[@chucky2316]

Top busy dealing with benefit claimants again.they can't deal with immigration

[@LukeMovement1]

The main issue is MPs embezzling

[@ohno521]

@@LukeMovement1 in england and Scotland , no more contracts to friends etc reputable businesses only and stop wasting taxpayers money !!these politicians splashing taxpayers money outside the country this government should be investigated by independent legal team for the people ,cause they ain't spending to improve our lives they have done nothing good for this country they are destroying it

[@Vinny-vk3xg]

The main issue is finding politicians who have some level of morality and grasp of reality.

[@lifecycles9625]

Rishi should cut out the GP from the NHS system completely as they block access to specialists and cause delays. They lack knowledge and use google in front of patients. GP’s cause patients health to deteriorate with misdiagnosis and delays.

[@chucky2316]

They furloughed people encouraged them to live on benefits and no work 😂

[@Blue24Osprey]

After hearing a politician discussing unskilled migrants on benefits for life, am wondering if there are plans to teach them English/skills and what their contributory numbers to the benefits bill are? Mental health issues obviously are not a good enough reason to be on benefits if work is offered. This huge and unsustainable bill needs much more clarification.

[@philipcorbett3438]

Labour and Tory were afraid to tackle the welfare system , so they both played pass the parcel. The music stop with the Tory’s holding the parcel. Both afraid of losing votes.

[@maccampbell8359]

Guess its one way of cutting the hospital waiting lists:]

[@MegaRage92]

Seriously this guy has no clue in life.

[@skully4564]

what a clown he is

[@chazwyman]

"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.

[@karinburt8168]

WORK. U get more taxation and higher living costs. Why would u bother. Londoners have Ulez added to their costs. Poor blighters.

[@jillharrison10]

FREE Julian Assange !!

[@karlstone6011]

No. He isn't! He's in HMP Belmarsh, lodging appeal after appeal against extradition to the US for hacking classified information, and dumping it unredacted, on the internet for the world to see.

[@davelowe1977]

Because taxation rates and the economic environment that have been implemented recently make it fairly pointless to work. God help us if Labour get in.

[@chucky2316]

I don't like labour but I want these tories out I hope labour win

[@chucky2316]

Next election these tories are toast 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 cant wait

[@healthiswealth1452]

All governments are the same, corrupt cnts, that only care about themselves

[@Marco-zp4sr]

Fit notes says it's all dude not actually in the real world it's sick notes.

[@JohnSmith-ti2kp]

The more "advanced" countries have the highest rates of mental and physical illnesses. There is a deliberate effort by business and government to cover up the relationship between chemicals in the home and work environments and the chemicals in the water and food and their effects on the human body.

[@knightstar1312]

... also cancer rate is higher and heart desease

[@51madmitch]

My mental wellbeing just a trendy excuse for so many these days, just normal stress and strain of life, making the people who do suffer from genuine mental illness tied to the same brush, which is unfair.

[@WalkwithmeGodscountries]

Deal with the main problem...the refuges ect.

[@bringmeblueskies]

that guy as silly smirk on his permanently

[@GraemeWight-wx3xz]

Yeah if the food runs out we riot. Your move lucifer.

[@Dusky_UK]

i want to know where he's getting this 7k better off, let's be honest as soon as they go to work a good amount of that will be clawed away from them.

[@user-lq3zy1up9f]

Tories out

[@sidneydavy1079]

Your time is up.

[@user-nh5re9xr7l]

New from day 1 this guy not from this planet

[@davidclayton3831]

Remember all the suicides Smith and Cameron caused last time? Shocking ignorance.

[@sujoyghosh5880]

Sunak kindly appoint your Papa In Law as the British Prime Minister in place of yourself. He is going to make Britons work for 70 hours a week and screw their Happiness.

[@chucky2316]

We british have the general election due this guy is gone.

[@24Roxyx]

If they can house a whole immigrant family in a 1 bed flat both parents unemployed for 4 years they do not care. They have enough money to make everyone in the country millionaires.

[@knightstar1312]

... and that is the reality

[@rogerrutz5820]

But it's okay to have a sick ge-no-ci-de and ap-ar-th-ei-d culture?

[@antonyenglish141]

Wrongerns

[@RiaEkin598]

He takes the piss

[@RiaEkin598]

He his big clown and can go and do one

[@sabineherzog6270]

I wish our Kanzler was so good in speech and explaining the resors in pieces of his goverment ect pp.. Best wishes and God bless Great Britain & UK.

[@chucky2316]

He's finished

[@Greavesy]

We’ll have alllll the benefit reform. It lush and it lovely.

[@chucky2316]

I wouldn't count on it they will be out on their ear

[@telbel4979]

My brother decided to give up work because he didn't like his job and won't look for another because he knows he won't like it. He's scammed the doctor and he's been signed off work for over a year.

[@user-nh5re9xr7l]

Rishi shitnak

[@MISSJENNYSHERE]

😅

[@MISSJENNYSHERE]

😅

[@briannanyack3641]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤝

[@DevinsShaggyswithgames]

The England Prime Mister is very Polite.

[@keith8609]

Fully agree with the PM on this one it is not sustainable to pay benefits to the ever increasing work shy people 👍

[@chucky2316]

Why am I paying for mps then im a working person also

[@grumblegroan]

Stop giving tax payers money to the work shy , no worķ no money

[@chucky2316]

What work shy 🤭 I would love david Cameron to answer my question but he's in a meeting 😆

[@janenoble6889]

I just can't believe people are on benefits for depression or anxiety, these are normal human responses to living not medical issues to be solved by big pharma and government payouts.

[@knightstar1312]

No some depressions and anxiety are debilitating. Get a life will ya. Your more like rich. As business owner it is not my job to accommodate a depressed person crying emotionally on the job every 1 hour. Its not my job to be a psychologist. I pay workers to produce not to be ACCOMMODATED for babysitting. As a business owner it is not my job to ACCOMMODATE workers because the have severe anxiety and have to use the washroom every half hour because they have diaheria because of their anxiety. I don't pay for them to sit in a washroom every half hour. It is NOT my job to be a psychologist.

[@seancawley8592]

SHUT UP JANE YA DAFT COW

[@matthewgreen1567]

Everyone who has a genuine illness, mental or physical do not have anything to worry about. They will continue to be supported. For those who manipulate the system because they are too bone idle and lazy to get out of bed and expect others to work for them, get ready!

[@chucky2316]

We had all this before with dave and nick 😆 🤣

[@philstabler6650]

Vote conservative.

[@SNAFUferret]

Past performance is the best indicator of future performance. It's a hard NO from me.

[@sil_ww]

never in the trillion years just use tax payers money to give to rich mates