Rishi Sunak grilled by journalists over bizarre cuts to welfare for Brits off work sick

[@emersonplowright9783]

What about someone doing 2 jobs and still can't make ends meet. That is bad for people's mental health. This government is an embarrassment😢

[@jlear8]

Apparently he's calling them lazy!

[@dvidclapperton]

And a very recent former tory PM declares numeroua holiday he got for free at tory donors homes looked highly suspicious, borderline rule breaking.

[@Outlook2025]

Be good if we can increase the nil rate tax band.

[@watchalot919]

So how is that the governments fault? Mental health this, mental health that, we used to call it being pissed off

[@keithpanton]

@@watchalot919 Bloody hell, the entire country is mentally ill due to the Tories being in government. You don't see a difference in waking up to seeing a flat tyre and suicidal depression?

[@chrissierose]

Mental health issues are on the increase because of the way government treats the people .

[@techjunkie68smusicandtech56]

exactly, and blames the people for their mental health issues!

[@MR.TB67]

💯👍

[@RecoverywithMissWilliams]

And the way employers treat people with mental health issues

[@RussianJoe24]

You wouldn't last 10 minutes in soviet russia 💀💀

[@danielpitt7347]

Your giving mathadone out like water ! A drug habit ain’t a mental health condition sort your policies out coz your lost this one

[@tappers50]

If Sunak wants to reduce depression and anxiety he should call a general election now.

[@watchalot919]

As shite as the Tories are, unless you are a dole scrounger or on minimum wage, the Labour party will squeeze you dry. PLEASE for for common sense, vote REFORM

[@callumhawksworth1845]

He won't he'll postponed it. I can see it happening. It is his culture nature of Hindu's

[@watchalot919]

@@callumhawksworth1845 As bad as things are now, it will be worse under Labour, unless of course you are one of the underclass. Vete Reform if you want common sense policies without the woke

[@keithpanton]

@@callumhawksworth1845 Nah, it's his culture of being a Tory sociopath hatemonger.

[@KevinJones-bt7ib]

Good one, is right 😁👍

[@patpopov]

This bastard is literally richer than the actual king.

[@Truthseeker6859]

And he's not even British.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

@@Truthseeker6859 yes he is..he was born in southampton..what is your heritage that makes YOU british.?

[@missmuffet3874]

@@doctorsocrates4413yes but he doesn’t have British people in his interest. I get the impression he hates the normal British public. Not a nice guy, that’s for sure. By the way I’ve done my family tree and I can find my heritage back to the 1500s. Scottish, Welsh, English with a Dutch, German and Yemeni in the mix.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

@@missmuffet3874 i will agree with you there that he doesn't have the public best interests to heart..he was an unelected leader so at next election he should be removed from office.

[@missmuffet3874]

@@doctorsocrates4413 💯x

[@professoryaffle332]

"Let's focus on what they can do, not what they can't" Well that's convenient . . . because you can't run a country

[@hg82met]

He can't run a bath let alone a country.

[@empire703]

Stop vaping and get to work!

[@faffer1073]

Sunak CAN pay roughly the same percentage in tax on his multi million pound income as someone on £40k a year… But he CAN’T get a trade deal with India (to help Infosys) and that’s the reason we’re stuck with him

[@LynnD0109]

Excellent comment!

[@kanedNunable]

@@empire703 stop rimming tories, your breath smells

[@djgrainger2074]

While his wife dodges paying taxes . This man makes me sick. Clear the nhs backlog and 7.5 million wait for treatment.

[@ptb2008]

She hasn't broke a single law. Non dom status is perfectly legal. Blame Labour for not changing the law in the 13 years they were in charge. Blair was happy for these rich non dommers to be in the UK when he was in charge.

[@michaeladkins6]

@@ptb2008 Labour hasnt been in power going on 15 years. Stop it.

[@lorraine4143]

punishing the disabled and sick for being disabled and sick , meanwhile he and mps get free lunches on tax payers money , who is the scrounger ??

[@RonnieMcNairney]

Well said

[@defiantreaper2314]

You should look at the kind of things that MP's claim off the taxpayers money as "expenses", its totally gisgusting.

[@jasonhinchliffe411]

well said

[@rangersnut]

Disgusting. ​@@defiantreaper2314

[@hifi8844]

And talking about punishing homeless for having to exist it's crazy they are certainly not in the real world.

[@unemployablegraduate]

I’m sorry Rishi, work is really bad for my physical and mental health. You see, I’ve worked for Tory bosses for five years now. In that time I’ve aged about 20 years, I’ve gone grey, I’m sleep-deprived, constantly exhausted, and I have no free time. And after tax and commuting costs, in real terms I’m earning less than minimum wage for working about 50 hours a week. There are loads of middle-aged people out there who are stuck on entry-level graduate wages, and have been for years. Someone’s got all the money: and it isn’t us.

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

He won't know, since he does no actual work. Him, and most of the Tories. They just live off existing wealth, accumulated by their parents, grandparents or spouses.

[@mcfcguvnors]

15 years ago i had a nice house a nice car & could buy a takeaway if i was hungry ^^^ those are all gone now while sunak has 800 million pounds in the bank

[@Red-Revolution708]

1. We’ve given Ukraine $7.5 Billion in military Aid . 2. Esther McVey has had her Westminster house bought by the Tax Payer, while she rent’s the property out, we’ve bought for her, what a Scrounger. 3. The UK has given Israel £12.8billion in aid.

[@Alljono22567]

We need to help and save our OWN country !

[@williamlewis2220]

based comment, king.

[@PHILIP.81]

Yep and gives fuk all to our homeless

[@moosky7344]

​@PHILIP.H81 10 million i read extra for the homeless, it's a joke

[@Mulberry2000]

Oh forget Ukraine the govt spent billions on corvid relief to companies and never got it back, a study found that some companies were fiddling the system. The govt refuse to investigate.

[@spirit-stone]

The arrogance, he does not even look at the ones asking the questions. Get him out of power, he should never be the face of the UK.

[@snsn7251]

Oh wow yes. Big coward

[@garyhowes7467]

Too bust reading his scripted answer.

[@robbybroon4904]

Who is he looking at over to he right? It’s like he’s talking to the Speaker during PMQs…

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Johnson was worse, the damage was done with that idiot

[@Misaki.Manifestation]

He never got smashed up in school. But his time his coming.

[@clivesmith9377]

Here we have it: Homelessness and illness are lifestyle choices 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

[@mahmoudsaidkoil]

to some extend yes lol

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

So he wants to lose the general election. Punching people in the face doesn’t help win votes. This guy is an idiot.

[@TyrooShino]

He's not entirely wrong. You know fine well there's people exploiting

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

@@TyrooShino Some people are exploiting. A lot of people depend on benefits or they will die because they have legitimate illnesses.

[@ljt3084]

@@TyrooShino Not 1/2 million.

[@Madonnalitta1]

Does anyone remember the disabled lady who couldn't walk, but they made her go to an assessment? She had to kind of crawl up the stairs to the office, because she'd made it up there, they told her that she was fit to work. Maybe stop giving benefits to people who've just arrived, and only allow them for people who've once put into the pot.

[@Thechatteringclasses-oj6zy]

I went to an assessment with my daughter. One man came out, his legs were so huge and swollen it took him twenty minutes to walk two yards. We had to help him with the steps. The next one out was totally blind. Both were in their 60s. I cried at the end of that day.

[@dillsha9599]

Never forget this man asked a homeless person if he was in business, he's completely out of touch

[@helenpixels]

And apparently attempted to pay for fuel with a can of coke.

[@TheBigMidweek1889]

He should have told dippy Sunak that he's in the business of trying to stay alive.

[@dominokid7996]

Show me the video ? The recording anything . You won’t because it’s fabricated . This guy isn’t daft

[@dillsha9599]

@@dominokid7996 view the link shared in one of the replies, or literally spend a second searching for it on KZbin yourself

[@maxpowerii7368]

@@dominokid7996it was all over the media when it was released. Everyone knows it’s true you fool. There’s about 6 copies of it available on KZbin alone.

[@powderandpaint14]

Ok so where's the investment in mental health sevices? Reductions to waiting lists for therapy and treatment? No.....?

[@joseph9074]

No mental health issues when we were growing up in the 80s

[@theeviljames]

Right. I'm signed off now and dreading an appointment I have tomorrow as I have no expectation I'll get the help I could use. I'm already on medication and could use some other intervention, but the only treatment that seems to be available is medication. I can't watch all of this video as I'll get too angry

[@powderandpaint14]

@@joseph9074 none? No-one being sectioned for their mental health then? No schizophrenia? No bipolar disorder? No clinical depression?

[@alistairmonaghan6515]

Well said!

[@Subtle._.Sounds]

​@@joseph9074Appeal to tradition fallacy. Look it up. Nonsense argument. Do better.

[@TrevBec]

He's essentially saying people with maybe milder depression or anxiety are lying. He's never wanted for anything in his life whereas we in the real world, are reeling from austerity and 14 years mismanagement of the country.

[@The315fan]

I did not choose a Tory government in 2010 as I wasn’t old enough to vote yet. In all of the elections which have taken place since I have been of voting age, there’s no one I want to vote for and the same goes for my friends who are of the same generation as me.

[@lokischildren8714]

Sunak attacking the poor.sunak the unelected dictator

[@luminousfractal420]

sunak the eugenicist

[@BikeTipsUK]

Typical Tory, blame the poor for being poor. ''They choose to not being billionaires!'' is his motto. The poor choose to be poor! Awful leader.

[@watchalot919]

He is attacking scroungers, not the poor. Many of these people have better lives than those who work for a living. Our welfare system is far too generous. What other countries have so called disabled people driving around in brand new fully expensed cars? Cut backs need to made, and this is the perfect place to start.

[@ecnalms851]

You know if you keep using terms incorrectly like "dictator" or I know sometimes left-wing people use "fascist" now... people won't take you seriously. If you want to criticise, don't make a joke of yourself in the first few words by using a word incorrectly

[@sayafuddin7656]

This guys a joke. Proactively covers and burys the truth for rapist pandits. He doesn't have a clue about mental health. Guys had everything given to him by his daddy including his education. This man has never ever worked hard a day in his life. He couldn't even cut keys under guides at Timpsons. Tory Hindo Propaganda is a joke

[@ruairihair]

"Every day challenges and anxieties of life..." says the man who has never had a real problem in his life.

[@joseph9074]

He's a Muslim

[@walter3433]

his lisp is a real problem

[@felixarbable]

@@walter3433 if you havent noticed allot of posh people are getting lisps to emmulate all the other posh people with lisps. I swear they are all doing it now

[@Bearlissimo]

Come on now, he has to think of how he can hide his wealth & shelter from Tax?

[@Ayoayoayoayoayoayoa]

Using a bank card and petrol pump proved a real challenge…

[@catherinefinch1641]

BEING DISABLED AND NOT BEING PHYSICALLY ABLE TO WORK IS NOT A CHOICE!!!!!!!

[@pinky-ud1rt]

Excatly

[@ptb2008]

Being a bit depressed isn't good enough to count as disabled to many hard working tax payers like me.

[@Mulberry2000]

@@ptb2008 Ok sherlock show us your medical degree!

[@Mr.NorthEast]

​@@Mulberry2000love this comment 😂

[@lawrencevincent1]

@@pinky-ud1rt He's insane.

[@jamandtoast4tea]

A Gaslighting narcissist at work ,evil pure evil

[@amysands8925]

What would know about making ends meet? Millionaire. He hasn't got a clue. He needs to go. And soon.

[@jameschamberlain5817]

I know someone who worked with him when he was chancellor.. your description is perfect. Jeremy Hunt is also a narcissistic little gremlin

[@lindypatterson1048]

Psychopath

[@dvidclapperton]

Sunak going to the CSJ to make the speech is a very below the belt hit.

[@yanamicheala3800]

The eyes. He's a narcissist

[@Tilleh]

Think the bigger issue here is millionaires dodging taxes.

[@Loneman_OG]

They don't dodge taxes, they simply carelessly forget to pay the millions they owe. I mean, we've _all_ been there, right?

[@leehenry5764]

Tax avoidance isn't illegal

[@Tom-ct6rp]

​@@leehenry5764who said it was? Just makes you a greedy scumbag

[@Redstoneghost133]

​@leehenry5764 directly, it is, but that's why they write the laws in the way they do, because it allows loopholes to occur, so they can effectively avoid tax.

[@leehenry5764]

@@Redstoneghost133 Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance isn't.

[@JonotJoe66]

14 years of tories has made me sick 😫

[@pawelsz8745]

Remember what started David Cameron in 2011

[@annebuckley3474]

I only vote Labour TOries don’t live in the real world

[@Jericho642]

My brother tried to take his own life around 6 years; ago. He overdosed on some OTC medication, and thankfully we were able to find him before it was too late; he was slumped over at my fathers gravestone (he’d died quickly from cancer 5years before). He spent almost 2 weeks in hospital, having had his stomach pumped etc but there was damage to some of his internal organs. I remember at the time the absolute shit show he had to go through to get a sick note; doctor wouldn’t sign him off, not believing his was depressed. After a lot of unnecessary fighting, he eventually got a letter. I hate this narrative that its too easy to get a sick note, and everyone is skiving off from work. I hate these Tories. Hate them with all of my being.

[@jak6326]

I'm so sorry that happened and totally understand how everything has to be fought for, it's beyond disgusting x

[@CaptainFearless1]

good note to share it seems that Rishi is leading his party to demonise every aspect of society to cause division and create a pathetic distraction to his numerous failings. Mental health gets bigged up when they are wanting to be elected but they never follow through with decent action plans and mental health matters to us all

[@unilez]

I am so sorry for your loss.

[@zainabstewartstewart9585]

Exactly!allot sincere people out their he’s talking about a few in the net as an excuse…..

[@Mulberry2000]

Damn that is bad i hope is ok and sorry to hear about that.

[@clivesmith9377]

I challenge sunak to live a single day with my conditions. What he proposes is not only stupid but it's also heartless and billionaire bullshit. Behind-the-desk decisions are neither expert nor realistic.

[@ecnalms851]

What he's proposing actually benefits you. It makes the benefit system more efficient

[@Truthseeker6859]

@@ecnalms851 It certainly benefits wealthy Indian tax dodgers like himself. Tory bot.

[@Jokerjaxs]

@@ecnalms851wrong he will just make real sick people on the streets. That’s how the system works . 1000 people turned down when sick . People have actually died waiting for a court appeal that leaves with no money while waiting to go to court. He wants make it worse to try and get a sick note .when the company he hires is not in anyone’s favour.

[@Mulberry2000]

@@ecnalms851 Hahhahahahahaha, no it does not

[@rdgevans81]

‘Works good for your mental health’ This guys never stood on a factory line day in day out.

[@mikehall7189]

This lie can be propagated because people that believe it have no idea how the benefit system works or have even been to a job centre. My friend became unemployed because the business he worked for went into bankruptcy. He now receives £720 per month from the DWP. He must pay his £550 rent every month which leaves him with £170 for food, electricity and gas. This isn’t a lifestyle choice, it’s abject poverty.

[@nickmondo222]

tell your friend to take one of the million job vacancies available.

[@jarrisphoto4358]

@@nickmondo222the job market in the UK sucks - read ANYWHERE- there might be lots of vacancies, but the job market is not the same as it was pre-Covid. You could get a job after 10 applications and 2 interviews, now it’s 500 applications and 5 interviews but no job offer. The skilled worker market is incredibly saturated, with people making the same in stagnant salary office jobs as they could delivering food for Tesco. Everywhere is offering between 25-30k and nothing higher, both with no experience and 5 years experience required. Job market is broken.

[@gtavmj-1852]

Overall there is 6 million people out of work and 1 million jobs... if you made every person 100% fit there STILL WOULD BE 5 MILLION that couldn't get a job (and thats not even taking the geographical location of the job into account!). - understand that and you understand this was NEVER ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK it was about the tories getting those last few private firm contracts with fake health edudicator firms so THEY can get financial KICK BACKS!!!.... at this point they DONT CARE ABOUT GETTING VOTES its their last chance to get a round of drinks free from the tax payer... THEY are the fraudsters.

[@michaelchallinor1665]

@@nickmondo222 Youre deluded 18k salaries but rent is over 1k a month, so you basically have to move as far up north as possible to afford anything?? backwards country

[@leehenry5764]

Rubbish!

[@anthonyclegg1511]

MPs get expenses, that's a benefit.

[@jasoncassey9163]

Plenty of money for wars but none for the needy this is the psycopathic system we live under.

[@zeez4178]

Its great hearing a billionaire waffel on about poor citizens under his " leadership"

[@hg82met]

I know, right? 14 years of ruinous cuts and austerity that's predominantly affected the most vulnerable in society, and still people are complaining?! Beggars belief.

[@denzel270]

they are not poor. They are not working and the idea is to assess them to see if they are in fact fit to work.

[@pallascat1743]

​@@denzel270They already do that.

[@TomNoles007]

​@@denzel270My god, so you thought when you woke up today, 'I know, today I will be an unpaid government-supporting shill, why can't we demonise the vulnerable in favour of the wealthiest'. Give your head a wobble mate.

[@TheBigMidweek1889]

​@@pallascat1743 Correct! Sunak will bring his own cronies in to do the assessing and they'll be on a bonus incentive.

[@dl92185]

Will never vote for you ever, making your party look like a joke.

[@kigsgodfrey5727]

Sunak needs to go now. Period

[@woges5093]

Dodging taxes has become a lifestyle choice.

[@brianbell3836]

He won't even stand in Opposition. He'll jet off to California and ponce around the world, enjoying his millions. Doesn't give a fuck about the people of this nation.

[@adrianbrown527]

Exactly This guy is a criminal getting away with it.

[@BardicJim]

How many people have stress and anxiety cos of Tory policies?

[@ecnalms851]

Good thing I like about the Tories is that they are less afraid about being controversial or offending people. Whereas Labour always tries to appear nice and please everyone... so annoying. That's why I respect Tories more and Labour less as it doesn't seem like Labour has a backbone. The ideology of the Tories especially that on economic policy now more alone that with the working class. Labour... just has no clue and haven't done for a while which is why they've kept on losing elections

[@jorden3784]

​@ecnalms851 So, Tories haven't won elections due to promises of bringing immigration down, the possibility of a referendum on Brexit, and then selling Boris Johnson's version of Brexit as the only one which can get the UK out of the mess it found itself in politically just after the referendum?

[@jorden3784]

Tories have won as many elections as they have past decade or so because they promise to reduce immigration, offered a chance of a referendum on EU membership, and by hammering home to gullible people that Boris Johnson's wet dream was the only way of getting Brexit done asap ​@@ecnalms851

[@Jokerjaxs]

@@ecnalms851The Tory’s are labour. Why is it so hard to understand this .

[@MrRailjunkie]

@@ecnalms851 You sound as out of touch as Sunac does. Ask Socialists about Labour & you will get quite a different answer on who Labour are these days. Much of the left hate Starmer & Labour in general. Also you can't take yourself seriously if you think The Tories have ever represented The Working Class.

[@markarmstead481]

How much does working poverty affect people’s mental health? Working your ass off for a low income,still not able to cover bills should imagine some would get Depressed being in that situation

[@jennyralgrievous6192]

They're cutting PIP for depression and anxiety because they are "medical conditions that don't cost you money to manage". I use my PIP to pay for THERAPY and MEDICATION. The waiting list for counselling is 6 YEARS in my area. My antidepressants and anxiety medication cost me £19.30. If I lose my PIP I lose access the the exact kind of help i need to get me back into work. This policy is fully f*cked.

[@hammerofolympia3716]

Tories and being fucking idiots can you name a more iconic duo

[@adrianbrown527]

Disgusting Genereal Election now this unelected Dictator must go.

[@DreZato12]

@@InsightfulUndercurrents Depression and Anxiety are long term conditions that can't be cured

[@jennyralgrievous6192]

@@InsightfulUndercurrents I get both meds on the NHS, it's £9.35 to fulfill each prescription monthly. I pay for private therapy with my PIP money so thankfully I do get to choose who my therapist is, and it is helping me to develop coping skills for my anxiety and helping me to overcome some of the things from my past that have led to my MH being so bad. There is no "cure" for what I have, there's only making the best of it and hoping it'll be more manageable given time and effort to improve it. My point was that if PIP is taken away from people because "they're only mentally ill and not physically incapable of working" then it will lead to far worse problems for those people who can no longer access the help they need. Talk therapy should absolutely be more available on the NHS and there should be more freedom to be able to choose your therapist but that's not the circumstances we're in right now and a lot of people rely on PIP to access healthcare they would otherwise be unable to get.

[@jennyralgrievous6192]

@@InsightfulUndercurrents I hope that you understand how truly out of touch this reply is.

[@EcoSailor]

"Invalidation, Scapegoating, Victim Blaming!" The Grifters In Government's vote winning slogan for GE2024.

[@ztwo6179]

If he really wants to cut the welfare bill, force businesses to pay proper wages instead of subsidising corporate profits through workers having to claim universal credit just to survive and then, increase the personal tax allowance to £25,000. That's how you really help people.

[@OmarOsman98]

No.

[@ldn876]

People are stressed and fed up of paying for wars.

[@joseph9074]

We were never stressed during Churchill days

[@powderandpaint14]

And having to go to food banks be abuse of the cost of living.

[@skforandhra]

are they not stressed about hosting boats of ppl in hotels?

[@davideastwood6365]

@@joseph9074We? Did you live through the war years Joseph? Please tell us about your experience of this time.

[@fookorf]

@@joseph9074 you wouldn't know. You wasn't there.

[@Testchannels-z8j]

GIVE US A GENERAL ELECTION NOW SUNAK

[@hg82met]

I love hearing the opinions on poverty of a man with a heated outdoor pool.

[@ecnalms851]

People like you just annoy me. No nuance at all or critical thinking, just rich = bad/don't care. Sunak does have the right to spell his opinions on poverty if he wants too - he was born from first gen immigrants who worked hard. He also worked hard to get good grades. He even worked as a waiter during the summer holidays in a restaurant when he was a teenager. He later on got into the business sector. His parents and him obviously worked very hard to get to where they got too, so yeah... I think he can talk about poverty if he wants too.

[@therealslimgamey1]

I agree he's tory scum

[@therealslimgamey1]

Doesn't pay enough tax

[@MrRailjunkie]

@@ecnalms851 They worked hard at exploiting the system in their favor. Sunac has zero understanding of poverty & nor does he want to even though he's prime minister & he should.

[@NeonVisual]

When it became impossible for young people to rent a flat on their salary, to say nothing for the fact that they will never own a home and will never be able to retire without one, it's entirely understandable that they've no interest in working themselves to the bone just to be the primary breadwinner of a greedy Tory home scalper. Without the ability to work toward accruing assets and wealth, then they of course have no interested in doing so, and I don't think anyone of sound mind would blame them. The Tories have spent the last 14 years ensuring that those who get ahead in life are wealth herders, not workers, so this is the result of their low tax small state utopia. Working currently has no future in this country, just ask the 600k young brits who left the UK for good last year.

[@philyewin4880]

The young people that are choosing not to work because they'll never own property are some of the ones Sunak is trying to get off benefits. Not having the skills to be able to get a job that pays well enough to buy property isn't a health issue.

[@Norfolkandchance886]

My old man done alright in the 90s under Tory leadership. 40 grand for a house in north London. Anyone could get a mortgage before 2007. Do you remember those days of 110% mortgage's? How did the labour government help me buy a house? Little look at old st Angie of labour will tell you they all own property. Anyone with any spare money brought property. Bit late now your trying close a door a long time after it needed it.

[@maccagrabme]

Labour are going to continue these policies so are you still going to vote for it?

[@Godlike-87]

​@@philyewin4880making them even poorer isn't going to make them employable either. I have no interest in employing anyone that doesnt want to work. I don't need slaves. I need enthusiastic, engaged people and Sunak isn't going to provide them like that. If he had half a brain between his massive ears he'd PAY them a decent wage to retrain but instead he thinks starving them to death or forcing them into the black market is smarter. Dumb tory.

[@12308madman]

@@philyewin4880 any body that works full time should be able to afford food, shelter, a hobby, and a holiday. It should not matter about the skill level of the job. If you're giving 30-40 hours a week to unskilled labor, that should be enough.

[@TruthUntold911]

Closing public swimming pools down in the community yet allowing MPs to have extortionate expenses for second homes!!!!

[@RDHamel]

If a billionaire crapping on the poor doesn't make you feel a bit icky, well...

[@johnthebeloved6598]

Many were made permanently ill from the mRNA jabs, you reep what you sow. The unwell is rising, because of the wickedness committed against them.

[@clickpositive]

I mean who else but a millionaire really understands about the stress of worying about being able to pay the rent, buy good food and cloth your children.

[@hifi8844]

I can't understand how he can't get it through his head that people are anxious as working yet still don't make enough to make ends meet. Yet this scum lives the life of Riley with his mp friends.

[@spinach-colour-joey6776]

Why is it so hard for him to believe that poor mental health is increasing?

[@allanwhittle4603]

He was a reason for it, he payed people to stay home for 2 years and now wonders why this has happened. The guy is clueless.

[@carlislebailey8902]

Also thanks to the government long term choices as people simply can’t afford to eat properly and heath care is inaccessible to get treatment or proper treatments!!

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

@@allanwhittle4603 precisely, cognitive dissonance. Admitting mental health is a UK issue would be admitting that lockdowns were a policy dictated by lunacy and disregard for mental health.

[@teem5642]

I wish people would stop twisting what he is saying. If you, I like me, worked as a mental health assessor, I you'd know GPS who are not mental health specialists give out sicknotes for MH and prescribe medication so easily without a comprehensive assessment being carried out. This is what I agree with sunak, but I that it needs clamping on. Iv also known people who lie to GPS to get a sick note and go on benefits. What needs to happen is secondary care takes over issuing of sicknotes for longterm or chronic MH issues, acute short term MH issues maybe leave that with the GP. Closing case, GPs aren't specialist

[@teem5642]

@cantin8697 people are twisting it to make it about people with longterm mental health issues, and people with longterm disabilities, who and ignoring the fact that he is speaking mainly to people receiving long term sickness notes for mental health issues that a person can still be deemed capable of work. Heck iv seen someone signed off on one of my reviews for anxieties of interviews. GP gave a sick note for that and the patient only got to us because even though the GP was throwing meds, she said the patient wasn't taking them on purpose. In depth risk assessment led to us finding out anxieties was no longer the case, but and anxiety of interviews shouldn't be something that deems a person to not be in work.. There's are people really struggling. The point rishi is making is that GPS shouldnt be the ones to issue long term sickness notes. They aren't specialists in mental health, at all. It's primary generic care that, lomg term needs secondary care, assessments and a holistic plan that doesn't involve throwing meds constantly. I work in this field BTW and have assessed many patients with mental health presentations or concerns

[@tartanarab9666]

A billionaire who’s never really had to work telling people to get back to work.😂😂😂

[@cw2611]

Its class was. The Tories always resort to punishing the poor and vulnerable. Man’s a disgrace.

[@maxpowerii7368]

It is class war indeed. And these people are the ‘Enemies of the British People’.

[@gotMylky]

Disgusting. Working will not cure depression or anxiety what a load of shit. Fund the mental health system, that's how you get these people back into work.

[@denzel270]

Sat at home doing f.all won't help either. Work can give you a sense of purpose, structure to your life and pride.

[@gotMylky]

@@denzel270 I wont disagree but that's for people without depression, clinical depression, like where you sometimes try to kill yourself because the pain of being alive is too much to bear.

[@Onyxmoon]

@@denzel270 In essence, I agree, but the worrying thing is that by taking away the power of the GP to sign people off work, it will create more issues than it solves. When I had a heart attack some 4 years ago I was signed off for 6 weeks following it - I didn't claim any benefits during this time, I was lucky enough that the company I worked for covered my wages during this period, but without those 6 weeks I would have never recovered and would more likely be dead right now. I think GPs must make the initial fit-for-work decision but any period beyond 6 months should be looked into by a committee. To take away the GPs power is wrong.

[@joeyglewnston]

​@@denzel270depends where you work, I've seen people treated like crap because they were different or they weren't in the click

[@philyewin4880]

Having to get up and go to work is depressing, you don't get a job to be happy. You get a job to get paid so that you can support yourself and your family and not live off the backs others. What's really depressing and demoralising whilst working hard and struggling financially, is knowing that your being forced to contribute to supporting others who have chosen not to get a job.

[@NoobNoob1986]

160 billion a year in tax avoidance Vs 3.6 billion in welfare fraud ...........

[@poplife123]

Remember his tax burden is well below ours ... So who's really working the system.

[@Glimmerman02101978]

He thinks this is a vote winning strategy. This is pure desperation.

[@DavieBlyth1234]

Rob the poor sick man so they can give the money else were

[@clairejones7878]

Disney’s Robin Hood animated film - Prince John says to Sir Hiss “Rob the Poor to feed the Rich” sounds like the Tories.

[@eddiebyword3363]

So many people sick, sick of the tories.

[@Ibelievethegospel]

My mother was diagnosed with motor neurone disease age 47, she worked all her life, after claiming disabled benefits for 6 months we received a phone call from the job centre about her getting back into work. She died 2 years later. 💔

[@Everydaynaturespotting]

Heartbreaking. Sorry for your loss

[@juliemaddern]

Disgusting! God bless x Horrific illness you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy❤

[@polishedup6905]

I am so sorry 😞 this is awful

[@lovealways729]

I am so sorry to hear that...

[@juliemaddern]

x

[@soixsie]

This governments inability to supply proper working PPE - not cut up tea towels, to hospitals caused the condition I find myself suffering fom now. I was one of the unlucky hospital staff members who developed long covid, im not alone, there are 1.6 million of us. I didnt want to leave the job I loved, but I had no choice. No employer is going to take on a 64 year old who cant function properly, with heart issues caused by covid, intollerable fatigue, cries for hours, unexplainably. Im lucky if i can get out of bed most days. Filthy rich damning the poorest yet again!

[@janem1990]

Couldn’t agree more. Saying the amount of people off sick since the pandemic has shot up and seems suprised. If they handled covid better there wouldn’t be so many of us of sick since then. I certainly didn’t want to give up working.

[@zulu505]

And this is also why they want UK to leave the EUs Human Rights committee

[@kanedNunable]

its not the EUs. its just european, which we helped create. also note the EHCR guarantees us the right to vote. you trust the didi-dictator?

[@ianclose123]

Give it 50 years and the ECHR will be a distant memory. Sharia will have replaced it you'll be more worried paying jizya than who is or is not still receiving unemployment benefits.

[@brianbell3836]

@@ianclose123 Racist git.

[@alastairwallace6153]

@@ianclose123 how did you turn this into a racial issue you weirdo.

[@GETMEASTRAITJACKET]

Why not open "Work camps" with "work is good for you" in wrought iron above the entrance... oh...wait

[@rod2623]

Absolutely spot on, perhaps we could teach primary school children how much it costs to support a disabled person, oh, wait a minute!

[@wawaweewa9159]

😂😂​@@rod2623

[@kanedNunable]

they literally were pushing 'work sets you free' only last year. literally the words of the nazis

[@SirLordCustardthe10th]

Less we not forget the past or it will just be destined to repeat itself

[@adrianbrown527]

Don't give him any more ideas.

[@supercatfelix]

He’s basically saying “F your mental health, without actually saying it” you just need to fill his pockets and there will be no need for this press conference.

[@janetmarytimothy5089]

this lot need jailing for crime against the poor and disabled . Hope he is put out off office soon . This county is now a dictatorship .

[@Nobodycares22222]

crimes against humanity

[@janetmarytimothy5089]

@@Nobodycares22222 I agree . It remines me off a little man who got into power in 1938-39 this is how it started .

[@Nobodycares22222]

@@janetmarytimothy5089 actually his mother was killed off because these similar policy's, his mother was mentally because of his over worked sleep deprived drunk father that abused him and his mother, than father died, than shortly after his mother died because the doctor refused to help her because she was poor. so yeah all the ingredients make a new dictator, this will make a domino effect in the years to come.

[@townsendv58]

Bullying the most vulnerable. Despicable.

[@adrianbrown527]

Yes a lovely man isn't he?

[@Nonameneededhere]

It is shocking to me that nobody here blames the toxic and outdated corporate culture which is the root of the problems.

[@ecnalms851]

That is unrelated here. We're talking about people who are economically inactive taking benefits, when they are able to work. There are some people with proper reasons like actually diagnosed conditions but a significant amount are people who do take advantage of the system and are taking yours and mine and everyone else's money.

[@Nonameneededhere]

@@ecnalms851they are inactive because the available jobs are ghastly. Because the jobs are unpleasant a bunch of cheap foreign labourer comes in but even they look at those jobs as a starting job or their children will have a better education, speak fluent English and that way it will fall into the too menial category

[@ecnalms851]

​@@Nonameneededhere That's just spoilt as hell. You don't get to pick and choose what job you want when you're taking benefits when economically inactive. Stop being lazy and toughen up and take what job to get money coming in. There are 916,000 job vacancies in the UK right now, they can get a job - and no, these jobs aren't "ghastly" - that is just your privilege talking. There are lots of jobs available in the care sector, hospitality, and retail sector for example. There are apprenticeships available for any age not just young people - there are pharmacy apprenticeships for example, manufacturing apprenticeships, education apprenticeships. There are literally no excuses, just people who are spoilt and have a "holier than thou" attitude towards certain jobs/sectors - beggars can't be choosers. Anyone who has that spoilt attitude shouldn't be getting benefits.

[@BlargSmarg]

@@ecnalms851 It doesn't matter how many jobs there are in the UK, as it only really matters what jobs people have local to them that they can actually work. You're also not factoring in that awful work culture and business practices can have a hugely negative effect on people's mental health. This crappy 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps and get on with it' mentality is literally just telling people to ignore the problems and accept being miserable. You might as well be telling a depressed person 'Just don't be sad'. People are getting signed off of work by medical healthcare professionals, Rishi here has no knowledge on if those fit notes are legitimate or not, he just assumes a lot of them aren't because 94% are signed off entirely. But most people who can do some work just go to work and obviously won't bother going to a doctor for a fit note just to say 'Yes they can work, go easy on them'. You give all these examples about jobs that can be done, ignoring the fact that a lot of those jobs don't pay a wage you can actually live off of without working insane hours which if you are already not doing well mentally or physically isn't realistic, if those jobs even have the hours to give you. The government won't cover the difference if you're full time employed without a lot of luck and years of fighting by which point you'll be homeless. Most people just won't be eligible for any kind of support the instant they get any job regardless of how little they can actually do work wise and how little that job actually pays them. And all of this is getting worse because people have chronic mental and physical illness that isn't being treated because of years long waiting lists that just add to the pile of both people on benefits and people feeling the need to take periods of sick leave and then after failing to properly fund our health service and failing to address waiting lists in any meaningful way the Tories manage to convince people like you that it's just people being lazy. Poor and sick people aren't spoilt for not wanting to work for corporate assholes who treat them like the dirt on their boot heel. Who fire them on a whim and demand all they can give for a wage that doesn't even pay for a roof over their heads.

[@clivistonelewis8806]

Who Voted For This Guy?????

[@robmcintosh8808]

NO ONE!!!!!

[@alamedealamede8471]

Me

[@carlislebailey8902]

Conservatives 😅

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

​@@carlislebailey8902No, Conservatives picked Liz Truss. Sunak came 1st out of 1 in the next leadership 'election'

[@jstar1428]

No one

[@louisadigi8733]

How is he supporting the most vulnerable by penalising them for their illness?

[@beardedbloke2521]

Work is good for mental health - then why are people signed off work from work stress etc? This guy lives in a different planet and takes us for mugs

[@DJWESG1]

Work kills as many ppl as smoking.

[@newtron1]

Evil man.

[@FDCAFOK]

The Tories have always, since they were created get rid of the NHS and welfare.

[@OllyO-gt8pg]

i cant listen to his voice for any longet than 1min a time, he's so grating.

[@ecnalms851]

No he ain't. I respect him actually - he's targeting the economically inactive. You on the other hand just want to seem nice nice and convince yourself that you're nice by doing nothing about making the benefit system more efficient. People are economically inactive and taking benefits but are capable of working shouldn't be entitled to your or mine or anybody else's money. Grow a bake bone.

[@alastairwallace6153]

@@ecnalms851 economically inactive, you dont have a clue what your talking about - stop reading the daily fascist or the sun. Its dodgy PPE contracts that cost the tax payer pal - not people on small benefit amounts.

[@ecnalms851]

@@alastairwallace6153 Alastair, when you immediately use terms like "fascist" incorrectly it makes people think you're unserious. Even China, an authoritarian country, is not fascist. Russia is not fascist, nor is Saudi, Venezuela, or Iran, Qatar, etc... Fascism is a specific ideology, so don't use the word willy nilly. And yes, both cost the tax payer amounts. People on benefits taking advantage of the system, and tax evasion. We agree.

[@Holismleith]

Mental health of people voting Tory is the concern.

[@adrianbrown527]

Good point

[@missmuffet3874]

😂😂😂

[@Loneman_OG]

Nailed it!

[@Twotierk]

The mental health of people thinking there's a decent alternative is the real concern

[@HelenIngram-r4j]

you got that right

[@darknesseclipse538]

He is really trying hard to destroy the Conservatives. That's why he needs more time? 😂

[@clivesmith9377]

He destroyed the bank he was working for. What is there to stop him destroy the tories and the country too.

[@jakel8627]

I think he's actually governing how he wants, to achieve things he wants. The smoking ban, talking about mental health and unemployment. These things won't rally support from the Conservative base, who just want low taxes, deregulation, and fracking licenses. This is just the continuation of the socially democratic third way introduced by Tony Blair in '97.

[@hg82met]

Good, he can take his time then... Maybe by the time he calls an election, number of Tory MPs will be reduced to single digits.

[@CammieRacing]

@@jakel8627 All things Labour can reverse when they are inevitably voted in.

[@tysoe11111]

Is Sunak our guy? Is he a Manchurian candidate set out to end the Tories?

[@user-xc4nu9lh6t]

Why UK people doesn’t protest on streets if it’s so bad???

[@Frithy2010]

He can't even look the people asking the questions in the eye

[@beecee2205]

he never does. its his way of avoiding the questions. its not going to go well at the next election is it ?

[@KeriScott-c6o]

What if that person with mental health is a danger to their colleagues...??? Just get out, Rishi!!

[@Stuarty06]

Cruel, unelected liar..

[@norab84]

I'm sorry but the only way someone can be 'economically inactive' is if they weren't alive- people on benefits are still contributing to the economy even if they're not employed. Any money you spend is contributing to the economy (even benefit money)- it goes to landlords, shops, utilities. What a ridiculous phrase!

[@denzel270]

The Department of Work and Pensions estimates the cost to the taxpayer of working age disability benefits will rise by 27pc in real terms from £61.5bn this year to £78.2bn by the end of the decade. How is this contributing to the economy?

[@stevehall6299]

​@@denzel270'Any money you spend is contributing to the economy ( *even benefit money* )'

[@philyewin4880]

Those out of work are none productive and add nothing towards GDP as they rely on receiving benefits paid from the money taken in taxes from those productively in work and contributing towards GDP.

[@piraterubberduck6056]

@@denzel270 A healthy economy is one where money moves quickly. So people on benefits actually add to a healthy economy more than wealthy people do because they spend everything they get. This kind of thinking is why the Tories damage the economy so much every time they have power.

[@stevenedwards7915]

The problem is the wages are not good enough to make people want to work

[@OmarOsman98]

No such thing.

[@Susanveg]

We need more support not less. The tories have killed hundreds of thousands of disabled people.

[@ecnalms851]

And how have they done that... or is that something you thought sounded cool and revolutionary

[@brianbell3836]

@@ecnalms851 They've cut support, you dummy. What do you think happens to the victims?

[@adrianbrown527]

That is correct and I fear this will kill more maybe the Tories need to learn lessons

[@derekarnold3665]

Well if people join work force and pay taxes then the government would have more to spend on social services. If some people decide to be 'free riders' that's not fair on the rest of the hard working population. You can't have it all.

[@Matt-vo1ge]

​@@ecnalms851 estimated deaths from Austerity are >100k, Prof. Danny Dorling's (of Oxford University) research.

[@FDCAFOK]

He should be looking at cutting the benefits our mps are claiming.

[@alanconway94]

WTF is he even doing at the Centre for Social Justice? WTF does any Tory - particularly him - know about social justice? Or society? Or justice?

[@lobintool]

Crikey, my irony meter just blew another fuse. He's spouting this drivel in front of a sign which says "Centre For Social Justice"!

[@Giovanniditessitore]

It is ironic

[@darkwinter-lll]

Disgusting thats like picking a fight with someone in a wheelchair

[@daveowen8289]

"If you're feeling anxious or depressed you should get the support you need......" Good luck with that!

[@misscoutts6193]

Notice the wording "should" it's all smoke & mirrors.

[@The315fan]

I asked to see someone in early 2018 because I was struggling with my mental health due to the barriers society shove in front of you as an autistic person. It took me about three months before I heard back from someone. Once I was able to see the therapist who called me, it was always asked the same questions, such as how are you feeling on a scale of 1-10? Fortunately, I am now in work where I feel safer and included.

[@Musicch-gi8ej]

What no one has mentioned is by the time you get very sick and disabled it is after the continued failure of counselling and multiple therapies and treatments. They don’t work just like drugs don’t cure.

[@FDCAFOK]

And these people who say you are fit for work are not even qualified professionals!

[@El_Paracleto]

True, plus they get financial bonuses for every claimant denied, so they're incentivised to lie, which is understandable when we have the LYING CON Party in power...

[@Jokerjaxs]

No there not haven’t got a clue . Just bots 🤖 computer says no .

[@gtavmj-1852]

Nope, but they WILL give TORY MINISTERS INVOLVED a nice brown envelope every month stuffed with cash... effectively organised crime syndicate.

[@billmiles9413]

Correct.they will find you fit even if you ain't.disgusting!!!!!

[@billmiles9413]

Vote labour ❤

[@FerreroWatchesVideos]

Tax avoidance is however, a lifestyle choice.

[@keithprice1950]

But we can spend millions on wars in other countries.

[@moosky7344]

Billions 10s 😂

[@brendonferrier7081]

Says the man who seems to think the tax payer funds his personal, and fellow Tory ministers lifestyle. The words pot, kettle and black come to mind 🤔

[@scarecrowprowler]

The welfare system is paid by tax money as well.

[@brendonferrier7081]

@@scarecrowprowler true. But the term pot, kettle and black still fits when it comes to the video and the audacity of Sunak to front up and spout 💩 like this.

[@jspy8138]

Is he talking about illegal migrants who arrive by dinghy and cost the UK £8 billion a year?

[@NN-Nathan]

The inability to cope with ' the everyday challenges and anxieties of life' is the definition of a mental health problem,

[@lukehalpin8571]

Bailing out banks and wasting money paying interest on a debt created out of nothing to a foreign bank is a lifestyle choice too

[@MichaelRose-hw5vv]

This is a complete violation of people's human rights, how dare he stand in the centre for social justice and speak about actively violating people's human rights, how dare he.

[@Nigfis]

You must work, even when you are sick!, says the man who married into billions.

[@kathleenswift7979]

And the man complicit in pushing dangerous drugs on the entire population, then he wonders why more people are ill. He's also forgetting the 8 million quid a day he's giving to the invaders. He's a jug eared turnip.

[@AnilKumarTheSuperConnector]

he was head boy in one of the toughest schools in the world. i think he would ahve made billions in anycase. sounds like jeloucy more than a constrctive comment

[@danbul5853]

@@AnilKumarTheSuperConnector You are frighteningly naive...

[@rafbarkway5280]

@@AnilKumarTheSuperConnector THE Irony... The guy that made £4Billion out of a vaccine that has made more people unenployable than any event since the war, Wants to force the young people he helped cripple to get nothing. You do not realise how this will be viewed in future history. But even worse, he may be deliberately covering up Vaccine injurys on behalf of Maderna!! Does he think we're ALLL stupid.

[@kathleenswift7979]

@@AnilKumarTheSuperConnector sounds more like Sunak suffers from rich brown privilege to me🤣 and which "tough" school did he go to, bet it wasn't as tough as the school I went to🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@theswiv]

He really doesn't get why the term "Scum" is so easily attached to the Tories

[@adrianbrown527]

Wevdo

[@adrianbrown527]

We do

[@misscoutts6193]

It all started when people thought the Tory landowners were for the working man.

[@rachelc1231231]

The sheer guts to frame it like he's helping people.

[@bigdaz7272]

This is what happens when you give the big jobs and big decisions to unaccountable criminals who will never suffer any negative personal consequences for their Fascist policies.

[@kungfuillustrator]

Hear, hear!

[@paullittle5200]

His motto is Arbeit machs frei.

[@sophsaund304]

Hmm wonder if the cost of living crisis, massive rents, huge mortgage increases, nhs broken, insecurity for millions of people, child povery, homelessness.....could this possibly have anything to do with people's mental health?

[@davidalderson7761]

Tax dodging, another lifestyle choice.

[@JulieLevinge]

Lifestyle choice? Ludicrous! If you’re surviving on benefits you have no lifestyle at all! The ignorance of is man is astonishing!

[@Ukipmiddleleft]

Spot on. The guy is a joke

[@dougaldouglas8842]

He is blaming us that have paid into the system, again attacking us, whilst he welcomes and uses our monies to fund the invaders, invaders that are mostly scroungers, with free accommodation, free food, free money, and must be very mentally ill for not working, as he should have them to work for their own mental health

[@oscargarton5475]

Most people go and get jobs, dossers clan benefits

[@BotanicalAngel]

He’s the the biggest benefit franchise 😂😂😂ever No1 ever wanted to be on support allowance!! He capitalism in food bank 🏦 economics zoro hours contract 📑

[@dougaldouglas8842]

@@oscargarton5475 That is what I say to beggars, every time they ask for change, yes, change, change your life style and get a job, and they turn nasty, and now with have the boat people, and others from various means of entry into the country, given the benefits system without ever paying into it, free money, free meals, free accommodation, adding to the scroungers

[@Sol-Cutta]

A billionaire who lives in the upmost luxury has the cheek to lecture on the stresses of life and say that mentally unwell people need to pull themselves together ,theyre just suffering a bit of the blues...😮😮😮

[@sheilahartwell5578]

Surely Richie should be reminding MPs that 'work is good for people's health' ... parliament is pretty empty these days!🙄

[@jamesbriers696]

Keeping a tory government is also a lifestyle choice. Why not let us make it?

[@adrianbrown527]

100%

[@Jokerjaxs]

Brilliant reply.

[@joe9042]

Are they? So is PAYING FORE ILLEGAL INVADERS, at a massive COST to the British taxpayers!

[@dextercool]

How can you train a 55 year-old ex-steelworker to be a waiter in a busy city-centre restaurant? You can't treat people like putting square pegs into round holes

[@davidalexander2607]

Don't forget the film I Daniel Blake .. Doctor said he wasn't fit for work after his heart attack. Job centre said he was . He was a Joiner by trade so what did they talk about on his course . People serving coffee and how many people applied to be baristas .. pathetic and totally wasting people's time

[@perrythomas4115]

Over medicalising? I wish he was medicalised.

[@Bearlissimo]

You spelled lobotomised incorrectly... There ya go

[@kanedNunable]

euthanised you mean? :P

[@Bearlissimo]

@@kanedNunable actually I'd just prefer him to survive but as a husk.

[@GodzillaIMC]

Don't you somehow have to see a doctor (I've heard that they're not fictional) to get medicated in the first place.

[@Bearlissimo]

@@GodzillaIMC not a problem if you've got Rishi's Wife's dough.

[@Badger-w8u]

Sunak is in a position where he will NEVER need a handout . Yes , people should not live on benefits , but all the time shops are going self service there will be people put out of a job , or cuts to services , so how are people going to survive when he is creating their downfall . He has no idea how to run a bath .

[@j.4332]

I find it ironic that job centre staff hate their jobs probably as much as anyone else.I was once in a meeting with a work coach and he said to me"In a way its ok for you,i also have to look for jobs because this isnt for me ive decided".I find most of the staff are pretty decent people,its the leadership that drives their decision making.