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

The Prime Minister spoke at the Centre for Social Justice this morning where he announced Tory plans to force people off work sick to go back to work rather than claiming benefits.
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[@Frithy2010]

Billionaire takes money from the most vulnerable in society, what a vote winner

[@SeanONilbud]

He's not a billionaire he's a billionaire's bitch.

[@joseph9074]

Or the ones swinging the leg

[@Smittumi]

It *is* a vote winner. A vote winner amongst those who are obsessed with skivers, scroungers, people "getting something for free". Basically, it's very jealous people who hate others.

[@Frithy2010]

I suppose we'll see come the GE ​@@Smittumi

[@markhill6420]

@joseph9074 Try living on benefits before you start spouting off,god forbid you end up disabled like my wife and of which I had to give up a good payed job to become a full time carer and then to feel like a criminal because of the main stream media and people like you who have no idea what so ever.

[@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

[@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.

[@richierich4941]

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?

[@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.

[@lokischildren7862]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@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.

[@urbanimage]

Here's the clip of Sunak showing us all how in touch he is with the plight of the homeless. kzbin.info/www/bejne/naCreaONidV8sK8si=29lbbBmHUlG6nXY1

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@UK-10086]

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.

[@saraheastham5527]

We need to help and save our OWN country !

[@williamlewis2220]

based comment, king.

[@PHILIP.H81]

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.

[@MattBooth]

As a taxpayer, I think it's more important to get rid of the Tories.

[@debb6393]

Save a fortune ! Grifters every single one.

[@user-jy8iv3ux2e]

Both 2 cheeks of the same ass with labour.

[@grace39459]

I agree.

[@user-mn4yd7ds9b]

😂😂😂😂

[@goldiegirl7247]

I agree but only if we do t replace them with the other @rse cheek Labour .

[@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

[@djgrainger2074]

This guy will make anyone sick. No wonder the country is depressed. Pay your taxes Rishi and stop dodging paying. Your the problem.

[@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.

[@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…

[@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

[@yc9129]

The man who makes thousands in interest before getting out of bed is going after the sick

[@kigsgodfrey5727]

Sunak needs to go now. Period

[@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.

[@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.

[@JonotJoe66]

14 years of tories has made me sick 😫

[@pawelsz8745]

Remember what started David Cameron in 2011

[@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.

[@nickynooable]

Last week it was 'hate the homless' , this week it's 'hate the mentally ill', next week it will be 'hate the pensioners'. This formula is old and as out of tune as the current government.

[@LA-nm1jt]

But they are always clever enough to start with 'hate asylum seekers', the majority of Brits love that one

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Always gets them elected though,face it, English are prats

[@globalist1990]

Next week: we're building these nice communal showers for the benefit recipients. What do you mean you couldn't see an exit door on the building plans?

[@johnberwyn23]

He won't go for pensioners yet, they're his one of biggest voting bases. Maybe if people stupidly vote them back in they might.

[@diongrey5033]

@@globalist1990Suank naver cares

[@truebluehube]

Millionaires living off state subsidies and tory asset stripping while disabled people are victimized.

[@thomaswilkinson4027]

exactly it's horrific!

[@andrewlee8909]

Modern Britain it is unfortunately

[@chrisholland7367]

Millionaires being favourably selected for large contracts and pocketing obscene amounts of tax payers money 💰.

[@NajYlib]

Proverbs 29:7 A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

[@ecnalms851]

Not really. If you're actually disabled, you won't really be affected by this. It's mainly targeting the economic inactive who are exploiting the system. While there are some proper cases of mental health, there are some people like people even in my own family who do get benefits for "mental health" reasons when they don't actually need to.

[@Stephen0988]

I know disabled people who play the I’m more disabled than you card, Sunak plays the Witch Finder General card. He is totally morally bankrupt.

[@SJC11116]

GIVE US A GENERAL ELECTION NOW SUNAK

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@TrevorBeckett]

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.

[@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

[@joelboy19]

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

[@Holismleith]

Mental health of people voting Tory is the concern.

[@adrianbrown527]

Good point

[@missmuffet3874]

😂😂😂

[@Loneman_OG]

Nailed it!

[@matthewmulligan3858]

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

[@user-gt2hr8yk4x]

you got that right

[@sheilahartwell5578]

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

[@rdgevans81]

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

[@clivistonelewis8806]

Who Voted For This Guy?????

[@robmcintosh8808]

NO ONE!!!!!

[@alamedealamede8471]

Me

[@carlislebailey8902]

Conservatives 😅

[@PyroTails]

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

[@jstar1428]

No one

[@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.

[@pritapp788]

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

[@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.

[@tonycam1477]

i would love to see him work for a month on minimum wage and then tell me he dont feel sick

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@jasoncassey9163]

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

[@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.

[@designbus]

I've never been so angry with a government. The reason people are off work with mental health issues is austerity, and the removal of the safety net many need for a whole variety of reasons. Something these cruel Tories have no understanding of.

[@unknownop6322]

Exactly..he should have a mental health problem first and let us see if he can even talk in that microphone...He doesn't really understand depression and mental health unless he's been there...need more support including be off from work while getting the help that the people need first...He need to resign from his job...no sympathy and empathy at all

[@yakky6052]

Honestly although I agree with you unfortunately people are using ADHD as a means to gaining benefits without diagnosis. If you say you have it even if not diagnosed you get so many benefits. This is the problem a lot of people are abusing the system which means it is making it hard for genuine people. This is the fault of the government also as they took away all checks and balances during Covid for mental health related benefits as emergency measures and never reinstated them. I know as I work in the agencies involved. I don’t blame those trying to milk the system as they have made it milkable and now can’t sustain it.

[@misscoutts6193]

A lot of this situation was caused by what occurred 4 years ago; many people lost their jobs or businesses for no reason. Now they want to put the state pension to 71 but where are the jobs?

[@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

[@mandytindal3355]

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

[@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.

[@imsensagaming]

This is exactly the bollocks they were spouting 14 years ago. And they're trying it again. Get. Them. Out.

[@Jokerjaxs]

Yes David back whispering in his ear same old shit .

[@bortstanson2034]

That's because it works, it's an Island of cap doffers and serfs

[@weerobot]

1 million for each refugee to Rwanda...So much for Saving Money...???

[@clairepp9755]

Yet thousands coming on boats allowed to claim whatever benefits they want.....

[@Stuarty06]

Cruel, unelected liar..

[@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.

[@louisadigi8733]

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

[@stevenedwards7915]

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

[@muirislandjim453]

Little Rishi Sunak is so out of touch its unreal.

[@scarecrowprowler]

He knows what he is doing.

[@MeleanDialogue]

Strange use of the word "benefits". This man had more unearned benefits than 99.999 % of people.

[@nickdunn6205]

Never trust a tory!

[@tartanarab9666]

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

[@otinanai6305]

The NHS has collapsed, there are literally millions waiting for treatment and he has the nerve to say these things! Call a GE now.

[@kt5661]

Basically thats it in a nutshell. The NHS is gone so any hope of getting treatment long gone too. So listen to man of the people Rishi Sunak, put your health aside and go get that miserable minimum wage job job you've always wanted and lets together see if we can save the tories from electoral oblivion.

[@The.Toaster]

I've been requesting an mri on my chest for 8 years. I've had multiple xrays and blood tests but they refuse to give me a scan to find out what this chest pain is.

[@bereal6590]

No mental health services, can't get a dentist a doctor, can't get to see hospital consultants. They spend 40 million to refuse people pip! 75% overturned at tribunal. Sunak is scum

[@bivinalex2312]

@@The.Toaster Because your presentation/signs/symptoms do not clinically warrant an MRI. Come on, they didn't go to a medical school for nothing.

[@dougaldouglas8842]

The invaders are using the NHS as a free for all, that is why, aside from management playing politics

[@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.

[@cantin8697]

Because he'd have to admit the tories screwed everything up.

[@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!!

[@pritapp788]

@@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

[@JackSouth-gm6qr]

He stands there with all his millions telling others who are struggling they have to struggle more, he’s a serious A hole.

[@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.

[@simondavies9350]

Out of touch utterly deluded

[@charlottecarter2748]

what extract of the speech makes you say that? He is trying to motivate also

[@empire703]

Dont get upset just because you have to go get a job like the rest of us Simon. Time to grow up

[@denzel270]

This site is. Politics Joe represents a very tiny, vocal minority.

[@medicinemanM]

@@empire703 Yes emp, i want to work in dormant and be laced in a loop of no progression and pay taxes to war while we live in a world that floats in a universe.

[@piraterubberduck6056]

@@charlottecarter2748 The benefit system is designed to be stressful. As an example of how stressful the DWP is to deal with, out of 3500 people, who are on disability benefits, surveyed by Citizen Network Research, 61% have had suicidal thoughts due to dealing with the DWP and 13% actually tried to kill themselves because of them. To be fair, dead people don't fill out surveys, so this data has some inaccuracies, but the successful suicides caused by the disability assessment process is estimated to be about 200 a year. This is what the benefit system does to the most vulnerable people, so it isn't exactly stress free to deal with them when they are less worried about actually killing people. Unsurprisingly it is less stressful to be in employment.

[@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.

[@TruthUntold911]

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

[@user-tj1yj7cj5w]

He's saying work is good for you yet he doesn't even fucking work.

[@anthonyclegg1511]

MPs get expenses, that's a benefit.

[@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.

[@SunakStarmerisacunt]

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

[@user-xc4nu9lh6t]

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

[@GullibilityUS]

4 year waiting list for ADHD assessment before any treatments. Mm so how you going to do that ? Over 2 years for ptsd ? And mentsl health nothing 😂

[@matthewmulligan3858]

What an absolute mess this country is. I've never wanted to leave as much as I do now, I don't recognise the country I was born in

[@Glimmerman02101978]

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

[@davidalderson7761]

Tax dodging, another lifestyle choice.

[@verybadplayer1625]

How are people with depression and anxiety going to get the help they need with a full time job ??? There’s no fucking time in the day for that

[@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

[@flik.]

@@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🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@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.

[@NoobNoob1986]

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

[@yvonnelygo681]

Are they wanting the job vacancies to get bigger so they can import more foreigners.???????????

[@user-pm2yo8lv1s]

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.

[@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.

[@jspy8138]

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

[@user-jg7ig3yq7z]

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

[@townsendv58]

Bullying the most vulnerable. Despicable.

[@adrianbrown527]

Yes a lovely man isn't he?

[@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’.

[@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.

[@joe9042]

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

[@user-xd7dk3oy3q]

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

[@user-ry6uf5dp1l]

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

[@mikegwilliam2847]

We need a PM who lives in reallity, NOT CORRUPTION AND WEALTH!!

[@kellyhawkes3191]

They've been doing this more and more since austerity, why ? Because WE let them.

[@akht5143]

All tories ever do is to look down at people they don't have no empathy

[@dl92185]

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

[@eddiebyword3363]

So many people sick, sick of the tories.

[@dereksmith6126]

Rushing should try getting a job when you a 60 yo white male in this country. We aren't wanted by society. And £818 in benefits a month with a monthly rent of £565 leaves precisely £253 a month for all other bills. I live without heating, any electricity besides the fridge between the hours of 7am and 12pm. I cook outside those times as I have cheaper electric after midnight. My main food source is rice and potatoes. So Rishi, you try living on that.

[@marknorville683]

If they stopped sanctioning those people that were looking for work, then you would not have people signing onto the sick. Sadly, these people are destroying for people who are actually sick and disabled.

[@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.

[@nickmaidment]

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

[@jarrisphoto4358]

@@nickmaidmentthe 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]

@@nickmaidment 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!

[@Hadrian363]

I would of been in work 3 years ago if i wasnt on a 4 year waiting list for treatment. Its convenient to blame the sick and not actaul 14 years of Tory austerity and cuts to services. I think awarding frivilous multimillion pound contracts to your rich Tory friends is a lifestyle choice. Stop blaming the sick and poor for your incompetence in running the country.

[@Royboy50]

Yes austerity that was 14 years ago are we any better for it ,I don’t think so ,just give us 2 weeks to flatten the curve ,with these barstewards it’s always jam tomorrow

[@Tom89911]

I don’t mean to be funny, but if the waiting list is 4 years long, your ailment is probably not one that means you CAN’T work. I’m sick of people blaming the government for absolutely everything. People need to take some responsibility for themselves!

[@user-qd2hl9lu3h]

@@Tom89911 You know nothing about this person's circumstances.

[@misscoutts6193]

​@@Royboy50austerity was promoted as in WW2 but people meekly accepted it. Just keeps the masses down. Feudal system has never gone away.

[@AnnetteCurtain-tc4mh]

And all these imported doctors and nurses in boats wont claim a penny will they...but ignore that.

[@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...😮😮😮