Slash benefits to reduce UK's debt? Feat. Marina Purkiss & Lin Mei | Storm Huntley

[@simonbamford8441]

Why not slash the Government perks/expenses/ benefits etc!

[@OliverKitkat]

Hi you have written what I was about too say . Also stop the rich getting away with paying no tax

[@naeedaafzal3055]

Put energy companies etc not to charge more than certain amount like before, no more war, no money for Ukraine

[@ScandalUK]

Every time they have to step down in disgrace they go on about what a "privilege" it was. They need to stop treating it like a privilege and more like a responsibility!

[@martynsmith8120]

Put mp's on minimum wage, remove expenses and put them in student accommodation.

[@martynsmith8120]

100% tax on amazon would be a good start.

[@jujutrini8412]

Lin Mei has no clue. It’s not just that disabled people can’t work due to the work not being accessible. How are they going to get from their doorstep to their place of work? People who have mobility issues have to pay taxis to get to work because the transport system does not accommodate them! Also, if the government can’t be bothered to give people mental health support how are they expecting more people to get well enough to work. Going from being fit and healthy to disabled and unable to walk will give anyone mental health difficulties.

[@Boo-pv4hn]

Not to mention if you need blood tests or samples you have to wait for the community nurse they can come any day any time which makes having any appointments a problem. The uk as a whole doesn’t make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities

[@barbarabirch7911]

And the pain we live with.. she’s young and naive

[@jujutrini8412]

@@DeceptiveStrawberry I literally know people who fell ill and asked their company if they could work from home and their company said NO so they had to leave because they were too disabled to cope with the journey to work and all that it entailed! Some companies do not like to make any accommodation for disabled people whatsoever.

[@DVDfeverGames]

She has no clue because she's a Tory.

[@maureengladwell1317]

A mixed race you'd probably go up the wall wouldn't she

[@alexanderewing3779]

Lin's remedy for people with depression, is to have them work for a pittance. Yeah right! Subsidising employers who pay minimum wage and don't pay their taxes, is apparently okay? Twisted thinking! She then goes on to advocate for MP's to have an increase in their salary. They cant survive on £80-100,000 but working people are expected to survive on minimum wage? These politicians have presided over the complete decimation of Britain and they deserve more money? Wake up Britain!

[@alfsmith4936]

It's a great way to make a business unproductive though..

[@jackhewitt600]

The point is being in work can help with depression. Meeting new people and getting out of the house.

[@alfsmith4936]

@@jackhewitt600 Beat depression on your own time, thank you very much. Why should an employer have to mollycoddle you out of the house?

[@jackhewitt600]

They shouldnt i was doing tours of NI when i was 19/20 years old

[@esseker6320]

@@jackhewitt600No it can’t and it doesn’t, something a person would say who doesn’t understand the mechanics of depression.

[@michaelenglish2066]

only if your evil .... how sick is this country if your homeless you cannot claim benifits if your homeless you need it the most

[@LesleyStewart-xc4od]

There are processes in place so that people who are homeless can claim, if you know someone in this situation help them get in touch with a welfare rights adviser

[@michaelc318]

It's the government fault that we have a national debt

[@anne-mariemarshall]

Not only a national debt but an absolutely massive black hole of £1 trillion extra. So much in fact that if interest rates go up by one single percentage point, then Britain would not be able to service our debts.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

All governments seem to be in debt.

[@keithpanton7486]

@@tenniskinsella7768 You have to wonder who is owed about £30 trillion.

[@sandropaulo4776]

The problem is British society we always like to kick the most vulnerable further down! 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Not true

[@keifer7813]

​@@tenniskinsella7768 It's true. A lot of people on the right wing love doing that

[@tenniskinsella7768]

@@keifer7813 not true. Ots labour that doesn'tike aspiration.

[@keifer7813]

@@tenniskinsella7768 This isn't about aspiration. This is about kicking the little guy while he's down. Which side constantly bashes the poor of society while being generous to the rich? Which side points the finger at benefits claimants and asylum seekers while rolling their eyes when big corporations and their tax breaks are brought up? The right. It's not exactly controversial to acknowledge that the right wing are the less empathic side

[@kristinamasters1663]

@tenniskinsella7768 yes it is being partially sighted I know this first hand.

[@TrevorEden]

Time to tax the multinationals and off shore tax dodgers not to rob but to pay fare share

[@tillthewheels]

When money is paid into benefits that's money that gets spent on things, money in our economy. The actual idea here is to make life so unbearable for people who struggle to engage with employment that they have no choice, and the people who profit from it hoard money in off shore accounts. Austerity is crippling our economy.

[@SlowhandGreg]

Slashing benefits won't reduce debt here's why benefits have a economic multiplier of around 0.9 For every £1 you cut your saving 10p

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

But the benefits bill is too crippling a burden on those in work. Goes back to Brown expanding the welfare state beyond our capacity to actually fund it. Far, far, far TOO MANY ON THE BANDWAGON.

[@SlowhandGreg]

Not really all the spongers are pensioners which is were the bulk of the bill goes + they need more NHS resource@@malthusXIII-fo3ep

[@alfsmith4936]

@@malthusXIII-fo3ep Not as crippling as your wage when the market gets flooded with scroungers.

[@alfsmith4936]

You're American, aren't you?@@DeceptiveStrawberry

[@31Blaize]

We should not be expecting people to work 2-3 jobs to sustain themselves. That's insane.

[@rosemarycuthbert4623]

It's cruel and disgusting

[@ScandalUK]

It's not to sustain themselves - it's to sustain the landlord's bank balance, silly! I mean, lazy poor people need to work harder or landlords might have to get a real job (god forbid).

[@PastaSauce.]

Thank God we have Marina on the panel who speaks absolute sense every time she is on.

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

Heard all her socialist claptrap the whole of the 1970's....rubbish then...rubbish now. Same as all the cuties...Vorderman, Sarkar, Forte etc.

[@lindapenlington1730]

​@@malthusXIII-fo3epMarina wasn't even born in the 70s, I bet you a £1000 you're a tory!!

[@barneyrubble8590]

Marina is a champagne socialist,she doesn’t live the way us minions do🥂

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

@@lindapenlington1730 She doesn't look 50 years of age so quite obviously she was not born in the 1970's! DUUHHH! She's a dimwit completely oblivious to the fact that we heard all this far-left tripe back in the 70's. Failure piled on failure by Labour and their forever striking mafia union mates,...this country was in perpetual crisis on our collective arse. By 1979, we resembled Bolivia or Venezuela, the poverty and economic failure was off the scale. Then super SAINT MAGGIE stepped in and saved our once great nation.

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

@@lindapenlington1730 ✌🙂🙂

[@mapguy7180]

instead of removing benefits from those who need help this government instead should stop spending millions a day on hotels for migrants and overseas aid when the uk are already struggling.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Why are we spending loafs of money on hotels for immigrants. Well maybe be fair to the tory government and accept that its labour organisations that stopped sunak doing anything As that is the case y know what will happen when labour get in don't you

[@David-j9h9g]

Lin is a bully with no empathy!!!!!

[@Cm-bd2tb]

She’s awful, her and eshter k

[@ScandalUK]

AKA a landlord

[@keifer7813]

​@@ScandalUKAs soon as I heard "I let out my properties" it all started making sense 😂

[@lizdocherty3067]

That Lin character would probably agree if you can't work cut benefits and let the people die slowly from either malnutrition or hypothermia that will reduce the benefit costs.

[@yorewhyworry7217]

How does students gè back into work when they were never in work? If a grown adult works a full time job why can't they afford to buy a house? Stop this nonsense of attacking poor people! Anything you take from them...theor family will suffer. Facts.

[@David-j9h9g]

wonder where lin got her money to start buying property..parents maybe?

[@deborahdownward3881]

I don't know, very possibly, but she stinks of "I'm alright Jack"

[@anne-mariemarshall]

People like Lin are a major part of the problem.

[@gbhxu]

Who is going to employ a disabled person that does not meet their performance target? Benefits are too low! I'm existing on less than I was earning 19 years ago when I had to give up work due to a medical condition! You have you jump through too many hoops to get the pittance you are expected to live on! I've had to fight the DWP several times because their so called healthcare professional says I'm "fit for work" despite my specialist saying I'm not. The DWP even ignore "fit notes" saying that I am not "fit for work!" People that have been declared "unfit for work" should receive should get the equivalent of a full weeks wage and not the equivalent of a part-time worker

[@lindabrumpton438]

Instead of reducing benefits for our poorer people, they should look at the massive bill for the illegal immigrants staying in hotels. That should be looked at and reduced. The subsidis that are given to parliament for their alcohol and meals, along with the expenses paid to them on top of their salaries. That should be reduced before hitting subsidies. The amount we give to foreign countries such as china and India that should be given up before hitting benefits. The massive amounts spent on providing armaments to other countries should also be cut before benefits. These are just ideas off the top of my head. I am sure other people could come up with more ideas.

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

Benefits are unaffordable...far, far too many on the bandwagon...shocking.

[@willyhill7509]

Yes, slash all benefits to foreigners and foreign aid to other countries, put British people first, thats their job, to look after British people not the whole world.

[@yorewhyworry7217]

Oh the plight of the working poor. The toffs that have ruled these lands for centuries getting fat have really done a number on you huh!? Lol they throw you crumbs from the tables and you point at the migrant on the boat???😂😂😂😂

[@Smarterthanyew]

That would save barely anything because its so few immigrants who are on them. Check the actual facts not the daily mail or gb news

[@scotmacc]

Slash foreign aid. That would contribute to reducing our debt.

[@MichaelLarge-d7w]

Stop paying the immigrants that will save you at least 20 mill a day

[@lindapenlington1730]

What about going after MPs who fiddle their expenses, the extremely wealthy ferreting their money away in tax havens, big companies who don't pay tax?

[@alfsmith4936]

Yea. Force them into the cash in hand work market and cut the minimum wage, so British council folk are able to compete.

[@kathleenswift7979]

​@alfsmith4936🤣🤣theyre already working illegally, they shouldn't be here, no ifs or buts.

[@OliverKitkat]

@@lindapenlington1730yes tac the rich instead of the poor

[@carolyoung5529]

Lol

[@craiggreensmith3798]

That's about right for this shower who have caused the debt cut payments to the most vulnerable . How about higher taxes for the millionairs, billionaires and corporates. Also a wage freeze on payrises for the top earners in the public sector?

[@SlowhandGreg]

It won't cut debt people on benefits spend 100% of their income in the economy

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

@@SlowhandGreg They should be spending a wage not benefits.

[@SlowhandGreg]

and the reason they aren't is government keeping down wages and subsidizing business@@malthusXIII-fo3ep

[@SlowhandGreg]

Why aren't you mad about subsidizing Millionaire Pensioners (4 Billion) or the Fossil Fuel industry (80 Billion) or Bankers (8 Billion)?@@DeceptiveStrawberry

[@richy69ify]

Belgium has a 40% tax rate at the lower level and they're not building prison camp style ghettos for their workers like the low tax UK is.

[@catherinehanner284]

I would not employ either Lin or presenter - neither are thinkers, poor communication skills, probably only read headlines in Daily Mail or Sun. Maria on the other hand thinks deeply about issues affecting vulnerable people, gives intelligent opinions and suggestions that are worth listening to.

[@syriacchristianity9007]

Huntley makes me ashamed to be Scottish

[@paulnicolas172]

£84000 isn’t enough for politicians yet £80 odd a week is too much for people on benefits ? 😅

[@keifer7813]

I think she's being sponsored to say this because that is just pure bootlicking at this point

[@wilfredsterling2124]

It seems to me so many of these problems have arisen from people blindly following the Thatcherite attitude that society hardly exists. If people are treated badly, labelled in derogatory terms, treated like disposable means of production this is likely to cause huge sociological and psychological problems. If instead people are treated like human beings deserving of rights, capable of doing brilliant things, capable of caring for others, and if invested in will solve social and psychological problems, then positive change is inevitable. However, as these are socialist principles rooted in evidence from academic research, our media and many in government like to spit and stamp on these principles. Nasty and pompous people are the problem!!! And i can add greed to that list as well!!

[@jasonharrison5765]

Spot on

[@dianeglanville]

STOP THIS GOVERNMENT CLAIMING TO MUCH EXPENSE THATS WERE THE MONEY IS GOING IN POCKETS

[@peterbeal4402]

Im 65 in march i have copd and bronchiestics i cant walk far out of breath ive worked nearly 50yrs worked my guts out now im ill,im certainly not going to work anymore i cant

[@gsuch05]

Rich people shouldn't be deciding what poorer people need as they don't have a bloody clue

[@savethebeesplantherbs8809]

ok expect riots then far more costly

[@alfsmith4936]

As if the disabled, lazy and pensioners can fight anything. That's why they're such a good target.

[@DavidKingsmeadRickyLea]

Record bonuses, record dividends paid out in the last 4 years. Pay rises less than inflation for the last 14 years for most people. Record house high house prices Record high rents Record high energy prices High inflation. And we wonder why the average person is struggling to pay there bills Unbelievable. Country is broken and it’s caused by unregulated capitalism And greed. End of

[@markhodson4763]

We need a campaign in this country to stop companies getting round paying minimum wage by not paying there staff for there meal breaks

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

Marina Purkiss for PM she understands her Economics both on the Micro and Macro scale whereas Lin's ideas are bizzare ?

[@jackhewitt600]

Marina hasnt done a days graft in her life.

[@keithpanton7486]

@@jackhewitt600 Ideally suited to be a PM, then, right?

[@jurgen6768]

Lin Mei is spouting unreasonable twaddle.

[@alfsmith4936]

For a change.....

[@iandavis-fj2ty]

Lin mei talking shite as she always does

[@jacobfield4848]

If energy costs, food prices and rent's were lower then working would pay.

[@harrish6]

Benefits include pensions which would soon be part of the cuts, would pensioners accept that ?

[@malthusXIII-fo3ep]

People pay tax for fifty years for their pension....millions on benefits never pay in...they are bloodsuckers.

[@alfsmith4936]

I can't believe nobody asked the doddery old sods on the phone..

[@paulnicolas172]

So we should increase politicians wages but yet we should cut benefits and get the disabled working - what planet us this woman from ? She should be a politician herself as she certainly thinks like one .

[@alfsmith4936]

@@paulnicolas172 Yea.. Definitely.. Vote Conservative/reform ltd, if you want someone who would be in an asylum 100 years ago forced to work in the care home, you have to sell your house to be in. I don't mean to sound rude to people with mental issues but that's what they're offering because it's not the physically disabled they're trying to force into it.

[@Johnno558]

@@alfsmith4936you’ll be one one day!!

[@JohnScott-t4o]

Lin said she is a letting landlord, wonder what she charges her tennants

[@yorewhyworry7217]

Weird how people with money...just want more money!

[@alfsmith4936]

While the rich get richer.

[@jeanaheroe]

Perhaps making billionare and companies pay the proper tax and closing loopholes may be more helpful, than punishing the already ill and poor for the government's mistakes.

[@karenhopwood891]

*censorship* I can't see any of my comments here.

[@David-j9h9g]

wowee..a paperround will provide a £40000 deposit on a flat??

[@jpw6893]

People can't live on wages, mostly due to property costs. Businesses to pay decent wages and Businesses to pay tax.

[@keithpanton7486]

IF Lin's worked in 'welfare to work', she KNOWS you don't just get left alone on welfare.

[@yorewhyworry7217]

Lin is so full of it!!

[@olixz]

So much money is spent because of NHS waiting lists, in housing subsidy, tsx credits. Its all connected. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

[@alexritchie4586]

If, according to Lin, any form of work brings happiness, why did she stop being a burger flipper at Arsenal?

[@olliecooper4232]

Local housing allowance does not cover all of market rent. A room in a shared house in my local area ranges from 400.00 to 600.00 a month. The local housing allowance is 338.00 a month. If the rent is higher then the LHA rate then the tenant has to pay the rest out of their universal credit standard allowance. Single and over 25 is currently 368.00 for the standard allowance. So this puts pressure on household budgets and actually keeps the unemployed in poverty. I work myself full time but certainly for the unemployed the government not increasing housing costs each year and freezing it has caused a lot of people a lot of problems.

[@macsmiffy2197]

What is it about ignoring the pound sign? It’s the in thing on menus, as if by ignoring it, makes everything cheaper. Or is it just another way of showing laziness? Too bone idle to hit the alt button? 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@olliecooper4232]

@@macsmiffy2197 Something small and picky to be fair

[@garyherd9111]

Why not stop loopholes for tax avoidance, get the money back from covid fraud get money back from failed track and trace, pay a decent living wage so people don’t have to claim income support, maybe have a universal basic income which guarantees a decent living

[@SlowhandGreg]

Slashing benefits won't reduce debt here's why benefits have a economic multiplier of around 0.9 For every £1 you cut your saving 10p 40% of claimants are on in work benefit and we spend collectively 20 billion on housing subsidies Looking at these figures building more council houses would be a better option to reduce debt (I know it sounds upside down but structural investment comes from a different part of the balance sheet and is written off over time)

[@anne-mariemarshall]

Short sighted Lin, many British people are working their fingures to the bone and getting nowhere fast. Seems to me that some self elevating people (Lin) need to pull their head out from where the sun don't shine and get a reality check.

[@nickshields7258]

Absolutely spot on,she is deluded,and no idea about real people living today.

[@iandavis-fj2ty]

I m studying physcology and this lin character shows psychopathic tendencies, bless her .

[@maryduffy2036]

Look at the rich, look at the big cooperations, loopholes galore and not paying their fair share

[@SeanScottColony]

Who wants to take bets on the fact that the first caller is using “lazy” and “tracksuits” as a dog whistle. Where is the push back from the host?

[@newbatling4194]

How does rishi only pay 23%?.... he must have a good tax avoidance accountant

[@alfsmith4936]

He has.. Even better than that, he'll not pay a penny in inheritance tax, when his family inherit his father in law's billions. :)

[@olixz]

It's because it's capital gains tax instead of income tax

[@paulnicholls4791]

Lin i hope they tax your rents as at 40%, MP are over paid for the time they do only work approximately 40 weeks a year

[@RoxTomlin]

That’s why she talks like a Tory she is absolutely vile she does not have a clue ….. this is what happens you get a certain amount of money and think I am the big cheese 🧀 well she is not she is the type of person that we will not see on tv much she is not wanted at all this is what happens to ppl on right wing channels !!

[@peterdollins3610]

Marina is right, again. Slashing benefits will hit the economy as well as impoverishing people even more. We need to retrain, offer apprenticeships, tax the tax dodgers in the tax havens, release the abilities of UK people by offering promotion to the talented. Living in Canada for five years I found, first a good technical education but then a policy of promoting those with talent up the ladder. After working here for most of my life in the UK I find the opposite is true here. Result? Poor management which is 80% of our UK problems. And of course Quitting the EU by the EU Quitters.

[@rosemarycuthbert4623]

Its a no brainer. Tax companies like BP and Amazon and the energy companies who pay negligible tax on gargantuan profits

[@itsmelampoi]

Do any of you know governments need unemployment as it keeps labour costs low , otherwise people would lobby for more money and because theyd be no unemployed the forms would havw to pay. A war on benefits they have to blame somebody , who was it that caused the debt ??

[@lindawalters7534]

Work your way up then be told to down size your home that you work 30 odd years and pay and have your pension tax and heating off that s How the young ones look at the way this country is going 😢

[@David-j9h9g]

love u Marina....

[@michaelkavanagh5947]

14 years! Well better never get sick or unemployed or homeless. Remember don’t get sick or old! You ever think decreasing young peoples support might turn them to the dark side of the economy? Nope middle class and no life experience is evident.

[@Owen-gc8yc]

lets get multinationals to pay fair taxation!!!!!

[@alfsmith4936]

They can't afford it after lobbying fees.

[@MartinBaker-zn6fi]

Make work worth doing instead of paying so much for people to stay at home Cut all benefits

[@galegrazutis964]

YEP!!!

[@gsuch05]

Yeah slash the benefits just to make sure the lower end of the society stay down there, it's not like it's hard enough already let's make sure they get even less instead of cutting the expenses of some of these politicians

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Always target the the most poor Appalling as ever. All these BASKET companies get away with murder!

[@Odd_pictures]

Everyone earning over £250,000 should be paying 65% tax. Make tax on dividends higher. Then lower VAT to 15%.. rejoin the customs union and come back to me in 5 years, we’ll review. It’ll definitely be better to what we’ve had these last 14 years.

[@Odd_pictures]

Also if you slash benefits, all the people that are made homeless from doing this.. the councils will have to pay private landlords (as there isn’t enough houses) to house them..

[@jpw6893]

Lowering VAT tends to benefit the rich. Making the tax system simpler would help stop avoidance, while not illegal, can be easy if you can afford a good accountant. Joining the CU and SM will set us back as we will then have to cancel all trade deals and mean we have to pay billions back into the EU.

[@Odd_pictures]

Yeah. But by taxing the rich more on their income, you’d recoup that surely, and you could sell it to them as a benefit to them as well. And lowering VAT would help the poorest and restart the economy, I remember Gordon Brown did it. And could we not rejoin the customs union but stay out of the European Union, like Norway or Turkey? Or do you think the EU wouldn’t allow it now, to set an example.

[@jpw6893]

@Odd_pictures How would VAT help the poorest? Yes you could rejoin the CU and SM but we would have to leave our other trade deals and we would have to pay into the EU because when you are in the CU/SM you pay the EU the tariffs you collect from outside the EU, we always had to. Raising tax doesn't help, especially by so much. People will just use scheme's to avoid it. The best way I think is to simplify the system, encourage people to pay that way.

[@Odd_pictures]

@@jpw6893 I just presumed if things were 5% cheaper, it’s the poorest that spend all their money rather than keep it, and the vast majority of people would have more money, you’d have more money circulating. I understand you’d have to renege on our current trade deals by joining the CU, but surely it’s for the greater good. And couldn’t something be put in like the triple lock in pensions, so people’s taxes have to be paid at the highest rate across the board, dividends, wages etc. I’m genuinely interested in this stuff and wanting to learn..

[@Lynnpjjbdndji]

First time seeing this channel and the last ..... Headline designed to stoke anger ...

[@louisapepperrell3630]

Omg!!! Leave the benefits alone

[@footballislife1595]

Management is a negative as well most of them don’t like the people who work for them and treat their staff like crap making the staff hate them and hate the workplace

[@David-j9h9g]

when i let out my properties to exploit the vulnerable!!!!!

[@alfsmith4936]

You must be a reform voter..

[@neilbrown9797]

How about investing in more psychologist to look at why people are depressed, sort the root cause. The simple truth is this government doesn't care about the national health.

[@yorewhyworry7217]

Lin just wants working people to pa6 her mortgages off....she has properties don't you know? 😂

[@keifer7813]

Probably wants to repeal all tenant rights too

[@pduffy421]

Ban benefits to FOREIGNERS!!!

[@yorewhyworry7217]

Foreigners don't get benefits. Educate yourself.

[@pduffy421]

@@yorewhyworry7217 Anyone born in the UK to foreign immigrants get benefits. They are still foreign to the UK as far as I am concerned. They should have never been allowed any financial benefit of any kind. Our country is collapsing because of uncontrolled mass immigration brought about by the treasonous opening of our borders which was not lawful. New arrivals are being put up in hotels and given housing that is a financial benefit. So maybe my use of the world benefits was not quite correct is is correct foreigners and their offspring are getting financial support which is not sustainable. They will all grow old and will want increasing help form the NHS and pensions. Who is paying for that?

[@esseker6320]

That Lin is actually quite dumb.

[@wolyfood1068]

Maybe the government should concentrate on themselves and the amount of waste the government creates itself and large corporations relook at their taxes who in this country are not paying their taxes take another look at MP's expenses now that would get some bums twitching wouldn't it

[@bdcalling1391]

Increase taxes on non doms?

[@mandriod5255]

That first caller is totally delusional about benefits

[@darrylashton8428]

If you ever get Miss "Olive Skin" as a DWP medical assessor you will be doomed to fail..

[@keifer7813]

Honestly, wouldn't be surprised if some of her claimants off themselves

[@DanielVanderheyden989]

Get the money from the rich and stole trillions not billlions and put them in tax heaven that where our money is.

[@seanblack9929]

Tax the rich properly.

[@jimbo6013]

Why would you want to work for something the government can print for free?

[@alfsmith4936]

Dunno.. Why do you?

[@michaelskinner3104]

Couldn't believe Lin mei , comment to caller suffering from stress . So disrespectful

[@phyllischamberlain7467]

When I was working, I’m going back in time now has been at one £1.80 an hour. They won’t even get out of bed for that. We had to work for that years. I work for the house for 33 years and all you do is get bloody Tax on what you get This country is Tax up to the hill with everything bloody tax VAT. You’ve got tax tax tax tax tax that’s all I think about tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax. No you do is talk to bloody talk to no action, no action don’t talk about it. Get on with it people on benefit of running ran in bloody cars That’s why they go in the world. Get the money out the government give them benefit for nothing. We gotta get out of bed and go to work. You should make them go to work. Make them go to work if they’re not ill. You make them go to work and earn their bloody money, you get nothing because unless you get no money get out of bed for that we had to get out of bed for 125 an hour I’m going back in time you live on that we had to work for an hour. You turn your nose up to everything you do these youngers today and don’t know what the, life is all about and then you’ve got no idea what life is all about at all to struggle struggling now I’m benefit what we had with years ago now you want to take it offers get lost

[@craigyoung6557]

Lift the income tax threshold to £20k before you pay income tax as Reform UK propose.

[@EchoBeach501]

I'm all for slashing benefits. Well certainly slashing some benefits anyway. VAT exceptions on private schools, non-dom benefits, closing of tax-loopholes used by dig multi-nationals and the super rich (including our PM), cutting down on MP's exuberant spending (e.g. helicopter ride to travel 50 miles/private jets). Funny how we hear nothing from the Tories about this.

[@keithpanton7486]

10 minutes in, a pensioner thinks we should slash benefits... whilst complaining that he doesn't get a benefit because he's too rich. Like it or not, the state pension is a benefit. I don't wish to deny any pensioner the state pension.

[@stuartmelville5684]

why is it that if a human decides not to work for whatever reason that they can yet they are made to feel guilty surly its a human beings choise to work or not

[@Themistocles30]

Nothing will change under Starmer and his cronies. Starmer got in just to have power over everyone and be center of attention.

[@craigyoung6557]

MPs should get far more.

[@angietowey]

Their choice to get into debt to go to uni .

[@ianhill4585]

Millions a DAY spent on immigrants, does that fit in the mix anywhere? Or should we conveniently gloss over that?........ Again!

[@masquarra]

Take monarchy off the purse

[@Taylor23890]

You pay £1.29 per year tax towards the Royal Family. Last year they generated £958 million pounds for the UK economy, which you benefit from . Maybe slash the £8,000,000 cash it costs the UK taxpayer each day to keep single men who’ve entered the country illegally in 4* hotels

[@masquarra]

Bloody troll/bot

[@Taylor23890]

@@masquarra for telling you facts ? You shout troll/ bot like a 5 year old 🙄

[@paulnicolas172]

So we should increase politicians wages but yet we should cut benefits and get the disabled working - what planet is this woman from ? She should be a politician herself as she certainly thinks like one .

[@1001legoboy]

There are just not enough rich people in the country to support the level of expenditure. Most people are a drag on the finances for the country.

[@craigyoung6557]

You become rich by being truthful, hard working, being dedicated, and eventually finding and doing something you love. The playing field has not changed. Universal laws apply to everyone throughout history and today.

[@dewesleys]

Shouldn’t cut benefits just stop the millions who are now choosing it as a career choice which it was never intended for…

[@DVDfeverGames]

I wish you'd upload the whole show, since you can't be bothered to put it on My5 any more. The paper review should be a must, especially since you pre-record that at 8am, so Jeremy can head off to Radio 2 at 10.30am!

[@NilsAlmquist]

Slasing benefits would make the mental health situation even worse in this country and then you would end up increasing pressure and costs on other government departments and services that would dwarf what you expected to save anyway. It's a false economy as poverty is very, very expensive.

[@thepaganmadien8098]

How about go after the energy companies that made mass profits and go for billionaires with off shore bank accounts

[@Dani20240]

Vote Green, Lib Dem, SNP. Do NOT vote reform, tory, labour.

[@KennyLock-kw4xk]

Young people has to start some where. i came to this country with £400 in my pocket and now i am a qualified accountant after decades of sttuggle without any help from the Gov. Good to get help to start. But must start early and young. Hard work and struggle are good training ground

[@cwilson1768]

All theses people are clueless there's a difference between business can vs business will its a dog eat dog world business main goal is profits they ain't gonna spend huge amount of time and money to make work accessible to a tiny few they can just empolye someone else also benefits ain't paying a rich lifestyle amount it covers bills and that's about it if you wanna really sort things out look towards the banks get them to lower intrest rates for mortgages then put a cap on rents then look towards theses big company's making billions a year in profits they can easily afford to not only pay more wages but also reduce the cost of items and till make huge profits greed destroys all and that's what we are seeing big company's and the rich milking the rest of the population for as much as they can get as quickly as they can get

[@Jonny-w3w]

When you lose your job thats depressing enough ' let alone the bullying from the working public who seem to think their all fat & lazy ' forcing somone to work when their depressed makes things worse ' our brain needs a rest just as much as our bones & mucles

[@derekthomas462]

Since conservatives came to power the debt has gone from £800 billion to 2.6 trillion and we had austerity they crashed the economy we are bumping along the bottom and interest rates raised 14 times and we are on the brink of recession wages are chasing prices not the other way round intrest rates need to be lower