Ben Habib: ‘Living On Benefits Has Become A Career Choice' | Unemployed Will Get Fat-Loss Jabs

Talk’s Jeremy Kyle and former Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib discuss the UK’s unemployment crisis, focusing on the Government’s plans to provide weight-loss jabs to get people back to work.
Habib says living on benefits “has become a career choice”.
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[@MrZx9rdoug]

1.5 million non UK born foreigners unemployed,50% Muslims in Birmingham unemployed.....

[@kevinadamson5768]

Why work when they get everything for nothing? 😊

[@BunFight]

@@kevinadamson5768 Do they get everything? What are they getting?

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@BunFight Free money. How else do you not work. Unicorn handouts?

[@BunFight]

@@damianbutterworth2434 I take it you have taken the benefit gravy train then and are living it up? Or do you work because the reality is, what you get through benefits is a relative pittance and doesn’t provide a decent standard of living?

[@kevinadamson5768]

@@BunFight housing, food and money, what more do they need?

[@bloochoo2870]

If they were serious about the amount of people on benefits, they would stop giving more than 4 million foreigners full benefits…as soon as they step off the boat!

[@adetolaayodele3425]

Foreigners don't get benefits unless they become British citizens, so they don't even go there.

[@nessah23]

Bang on

[@user-nu5rw8ol3v]

Yeah the indigenous are the lowest unemployment out of all demographics

[@BunFight]

Full benefits? You mean the £8.86 per week if their accommodation provides food? Or £49.18 if it doesn’t?

[@mrr7486]

@@BunFight That accommodation isn't free you moron 🤣

[@bowjana8128]

There's no incentive to work what's the point especially when you see where the tax money goes

[@michaelhoggarth89]

Exactly...Well said...!

[@susanmills4843]

It’s the same for pensioners being taxed for investing in their retirement. Even if it’s a really small private pension.

[@bowjana8128]

@@susanmills4843 best spending and having nothing

[@melindagallegan5093]

And how many migrants have entered into the country since 2018?

[@michaelhoggarth89]

Years before 2018 believe me...!

[@Jezza_One]

Since 2000 several million illegals and 10 million legal.

[@misscoutts6193]

Under cover of lockdowns.

[@EpicAelflaed]

Since 2000 we have had around 15 million immigrants and 1.5 - 2.5 million are illegal

[@jonnymac-maryr]

I retired at 57. Wont work again. Fed up paying too much tax on my reasonable salary which the government pours away on useless projects. Even worse now with useless Labour especially the green fiasco and welcoming the 3rd world to the UK.

[@dudeyfeb88coach]

Collapse by 2030 bud

[@FolkinghamRob]

I retired at 57 and moved to the country on a low income and couldn’t be happier Fed up with tube strikes, train strikes and watching people getting my money for doing nothing

[@markchawner1586]

Getting people back to work ? Really ? Starmer already knows he's going to need every Penny to fund his open door policy of letting Illegal Immigrants living here for free .... That's what all this is about 😎

[@JeanWebb-k3y]

Always a pleasure to listen to Ben Habib

[@lovelovinghorses]

100% agree

[@ronmullard5718]

What about the billions that are spent keeping migrants in luxury in hotels ....while others struggle to make ends meet....

[@paulroberts7544]

I have some sympathy for that. I'm 61 and able to self-fund early retirement. I was self employed. I refuse to earn money simply so that I can be forced to pay taxes to fund the destruction of my country. I don't believe pensions willl be available when I turn 67. So makes more sense to enjoy life whilst I still can. By the time my money runs out I honestly don't think I'll be wanting to remain alive - this country is going to the dogs. I've always been a saver - rather than spend I save for the future. There is no future now. We've been betrayed too many times. The government is screwing us over - so I don't blame people that try to get in first. Lets face it - if the money doesn't go to them it'll go to an illegal migrant. It's not as if they're stealing from their own people.

[@daveberry2177]

HEY THERE IM THE SAME AGE AS YOU AND THE SAME CIRUMSTANCE, WELL SAID SIR

[@PoopyShaw-rf7nc]

But darling you are 61 these are working age teen most want to do illegal work 😊

[@christinehill8611]

You have spoken our thoughts! Well said!

[@evelyneverettgreen]

So you were working and not paying taxes?

[@daveberry2177]

@@evelyneverettgreen HE PAYS TAX ON FUEL, FAGS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

[@victoriawest7261]

How about stop blaming the British why dont they stop the boats ffs

[@robertbate5790]

Ben SPEAKS THE TRUTH. We have know this anti British discrimination for years. As for unemployment benefits, exactly the same words were in use when I left school in 1972. NOTHING CHANGES. 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[@SybilJohnson-k3p]

Worked hard for over 50 years and saved modestly for my old age for which I get taxed together with my measly pension. I've already paid tax on it when I earned it. And to top it all they have taken away the winter fuel allowance so my modest savings are probably not even going to stretch to the cost of my funeral. How would this give anybody any incentive?

[@judithmorganjudyteen]

If you are talking about your private pension it goes into your pot untaxed.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@judithmorganjudyteen and taxed on the way out soon.

[@philipleigh]

If everyone decided tomorrow that they wanted to work there wouldn't be enough jobs to go round.

[@AT-ge9pn]

Start a business, learn a trade, always a way!

[@philipleigh]

@@AT-ge9pn Getting harder to do every day unfortunately.

[@SamuelBlack84]

For most of us, it's only minimum wage jobs that are available, which means you're barely earning enough to survive, and you're just a tiny cog in a great machine People say start a business, but that takes time Also, nothing I know can be transferred to a practical way to make money And, I can't just get interested in something else

[@susanmills4843]

@@SamuelBlack84you would if your benefit is stopped.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@susanmills4843 What? I would become interested in something if I was threatened in other words? I once had someone stick a gun in my face and threatened to kill me I still didn't acquiesce

[@greatscott369]

What will they get back to work for exactly? Everything is being destroyed and most people don't believe there will be even a pension left for us. If I don't die with my trowel in my hand, this government will strip away anything I scraped together anyway.

[@chaosiscoming9184]

what good is a job nowdays if u can't even afford to pay your rent! >:( Everything cost TOO FVCKING MUCH

[@victoriacritchlow9069]

How much do people think you get on benefits ? Unless you've got kids and have come here it's the lowest in Europe I've worked and paid in. I've had a stroke have a brain disease chronic pancreatitis osteoporosis and others I'm 64 and registered disabled now I ran my own business and flew cabin crews for years THIS US NOT A LIFESTYLE CHOICE ! I AM SICK OF BEING DEMONISED. I CERTAINLY WOULDNT CLASS SUFFERING A LIFESTYLE CHOICE !! I get 450 a month NOT A CHOICE

[@BunFight]

Unfortunately the right wing media have little interest in getting to the truth of the matter. The Daily Mail will print its annual story about a mum on benefits who’s had her bum and tits done at the tax payers expense. Then the folk who buy into this nonsense believe that everyone on benefits is living the high life and it’s a choice. Remember when the precious government tried to say homelessness was a lifestyle choice? That’s the same level as this lot.

[@alidolloso1704]

Don't attack the sick and disabled and dying though!

[@inannamoonchild7643]

I tried to get a job countless times. Recruitment company dwp contacted to "help" people find work a) never bothered b) the dwp then put me in disability due to my many health conditions...stating no employer would touch me with a bargepole, despite many job interviews etc. The last job interview i was pretty successful but dwp refused me a "buddy" to help me in workplace with things i struggle with. Those who are on esa for example due to health issues are going to be punished by these ridiculous laboir schemes . Maybe they should stop giving illegaal immigrants benefits and other freebies left right and center. They don't work unless it's cash in hand work where they pay no taxes. They shouldn't even be here ....the illegaals are waved through and welcomed with open arms by our corrupt dictator herr star m er

[@hedgehogwildlifejunction9119]

they are now paying 521 MILLION to give them homes etc for the next 8 years, nice one Starmer. Sorry you have health issues its very difficult to live in this country, you want to work, but cant get the support when you do. DONT GIVE UP THOUGH. x maybe you have skills yourself you could use? A friend of mine a hairdresser started she went mobile and now has so much work she needs a break. others i know clean for a living they do it properly and pay their tax and they earn more per hour then my CARER does.

[@chiragshetty4608]

The benefit system is utterly flawed not just UK but everywhere which has including Europe. People will claim benefit and housing as unemployed and then work full time as cash on hand. Indirectly making much more then most working people in the UK.

[@TheresaGarbutt-xm7rh]

I already think what’s the point !!!?? Worked since I was 16 and now 62 and have no more than people who have never worked.

[@grimdicer152]

When will politicians realise that for some, being unemployed is a lifestyle choice and no matter what they do, they will not work. Here is a radical thought, help those that work and pay into the system. Too much to ask isn't it.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Working is most mostly for the benefit of said system I absolutely refuse to do anything beneficial for other people, mainly because they've never returned the favour

[@lizevans8043]

generations of not working

[@roblloyd1879]

This goes back to the 70s if not before. At the time I managed a small factory and the dole office would send people down to apply for our vacancies. A good example is the one who came for interview wearing a filthy raincoat, wellingtons and a hat with straw actually poking out from under it. He really wanted a job. Of those we took on they would manage the first couple of weeks, then 4 days, then 3 and finally they would disappear. The dole office would then ring up and ask why we had sacked them only to be told that we hadn't, they just didn't turn up for work. Someone I went to school with worked the benefits system all his life. He had umpteen kids and relied on the council to house him. they even converted two adjoining semis into one house for his massive family. He now receives a state pension with added benefits.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I'm sure most of them only have kids purely for benefits I have absolutely no wish to have kids or a partner or anyone else in my life It's a lot cheaper 😊

[@growlinggrowler-c2v]

People are working but only the rich are getting a good deal

[@SamuelBlack84]

The rest of us are rats in a maze chasing the cheese

[@nessah23]

Problem is also rubbish wages.rents are higher a month than wages

[@JimBrennan-q2c]

such bullshit im 65 with fedcap trying for jobs they dont want me because of my age

[@DenisMclean-e9o]

Obviously trying for the wrong jobs.

[@caldwellfisher5288]

Im 65 and have applied for at least 10 jobs a week since 60. Never even seen a "thanks for your interest but no thanks".

[@marumaru6084]

@@DenisMclean-e9o Obviously!

[@caldwellfisher5288]

@@DenisMclean-e9o There are no wrong jobs~ just wrong age.

[@lesleycronin832]

Ageism is real and it's disgusting. There is no other protected characteristic where this is allowed.

[@stephenjohnson9560]

This conversation sums up this country.

[@carolewynn9407]

Do you genuinely believe single people choose to be on benefits ? Just over £360 per month is poverty level, better off buying a dinghy.

[@Gone2war-q3i]

They do, yes. I live in a town full.

[@BuzzRain]

Its not just the benefits. Its the benefits that go along with them. Not paying council tax, rent, and every other freebie that 'vulnerable' unemployed are 'entitled' to.

[@leepageuk]

I'm a Reform voter and a paid party member. I'm nearly 60 but I've had to give up work to be a full time carer for my 82 year old mother who had a hip replacement 10 months ago and she has osteoperosis too plus gallstones. She can only walk short distances with a walking frame. I've paid tax and insurance all my working life, how will we be helped? Can we get a free hotel and Uber Eats deliveries please?

[@BunFight]

Are you looking for temporary accommodation whilst your asylum claim is being processed?

[@barryetheridge6639]

I can't work would love to but it's taken me three years to get help letters from the hospital and doctors didn't seam to help I take nearly 26 tablets including pain killers a day I'm 64 but I miss not working but come over on a boat hay presto get looked after amazing

[@Steven-ze2zk]

I am in the camp of a working claimant whose job is yet to pay. I swear to God my local job center actively want my business to fail. They either want me on benefits or working a lousy job which does not pay. True story.

[@Sparkly14]

Wages in the NHS go to the wrong people, usually managers who don’t add to production.

[@taffyterrier]

Doctors are overpaid.

[@liahurst8575]

Love Ben Habib, always talks sense.

[@kieran4434]

Why would I want to work hard and earn lots of money that the government will take and give to anyone with a slight complexion that appears on our shores.

[@barriewilliams4526]

I agree entirely, but how many of the thousands of new doctors and engineers that have recently entered our country are working and contributing to society?

[@BunFight]

I take it you’re aware they’re not allowed to work whilst their asylum claim is processed?

[@carolegill2456]

Hi Ben, It Just Gets Worse. People Sat On Their Backsides Working From Home All Day Long Pile On Weight

[@TheRahsoft]

how does the labour party let alone any govt expect the unemployed to work when they undermine job applicants with unwanted cheap labour, excessive immigrants from overseas, ghost jobs and DEI hiring practices ??...

[@markdaly818]

Employers are taking the piss. If you look at what they are trying to get away with paying people. Unquestionably the market has been flooded with cheap labour from abroad. It has unquestionably collapsed the bottom end of the market's wages to min wage.

[@SamuelBlack84]

What's the point when it's virtually impossible to get your foot in the door?

[@afroscifizianzcomix7836]

The wealthiest people in this country don't work, have inherited their money and pay no tax. They are far worse than anyone on benefits 😂

[@humptydumphty]

And i am student nurse getting harrast by universal credit during my 800 hours total 40 hours per week clinical placement. Keep getting job focus interviews despute giving them all my proof of being student nurse 😢

[@lesleycronin832]

What I don't get is how people can claim benefits for years. I claimed for 3 years and was sent letter after letter saying I wasn't entitled etc, plus I had a support worker who constantly harassed me to find work. In the end it wasn't worth the hassle and stress. I was glad to get off benefits. They just didn't leave me alone.

[@BuzzRain]

Make newly qualified nurses and doctors sign a 'return of service' contract .We paid for your training, we want an amount of time in the job for that. After that time they can go wherever they like.

[@msingh2333]

A lot of people I know, choose to be on benifits, they don't like working 😊

[@Paul_Greenwood_]

But most are miserable people with a victim mentality that life owes them a favour and very little money..no thanks not for me 🥊 👍

[@paulgibbons2320]

They like working just fine. They don't like handing wages to greedy land owners.

[@msingh2333]

@@paulgibbons2320 no they don't like working, because they are lazy and feel they are owed it

[@SamuelBlack84]

Who does?! And, I don't buy into the working class hero working with your hands garbage

[@paulgibbons2320]

@@SamuelBlack84 it's not garbage. But such a life needs to be incentivised.

[@taffyterrier]

NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe but provide one of the worst services in Europe. British taxpayers are getting poor value for money. Other countries can pick and choose and will select highly educated, properly trained doctors which excludes the vast majority of British medics. A medical degree should take no longer than 5 years to complete.

[@karlobluesman]

Unclaimed benifits 17bn a year. Benefit fraud 1.6bn tax avoidance 122bn a year

[@nessah23]

How many are claiming it and paid nothing into system

[@Mary-lx3zs]

BEN HABIB FOR PM THE VOICE OF REASON

[@corneliuscornia3189]

Punjabi hero😊😊

[@kevinbushby3931]

All the good paid jobs have gone... industry etc wages didn't keep up with cost of living , from needing one wage to keep a family to two wages not being enough .

[@tonyhamre3110]

Streeting anounced all labour mps are having the jab for free to get them back to work.

[@MisterHampshire]

Why on earth should anyone as a taxpayer fund jabs for those who only need to stop eating? Why? If those that need it can afford that extra extra-large burger and chips with drink, then they can forego that and afford their own flipping jabs. Or simply stop eating. In the meantime, those who continue to eat will merely think 'oh great I can carry on 'cos I am going to get an injection'. In the meantime, it's the taxpayer who continues to fund countless millions in no-questions-asked being paid out to illegal immigrants. You couldn't make it up.

[@mannie7028]

You’re correct. We’re paying for greed and laziness. There weren’t many fat people in the 1930s depression when there wasn’t any work!!

[@evieblessed]

Naive. This isn't to help the overweight, it's to help big pharma earn massive amounts of taxpayers' money. Simply a scheme to funnel money to the real fat cats at the top. You're demonising the wrong people, as the propogandists want you to.

[@BuzzRain]

They will see the jab as "Oh I've lost weight, I can have my takeaways and chocolate till the cows come home, then just inject myself!

[@pixie3458]

Bizarre move... Gets more unbelievable government each day

[@evieblessed]

It's very believeable. Money funnelled from taxpayer to big pharma.

[@sergeantmajorzero7482]

In the UK we reward failure and punish success

[@michelleackers3438]

Stop blameing Britain people and blame the boats you have coming in and still loads comeing in and will do for years

[@archrussell822]

Remind me how many people have been imported into this country that are living on benefits. Fat jab, what a joke, this will send people back to work, really 😂😂😂😂😂

[@francescalev1366]

Think of the recession in the 1930's!! It was the most terrible time for workers...but what did they do? They queued for hours to find work, to do anything to earn some money to house and feed their families however demeaning! This nannie/benefits state, plus cheap labour from abroad has ruined our country!!!!

[@UKsoldier45]

Add the tens of thousands coming in by boat to these figures!

[@michaelhoggarth89]

But still many don't see this...8 million daily spent on hotel's for illegal immigrants & those illegal immigrants that work in car cleaning & taxi drivers are claiming benefits ...Government's have caused them to be like that cos illegals work for cheap

[@RaymondMoore-c4g]

All this coming from 2 people who have never done a days work in their life,

[@angelaknight7184]

Yes we’re having our culture slowly being taken away , it’s really not fair why can’t they leave us alone❤

[@doglover-t9b]

living on benefits has become a political choice for me i dont want to work , i done 49 yrs already for what! poverty in old age inflicted by labour

[@anncosten3222]

So with you there. Why should we work to pay for people who choose to come to this country, hate us, rape us, kill us, control us, destroy our culture, and then laugh at us. No. No. No. It's NOT BLOODY LAZYNESS. Most of us have paid in for more than 40 years!!!!!!!

[@marieparker3822]

The NHS could pay its medical staff more if it sacked the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) Cadre. This would save tens if not hundreds of millions overnight. There are also Personnel - sorry, I mean 'Human Resources' operatives, who are hugely paid and appear not to know how to check on job candidates' CVs - foreign nurses getting jobs with forged 'qualifications', surgeons who butcher patients because they seem not to have the first idea of what they were doing, etc, etc.

[@loritabarber-iw3fy]

I lived in a small estate in North tyneside,coming from oz I worked asap but it took a while to notice that about 80% were totally on benefits and their feral kids were also non productive.I moved to another part of the country where people actually worked,sad!😯😯😯😯

[@user-nu5rw8ol3v]

Go claim 90 pounds a week universal credit and live on that for a few months and then come back and tell people they are making it a lifestyle choice. See how ill you feel when you cant buy all the food and heating you need.

[@BuzzRain]

Then get a better paid job!! Colleges offer free courses to improve job prospects. Do a distance learning course, see how to improve your qualifications at your workplace.

[@user-nu5rw8ol3v]

@@BuzzRain I think you missed the point. No ones making it a life style choice like these two are suggesting here.

[@Manicpanicanticant]

@@BuzzRain those courses aren't free they're about 10k a year. Didn't you hear starmer said he'll raise the tuition cost. I'm sure somewhere there are free courses but not many useful ones that'll get you a job especially if you're competing with people with first class degrees. What extra qualifications can you get that are free that can help you work your way up a job in retail ?

[@ronmullard5718]

politicians have made a career out of it....

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

Doctor on £22k full time? Not in the NHS. A new Foundation Year 1 doctor, fresh out of uni has a basic salary of £32,398 rising to £37303 in their FY2 year and that is before any unsocial hours uplift. In Scotland its £31082 for FY1 and bigger uplift £38353 in FY2. Wales and Northern Ireland might deviate a bit from this too. However...utter nonsense that a new doctor in full time employment is on £22k a year.

[@discosheepish2868]

The cost of living is too high and the wages are too low. Its been a while since i lived in the Uk but from what i could tell, ppl get onto the benefits then get stuck because to come off them they need to cover the costs and since companies offer part time jobs at a low rate ppl cant afford to work.

[@gazsm1]

One of the first things that needs to change is raising the minimum wage where, even in the lowliest job, a worker can take home a decent wage.... no one working should need government assistance! Start limiting how much companies can pay in dividends for a start. Almost all companies put investor profits above everything else.... which usually means lobbying the government to keep wages artificially low, using the same old excuses as to why or threatening to leave the UK. When a person can sit at home in comfort all day, have their rent paid for, pay less council tax, and have just enough money to live on, why would they go to work if they are in almost the same situation after working a 40hr week.... rents are extremely high(partly because of investors buying properties), taxes are high(and will get higher), energy is getting higher, shopping costs getting higher....everything getting higher in price except wages/salaries.... what's the incentive to earn an extra £50-£100 a month after paying all your bills compared to being on benefits? Invest in people, not multimillion companies!

[@rjones6219]

A former manager once told me about an incident in a benefits office his wife experienced. A man came into the office wanting money for food. However, he'd already been paid. He said he'd spent his benefit on a large plasma TV. Of course they paid him again.

[@egastap]

I figured this out in the late 70's.....luckily I was able to escape from the UK. I saw so many dossers who didn't want to work getting benefits.....it really riled me that it was accepted by the governments over the decades. Lazy bar stewards.

[@jonbe8304]

A doctor's starting salary in the NHS depends on their training level and specialty: Foundation training: The basic salary for a doctor in their first year of training is £32,398, and in their second year it's £37,303. Specialist training: The basic salary for a doctor starting specialist training is £43,923, and can progress to £63,152. Specialty doctors: The basic salary for a specialty doctor is £52,530 to £82,400. Specialist grade doctors: The basic salary for a specialist grade doctor is £83,945 to £92,275. Consultants: The basic salary for a consultant is £99,532 to £131,964. General practitioners (GPs): The salary for a salaried GP is £68,975 to £104,085.

[@BronyumHexofloride]

""Consultants: The basic salary for a consultant is £99,532 to £131,964." and we wonder why the NHS is bankrupt

[@taffyterrier]

Habib was telling porkies about his daughter in law.

[@Moon133.]

DWP are a disgrace. How does anxiety class for PIP and lifelong disabilities don’t. I have severe anxiety so not judging, but it shouldn’t be paid if an actual disability isn’t.

[@lizevans8043]

i heard of someone who has a mobility car new Audi has anxiety partner in prison for dealing class A drugs

[@anthonyroe1966]

anxiety is brought on by itself total bullshit, it is called i am lazy and i do not want to work , i would stop their benifits and let them starve .

[@minzfast]

I got signed off by my doctor due to a disability i got while working. Certainly not living the life of riley, and me wife still works. So we swapped roles looking after my son (who helps me out). Hospital dosent want to know now as all me appointments that i did have, have all been cancelled by them. And i got my health issues from working. Not a life i envisaged for myself or my family. And certainly not a career choice.

[@hubby-tubadventures01]

Its not a career. its a state sponsored right. Now shut up and continue paying your taxes.

[@ruthcollins2841]

😂😂😂

[@owi3693]

Encourage them how? Financially economical to work? In this country unless you earn over 40000 it is hard, depressing and you are just surviving - not living. UK Wages = too low Travel costs alone nearly 500 a month for me in my last job on a train (always late/cancelled etc) for which caused me problems at work and made me Stressed and Sick (how the hell can I be reprimanded for the failing train systems?). Cost of living too high = depression and illness I will not have my tax paying for a war and a load of immigrants when my children have not seen by a dentist an NHS in 4 years. I've put a lot of tax in over the years working for the NHS and this country is failing and my children have no future here. As with their friends my children will leave the UK and pursue professional careers and lives abroad.

[@BIRD-t9x]

People living from benefits live better than people working hard. Not a fair society.

[@michelleackers3438]

No thay don't you want to do your research properly so juge mental you think people on benefits have better live then working i don't think so

[@K3NN3H1]

Delusional

[@sensibleperson8208]

Can we see which MPs will get money from the deal??

[@j.4332]

But if people arent looking for jobs then how are they living?You cant survive long just on the pittance from DWP.

[@mannie7028]

It’s more than you think. Once they pay your rent then give you a living allowance, plus child benefits, your income goes to £23,000 pa. I struggle to get anywhere near that by working!

[@chaosiscoming9184]

trust me they are surviving. I hear more from people who are working not able to survive. rent too much, can't afford food, but somehow people getting free hand outs are doing fine

[@MarkT-e8x]

What about the millions on IR35 contracts who are single person companies who have to pay both employees and employers NI. It’s not worth working

[@jacklyons2088]

companies have a vast amount of cheap labour the minimum wage is barely enough to survive off now cost of everything is going through the roof, massive over regulation stops productivity particularly in public sector, something that could and should be done in 2 weeks is done over 6 weeks, the whole system needs reworking as its broken

[@frankkirk3162]

Got to remember how many lost their jobs when shut down completely for two years ,componies whent bust they seem to forget that unemployment whent up because of goverment with covid

[@evieblessed]

Shhhhhhh! The agenda is to demonise poor people, don't spoil it for them. There are no sodding jobs, if you're lucky enough to get one when you're over 50, you're not going to earn anywhere near enough to live on. The country's buggered.

[@BuzzRain]

Furlough that Labour wanted to go on for longer!

[@mjdegrey4843]

I have mult6iple health conditions. I can't work. People like these two make me sick.

[@BuzzRain]

So you want thousand of pound free, because of nobody's fault?

[@rosemaryclarke904]

a couple who live near me are obese and never work. Massive T.V two huge cars and on benefits all their lives.

[@vikingfrog7204]

Go tell them Rosemary not us, you won't though because you're a coward and a keyboard warrior talking behind people's backs. Btw you look obese yourself in your photo but hey you work for them chins eh

[@EnlitendPatriot]

We've all seen such examples.. No work - no benefits, unless a genuine medical condition exempts you.

[@vikingfrog7204]

@@rosemaryclarke904 yours hardly slim yourself Rosemary, cracking pair of hamster cheeks on yer.

[@johnathanrowley2707]

I've got no tv or never drove a car, create better public transport so workers can get to work without transport

[@Manicpanicanticant]

are you jealous? then why are you angry at them and not the fact that those in work aren't much better off than those on benefits.

[@neilblackburn6869]

Obesity is a working class epidemic. Low educational levels, lack of self awareness etc etc. Go to Tunbridge wells and then to Rotherham, you'll see a big difference in sizes and general health.

[@paulgibbons2320]

How voluntary are these jabs ? Medical doctorship.

[@MinkieWinkle]

22k per annum, for an apprentice is good money, junior doctors are still training, still apprentices. They need to learn that fact. They ate on good money for an apprentice

[@taffyterrier]

If you believe Habib’s fantasy figure you believe anything. A first year junior doctor aka medical graduate trainee is paid over £40k. The £22k figure Habib came out with is BS.

[@dizzeeg7528]

I'm a carer so have universal credit so I get topped up to £125 nobody's living on this amount by choice. £6.5k a year is impossible.

[@BuzzRain]

Then get better qualifications NVQ 3 etc. Do a course in Phlebotomy,( taking bloods) or dispensing medication. All qualifies you to go for a better job. I did it at 41.

[@dizzeeg7528]

@@BuzzRain Working over 120 hrs a week as a home carer . I have to care for a family member nobody else will. I'm not the target of the video and I actually work and am topped up. I'm stating its a unsustainable amount to live on and few people would make living on such low amounts a career choice. I do have a NVQ 3 in a other profession and will go back to work after the person I care for unfortunately dies.

[@gregwalker428]

Ben is right with doctors. I live I Australia and most of the doctors here are English or Irish, and they're brilliant.

[@taffyterrier]

The new breed of dumbed down British doctors are poorly educated, badly trained and incompetent.

[@bogeymanshankers3904]

3rd world UK on the way it’s depressing I better get myself to the GP and signed off work and onto universal credits

[@junesmith6689]

Yip. Ben the voice of “Brits” ✌️🇬🇧💕 Great show again Jezza 👍

[@wayneharding6594]

I am disabled with mental health problems and would love to work but mentally can not. It really winds me up when I see people living off the state that do not need to, and do it by choice.

[@evieblessed]

Very few do it by choice, who would choose to live on £360 a month or whatever it is? Be careful, people will lump you right in with those you demonise. EVERYONE who claims anything will be seen as scroungers.

[@KeepingTheFaith123]

The main reason people work is to pay rent or mortgage for a home as they want somewhere to call their own which is a basic need. But there is a massive shortage of social housing and private rentals and doing a minimum wage job you will never be able to afford to get on the housing ladder to buy your own home either. So if your not able to have somewhere to live, wat are you working for?

[@taffyterrier]

To pay NHS consultants inflation busting 20% pay rises.

[@ejc636]

Once you are over 60 your on the scrap heap. I used to work abroad. Even there 60 is the age limit to work.

[@lizevans8043]

stop picking on pensioners and look elsewhere for the money i worked 50 yrs and i do not intend working again i

[@Loroths]

Call me cynical if you like but this is just another step towards making the people dependent on the state. Reliant on it to reduce people's own agency, their own ambition and to make sure people don't rise against them. Labour want a huge state. They want socialism.

[@At_the_races]

If they are not prepared to work stop their benefits.

[@michaelbath8460]

I’m so glad I’m retired and not employing any more

[@kathallen1972]

Me too

[@michaelbath8460]

@@kathallen1972 what had you used to do

[@ck9kn]

I am disabled, I have twisted bones and live with chronic pain and it affects my ability to walk and the muscular pain affects balance, vision and I have very limited lung capacity,. A doctor judged me as unfit to work and to be fair this lovely dr encouraged me to accept my own limitations. A big portion of my benefits goes on medical treatment to manage my symptoms and these symptoms have resulted in me needing treatment for depression. The point i want to make is whilst I do agree the benefits system probably is abused at times and sometimes people can work who don’t there are also many honest people who worked until the pain literally floored us who are grateful for our desperately needed benefits. I just don’t want vulnerable people with disabilities that have no choice about that and can’t be fixed to suffer because obese people refuse to put any effort into losing weight , conditions caused my overeating, alcohol , smoking or drug abuse are self imposed conditions which is very different to having a disability we have no choice in.

[@mandismith89]

been a career choice for people for the last 40 years

[@Underworld-Gamer]

Starmer needs everyone back to work to fund his imported friends agenda.

[@marksomers2358]

I'm affraid you are going to far by suggesting that fat people are lazy and unemployed - some people are unable to make work pay due to education rather than the will to work. Also the cost of living affects those people more than other people from wealthier society

[@barneybiggles]

When my wife and I (both nurses) went on holiday to India 4* hotel for 2 weeks met a couple in their forties who one had never worked and the other had been unemployed for ten years, (used to be a taxi driver) when we were leaving waved goodbye to them because they were there for three weeks; they lived not far from us in England they both had a car each and a four bedroom house. I thought WTF is going on.

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

@barneybiggles Maybe they inherited a few bob or were trust fund kids?