The Narrative: Poverty, Welfare, And Jeremy Kyle

[@diabreadstick]

Ah yes, the good ol’ “If you’re not struggling and miserable 24/7 then you must not really be disabled” attitude. Lot of people seem to take particular offense to disabled people ever doing anything to enjoy themselves.

[@rainyfeathers9148]

Dude, when I was stewarding at Wembley there were stories about wheelchair users being kicked out of the stadium after being seen "standing". They'd be saving their strength for their favourite part of a show, pull themselves up to join in a little. I can't imagine the hurt they must of felt smh

[@user_.b]

But then depressed people like me are actually struggling and miserable 24/7, but they expect us to work anyway lol

[@TheLily97232]

My sister has a disability that can go from making knots in her muscles randomly unawares to keeping her from walking for weeks. Sometimes you can't see that she is disabled. So she constantly has to have her card on her so people would be amable enough to get their ass out of a chair so she can sit. No, being young and not in a wheelchair 24/7 doesn't mean you can stand for a long time.

[@ertymexx]

"I saw you smile once, you fepping leech!!!!" :-(

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

@@user_.b Also, people assume that if you have clinical depression, you must never laugh or smile, or be capable of doing anything to enjoy yourself. Otherwise, you're just faking it for attention and there's nothing wrong with you.

[@thegeekclub8810]

All this stuff with people finding videos that *prove* that they’re faking their disability. Disability isn’t an all-or-nothing game. Just because disabled people are capable of doing something doesn’t mean that they don’t legitimately need help. Honestly, I got so nervous bring my white cane in public because of this misconception, because I worry people will se me on my phone and assume I’m "faking" my blindness. Just because I can read doesn’t mean that I don’t have vision loss.

[@HxH2011DRA]

Oof, feels bad man. In order to change this judgemental culture we must change the material base!

[@thegeekclub8810]

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[@HxH2011DRA]

@@thegeekclub8810 Thank you~ I appreciate the compliment

[@thegeekclub8810]

The Hunter x Hunter 2011 Dickriding Association HunterXHunter is a dang good show.

[@HxH2011DRA]

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[@Peacock__]

The disability stuff in the uk is annoying to claim for. You end up filling in CONFUSING forms which take ages to fill out, then go to a degrading assessment appointment. I have mental disablities, and I got asked stuff like "Can you walk x steps". I'm not physically disabled, why am I being asked to do this? Then they bascially didn't believe my condition was severe enough and CONTRADICTED what my doctor and paediatrician at the time said and their notes. It's skewed so heavily towards people who PHYSICALLY cannot work (which even that is difficult to claim for) and when it's about mental health they don't give a single shit. It's a fucked system. When you have lifelong mental disablities you still have to degrade yourself and kill your self esteem by acting even more disabled just to get them to believe you about PROVEN disablities, it's absolutly screwed.

[@OwenOfElliott]

"You're not mentally disabled enough if you can walk"

[@Owain9797]

I got denied ESA (for severe depression and anxiety, stuck-in-the-house levels) on my first appointment because I made too much eye contact lmao. So when I appealed I made sure to avoid eye contact. Which kind of makes things seem like a self-fulfilling prophecy; their standards for who qualifies as disabled are so insanely high that people are _forced_ to do exactly what they say people do, exaggerate the truth to seem worse off, otherwise they’ll be judged as totally healthy Just because I could look you in the eye a bit doesn’t mean it didn’t take all my willpower to leave the house to come here

[@19822andy]

@@Owain9797 You just have to describe your worst day to them. As a sufferer myself I feel like I can take on the world once in a while until the next day when I can't even get up to brush my teeth. I've been quite lucky. It seems the Birmingham office are quite good with mental issues.

[@RhianKristen]

I feel that. In Australia, mental health services aren't traditionally covered by medicare. You have to first go to a doctor and prove to them that you're mentally ill - which usually involves having to play up your illness in order to be believed - while they ask you questions like: "so what is it exactly that made you depressed? Or anxious? Or have PTSD?" "Was there abuse?" These conversations will usually end in a 5 min rant from the doctor about how when they're feeling down they like to listen Beethoven while going for a run and how you should just eat better and sleep better. Only after that will you be given a referral to see a psychologist and only 6 sessions are (mostly) paid for by medicare. This can be bumped up to 10 BUT only if you go back to the doctor you got the referral from and walk that tightrope of trying to prove to them that the sessions are working, you don't need drugs thank you very much, but you also haven't progressed far enough in the therapy to see a lasting benefit. Those 10 sessions btw only last till the end of year. It's 10 sessions PER YEAR. Anything after that and you're out of pocket and then back at the same doctor the next year to go through the whole process all over again. It's ridiculous and exhausting. And for the majority of patients, 10 sessions a year is nothing more than a bandaid.

[@19822andy]

@@RhianKristen If you feel like you don't need drugs and you're really depressed to the point of disability then the consencus is you need them.

[@cronky802]

A few days ago I was talking to my dad about how I wanted to be a social worker. He said, “have you ever really been around poor people?” As if they were some dangerous animal. He explained that “they aren’t truthful, they can’t be trusted, and they are poor because they choose to be.” I tried to say that no one chooses poverty and he told me they can just “work harder”. I don’t like my dad very much.

[@gmc5618]

Very cool to be a social worker ❤️

[@JOHNsotiriadis98]

Sorry but these opinions are disgusting

[@Sashin9000]

Reminds me of my parents

[@blue.s6812]

Absolutely disgusting reading this, it's not true what he says

[@ponytoms2]

FREEEEELOADS!!!!!! *shakes fist at the sky and ignoring all other government waste that could help a lot of people.*

[@emilymcplugger]

Considering there’s supposed to be LOADS and LOADS and LOADS of government waste, successive governments don’t seem very good at finding it, instead all they seem to do is ...cut benefits and support for the needy. Weird that.

[@mingotproductions1335]

This is why I, a 15-year old autistic girl, am TERRIFIED of adulthood.

[@pru666]

31 trans and jobless....I feel your pain.

[@BoraCM]

I'm a 15 year old autistic boy.

[@John_Steuart]

Lol this is at 69 likes

[@OoJohnisbackoO]

It fucking sucks

[@lenwilson3465]

I'm 31 years old and Autistic. I think it's very sad you feel that way. It's very true that it is hard for us in this society. The only advice I can give is to build a sense of your own value that isn't linked to the values we're given by Capitalism. This is hard because we've been bought up and indoctrinated into Capitalism from a young age, so Capitalism can often lurk in our subconscious even if we hate it, but it is possible to develop a sense of self which isn't linked to career or your social standing within the authoritarian plutocracy they call capitalism. Just remember that you don't owe the rich people who run this country anything. I wish I had worked that out at a younger age. Also, if you're spiritual, try reading the Tao Te Ching. Hope this helps.

[@shodanxx]

Why demonize them, make them live in a panopticon and drive them to suicide ? For the same reason prisoners are maltreated. It is to keep the rest of the cattle in check and content about their current situation so they know things can and will get much worse for them if they rock the boat.

[@kaitlyn__L]

And that's why benefits are always below the poverty line too....

[@HxH2011DRA]

"This idealogy of voluntarism obscures the fundamental destruction of rights. It's not an accident that poverty grows deeper as our charitable responses to it multiply. The growth of kindness and the decline of justice are intimately intertwined."- Janet Poppendieck

[@HxH2011DRA]

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[@ellie_oo]

Thank you Kay + Skittles! I work for a small local charity in the south and we see so many people effected by these horrible austerity cuts who will never be able to work. Food bank usage has soared and there are more and more homeless ever year. It's killing them and it's important to see how the media warped public perception to allow this to happen.

[@egorka2201]

The people on benefits fulfil an important function in capitalism. Their existence disciplines the working class.

[@Mabasei]

Also in America without food stamps lotta farmers would be fucked as well as mountain dwelling folks .

[@Mabasei]

Magnum actually yes there’s not a lot of jobs in those regions so many would not eat without the program. They’re not stupid just stuck as all.

[@randomstranger623]

@Uncle Thomas Do you feel stupid? Do you feel dumb?

[@joesmith8701]

@@Mabasei we dont need imgrants insted we need to help these ppl get out these regions so what if it might cost the tax payer 1000 to move these ppl u will save far far more in the long run

[@halfpintrr]

I get disability in the US, (SSI, so I don’t work) but it isn’t even enough to live in a box apartment. I’m terrified of losing it.

[@KayAndSkittles]

I'm sorry. It's disgraceful how they treat us.

[@halfpintrr]

Yep. I stand in solidarity with you, fellow traveler.

[@sparx180]

halfprintrr I feel for you. We spend billions yearly warring with other countries that have done nothing to us whatsoever. Why not fix up America and give SSI to the needy not the greedy!

[@halfpintrr]

Chloe wilson A perpetual war is bad for everyone.

[@lexort4204]

Ya and it keeps you trapped, god forbid you try getting a job only for it to not work out.

[@lucydm6736]

first time watcher, think i’ll stick around!

[@TheN00bmonster]

As an American, it's weird to hear (apparently Conservative) people genuinely proud of how social safety nets take care of those who need them. At this point, our conservatives don't even pretend to care about elderly or disabled people.

[@runakinsley3450]

If it's such a bad thing that poor people are getting to live by someone's else labor, what does that say for those at the top who do the same?

[@neilmcdougall4927]

Punch down mentalities

[@cjclark2002]

Boom, Steiners Counter Attack! 😂

[@Ghostzer0]

My absolutely favourite thing is people telling me how this country's (Norway) benefits system is great if you have legitimate need for it, but also easy to exploit. I also get a bit annoyed when other people (that don't live in Norway) tell me that Norway's systems are great. My mother has arthritis. She has had it now for nearly 30 years. She has done so many things even while suffering with it and at the end she has had to discontinue working full-time in any capacity. She has in this time worked many different jobs, published high school textbooks, attempted to finish a doctorate and at the end when trying to get benefits it was an uphill battle despite being sick for almost three literal decades. I have friends with various other problems and the system is not sufficient for them either. This broken system puts pressure on people with conscience to help out those in need around them, not because the system can't, but because it won't. Any attempt to curb this minor expenditure on people who claim some benefits fraudulently is going to affect so many innocent people. So yeah, I get heated whenever people tell me this.

[@mxmothmanart]

I'd probably be better able to work a demanding job or full time at all if childhood economic insecurity (among other things) hadn't made my body sh*t at coping with stress.

[@frankienamosaki7547]

What?

[@frankienamosaki7547]

Childhood economic insecurity? What are you talking about?

[@mxmothmanart]

@@frankienamosaki7547 the human body pushes itself past "safe limits" when it perceives certain kinds of problems ("stress"). If this goes on long term, both neurological and adrenal stress regulators are damaged. As a kid, I was extremely distressed by my family's difficulties with money. I would experience tremendous anxiety if I needed or wanted anything that cost money -- including food. The long-term effects of such elevated, regular childhood anxiety are much the same as having a poor phone battery life because of charging habits when you first got it. Poverty has been well documented to have long term/lifetime harmful effects on children who grow up in it, both physically and mentally.

[@JP-dh1xv]

Trans rights

[@juliusdean2765]

Correct.

[@SaraH-jn5db]

Hail sobek

[@sorzin2289]

Damn right

[@lyd6530]

Also ppl on job seekers allowance are not all fraudulent anyway, like???? some ppl struggle to find work???and courses to help them better their "job skills" are rare, my whole family have struggled writing CVs because it just feels like a formal lie, it feels wrong, and when my brother asked for help at job seekers center with his CV they said "that's not what we're here for" they were only there to make sure he wasn't one of those "scroungers" not to actually help him

[@carysbebard3690]

My sister was out of work post uni for a long time (after getting the highest possible grades...) and the courses she kept being sent on by the job centre were wildy unhelpful to her. She can write a cv, she can dress well for interviews, she knows what she's doing and it was the job market that was clearly the issue, but if she didn't attend these completely useless seminars (to her) she would be cut off from the allowance. She couldn't opt out of them and let someone else take the space either. Thanx government, real helpful.

[@RhianKristen]

God, I can relate to this...

[@lemsip207]

Yes you have to turn yourself inside out to promote yourself like you are a brand. I've been there. Lots of self analysis and trying to think of what you've done and not done and then having to present it all in a way to attract an employer. Taking courses and taking up hobbies not because you want to but because they look good on a CV. I've done with all that now.

[@pythonjava6228]

I would prefer that my taxes pay for housing, healthcare, education, unemployment benefits and generally welfare that people need. People always complain about these things until _they_ are the ones who face it directly or witness a friend/ family member who needs it. Many people don't realise that this is a safety net for everyone. You might be secure now but you never know when you might get fired or fail to meet your rent payments. When I see that guy shoplifting to feed his drug habit, I don't see a "scrounger". I see a man who needs rehab and support from his community to stay off drugs. I'm glad that he has a safe house to go to. His life would be more at risk if he was doing drugs on the street. He has an illness that he needs help from and housing is part of that help

[@gmc5618]

Exactly! It's not their fault the state refuses to stop enabling a socioeconomic system which demands homelessness

[@lemsip207]

All these things can be easily paid for if there weren't so many high earning tax avoiders and tax loopholes. Jeff Bezos pays less income tax than the average earner. And also more people could be employed to carry out vital services in the public sector.

[@SandyTheDesertFox]

a leftist channel? That loves ferrets? Just like me? I LOVE YOU 😭♥️ ferrets are comrades!

[@inciaradible7144]

I nearly fell out of my chair in laughter when 'the Daily Mail' and 'the Sun' were referred to as journalism; kudos to the delectable pairing that is Kay and Skittles.

[@Zeverinsen]

I'm sure that all the money my government has lost in tax evasion and tax reductions for the rich and the money they have wasted on stupid shit and higher than average salaries for their top administrators, would be enough to not only support everyone that actually apply for any benefits, but still have enough to fund programs for people struggling with illiteracy, drug abuse, mental illness or other problems. ... And even then there might still be money left 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@sophypancake279]

My city spent almost a billion dollars on a fucking opera house (we already had an opera house by the way) due to mismanagement of the project making it more expensive than planned while our schools are literally falling apart lol

[@monarchofthesea9395]

As someone who's worked in the welfare system providing a lot of advice to claimants. I'll say this. Even without cuts, they've made claiming a lot more difficult, which makes it particularly hard for vulnerable people to claim without effecting how fraudsters do so. You'd be surprised at how many people can't fill in a form who need help.

[@blueish4]

Coming from the Curio shoutout, staying for the good content. Here's one for the algorithm!

[@redenginner]

As someone in the US who is longterm unemployed (not by choice mind you) its utterly dehumanizing to be considered less then human by so many people. My parents support me, and its okay I guess but I can’t even try to get on SSI due to my severe ADHD not really being considered “a real disability”. Every day I spend hours throwing applications at the wall(applying at minimum wage work) on the computer and its just silence. Every day I do this I wish just a little more that I would just keel over and die. Because I know the job I will get will inevitably be miserable and cause me to go into a even steeper downward spiral of depression. I have parents telling me “take whatever you can get,we all had to do it”, when they had jobs they enjoyed to some degree most of their lives. I then turn around and have people saying that I am worthless because I have “no marketable skills”, and I should make myself valuable by “learning XYZ skill/trade”. Not even caring the fact that I don’t want to spend 50 years of my life as a fucking plumber/AC technician/etc when I’d really like to do creative stuff with my life. I hate this broken neoliberal world. I want out.

[@B_A-tr]

I really hate those who say "these people who needs benefits just need to work harder. They shouldnt get my money". Like what do you want? Do you want to literally let them starve. And the irony is that poor people dont steal your hard earned cash. The Bourgeoisie is the one taking it. And they are the one whp denie people a workplace in the first place. Join your fellow man and fight capitalism, not each other

[@RykerJones28]

Even the title of saints and scroungers makes me boulk.

[@Leeqzombie]

This video is about the UK, but gosh it's so accurate for Australia right now too, with our government's treatment of and claims about people on welfare. I don't know if there's a UK equivalent, but in Australia we have a very underrated group called the *Australian Unemployed Worker's Union*. Every useless little program my Jobactive provider makes me attend, I make sure to mention them to my fellow unemployed workers and welfare recipients. If you're in another country, it might be worth doing a web search to see if something similar exists locally to you. At the very least they can help you out whenever your case worker tries to strong-arm you into something unnecessary, or if your payments are unfairly cut off. Speaking of disability scrutiny, we've had cases of people with developmental disorders and the like have to confirm that they're still disabled... These are lifelong conditions that are permanent. You don't grow out of being autistic. I've also had an 'assessor' (for 'capacity for and barriers to employment') conveniently leave out a variety of my conditions (you don't get a copy of your 'results'), I had to have my case worker tell me what was in my file, apparently the assessor magically replaced my "autism, ADHD, IBS, chronic migraines, treatment resistant depression, and suspected BPD" to "social anxiety" (which, ha, sadly apparently made "social interaction" part of my 'mutual requirement' activities - not even sure if that's legal, but okay. Mandatory social interaction requirements, having to confirm I spend time with other people, to 'prove' I want to recover from my non-existent "social anxiety", just to keep receiving my payments). When I told this to my case worker, she was shocked and even recommended herself that I should be on disability payments. She even said she would help me to get on it instead of ordinary unemployment. A few weeks later I was suddenly notified she had been transferred to another department and that I've been reassigned to another case worker. I'm still trying to gather all the medical documents just to be reassessed (for modified, lower capacity employment payments) while I work on trying to save money for official diagnoses (autism is obvious, but never actually officially diagnosed, and now that I'm an adult it costs $900, plus the BPD) so I have enough official evidence to go through the gauntlet of getting assessed for disability pension. All while trying to convince a psychiatrist to consider referring me for ECT for the depression.

[@Maxarcc]

Kay & Skittles most underrated channel on KZbin. Share their content hard friends!

[@ajkolody8887]

It's kind of weird knowing the "they"is me and being talked about like an alien creature.

[@jackvac1918]

We truly are living in the Society of the Spectacle when sensationalised and dishonest "reality" TV shows inform the masses' perceptions on the poor.

[@aworldtowin955]

Unemployment and poverty isn’t a mistake of capitalism, it’s a necessary feature

[@Monikaummos]

Elaborate

[@randomstranger623]

@@Monikaummos It's to scare the middle class into working hard lest you'll end up like them.

[@mkthbud]

Omg. I’m honestly just so obsessed with your content. And I love skittles too! Ive literally spent the past 4 hours binging your content and I’m not even upset that I’m not studying like I’m supposed to

[@juanje1]

Just binged all your videos. Criminally undersubscribed!

[@alexarviso6836]

Those korra videos are his magnum opus.

[@alias201]

I don't support benefit cuts. I'd rather have some of my money go to benefit scroungers than there not being enough for those in need.

[@laurabXOTWOD]

A while ago I decided to make a list. This is just one week of channel 5s "poverty porn" programming. By any standards it's excessive to say the least! Its no coincidence that this type of programming got so widespread shortly after the Tories took office . It's Truly sickening. Monday: 5*: can't pay, we'll take it away Tuesday 5*Generation Poverty Gap: On Benefits Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away x2 Spike: Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away Wednesday C5: Housing Yorkshire 5*: Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away x4 On Benefits: Life On The Dole Rich Kids Go Skint Spike: Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords Thursday: C5: Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away 5*: Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away x2 On Benefits: Costa Del Dole Spike: Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away Friday 5*On Benefits: Living The High Life Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away x3 Spike: Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords Saturday C5: Can't pay, we'll take it away x2 5*: Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away x5 Spike: Can't Pay, We'll Take It Away

[@redenginner]

Its depressing tbh.

[@a1t3rmusic]

you've probably gotten this a million times...but your content is honestly amazing ❤️ like...I really wish YT actually pushed more stuff like this instead of just pure entertainment (not that it's bad but when it's all that's offered...media begins to take a distractive role instead of a balance between informative and entertaining content...hence people being unaware about so many important things but I digress...) and again great content❤️

[@Nottsflix]

Really great video, well done! This country has become a much meaner place in the last 10 years :-(

[@kaitlyn__L]

Nice Wolf of Wall Street clips 👍 Also, the point about full employment not being desirable for capitalism is borne out by how the UK _did in fact_ have (mostly) full employment in the 50s and 60s, which they bragged about at the time, but then they just..... imported a bunch of labour from ex British colonies, who were paid far less than their coworkers, and once enough people had been imported (with false promises about Britain being a "land of limitless opportunity" just as the USA does), it created enough unemployment "slack" in the system again, and they stopped doing that. Ergo "full employment" globally can never happen under capitalism, and with our increasingly globalised economies most manufacturing has almost completely abandoned wealthier western nations.

[@dolceanstar]

The original 'hostile environment' policy was against welfare claiments during the Tory government of the early '60's. It was based on a philosophy by Eugene Heimler for which he was commissioned, by the government, to write a corresponding research paper (The Hounslow Project) to present the government that they could incorporate it into policy making. We live with it's effects to this day. Ironically, the South African government under Mandela looked into the value of it's philosophy and updated the research. It was found to be nonsensical in regards to the outcome of it's projections and they binned it.

[@TheIronGhast]

I really, really don't understand this narrative that people receiving benefits are just lazy and don't want to work, so we should stop giving them money. Like even if that was the case (which, for the vast majority of people it isn't) I wouldn't want them to starve???? I mean it's not as if the minute we cut their benefits they're gonna be like "oops okay, time to go and work" and all will be well. It's not that easy to get a job especially if you haven't been working for years or have some kind of health condition that makes it harder. What are they meant to do in the meantime?

[@quasi8180]

Its even harder if youve never even had a job before and have 0 credentials cause you havent been able to.get any experience. Heck i dont even have a resume so its kinda impossible.

[@altmilk8879]

Thanks, Kay and Skittles.

[@NewOrderOfAlexandria]

Horrifying existence. Work a dull job everyday, or watch your savings disappear and get ridiculed or punished for claiming, or become homeless, while TV tells everyone to look down on you.

[@aviendha1154]

This channel is criminally under watched.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Great video

[@DDARKmodp]

Really good video

[@YerDa67]

This is such an important video. Thank you, you are a hero!

[@QuestingRefuge]

And of course if there are better safety nets in place then people wouldn't need to live in fear and feel they must tolerate being treated like crap at work. They might want to demand better treatment.

[@greymind9815]

Fuck this is a good channel and I am glad I clicked on this.

[@augustb.w.4778]

I actually love my service job. A helpful tip is to measure your success on how much you help other people make a decision that will make them happier

[@selispeks]

Just found you this morning, this is the 3rd video I've watched so far and I gotta say your videos are EXCELLENT!

[@runakinsley3450]

Also, frankly I don't care about the freeloading poor. I wish I had their life. If they suffered as I do everyday as a fulltimer, how does that benefit me? Now just more people are suffering.

[@moeszyslak3097]

Extremely skillful executive production on this video. Well done Skittles! 🏅🏅

[@bloodymary7651]

I work now, but for a number of years I was on employment support allowance. I didn't have to look for a job because of mental health issues. There was a time when I couldn't even go to interviews and I still get terrified when people come to my house. A few years ago I was studying mormonism, in a bid to find peace, and some of these so called "Christians" would look down on me because they assumed that I was working the system. I nearly bled to death after I slit through both arteries in my wrist, and as I lay there waiting for an ambulance, I decided that things were going to change. It took 3 months before I got the use of my hand back, although I'm still crippled because of the tendon and nerve damage I sustained. 6 months on from that experience and I'm working. It felt like a fresh start and my social skills have improved. But I still struggle and there isn't any help available. I don't take any medication at all, I don't drink to excess, yet life still sucks. I think I will end up getting sacked because I clash with people. I get very angry if I feel like I'm being treated unfairly, and I'm very vocal about it. But I would rather be expressive than passive.

[@mcFreaki]

i would die for skittles.

[@DiThi]

I knew that the public was being manipulated by media, but now I'm outraged.

[@noheroespublishing1907]

I find the contemptiblity of humanity reason enough to provide for them; the involuntariness of life giving rise to such creatures makes us pitiable for the very misfortune of existence in the first place. People who seek to make the misery of life even more surmountable are no friend of their fellow creatures.

[@brandon9172]

Great video.

[@TheBabblingBabs]

I've been trying to get disability benefits for over 5 years, and yeah this video sums it up pretty well...the times I've almost given up just because my quality of life is absolute dog shit and they won't listen to us. I really hope things change...

[@LordMP3-m1y]

This video makes me angry at capitalism in the same way benefit street makes people angry at benefit frauds.

[@lukelyon1781]

You guys in the UK are following disturbingly closely the goings-on here in the States. Please don't make the same mistakes we did. It's several times more difficult to work backwards than to go forward.

[@monsieurlefrog8706]

if things get too bad im gonna leave the UK the tory government has proven especially in the last 2 years that they are completely inept and only work in the intrest of profit and are willing to turn people against eachother to do so

[@lukelyon1781]

@@monsieurlefrog8706 I hope you get your shot.

[@brandonbohan7281]

The biggest shift I had was realizing welfare is mostly subsidizing people to make up for the market under paying them. If we just paid them more, most welfare wouldn’t even be needed, except wick and unemployment I imagine because things happen. Basically every company paying minimum wage is a leech that the government has to make up for.

[@firetarrasque4667]

The Jeremy Kyle show disgusts me in a way few pieces of media do.

[@lemsip207]

Same with the Trisha Show that paved the way for it. Shamless and Saints and Scroungers as well. All started under the New Labour Government which was far from being a socialist Government. Only Jeremy Corbyn spoke out about them when he was Labour leader and he promised he would stop those programmes but unfortunately the media was against him and was using tricks to get people not to vote for him. Like getting old people in the street to claim they had always voted Labour but won't again because of Jeremy Corbyn. Most of those people hadn't voted Labour for a long time. Blairite MPs were doing their best to make sure only they and their pals could get re-elected to Parliament but wanted Labour to lose in seats where the Labour candidates were left wing.

[@madelineo]

This channel is so good! I can't believe you're under 20k subs. I assume that number will go up very soon.

[@huntersullivan51]

Good video, thanks for the thoughts on the matter.

[@FreeThoughtsandIdeas]

Just found your channel and love yours videos, good work man

[@Ashtaka22]

This was top tier research. But god dayum are you hilarious 😂😂. The tax evasion part killed me lmao

[@inidia556]

love this

[@inidia556]

also how come this has so little views

[@nostopit179]

Okay, I’m hooked, subbed

[@sinead6583]

That alarm at the start of the video triggered my fight or flight.

[@djdoolittle1315]

Soon the Ai machines will have most if not all the jobs. Working for a living will be a dirty word in the next 25 years 😷☝️

[@omarabe26]

Hopefully I'm not alive when that happens.

[@ericpeterson6520]

Great video!

[@RowenaSnow-px3jg]

OMG this is the BEST breakdown of disability demonization, and capitalist exploitation, that i have ever seen.

[@red99Baron]

Dammit youtube! Why didn't you notify me!?

[@LuckyBlackCat]

First video of yours I've seen. Liked, subscribed, belled. :)

[@theqoulyv]

I don't know how to phrase this in a way that doesn't make me sound like an asshole. (Usually a sign not to say it, but) I just noticed that around 17:30 you say full employment, which means around 4% unemployment as an economics term, not when everyone has a job, which is the impression I got from how you used it. It's obviously not a big deal, but I'm trying to leave a comment for the algorithm and that's what stuck with me most. Lovely video and channel btw. Please keep up the great work

[@KayAndSkittles]

Good catch! When I say full employment is not achievable or desirable under capitalism what I mean is 100% employment is impossible which is part of why "full employment" still leaves room for around 4% unemployment. In hindsight it may have driven my point home further to highlight that even capitalist economists take some unemployment as a given even under "full employment" so maybe shitting ourselves about people on welfare is counter-intuitive. It's been a while but I THINK Mexie's video I reference around that time might make note of that at least?

[@Ryusola]

Bravo. What a great video.

[@android65mar]

Excellent video, very well said

[@taj4137]

Great video! I thought you lived in the US. Guess I’m not that good with accents :/

[@ActiveParadox]

Yeah, I thought that was a North American (I'm not good with US Vs Canadian accent) but this video was very clearly written by someone who has an intimate knowledge of the UK.

[@iheartjackieyes]

he moved to the uk from canada from what i know

[@elizabethbennet4791]

dude youre my new fave channel

[@spacecadet5860]

It's just as bad here in the States. When I was a kid my family received foodstamps (now called SNAP) and pretty much every three months we would have to send in all of our documents/paystubs/bills etc so they could make sure we were "poor enough" to receive the ~125 dollars a month they would throw at us. What's even worse is the simple fact that my disabled father was denied disability benefits at least in part because we received food stamps. The fucking SSA denied my father's claim until he turned old enough to get social security

[@alwest4472]

Oh shit Jeremy Kyle, the guy I heard from the front room at home when my mom watched it!

[@FirestormMk3]

The sad reality is it works. I live in the US, and the overwhelming majority of my extended family says these things, "Welfare, public housing, food stamps, etc are supposed to be a temporary bridge for those truly in need." That said, they all believe that for every family in "genuine need" there's at least a hundred "welfare queens." Even coming at them from a point of view of empathy and compassion trying to show these studies, every one of them will say, "I see it every day with my own eyes, those studies are clearly deliberate lies because I constantly see these lazy people in our public housing all driving BMWs and Cadillacs and wearing mink coats because everything for them is free!" Heck, most of them, though a smaller number, think that there literally should be absolutely zero assistance for anyone of working age that isn't disabled, no matter what, because of all the now hiring signs everywhere. In a world where companies have learned they can deliberately understaff and redirect blame by putting up "no one wants to work" signs and entry level, low-wage jobs require years of experience to get an interview, to them there's too many jobs that need doing so anyone who can't get a second job if they need it to make ends meet is choosing not to work and so they shouldn't get help. Everyone on the maternal side of my extended family over 50 was gnashing at the teeth wanting even stricter work requirements for even things like medicaid and cheering using the threat of debt default to get it - even the so-called progressive ones genuinely getting upset over social issues (they're fairly split on that), but they get unified really quickly to celebrate austerity politics, anything that says "kids these days don't want to work" (kids meaning anyone under 45), and cheer union-busting efforts under Team Blue because they got theirs, time to pull the ladder up behind them on workplace safety and wages and then credit it on how good their work ethic was.

[@Elneco1]

Pulling this up again for the recent scandal.

[@ristekostadinov2820]

If someone make a show about investigating wage theft, benefits fraud would look like a joke.

[@henryclark5953]

Wasn't expecting to hear dom littlewood and Jeremy Kyle on an American channel

[@deasphodel3700]

I know this is a year old and possibly no one will see this, but on the off chance: The (I believe) most you can get on ESA is around £130 a week, which is about double what was said in this video. That's increased a bit since last year, but definitely not doubled. I don't think this excuses the way people on benefits are driven to attempting suicide, but there will be people who try to discount the argument because the facts aren't right.

[@chcknpie04]

4 for 4! I love your content.

[@christian2i]

Have them cut it alltogether and instantly introduce revolutionary energy to the system? (assumption: communities/social networks will step in short term)

[@AntiArmedWierdo]

Ian Duncan Smith Enemy of the People... incredible

[@od3910]

You have no idea how hard it is to get benefits. If you so much as smile the assessors will put you down as not depressed. Sometimes they just reject your claim to see if you'll actually fight for it and appeal, wasting tax payer money. If you are depressed and disabled, tired all the time, can hardly get out of bed, and you have to put in all your energy into getting the benefits you need to survive, when are you supposed to work on yourself? There is no time to get better. Benefits are a trap

[@santodiablo7686]

How is tax evasion not a populist's main topic. Farage could capitalise so much from talking about it, and it would actually be a legit problem

[@perhaps1094]

Why would farage go against tax fraud? He wants to the uk to be a tax haven like singapore

[@santodiablo7686]

@@perhaps1094 cause it creates inequality and hurts the working class (I know, thatcher would disagree). and the working class constitutes a fair share of his voters...

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

You can thank the algorithm for a new subscriber.

[@guyguy7634]

Well this is very depressing

[@ertymexx]

It is as if you had read my mind. I recognise this from Sweden as well, we had similar shows just as the right wing forced austerity on the poor, while shoving welfare on the rich. :-(

[@AshleyLewis-z5l]

My mother has M.S and rhymatoid they won't approve her for disability in the mean time there's entire family's that are getting disability for shit like add or adhd or depression, my mom can badly walk! I really don't think that the system works

[@ibrahimkamara9508]

Wow. I'm American we would just let them be homeless or lock them up

[@LogicGated]

Man some of that show's framing of those poor people is gross :(

[@joshuaknox2724]

man said council estate LIFERS!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@elizabethbennet4791]

So why are we not helping these people read and write and get them job give me this simply shows that the system doesn't work it doesn't give people what they actually mean is maybe that's the core problem maybe people should simply to given Free Housing, free healthcare free groceries and a social worker he's actually not overworked and not a moron. maybe shit would get done then