British workers need 'more graft', says Liz Truss in leaked recording - audio
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2022
- Liz Truss launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed 'more graft' and suggesting they lacked the 'skill and application' of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal.
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Liz is right. Laziness, Unions , Strikes , Welfare ruined the British Industries and economy.
She has a point in context to easy answers only.
“Leaked audio reveals Tory being a Tory”
Well I do remember Mogg snoozing on the front benches is that what she's talking about.
Time for change, time for Rishi!
Luckily for the "lazy" British worker we have an even lazier group of British Politicians running things.
Why you putting lazy in quotes as if it’s not true?
She’d prefer the Chinese model, she mentioned that
@@JN-wr9he Let her go to China then and stop bothering us.
@@JN-wr9he yeah, work for a bag of rice, also put in prison if you speak against the party.
You may disagree with these politicians but they work longer hours than the vast majority of people
The PM, a shining example of " graft " in middle of a major crisis, holidaying in Greece.
Boris is definitely laughing at all of this he can't believe his luck haha
I sometimes question myself on the fact that I hate the Conservative party, so thanks liz truss for confirming the fact my hatred of you isn’t baseless. I work in a factory doing aluminium fabrication it’s a skilled job quite heavy and hard and we have deadlines to meet so it entails long hours, I’m 53 years old and completely whacked when I get home. And yes I am British.
But here’s the thing, Kev; I bet a bunch of your fellow workers in that factory actually VOTE Tory. Turkeys voting for Christmas.
Well said! she wouldn't know a hard day's graft if it smacked her in the face! I don't like the word Hate but in this case it is very apt! I by the way am 62 and work very hard 12 hour shifts in a hospice and yes I am british too.
You are a hard worker, I'm sure. But in general, traditionally we don't work as hard as Asians. That is beginning to change with the next generation of Chinese wanting to "lie flat" movement. As a comparison her statement has some merit, but I've always thought that the Asians work too hard, not that we don't work hard enough.
After this audio tape, she really showed her true character. I will never vote for her
@@tgr5772 it’s because Asians tend to have such a work ethic that rewards spending upwards of 60 percent of your life grinding yourself into dust for your career. It isn’t healthy and the fact we have politicians who believe because we don’t have the equivalent of sweatshop working lives in this country that means we’re lazy is abhorrent.
A politician talking about work? Unbelievable. The only 'work' she has ever done is working out how to fiddle expenses and how to exploit people.
She used our hard work to pay for her expenses the torys would starve half the population to line their pockets oh wait they're already well on there way to do that
Well, she didn’t mention China for nothing!
In her defense what you have described is the usual meaning of "graft" which the Tory party are experts on. Boris Johnson and Liz Trust have built a life on Graft, lies and avoiding anything resembling WORK.
no only that but one of the biggest shirkers in politics, does the bare basics to get by, then more effort put into making it look like she's doing something and telling everyone about how hard she's working than ever put in to actually doing her "job" I guess she's the Boris continuity PM in this regard too.
It was also a very superficial analysis - but that's about the depth of thought of your average politician.
Having listened to the recording it's worse than the headline. She wants us to have the lifestyle of the average worker from China. As millions of Brits come home tired from work every day, I hope they remember these words when it comes to the election
I hope they do too.
@jim ritchie but they dont though, china has a population 20x that of the UK, whilst only having about 5x the GDP, and they work many more hours than we do here.
@jim ritchie And it clearly disappoints her that some British workers don't do 12-14 hours a day like the Chinese. That recording was a disgrace, and that will only play to the ears of Tory shills like yourself, but no one else.
@jim ritchie A individual worker in China doesn't even remotely have the productivity of a individual worker in the UK. The golden bubble within which China has experienced its growth is with its abnormally large and low paid workforce, with a lack of job security and job benefits, which acts as a magnetic for foreign investment. Its dirt cheap labor and a high volume of this labor that's spurring a large amount of China's growth, not some silly idea like your assumption that an individual worker from China comes even close in productivity to a individual worker from the UK. The Chinese economy simply hasn't reached that point in terms of productivity gains yet.
So what Reggie is saying is quite on the dot, if Truss cites China as a success example, then the outcome she's inevitably going to have to push for in the UK is heavily suppressed wages for lower income earners and basic benefits like sick leave being slashed completely, so that low income workers in the UK are paid at the same level or even less than Chinese workers. That's the only way she can successfully achieve a Chinese style model of growth in the UK whether she realizes this or not, which she likely does.
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Unless that is Truss is talking about China's Industrial policy where the Chinese goverment intervenes with massive financial injections into both SOEs and private enterprises in order to spur export-orientated growth and rapid expansion of Chinese firms into the international market.
But she doesn't seem to focus in on the Industrial Strategy when talking about China, doesn't she, as it goes completely against her Thatcherite saints.
So Truss is quite literally choosing to point out bits of distorted information (or perhaps misinformation is a better way to describe it) about China that fit in with her ideology, while diverting attention away from other aspects of China that don't align with her ideology such as the interventionist Industrial policy.
That's not actually it. It's just that per hour of work less gets done, which does need to change. It's not about increasing hours.
Says an MP who enjoys regular paid recess, has no performance target, standards or obligations to attend parliament. Gets free travel, food, energy and other expenses, enjoys a high salary with guaranteed increases every year, generous pension and security detail. Has absolutely nothing to worry about. Being an MP is like winning the lottery, you're done, you've won, no more grind for you.
Yeah she really needs to go and do a working class job THEN tell us workers don't work hard enough.
WEF Muppets, well said👍🤣
Yeah man, absolutely correct 👍
This fails to take into account what MPs actually do, though as so little of what they actually do is reported in the media, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. Yes, the pay and benefits are huge compared to those of other jobs, but there is a reason for that. The hours can be horrendous, you can easily be double booked (and face being told off by the Speaker in front of the HoC even though you're late because you were meeting your constituents or attending a committee meeting with vital consequences for your constituents) and you have to have a thicker skin than most, given what the media and the public throw at you and even threaten to do to you or your family.
"No more grind?" Rather "relentless grind from the moment you're elected."
She’s disgraceful. She doesn’t represent the hard working British people. All you saw was lies on TV.
Low productivity? Well decades of underinvestment due to rampant neoliberal capitalism will do that Liz...
Would remind that Mrs Thatcher ordered the destruction of British industry and began building warehouses for imported goods.
Indeed, nearly 40 years after the Trade Union movement was neutered why is productivity still so poor, after they cited that as a reason at the time?
@Mr Smith "Neoliberalism, or neo-liberalism, is a term used to signify the political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism."
Capitalism is literally baked into the Neoliberal ideology, what are you talking about?
@@Sam-Cain It would appear that a lot modern conservative have absolutely no idea what a Liberal or a leftist is
@Mr Smith Thatcher and Reagan were neoliberal. It doesn't mean what you think it does. Think deregulation and small government.
I’ve watched my dad graft in his job since i was old enough to remember, coming home so tired from work he’d pass out on the sofa before bed time and having hearing issues, my parents were never frivolous with money, we always had one weekend holiday to the seaside every year (that i absolutely adored) and yet my dad to this day still is grafting in his job living pay cheque to pay cheque with no end or hope for retirement. I hate this woman for saying this. I worry about my dad, i’ve seen him stress so much about money and even cry which is very unusual for my dad to show his emotions in that way. My dad works hard enough to the point where he should have savings and not have to worry about money yet thats not the case. This woman is so evil for saying this, please dont let her be prime minister.
What exactly are you going to do to stop her? What do you think any of us should do?
Do you really think Dishy Rishi is any better? He isn't. They're both the same really.
All politicians are in the same self-serving camp. The entire system needs to change.
@@JeremiahEcks777 vote Labour 🤷♂️
@@JeremiahEcks777 Where exactly did i say i could do anything to stop her?
@@JeremiahEcks777 dont be so heartless and rude.she just shared her fathers life story ,have some respect
When she says richer and more prosperous she means 'if we want the richer to get richer the normal working person needs to accept less pay and benefits'.
Well everyone knows the British aren't as productive as the Germans
yes that's exactly what she meant. She actually can't conceive of a world where the elites (herself included) should have to play by the same rules as everyone else. That's just preposterous to her.
Or work harder and produce more.
Oh don't forget abandonment of health an safety too. If ya die ya die
How can i make me and my friends richer tory mindset 101
So, basically, she thinks poorer/working class people in Britain should work as hard (and for as little pay) as near-slaves do in dictatorships, in order that richer/upper class people like her can benefit more from our labour. Nice. She’s a perfect candidate for a Tory Prime Minister. Expect your pay to go down and your work quotas to go up, fellow serfs. Next she’ll bring back flogging.
That’s you putting words in her mouth though isn’t it
@@ConradOPrice No it isnt. Shes a co author of Britannia Unchained which reads like a toffs wet dream on returning the lower classes into servitude.
@@dixienormus3153 well with China she just highlighted that they’re harder working and are more productive as a result. I’m sure that’s a significant reason for why the Chinese economy is on track to become the largest in the world.
Also not sure why u are implying she’s talking about poor/working class. She says workers. That to me suggests all workers but I could be wrong.
Also why for as little pay? More hours/more produced would surely mean higher pay no?
@@blairrobert3438 I’ve not read it but thanks for the response
@@blairrobert3438 The World Economic Forum has this in mind.
Accidentally confessed that Tories were always blaming the EU for all their policy failures and mismanagement of the country
Well now they need a scape goat and it's the worker.
I think most British people would be OK with having a normal life and not spending 20% of their salary on Energy Bills. Is that too much to ask? I don’t think so
It's not the energy bills that's crucifying us. It's the exorbitant housing costs.
Back in the '90's an average house price was 3 times the average salary.
By 2000 the average house price was 7 times the average salary.
No-one wants to rectify that cos they're all too busy getting rich on their property
Great reply . It’s actually nailed it ..
Yes, I for one don’t really want to be richer or more prosperous, I just want a fair income and to not have to worry about having enough money to manage.
20% right 😅 there's this group on fb about energies and their saving and some poor people pay 2500 and more MONTHLY 😨
Only 20% of your salary?
If only ….
…and British Tories deserve to be jailed.
Scottish Tories deserve a lot worse.
@@scottishrob7119 What do you mean? He said "British Tories" which includes the Scots.
@@Krytern Hahahahahahaha
@@scottishrob7119 Basic geography is funny? Well alright then.
Worse than jailed. They should be put to death for what they've done to this country.
She says “if you go to China it is very different”, says a lot about where she is on worker rights.
I can guarantee she, along with every other MP has never done a minutes graft in their entire lives. She should try working 60 plus hours a week in a real life job on the so called living wage just to exist. Try paying all your bills, pay into a pension (as we're all be told too), save some money, oh and I almost forgot, eat too. What a see you next Tuesday.
you're wrong about never grafting, grafting is hard wired into Tory MPs,
graft = bribery and other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages or gains in politics or business.
"sweeping measures to curb official graft"
@@tonymcfeisty2478 I think the word you're looking for is grift, not graft
@@krytenfivetwothreep2485 I think grift is a newer word used to make it easier to differentiate between the two meanings of graft. though grift seems to be more about petty swindling and conman antics (maybe grift is a more appropriate word for the Tory's after all) admittedly I think graft meaning hard work is more a predominantly uk definition of the word.
You do know some mps like the defence Secretary was in the army for most to his life 😅
How dare she speak about the British people in that way. Millions work hard this country and pay their taxes to help the system. I knew there was something shady with this woman.
How dare she?
What are you going to do about it?
As far as her being shady. She's a politician. Of course she is. Do you know any that aren't?
60 percent of the North East receive benefits, too soft a country, no incentive to work.
How dare anyone criticise you?
They are all shady ......
@Matthew Clifford the majority of benefits are paid to people who are working. Don't people deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work? why is the taxpayer subsidising businesses that won't pay their workers a living wage?
Like any politician is qualified to talk about 'graft' other than in the thieving sense..
British workers are considerably less productive than those in France and Germany.
It's factually correct, how you choose to interpret it is up to you.
Send me to Sunak’s soon to be opened re-education camp. This government is ruining this country to line their own pockets. They would be ashamed if they had the emotional capacity to feel it.
Ah yes let's get lectured by another Tory who's never done a hard days work in their life. Rich and privileged people tend to progress relatively easily due to wealth, nepotism and connections which is why they have this illusion that hard work always pays off and as we see with current Tory leadership, they fail upwards a lot of the time.
@ Bossy Coconut hard work does pay nhs staff in one particular trust (won’t put in writing which one ) were given ONE tea bag as a thank you for all their hard work and another gave a small bar of chocolate that was out of date when they got negative feedback they said that staff should be grateful for their kind gesture politicians don’t know what hard work is
So, i hear her saying if the u.k is going to be richer and more prosperous, british workers need to be like chinese workers. Sounds about right/sums up globalism and a race to the bottom for Tom Public. This attitude started with Thatcher and has proven itself wrong time and again. These things have been said out loud for decades but people seem deaf.
Ah, come on. Don't be such a pessimist. The Chinese will have their standard of living lifted and then we'll all be working in sweatshops sewing their Nikes together until we're all under water or dying of heatstroke. The market always sorts it out in the end.
This isn't a globalist issue.
@@PaulStargasm yet she compared u.k workers to chinese. And everything to do with the economy is a factor of globalism since that is the dominant economic model
There's work and there's work. Traditionally we've managed to reduce physical labour by innovation. We need to do so again to gain a competitive edge over Asian countries so we need another industrial revolution or we will be technologically overtaken ( we already have been to a large extent). Most of our high tech goods come from China.
I love how amidst the horrendous two minutes of her talking she absolutely HAD to bring up the fact that she wrote a book about the subject. I'm sure it was quite the page turner.
Are you much of a reader?
@@yossibenayoun134 I bet you read all of her works.
@@davidmcintyre998 🥺
A 2.5 starred review page turner - perhaps if she had had a better work ethic it would have been more productive.
@@yossibenayoun134 Yes Yossi
It always makes me laugh when they Tories say things like rail strikes prevent "hard working people" from getting to work. They don't believe that the British people are hard working.
compared to other nations our GDP per person certainly isnt
@@santorini8423 It's way too simplistic to blame the worker for lack of GDP. Above all companies need investments and organisation.
@@santorini8423 That's not relevant to my point, which is why does she refer to "hard working" people in this country when she doesn't believe that they are. She can't have it both ways.
@@santorini8423 Gdp is the preferred method of measure of politicians but its hugely flawed... Read Vacsili Smil's numbers don't lie. If it wasn't so honest governments might use it or him as guidance?
There are loads milking the dole and it needs to stop
Tories mostly were born wealthy and skated into the highest positions of power despite being utterly mediocre in every way.
"mediocre"? surely that's called Delusions of adequacy
@@pfalky2k
What do you mean?
@@pfalky2k Nice one!
And they get voted in by red wall labour "workers" 🤣
Labours are born poor and are concerned about working class ?!? 😂
what would any politician know about graft.
Come on... They have cleaners and nannies and drivers.
More than the furloughed for the last couple of years.
More than you think, hard work isn't just physical.
The privilege just oozes out of her. These people need a sharp reminder about who pays their wages.
She needs to go into a labour job herself then try and say they aren't working hard enough.
She'd struggle to even do a morning paper round.
Wouldn't trust her to pour a pint.
And their utility bills...And their council tax...And their travel expenses...
You're not wrong at all.
But you're posting it on a TH-cam comments section, as if none of the people commenting here disagree with you. We don't. The problem is, and I'm part of the problem, none of us are prepared to be the ones to be this 'sharp talk' that you talk about. These people won't listen because people like us don't actually do anything except, well, moan.
Which is sort of the point of her video. Which proves her right.
Well done for proving her right.
I think she is absolutely right. Since furlough, vast numbers now expect a wage for doing sod all.
She's an expert on her own underperformance, for sure. I wouldn't contradict her self insight 🤣🤣🤣
That is an understatement in itself.
That is one of the most outrageous examples of buck passing I have heard in years.
A statement of fact, British workers are less productive than those in France and Germany.
It's not how hard you work, it's what you achieve while working.
The poor rich people. How will they manage when their underpaid workers aren't working hard enough?
The battle-axe task mistress wants to to put the whip on everyone
It is amazing that British workers work hard regardless of the awful politicians!
Work hard =/= work smart.
Germans have less hours in all of Europe but also the most productive economy in Europe. Not to mention the Swiss with their very neoliberal free market productivities. In fact, German economy is more free than UK in many scores.
British productivity is considerably lower than both France and Germany and has been for many years.
How you wish to interpret the fact is up to you.
@@saltymonke3682 it is f--ked without russian gas
@@dm32904 just this year, and even with that constraint their productivity is still higher than British workers.
@@saltymonke3682 they have incompetent government now also so that will change
A Tory that has it in for the working class? What a surprise. Truly shocking. Nobody could ever have seen that coming.
Maybe shes got a chip on her sholder.
Indeed.
@@csharpe5787 no way, really? What gave you that impression? Gosh you're so smart!!!!!
When did she say ‘working class’?
@@Simonet1309 she said people of "the working culture". What else does that mean?
If we are going to be a richer and more prosperous country the government need to invest in industry instead of selling all our state companies off to foreign buyers.
The foreigners pay more because they can run the company more profitably than the UK. I suggest you fix UK management rather than to incentivise slackness.
Wow, so true. Workers work hard and the elite take divided.
The real problem is exploitation of immigrant workers by companies like, fair trade supplier Pratt's Bananas firm. Why pay more for British workers.
P&O another example.
@@surality P & O operate in international waters where the going rate is much lower than they get in the UK. They compete with firms that employ at this rate so the choice is to do what they have done or go bust. It's hard logic and we as a country must go by hard logic if we are to survive. I do not know about the bananas, but P & O made the right decision. The holding firm is very professional. I listened to an interview with the head of it. So it is a case they say take it or leave it, against only leaving it in the case they decide to go bust.
The answer is not to rely on leisure and tourism so much. It is servant work that the Third World can easily undercut, e.g. Vietnam. Instead we need to become more advanced technologically where the high paying jobs are, like AI, robotic manufacturing and so on. This is the cutting edge where you can make a difference.
And invest in British people, instead of importing 300k foreigners every year.
We should reduce mp pay and remove their amazing expenses
@Science34Bojo still getting paid for not working Two holidays this month might fit another one in before the 5th of September but I expect Liz thinks he’s a grafter !!!!
Don't forget their 2nd homes.
Meanwhile, the furloughed still seem to think they deserve a wage for doing sod all.
All that would do is stop working class people from being an MP because they couldn't afford it. Getting zero wage wouldn't put off someone like Smogg because he has inherited wealth.
An MP gets paid less than most Doctors, Solicitors, Dentists, Accountants etc. There is so much more money in the private sector.
If your place of business is Westminster and you live and represent a constituency is the North of England obviously you will incur a lot of expenses. Should the work of Government be done by "Zoom" meetings to save money ?
Have we leaned yet that voting for rich people who all go to the same schools just isn't working for us as a nation?
All of that from someone who has contributed zero benefit to this country through years as an MP and so-called minister. Maybe Truss could spend a little less time posing for photos, and a little more time grafting. What an insult to the millions of people who work really hard and have seen their wages fall over more than a decade of Tory misrule.
Actually she has not just contributed zero benefit, her contribution is actually a nett loss.
She has probably contributed more than most.
@@Simonet1309 I'd love to see what you regard as contributions.
The one thing I agree with is her saying that the British blamed their problems on the EU while the true cause of the problems lay elsewhere. But blaming the working class... Now c’mon now.
Hard for the average person to know what's true though when her mates were the ones telling everyone the EU was in fact to blame.
@@mydogeatspuke Only a fool would think it wasn't the EU to blame. We were the only country who got a rebate. Now look at the mess we're in.
At least she explained Brexit succinctly. Wrong on everything else.
@@csharpe5787 Utter full blown denial.
@@csharpe5787 you can't even use proper English to make your own point. You're in no position to talk about fools.
In economics, productivity is not a factor of how hard people work; but counts all the inputs of production against the economic value of outputs. Labour is merely one input. So, for example, if you give a man a shovel, and ask him to load a truck - he can work himself to death, and yet the value of his labour is quite low. Invest in a loader, and teach him to drive it - his work is much easier, even while the productivity of his labour is far higher. Education, skills, business investment - are all ways to promote greater productivity. Bigger whips, not so much!
Couldn't have put it better myself
a nuanced take on productivity? logic? nah mate clearly the people just need to work themselves to death for benefits they will never get
What about the cost of the the loader and training, best to remove the man all together and get a robotic loader.
Just like we need to move to driver less trains and ticket barriers on all train station then strike action can't grind a country.
@@floatingpeaks4584 I'm just pointing out that it's false to blame low productivity on the 'lazy British worker' because productivity weighs all the inputs of production against the economic value of outputs; and labour is just one input among many. Make of the facts what you will!
Just one question, when you have auto loaders and driverless trains, and productivity is still in the toilet, who you gonna blame then?
@@karlstone6011 the reason why productivity is low because the govt relied on cheap labour from the EU rather then invest in automation. Unless the British public rolls up its sleeves and works hard till automation becomes a reality we will fall further behind the rest of the world. Except a few countries in Europe the rest of the world easily works 10 hours a day and the only day off is Sunday.
"if you look at china" where people die at their jobs making desk fans from exhaustion and for pittance and parents dont see their children for a year because they had to travel hundreds of kilometers to get a job, what an aspiration for a nation
But we don't need to go down that route. We are not is Victorian time and we don't have work houses. We have machine to do our work for us. I don't understand why people cannot see we have a massive problem. Work means we need to innovate and move ahead and start developing our tech sector which needs to be world class or we cannot compete with china who teach computing and electronic to their 6 year olds. We have a massive problem as a nation. We had that problem when people started shipping our high tech jobs to Asia and filling our top universities with Asians - and by Asians I mean people who live and will eventually work in Asia not Brits of Asian origin.
Nah, not just China, Korea, Japan, all working crazy hours. If you are British, you should be glad of your easy working culture, you won’t survive in the Far East culture, never mind lazy or not, you are just too slow for getting anything done 🤣
China = Britain during the industrial revolution
@@lizroberts1569 We need a new industrial revolution. We have machines, we have AI. Work does not have to mean hard physical labour.
@GeeLee don't forget about the suicide nets to stop the factory workers from killing themselves on shift! :D
Wow, that's pretty rich coming from her. Is she talking about herself I wonder? Well at least now everbody has heard what she (& probably the whole government) really think.
Disgusting!
And then what is anybody going to do about it?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
So she'll get her way and slowly degrade the system so we work more like the Chinese. Because we never resist these people. We moan, complain, but they do whatever they want. And take huge chunks of your wages to live affluent out of touch lives with it too.
That last bit just shows she’s not a Brexiteer. She’s only saying she converted to win their voting.
Politician lying?
In other news. Water wet.
Sadly this shows the mindset and beliefs of our representatives in parliament. I truly believe that no party in this country represents me as a working class person and I’m not alone. I’d love to make a joke about it but it’s just not funny anymore!
What an insult to all our key workers who knocked themselves out during Covid, some even died in their service to others. What a cold callous woman this is.
Factually she is correct. British workers are considerably less productive than those in France and Germany and have been so for many years. How you wish to interpret this is up to you.
@ jjeffery worboys. They are paid more there and they have more benefits!
The way she's talking about the "British workers", it's as if they're not even human beings.
An opinion tge guardian seems to share..just as long as they are white
Been a carpenter joiner for 27 years and destroyed my body to the point I now can't do any of the things I enjoy. I've been told to stop work but recieved so little help from the government it destroyed my life. So with very little I "graft" on in much pain. My sister is a nurse and works as hard as me in a different field. There will always be a percentage of people that do most of the work and those that cruise because they can (pareto distribution) but labelling a population as a whole is nieve, short sighted and rude!!!!
@head-cha-la our futures looking bright aye 😒
But she complained about Brexit being an easy answer. Or blaming immigration. So why now is she so keen on brexit and against immigration. Oh yes, she chages her mind to suit a given situation. Expect far more swings when Prime Minister. Like the new hospitals pledge, and the building of nuclear power station. New PM . Out with Boris banter. In with Truss trivia.
To never buy a decent place to live in? I left the UK first because of the weather but mainly, you will never ever own a house. It's insane. All is for the rich, nothing for the poor. At least in Venezuela we're poor and we admit it and I own a small house but it's mine. In the UK? THAT IS IMPOSIBLE
We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.
I thought Brexit was about British exceptionalism and everything was the fault of the EU and migrants. Here is Liz saying what she really thinks.
She doesn’t mention the crucial factor of long term under investment……and austerity.
Of course Brexit will be kicking seven shades out of productivity now…
Lizzy the ‘patriot’ says Brits are idle like her co authors Raab Kwarteng and Patel .
That'd be the austerity where they saved so much money the National Debt went up by £800 billion before we even got to COVID :-)
What I find most fascinating is that she admits here (according to her remain attitude at the time) that the EU or Europe as a whole is not a problem at all, if at all the problem lies in the "UK" itself.....
(but in my opinion not in the british labour force or working class, rather in the broken Westminster system, with the Tories at the top)
It's always the people who have hardly worked a day in their life who say this
Work isn't only physical. Its not how hard or long you work that's important, it's what you achieve that counts.
@@jjefferyworboys8138 ok? Has nothing to do with this
Maybe liz truss can go on site one day in 35’ heat in all her PPE uniform with Gaza screaming in her ear , then we’ll see who grafts, my lord these politicians all need a slap
She gets driven about, and speaks for a living? What does she know about hard work of graft.
The woman is a robot. She lacks empathy or compassion.
I wonder how Liz would fare working in a chinese factory ?
She'd be the company grass.
People agreeing need to give their heads a stern wobble. I know how hard I work and know my value to the company I work for and I know the majority of workers in this country are the same. No wonder we are so downtrodden and accepting of everything, push back ffs.
lets be honest maybe not you but there are some lazy gits around who just want live on social
I agree. Let's push back.
How?
I don't think people are downtrodden. I just think people don't know what to actually *do*. I don't.
I mean let's face it, she can only draw from her own personal experience.
This reveals so much:
1. Tories always talk about ‘hard-working’ families, but really believe most workers are lazy.
2. She knows Brexit hasn’t worked, but will say she supports it to get the right-wing vote.
3. Migrants are blamed for many things, when it’s politicians who mess up the country.
4. Tories want the working classes to work even harder, so that managers and shareholders can
Cream off even more profits.
5. She is two-faced and says one thing behind closed doors and another thing in public.
6. She frequently says she’s been mischaracterised or misrepresented.
7. She overrates China, their higher productivity is based on sweatshop conditions.
8. She would fully back the British working class being exploited as badly as Chinese workers.
She like a mix between David Brent and Alan partridge
whats rusty or can't you say
Where are the accounts and finances for North Sea oil and gas dealt with? Aberdeen or London? Answer that question (do some research) and then ask yourself how they calculate efficiency and productivity for each region. That's just one example, do you think an estate agent in London selling one flat for £1.2m works harder than a Newcastle estate agent selling 4 houses for £300k each? It's all relative. And do not get me started on infrastructure spending, transport, etc and compare and contrast.
Laughing my head about the Brexit comments Liz made haha. But honestly, Liz isn't wrong here, except for the fact that this isn't the "British" workers fault per-say, but a complete reflection of her and her entire party for the last 12years. Quite literally; anything and everything that we are 'lacking' in the country can be traced back to this tory government and their prioritisation of making policies for big businesses and making their purses bigger. So bravo 👏🏽
Unfortunately everything shes saying is their own doing and nothing will change. I work my back side off as a self employed builder but everyday I wonder, along with every working person I meet why someone who doesn't work gets more than me. Will my wages be 'topped up' this winter like all the universal credit lot? I wouldn't blame anyone doing a job to not put a 100% when were completely dumped on at every opportunity.
Truly boggles the mind
Think it's not fair to blame the workers, she should tackle the unfairness of the pay system where directors are paid huge salaries irrespective of performance, all too often, directors are paid for short term gains and the workers, middle ranking managers and share holders suffer. Same as politicians, they only have one goal, "Get elected and rewarded", sod the country.
I think you are right. If people's efforts were proportional to the monetary reward they would work harder. All to often the hardest workers e.g. nurses are the lowest paid so the motivation to work hard or enter these (noble) professions is not there.
As soon as she election time comes around I'm sure she'll be talking about the "hard working British public" in a bid to win votes. Absolutely appalling comment for a senior politician to make, she is nothing without the public that she serves, she is merely an elected representative of the people of this country.
Unelected .
Yes let’s put our working classes to work like they do in China. Gosh I didn’t think anyone could say anything worse than Rishi regarding funding in urban areas. THIS is scary. Does she care about quality of life for all citizens? No. The lower classes are just beasts of burden to her.
@ Beyond London She is much worse than Rishi. Rishi truly wants to help the poor. His political opponents spread false rumours about him. He would not have approved direct payments to poor if he were selfish.
that is an insult to workers.
Never worked a day in her life.
To further your point cosplay-maggie, why don't you tell everyone exactly what you have ACHIEVED that benefitted anyone else at any point in your life? Rhetorical question.
It's true 👍 If politicians told the public the truth they'd never get elected!
Agree. Look at the time spent on a small road construction in your town, Britain has no competitiveness in the 21st century world.
Look at the Chinese workers!? But is't that the British government criticising the Chinese workers been exploited!? Is she suggesting that the British worker needs to be exploited as well?
That's the Tory message, yes. They usually use euphemisms in public like 'removing red tape', 'freeing business' and 'deregulation'.
Both candidates have shown the iron fist under the velvet glove, rishi with his Tunbridge Wells speech and now Liz.
Ham fist more like
Excellent, proper Conservatives.
Being a worker in Britain doesn't pay, so why bother.
Maybe we should all go into politics 😜
Invest in yourself and do whatever it takes to gain the qualifications that enable you to get a job that does pay well.
I don't understand how the conservatives ever managed to get into power. Does anyone even know of a tory voter who isn't ashamed to admit it?
I voted for Blair (big mistake), Cameron (terrible mistake), May(another error) didn't vote for Boris (learned my lesson by then), didn't agree with Thatcher. I vote for the lesser evil. Would vote for Liz Truss because I largely agree with some of the things she says. On the other hand, I work 6 days a week for what I consider a fairly low wage, but I am not complaining because I am not exactly starving. I think she should cut taxes so we don't get a recession which would lead to job losses, I don't agree with Sunak and think he is an opportunist who will say anything to get elected and think his track record is poor and he exacerbated our problems. I would like to see Energy companies nationalized or at least one energy supply owned by the state. I agree with some of the Labour policies. I even agree with Corbyn wanting to abolish Tuition fees -our universities are full of foreign students and we are falling behind. However, he is too extreme for me.
So it's hard to be Labour or Tory. I'm somewhere in the middle. You are never going to agree with everything so you vote for the lesser evil. So no, I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Dear oh dear oh dear. Wow. Enough said...
@@tgr5772 Those foreign students are the only reason our university education system still functions as they pay uncapped fees. The universities have had their funding cut quite a bit, then the rest was put onto domestic students through fees and maintenance loans. The whole point of grants was that the state invests in training people so that those people have the skills to benefit the state. Instead it's just becoming a province only of the rich and despite repeated promises technical skills are still woefully undervalued too. Degree apprenticeships are the way to go - qualifications, experience, a salary while studying and a vastly improved ability to get a job when you're done, tailorable for anything from builders to medics to police officers to marketing executives to politicians. That'd cost money though, money that could be spent backfilling all the cash spent on unusable PPE from Bojo's WhatsApp mates...
I seem to remember another group of tender hearted individuals eulogising the virtues of work. I believe it was emblazoned above a gate
A perspective of a Polish person who has been living in UK for 11 years. Work ethic here is terrible. Nepotism is everywhere and all consuming. Best of the best do not get work they deserve and are met with hostility. Most point fingers at smoke screens. However, the above are main reasons why it is getting worse for UK
so she basically said brits should be treated at work the same as ln china Workers are routinely exposed to a variety of dangerous working conditions that threaten their health and their safety. Low wages, long hours and excessive overtime remain the norm. Chinese workers have few, if any, options to seek redress and voice grievances under these harsh conditions.
That's what she said, yes.
Problem with Chinese worker on average is under paid + enslaved, under aged , dies at a younger age. 2nd problem China has a bigger populations ? manufacturing is perfected for Chinese because they have enslaved population, know human rights, companies keep 99% of profits 📈? Perfection is a nitemare awake up. She hasn't got a clue about economic growth 😉 .
I don't do over time, I take things easy, I could do more, I am tired of giving my energy, spirt, mind and vitality in exchange for a pittance.
I am more than a number on a page, an amount of economic output per hour and I know I'm not the only one who feels this way.
I hear you. Listening to this one would think human beings are nothing but a resource to extract maximum value from. Revolting bourgeois mindset. Let us be materially poorer, but happier.
Whats the point of working if all my money goes into my bills and expenses. Theres nothing left of life to enjoy in Britain.
I think it was fairly recent official data (maybe from the ONS, not sure) showed that worker’s productivity has increased dramatically in past 20+ years yet wages stagnated. In other words, people are already now working significantly far more for less
like you KNOW she hasnt actually done any hard labour in her life
Must be hard being driven everywhere to talk to people, wouldn’t see her on site with her cscs card now would you love 🤣
She has never had a job in her life
I give her 5 months max as PM, maybe 6 if she's lucky. My dislike for her increases by the day.
Welcome to Thatcher's replacement.
Oh dear. She's fked now. Well played rishi. She'll be pm but will be voted out next election.
It takes 5 days for Shell Energy to reply to each email. In China in Alibaba it takes 5 minutes.
Do you really fancy living in China?
@@lynneallardice9728 China is a beautiful country.
they have twisted productivity to actually mean profitability.....
the reason british workers are less 'productive ' is because we have a higher living standard, worker protections and benefits, and so less profit can be extracted.
they dont mean productivity when they say productivity.
The average salary in Germany is significantly higher, in France it's only slightly less. Both countries are considerably more productive.
I’m a teacher and I’m on the clock from 7:30 to 17:00. And then I have to think forward to the next week. As a teacher I have the opportunity to work from home every 6 weeks (brilliant), but my pay is fixed. Where else Ms Truss must I work to make ends meet?
They could easily have disguised the other voice but still make it audible but they muffled so it can't be heard at all. Just makes me a little suspicious only hearing one side of the conversation.
I think the tory leadership challenge should be modelled on Crufts
bad times ahead for normal workers if they keep torys in charge, scary stuff.
Is she saying that European workers who were here worked harder than the British before brexit ?
Graft as in better self organisation and self determination?
Completely misses the point that a huge part of productivity comes from footloose secondary industry capital investment in productivity improving capital equipment, something her dim bulb party has driven out of the UK with its cost of living raising privatisation of the supply of staples, its flooding of the UK with low human capital labour making capital substitution for labour uneconomic & its lowering of tariff barriers with nations that dont have the huge competitivity for capital investment handicap of a Tory blooming government making investment in the UK uncompetitive in the 1st place to outsource existing jobs. No fudging clue, no hope & no plan that would work to solve the harm caused by EU free trade Empire membership enabling Tory policy of cruushing average real wage.
A Tory talking about such an Alien concept as Graft.
She could give a Masterclass in Grift though.
I’m starting to wish Boris was just left to do the rest of his term so we could avoid the next Tory PM. They get worse every time
You can’t compare people working in this country to China as that’s not a free country. HOWEVER the working culture has changed in this country over the last 30 years, I think in the past more people work for companies or organisations where they felt like they were part of a whole and their contribution was meaningful (rightly or wrongly) and that motivated then. More people now work for massive faceless conglomerates or feel disposable to their employer so are obviously less motivated. I’ve worked places and seen the last of these people retiring who took pride working for the same place all their life. I don’t think she is wrong but I don’t think it’s fair to blame the individual.
I agree liz, maybe start by speaking to your old boss who hasn’t lifted a finger in weeks (arguably months or years) and just took a holiday 2 weeks before his job finishes. I problem of productivity indeed.
This is a TORY......🤬
Read the comments on the Martin Lewis post about the next energy bill theft,there are many poor souls out there working 11 hr shifts with a 15min break travelling 3/4 hrs as Well 6 days a week and now they literally have nothing left .For one of the richest countries in the world this is disgrace .Slavery has returned for all to see !.