I'm disabled and I'll tell you, there are very few people who don't work because it's what they prefer. If you believe that, just take a few months off of work, try to live on what we get each month and then tell me how wonderful it is. This is sickening and disgusting.
Exactly! Surrrrre, I gave up the highly paid job and hard won career that I loved because I _much_ preferred living an impoverished hand-to-mouth existence in a crumbling flat within a degenerating neighbourhood!
My son is one of these languishers. He is 23 years old and has medical and learning needs. His father (my husband) passed away last year from MND. He gets up every day and goes to work voluntarily in charity shops and is part of a volunteering group that helps people with needs gain experience. That is 5 days a week that I transport him around so he can work for no pay. Unfortunately,there are very few employers who would take him on in a paid position, so I have to reduce my hours to facilitate him volunteering. This government know these things but choose to incite rage from their dwindling support. Disgusting!
@@weedsmokinhippy I do. I only started claiming it last year for the first time when I lost my husband and had to give up work to be around for my son after he left college. It’s tricky finding employment to fit around his hours but I’ve managed to find a job working from home with only a few hours in the office.
You're working two jobs 24/7 and you're saving the state money while suffering financially. The government understands perfectly well how this works in their favour but prefers to take advantage of the love you naturally have for your son. I don't know how our government ever sleep at night knowing what they do to people like your family.
I lost my job as a doctor in 2004 due to brain damage. I was 38. I had worked incredibly hard to achieve that position. I would give anything to stop languising at home. I wish I was normal and could live a normal life. To suffer everyday of your life to watch others live a life that you wish you had can be hard. I've had to learn to accept that my life was destroyed. I have to be excused from driving and enjoying myself because of my illness. The majority of people who appeal getting their benefits removed win their court cases and get their monies reinstated
They have no Love for disabled people they have a death wish for them unable to work in most cases on survival income its not they can get a job for the market is geared for the able bodied and even they struggle to find suitable employment being arrased by this Evil tory govt is the final straw.
I'm sorry to hear your story. I'm 38 and since getting diagnosed with multiple sclerosis ten years ago, I've just seen my entire future disappear. I'm housebound now and can't drive because of my eyesight. I would give anything for this not to be my life, but it is, and I'm struggling to accept it. I hear you
Yet the minority lose their benefits some unfairly. Some people would sooner be on the sick or disability benefits. You're right about the money though pathetic amounts with inflation what it was and still is.
I worked with people with severe disabilities and there is nothing they would rather have than a job. The fact is that very few employers will hire someone with a disability, especially if they have to make adaptions in the workplace.
@@chatham43not necessarily incentives, but education for employers would be beneficial. If they understood the disabilities that future prospective employees may have, they could become more inclusive and caring.
@@jrosam9569 thats how it always has been when conservative governments get in regardless of country - the rich love their socialism but think it is only for them and the rest can fight for the crumbs under dog eat dog capitalism
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it. Tony Benn
James, this was one of the goals of brexit and what Tories meant about taking back control, removing the protections of the working man in favour of business. Johnson tapped into peoples bigotry to get Brexit over the line and now they are suffering the consequences.
By persuading disenfranchised people to punch down & not up. For example, in simplistic terms, an employer may take on an immigrant on lower pay because it saves them money. You are manipulated into blaming the immigrant, where in truth the disaster capitalists at the top have devised a system to extract maximum profit & maintain lower overheads. And that is music to the disaster capitalists' ears. Now they are coming for the rights of freedoms of everyone else thanks to said Brexit. How they treat the poor is a decent barometer for how they'd treat you if they could. Tony Benn I think. @@cujimmi
@@cujimmi How, by becoming aware of societal conditioning and through awareness of societal conditioning observe where it is most prolific. As do ask yourself the question why is it people ' hate ' what they do when they have no experience of coming into contact with what they ' hate ' to derive any kind of honest feeling on what they come to know to hate and in hate support those speaking the same language. Where is the disdain for minority groups generated and does hating as encouraged solve our nations woes or does it make things worse for those encouraged to hate?
I’m autistic and rates of employment amongst this community are very low, not because we don’t want to work but because it is so hard to find a job that can accommodate our needs. We want to work and have a job, but it’s difficult to find somewhere that we fit.
Hi James. This discussion about language is one that's fascinated me since I read 1984 about 40 years ago an realised that by controlling language, you control thought. Love the programme. Thanks for being a beacon of rationality in an increasingly irrational world.
Think about what you are saying. You are correct (although influence thought rather than control). When did all this "language" stuff start? And by who? Because it wasnt the tories. Not even Labour. Its the woke mob and goes back before woke even exisited. Someone for sure is trying to influence thought, the questions are who and why?
@RJHS. ABSOLUTELY ! Language is the key to freedom. We must own it and guard it. We need to watch for slippery abuses like this. I hate it at Election time when the Tories keep telling us that they support “ hard-working families”. It’s not just a simple lie : it’s rabble-rousing with a straight face. I’m so glad James has taken this on.
Funnily enough about forty years ago I started using my brain and opening my eyes. I also realised the importance of the words that the papers use to control thought/opinion.
Along with most of the comments, I receive PIP, I have had it cancelled once being told that I had made a false claim and maybe asked to pay 18 months back. I therefore believed them and basically worked and worked and then had a breakdown and didn't leave my room for 3 months. I eventually got it reinstated, then again they tried to cancel it. My husband fought it hard because of what happened. So I have an invisible disability. I still feel guilty and like a fraud. When a govt body tells me I'm faking I believe them. After so much therapy I still think I am worthless. When I saw this article I had a panic attack. Husband had to step in. He finally sent me this. Anyway that was a ramble.
You are not a fraud, you have been gaslit and abused by the government and profiteers of pain. You are far from alone, many people feel your pain. Bless you and your husband, get better soon.
Don't let them gaslight you into thinking you are the problem. Claim what you are entitled to, if only just to spite them and their client 'journalists' (who are actually all columnists and don't deal in facts)
I fought for my friend to get Personal Independence Payment. I attended three tribunals with him. He had Type 1 Diabetes and chronic depression at losing his job. He could not take another job because his situation deteriorated so much. In the end we won. It took two years and he was awarded £8,000 in back payments. He died six weeks later.
perrythomas4115 It is undeniable that the Tories have been committing corporate manslaughter, since 2010. It now seems they are about to up the ante once more against the disabled.
Are you naturally funny or did you learn it from a book. Hope your day is full of fun and laughter. By the way, that stone you just crawled out from under is going to fall and hit you on the head. @@LiveFromLondon2
@@nick1065Tories are consisently venal and cruel. You'll find that accurate descriptions of their terrible behaviour will repeat, because they haven't gotten any better.
I can't believe this country isn't more furious. How do the people everybody hates just manage to continue to hold so much power and do so much damage??
I think the country is furious, but the political structures of the society we live in are so closed-off that there's no other way to express that fury than impotent rage. I mean, actual effective protest is basically banned now, it's scary
Because instead of protesting those same people point at protestors and activists and laugh at them, calling them disruptive or violent despite the fact that any progressive change would benefit them. This allows the government to work with corporations to target the most vulnerable populations level by level from refugees and disabled people to lgbt, poc and gender minorities slowly but surely making it impossible to rebel at all.
Maybe the other recent J OB video about shoplifting provides some response... Maybe that's the new anti-Tory rebellion! 🙂 But lifters have to raise their sights a bit. Shoplifting from Poundland and tubes of Nivea aren't going to cut it. They need to start shoplifting in Fortnum and Mason! 🙂
In order for sick and disabled people to be made to work there must be employers willing and able to employ them. They never talk about that side of the equation.
Only a soviet style government can do what they are suggesting. Tell those companies who employ workers at home, to employ the sick and disabled. In doing so the able bodied are freed up to work in the fields.
You can imagine the interviews...'Oh, and due to my chronic pain and inacility to function I can not work 7 days a week and may have to take months off at a time'...'I have chemo on Mondays so can not work that day, oh, and then I will be vomitting and seriously ill until the following Monday, then it repeats.' And on and on, people on long term disabilty are DISABLED not SICK, it is like they think people with the sniffles are on disability benefits.
Same party who not only wanted to deprive children of food, but think they could explain away if a school or hospital collapsed and killed children or patients. why are the Tories allowed to exist?
Totally agree , the next enemy will be single mothers , homeless people and the disabled , all the Tories know is culture wars . The scary thing is there are quite a lot of sheep that will follow
Because they know a sizeable contingent of our population are effectively selfish, greedy and spiteful. A lot of the rest are desperate so hold onto whatever narrative the loudest person offers.
Because the the majority of people are ignorant. But if there not ignorant then its all are faults for not sticking together outside parliament and the mps house's and demanding better.
@@mikecook1537 One example is encouraging landlording as an investment, to get rich and secure your pension. Tying the lives of the better-off to Capitalist models turns a neutral vote into voting for Capitalism as self-protection.
My friend's boy is on disability benifit? He has got serious OCD to the point where he will starve himself to death if he can't find a full ingredient list of anything he is about to eat. His, as many others' condition is not well understood by medics. His problem is not that he doesn't want to work, it is that nobody would or could work with him. So it's really not about abiut his motivation, Cutting his benifits is not going to find him a job. Employers do not want anybody who comes with that baggage,
how do you know he will starve to death? Eventully, when he is hungry enough, his brain will skip the ingredient list and start eating. And if it doesnt...... The sooner these people stop being molly-coddled the sooner they will adjust to reality.
Daily Mail readers may be surprised to learn that many disabled people want to work, but have had their livelihoods destroyed by the same party in government those readers voted for. Which then proceeded to make working conditions mean, nasty and horrid to its own citizens.
Actually I think that a lot of disabled people should report at the Daily Mail offices, since they seem to have the answer and will employ them. It's time to start kicking back at these turds.
Shhh lol Don't spoil the narrative. Spongers everywhere, mate! The ones who salted away something like £32 billion in unpaid tax in 2015/6 (?) in the havens, when the UK needed something like £34 billion that year to fund services are the worst, but don't let a few disabled people being punched down on to get in the way of 'British fair play' as exemplified by the average reader of that rag. They're patriotic, but not decent. They have no sense of fair play, just envy. It's appalling. They are unashamed of themselves, too.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.
That lesson from history has already been well adapted to suit our more modern times. The lesson was of course warning the future of the dangers of being divided.
Economy on its knees, cost of living crisis, and more inequality than ever. Oh yeah, let's start picking on disabled people and those with mental health problems, that will really help.
They feed hate and anger and then complain that people are popping their tops and lashing out at each other. Humans were not made to deal with constant stress.
The "othering", gathers pace. It's only a case of how much fear can be instilled in the population, and anyone with half a brain knows this country is going down the drain.
This government's policies are very reminiscent of a certain group from the 1930's. I'm genuinely afraid for friends and family who may be deemed members of minorities this government is targeting.
do you mean the Nationalsozialistische? Do you have any real idea of what was going in those days? And how that compares to today? Because if you think the similarity is how disabled are treated then you really are not understanding anything. But more to the point, why bring the words 1930s into this? Unless you are trying to sow serious problems. Or more likely you are a bot.
Not just this government for Cameron trialled this kind of abuse to be met with public acceptance of which was generously fluffed by the media , all of the media including the effing Guardian.
@@LiveFromLondon2 The language being used by this Tory government is alarmingly similar. I'm not the first to point it out, as the video says, survivors of that regime are also pointing it out. Maybe you didn't watch the video?
@@dexocube and maybe you dont really understand what was happening back then, and why. Im am not saying it was right, but I am saying that there was a reason for it. The Nazis and the current govt couldnt be more different. Nazis tried to solve a problem current govt and future Labour are the cause of the problem. This is something that more people need to look at more closely and not fall into the trap of that is being set.
This is having your legs smashed up. learning to walk again, finally feeling hope and having them smashed again. Over and over and over. That's what this feels like. This is just evil.
They’ve(conservatives) driven themselves mad with paranoia and indignation at the mere thought of someone not breaking themselves down from youth to the grave.
I would give anything to work. I completed a Master’s degree to work in my profession. Now I have to live on a MONTHLY check that is less than what I used to make in a WEEK. Those pigs should become fully disabled for a couple years and see how much fun it is.
They have machine hearts, machine minds, they don't care about you and others. A truly nasty, callous bunch. I wish you the best in life, there are people like me who care, we have hearts and fight against discrimination towards the disabled. Take care.
Control. Setting the people against each other by weaponising harmless differences. It's the same reason they demonise immigrants. "Look at them over there, but don't look at us - the tax dodgers, the phony crony contract getters, the liars and scumbags who steal from everyone else to live a life of luxury. Its those people over there who are slightly different to you who you need to worry about! Not us!".
We would love to go back to a time when my wife was able to work but life ain't perfect. After getting injured following an accident at work causing spinal damage the next few years were the most stressful firstly fighting her employer to delay her sacking then having her benefit stopped and having to go to a tribunal against dwp,and during this period it becoming fairly obvious she also had MS but takes a while to get diagnosis. Its not nice coming home from work and finding her on the floor and needing picking up and i would love to know the employers that would be happy to have people potentially collapsing regularly on their premises. I know at some point she will come under attack again and i will be ready to support her through it again at that time even if the stress does make us both ill.
I have a disabled son I care for, I feel quite happy to hate the folk who facilitated his marginalisation and now seek to penalise him for it. It might be all I've got left
I guarantee there is a job for every disabled person in this country. . But it probably is nowhere near where they live. It is probably in an industry that is not prepared to hire them It is probably in an industry not prepared to adapt for them Or accommodate them at all Or support them Or train them Or keep them on if there is someone better abled or cheaper they can get instead. And it will likely be cost prohibitive for them to take on the job. Travel and clothes will equal or exceed the wages in many cases . But that just means they're languishing doesn't it.
I appreciate the sentiment and largely agree, however there are large numbers of disabled people who are physically and or mentally completely incapable of performing any work function regardless of the amount of support and accommodation provided to them.
@@SilverMKII've no arms nor legs, I'm deaf dumb and blind, and they clapped me on the back and said I perfectly fit the role of a door stop! Just think of how many doors there are that are un stopped! It's a solid job, with huge potential benefits! So that's you taken care of, off you roll!
We see the same rhetoric here in Australia. Just people needing someone to punch down on. My father was an engineer in the Army and when he left after 30 years he got a job as an engineer making farming machinery. The company was sold to a foreign monopoly and immediately shut down all Australian factories. Dad spent the next 10 years trying to find a job, he even took volunteer work in the hopes of landing something permanent from it. He got nothing and had to survive on welfare. It utterly broke him, so seeing people wanting pick on those like my Dad falsely saying that they are lazy, really enrages me. Prople are not lazy, and don't enjoy scraping by on welfare that keeps them on or below the poverty line.
@@carolkelly5578 Sometimes he is on form sometimes he isn't, just like everyone else. Don't get me wrong. I love his show and his common sense and honesty. 👍
@@amcc5887 I think most of the time he is and now and again he gets exhausted by the mental trauma of having to listen to the right wing malevolent ravings. As every normal person does. 👍
@louisejohnson6057 If you can see,walk,talk and move you aren't disabled.But of course you might have mental health issues.And then again,you might not.If you see what I mean?
Most of the people high fiving over the marmalade will be retired.... They're a drain on the state with their pensions and healthcare, but they see themselves as entitled and deserving of that money, and they see disabled people as not.
Surely it depends on the nature of the disability. I have worked alongside disabled colleagues who have had a very productive career, and come across those with mental or physical disablities who will regrettably (for themselves) never be able to work.
As someone who has been unemployed for the last 4 years due to mental issues the best way to get people back into work is to improve the systems that are surposed to help people back into work. The fedcap company, look them up, are a joke.
"Systems" is a generous term. There's also a system to process asylum claims. Westminster should scoop up every job-seeking person legitimately able to work, and train them for those systems. Invest in human resources, and help other humans in the process.
UC and even when it was known as Job Seekers Allowance, even ESA is not even enough to survive on.... you cannot pay your bills you cannot buy luxuries unless you were on enhanced rates, and even that those rates were because you were incapable of work deemed by the system.... nowadays as a disabled person myself, I have been told by employers and doctors that my health is that bad I couldn't hold down a job, that's not to be mistaken with 'I dont want to work' but instead that health has diminished so much that I have no choice but to step back and accept i may never be able to given the condition and state of my health, as the physical and mental health effects each other like a constant battlefield. I used to work a fair amount doing nights which as health both physical and mental got worst i refused to give in... i would push myself until an issue in work where i used to work said nights.... forced me out... i would voluntarily go through the Job Seeker's route (without any pay) get treated like a dole dosser yet despite this, i pushed through and kept applying... and yet despite my willingness to work but need for a local job where i used to live I got 3 interviews in literally 3 years... and those were in retail in local stores... 2 for the same place and all were for well known retail companies... the one i got the interview once for, a school leaver who had stated he "had no intention of working here, i just applied cos the JC said i had to" he did 30 minutes work next day walked out no one knew he'd walked out... but because of that they apparently didn't have the budget to employ more... I moved south and got 2 jobs within a month, one working zero hours and one working part time in a major retail company's store near where i'd moved to... later becoming homeless and thus health worsened, i had to give up the Zero Hours job because of it clashing with the contracted work, and the council claimed they couldn't help me get rehomed on a zero hours contract, no private landlord would take a chance despite having an income... however the retail company who did take a chance on me i gave my all and did my best with however again due to health i found myself collapsing in work a few times and the worst one was whilst in a homeless night shelter where i was rushed into hospital for emergency surgery... and informed i had had a golf ball sized Gall Stone, which according to the surgeon had taken around 20+ years to get to that size... the gall bladder however had disintegrated due to the size of the stone... which i found myself struggling more and more... then roll on a few years and i move where i live now, to find out i have had a heart condition since birth, so where everyone would call me lazy and question why i was always tired.... claiming workshy despite me doing all i could to work.... all that never giving up has resulted in worse health, and a life where i am reliant on a stick to get around, i cannot walk far from my home due to pain and constant mobility and mental health problems.... so it's never a case of people like me not wanting to work (granted there are some out there who are like that but those are few and far between), it is more a case of people like me being unable and employers not being willing to take a chance on people like me... due to added risks, potential insurance issues etc and expenses on specialist fittings or measures to ensure we are able to do the job...
They shouldn’t be called benefits they should be called entitlements as most have contributed so they are getting the help they are entitled to but only after jumping through hoops and put under stress for months sometimes over 13 months 😡😡😡😡😡
A lot of these people on benefits are working also, and they are on benefits because of austerity, and yes in most cases rthey have contributed through taxation, but where does that taxation go! not back into the economy.
@@alimantado373 Benefits have likely kept many small and local businesses alive. Poor people have to spend all their money every month, meaning it's pumped directly into businesses. I wonder if billionaires are spending all their money each month? Or just hoarding it off shore and in other tax dodging schemes. Or buying up land and property to ensure people can't afford even a home.
I'm a nurse, I have CPTSD and have been off work just over a year due to very poor mental health, functioning at present. I have no income at all since August. I'm afraid to try and claim benefit due to the shame and complicated way of claiming. I've worked all my life and I'm genuinely ill at the age of 50. I don't know what to do and I hope you keep talking about these things because it's a terrible position to be in and I feel like there is no way forward 😢.
Every disabled and terminally ill person should be supported to arrive at the daily mail requesting a job and adjustments made for them to work there such as having oxygen therapy available, responding to seizures, rescue medications for spasms and spinal injuries, mobility needs, staff trained to administer injections and depots, support with personal and continence care, ventilation management, be able to communicate in PECs, TEACH, Widgets and makaton, etc.... Wonder what the journalist would say then. Typical ignorant daily mail article
Im back at work after 6 years on disability with mental health, Ive been back in work a year now but its hard. I only lost my job 6 years ago due to a bullying boss with no understanting of mental health resulting in me going on the sick and the company making me redundant.
You can't take a job you haven't been offered. I've been unemployed for nearly 30 years. Now I'm too sick to work, having acquired illnesses on top of the condition I was born with.
After my accident 2 months ago i have the worst time in my life. The s**t sick pay, lack of an affordable beds, made me homeless. And all councils just passing me by from one side to another. I am crippled and i need a desk/sitting down job unfortunately. I searched, without experience and i only received reply as not suited... Trying to find a free course but ... no luck. So im stuck in this situation. Thank you UK. I know 400£/month is enough to survive and live amazingly. I stay during the day in a library thats why i have power and internet. Fortunately
The DWP are on my case again..despite the fact I had to take early I'll health retirement in 2011..I had no choice..I was then diagnosed with RA a year later..and I have CPTSD..I am being forced to have a review even though my "circumstances haven't changed"..health hasn't changed for the better..but for the worst..Yet I had to have another assessment..as if my medical records don't count..It is a precursor to cutting my PIP..and forcing me to a tribunal..."We want to make sure you are getting the help you need* they say.....my a***!
The Tories know they're going to lose, so are just throwing out red meat to their base who considers themselves to be the silent majority. Ironically, they are neither silent or the majority.
If someone is capable of working, physically and psychologically, despite being disabled, then, yes, they have the right to have any support necessary in order to make a living according to their capabilities. The problem is that we live in a heartless system. Penny pinching and ridiculously punitive, while pulling the rug of support for anyone trying to make that leap. Well, it's a long life for most of us, and plenty of time for these empathyless weirdos to experience something like this upfront and personal. Old age will be fun, even sitting on their piles of gold like greedy, demented dragons. All of us heading to the same direction, old age and death, (with any luck), is such an equaliser.
You have to be chronically unwell to receive the highest levels of PIP. You wouldn’t be languishing you would be coping with profound illness and disability.
This includes my daughter who is recovering from leukemia! My son had a heart attack at 22 is dependant on 8 medications daily & has had 2 more in last 5 years, I saw this devastate my childrens youth when the one thing you should be able to rely on is your health. Work is detrimental to their health & both took over a year because first & second attempts were refused. Despite a minister on tv saying he can guarantee nobody who’s suffered a heart attack will be refused benefit’s!! I can guarantee that’s a blatant lie!!!
This is where you end up after 13 years of Tory rule. It's not a coincidence that after years of the NHS being run into the ground, with waiting lists for every medical service going through the roof, more and more people's health has declined to the point that they are not able to work. If you're living with a chronic condition the reduction in care quality may be the difference between being able to work and not being able to
@@tatts1901nah, that's the clowns who show up in the comments with childish counterfactuals because they don't like being told the truth. Like yourself.
@tatts1901 calling you a "troll" doesn't mean the commenter doesn't mean he doesn't believe in free speech. In fact they're using free speech to express their opinion.
Begining this week the Tories were on the ropes in that they collectively placed the lives of children under the risk of collapsing buildings, being widely admonished. Mid week theyre lashing out at one of the smallest groups of unfortunate people in the country so as to change to conversation. Its as though their own incompetence creates the situations in which they need victims to attack. Its psychotic. Weak, sad and nasty cunce.
...here we go again, back to the same policies and vilifying language that we had in 2011. The economy is up the spout so lets go after those out of work.
@@falconeshield Yes, yes they did...It's been a long thirteen years. Now they are back to the same ideas they had at the beginning of taking office with austerity.
I am a healthcare professional and have had Long Covid since September 2020. Wouldn't it be better if the Government spent time and money on research into treating us rather than making us work when we cannot.
Over here in America, in 2015 I personally was done with Trump when he made fun of a disabled person on live TV. As a nurse that is just a bridge too far. I worked 4 years in an LTAC, (long term acute care), every patient there would have given anything to have a "normal" life.
Even when applying for work there's boundaries. Then how do you get the remits people want when various factors make it difficult to do so? So they don't give you a chance. You may get an interview with the disability two ticks but even with experience and covering basics they still don't give you the job It's impossible. They have absolutely no understanding or compassion. Thanks again for highlighting this, James. I am disappointed that Labour didn't make a louder statement in PMQ's today.
@englishbulldog954 Mr Ignoramus can use a keyboard. I'm impressed. Please come back when you've acquired a sense of understanding and humanitarianism.....
I have depression anxiety Agoraphobia and clinical trauma. When I was last working I was warning £1000 a week before tax. I paid in tax what the average person earned. I HATE being poor. A lack of mental health support from the UK government meant that I was untreated until it became too much of an issue for me to continue working. I went to court to prove I was unable to work and receive disability payments. My anxiety is so great that I feel physically sick when it is bad and I am out somewhere. I have no option but to turn around and go home. But I havent given up. I'm trying to find ways to make some money and take some of the burden off other tax payers. I am hardly "Languishing" on benefits.
This is the kind of policy/tone that reminds me of the 2010-2015 Cameron years and yet he managed to win another majority on this type of thing. But this lot know by now that they're on course to lose the next election, so they'll push through hard everything they want done ASAP including something like this. This country has been wrecked beyond recognition since 2010 by the same party.
Key worker "hero who worked throughout the pandemic to keep the country going" Here! I am also part of those who are now disabled. I've had severe long Covid symptoms since June 2022 and I'm only now being seen for Adult Disability Payment (in Scotland). Haven't received it, but just trying is traumatising. The stress from the application process has walked back months of hard work to claw back any level of health I can. Also, I stayed in work until my symptoms were so bad, I genuinely thought I was going to die. NOT an exaggeration. This is inhumane and disgusting treatment.
‘Languishing’ on benefits means they’re lying about watching telly all day, whereas the reality: I got £57 a week on the sick after 30 years of full-time work. 😡
Any one of the vile people using that language should consider that they themselves or a loved one may be just one mis-step away from finding themselves with a crippling disability.
Now that Jenrick has said in the Commons that 'lefty lawyers ' hearing asylum appeals should all be jailed, that is a lead for these penny-a-liners to repeat the call to lock up lawyers (no matter what the consequencies of repeating such dangerous suggestions and publishing them as if government policy)
Maybe if the NHS was funded properly, some of us could actually get better and be able to work. Also, they never actually STOPPED going after the sick. The hoops you have to go through to receive benefits are ridiculous and actually traumatising. If my health was better, I would work. Most people find their friendship group at work. I had to give up work, and am extremely isolated as a result. I volunteer, but I know that I won't be penalised if my health doesn't allow me to attend.
For any of us who say "I see a lot of people who "aren't THAT bad", so they're perfectly capable of doing SOMETHING!" : Name one job you'd refer to as "SOMETHING" that pays enough to even survive on? You do understand we "cripples" don't get to live in a special discount version of reality, right? Life doesn't cost any less for us than it does for you.
So what are they going to do about the Employers who refuse to give a disabled person a job? DD Act? It is so feeble, it's a joke! Tke two people with Identical qualifications and identical work experience the only difference is, one is disabled in some way and will require some reasonable adjustments to enable them to do the work. Who do you think the Employer is going to give the job to? WE all know the answer to that question. So instead of the government punishing those that could help the sick & disabled get a job, they punish the person who would dearly love to have a job, earn a decent wage and live an independent life but are prevented from doing so from no fault of their own! I'm one of the lucky few disabled that has managed to learn a skill that is in demand which has got me a job and live an independent life. Not everyone is able to do this and they are the ones who need the most help and support.
It would help if employers would actually employ sick and disabled without letting them go after a short period of time. The token ‘accommodations’ that don’t really help the longevity of anyone with disabilities.
These are same people whom when something like this happens to them they will be the 1st to be crying and saying " it's not fair I should get more sick pay"
I didnt realise how difficult life is for people that have mobility issues. They are rarely catered for. Taking my mum to the hospital is difficult, seating is atrocious, hardly any ramps things I take for granted are difficult for her. Offices don't cater for disabled people and some people have complex needs, how are they going to cope. People on benefits dont get a lot of money and it is hard to survive on them. They are getting people genuinely in need confused with benefit cheaters.
Language yes and creeping acceptance of language to know every war and every and every crime against humanity started with words and words that crept - words we allow.
now it might be that people have a different meaning for languish, but doesn't it mean "lose or lack vitality; grow weak." or "be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation" usually I hear the term used in reference to prison and prisoners "languish in prison"
I'm disabled and I'll tell you, there are very few people who don't work because it's what they prefer. If you believe that, just take a few months off of work, try to live on what we get each month and then tell me how wonderful it is. This is sickening and disgusting.
Absolutely agree x
Not everyone wants to work and some people claiming could work, even people with a disability could find a job doing very simple work.
Don't worry buddy. The majority of us grounded folk know this. Hope you're as well as can be, and happy.
Exactly!
Surrrrre, I gave up the highly paid job and hard won career that I loved because I _much_ preferred living an impoverished hand-to-mouth existence in a crumbling flat within a degenerating neighbourhood!
@@Harrison_RsThat would require someone to be willing and able to employ them.
My son is one of these languishers. He is 23 years old and has medical and learning needs. His father (my husband) passed away last year from MND. He gets up every day and goes to work voluntarily in charity shops and is part of a volunteering group that helps people with needs gain experience. That is 5 days a week that I transport him around so he can work for no pay. Unfortunately,there are very few employers who would take him on in a paid position, so I have to reduce my hours to facilitate him volunteering. This government know these things but choose to incite rage from their dwindling support. Disgusting!
Fair play to you these people are not worth it hope you and your family gets what you deserve
Are you a carer as well ?do you get carers allowance
@@weedsmokinhippy I do. I only started claiming it last year for the first time when I lost my husband and had to give up work to be around for my son after he left college. It’s tricky finding employment to fit around his hours but I’ve managed to find a job working from home with only a few hours in the office.
You're working two jobs 24/7 and you're saving the state money while suffering financially. The government understands perfectly well how this works in their favour but prefers to take advantage of the love you naturally have for your son. I don't know how our government ever sleep at night knowing what they do to people like your family.
❤To you and your son.
I lost my job as a doctor in 2004 due to brain damage. I was 38. I had worked incredibly hard to achieve that position. I would give anything to stop languising at home. I wish I was normal and could live a normal life. To suffer everyday of your life to watch others live a life that you wish you had can be hard. I've had to learn to accept that my life was destroyed. I have to be excused from driving and enjoying myself because of my illness. The majority of people who appeal getting their benefits removed win their court cases and get their monies reinstated
They have no Love for disabled people they have a death wish for them unable to work in most cases on survival income its not they can get a job for the market is geared for the able bodied and even they struggle to find suitable employment being arrased by this Evil tory govt is the final straw.
I'm sorry to hear your story. I'm 38 and since getting diagnosed with multiple sclerosis ten years ago, I've just seen my entire future disappear. I'm housebound now and can't drive because of my eyesight. I would give anything for this not to be my life, but it is, and I'm struggling to accept it. I hear you
Judging by your written english I highly doubt you were a doctor. Not least because you use the word doctor.
I'm sorry and can't find proper words of comfort, but I do think and pray for you and people like you.
Yet the minority lose their benefits some unfairly. Some people would sooner be on the sick or disability benefits. You're right about the money though pathetic amounts with inflation what it was and still is.
‘THE TRUE MEASURE OF ANY SOCIETY CAN BE FOUND IN HOW IT TREATS ITS MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS’
"To find the true measure of a man, give him money, and power, and see how he treats the less fortunate ..."
@@nigelft Amen 🍀🍀
A hence why Britain is circling the drain, we have lost our belief
Well said I agree
Exactly
As one of those LAANGUISHING...SHAME on the tory nazis
I worked with people with severe disabilities and there is nothing they would rather have than a job. The fact is that very few employers will hire someone with a disability, especially if they have to make adaptions in the workplace.
Who closed Remploy? Tories
The employers only get help with adaptations after they have employed you and only then if the DWP will pay the money
YES!! Glad you mentioned this@@dean8282
....thats true....incentives must be put in place....
@@chatham43not necessarily incentives, but education for employers would be beneficial. If they understood the disabilities that future prospective employees may have, they could become more inclusive and caring.
Funny how Daily Mail employed Nadine Dorres who was claiming her £86K MP salary paid for Tax Payers money. Strikes double standards to me.
Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
This level of 'news'paper has always had double standards...railing at 'filth' in public yet having tittilating pictures inside
@@jrosam9569 thats how it always has been when conservative governments get in regardless of country - the rich love their socialism but think it is only for them and the rest can fight for the crumbs under dog eat dog capitalism
"Rules for thee but not for me"
Double standards for the rich and no standards at all for the rest of us.Sounds about right?
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it. Tony Benn
Been telling this for yrs
....housed in 4 star hotels you mean...you need to change your medication pal...
Well said. Apt paraphrase
makes no actual sense in today's world, but if it makes you happy, I am happy for you ✌️
Lot of rot in these comments
James, this was one of the goals of brexit and what Tories meant about taking back control, removing the protections of the working man in favour of business. Johnson tapped into peoples bigotry to get Brexit over the line and now they are suffering the consequences.
How did he tap into people's bigotry?
By persuading disenfranchised people to punch down & not up. For example, in simplistic terms, an employer may take on an immigrant on lower pay because it saves them money. You are manipulated into blaming the immigrant, where in truth the disaster capitalists at the top have devised a system to extract maximum profit & maintain lower overheads. And that is music to the disaster capitalists' ears. Now they are coming for the rights of freedoms of everyone else thanks to said Brexit.
How they treat the poor is a decent barometer for how they'd treat you if they could. Tony Benn I think. @@cujimmi
@@cujimmi By appealing to their dark underbelly
@@Coelacanth1how? Give an example
@@cujimmi How, by becoming aware of societal conditioning and through awareness of societal conditioning observe where it is most prolific. As do ask yourself the question why is it people ' hate ' what they do when they have no experience of coming into contact with what they ' hate ' to derive any kind of honest feeling on what they come to know to hate and in hate support those speaking the same language. Where is the disdain for minority groups generated and does hating as encouraged solve our nations woes or does it make things worse for those encouraged to hate?
I’m autistic and rates of employment amongst this community are very low, not because we don’t want to work but because it is so hard to find a job that can accommodate our needs. We want to work and have a job, but it’s difficult to find somewhere that we fit.
Hi James. This discussion about language is one that's fascinated me since I read 1984 about 40 years ago an realised that by controlling language, you control thought.
Love the programme. Thanks for being a beacon of rationality in an increasingly irrational world.
Think about what you are saying. You are correct (although influence thought rather than control). When did all this "language" stuff start? And by who? Because it wasnt the tories. Not even Labour. Its the woke mob and goes back before woke even exisited. Someone for sure is trying to influence thought, the questions are who and why?
@RJHS. ABSOLUTELY ! Language is the key to freedom. We must own it and guard it. We need to watch for slippery abuses like this. I hate it at Election time when the Tories keep telling us that they support “ hard-working families”. It’s not just a simple lie : it’s rabble-rousing with a straight face. I’m so glad James has taken this on.
Funnily enough about forty years ago I started using my brain and opening my eyes. I also realised the importance of the words that the papers use to control thought/opinion.
@@belindamay8063 and what about calling illegal immigrants refugees?
@@LiveFromLondon2 What is the legal definition ?
Along with most of the comments, I receive PIP, I have had it cancelled once being told that I had made a false claim and maybe asked to pay 18 months back. I therefore believed them and basically worked and worked and then had a breakdown and didn't leave my room for 3 months. I eventually got it reinstated, then again they tried to cancel it. My husband fought it hard because of what happened. So I have an invisible disability. I still feel guilty and like a fraud. When a govt body tells me I'm faking I believe them. After so much therapy I still think I am worthless. When I saw this article I had a panic attack. Husband had to step in. He finally sent me this. Anyway that was a ramble.
You are not a fraud, you have been gaslit and abused by the government and profiteers of pain. You are far from alone, many people feel your pain. Bless you and your husband, get better soon.
Don't let them gaslight you into thinking you are the problem. Claim what you are entitled to, if only just to spite them and their client 'journalists' (who are actually all columnists and don't deal in facts)
I got issued with a lifetime ban from commenting on the Daily Mail website for criticising them.
I view it as a badge of honour.
As you should and continuously promote the fact!
...never read it myself...what did you take issue with when you did...?
You're mental.
Fantastic, we’ll done, sir! As you say, a badge of honour.
Well done you! 🙂❤👍
I fought for my friend to get Personal Independence Payment. I attended three tribunals with him. He had Type 1 Diabetes and chronic depression at losing his job. He could not take another job because his situation deteriorated so much. In the end we won. It took two years and he was awarded £8,000 in back payments. He died six weeks later.
I'm sorry. Total tragedy.
perrythomas4115
It is undeniable that the Tories have been committing corporate manslaughter, since 2010.
It now seems they are about to up the ante once more against the disabled.
What did he die of? Going nuts in the cake shop?
@@LiveFromLondon2 do you have any concept of 'what goes around comes around'?
Are you naturally funny or did you learn it from a book. Hope your day is full of fun and laughter. By the way, that stone you just crawled out from under is going to fall and hit you on the head.
@@LiveFromLondon2
Just when you think the Tories can't get any more evil, they find a new level.
Didn’t you use that one last week?
@@nick1065well if the shoe fits.
@@nick1065Hasn't stopped being true
@@nick1065Tories are consisently venal and cruel.
You'll find that accurate descriptions of their terrible behaviour will repeat, because they haven't gotten any better.
@@Tao_Tology Are you a victim too?
I can't believe this country isn't more furious. How do the people everybody hates just manage to continue to hold so much power and do so much damage??
I think the country is furious, but the political structures of the society we live in are so closed-off that there's no other way to express that fury than impotent rage. I mean, actual effective protest is basically banned now, it's scary
Because your brainwashed by class and not French.
Cos thy got the police an army behind thm all i dont get how these people just follow there rules but thts the state we are in an always will be
Because instead of protesting those same people point at protestors and activists and laugh at them, calling them disruptive or violent despite the fact that any progressive change would benefit them.
This allows the government to work with corporations to target the most vulnerable populations level by level from refugees and disabled people to lgbt, poc and gender minorities slowly but surely making it impossible to rebel at all.
Maybe the other recent J OB video about shoplifting provides some response... Maybe that's the new anti-Tory rebellion! 🙂 But lifters have to raise their sights a bit. Shoplifting from Poundland and tubes of Nivea aren't going to cut it. They need to start shoplifting in Fortnum and Mason! 🙂
In order for sick and disabled people to be made to work there must be employers willing and able to employ them. They never talk about that side of the equation.
Only a soviet style government can do what they are suggesting. Tell those companies who employ workers at home, to employ the sick and disabled. In doing so the able bodied are freed up to work in the fields.
@@johnrussell3961 Sadly, there are not many fields in the cities, which is where most unemployed people live.
And of course the Tories took away support that was in place to help disabled people access the workplace
You can imagine the interviews...'Oh, and due to my chronic pain and inacility to function I can not work 7 days a week and may have to take months off at a time'...'I have chemo on Mondays so can not work that day, oh, and then I will be vomitting and seriously ill until the following Monday, then it repeats.' And on and on, people on long term disabilty are DISABLED not SICK, it is like they think people with the sniffles are on disability benefits.
Care homes for people with disabilities will take anybody.
If the Daily Mail is for something then I am against it if they are hostile to an issue then I am for it simples.
....simple is...as simple does...😊
@@chatham43you'd know.
The same people who say. “ forget immigrants and asylum seekers we need to support our own first!” Are the same people celebrating this
Same party who not only wanted to deprive children of food, but think they could explain away if a school or hospital collapsed and killed children or patients. why are the Tories allowed to exist?
Totally agree , the next enemy will be single mothers , homeless people and the disabled , all the Tories know is culture wars . The scary thing is there are quite a lot of sheep that will follow
With 'our own' they really mean 'me, me'! They care for nobody else but themselves!
exactly this!
Balderdash.
Rich people getting the poor and middle class to hate the poorest people in the country is a disgusting tactic and I'll never understand how it works.
The Conservative mind works off of excuses and not reason. They want justifications, not thought.
Because they know a sizeable contingent of our population are effectively selfish, greedy and spiteful. A lot of the rest are desperate so hold onto whatever narrative the loudest person offers.
Because the the majority of people are ignorant. But if there not ignorant then its all are faults for not sticking together outside parliament and the mps house's and demanding better.
How do they do that?
@@mikecook1537 One example is encouraging landlording as an investment, to get rich and secure your pension.
Tying the lives of the better-off to Capitalist models turns a neutral vote into voting for Capitalism as self-protection.
My friend's boy is on disability benifit? He has got serious OCD to the point where he will starve himself to death if he can't find a full ingredient list of anything he is about to eat. His, as many others' condition is not well understood by medics. His problem is not that he doesn't want to work, it is that nobody would or could work with him. So it's really not about abiut his motivation, Cutting his benifits is not going to find him a job. Employers do not want anybody who comes with that baggage,
And added to that mental health services are severely underfunding, by the Tories!
how do you know he will starve to death? Eventully, when he is hungry enough, his brain will skip the ingredient list and start eating. And if it doesnt...... The sooner these people stop being molly-coddled the sooner they will adjust to reality.
@@dc56789 yes, it can be very severe. As can BPD.
That's a truly horrendous condition. I suffered from it mildly myself & medication fixed it to a point. So sorry for your friend.
Daily Mail readers may be surprised to learn that many disabled people want to work, but have had their livelihoods destroyed by the same party in government those readers voted for. Which then proceeded to make working conditions mean, nasty and horrid to its own citizens.
Spot on.
well said
Actually I think that a lot of disabled people should report at the Daily Mail offices, since they seem to have the answer and will employ them. It's time to start kicking back at these turds.
Who closed Remploy so disabled people were forced to languish? Tories
Shhh lol Don't spoil the narrative. Spongers everywhere, mate! The ones who salted away something like £32 billion in unpaid tax in 2015/6 (?) in the havens, when the UK needed something like £34 billion that year to fund services are the worst, but don't let a few disabled people being punched down on to get in the way of 'British fair play' as exemplified by the average reader of that rag. They're patriotic, but not decent. They have no sense of fair play, just envy. It's appalling. They are unashamed of themselves, too.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
That lesson from history has already been well adapted to suit our more modern times. The lesson was of course warning the future of the dangers of being divided.
Economy on its knees, cost of living crisis, and more inequality than ever. Oh yeah, let's start picking on disabled people and those with mental health problems, that will really help.
When your entire poltical philosophy is predicated on punching down, the most vulnerable in society inevitably become fair game.
They feed hate and anger and then complain that people are popping their tops and lashing out at each other. Humans were not made to deal with constant stress.
The "othering", gathers pace. It's only a case of how much fear can be instilled in the population, and anyone with half a brain knows this country is going down the drain.
This government's policies are very reminiscent of a certain group from the 1930's. I'm genuinely afraid for friends and family who may be deemed members of minorities this government is targeting.
do you mean the Nationalsozialistische? Do you have any real idea of what was going in those days? And how that compares to today? Because if you think the similarity is how disabled are treated then you really are not understanding anything. But more to the point, why bring the words 1930s into this? Unless you are trying to sow serious problems. Or more likely you are a bot.
@@LiveFromLondon2 Its exactly the same , demonizing parts of a society to gain power, he said the 30's not the 40's and thats exactly what happened!
Not just this government for Cameron trialled this kind of abuse to be met with public acceptance of which was generously fluffed by the media , all of the media including the effing Guardian.
@@LiveFromLondon2 The language being used by this Tory government is alarmingly similar. I'm not the first to point it out, as the video says, survivors of that regime are also pointing it out.
Maybe you didn't watch the video?
@@dexocube and maybe you dont really understand what was happening back then, and why. Im am not saying it was right, but I am saying that there was a reason for it. The Nazis and the current govt couldnt be more different. Nazis tried to solve a problem current govt and future Labour are the cause of the problem. This is something that more people need to look at more closely and not fall into the trap of that is being set.
This is having your legs smashed up. learning to walk again, finally feeling hope and having them smashed again. Over and over and over. That's what this feels like.
This is just evil.
They’ve(conservatives) driven themselves mad with paranoia and indignation at the mere thought of someone not breaking themselves down from youth to the grave.
I love it
Anyone except themselves of course. For instance Nadine Dorries.
I would give anything to work. I completed a Master’s degree to work in my profession. Now I have to live on a MONTHLY check that is less than what I used to make in a WEEK. Those pigs should become fully disabled for a couple years and see how much fun it is.
Absolutely
They have machine hearts, machine minds, they don't care about you and others. A truly nasty, callous bunch.
I wish you the best in life, there are people like me who care, we have hearts and fight against discrimination towards the disabled. Take care.
My check is like 1/38 of what i used to make
@@Miafunfactory I certainly feel for you!
@@benji.B-side thank you for your kind message 💕. It helps knowing kind, pragmatic minds & hearts exist!
Why does the Daily Mail vilify people? Just because their readership laps up such language.
Don't discount the possibility that they may also be a bunch of nasty sociopaths
Cause they want to make people hate and they want to have an enemy on a daily basis.
Control. Setting the people against each other by weaponising harmless differences. It's the same reason they demonise immigrants. "Look at them over there, but don't look at us - the tax dodgers, the phony crony contract getters, the liars and scumbags who steal from everyone else to live a life of luxury. Its those people over there who are slightly different to you who you need to worry about! Not us!".
It's rage-bait. People who get angry at others and blame them for failings in their own life are far more likely to come back for more.
People read the daily mail for the same reason people listen to a broadcaster talking about the daily mail. Angry sells papers, angry sells radio ads.
We would love to go back to a time when my wife was able to work but life ain't perfect. After getting injured following an accident at work causing spinal damage the next few years were the most stressful firstly fighting her employer to delay her sacking then having her benefit stopped and having to go to a tribunal against dwp,and during this period it becoming fairly obvious she also had MS but takes a while to get diagnosis. Its not nice coming home from work and finding her on the floor and needing picking up and i would love to know the employers that would be happy to have people potentially collapsing regularly on their premises. I know at some point she will come under attack again and i will be ready to support her through it again at that time even if the stress does make us both ill.
I have a disabled son I care for, I feel quite happy to hate the folk who facilitated his marginalisation and now seek to penalise him for it. It might be all I've got left
I guarantee there is a job for every disabled person in this country.
.
But it probably is nowhere near where they live.
It is probably in an industry that is not prepared to hire them
It is probably in an industry not prepared to adapt for them
Or accommodate them at all
Or support them
Or train them
Or keep them on if there is someone better abled or cheaper they can get instead.
And it will likely be cost prohibitive for them to take on the job.
Travel and clothes will equal or exceed the wages in many cases
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But that just means they're languishing doesn't it.
I appreciate the sentiment and largely agree, however there are large numbers of disabled people who are physically and or mentally completely incapable of performing any work function regardless of the amount of support and accommodation provided to them.
@@SilverMKII've no arms nor legs, I'm deaf dumb and blind, and they clapped me on the back and said I perfectly fit the role of a door stop! Just think of how many doors there are that are un stopped! It's a solid job, with huge potential benefits! So that's you taken care of, off you roll!
@siep6922 unfortunately you have seizures and are doubly incontinent, plus all the medical equipment and 1:1 carer block the doorway :P
Needs must
Life ain't easy
Quite a few could work from home though, only fair to try and help them do this
We see the same rhetoric here in Australia. Just people needing someone to punch down on.
My father was an engineer in the Army and when he left after 30 years he got a job as an engineer making farming machinery.
The company was sold to a foreign monopoly and immediately shut down all Australian factories.
Dad spent the next 10 years trying to find a job, he even took volunteer work in the hopes of landing something permanent from it. He got nothing and had to survive on welfare.
It utterly broke him, so seeing people wanting pick on those like my Dad falsely saying that they are lazy, really enrages me.
Prople are not lazy, and don't enjoy scraping by on welfare that keeps them on or below the poverty line.
Sometimes James is brilliant. 10 out of 10.
What do you mean "sometimes"? 🤣
@@carolkelly5578 Sometimes he is on form sometimes he isn't, just like everyone else. Don't get me wrong. I love his show and his common sense and honesty.
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I think he's brilliant all the time 😂😂😂
@@amcc5887 I think most of the time he is and now and again he gets exhausted by the mental trauma of having to listen to the right wing malevolent ravings. As every normal person does.
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He's a pleb and massively short sighted
Thank you James for your comments
It’s shameful how disabled people are treated
What about the 'disabled' who aren't disabled?
@neilrafferty2097 . You can do whatever you like Neil
@neilrafferty2097 well you can't be legal disabled if you don't have a legal disability so not too sure what you're talking about.
@@neilrafferty2097please enlighten me, what do you consider to constitute a disability?
@louisejohnson6057 If you can see,walk,talk and move you aren't disabled.But of course you might have mental health issues.And then again,you might not.If you see what I mean?
Most of the people high fiving over the marmalade will be retired.... They're a drain on the state with their pensions and healthcare, but they see themselves as entitled and deserving of that money, and they see disabled people as not.
Surely it depends on the nature of the disability. I have worked alongside disabled colleagues who have had a very productive career, and come across those with mental or physical disablities who will regrettably (for themselves) never be able to work.
Of course
As someone who has been unemployed for the last 4 years due to mental issues the best way to get people back into work is to improve the systems that are surposed to help people back into work.
The fedcap company, look them up, are a joke.
Those who work in the DWP know who can’t be helped back into work so don’t waste any money on them.
How about you help yourself and stop hiding from life
"Systems" is a generous term. There's also a system to process asylum claims. Westminster should scoop up every job-seeking person legitimately able to work, and train them for those systems. Invest in human resources, and help other humans in the process.
@@vinny6967Clearly you have never suffered from mental health issues. Mentality, yes...
@@One-Gothmaybe just not diagnosed
UC and even when it was known as Job Seekers Allowance, even ESA is not even enough to survive on.... you cannot pay your bills you cannot buy luxuries unless you were on enhanced rates, and even that those rates were because you were incapable of work deemed by the system....
nowadays as a disabled person myself, I have been told by employers and doctors that my health is that bad I couldn't hold down a job, that's not to be mistaken with 'I dont want to work' but instead that health has diminished so much that I have no choice but to step back and accept i may never be able to given the condition and state of my health, as the physical and mental health effects each other like a constant battlefield.
I used to work a fair amount doing nights which as health both physical and mental got worst i refused to give in... i would push myself until an issue in work where i used to work said nights.... forced me out...
i would voluntarily go through the Job Seeker's route (without any pay) get treated like a dole dosser yet despite this, i pushed through and kept applying... and yet despite my willingness to work but need for a local job where i used to live I got 3 interviews in literally 3 years...
and those were in retail in local stores...
2 for the same place and all were for well known retail companies... the one i got the interview once for, a school leaver who had stated he "had no intention of working here, i just applied cos the JC said i had to" he did 30 minutes work next day walked out no one knew he'd walked out... but because of that they apparently didn't have the budget to employ more...
I moved south and got 2 jobs within a month, one working zero hours and one working part time in a major retail company's store near where i'd moved to... later becoming homeless and thus health worsened, i had to give up the Zero Hours job because of it clashing with the contracted work, and the council claimed they couldn't help me get rehomed on a zero hours contract, no private landlord would take a chance despite having an income... however the retail company who did take a chance on me i gave my all and did my best with however again due to health i found myself collapsing in work a few times and the worst one was whilst in a homeless night shelter where i was rushed into hospital for emergency surgery... and informed i had had a golf ball sized Gall Stone, which according to the surgeon had taken around 20+ years to get to that size... the gall bladder however had disintegrated due to the size of the stone... which i found myself struggling more and more... then roll on a few years and i move where i live now, to find out i have had a heart condition since birth, so where everyone would call me lazy and question why i was always tired.... claiming workshy despite me doing all i could to work....
all that never giving up has resulted in worse health, and a life where i am reliant on a stick to get around, i cannot walk far from my home due to pain and constant mobility and mental health problems....
so it's never a case of people like me not wanting to work (granted there are some out there who are like that but those are few and far between), it is more a case of people like me being unable and employers not being willing to take a chance on people like me... due to added risks, potential insurance issues etc and expenses on specialist fittings or measures to ensure we are able to do the job...
They shouldn’t be called benefits they should be called entitlements as most have contributed so they are getting the help they are entitled to but only after jumping through hoops and put under stress for months sometimes over 13 months 😡😡😡😡😡
A lot of these people on benefits are working also, and they are on benefits because of austerity, and yes in most cases rthey have contributed through taxation, but where does that taxation go! not back into the economy.
Correct, for the DM fascists are unaware , financial support when one is ill is one of the benefits of what we pay in National Insurance.
@@alimantado373 Benefits have likely kept many small and local businesses alive.
Poor people have to spend all their money every month, meaning it's pumped directly into businesses.
I wonder if billionaires are spending all their money each month?
Or just hoarding it off shore and in other tax dodging schemes.
Or buying up land and property to ensure people can't afford even a home.
I’m disabled, it’s smashing I’m the next target. When are people going to come together and resist this mob?
I'm a nurse, I have CPTSD and have been off work just over a year due to very poor mental health, functioning at present. I have no income at all since August. I'm afraid to try and claim benefit due to the shame and complicated way of claiming. I've worked all my life and I'm genuinely ill at the age of 50. I don't know what to do and I hope you keep talking about these things because it's a terrible position to be in and I feel like there is no way forward 😢.
Feel for you
@@tipples thank you so much.
You have paid into the system and you need your benefits, no shame. If you’re struggling with the paperwork perhaps Citizens’ Advise can help.
@@janegreen9340 thank you so much for caring x
Thank you for your service x
Every disabled and terminally ill person should be supported to arrive at the daily mail requesting a job and adjustments made for them to work there such as having oxygen therapy available, responding to seizures, rescue medications for spasms and spinal injuries, mobility needs, staff trained to administer injections and depots, support with personal and continence care, ventilation management, be able to communicate in PECs, TEACH, Widgets and makaton, etc.... Wonder what the journalist would say then. Typical ignorant daily mail article
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Im back at work after 6 years on disability with mental health, Ive been back in work a year now but its hard. I only lost my job 6 years ago due to a bullying boss with no understanting of mental health resulting in me going on the sick and the company making me redundant.
You can't take a job you haven't been offered. I've been unemployed for nearly 30 years. Now I'm too sick to work, having acquired illnesses on top of the condition I was born with.
You underestimate how evil this government is...
This will lead to another wave of suicides and slow death amongst the sick and disabled. I am afraid.
I think that is what they hope.
After my accident 2 months ago i have the worst time in my life. The s**t sick pay, lack of an affordable beds, made me homeless. And all councils just passing me by from one side to another.
I am crippled and i need a desk/sitting down job unfortunately. I searched, without experience and i only received reply as not suited... Trying to find a free course but ... no luck.
So im stuck in this situation.
Thank you UK.
I know 400£/month is enough to survive and live amazingly.
I stay during the day in a library thats why i have power and internet. Fortunately
The DWP are on my case again..despite the fact I had to take early I'll health retirement in 2011..I had no choice..I was then diagnosed with RA a year later..and I have CPTSD..I am being forced to have a review even though my "circumstances haven't changed"..health hasn't changed for the better..but for the worst..Yet I had to have another assessment..as if my medical records don't count..It is a precursor to cutting my PIP..and forcing me to a tribunal..."We want to make sure you are getting the help you need* they say.....my a***!
The Tories know they're going to lose, so are just throwing out red meat to their base who considers themselves to be the silent majority.
Ironically, they are neither silent or the majority.
If someone is capable of working, physically and psychologically, despite being disabled, then, yes, they have the right to have any support necessary in order to make a living according to their capabilities. The problem is that we live in a heartless system. Penny pinching and ridiculously punitive, while pulling the rug of support for anyone trying to make that leap. Well, it's a long life for most of us, and plenty of time for these empathyless weirdos to experience something like this upfront and personal. Old age will be fun, even sitting on their piles of gold like greedy, demented dragons. All of us heading to the same direction, old age and death, (with any luck), is such an equaliser.
I want a job. All you will have to do is spend £150.000 on adaptations to your building and I can't be around people for too long.
When do I start?
You have to be chronically unwell to receive the highest levels of PIP. You wouldn’t be languishing you would be coping with profound illness and disability.
This includes my daughter who is recovering from leukemia!
My son had a heart attack at 22 is dependant on 8 medications daily & has had 2 more in last 5 years, I saw this devastate my childrens youth when the one thing you should be able to rely on is your health.
Work is detrimental to their health & both took over a year because first & second attempts were refused.
Despite a minister on tv saying he can guarantee nobody who’s suffered a heart attack will be refused benefit’s!!
I can guarantee that’s a blatant lie!!!
The same people celebrating this are the same people who post "we should of been looking after are own first" whenever somebody claims asylum.
"Are there no Prisons?" said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. "Are there no workhouses?" The bell struck Twelve.
Quite!
“If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
Very apt for the Tory mindset!
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So on point 😢
This is where you end up after 13 years of Tory rule. It's not a coincidence that after years of the NHS being run into the ground, with waiting lists for every medical service going through the roof, more and more people's health has declined to the point that they are not able to work. If you're living with a chronic condition the reduction in care quality may be the difference between being able to work and not being able to
There would not be as many people unable to work because of sickness/disability if the NHS services were funded probably.
Love this show. Straight shooters, rational, compassionate thinkers.
@@tatts1901nah, that's the clowns who show up in the comments with childish counterfactuals because they don't like being told the truth. Like yourself.
@@tatts1901- just run run along you troll...
@@tatts1901thats a very well thought out opinion. I like how you backed it up with examples and counter points.
@tatts1901 calling you a "troll" doesn't mean the commenter doesn't mean he doesn't believe in free speech. In fact they're using free speech to express their opinion.
@@tatts1901 Yup, you got it.
Begining this week the Tories were on the ropes in that they collectively placed the lives of children under the risk of collapsing buildings, being widely admonished.
Mid week theyre lashing out at one of the smallest groups of unfortunate people in the country so as to change to conversation.
Its as though their own incompetence creates the situations in which they need victims to attack. Its psychotic. Weak, sad and nasty cunce.
...here we go again, back to the same policies and vilifying language that we had in 2011. The economy is up the spout so lets go after those out of work.
Didn't the Torys already have power back in 2011?
@@falconeshield Yes, yes they did...It's been a long thirteen years. Now they are back to the same ideas they had at the beginning of taking office with austerity.
Well done on that observation, for that is exactly what they're doing.
Daily Mail says and I stop paying attention.
Wouldn't be the first time the Tories did this.
... nor the last ...
And the last time they did it, it was met with popular public support, hence why they are doing it again.
I am a healthcare professional and have had Long Covid since September 2020. Wouldn't it be better if the Government spent time and money on research into treating us rather than making us work when we cannot.
spot on James again a quality discussion-thank-you
It has reached the stage where the state takes drastic measures against people without any protection 😢
Over here in America, in 2015 I personally was done with Trump when he made fun of a disabled person on live TV. As a nurse that is just a bridge too far. I worked 4 years in an LTAC, (long term acute care), every patient there would have given anything to have a "normal" life.
“the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members” Thomas Jefferson (well known lefty)
Does that include the slaves he owned?
@@cujimmi From a tie when churchmen owned slaves?
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Even when applying for work there's boundaries. Then how do you get the remits people want when various factors make it difficult to do so? So they don't give you a chance. You may get an interview with the disability two ticks but even with experience and covering basics they still don't give you the job It's impossible. They have absolutely no understanding or compassion. Thanks again for highlighting this, James. I am disappointed that Labour didn't make a louder statement in PMQ's today.
@englishbulldog954 Mr Ignoramus can use a keyboard. I'm impressed. Please come back when you've acquired a sense of understanding and humanitarianism.....
Fantastic video James
I have depression anxiety Agoraphobia and clinical trauma. When I was last working I was warning £1000 a week before tax. I paid in tax what the average person earned. I HATE being poor. A lack of mental health support from the UK government meant that I was untreated until it became too much of an issue for me to continue working. I went to court to prove I was unable to work and receive disability payments. My anxiety is so great that I feel physically sick when it is bad and I am out somewhere. I have no option but to turn around and go home. But I havent given up. I'm trying to find ways to make some money and take some of the burden off other tax payers. I am hardly "Languishing" on benefits.
This is the kind of policy/tone that reminds me of the 2010-2015 Cameron years and yet he managed to win another majority on this type of thing. But this lot know by now that they're on course to lose the next election, so they'll push through hard everything they want done ASAP including something like this. This country has been wrecked beyond recognition since 2010 by the same party.
Yes poor Nadine Dorris 'Languishing' in GB news. Her Salary wasnt 'Docked" when she 'Excused' herself from working.
Toast and marmalade deserve better than being associated with something as disgusting as the Daily Mail and arrogant bigots.
Key worker "hero who worked throughout the pandemic to keep the country going" Here! I am also part of those who are now disabled. I've had severe long Covid symptoms since June 2022 and I'm only now being seen for Adult Disability Payment (in Scotland). Haven't received it, but just trying is traumatising. The stress from the application process has walked back months of hard work to claw back any level of health I can. Also, I stayed in work until my symptoms were so bad, I genuinely thought I was going to die. NOT an exaggeration. This is inhumane and disgusting treatment.
‘Languishing’ on benefits means they’re lying about watching telly all day, whereas the reality: I got £57 a week on the sick after 30 years of full-time work. 😡
I think that was about how much my mate got until he become an alcoholic, now his rent and bills are all paid and he gets about £160 a week.
It is disgusting that was all your thirty years of hard work afforded you
Any one of the vile people using that language should consider that they themselves or a loved one may be just one mis-step away from finding themselves with a crippling disability.
If I'm in a state where I can't leave my room, let alone my house, if someone ordered me to do so I'd just end myself right there
Now that Jenrick has said in the Commons that 'lefty lawyers ' hearing asylum appeals should all be jailed, that is a lead for these penny-a-liners to repeat the call to lock up lawyers (no matter what the consequencies of repeating such dangerous suggestions and publishing them as if government policy)
Maybe if the NHS was funded properly, some of us could actually get better and be able to work.
Also, they never actually STOPPED going after the sick. The hoops you have to go through to receive benefits are ridiculous and actually traumatising.
If my health was better, I would work. Most people find their friendship group at work. I had to give up work, and am extremely isolated as a result. I volunteer, but I know that I won't be penalised if my health doesn't allow me to attend.
It will be the same people who are cheering this on who also say when talking about asylum seekers tell us "We need to look after our own"
Tbf, according to gb news comment sections, they're still too concerned about the foreigners to really care. It's all the immigrants fault apparently
For any of us who say "I see a lot of people who "aren't THAT bad", so they're perfectly capable of doing SOMETHING!" : Name one job you'd refer to as "SOMETHING" that pays enough to even survive on? You do understand we "cripples" don't get to live in a special discount version of reality, right? Life doesn't cost any less for us than it does for you.
Society is judged by how it cares for its most vulnerable members. History will not be kind to those currently in power.
It's the fact that the Tories are losing that they have decided to use what worked before.
So what are they going to do about the Employers who refuse to give a disabled person a job? DD Act? It is so feeble, it's a joke! Tke two people with Identical qualifications and identical work experience the only difference is, one is disabled in some way and will require some reasonable adjustments to enable them to do the work. Who do you think the Employer is going to give the job to? WE all know the answer to that question. So instead of the government punishing those that could help the sick & disabled get a job, they punish the person who would dearly love to have a job, earn a decent wage and live an independent life but are prevented from doing so from no fault of their own! I'm one of the lucky few disabled that has managed to learn a skill that is in demand which has got me a job and live an independent life. Not everyone is able to do this and they are the ones who need the most help and support.
Torys: Lets force disabled people into work!
Also Torys: lets pay disabled people less!
see whats going on here?
Yep, they are in the process of conditioning society to believe the sick and disabled are worth - less.
It would help if employers would actually employ sick and disabled without letting them go after a short period of time. The token ‘accommodations’ that don’t really help the longevity of anyone with disabilities.
These are same people whom when something like this happens to them they will be the 1st to be crying and saying " it's not fair I should get more sick pay"
or a house of Lords seat!
I didnt realise how difficult life is for people that have mobility issues. They are rarely catered for. Taking my mum to the hospital is difficult, seating is atrocious, hardly any ramps things I take for granted are difficult for her. Offices don't cater for disabled people and some people have complex needs, how are they going to cope. People on benefits dont get a lot of money and it is hard to survive on them. They are getting people genuinely in need confused with benefit cheaters.
And here I am thinking that no one should be forced to work.
They’ve been at this for years since pip started.
Work will set you free?
What do you expect from the daily mail.
Language yes and creeping acceptance of language to know every war and every and every crime against humanity started with words and words that crept - words we allow.
Languish, how dare him, yes DISGUSTING!!!!!
now it might be that people have a different meaning for languish, but doesn't it mean "lose or lack vitality; grow weak." or "be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation"
usually I hear the term used in reference to prison and prisoners "languish in prison"
The Tories using the word languish kind of suggests to me that they might not know what it means.
.....even a "shark" of finances, you cannot turn it into a dolphin..
I only found this channel today. James is Extremely articulate and very level headed.
Absolute sickening language by the Mail, even by their gutter standards
I like this man. After Independence Scotland must offer him honoury Scottish Citizenship for life! And a new Scottish EU passport!
As usual the poorest have to pay the bill. I am starting to think that is the defining characteristic of modern capitalism,
I'd recommend to Jason Groves; don't ever get sick or find yourself requiring anyone's support in any way.