James O'Brien reacts to senior Tory suggesting struggling over-50s should work for Deliveroo | LBC
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- 00:00 | 'Go on. You hop on your moped.'
James O'Brien ruminates on the suggestion from Conservative MP Mel Stride that hard-up over-50s should deliver takeaways to maintain their standard of living.
09:50 | 'If I was a Deliveroo driver it would probably get in the way of me finding prospective paid jobs.'
Caller Andrea believes politicians are 'not understanding' what it's like to be unemployed like her.
13:07 | 'I'm 70 and I've been riding for Uber Eats for 4 years.'
Caller Mike thinks food delivery jobs for over-50s might not be a bad suggestion.
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I'm absolutely certain that there is no limit to the Tories cruelty.
They worship Kali
It’s the way they roll. They are toast
What’s cruel about having a 2nd job with little barrier to entry and easy money to be made?
I agree. I genuinely think the only reason Tories haven't put sick and disabled people into gas chambers is that it would impact the nation internationally and a minority of their base wouldn't be fully on board with it.
@@Jesus420.69 There should be no need for a second job if they where paid a decent living wage.
Easy money with no home or social life.
Ignorance is bliss it seems.
Who else is for replacing ingredients in the subsidised Houses of Parliament canteen (5*restaurant) with supermarket value brands?
Yes, let's give them all the cheapest choice of whatever they request; food, cars, hotels, plane tickets, etc. Maybe get a time clock and they can check in and out so we do not over pay them for the hours they work and fired if they don't show up a certain number of days.
Omg. Yes. To be a fly on the wall if that happened. Priceless
@@TheQueenRulesAllon 0 hour contracts, where we get to decide the hours they work.
freeze his accounts then 0hour contract 3am to 7am on a Sunday night for Sunak. then a 1pm-1am shift the next then a 3am start the next day
Shouldn't get anything, they earn enough.
I have to make a sandwich before setting off to do a day's graft 😕
I'd replace the canteen with a toaster and bucket of value beans. With an honesty box to collect some money back ..... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
What is really remarkable is that working class people vote for them !
The Daily Mail and the Sun told them.
I dislike the Tories but on the flip side, it was Labour who introduced benefit sanctions and penilsed people on benefits under the New Deal Scheme. Labour sent people on 21 week "training courses" where they would work for free for multi billion corporations like Argos.
@@grime_garage Yeah... that was Blair etc (aka Tory light) we don't want "New Labour", we want "Labour".
That "New Deal Scheme" is called "Steps to Work" in Northern Ireland & is still in use today.
If those Tories love us so much, surely they would do away with it?
What Mel was saying was just basic common sense, What is the problem?
@@grime_garageactually it was not Blair or Labour that introduced benefit sanctions ....that happened in 2012 with Cameron as tory PM and in coalition Government with the Lib Dems!!!!
Tory MP - "Are you aware that supermarkets have value ranges?"
Single mother - "Are you aware that I understand poverty better than you do?"
i dont think even the value ranges are cheap anymore
It is time that these single parents were made to look for work.
Single mother maybe the problem and I'm not blaming the mother here.
I bought a couple of value cream cakes for me and hubby just to try them...I really wish I hadn't 🤢
@@juliewills8034 Many single mothers do work 🤔
I saw a late 60s - early 70s gentleman undertake work as a delivery driver for the company I am employed in...He said it's too much, he can't deal with this - was still doing 85% of the normal workload during his training, barely finished within 10 hours. People this age should be retired and looked after, they should have contributed well enough to society to be able to let society take care of them. I'm Eastern European, I've seen it all, but this was a sad sight..
Well said mate.
Thank you. I'm 65 this year. Got made redundant after the Covid/Lockdown situation. The only job l could get was a delivery driver for a supermarket. Did for a year, hard work as an oldie and sometimes working til midnight. Luckily, I got my old job back now. I get my state pension next year, not enough to retire on, so I'll still be working and paying tax. After 66 l shouldn't pay income tax. I would have worked for 50 years. I feel for the our youth who will never retire and there's no affordable housing.
Maybe he should of planned for retirement instead of relying on big daddy government to take care of him.
@@anonomous8719”should of”; great grasp of English.
@@GA001 like how you didn’t refute the claim - glad you agree with the statement.
Absolutely disgraceful, vile, corrupt, callous, cruel, corrupt,
Carry on…..
More, more, more
You said corrupt twice and it still wasn't enough
Yes not enough words to describe them really.
Cruelty is the point of conservative parties whether in the U.K. or the U.S.A.
Yep, no difference
Where did you think we imported our worst tendencies towards race and economics from?
tonly blair enters the room...
Cant help thinking they are being controlled from organisations that stay in the background as both Trump and the Tories seem to be on the same page whatever that might be.
You forgot taking all the money for themselves
13 years of the toff Tories and here we go again it's the "Get on your bike" catch phrase.
My thoughts exactly.
The Tories have driven this country to such an abysmal level of deprivation, where even basic services don't work, yet they have the audacity to suggest people deliver takeaways.
If there's a cost of living crisis why are people ordering takeaways
That is poor money management
Not the fault of the govt
@@mikecook1537😂 as if McDonald's is expensive 🤣 and how dare people treat themselves to a takeaway!!!! Toff Tory land 13 years and counting later 🤢🤮 it beggars belief.
@@mikecook1537It's almost like a cost of living crisis doesn't affect every single person in the country equally - but don't let that stop you parroting your Daily Mail propaganda. 🤡
@@mikecook1537 I presume this is sarcasm Mike?
@@mikecook1537 why do you want takeaways _employees out of a job?
Food banks and side hustles are basically Tory policy at this point. Where's all the money going? Because it aint on hospitals, police, road maintenance or bin men. Are they just filling sacks with our money?
Look into the drilling licence deal just announced for the North Sea. Who owns what shates/is married to who/socialises with regularly etc. Same with creating a Childcare Staff Agency - not needed for businesses who can recruit themselves, except for the strings attached to government funding.
Yes. Yes they are.
Oh how could I forget the rail companies...
When you lose £80bn/year of business because of Brexit, you need to patch up the losses for the taxman.
The latter my old son.
On the flipside, there are people who spend thousands on hair per month or maybe an ice cube for their drink for 70 $. It is about time to reallocate the funds a little: tax the filthy rich
Also tax wealth.
I have lots of ice cubes for sale but where are these customers?
@@ray-wm7yd i wish i could find customers for icecubes as well
@@peterdollins3610 laudable but it has to be done very carefully - last time Labour did it English Heritage & the National Trust suddenly ended up with an awful lot of mansions they still can't maintain & the people working those estates on the dole. Most of the landowners were barely making ends meet when the taxes came in so they sold up & shipped out. There were a lot of suicides.
@@alanhat5252that is unfortunate, maybe we could use the land to build houses for the homeless, and the manors can be the local council house.
I genuinely believe that we should limit what can be passed down to the next generation and keep cycling resources to new people.
were in the system we were born into, so let's build a better one for our kids to live in and that they can improve on.
Deliveroo drivers get paid less than minimum wage, how would a 50 year old with children and perhaps a mortgage, survive on less than minimum wage
I use Instacart (which is an American company that does your shopping and delivers your groceries). I tip high, because I understand that it's a miserable job and rents are high. A lot of the delivery people fit the job in between retail jobs, or restaurant work, or college studies. You can't earn enough to live on. It's a work supplement, not a full job.
I live in a small West Country town and I have never seen Deliveroo here but I will not use Dominos on principle because the miserable wages for their drivers 'up to £12 an hour'. The drivers have to provide, fuel, tax and insure their own car on this. If you value the car mileage at the niggardly HMRC recommendation of 45p an hour, which has not been revised for 15 years, half their wages are swallowed up keeping their car on the road.
what's that word you used before HMRC?
@@DACatface Niggardly means petty and mean. Do you know how much it costs to run your car?
@@DACatfaceUse the OED.
As someone approaching retirement, I find the suggestion that I should find work to make ends meet to be very insulting. Theyve moved the retirement age further away as we get closer to it and then suggest we have to carry on working to be able to keep things together after a whole life time of work!! I feel utterly betrayed, Ive never been unemployed and saved in my pension all the way through. When do I get to enjoy retirement? Am I to expect to live in poverty if I do retire? This country no longer works for workers!
This country no longer works at all.
Well John I don't believe you. I think this is a made up youtube account .
....it's not compulsory pal...
We should do as the French do!
This isn't going to be a popular statement but the problem is, the entire time your generation have been working you've not been paying enough NI to support the state pension. For years successive governments have known that the NI rates weren't sufficient to fund retirement, but no one dared to put it up by enough to fund it because people kept voting for short termism and governments that promised low taxes. People in their 50's and 60's have had the the advantage throughout their working life of not paying enough into the system to support it, but now that they are getting close to retirement they want the system to support them, basically passing the bill onto younger generations. You can't have it both ways. You either support a low tax, low support system or you support a high tax high support system. What you can't do is support a low tax, low support system while you are working and then expect it to switch once you retire.
In my life I have cried with sadness, and cried with joy, but the Tories have produced a novel experience: crying with anger.
Send videos please 🍿
@@rww805 Send decency please!
@@stephjsinclair If you think the Tories ar not pushing people beyond anger than I have a bridge to sell you, are you really against the Tories or is this just something the Russian trolls say to try to con us all to vote Tory?
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Over 50s looking for work should realise that it's the Tories that put them there, and should make sure they remember that when they're at the voting booth.
...yep...the lockdown was a total disaster for the country and people should remember that at the ballot box...!
The media will make sure that doesn't happen . They'll have another "Anti woke" campaign or focus on immigrants more.
Can’t wait for labour to be elected then people will realise these issues are not tied to the tories but instead to inherent economic and fiscal issues that have existed for decades and starting to affect more and more people. Then people will say labour is just tories in disguise. And so the merry go round goes around and around
@yilmazh3127 It's never the Tories fault is it?
@@yilmazh3127 Right now, under Starmer, Labour is definitely 'Tory (maybe not even) Lite'. So sad. I used to be a party member; not any more. I left before I was yet another of those Jews who were supposedly 'safe in the Labour party'.
The idea that a certain class of people deserve less not connected to their actual actions or choices but merely due to which class they are is abominable
The wealthy soothe their guilt by making it the person's fault. They know they never worked hard enough to earn what they have, so bluster and blow about people being lazy or ignorant.
...which class are you in btw...?
No clue
The UK have had two chances to put the upperclass "under control", but they missed both of them! Especially after the first WW, when it had become so obvious, who society depends on - and how fåking useless the upperclass actually is 🙄
The British caste system. As long as there is a monarchy nothing will change.
And what do the young people apply for then if the older 50s are going for their jobs It's all a joke
Indeed, the rich act and the rest of us are just supposed to adapt. If they suppress wages, move jobs overseas, automate, and never compensate for the economic losses they create, we can just figure it out or die or whatever. Pseudo social darwinism. I say pseudo cuz their wealth and power is stolen and fake and they hide behind it while claiming to be the fittest.
Another tool to beat older people with ofc...
@@skyblue-7 older people caused this mess.
I worked in MH services sometime back. After everyone clamoured for Gordon Brown to call an election so they can vote for the Tories A patient who suffered from Schizophrenia sat me down and said to “Don’t vote the Tories. They are evil. I am crazy today because of the Tories. They drove me mad. I lost everything under Thatchers government . Just don’t do it.”
@@kanedNunable Please explain.
Those jobs that advertise themselves as being flexible usually have terrible pay. I did one once and I'll never do it again.
Flexible generally means they want you on a zero hours contract and they want YOU to be the flexible one not them!
@@random6809 In my job I could do the work whenever I wanted but for the amount of time and effort it took I got paid like 1/4 of a regular job so it was just a rip off. If you had your own vehicle you could do it quicker and maybe it would be slightly better but I didn't I was young so it was just not worth it. They just constantly tried to hire new people to replace the ones that quit.
Next they’ll say ‘why not get a cleaning job?’ My answer is all ready and waiting : aged 61 I did cleaning jobs while waiting an extra 7 years for my state pension. The experience was belittling and degrading, physically gruelling and in the end unbearable. I managed 2 years, but never, ever again will I subject myself to such ill treatment by negligent, cruelly uncaring contract employers.
@@random6809 Yet something else the EU were cracking down on with better workers and employment rights.
Imagine being knighted for lying to the Queen.
Tories at their best..
...yep...we need another Knight who is in touch with the working classes to run the country.....😊
And nobody puts them down. I guess queenie liked being lied to.
I reject the concept of monarchy and, by association, titles. Pity Labour have one of them as current leader! But I will continue to vote Labour because until 6:17 we get proportional representation , representation we have no acceptable alternative
And you think the queen is ‘honorary’?
@finfog4590 I'm no royalist but the tories are the party of the royalist/ loyalist voters.
As angry as I am by these things, I can't help but remind myself that the Tories won in 2019 by a record-breaking majority, and Johnson was cheered into Number 10 by many of the people who are now suffering under this current bunch of shysters. My mum used to tell me that I had to learn that actions would lead to consequences, so voting Tory was the action, and these are the consequences.
Learn from it.
I know remember all the labourites that didnt vote for Bliar? Bet no conservatives voted for this lot.😂😂😂😂
@vickywilliams8320 yep, funnily enough, I can't find anyone who actually voted for the Tories. When people are crying on the news and lambasting the government, I do wish the reporter would ask them how they voted in 2019. Nobody ever asks that question, and it infuriates me.
There is no point trying to embarrass them if they voted Tory in 2019.
People voted Tory in order to get Brexit not because they wanted Tories.
@@billgreen576 which still means they wanted Tory.
At the next election, there'll be a few out of work tory mp's who could try that. I'd love Jacob Reece Mogg working for Deliveroo. "Your Quail Tandoori sir".
Roast fox and stuffed badger would be on the menu for the residents of West Harptree.
Unfortunately Reese Mogg and his mates will never have to work and never have worked.
...chauffeured from job to job by his nanny
Riding around on his penny-farthing. Lol
they have millions and several properties to back them up
The Lady calling living on the savings until the pension kicks in after selling off the home. That is the real inheritance tax.
Not the one the Tories want you to get cross about
Anyone of my generation (around 40 now) will never be able to retire. I'm fairly sure thats what the tories want
@@stevec6427 as long as they can retire they don't care
According To Thatcher's plan that's what she is supposed to do was Sell her Big House and Downsize and use her Eqity as a Pension Thats Why Pensions just don't exist and the State Pension is Based on living in the 70s Tory working time Work till you drop Death and Taxes
@@readingfcdecNot only do they get to retire they do it with a gold plated pension to boot.
@@markanderson3509 paid for by people who can't afford to retire!
I thought that the fact that my parents skipped meals to feed their kids was a thing of the 70's. It was a real thing then which it took a decade before I knew but now for my daughter it is a reality again. Shame.
That will fix the economy, delivering take away food to each other, ffs
😂👍
its a huge sector
Net Zero Pizza! Brilliant idea!
Circular economy!
Unfortunately both Left and Right have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions
Being in this age range most of my contemporaries that have stopped working have done because they've run out of patience with poor quality workplaces. Solving the same problems for 50 years does take its toll, workplace culture is dire...thats why they leave as soon as they can afford to.
Thank you for pointing out the issue of poor quality working conditions. Many people, especially these politicians and others with influence, seem to be either oblivious to the horribly shabby workplaces and lack of support in them or they already know but just choose to ignore the problems.
@@veronicamoody3981 they don't care about working condition I always get the impression that if they could get away with it they would say "know you place plebs."
Nothing in my experience is nastier and pettier than the Great British Office. I managed to escape into self-employment 25 years ago. I'm still happily working at 69. Why retire when you're having fun?
Or you don't want to leave or rely on the income, are qualified, feel you should speak up about it, your isolated and harassed on some other premis.
Experienced personal taking early retirement from the clown world - brainwashed youth at universities don't want work - what could go wrong !!
On the other side of the argument why not get the politician to answer could we get someone to do your job for a 10th of the cost it costs to get you to do it
Tory & Gainful Employment is an oxymoron.
Also likely do it with a more humble and less corrupt approach while performing better in the role.
The Torys are asset stripping the country, they're costing a lot more than just their salaries. Labour do it a lot less & it looks like the Greens won't do it at all. I'll be voting Green.
Most people are more sensible than them. Run the country they cannot.
Every politician should be made to work for minimum wage,no perks,no allowance,no 2nd home.
There's no end to comments like this... Have you tried working more? Have you tried eating less? Have you tried not being poor?
...have you tried being poor...?
Mel Stride is my MP. He does not deserve a fair hearing at all. I keep hoping he'll get ousted and yet he clings onto his seat because of the inherent conservatism (traditional, not what we're seeing now in politics) of his constituency.
I live in a town like that. They'd vote for anyone ... as long as they were Tory.
People voted for him pop your ego away
@@timcomley5948Explain how they brought ego into it, Tim.
@@timcomley5948Did they deliberately vote for an ignorant, arrogant C-word?
Conservatism is conservative.
This apologist attitude suspicious
The problem I have with hospitality work is simple.
The people who do those jobs are massively underpaid for what they have to deal with.
Especially if you're unfortunate enough to be handling the evening shift at a pub on a weekend.
Those people deserve hazard pay.
Hospitality is unrecognised by employment unions so bars, restaurants and hotels are full of bullying managers who treat staff like dirt and they are not held accountable for their behaviour.
I wouldn't work pubs when I was doing security. It's not for me to protect people who take unnecessary risks
Ex police officer here.
I have had well over a dozen jobs since leaving the police about 3 years ago and confirm that in terms of pay, conditions, prospects, training and of one’s self esteem they have all been awful and that includes doing delivery riding.
Nothing wrong with me or my work ethic. I will happily do the so called jobs that the so called local people won’t like cleaning toilets or delivering food.
But make no mistake there is plenty wrong with the balance of our economy.
Shoot that down in flames I dare yous!!!!
Decades of open borders Globalisation has hollowed so much of the West
Does your full police pension of £37,532 and golden handshake at 55yo not enough? The UK police pension is more than many people earn.
@@colincampbell4261
Your not fit to be my judge but I’d advise you not to make presumptions about someone’s personal circumstances before taking them to task.
Even if you insinuation was a correct one it would have absolutely no bearing at all period on what’s being discussed here which is essentially poorly paid, insecure casual work.
I look forward to your detailed reply on your experiences working in the gig economy but I won’t be holding my breath.
Sorry you never said what you’ve done for work did you?
If £37,000 is more than most people earn in the world's sixth richest economy, then I suggest we stop voting for the Robber Barons and their political puppets.
How did you find working for the "Force"?
Some Deliveroo drivers don't even make £3 an hour.
No way! Why do they stay with dilveroo?
Because it’s much easier to feed your self on 3 pounds than 0
@@smash284 you can't get alot of food for that kind of money, plus there's bills & expenses.
This is tory Britain. 😭
Only when they don't work a full hour
@@rww805my mate did a total of 10 hours an only delivered 3 jobs over 2 days, only just earned 10 quid so basically 1 quid an hour, most places in our town have their own delivery drivers an too many people waiting around on bikes doing nowt, it's not like cities
Over-50s should work for Deliveroo would be a waste of talent! Experience has value!
Call it work inflation - when the amount of work you have to do to maintain the same standard of living increases. Tories fail the recognise this in their bubble. Their money comes from assets and investment, not work.
It's working 20 hours a day, to sleep 4 hours!
@@tonjamarshall4842,as opposed to the tory work 4 relax 20. 4 months holiday in one of their holiday homes.
@@snafufubar And in the case of some of them, just not show up for work for 3 years. Yet still draw a full salary and claim expenses.
The savvy evil ones know all too well that's how it works. That's why they always need a scapegoat to distract people
If enough people realised how much of their effort is going towards supporting idle shareholders and landlords, their gravy train is doomed
"The people who expect you to work until you're 70, are the same people who wont give you a job over age 50"
My Mum told me that my Dad’s Mum used to eat her meals “in the kitchen” so that her husband and children were not aware that she wasn’t feeding herself because they couldn’t afford it. Mum cottoned on when she used to go round as a teenager. That was the 50s, the fact that it is still happening 70yrs later is sickening and makes me very angry. Things should get better, not worse.
It took me years to realise that mum didn't have anything more than a sandwich when my brother and I were staying at my dad's. She didn't want us to know things were that tight.
Things will never get better for the working class under the Tories. Whenever they get into power it's back to square one.
@@TheBigMidweek1889 they don’t get much better for the Middle class either!
@@TheBigMidweek1889Tories have no interest in the working class unless the working class is making them money whilst paying a pittance 😡
...you have evidence this is happening now...but didn't happen under Labour..or is it all made up...?
What about the tory who thought people should try for a better job or extra hours, as if people weren't already trying to just that. Such arrogance and stupidity
Makes me sick, the barstools 😡
They don't realise more hours are often not available.
@@janetmalcolm6191 that was my point, but they do so few hours themselves that they assume there are more
I’m sick of these tories suggesting we work harder bout time this govmnt got their house in order and help the people of this country
Don't you just despise the evil Tories?
"Evil tories" is a bit redundant, isn't it?
@@0uttaS1TE Not really no
@@taefravis Little Rishi only just secured his family's Infosys business a £1.5 billion deal with BP with his oil and gas licence announcement. All done with integrity, professionalism and accountability??? Perhaps you'd like to use your judgement to comment on that instead?
@@stevestokes-li8xr Larry the cat would be a better alternative.
Grow up
It seems the Tories are operating on Zero Hours Contracts at the HoC, but getting paid full annual salaries.
Over 50 and suddenly found myself out of work and struggling to pay bills and find employment. I’m a professional and on all of the delivery companies waiting lists !
Really you a professional,?
Are you sure?
I not know many accountants or lawyers delivering pizzza.
Do you mean you worked in an office and felt superior
As an over 55, I stop at red lights, don't cycle on pavements, and don't ignore one-way signs. I am therefore disqualified from riding for Deliveroo.
Dyspraxia. If I tried to drive, even cycle with my lack of coordinative skill, I would be a danger to shipping in the channel, let alone fellow road users! Senior Tories are arses.
You could leave out the smart.
@@edricaldones9639 Indeed. Editing follows. 👍
Same with dyspraxia also combined with ADHD if I where on the road I would singlehandedly double the average number of accident rates on the road on the planet, just learning to drive.
@@ecos889 There you go. if we know that our brains aren't wired in a particular way, we know! A friend of mine, also a non-driver, managed about 50 yards, stopped the car and said, "No! This is not for me!" and got out. Another just managed a bicycle, never drove. - He could be a bit wobbly on that and came off a few times!
So our middle aged man, let's call him Mr.Smith, gets himself a Deliveroo job. He borrows his son's bike and off to work he goes.
Mr. Smith arrives at work, let's call him by his first name, Winston arrives at work for his first shift.
They explain to him that he is paid by the delivery so he needs to pedal as fast as he can.
After four hours Winston is dripping in sweat, desperately trying to feed his family so he soldiers on, pedalling like mad trying to earn enough to pay the bills and feed the kids.
After seven hour he is exhausted, he feels like an elephant is sitting on his chest, he sits on the kerb and a kind stranger asks if he is OK. Winston collapses with a heart attack and the stranger calls an ambulance. After two hours waiting for the ambulance Winston Smith is no more.
His last thought was who is going to feed his children? Maybe that nice kind government will help.
Spot on
You don't really even have a boss working for Deliveroo. You show up, and if you're lucky, Rider Support will have on hand someone who listens. Communication borders on non-existent.
No worries we the tax payer will feed his kids, just like the millions who are on the dole 😒
Or Royalty, MP's, etc!
I'm in my 40s with three forms of the arthritis, and a powered wheelchair user. I couldn't do any of the work mentioned in this video. Moreover, I know many employers in the UK would be less likely to employ me than a fit person. When I was a senior chef, we were told by the senior management to bin the applications of people with chronic illnesses. In fact, when I was let go due to sickness, they offered work that they knew I couldn't do.
It's not about you, what was being suggested was not meant to apply to you. Not everything is about you.
@@davekelley4076er, it's very much about people like him, as you get older the more likely you are to become arthritic.
@@stookful I have Osteoarthritis. It is NOT about him or about me.
@davekelley4076 I was outlining how the current government put policies in place that they don't understand. Moreover, getting older people back to work is part of the government's doomed idea of returning people like me to work with chronic illnesses. So, yes, this is not solely about me or you, but it does affect me.
Honestly, do you think a person who does strenuous physical labour for 30-plus years will likely be able to ride a bike for hours at a time delivering food during their golden years? But more importantly, haven't they earned the choice of when to retire, or is that only for the politicians and the like?
How is that the government's fault. Its the employers
I love the insights into working problems.
Take last night gb news had a spectator capital J journalist taking about hiw bone ideal people are and how we need to get people into work.
Then she talked about how lazy people in work are and how they should understand higherwages mean inflation.
Utter claptrap from a person who probably hasnt worked a day in her life. Her first job was probably working at her dads friends office. Never did a 45 hr week on min wage then had a nanager insist they stay 15-20 mins after their shift for arbitrary meetings or finish cleaning because they need to be on the till until close.
Why would anyone watch GBNews...they're pure propaganda.
Its now possible for me to be outraged by every utterance that comes out of the mouth of any Tory MP or Tory voter. Strange days!
I’m so embarrassed to admit Jake Berry’s my MP.
You shouldn't be embarrassed - Berry should be for being...well...his horrific self.
George Eustice was the one
The current chief financial officer for the education funding agency believes that his mother is an alien. He also claims to have an alien cat wife and children.
I realise this sounds ludicrous but it’s the truth. His name is Simon Parkes if you want to look it up.
The whole government is a shameful mess you’re not alone don’t worry.
It's also embarrassing that his first name is actually James and not Jake or Jacob. Brings shame to our namesakes.
Dominic Raab is mine. I know how you feel
If it's so easy for older people to get jobs, why then did Parliament recently approve plans for extended lifetime benefits for MP's who lose their seat ?
Don't forget the bicycle too.
@@pollytickle8346 Is that the Tory nickname for Nadine Dorries ?
@@EamonCoyle No, this a m. It was reported that tory wants over 50 s should deliver takeaways on bikes.😂
@@stephjsinclair Aw please it was an easy one I had to.....I hadn't read the story, maybe that was what Boris was doing when he drove around London on his bike cos we know he loves his loot !!
@@stephjsinclair I think it's more offensive to bikes than being misogyny. Bikes clearly have working cogs, no such thing in our old Nadine's head.
I can't wait to see a Tory MP bringing my Deliveroo round on his bike when they lose their seats in the next 12 months or so!
😂👍
No way would they get a tip.
@@stevebinning977 Probably would not last long enough doing it to get the chance 😂
You've got no chance but nice thought 🤔🤣
As if there would be any jobs under a Labour government, they put 3 million British people out of work 97 to 2010.😅
Whoever is not rich and votes Toff Tory, you reap what you vote for....enjoy 😂🤣
I have never voted tory & never would.
@@pollytickle8346 Same here.
I am proud to be working class.
@@dudushe The Toff Tories party too the rich and big business and also 'Party of the workers' 😂🤣
@@Silver-st2zq True, but problem is we're all drinking sewage with the clowns who put them there.
If this guy Stride thinks I'm coming out of early retirement to deliver pizzas on my mobility scooter he can dream on.
From my experience, the 'flexible working arrangements' very rarely provide any flexibility for the person actually doing the work. Like zero hours contracts, they just provide no control over how and when you work, while paying as little as possible, if even that!
Who was the Last Conservative to tell the unemployed to get on their Bike? and what year was that ? about 30 years ago!
Back to the future with the tories! 😂
It was Norman tebbit
Norman Tebbit appealed to the memory of his father to exhort the unemployed to go and find work-as reported in The Press and Journal (Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) of Friday 16th October 1981:
“I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.”
Norman Tebbit was immediately associated with the imperative phrase get on your bike.
So 42 years ago.
Norman Tebbit....
I live in the centre of a town. McDonalds et al are a 5 min walk, yet I regularly see deliveries at 11am. Encouraging more idleness seems about par for this bunch of thieves and charlatans.
If skilled over 50's are taking jobs normally done by (relatively) unskilled younger people, what will the younger people do to A, gain skills, and B, support themselves?
Standard advice for poor people in UK and US alike: work harder.
Shame they didn't work harder 😡
Can you explain to me James why (in most recent examples) when you have senior members of government on the program, or the prime minister that only Nick Ferrari seems to be able to interview them?
The questions are not nearly as tough as they need to be which frustrates viewers who want to see these policies challenged.
Part of the reason is because they fear James and his intellect. Evil Suella Braverman backed out of going on his show before.
@@benji.B-side😂
When was the last time a senior Tory was interviewed by Channel 4? Quite a while ago now. They do not like tough interviews were they are held to account. Look at little Rishi, simple question and he got all petulant.
@benji.B-side Nope it is because Ferrari is one of them and aligned with their vile ideology and policies.
Richie's advice yesterday, to people who can't afford to pay their mortgage this month, to increase the length of it (up to 37 years) "that'll make it cheeper". Is another prime example of how much of a clue they have
They want to stretch your mortgage so thin, you're effectively renting it off the bank rather than owning it 🙁
They like to lecture other people on budgeting skills but appear to the lack the skills, them themselves. Accept if it is for, there own nest linings. We are all the undeserving poor are we?
James O'Brien I just love what you say and how you say it,, you make me laugh when I feel so angry over the state of this country and the situation its citizens find themselves in. Yes our present government would love to see us all standing in line touching out forelocks to our so called betters and they take us for fools, the snobbery and arrogance is great and they dwell in the land of the lotus eaters.
...every thing the overprivileged James says you should take with a pinch of salt...he's playing you....
They announce these things that THEY have just discovered and they assume that we won't know about them either! 🤦♀️ Total arrogance.
Spoken like someone who knows they are not standing for re-election. (if they are I will be amazed)
I wish my 59 year old body could get on a Bike again
Arthritis and Fibromyalgia had other Plans
Fibromyalgia …. That old chestnut 😂
@@justsayin397 You wouldn’t be laughing if you had it
You are cruel
@@justsayin397 if you really are a woman then you have a very high chance of developing it yourself when you are my age. Then let’s see if you think having Fibromyalgia is so amusing then.
@@Traceva no I certainly wouldn’t be laughing if I had it … not like a lot of people who pretend to have it so they can sign on the sick and get benefits for life. It’s the new “bad back” didn’t you know!
@@TracevaIt's a hideous condition to have sadly. A friend of mine took their life due to this unforgiving illness only a few months ago. Devastating.
Job snobbery is not a UK preserve. I live in Germany and it's rife here, though it tends to be qualification-based. I've also seen it in action all over Europe, and other countries from America to Zimbabwe.
Another Banger James
My bank has a radio ad on your own LBC that says "Trying to cut down on expenses, check for subscriptions you're not using and cancel them." Job done - thanks. You fixed the cost of living crisis, mate.
No words to describe this lot . They are living in cyber space . What is happening to our country 😢😢😢😢
Jobs in the service sector are seen as stepping stone, to a " proper job" or a way to top up low income. Not valued and respected.
As a 50 something librarian ( hundreds of libraries were closed down by Cameron Coalition) looking for work right now. Its a real conundrum. I don't have much savings, I'm faced with a grossly inflated rent, non affordable housing, and a small local authority pension to look forward to. Happy days.
My cooking and shopping skills are sound , I'm thankfully healthy & active thankyou very much. Fear for my life even crossing these roads, never mind scooting around on a bike or moped.
My takeaway, ahem. From this is the Tories are clueless about the realities on the ground and people who supported them are equally exploited and patronized.
Over 50s are indeed delivering meals as well as driving cabs so the subsistence floor has been achieved by 13 years of Tory rule.When are voters going to make the connection between record company profits and low wages subsidised by universal credit.
Universal credit ? you might get an extra tenner if youre lucky.
Do you think if wages were raised they would keep on as many staff or just automate me out.
These daft suggestions aren't aimed at the struggling families. They're aimed at Daily Fail readers, to give them an excuse for being callous.
I think that every comment, on social media or in the HOC itself is made directly for the Daily Hate to take down and print for the next issue.
It seems more like a strategy to avoid the subject when asked. A casual plausible sounding response to a serious issue that might pass for an answer at first glance, especially when they're not going to be picked up on it.
Thing is, they're echoing Daily Mail opinions ... whose readers would vote Tory anyway. It's not exactly vote-winning."
...and what's your excuse Sheila...?
Not entirely sure where you're getting it from that there isn't the same job snobbery in America. The amount of times servers are told to "get real jobs" over there is astounding.
@@stephjsinclair Absolutely. In some ways they're even worse than us!
And when the servers go get real jobs, and there's no one to serve food in the restaurants, we learn that "no one wants to work."
@@nancypine9952 Apparently the usual policy for cashiers in supermarkets and retail is that they have to stand up for their entire shift!! 😱
@@TheRogueDM Well, yes, but what does that have to do with what I said?
"AOC was a bartender once!"
If I'm doing a normal 35hr a week job, how it can't pay your bills is a national disgrace, and the failure of modern society. Now I understand there are low skilled or entry level jobs, but now every job seems to be in a race for minimum wage - where an para-medic earns the same as a shelf stacker at Aldi??!
It is infuriatingly. Let's get out.
35 hours? That's what the French do. British workers are expected to do at least 48 hours a week. And yet, the French workers are more productive. I wonder why? Probably in better physical condition that the overworked and underpaid Brits.
All new Royal Mail Employees are on new contracts earning just above minimum wage and a 3 hour longer working week, just a race to the bottom
Calling jobs low skilled is part of the snobbery problem. A jobs a job.
@@AndyTomlinsI feel a surgeon should be considered a highly skilled job, so the flipside is there are also low skill jobs
They should still get a livable wage though!
In Australia we’ve been asked/told to sell our houses so young people can have them.
How will they enforce this?
They're suggesting that here in Ireland too, so I've a house on a quarter of an acre, it's would sell for about 400000euro but if I was to try buy another house smaller then what I have I'd have to remortgage as there's nothing below that in my area, but yet I've asked could I build a 2 bed bungalow on the site for under 200000euro and been told no way
@@johnnorth1961That’s when ppl just want to bang their head against a wall, because the upside of that is it’s great when you stop. Bureaucracy is soooo hard to understand. Now where is that wall?
In Canada, they get offered suicide as an option.
Cos young people, who can't afford a house are going to buy them and not landlords looking to expand their portfolio.. 🤔
I suspect that Mr. Stride was sending a coded to message to a lot of Tory MPs who are over 50 and who will be looking for new gainful employment after the next election
😂😂😂
As Norman Tebbit said. On your bike 🤣🤣
There will be some movers in need of someone to move a piano or two.
Very upscale yob I am sure.
They won't find anything in a Labour economy 😅
The reason over 50,s are struggling us because they have been taxed into poverty
The reason the over 50's are struggling is that they haven't paid enough tax. The UK tax rate is consistently below the average for OECD countries and this has resulted in the support systems that people rely on in times of need, or as they get older, being inadequate or non-existent. You can't underpay on taxes for 40 years and expect the system to be there for you when you need it. I know everyone feels like they pay too much tax but the facts are that UK residents, on average, pay less tax than residents of similar countries.
Imagine being able to pay a mortgage and a couple of kids with only one income earner. NO YOUNG PERSON TODAY HAS ANY IDEA OF WHAT THE FARK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
Ah but its not Strides fault that we don't have rich daddies.
...bet you wish you did have one....😊
@@chatham43 Nah, my Dad was skint but it skint legend!
I think that a reasonable question from interviewers of politicians these days would be: "Are you serious?"
I got a lumbago DRIVING for deliveroo at 23.... But sure, go off...
ok uncle
During the 2008 Great Recession my newly retired husband, a West Point graduate and 30 yr Colonel found a job in the produce department of our local grocery store. At first he was humiliated then found he LOVED working with patrons. He took pride in his work. I also took a job as a hotel maid in Waikiki (I’m an MD who was laid off.) We did fine. Used public transportation, stopped buying junk, ate fewer meals. Are in better shape and happier than we have ever been.
Maybe if Britain got totally changed in WW2, like the rest of Europe, the class system may have been broken up. Just a thought 🤔
...barely...room for improvement...
I'm 58 and epileptic - Deliveroo?
hahahHAHAHahahAHHAahhhahahahhhahhaHAAHahahhHHAHAhahahahhahhhahahhahahahHAHAHHHaaahh
.....then it won't be compulsory for you...😊
Not forgetting Johnson's brilliant idea to get a new kettle to save £10 a year.
Get on your bike ! How can these people not do consultancy work for £600 an hour as a second job.
My local supermaket, Asda, recently rebranded their "value" range, except they also re-priced them at more than double their original price, but, somehow it's the fault of the suppliers.
Ageism is the issue in our jobs market, and as one of your callers said most of the jobs available require physical strength. they are not interested in your life experience or career skills. they want grunts who do the job without questioning and are willing to do them on low pay.
Perhaps they should only consider doing this only after those who suggested this have a go for a month themselves..
I’m over 50 and love this. Keep your brain and body healthy
speaking as someone who worked until 65 I really don't see a problem with asking over 50s to find and take available work.
Britain is probably the only country in the world that would find the above statement morally wrong.
If you are in your sixties and have retired early and living off of your savings. What the F..k is it do with this government. Some people choose to work until they are 70 some people choose to retire early. Its part of living in a democracy!
Well said, you are so right, it hasn't got f all to do with them.
I absolutely hate these barstools and not one of them has ever done a back breaking days work in their lives 😡
It's what Tories do. They love to pretend we're "all in it together" for the tough times and hard work, but are " 'rugged' individualists" when they justify hogging all the rewards...
I'm an American. I feel for my transatlantic cousins going through more or less the same dire situation as many of us here are doing (I'm retired, but struggling on the social security (= UK state pension) payment. Even though I get 2X the average social security recipient --due to the way higher incomes qualify here- I'm tapping into my meager savings fast due to inflation. This global 'capitalism' is reaching its natural end, and I'm glad I wont be around to see its inevitable Mad Max world consequences. And for all the conservatives (read Republicans in the US), remember, FDR (a member of elite society) was the President who recognized this fact during the depression... his 'New Deal' saved capitalism, even though he was vilified by his own class/party at the time. Subsequent US administrations (including the Democrats) have been dismantleing the it for the last 80 years. This is an age of serf-dom, but this time at least we have the internet and social media to control us instead of the Lord's thugs. smh
If I was an Amazon worker and I had a parcel for Mr J Berry I would make sure I left it in his blue wheelie bin the day the lorry came along .
The gig economy is not fit for purpose, that is why companies are falling over backwards to try and enact new contracts that make sure people are working off their own back.
Just continually trolling maybe get rid of the golden parachute for MPs and hear them squeal...
Love James so much ❤️
People loosing homes/jobs during 2008 era bank crash actually thought council housing would somehow become available. Sadly what is expected won't always be available.
All the talk about working depends as per the lady on how physically able you are , I myself have a number of old injuries and couldn’t work even if I wanted to (which I don’t ).
I don’t believe that guy is 70.
Nice to know I can pay my mortgage and feed the family being a delivery driver. Thanks for the heads up.
....who said that...?
I just came back from France having lived there for two years. Their supermarkets are more expensive, truth be known. It’s not Brexit.
Genius!! It was only the Tories themselves, so detached from 'normality', that they made these sudden discoveries. Everybody else is totally aware of what money saving, job options are available to them. Only someone who has never had to worry about these things would stop and have a little think and come up with these 'revelations'. The lesson here is that rich, privileged people should not be in politics because they have no idea what real world problems face real people on a daily basis.