Having moved from the UK to Germany, I can tell you exactly why the British worker is less productive. Its because you're burnt out. Working your way into a grave with nothing to show for it because of cost of living. Certainly not because of laziness. In Germany is illegal to make a worker work more than an average of 8 hours a day. Anything over most be compensated for in holiday or pay. You must have an 11 hour gap between shifts. I have 30 days of holiday in a German state that already has 13 bank Holidays. I have 43 days in total. Sick pay is statutory 80% of pay. Countries with strong workers rights are actually more productive
I went to Berlin in 2018 and its probably my favourite place I've ever been. Because its so efficient! Everywhere is clean, the public transport is constant, the shops and pubs are full and lively. You can literally see the productivity everywhere you go. But people were happy. It's not like in a UK Metropolis where everyone looks like they clocked in at birth and will die before they clock out. You walk around any city, town or even small village in the UK, and you can see a half done job. Because no one has the time or money to get things done efficiently. Well, some people have money but it's not being spent on what it needs to be spent on. Cardiff, where I live, feels like it's been in a perpetual state of change for over a decade. Every time you think there is progress something else crops up and you end up feeling like you're living in an incomplete city.
It's 80 per cent after 5 weeks of illness and 12 hours in between. I miss that being German but I have to say in terms of speed and efficiency German workers are more productive in the way they work, in general, but having said that if I go to Aldi in Germany or the Uk it is the same... I think the Uk is less bureaucratic in many ways. I miss living on my own, in Germany, I could afford a flat, here I have to live in a house-share. And in Germany, we have better spas and much more affordable!
Another desperate statement from a remainder, cant get over losing a democratic vote.Perhaps if the Remoaners hadn't listened to their Brussels puppeteers and told the truth the leave vote would have been more!
@@veggie42 you should read her book "Britannia Unchained" from 2012, penned with some other familiar faces in the Tory front benches. Seemed to have the same view then.
I took early retirement 2 years ago after working for 44 years. Most of my working life was as a medical electronics engineer, installing, maintaining and repairing medical diagnostic instruments. I was contracted and paid for a 37 hour week, but the reality was that I rarely worked less than 50-60 hours per week. The companies I worked for did not pay overtime or give TOIL. I was not alone in this, most of my colleagues also worked similar hours. Liz Truss wouldn't know a hard day's work if it slapped her round the head! Rummaging through her dressing up box isn't exactly hard work, is it?
I’m a former hospitality worker. Zero hours contract. Made dozens of pizzas in a hot kitchen all day, plus delivered those pizzas to customers. All the expenses used on fuel, long hours, minimum wage and little free time for myself. This woman has no idea what the average worker across all sectors goes through. Yet she’s the front runner (of two people who are incompetent already). What a disgrace to our country her and the whole Tory inner circle is!
Yeap!!! How many hour days were you doing and how hard was it to get a day off? My brother has no life other than work in hospitality, same conditions in hospitals.
@@phillydavison It's refreshing to see a positive comment on the subject, thankfully we have an escape route, sadly it seems you don't,. I'm pleased to see you don't fall into the trap of Scots against English pushed by those with a vested interest in retaining the union.......of course...you could always move. : )
It's always the laziest middle-managers that love to moan the hardest about others' work ethic. In fact they spend all day moaning about how hard they're working and how others aren't 'getting results' instead of actually doing anything themselves. Truss has that exact energy about her.
The middle managers, especially on the night shift (when the public are not around), feel freer to vent upon their underlings, the pressures put upon them by their own higher tier of managers.
The irony of someone who doesn’t even read her own briefs, which other people compile for her so that she can do her job properly, saying we need more graft is not lost on me.
I didnt know this until now. I have had a great inside tip for future... if we are asked to vote for either of these two, you CAN put on your voting card *I have no faith in either two candidates* And it HAS to be counted, if there is enough of them. They dont want you to know this. If you dont vote, its saying you dont care. Seriously people if you agree these Tory are a disaster for our country. Say it in your voting card! *what do you have left to loose? They have taken our right to protect. This is our chance to kick them in the face* SPREAD THE WORD
The conservative party has always wished to regress back to era before ww1. Where every class knew it's place, and the establishment were unquestioned. If you're not part of their circle you deserve to be poor, desperate and unfulfilled. That what I've always known about the Tories.
I remember when Tatcher went on about getting back to Victorian values. People cheered that. Pity they didn't think to check up exactly what Victorian values were.
I remember the Britannia Unchained Book..Said we should work with China etc. That was when she was a junior in govt under Cameron and Clegg. Raab wrote it with her yet he changed his view to Rishi's. That's the Deputy ...so he's not supporting the PM either
I've worked across the globe and one of the things that stood out in the UK (actually, to be fair, it was common to the English speaking world) in contrast to the rest of the world was not the attitude of the workers, it was the attitude of the bosses. In fact, in most developed countries that I have worked in, workers' attitudes are probably significantly more about refusing to work beyond contracted hours, where in Anglo-countries, workers will just keep working until the job has been finished. Try obliging German workers to work for free, see how far that gets you. But UK workers? Yes boss, sure boss, no problem, boss. Unless, of course, you've got a union which will defend you, and then you instantly become the enemy.
I live in Sweden and know fellow Swedes who have worked in the UK. They are NOT impressed by the rights of the British worker (or shall we say the lack thereof). You Brits deserve better.
@@bisratezra8247 I would like to shake your hand for recognising this, it is one of the greatest lies perpetrated against the British people pushed by both elements of our media and parts of central government.
@@bisratezra8247 and they're only going to get worse now we're no longer a member of the EU. But we're taking back control AND we've got blue passports
Absolutely true. I do believe this is changing though. I'm a manager myself, and can confirm this was the thinking of those above me until they retired recently. It's not the view I have, nor is it that of those in the most senior positions in my firm now. Hopefully this reflects a wider change.
Isn't it ironic that it is the Tories calling people lazy when their policies (in fact their entire core beliefs) revolve around them doing as little as possible. The party of small government, the party that says that corporations will do all the work of government for them... that is the party that has the temerity to call other people lazy?! Let's just say for a moment that Liz Truss is correct and that British workers are lazy and inefficient. It isn't the only thing holding back this countries productivity. Because if British workers suddenly found a work ethic more like Chinese workers, you know what would happen to British productivity? Nothing. We don't have spare factory space. But even if we did, we don't have the capacity to transport it either to British retail locations or to ports and docks for export. And those ports and docks don't have spare capacity to handle the extra goods, nor do we have the boats and planes to carry the extra goods. So it's all well and wonderful pointing to the working class and blaming them, but when successive governments (majority of whom have been Tory) have failed to invest into our infrastructure and have left us with ancient rail systems and crumbling, narrow and congested roads, I fail to see how it is us that is the problem. It should be pointed out that China hasn't become the economic powerhouse that it is today by merely treating it's workers as slaves because it is pointless making stuff if it has nowhere to go. They are building thousands of miles of NEW motorways each year (as well as repairing existing ones) and they are also building new airports and docks. They are making it as quick and easy as they can to move goods around and out of their country. Meanwhile we have erected trade barriers with our closest and largest trading partner.... But the politicians cannot accept any responsibility
And those Chinese slaves have very little quality of life, but they do all mostly have homes they can afford. Might not be what we want, but it's what they are used to and want. We are so worried by everything, rent, mortgage rates, lack of interest on savings, huge bills, high cost of food etc. we have little left to give without cracking.
I was idly reading my Punch for 1972-Heath government- and it is full of 'militant strikers' and 'British Leyland'-style workers with references to 'slippers found under desk for the night shift'. Punch, though much loved, was a very middle-class magazine.
She talks about china, the country with one of most undemocratic, authoritarian governments on the planet who treat their citizens with absolute open disdain. Shocking
Do you know what is worse? The 160,000 Conservative party members who end up deciding this vote will find this endearing and probably give her more support.
There's something wrong with our political system if nutters like that can decide the fate of our country and there's naff all any of us can do about it.
Yes and clearly Truss talks their walk. Latter must say to people Tories know what they are doing and that must follow they don't care. And that is extremely worrying, gravely worrying indeed. It also tells you that things are going to get a lot worse unless the people stand up for their rights.
One example: A Hungarian guy I know came over to the UK for several years, worked hard, really hard, did loads of overtime.........why?........so he could save enough money to go home and buy a house outright in Hungary for £40,000. This is one reason why they work hard. If I could work that hard and purchase a house outright in the UK within a few years - I would!
I didnt know this until now. I have had a great inside tip for future... if we are asked to vote for either of these two, you CAN put on your voting card *I have no faith in either two candidates* And it HAS to be counted, if there is enough of them. They dont want you to know this. If you dont vote, its saying you dont care. Seriously people if you agree these Tory are a disaster for our country. Say it in your voting card! *what do you have left to loose? They have taken our right to protect. This is our chance to kick them in the face* SPREAD THE WORD
She should be lecturing her fellow Tory MPs about working harder, not us. They're the ones who partied through the pandemic and are currently MIA on holiday while the country they're supposed to be running lurches through multiple crises!
i wrote to my Mp recently and asked for more information on the right to buy my housing association home, it took the Tory Nut Peter Bone 3 months to send me the dot gov website address, something I could have and did look up myself it was 10 years out of date. Tory Mps are useless unless they want a zebra crossing installed in their own street they they will fight tooth and nail to get the funding but help the general population with something simple and they just dont have the time or the answers .if you make goverment policy surely you must be able to explain how it works without fobbing people off?
Fool. If the 5th largest economy on the planet is a "failed state", what does that make virtually every other nation on Earth? THINK before you type....
I’m a self employed joiner and willing to wager she wouldn’t last more than an hour or two doing the kind of work our profession demands! As usual she hasn’t got the first clue what she’s talking about!
@@FuriousBOIAngel am a self employed joiner and I voted remain as I value freedom and movement of people,and know how important trade with Europe is, I believe there is problems in every organisation but leaving it doesn't solve anything, and which way did you vote , as if it matters now.
@@FuriousBOIAngel I reluctantly have to admit I voted to leave though I’d add that at no point was that choice based on anything Boris or Farage had to say on the subject! I was an ardent remainer right up until I finished reading The Weak Suffer What They Must by Yiannis Varoufakis which I confess coloured my thinking enough to make the wrong choice when I did cast my vote!
What's astonishing is that she got to where she is despite her obvious flaws. But then given the events in the US in 2016 nothing today surprises me in politics
She hasnt done a hard days labour in her life. All nice and well sitting in an office pointing fingers. I would love to see her do manual labour for 12hrs a day and still struggle to feed your kids.
The contempt is palpable. They want us on factory shop floors losing limbs with zero rights while the workers that expire are dragged away and promptly replaced without a single word. Is that what you meant by Chinese work ethic, Liz?
The problem with that is they are letting the power companies get fatter and not getting the factories back to Britain. I read that more businesses are thinking of going abroad.
Absolutely already a failed state. Doesn't mean it's catastrophic. It does mean that we need someone who has a grasp of all the problems the UK faces at the moment. Whih unfortunately is neither Boris nor either of our two candidates for now.
Can we just say well done to whoever put their neck on the line and leaked that clip. Showing everyone who she really is (if there’s anyone who actually liked her before)
In my experience if you work hard at any job in this country you get taken advantage of. You get left doing the worst tasks because they know you will just get on with it. In the end you think ‘ Why do I bother?I’m being taken for a mug’!
@@lionelhinge573 me too, they were so pleased to be rid of me (did not show enough respect for what they deemed by betters). Was asked to return within 2 weeks of leaving and name my own terms. I said no thanks.
Hearing this just feels like change is further and further away, I'm now 32... held a job in mechanics for the past 14 years, a skilled trade which you would assume pays well. I've never been able to afford a house deposit, living pay check to pay check my entire working life and even with 2 household salaries feel like we're not in the financial position to have children because we work so much! Why should we break our backs pushing productivity through the roof to feed the money hungry government when we are being bled dry? What this government is failing to realise is that without us they would have nothing. Maybe it's time to give a little something back to the people... we all know how the French revolution ended.
Not so sure about" we all know" bit. Some folk went through roughly 11 years of education and can't string a coherent sentence together. More to the point, how did the French Revolution start? ( not having a pop at you)
I'm in the same position, but largely due to rent in London being crucifying and seeing people younger than me with 2 or more kids, a house that a council pays for on a new development, making me think working hard to make and pay your own way is not worth it and life's worth more than working paycheck to paycheck. Am now actively considering moving up north where you can get beautiful properties for 1/5th of the price of South East and even changing career completely just to have some quality of life and my own house.
@D C let's put it this way, between rent, council tax and energy Bill's theres 1 of our salaries gone already! What's you're outgoings like??? Bear in mind that the cost of food and fuel have done nothing but go up
Unless we start a revolution. Look at the people in other countries around the world, when they're being played, they come out on the streets and protest. Why aren't we doing that?
I'm so offended. Like to see her work on minimum wage and counting the cost of everything every week. So disrespectful and vile. Just like the rest of the government. All on a different planet 🤬
Am 65 years old worked in hospitality for 50 years changing barrels lifting crates on my knees filling shelves standing at a bar for 8 hrs no tea breaks in bars pulling pints smiling and working 40hr week including weekend still doing it until I’m 66 if liz reads this I’ll invite her to come and do a shift 🤔🤔
I'm reasonably happy to assume that there are enough people aware of the signs and dangers of a totalitarian Government that many boots would happily stamp the faces of the instigating party until both brain and bone were mingled on the road.
@@nathanfurnival8724 Nathan, [ahem] "What we have right now is socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor." - Martin Luther King Jr. If you've not read 1984 already, I suggest that you do.
In 1997, in France, a large part of the workers (those who worked in big firms at first) were introduced to the 35 working hours / week instead of 39h/week. In order to adapt, we had to cancel some rights regarding extra hours payment. I was one of them. As we didn't want to work for free, we all reorganized, and managed to achieve the same quantity of work with 4h/week less to do so. Mechanically our work rate raised, reaching one of the tops in UE. And our rate of growth quickly followed overtaking Germany's one, wihch was the reference What did a large part us do with this new free time? We renewed our homes, took care more of our children and/or eleders and those who hadn't neither of them involved themselves in public associations (helping students with their homework, spreading culture in numerous matters, educating ourselves more wether for our working knowledge or just as hobbys). and it impacted our rat of growth as well. Having half my family from the other part of the Chanel and visiting them every year, I never noticed them to be lazier than we were in France, rather a bit of the contrary to be honest. So this lady's statement sounds quite absurd to me as much as her Economics' abilty seems to be bizarre to put it politely. Don't let yourselves being brainwashed guys by this kind of 'human' being. And despite having had my heart ripped off one of its half by brexit (sorry I can't put a cap to that word) I'll always stand by your side.
I had a snooze working for Tesco's as a teenager after 3 weeks of 12 hour night shifts and it got me the sack, Jacob Rees Mogg should be unemployed. Lizz Truss has just prooved what she thinks of working people in this country, the v ery people who work hard to pay her wages so that she can have a priviliodged life, if thats her attitude who needds a back stabbing leader like that?
Once worked in a large public gardens, broken tools and sometimes literally no tools to do the actual job and then management complaining because we weren’t completing jobs, ME: “I can’t mow the lawns if all of the lawnmowers are broke, we need lawnmowers to do that job” Boss: “well you’ll just have to work more hours to get it done” ME: “I could work 24 hours a day 365 days a year but I can’t mow lawns without a lawnmower”
This sounds painfully like my days in the civil service - worn out, outdated junk computers, run down of trained, experienced staff, impossible targets and obsessions with paper statistics, changes of emphasis (usually at the expense of the public, as paper stats mattered so much more) The story of the children of Israel, making bricks without straw, was all too apt a parallel.
@@veggie42 if the goverment does not freeze the energy price cap rise then 90% of working people disposable income will go to energy bills. I dont agree with civil unrest but thats where we will end up.
Yes, and claim expenses and subsidised food and drink on top of their salaries. Nice work if you can get it! If you are looming for lazy cretins, look no further than WM!
@@MrManBuzz James is even worse than Liz. James said that he works harder talking in his studio than manual workers do doing physical work all day. I am not even making this up!
George Carlin had it right years ago "They want workers just intelligent enough to do the job and paperwork but not so intelligent that they realise they getting shafted". Welcome to brexit Britain its gonna be a looong journey
This woman and all the others for that matter are rotten to the core James,On all sides,they don`t have our interests at heart they are out to make sure they continue to get a wopping pay packet!
What is 'hard work'? 1. Standing on your feet dor 8 hours a day. 2. Smiling at jerks who treat you like garbage. 3. Working in the elements. 4. Physically moving 1000lbs of anything in a 8 hour period, by hand. 5. Cleaning up sick. 6. Taking care of children/elderly Now imagine you have to do all the above in a single 8 hour shift. (Feel free to keep the list going) Peace! \o/
1000 lbs in 8 hrs is not that hard , moved a skip load (8 tons or there about 16.000 lbs) of stones concrete bits , bricks etc in a day , with breaks every hour or so.
@@DavidCodyPeppers. by hand picked from the back garden , with a worx wheelbarrow ( the one with two wheels) to the front garden where the skip was located.
@@buk3695 I dont want to discount the ease at which you did that manual labor, but I am getting the sinking impression: 1. It was your garden wall you were working on. 2. You were not getting paid and had no oversight - otherwise a break every hour is a bit excessive, did you go inside for a nice lunch? 3. When you arent a day labourer what is your real profession? Again I am not disputing you thought that was easy because everything is relative. I am interested to see your responses. Peace! \o/
I do think the fact she clearly doesn't believe Brexit will deliver a higher standard of living for workers is the bigger story. She is all but calling them fools for voting that way.
Importing cheap labour to drive down wages and make housing more scarse to drive up prices and make renting them out much easier. You don't need a phd to understand that, but its basically selling the nation But thats not as bad as subliminally grooming and encouraging your own women to "lay" with a certain ethnicity and knock out mixed race kids. "These creatures that call themselves men" (General Yamashita. . . Singapore 1943)
1:10 - "It's astonishing, actually, because she dismantles the whole motivation behind Brexit." You know that's not true, James. The referendum result was driven by six years (now twelve) of evil, ideological austerity, wholesale corporate embezzlement of public funds, decimation of public services, compounded economic stagnation precipitated by essential utilities subscriptions being methodically filtered away to offshore bank accounts, and bent local councils. None of that has changed but seeing as the Purgatories were so myopically, jealously opposed to Jeremy Corbyn taking the reins of Brexit and delivering something for the working man, they've landed themselves flush in the spotlight with their fist stuck in the coconut and having seceded from their own pantomime pinata effigy scapegoat. So what is Pfeffel Plonker's new touchstone mitigation? "Winter of Discontent." Since we're raking up historical achievements, Boris, you absolute dullard, stick this one up yer erse and smoke it: 'rebuilt the country from the rubble of WWII'. In case any cognisantly challenged Pfeffelites chance upon this comment and find someone to read it to them: that's the Labour Party (in fact the working man with the Labour Party - not Blair's New-Non-Labour Party - at the helm) ... The Labour Party - rebuilt the country from the rubble of WWII. Heads up, kids - with this clueless feckwit Dizzy Lizzy at the helm, another necessitated rebuild is a dead cert.
Everyone knew she thinks this already, the problem isn't that she said it, the problem is that half British workers _agree with her_ and that is the whole reason they vote Conservative .They resent all workers around them because they're the only ones who worker hard, everyone else is lazy and needs to be driven harder. They resent anyone who gets benefits and want an end to that, until the day they themselves need it, then it's completely deserved. Brits LOOOOOVE this stuff.
Oh there are always those who don't pull their weight. The hard workers need to realise that the Truss/Rees Moggs/ Johnsons don't either, and they'll be better off with further left leaning government. A tax cut might buy a moderate extra treat each week. The people they're interested in get their dream of an Audi for every day of the week.
There is definitely a mindset (that has been carefully cultivated by the right over decades) that any policy that helps people is bad, even if it helps you too and, more worryingly, any policy that hurts other people is fine, even if it hurts you too.
There's truth in that. When the gripe about 'immigrants' eased off, it was replaced by a new one - 'the scroungers on benefit.' If they only understood the hoops that people have to jump through in order to receive financial support these days and the ease with which it can be taken away, they would be more sympathetic. Pointing the finger at the vulnerable achieves nothing.
NO MP, Tory or So called Socialist Party , ref Sir Keir Hardly , has ever had a job working class job ... I wont waste my shoe leather going to the polls ... They are all liars and chanchers ..
Apparently workers in the UK are putting the longest hours in the EU, according to new TUC analysis published today (Wednesday). Full-time employees in Britain worked an average of 42 hours a week in 2018, nearly two hours more than the EU average - equivalent to an extra two and a half weeks a year
This is all a façade to cover the disproportionate distribution of wealth. It is the right keeping the plebs in their place. Until we tax big companies effectively, close loop holes and stop people dodging the system we will always be in this position.
No. If those companies stopped paying their staff and lowered income tax at the top to meet with middle to 42% and below 100k 15% that would leave more money to spend and create more capital and need to cut the govt. End expenses. Make them pay for their own rail/bus fares they might then be more careful. That would save money to pay the debts off
Boris is extremely lazy. Getting rid of him will increase productivity..Also solve the problem why restaurants serve such huge portions of food customers don't eat then why serve them salad why not have a system to add what you want in your meal. That would cut waste. I ask for no cucumber and Tom's.
I mean she pretty accurately described where I work. Every day I am amazed by people's mentality of doing the absolute bare minimum to get by. "I don't get paid any more so why should I?" is said about 100 times a day, meanwhile I'm doing twice the amount of work as anyone else because I feel like I'm getting paid and if I'm gonna do something I want to do it properly and efficiently. The only other people who work as hard as I do are Eastern European. We're about 50/50 British/immigrants and I am legit the only British guy that does any work. Obviously disgusting for a potential Prime Minister to tar an entire nation with the same brush though.
Since this cant is now in the open, the institutional dishonesty of the party now in office since 2010 should be self-evident. Otherwise there's none so blind as those that will not see, none so deaf as those who hear but do not listen, and none so witless as those who have the capacity to reason but choose to believe despite all that their senses clamour to tell them.
What is a cant? You should learn to spell mate. It is "can't" not "cant". I cannot believe that people like you are allowed to comment. The word is can't not cant. You should just go back to school mate. What a cant.
Cobra meeting invitation - declined on leave- Afghan evacuation emergency invitation- declined on a dinghy in Greece - by gosh truss is totally correct
I remember this same argument in the 60's when I was a kid! I saw a documentary of workers around the world and their productivity levels, it was embarrassing to see; the German worker used an air-gun to fix nuts on a car wheel, a Japanese worker used an air-gun with 4 bits to put a wheel on in one go, they then showed a British worker using a 'spider'. (a old wrench type) It was OBVIOUS why the levels were different even me at such a young age. For someone in 2022 to repeat the dumb logic and want's to be PM is worthy of locking up in a mental establishment!!
Interesting you mention German workers. Look up “works council” online and particularly the German Betriebsrat and you’ll see how there is less conflict in German businesses
Yes it is the lack of innovation that stagnates the productivity not the workers. If Britis engineers are just as bad educated as most of the(Eton Tories) MP'S then it is no wonder that there is a lack of innovation and inventions.
If we had a better transport infrastructure in Britain we wouldn’t waste so much time queuing in traffic jams. How much time is lost nationally in this way.
She actually thinks our low productivity is down to workers and not due to lack of investment, she compares us to China instead of Germany, that's the direction we're heading.
The red wall that turned blue will return red again at the next GE as the levelling up agenda hasn't occurred, the flotilla of dingy's entering Britain daily hasn't been tackled, the border down the middle of the Irish sea is damaging business and Bozo's oven ready Brexit is still in the freezer behind all the party food 🤣🤣🤣
@@ploppysonofploppy6066 Just a week ago I'd have disagreed on the incompetent opposition leader but I will confess the few days have shown some real fight in Starmer.
The one thing wrong with the British workforce is the management and government, anybody who has ever worked for a large organisation knows that first hand.
Should be a requirement before one is allowed to make decisions for a whole country. Instead, it seems many attend expensive schools that drill entitlement into them.
Throughout the decades between WW2 and the late 1980s, the USA had hands down the highest workforce productivity in the world, by a large margin. Also during this time, the country's industries one by one became less and less competitive to the point that a lot of the sectors were surpassed by Japan and Europe whilst the productivity of the workforce was still well ahead. The workers were fine, it's the management that went asleep.
Motivation, skill and willingness to work don't help if you are not given the best tools for your job, if your company is not structured well and if supply chains are hampered by poor infrastructure and fragmented regulations. Europe and Japan invested massively in infrastructure to catch up with the US. Then they kept going (although not everywhere, and certainly not with the same fervour). Another issue is employment regulations, where compressing working hours (i.e. shorter work weeks and shorter work days) can increase productivity, and enough vacation can help prevent burnouts. More flexible hours and more free time means more time to deal with any health issues before they escalate, and better healthcare in general keeps workers fit. Management can help a bit, but I think that for real change, there's a lot needed that is outside their control too.
Because a new generation of shareholders expected ever increasing dividends. The result was less investment in R&D and better machinery. Then they blame China for the consequences. In the UK the EU got the blame,
Not simply to sleep, worse than that. Whatever couldn’t be Buck broken by Regean, the executive class simply took their businesses elsewhere away from those pesky laws and regulations and scrutiny. Handed it to the asian Mainland so their poorest could be driven to suicide and live off nothing wages. They and their loyal politician mutts truly make vampires look like angels.
Thing is, this is going to go down great with the elderly Tory, the “youth are lazy and feckless” type of Tory, you know the ones who are in charge of voting the next Tory leader
Fortunately, not all elderly vote Tory and hate the unemployed, the young or the disabled etc etc. I'm 75 and have voted Tory once, the biggest mistake of my life, never to be repeated.
"We've had enough of identity politics".. "I'm a straight talking woman"... "And I know the difference between a Liberal Democrat and a Conservative" !!!!
I'm a public sector worker so taking into account inflation I am earning less each year. I worked all through covid often working more hours than I was paid for as I thought I would 'do my bit'. I am now being told by quite a few social commentators that I am lazy because I work from home 3 days a week. This government wants to go back to the time of lords and serfs. Time for some drastic changes me thinks
It is unimaginable that this person could be in charge of the government (especially the current disastrous one) and be trusted with the nuclear deterrent as well as everything else in this country !!
The biggest worry for me is that the incompetence and dismissive arrogance displayed by the two leadership contender's is endemic throughout the whole sycophantic tory clan, MP's and members alike. Unfortunately Mr Starmer does not have the nessecary authority and charisma to beat even the likes of the Truss. While I didn't always agree with all of his views and politics come back Dennis Skinner, the country needs a leader with some passion and a social conscience. I suspect the country is already in terminal decline but tory rule will finish us completely.
Hey Liz! Maybe the problem is that wages have been decoupled from productivity, and while productivity keeps increasing, wages do not. So if you want to encourage the work force, reward them with a share of the profits of their labour.
As someone who has worked in China I have to say (as usual) she is spouting off about stuff she doesnt know the first thing about. People working in Chinese offices very rarely arrive on time, usually manage to find time to eat and sleep during their shift, often spend ages in the toilet playing on their phones/smoking/sleeping and are usually out of the door the second that that work day finishes. And then you can factor in 差不多 work culture on top of that. As with everything there are pros and cons of different cultures and blue collar workers there graft very hard. But I certainly wouldnt say white collar workers in China work harder and they rarely work more intelligently so are often pretty inefficient.
What's this strange voice she is using.. oh was this pre thatcher voice coaching. Are we sure she didn't mean we should grift more, been her mantra for years
@@veggie42 if you listen to older speeches and then the current ones the change is so noticeable, also when putting her fake thatcher voice on the pauses are all wrong, says 3 words.. pause, 3 more , pause.. but now and then says a full sentence and the accent goes..can tell she is trying so hard to sound like her so much that she can't keep it up long
That woman is vile. The whole party is rotten.
Rotten to the fkn core
She is vile as can be. Wants us to work harder, for less, and stop complaining (striking). She's asking for riots with this kind of thinking.
Don’t vote for them. They don’t need people like you…
So it seems, so it seems
Thatcher mk 2 ,here we go again,thanks England you are the pits.. No wonder I vote SNP.. Beam be up Scottie..
Having moved from the UK to Germany, I can tell you exactly why the British worker is less productive. Its because you're burnt out. Working your way into a grave with nothing to show for it because of cost of living. Certainly not because of laziness. In Germany is illegal to make a worker work more than an average of 8 hours a day. Anything over most be compensated for in holiday or pay. You must have an 11 hour gap between shifts. I have 30 days of holiday in a German state that already has 13 bank Holidays. I have 43 days in total. Sick pay is statutory 80% of pay.
Countries with strong workers rights are actually more productive
I went to Berlin in 2018 and its probably my favourite place I've ever been. Because its so efficient! Everywhere is clean, the public transport is constant, the shops and pubs are full and lively. You can literally see the productivity everywhere you go. But people were happy. It's not like in a UK Metropolis where everyone looks like they clocked in at birth and will die before they clock out.
You walk around any city, town or even small village in the UK, and you can see a half done job. Because no one has the time or money to get things done efficiently. Well, some people have money but it's not being spent on what it needs to be spent on.
Cardiff, where I live, feels like it's been in a perpetual state of change for over a decade. Every time you think there is progress something else crops up and you end up feeling like you're living in an incomplete city.
It's 80 per cent after 5 weeks of illness and 12 hours in between. I miss that being German but I have to say in terms of speed and efficiency German workers are more productive in the way they work, in general, but having said that if I go to Aldi in Germany or the Uk it is the same... I think the Uk is less bureaucratic in many ways. I miss living on my own, in Germany, I could afford a flat, here I have to live in a house-share. And in Germany, we have better spas and much more affordable!
Brexit will get rid of workers rights . It's all part of the Red tape despised by Brexiteers
@@MrOliver1444 ah yes. I forgot, 100% for the first 6 weeks and 80% after
@@MrOliver1444 I live in Munich though, so I can't say much about housing cost
So being in the EU was never the problem?
Being British was the problem?
Why wasn’t that on a Big Red Bus?
Because that wasn't Truss's view yet this doesn't seem like her
@@veggie42 Hadn't Shapeshifted yet.
To be fair to dippy Liz, she was a remainer at that time
Another desperate statement from a remainder, cant get over losing a democratic vote.Perhaps if the Remoaners hadn't listened to their Brussels puppeteers and told the truth the leave vote would have been more!
@@veggie42 you should read her book "Britannia Unchained" from 2012, penned with some other familiar faces in the Tory front benches. Seemed to have the same view then.
The irony of her complaining about a lack of work ethic and supporting Johnson is staggering.
That's an excellent point
I took early retirement 2 years ago after working for 44 years. Most of my working life was as a medical electronics engineer, installing, maintaining and repairing medical diagnostic instruments. I was contracted and paid for a 37 hour week, but the reality was that I rarely worked less than 50-60 hours per week. The companies I worked for did not pay overtime or give TOIL. I was not alone in this, most of my colleagues also worked similar hours.
Liz Truss wouldn't know a hard day's work if it slapped her round the head! Rummaging through her dressing up box isn't exactly hard work, is it?
I’m a former hospitality worker. Zero hours contract. Made dozens of pizzas in a hot kitchen all day, plus delivered those pizzas to customers. All the expenses used on fuel, long hours, minimum wage and little free time for myself. This woman has no idea what the average worker across all sectors goes through. Yet she’s the front runner (of two people who are incompetent already). What a disgrace to our country her and the whole Tory inner circle is!
Tom Stoneham, the Tories have always been like this. Why any working class man/ women would vote them in, is beyond me.
Yeap!!! How many hour days were you doing and how hard was it to get a day off? My brother has no life other than work in hospitality, same conditions in hospitals.
@@blueband8114 a leopard never changes their spots indeed….
Should have tried harder at school then
@@madmike4622 I have an undergrad and masters degree friend
Every time Liz Truss Speaks Somebody from Scotland joins the SNP.
Hahaha
And we get closer to independence, despite what Westminster says.
I'm English and the Tories make me want to join the SNP
@@phillydavison It's refreshing to see a positive comment on the subject, thankfully we have an escape route, sadly it seems you don't,. I'm pleased to see you don't fall into the trap of Scots against English pushed by those with a vested interest in retaining the union.......of course...you could always move. : )
I truly hope Scotland gains independence - that would be proof of how disgusting this party really is.
It's always the laziest middle-managers that love to moan the hardest about others' work ethic. In fact they spend all day moaning about how hard they're working and how others aren't 'getting results' instead of actually doing anything themselves. Truss has that exact energy about her.
Managers should be cut back companies seem to have too many.
Asda barely saw any actual staff. No wonder the shelves a mess
Spot on, middle managers and upper managers.
Manage until there is nothing left to be managed.
The middle managers, especially on the night shift (when the public are not around), feel freer to vent upon their underlings, the pressures put upon them by their own higher tier of managers.
As an onlooker living in Sweden I am gobsmacked. Never again shall I complain about Swedish politicians. You Brits deserve better.
Thanks I pray for change in the UK because having evil rule over us make life unbearable.
There will be no change in the UK. It is becoming Singapore, and the only positive thing is no nuclear war.
No we dont. People voted for this and they'd do it again. This is EXACTLY what we deserve.
The irony of someone who doesn’t even read her own briefs, which other people compile for her so that she can do her job properly, saying we need more graft is not lost on me.
her briefs are always damp apparently /allegedly she was called pissy pants at school
I didnt know this until now. I have had a great inside tip for future... if we are asked to vote for either of these two, you CAN put on your voting card
*I have no faith in either two candidates*
And it HAS to be counted, if there is enough of them. They dont want you to know this. If you dont vote, its saying you dont care. Seriously people if you agree these Tory are a disaster for our country. Say it in your voting card!
*what do you have left to loose? They have taken our right to protect. This is our chance to kick them in the face*
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Yes Lavrov for example.
It was embarrassing.
The conservative party has always wished to regress back to era before ww1. Where every class knew it's place, and the establishment were unquestioned. If you're not part of their circle you deserve to be poor, desperate and unfulfilled. That what I've always known about the Tories.
I remember when Tatcher went on about getting back to Victorian values. People cheered that. Pity they didn't think to check up exactly what Victorian values were.
They love mass immigration as its cheap labour and future consumers for capitalism.
@@evolassunglasses4673 yet they gaslighted their followers to get rid of immigrants from Europe.
She openly expressed a desire for us to be more like China in regards to worker’s rights
Why isn’t this woman sacked and disgraced right now?
I remember the Britannia Unchained Book..Said we should work with China etc. That was when she was a junior in govt under Cameron and Clegg. Raab wrote it with her yet he changed his view to Rishi's. That's the Deputy ...so he's not supporting the PM either
Because all of her cabinet and parliamentary colleagues feel the same. She effed up by saying the quiet part out loud.
She probably feels we should be treated like they are in China regarding our human rights. What an awful woman.
By who?
She will be our primer minister,no doubt maybe she also wants the uk to become a dictatorship just like China.
I've worked across the globe and one of the things that stood out in the UK (actually, to be fair, it was common to the English speaking world) in contrast to the rest of the world was not the attitude of the workers, it was the attitude of the bosses.
In fact, in most developed countries that I have worked in, workers' attitudes are probably significantly more about refusing to work beyond contracted hours, where in Anglo-countries, workers will just keep working until the job has been finished. Try obliging German workers to work for free, see how far that gets you. But UK workers? Yes boss, sure boss, no problem, boss. Unless, of course, you've got a union which will defend you, and then you instantly become the enemy.
Absolutely, management in this country is shocking
I live in Sweden and know fellow Swedes who have worked in the UK. They are NOT impressed by the rights of the British worker (or shall we say the lack thereof). You Brits deserve better.
@@bisratezra8247 I would like to shake your hand for recognising this, it is one of the greatest lies perpetrated against the British people pushed by both elements of our media and parts of central government.
@@bisratezra8247 and they're only going to get worse now we're no longer a member of the EU. But we're taking back control AND we've got blue passports
Absolutely true. I do believe this is changing though. I'm a manager myself, and can confirm this was the thinking of those above me until they retired recently. It's not the view I have, nor is it that of those in the most senior positions in my firm now. Hopefully this reflects a wider change.
Isn't it ironic that it is the Tories calling people lazy when their policies (in fact their entire core beliefs) revolve around them doing as little as possible. The party of small government, the party that says that corporations will do all the work of government for them... that is the party that has the temerity to call other people lazy?!
Let's just say for a moment that Liz Truss is correct and that British workers are lazy and inefficient. It isn't the only thing holding back this countries productivity. Because if British workers suddenly found a work ethic more like Chinese workers, you know what would happen to British productivity? Nothing. We don't have spare factory space. But even if we did, we don't have the capacity to transport it either to British retail locations or to ports and docks for export. And those ports and docks don't have spare capacity to handle the extra goods, nor do we have the boats and planes to carry the extra goods.
So it's all well and wonderful pointing to the working class and blaming them, but when successive governments (majority of whom have been Tory) have failed to invest into our infrastructure and have left us with ancient rail systems and crumbling, narrow and congested roads, I fail to see how it is us that is the problem. It should be pointed out that China hasn't become the economic powerhouse that it is today by merely treating it's workers as slaves because it is pointless making stuff if it has nowhere to go. They are building thousands of miles of NEW motorways each year (as well as repairing existing ones) and they are also building new airports and docks. They are making it as quick and easy as they can to move goods around and out of their country. Meanwhile we have erected trade barriers with our closest and largest trading partner....
But the politicians cannot accept any responsibility
And those Chinese slaves have very little quality of life, but they do all mostly have homes they can afford. Might not be what we want, but it's what they are used to and want. We are so worried by everything, rent, mortgage rates, lack of interest on savings, huge bills, high cost of food etc. we have little left to give without cracking.
The thought of her being in charge terrifies me.
She's the lesser of two evils unfortunately
The Thatcherite is strong in this one. The time for a General election is well overdue, it seems the whole govt has had a cerebral prolapse.
She needs to work a month as an NHS staff member, or a teacher, or a barrister etc. She hasn’t the right to talk about this country’s work ethic!
I was idly reading my Punch for 1972-Heath government- and it is full of 'militant strikers' and 'British Leyland'-style workers with references to 'slippers found under desk for the night shift'. Punch, though much loved, was a very middle-class magazine.
Think you would find the work schedule of the Foreign Secretary quite a demanding one.
She talks about china, the country with one of most undemocratic, authoritarian governments on the planet who treat their citizens with absolute open disdain. Shocking
@@llewev It's not. It's delegation.
@@llewev you have the itinerary?
Do you know what is worse? The 160,000 Conservative party members who end up deciding this vote will find this endearing and probably give her more support.
Even though a lot of them are probably retired
Yep - it’s music to their ears
There's something wrong with our political system if nutters like that can decide the fate of our country and there's naff all any of us can do about it.
Yes and clearly Truss talks their walk. Latter must say to people Tories know what they are doing and that must follow they don't care. And that is extremely worrying, gravely worrying indeed. It also tells you that things are going to get a lot worse unless the people stand up for their rights.
Socrates was right about democracy, apparently.
I would say she’s lost it but, let’s be honest, there really isn’t that much there for her to lose in the first place.
these are deep seated long term views of hers. She and others wrote the same view in a book 10 years ago.
Aye there is, buddy. A riot of utter mentalness.
@@229andymon No but there are plenty of people who do not want to work
She hasn’t lost it , she is in it for money and power. She simply does not care
voice of the rich she hasnt a clue!
One example: A Hungarian guy I know came over to the UK for several years, worked hard, really hard, did loads of overtime.........why?........so he could save enough money to go home and buy a house outright in Hungary for £40,000. This is one reason why they work hard. If I could work that hard and purchase a house outright in the UK within a few years - I would!
I’ll give her 6 months before she forces herself into a general election due to her total unsuitability and incompetence!
She won't call an election. She wants her 15 minutes of fame to last 24 months.
I didnt know this until now. I have had a great inside tip for future... if we are asked to vote for either of these two, you CAN put on your voting card
*I have no faith in either two candidates*
And it HAS to be counted, if there is enough of them. They dont want you to know this. If you dont vote, its saying you dont care. Seriously people if you agree these Tory are a disaster for our country. Say it in your voting card!
*what do you have left to loose? They have taken our right to protect. This is our chance to kick them in the face*
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She should be lecturing her fellow Tory MPs about working harder, not us. They're the ones who partied through the pandemic and are currently MIA on holiday while the country they're supposed to be running lurches through multiple crises!
Yeah it's Afghanistan anniversary time so they'll all be on their sunbeds while the Media tell us workers how we let the Afghans down.
Exactly. The hypocrisy is so extreme it's led to criminal behaviour.
Never forget many of these MPs have two Jobs and are happy to take a backhander from whoever has the money.
i wrote to my Mp recently and asked for more information on the right to buy my housing association home, it took the Tory Nut Peter Bone 3 months to send me the dot gov website address, something I could have and did look up myself it was 10 years out of date. Tory Mps are useless unless they want a zebra crossing installed in their own street they they will fight tooth and nail to get the funding but help the general population with something simple and they just dont have the time or the answers .if you make goverment policy surely you must be able to explain how it works without fobbing people off?
James, we are a failed state. Not only do we sound like one. Unfortunately we are now firmly in that situation.
Fool. If the 5th largest economy on the planet is a "failed state", what does that make virtually every other nation on Earth? THINK before you type....
I’m a self employed joiner and willing to wager she wouldn’t last more than an hour or two doing the kind of work our profession demands! As usual she hasn’t got the first clue what she’s talking about!
Which way did you vote in the referendum marcus? Sincere question
@@FuriousBOIAngel am a self employed joiner and I voted remain as I value freedom and movement of people,and know how important trade with Europe is, I believe there is problems in every organisation but leaving it doesn't solve anything, and which way did you vote , as if it matters now.
My partner is a self employed joiner and I agree with your comment.
@@FuriousBOIAngel I reluctantly have to admit I voted to leave though I’d add that at no point was that choice based on anything Boris or Farage had to say on the subject! I was an ardent remainer right up until I finished reading The Weak Suffer What They Must by Yiannis Varoufakis which I confess coloured my thinking enough to make the wrong choice when I did cast my vote!
How many hours would you last as Foreign Secretary?
What's astonishing is that she got to where she is despite her obvious flaws. But then given the events in the US in 2016 nothing today surprises me in politics
Liz Truss, like most Tories, has never put in a hard day's work in her entire life, unless you count scrambling for photo opportunities.
She hasnt done a hard days labour in her life. All nice and well sitting in an office pointing fingers. I would love to see her do manual labour for 12hrs a day and still struggle to feed your kids.
James thinks his job is harder
Doing 12 hours of manual labor does not mean you are productive.
She worked for Shell once the irony of this. Yes even the Royals don't work much
@@FerreusNRG It depends
@@nathanfurnival8724 no ones interested in your views
The contempt is palpable. They want us on factory shop floors losing limbs with zero rights while the workers that expire are dragged away and promptly replaced without a single word.
Is that what you meant by Chinese work ethic, Liz?
Shove brush up you’re jacksy
well put.
The problem with that is they are letting the power companies get fatter and not getting the factories back to Britain. I read that more businesses are thinking of going abroad.
It doesn't feel like a failed state, we are. I am retired but worked hard for a medical charity. This woman doesn't know what a day's work is.
The kind of woman who wishes to use human furniture made of "lazy" folk
One of those lazy workers includes her mother , she is nurse ... or most likely retired nurse at this point .
Agree
Absolutely already a failed state.
Doesn't mean it's catastrophic. It does mean that we need someone who has a grasp of all the problems the UK faces at the moment. Whih unfortunately is neither Boris nor either of our two candidates for now.
We are a failed state our hair’s falling out and our kids are asking us to change the will
"The big problem in the UK is that Brittish workers won't work themselves to death for F*ck all" basically
Can we just say well done to whoever put their neck on the line and leaked that clip. Showing everyone who she really is (if there’s anyone who actually liked her before)
True. I wouldn't be surprised if the leaker has an 'accident.'
Will it make any difference?.
I wonder what her labour supporting parents think?
In my experience if you work hard at any job in this country you get taken advantage of. You get left doing the worst tasks because they know you will just get on with it. In the end you think ‘ Why do I bother?I’m being taken for a mug’!
Yep. Been there, done that.
@@lionelhinge573 me too, they were so pleased to be rid of me (did not show enough respect for what they deemed by betters). Was asked to return within 2 weeks of leaving and name my own terms. I said no thanks.
Hearing this just feels like change is further and further away, I'm now 32... held a job in mechanics for the past 14 years, a skilled trade which you would assume pays well. I've never been able to afford a house deposit, living pay check to pay check my entire working life and even with 2 household salaries feel like we're not in the financial position to have children because we work so much!
Why should we break our backs pushing productivity through the roof to feed the money hungry government when we are being bled dry?
What this government is failing to realise is that without us they would have nothing. Maybe it's time to give a little something back to the people... we all know how the French revolution ended.
Not so sure about" we all know" bit. Some folk went through roughly 11 years of education and can't string a coherent sentence together. More to the point, how did the French Revolution start? ( not having a pop at you)
I'm in the same position, but largely due to rent in London being crucifying and seeing people younger than me with 2 or more kids, a house that a council pays for on a new development, making me think working hard to make and pay your own way is not worth it and life's worth more than working paycheck to paycheck.
Am now actively considering moving up north where you can get beautiful properties for 1/5th of the price of South East and even changing career completely just to have some quality of life and my own house.
@D C let's put it this way, between rent, council tax and energy Bill's theres 1 of our salaries gone already! What's you're outgoings like??? Bear in mind that the cost of food and fuel have done nothing but go up
Have you read up on the recent history of the French, they do not like having their rights oppressed, the UK could learn alot from them.
Is there no way a general election can be triggered, this is an absolute mess of a government.
Sadly not, unless i think 🤔 the tories can't decide on who to lead them
...no it can't...so you are stuck...free to leave the country of course......
Unless we start a revolution. Look at the people in other countries around the world, when they're being played, they come out on the streets and protest. Why aren't we doing that?
And she says WE need simple answers and then gives HERSELF ONE !!
Her " intelligence bypass operation " was a great success !
I'm so offended. Like to see her work on minimum wage and counting the cost of everything every week. So disrespectful and vile. Just like the rest of the government. All on a different planet 🤬
Am 65 years old worked in hospitality for 50 years changing barrels lifting crates on my knees filling shelves standing at a bar for 8 hrs no tea breaks in bars pulling pints smiling and working 40hr week including weekend still doing it until I’m 66 if liz reads this I’ll invite her to come and do a shift 🤔🤔
Numberplates on bicyles. 😂 The country is circling the drain, but this bankrupt government has no ideas.
"A boot stamping on a human face... forever."
😔
I'm reasonably happy to assume that there are enough people aware of the signs and dangers of a totalitarian Government that many boots would happily stamp the faces of the instigating party until both brain and bone were mingled on the road.
Talking about a left wing communist government 👍
@@nathanfurnival8724
Nathan,
[ahem]
"What we have right now is socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
If you've not read 1984 already, I suggest that you do.
In 1997, in France, a large part of the workers (those who worked in big firms at first) were introduced to the 35 working hours / week instead of 39h/week. In order to adapt, we had to cancel some rights regarding extra hours payment. I was one of them.
As we didn't want to work for free, we all reorganized, and managed to achieve the same quantity of work with 4h/week less to do so. Mechanically our work rate raised, reaching one of the tops in UE. And our rate of growth quickly followed overtaking Germany's one, wihch was the reference
What did a large part us do with this new free time? We renewed our homes, took care more of our children and/or eleders and those who hadn't neither of them involved themselves in public associations (helping students with their homework, spreading culture in numerous matters, educating ourselves more wether for our working knowledge or just as hobbys). and it impacted our rat of growth as well.
Having half my family from the other part of the Chanel and visiting them every year, I never noticed them to be lazier than we were in France, rather a bit of the contrary to be honest.
So this lady's statement sounds quite absurd to me as much as her Economics' abilty seems to be bizarre to put it politely.
Don't let yourselves being brainwashed guys by this kind of 'human' being. And despite having had my heart ripped off one of its half by brexit (sorry I can't put a cap to that word) I'll always stand by your side.
Wow wow wow! I still cannot fathom who is in the running. It’s absolutely depressing!
It amazes me how anyone with an ounce of decency votes Tory , I've never been able to get my head around it.
Albert Einstein "Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe,"
Their excuse is always “Oh but labour will be worse.” without of course, any way to support it.
I think most people have learnt a valuable lesson now.
Because Labour always implodes.
@@mrfoxly6833 people remember the Winter of Discontent. TH-cam it
ah, the old tory classic "just work harder, peasants!"
I had a snooze working for Tesco's as a teenager after 3 weeks of 12 hour night shifts and it got me the sack, Jacob Rees Mogg should be unemployed. Lizz Truss has just prooved what she thinks of working people in this country, the v ery people who work hard to pay her wages so that she can have a priviliodged life, if thats her attitude who needds a back stabbing leader like that?
No one ever comments on poor management and the lack of investment in research and development which are the reasons why Britain has fallen behind
How many times does a person or party have to show you their true colours before you truly see what their like.
Remember though on this occasion it's not the public they're trying to schmooze, which pretty much gives them the freedom to be as vile as they want.
Once worked in a large public gardens, broken tools and sometimes literally no tools to do the actual job and then management complaining because we weren’t completing jobs, ME: “I can’t mow the lawns if all of the lawnmowers are broke, we need lawnmowers to do that job” Boss: “well you’ll just have to work more hours to get it done” ME: “I could work 24 hours a day 365 days a year but I can’t mow lawns without a lawnmower”
"Could you do it on your knees if I gave you some large scissors?" said the Scrooge.
you had a pair of scissors didn't you? get to it!
Just get on your hands and knees and cut the grass with your teeth. C'mon, show some graft.
@@AmieEss 😂
This sounds painfully like my days in the civil service - worn out, outdated junk computers, run down of trained, experienced staff, impossible targets and obsessions with paper statistics, changes of emphasis (usually at the expense of the public, as paper stats mattered so much more) The story of the children of Israel, making bricks without straw, was all too apt a parallel.
People in full time work are poorer than anytime in the last 12 years, Would you work harder for less pay
It's modern slavery
@@veggie42 if the goverment does not freeze the energy price cap rise then 90% of working people disposable income will go to energy bills. I dont agree with civil unrest but thats where we will end up.
What's galling is the workers work and people like her sit in cushy air-conditioned offices and judge the productivity of the doers.
How is she still in the lead of this race ???
@UC06t6aoBHuMwNs3EVB5nj5Q Do you see James calling workers lazy? No. So your point is completely irrelevant.
What’s really galling is that the working class will vote the Tories in again at the next General Election.
They get the government they deserve.
Yes, and claim expenses and subsidised food and drink on top of their salaries. Nice work if you can get it! If you are looming for lazy cretins, look no further than WM!
@@MrManBuzz James is even worse than Liz. James said that he works harder talking in his studio than manual workers do doing physical work all day. I am not even making this up!
George Carlin had it right years ago "They want workers just intelligent enough to do the job and paperwork but not so intelligent that they realise they getting shafted". Welcome to brexit Britain its gonna be a looong journey
This woman and all the others for that matter are rotten to the core James,On all sides,they don`t have our interests at heart they are out to make sure they continue to get a wopping pay packet!
What is 'hard work'?
1. Standing on your feet dor 8 hours a day.
2. Smiling at jerks who treat you like garbage.
3. Working in the elements.
4. Physically moving 1000lbs of anything in a 8 hour period, by hand.
5. Cleaning up sick.
6. Taking care of children/elderly
Now imagine you have to do all the above in a single 8 hour shift.
(Feel free to keep the list going)
Peace!
\o/
James says his job is harder
1000 lbs in 8 hrs is not that hard , moved a skip load (8 tons or there about 16.000 lbs) of stones concrete bits , bricks etc in a day , with breaks every hour or so.
@@buk3695
Let me guess with a shovel and a wheel barrel up hill both ways.
Peace!
\o/
@@DavidCodyPeppers. by hand picked from the back garden , with a worx wheelbarrow ( the one with two wheels) to the front garden where the skip was located.
@@buk3695
I dont want to discount the ease at which you did that manual labor, but I am getting the sinking impression:
1. It was your garden wall you were working on.
2. You were not getting paid and had no oversight - otherwise a break every hour is a bit excessive, did you go inside for a nice lunch?
3. When you arent a day labourer what is your real profession?
Again I am not disputing you thought that was easy because everything is relative.
I am interested to see your responses.
Peace!
\o/
I find it rich coming from a politician considering they have a 2.5 month recess every year
I do think the fact she clearly doesn't believe Brexit will deliver a higher standard of living for workers is the bigger story. She is all but calling them fools for voting that way.
not really. She campaigned on the remain side.
Totally agree! I could even grow to like the woman if she spoke truth to morons instead of dog whistling after them!
They were.
@@andyyorath2732 She won't speak the truth though she's now in a position where she has to maintain the lie.
Importing cheap labour to drive down wages and make housing more scarse to drive up prices and make renting them out much easier.
You don't need a phd to understand that, but its basically selling the nation But thats not as bad as subliminally grooming and encouraging your own women to "lay" with a certain ethnicity and knock out mixed race kids.
"These creatures that call themselves men"
(General Yamashita. . . Singapore 1943)
1:10 - "It's astonishing, actually, because she dismantles the whole motivation behind Brexit."
You know that's not true, James. The referendum result was driven by six years (now twelve) of evil, ideological austerity, wholesale corporate embezzlement of public funds, decimation of public services, compounded economic stagnation precipitated by essential utilities subscriptions being methodically filtered away to offshore bank accounts, and bent local councils.
None of that has changed but seeing as the Purgatories were so myopically, jealously opposed to Jeremy Corbyn taking the reins of Brexit and delivering something for the working man, they've landed themselves flush in the spotlight with their fist stuck in the coconut and having seceded from their own pantomime pinata effigy scapegoat.
So what is Pfeffel Plonker's new touchstone mitigation? "Winter of Discontent." Since we're raking up historical achievements, Boris, you absolute dullard, stick this one up yer erse and smoke it: 'rebuilt the country from the rubble of WWII'.
In case any cognisantly challenged Pfeffelites chance upon this comment and find someone to read it to them: that's the Labour Party (in fact the working man with the Labour Party - not Blair's New-Non-Labour Party - at the helm) ... The Labour Party - rebuilt the country from the rubble of WWII.
Heads up, kids - with this clueless feckwit Dizzy Lizzy at the helm, another necessitated rebuild is a dead cert.
She says her book was mischaracterised then goes on to portray her ideas in exactly the same vain
We all need to be working harder on low wages for the elite as they need more money!
The politicians need to work harder FOR US
I'd like to see Liz doing a weeks work at a warehouse, as a postwoman, as a dustbin woman, as a cleaner. She would hate having to work hard.
Everyone knew she thinks this already, the problem isn't that she said it, the problem is that half British workers _agree with her_ and that is the whole reason they vote Conservative .They resent all workers around them because they're the only ones who worker hard, everyone else is lazy and needs to be driven harder. They resent anyone who gets benefits and want an end to that, until the day they themselves need it, then it's completely deserved. Brits LOOOOOVE this stuff.
Are you anti British much 😂 have we hurt your little feelings 😢
Oh there are always those who don't pull their weight. The hard workers need to realise that the Truss/Rees Moggs/ Johnsons don't either, and they'll be better off with further left leaning government.
A tax cut might buy a moderate extra treat each week. The people they're interested in get their dream of an Audi for every day of the week.
@@nathanfurnival8724 The UK is burning down to the ground due to droughts and lack of rain. Nobody gives af about the UK. Nothing to be mad about. 😂
There is definitely a mindset (that has been carefully cultivated by the right over decades) that any policy that helps people is bad, even if it helps you too and, more worryingly, any policy that hurts other people is fine, even if it hurts you too.
There's truth in that. When the gripe about 'immigrants' eased off, it was replaced by a new one - 'the scroungers on benefit.' If they only understood the hoops that people have to jump through in order to receive financial support these days and the ease with which it can be taken away, they would be more sympathetic. Pointing the finger at the vulnerable achieves nothing.
Dear James, the more I listen to you the more I get you. Used to be your fiersest critic but am warming to you more each day.
Please British Public kick ‘em into touch.
This will play well with her target audience
This will play poorly among those who don't know what productivity means.
As they fly to Spain and beyond for their winter sun.
The current PM is really productive while being on holiday in Greece ...
If she's talking about the British workers she knows, which would be the Tory party, she might be onto something...
NO MP, Tory or So called Socialist Party , ref Sir Keir Hardly , has ever had a job working class job ... I wont waste my shoe leather going to the polls ... They are all liars and chanchers ..
Apparently workers in the UK are putting the longest hours in the EU, according to new TUC analysis published today (Wednesday). Full-time employees in Britain worked an average of 42 hours a week in 2018, nearly two hours more than the EU average - equivalent to an extra two and a half weeks a year
And, yes, many people will be appalled, however, many will nod their heads and clap their hands. Welcome to the UK.
This is all a façade to cover the disproportionate distribution of wealth. It is the right keeping the plebs in their place. Until we tax big companies effectively, close loop holes and stop people dodging the system we will always be in this position.
No. If those companies stopped paying their staff and lowered income tax at the top to meet with middle to 42% and below 100k 15% that would leave more money to spend and create more capital and need to cut the govt. End expenses. Make them pay for their own rail/bus fares they might then be more careful. That would save money to pay the debts off
PR would sort that out, no one with this mindset would prosper .
Sounds like a description of Boris.
It DOES have the tone of a frustrated co-worker 🤣🤣🤣
Boris is extremely lazy. Getting rid of him will increase productivity..Also solve the problem why restaurants serve such huge portions of food customers don't eat then why serve them salad why not have a system to add what you want in your meal. That would cut waste. I ask for no cucumber and Tom's.
The irony is that if you are work shy, don't like accountability, and are terrified of being judged on productivity, you should become an MP.
I mean she pretty accurately described where I work. Every day I am amazed by people's mentality of doing the absolute bare minimum to get by. "I don't get paid any more so why should I?" is said about 100 times a day, meanwhile I'm doing twice the amount of work as anyone else because I feel like I'm getting paid and if I'm gonna do something I want to do it properly and efficiently. The only other people who work as hard as I do are Eastern European. We're about 50/50 British/immigrants and I am legit the only British guy that does any work.
Obviously disgusting for a potential Prime Minister to tar an entire nation with the same brush though.
No integrity. Morally and ethically corrupt. No trusst in this one at all. Broken. Not fit for purpose.
Return to sender.
Since this cant is now in the open, the institutional dishonesty of the party now in office since 2010 should be self-evident. Otherwise there's none so blind as those that will not see, none so deaf as those who hear but do not listen, and none so witless as those who have the capacity to reason but choose to believe despite all that their senses clamour to tell them.
What is a cant? You should learn to spell mate. It is "can't" not "cant". I cannot believe that people like you are allowed to comment. The word is can't not cant. You should just go back to school mate. What a cant.
Pernicious cant in fact
Cobra meeting invitation - declined on leave- Afghan evacuation emergency invitation- declined on a dinghy in Greece - by gosh truss is totally correct
That was lazy Raab and America etc pulling out of troops..Afghan Taliban came back and the leader fled leaving his country to rot.
Lazy raab “the Jewish fella “ 🤔 the Labour Party is notoriously anti Semitic
I remember this same argument in the 60's when I was a kid! I saw a documentary of workers around the world and their productivity levels, it was embarrassing to see; the German worker used an air-gun to fix nuts on a car wheel, a Japanese worker used an air-gun with 4 bits to put a wheel on in one go, they then showed a British worker using a 'spider'. (a old wrench type) It was OBVIOUS why the levels were different even me at such a young age.
For someone in 2022 to repeat the dumb logic and want's to be PM is worthy of locking up in a mental establishment!!
Interesting you mention German workers. Look up “works council” online and particularly the German Betriebsrat and you’ll see how there is less conflict in German businesses
Directly caused by Tory business owners not reinvesting in modern plant and machinery
Yes it is the lack of innovation that stagnates the productivity not the workers.
If Britis engineers are just as bad educated as most of the(Eton Tories) MP'S then it is no wonder that there is a lack of innovation and inventions.
But an air tool costs money, why invest to improve things when you can blame the worker for being lazy.
If we had a better transport infrastructure in Britain we wouldn’t waste so much time queuing in traffic jams.
How much time is lost nationally in this way.
Only thing to say when hearing something like that: It takes one to know one.
She actually thinks our low productivity is down to workers and not due to lack of investment, she compares us to China instead of Germany, that's the direction we're heading.
The women that has never done a real job knows all about work ethic, amazing.
...and James does...I think not.........but you know that..don't let that bigotry fog get in your way....
please dont vote again for the party that absolutely despises you
...being from the working classes that's why I now refuse to vote Labour...
@@chatham43 So what do you vote now, labour the despises you are out, Tories that despises you even more out, the greens?, or who do you vote for.
I doubt Liz Truss can win a general. Boris was able to speak to the Tory base while appealing to the working class. A skill Truss is incapable of 🙄🤮
Johnson deluded the workers
And Truss doesn't have Farage to split the Labour vote, or an incompetent opposition leader.
Johnson was toast without that.
The red wall that turned blue will return red again at the next GE as the levelling up agenda hasn't occurred, the flotilla of dingy's entering Britain daily hasn't been tackled, the border down the middle of the Irish sea is damaging business and Bozo's oven ready Brexit is still in the freezer behind all the party food 🤣🤣🤣
@@ploppysonofploppy6066 Just a week ago I'd have disagreed on the incompetent opposition leader but I will confess the few days have shown some real fight in Starmer.
All Truss will have to do is double down on blaming immigrants and plenty of idiots will get angry and vote for her.
The one thing wrong with the British workforce is the management and government, anybody who has ever worked for a large organisation knows that first hand.
Wow from a woman who has never done a descent hard days work in her life a slap in the face to every hard working person .
Have Lizzy Truss ever done an hours work of actual physical labour? Don,t think so!
Should be a requirement before one is allowed to make decisions for a whole country. Instead, it seems many attend expensive schools that drill entitlement into them.
Many are helping CEOs that's who should cut their pay.
Imagine the headlines if anyone in the Labour party said they wanted the British workforce to behave more like the population of China
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I dont think there will be any reaction to that, the tories are after all known as the party of not-snowflakes.
Throughout the decades between WW2 and the late 1980s, the USA had hands down the highest workforce productivity in the world, by a large margin. Also during this time, the country's industries one by one became less and less competitive to the point that a lot of the sectors were surpassed by Japan and Europe whilst the productivity of the workforce was still well ahead. The workers were fine, it's the management that went asleep.
What decade did American Industry start outsourcing manufacturing?
Peace!
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Motivation, skill and willingness to work don't help if you are not given the best tools for your job, if your company is not structured well and if supply chains are hampered by poor infrastructure and fragmented regulations.
Europe and Japan invested massively in infrastructure to catch up with the US. Then they kept going (although not everywhere, and certainly not with the same fervour).
Another issue is employment regulations, where compressing working hours (i.e. shorter work weeks and shorter work days) can increase productivity, and enough vacation can help prevent burnouts. More flexible hours and more free time means more time to deal with any health issues before they escalate, and better healthcare in general keeps workers fit.
Management can help a bit, but I think that for real change, there's a lot needed that is outside their control too.
Because a new generation of shareholders expected ever increasing dividends. The result was less investment in R&D and better machinery.
Then they blame China for the consequences.
In the UK the EU got the blame,
@@johnrussell3961 lack of investment over decades in practically every sector
Not simply to sleep, worse than that. Whatever couldn’t be Buck broken by Regean, the executive class simply took their businesses elsewhere away from those pesky laws and regulations and scrutiny. Handed it to the asian Mainland so their poorest could be driven to suicide and live off nothing wages. They and their loyal politician mutts truly make vampires look like angels.
The worrying thing is the Labour Party with Starmer are no credible alternative
Somewhere in 2010, 2016 and 2019, the voting public lost their minds, and as long as there is FPTP it will continue that way.
She was referring to her boss, or her own intellectual laziness.
You have to have done a days worth of hard labour at least once in your life to have a remotely credible opinion on that, Liz.
Thing is, this is going to go down great with the elderly Tory, the “youth are lazy and feckless” type of Tory, you know the ones who are in charge of voting the next Tory leader
Do you hate old people ? 🤔
@@nathanfurnival8724 I hate the old people who Chris describes. And unfortunately, there are a lot of old bitter people who think exactly like that.
Fortunately, not all elderly vote Tory and hate the unemployed, the young or the disabled etc etc. I'm 75 and have voted Tory once, the biggest mistake of my life, never to be repeated.
Why did working class people EVER think the tories cared about them ?
"We've had enough of identity politics".. "I'm a straight talking woman"... "And I know the difference between a Liberal Democrat and a Conservative" !!!!
They keep getting caught saying the quiet part out loud. Imagine what they actually say among themselves when no-one's recording them......
I'm a public sector worker so taking into account inflation I am earning less each year. I worked all through covid often working more hours than I was paid for as I thought I would 'do my bit'. I am now being told by quite a few social commentators that I am lazy because I work from home 3 days a week. This government wants to go back to the time of lords and serfs. Time for some drastic changes me thinks
It is unimaginable that this person could be in charge of the government (especially the current disastrous one) and be trusted with the nuclear deterrent as well as everything else in this country !!
The biggest worry for me is that the incompetence and dismissive arrogance displayed by the two leadership contender's is endemic throughout the whole sycophantic tory clan, MP's and members alike. Unfortunately Mr Starmer does not have the nessecary authority and charisma to beat even the likes of the Truss. While I didn't always agree with all of his views and politics come back Dennis Skinner, the country needs a leader with some passion and a social conscience. I suspect the country is already in terminal decline but tory rule will finish us completely.
She is likely to get yhe job being the more INCOMPETENT of the 2........very unfortunate.
Hey Liz! Maybe the problem is that wages have been decoupled from productivity, and while productivity keeps increasing, wages do not. So if you want to encourage the work force, reward them with a share of the profits of their labour.
As someone who has worked in China I have to say (as usual) she is spouting off about stuff she doesnt know the first thing about. People working in Chinese offices very rarely arrive on time, usually manage to find time to eat and sleep during their shift, often spend ages in the toilet playing on their phones/smoking/sleeping and are usually out of the door the second that that work day finishes. And then you can factor in 差不多 work culture on top of that.
As with everything there are pros and cons of different cultures and blue collar workers there graft very hard. But I certainly wouldnt say white collar workers in China work harder and they rarely work more intelligently so are often pretty inefficient.
If people can keep voting for these people, I wanna know what they're smoking
well she definitely seems to be describing boris
What's this strange voice she is using.. oh was this pre thatcher voice coaching. Are we sure she didn't mean we should grift more, been her mantra for years
Yes she has a weird voice
@@veggie42 if you listen to older speeches and then the current ones the change is so noticeable, also when putting her fake thatcher voice on the pauses are all wrong, says 3 words.. pause, 3 more , pause.. but now and then says a full sentence and the accent goes..can tell she is trying so hard to sound like her so much that she can't keep it up long
We’re on the way to becoming a failed state at this rate
Why is anyone shocked? They wrote and published this in 2012 in ‘Britannia Unchained’