Rishi Sunak grilled by journalists over bizarre cuts to welfare for Brits off work sick 

He's not a billionaire he's a billionaire's bitch.

Or the ones swinging the leg

It *is* a vote winner. A vote winner amongst those who are obsessed with skivers, scroungers, people "getting something for free". Basically, it's very jealous people who hate others.

I suppose we'll see come the GE ​@@Smittumi

@joseph9074 Try living on benefits before you start spouting off,god forbid you end up disabled like my wife and of which I had to give up a good payed job to become a full time carer and then to feel like a criminal because of the main stream media and people like you who have no idea what so ever.

What would know about making ends meet? Millionaire. He hasn't got a clue. He needs to go. And soon.

I know someone who worked with him when he was chancellor.. your description is perfect. Jeremy Hunt is also a narcissistic little gremlin

Psychopath

Sunak going to the CSJ to make the speech is a very below the belt hit.

The eyes. He's a narcissist

As shite as the Tories are, unless you are a dole scrounger or on minimum wage, the Labour party will squeeze you dry. PLEASE for for common sense, vote REFORM

He won't he'll postponed it. I can see it happening. It is his culture nature of Hindu's

@@callumhawksworth1845 As bad as things are now, it will be worse under Labour, unless of course you are one of the underclass. Vete Reform if you want common sense policies without the woke

@@callumhawksworth1845 Nah, it's his culture of being a Tory sociopath hatemonger.

Excatly

Being a bit depressed isn't good enough to count as disabled to many hard working tax payers like me.

@@ptb2008 Ok sherlock show us your medical degree!

​@@Mulberry2000love this comment 😂

Well said

You should look at the kind of things that MP's claim off the taxpayers money as "expenses", its totally gisgusting.

well said

Disgusting. ​@@defiantreaper2314

And talking about punishing homeless for having to exist it's crazy they are certainly not in the real world.

They don't dodge taxes, they simply carelessly forget to pay the millions they owe. I mean, we've _all_ been there, right?

Tax avoidance isn't illegal

​@@leehenry5764who said it was? Just makes you a greedy scumbag

​@leehenry5764 directly, it is, but that's why they write the laws in the way they do, because it allows loopholes to occur, so they can effectively avoid tax.

@@Redstoneghost133 Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance isn't.

exactly, and blames the people for their mental health issues!

💯👍

Apparently he's calling them lazy!

And a very recent former tory PM declares numeroua holiday he got for free at tory donors homes looked highly suspicious, borderline rule breaking.

Be good if we can increase the nil rate tax band.

So how is that the governments fault? Mental health this, mental health that, we used to call it being pissed off

@@watchalot919 Bloody hell, the entire country is mentally ill due to the Tories being in government. You don't see a difference in waking up to seeing a flat tyre and suicidal depression?

And he's not even British.

@@Truthseeker6859 yes he is..he was born in southampton..what is your heritage that makes YOU british.?

@@doctorsocrates4413yes but he doesn’t have British people in his interest. I get the impression he hates the normal British public. Not a nice guy, that’s for sure. By the way I’ve done my family tree and I can find my heritage back to the 1500s. Scottish, Welsh, English with a Dutch, German and Yemeni in the mix.

@@missmuffet3874 i will agree with you there that he doesn't have the public best interests to heart..he was an unelected leader so at next election he should be removed from office.

@@doctorsocrates4413 💯x

sunak the eugenicist

Typical Tory, blame the poor for being poor. ''They choose to not being billionaires!'' is his motto. The poor choose to be poor! Awful leader.

He is attacking scroungers, not the poor. Many of these people have better lives than those who work for a living. Our welfare system is far too generous. What other countries have so called disabled people driving around in brand new fully expensed cars? Cut backs need to made, and this is the perfect place to start.

You know if you keep using terms incorrectly like "dictator" or I know sometimes left-wing people use "fascist" now... people won't take you seriously. If you want to criticise, don't make a joke of yourself in the first few words by using a word incorrectly

This guys a joke. Proactively covers and burys the truth for rapist pandits. He doesn't have a clue about mental health. Guys had everything given to him by his daddy including his education. This man has never ever worked hard a day in his life. He couldn't even cut keys under guides at Timpsons. Tory Hindo Propaganda is a joke

She hasn't broke a single law. Non dom status is perfectly legal. Blame Labour for not changing the law in the 13 years they were in charge. Blair was happy for these rich non dommers to be in the UK when he was in charge.

@@ptb2008 Labour hasnt been in power going on 15 years. Stop it.

We need to help and save our OWN country !

based comment, king.

Yep and gives fuk all to our homeless

​@PHILIP.H81 10 million i read extra for the homeless, it's a joke

Oh forget Ukraine the govt spent billions on corvid relief to companies and never got it back, a study found that some companies were fiddling the system. The govt refuse to investigate.

Save a fortune ! Grifters every single one.

Both 2 cheeks of the same ass with labour.

I agree.

😂😂😂😂

I agree but only if we do t replace them with the other @rse cheek Labour .

And apparently attempted to pay for fuel with a can of coke.

He should have told dippy Sunak that he's in the business of trying to stay alive.

Here's the clip of Sunak showing us all how in touch he is with the plight of the homeless. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-goHHpWTpIzM.htmlsi=29lbbBmHUlG6nXY1

Show me the video ? The recording anything . You won’t because it’s fabricated . This guy isn’t daft

@@dominokid7996 view the link shared in one of the replies, or literally spend a second searching for it on RU-vid yourself

Remember what started David Cameron in 2011

I only vote Labour TOries don’t live in the real world

He can't run a bath let alone a country.

Stop vaping and get to work!

Sunak CAN pay roughly the same percentage in tax on his multi million pound income as someone on £40k a year… But he CAN’T get a trade deal with India (to help Infosys) and that’s the reason we’re stuck with him

Excellent comment!

@@empire703 stop rimming tories, your breath smells

He's a Muslim

his lisp is a real problem

@@walter3433 if you havent noticed allot of posh people are getting lisps to emmulate all the other posh people with lisps. I swear they are all doing it now

Come on now, he has to think of how he can hide his wealth & shelter from Tax?

Using a bank card and petrol pump proved a real challenge…

Notice the wording "should" it's all smoke & mirrors.

I asked to see someone in early 2018 because I was struggling with my mental health due to the barriers society shove in front of you as an autistic person. It took me about three months before I heard back from someone. Once I was able to see the therapist who called me, it was always asked the same questions, such as how are you feeling on a scale of 1-10? Fortunately, I am now in work where I feel safer and included.

What no one has mentioned is by the time you get very sick and disabled it is after the continued failure of counselling and multiple therapies and treatments. They don’t work just like drugs don’t cure.

I went to an assessment with my daughter. One man came out, his legs were so huge and swollen it took him twenty minutes to walk two yards. We had to help him with the steps. The next one out was totally blind. Both were in their 60s. I cried at the end of that day.

to some extend yes lol

So he wants to lose the general election. Punching people in the face doesn’t help win votes. This guy is an idiot.

He's not entirely wrong. You know fine well there's people exploiting

@@TyrooShino Some people are exploiting. A lot of people depend on benefits or they will die because they have legitimate illnesses.

@@TyrooShino Not 1/2 million.

He won't know, since he does no actual work. Him, and most of the Tories. They just live off existing wealth, accumulated by their parents, grandparents or spouses.

15 years ago i had a nice house a nice car & could buy a takeaway if i was hungry ^^^ those are all gone now while sunak has 800 million pounds in the bank

NO ONE!!!!!

Me

Conservatives 😅

​@@carlislebailey8902No, Conservatives picked Liz Truss. Sunak came 1st out of 1 in the next leadership 'election'

No one

Oh wow yes. Big coward

Too bust reading his scripted answer.

Who is he looking at over to he right? It’s like he’s talking to the Speaker during PMQs…

Johnson was worse, the damage was done with that idiot

He never got smashed up in school. But his time his coming.

The Tories have always, since they were created get rid of the NHS and welfare.

i cant listen to his voice for any longet than 1min a time, he's so grating.

No he ain't. I respect him actually - he's targeting the economically inactive. You on the other hand just want to seem nice nice and convince yourself that you're nice by doing nothing about making the benefit system more efficient. People are economically inactive and taking benefits but are capable of working shouldn't be entitled to your or mine or anybody else's money. Grow a bake bone.

@@ecnalms851 economically inactive, you dont have a clue what your talking about - stop reading the daily fascist or the sun. Its dodgy PPE contracts that cost the tax payer pal - not people on small benefit amounts.

@@alastairwallace6153 Alastair, when you immediately use terms like "fascist" incorrectly it makes people think you're unserious. Even China, an authoritarian country, is not fascist. Russia is not fascist, nor is Saudi, Venezuela, or Iran, Qatar, etc... Fascism is a specific ideology, so don't use the word willy nilly. And yes, both cost the tax payer amounts. People on benefits taking advantage of the system, and tax evasion. We agree.

But they are always clever enough to start with 'hate asylum seekers', the majority of Brits love that one

Always gets them elected though,face it, English are prats

Next week: we're building these nice communal showers for the benefit recipients. What do you mean you couldn't see an exit door on the building plans?

He won't go for pensioners yet, they're his one of biggest voting bases. Maybe if people stupidly vote them back in they might.

@@globalist1990Suank naver cares

I did not choose a Tory government in 2010 as I wasn’t old enough to vote yet. In all of the elections which have taken place since I have been of voting age, there’s no one I want to vote for and the same goes for my friends who are of the same generation as me.

He won't even stand in Opposition. He'll jet off to California and ponce around the world, enjoying his millions. Doesn't give a fuck about the people of this nation.

Exactly This guy is a criminal getting away with it.

Good point

😂😂😂

Nailed it!

The mental health of people thinking there's a decent alternative is the real concern

you got that right

exactly it's horrific!

Modern Britain it is unfortunately

Millionaires being favourably selected for large contracts and pocketing obscene amounts of tax payers money 💰.

Not really. If you're actually disabled, you won't really be affected by this. It's mainly targeting the economic inactive who are exploiting the system. While there are some proper cases of mental health, there are some people like people even in my own family who do get benefits for "mental health" reasons when they don't actually need to.

Pay your taxes, Sunak.

Good thing I like about the Tories is that they are less afraid about being controversial or offending people. Whereas Labour always tries to appear nice and please everyone... so annoying. That's why I respect Tories more and Labour less as it doesn't seem like Labour has a backbone. The ideology of the Tories especially that on economic policy now more alone that with the working class. Labour... just has no clue and haven't done for a while which is why they've kept on losing elections

​@ecnalms851 So, Tories haven't won elections due to promises of bringing immigration down, the possibility of a referendum on Brexit, and then selling Boris Johnson's version of Brexit as the only one which can get the UK out of the mess it found itself in politically just after the referendum?

Tories have won as many elections as they have past decade or so because they promise to reduce immigration, offered a chance of a referendum on EU membership, and by hammering home to gullible people that Boris Johnson's wet dream was the only way of getting Brexit done asap ​@@ecnalms851

@@ecnalms851The Tory’s are labour. Why is it so hard to understand this .

@@ecnalms851 You sound as out of touch as Sunac does. Ask Socialists about Labour & you will get quite a different answer on who Labour are these days. Much of the left hate Starmer & Labour in general. Also you can't take yourself seriously if you think The Tories have ever represented The Working Class.

Yes David back whispering in his ear same old shit .

That's because it works, it's an Island of cap doffers and serfs

Exactly..he should have a mental health problem first and let us see if he can even talk in that microphone...He doesn't really understand depression and mental health unless he's been there...need more support including be off from work while getting the help that the people need first...He need to resign from his job...no sympathy and empathy at all

Honestly although I agree with you unfortunately people are using ADHD as a means to gaining benefits without diagnosis. If you say you have it even if not diagnosed you get so many benefits. This is the problem a lot of people are abusing the system which means it is making it hard for genuine people. This is the fault of the government also as they took away all checks and balances during Covid for mental health related benefits as emergency measures and never reinstated them. I know as I work in the agencies involved. I don’t blame those trying to milk the system as they have made it milkable and now can’t sustain it.

A lot of this situation was caused by what occurred 4 years ago; many people lost their jobs or businesses for no reason. Now they want to put the state pension to 71 but where are the jobs?

What he's proposing actually benefits you. It makes the benefit system more efficient

@@ecnalms851 It certainly benefits wealthy Indian tax dodgers like himself. Tory bot.

@@ecnalms851wrong he will just make real sick people on the streets. That’s how the system works . 1000 people turned down when sick . People have actually died waiting for a court appeal that leaves with no money while waiting to go to court. He wants make it worse to try and get a sick note .when the company he hires is not in anyone’s favour.

@@ecnalms851 Hahhahahahahaha, no it does not

He knows what he is doing.

I know, right? 14 years of ruinous cuts and austerity that's predominantly affected the most vulnerable in society, and still people are complaining?! Beggars belief.

they are not poor. They are not working and the idea is to assess them to see if they are in fact fit to work.

​@@denzel270They already do that.

​@@denzel270My god, so you thought when you woke up today, 'I know, today I will be an unpaid government-supporting shill, why can't we demonise the vulnerable in favour of the wealthiest'. Give your head a wobble mate.

​@@pallascat1743 Correct! Sunak will bring his own cronies in to do the assessing and they'll be on a bonus incentive.

Couldn’t agree more. Saying the amount of people off sick since the pandemic has shot up and seems suprised. If they handled covid better there wouldn’t be so many of us of sick since then. I certainly didn’t want to give up working.

Many were made permanently ill from the mRNA jabs, you reep what you sow. The unwell is rising, because of the wickedness committed against them.

I mean who else but a millionaire really understands about the stress of worying about being able to pay the rent, buy good food and cloth your children.

I can't understand how he can't get it through his head that people are anxious as working yet still don't make enough to make ends meet. Yet this scum lives the life of Riley with his mp friends.

what extract of the speech makes you say that? He is trying to motivate also

Dont get upset just because you have to go get a job like the rest of us Simon. Time to grow up

This site is. Politics Joe represents a very tiny, vocal minority.

@@empire703 Yes emp, i want to work in dormant and be laced in a loop of no progression and pay taxes to war while we live in a world that floats in a universe.

@@charlottecarter2748 The benefit system is designed to be stressful. As an example of how stressful the DWP is to deal with, out of 3500 people, who are on disability benefits, surveyed by Citizen Network Research, 61% have had suicidal thoughts due to dealing with the DWP and 13% actually tried to kill themselves because of them. To be fair, dead people don't fill out surveys, so this data has some inaccuracies, but the successful suicides caused by the disability assessment process is estimated to be about 200 a year. This is what the benefit system does to the most vulnerable people, so it isn't exactly stress free to deal with them when they are less worried about actually killing people. Unsurprisingly it is less stressful to be in employment.

Disney’s Robin Hood animated film - Prince John says to Sir Hiss “Rob the Poor to feed the Rich” sounds like the Tories.

I'm so sorry that happened and totally understand how everything has to be fought for, it's beyond disgusting x

good note to share it seems that Rishi is leading his party to demonise every aspect of society to cause division and create a pathetic distraction to his numerous failings. Mental health gets bigged up when they are wanting to be elected but they never follow through with decent action plans and mental health matters to us all

I am so sorry for your loss.

Exactly!allot sincere people out their he’s talking about a few in the net as an excuse…..

Damn that is bad i hope is ok and sorry to hear about that.

Sat at home doing f.all won't help either. Work can give you a sense of purpose, structure to your life and pride.

@@denzel270 I wont disagree but that's for people without depression, clinical depression, like where you sometimes try to kill yourself because the pain of being alive is too much to bear.

@@denzel270 In essence, I agree, but the worrying thing is that by taking away the power of the GP to sign people off work, it will create more issues than it solves. When I had a heart attack some 4 years ago I was signed off for 6 weeks following it - I didn't claim any benefits during this time, I was lucky enough that the company I worked for covered my wages during this period, but without those 6 weeks I would have never recovered and would more likely be dead right now. I think GPs must make the initial fit-for-work decision but any period beyond 6 months should be looked into by a committee. To take away the GPs power is wrong.

​@@denzel270depends where you work, I've seen people treated like crap because they were different or they weren't in the click

Having to get up and go to work is depressing, you don't get a job to be happy. You get a job to get paid so that you can support yourself and your family and not live off the backs others. What's really depressing and demoralising whilst working hard and struggling financially, is knowing that your being forced to contribute to supporting others who have chosen not to get a job.

People like you just annoy me. No nuance at all or critical thinking, just rich = bad/don't care. Sunak does have the right to spell his opinions on poverty if he wants too - he was born from first gen immigrants who worked hard. He also worked hard to get good grades. He even worked as a waiter during the summer holidays in a restaurant when he was a teenager. He later on got into the business sector. His parents and him obviously worked very hard to get to where they got too, so yeah... I think he can talk about poverty if he wants too.

I agree he's tory scum

Doesn't pay enough tax

@@ecnalms851 They worked hard at exploiting the system in their favor. Sunac has zero understanding of poverty & nor does he want to even though he's prime minister & he should.

No mental health issues when we were growing up in the 80s

Right. I'm signed off now and dreading an appointment I have tomorrow as I have no expectation I'll get the help I could use. I'm already on medication and could use some other intervention, but the only treatment that seems to be available is medication. I can't watch all of this video as I'll get too angry

@@joseph9074 none? No-one being sectioned for their mental health then? No schizophrenia? No bipolar disorder? No clinical depression?

Well said!

​@@joseph9074Appeal to tradition fallacy. Look it up. Nonsense argument. Do better.

We were never stressed during Churchill days

And having to go to food banks be abuse of the cost of living.

are they not stressed about hosting boats of ppl in hotels?

@@joseph9074We? Did you live through the war years Joseph? Please tell us about your experience of this time.

@@joseph9074 you wouldn't know. You wasn't there.

He was a reason for it, he payed people to stay home for 2 years and now wonders why this has happened. The guy is clueless.

Because he'd have to admit the tories screwed everything up.

Also thanks to the government long term choices as people simply can’t afford to eat properly and heath care is inaccessible to get treatment or proper treatments!!

@@allanwhittle4603 precisely, cognitive dissonance. Admitting mental health is a UK issue would be admitting that lockdowns were a policy dictated by lunacy and disregard for mental health.

I wish people would stop twisting what he is saying. If you, I like me, worked as a mental health assessor, I you'd know GPS who are not mental health specialists give out sicknotes for MH and prescribe medication so easily without a comprehensive assessment being carried out. This is what I agree with sunak, but I that it needs clamping on. Iv also known people who lie to GPS to get a sick note and go on benefits. What needs to happen is secondary care takes over issuing of sicknotes for longterm or chronic MH issues, acute short term MH issues maybe leave that with the GP. Closing case, GPs aren't specialist

tell your friend to take one of the million job vacancies available.

@@nickmaidmentthe job market in the UK sucks - read ANYWHERE- there might be lots of vacancies, but the job market is not the same as it was pre-Covid. You could get a job after 10 applications and 2 interviews, now it’s 500 applications and 5 interviews but no job offer. The skilled worker market is incredibly saturated, with people making the same in stagnant salary office jobs as they could delivering food for Tesco. Everywhere is offering between 25-30k and nothing higher, both with no experience and 5 years experience required. Job market is broken.

Overall there is 6 million people out of work and 1 million jobs... if you made every person 100% fit there STILL WOULD BE 5 MILLION that couldn't get a job (and thats not even taking the geographical location of the job into account!). - understand that and you understand this was NEVER ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK it was about the tories getting those last few private firm contracts with fake health edudicator firms so THEY can get financial KICK BACKS!!!.... at this point they DONT CARE ABOUT GETTING VOTES its their last chance to get a round of drinks free from the tax payer... THEY are the fraudsters.

@@nickmaidment Youre deluded 18k salaries but rent is over 1k a month, so you basically have to move as far up north as possible to afford anything?? backwards country

Rubbish!

Work kills as many ppl as smoking.

Yes a lovely man isn't he?

Basically thats it in a nutshell. The NHS is gone so any hope of getting treatment long gone too. So listen to man of the people Rishi Sunak, put your health aside and go get that miserable minimum wage job job you've always wanted and lets together see if we can save the tories from electoral oblivion.

I've been requesting an mri on my chest for 8 years. I've had multiple xrays and blood tests but they refuse to give me a scan to find out what this chest pain is.

No mental health services, can't get a dentist a doctor, can't get to see hospital consultants. They spend 40 million to refuse people pip! 75% overturned at tribunal. Sunak is scum

@@The.Toaster Because your presentation/signs/symptoms do not clinically warrant an MRI. Come on, they didn't go to a medical school for nothing.

The invaders are using the NHS as a free for all, that is why, aside from management playing politics

Tories and being fucking idiots can you name a more iconic duo

Disgusting Genereal Election now this unelected Dictator must go.

@@InsightfulUndercurrents Depression and Anxiety are long term conditions that can't be cured

@@InsightfulUndercurrents I get both meds on the NHS, it's £9.35 to fulfill each prescription monthly. I pay for private therapy with my PIP money so thankfully I do get to choose who my therapist is, and it is helping me to develop coping skills for my anxiety and helping me to overcome some of the things from my past that have led to my MH being so bad. There is no "cure" for what I have, there's only making the best of it and hoping it'll be more manageable given time and effort to improve it. My point was that if PIP is taken away from people because "they're only mentally ill and not physically incapable of working" then it will lead to far worse problems for those people who can no longer access the help they need. Talk therapy should absolutely be more available on the NHS and there should be more freedom to be able to choose your therapist but that's not the circumstances we're in right now and a lot of people rely on PIP to access healthcare they would otherwise be unable to get.

@@InsightfulUndercurrents I hope that you understand how truly out of touch this reply is.

It is class war indeed. And these people are the ‘Enemies of the British People’.

The young people that are choosing not to work because they'll never own property are some of the ones Sunak is trying to get off benefits. Not having the skills to be able to get a job that pays well enough to buy property isn't a health issue.

My old man done alright in the 90s under Tory leadership. 40 grand for a house in north London. Anyone could get a mortgage before 2007. Do you remember those days of 110% mortgage's? How did the labour government help me buy a house? Little look at old st Angie of labour will tell you they all own property. Anyone with any spare money brought property. Bit late now your trying close a door a long time after it needed it.

Labour are going to continue these policies so are you still going to vote for it?

​@@philyewin4880making them even poorer isn't going to make them employable either. I have no interest in employing anyone that doesnt want to work. I don't need slaves. I need enthusiastic, engaged people and Sunak isn't going to provide them like that. If he had half a brain between his massive ears he'd PAY them a decent wage to retrain but instead he thinks starving them to death or forcing them into the black market is smarter. Dumb tory.

@@philyewin4880 any body that works full time should be able to afford food, shelter, a hobby, and a holiday. It should not matter about the skill level of the job. If you're giving 30-40 hours a week to unskilled labor, that should be enough.