Talk gets worse julia hartley-brewer

She always comes across like she loves the sound of her own voice.

Unfortunately Talk comes at everything with a right wing popularist agenda. I can only say that I have seen it a few times, generally by mistake via YouTube. It has a very narrow viewpoint and more luckily not a high viewership. I tend to treat it likely some other sites and ignore it, not because I think it will go away but because the algorhythms on these sites pick up on what you watch or comment upon and sends you even more of the the same.

There will be people who believe the "misinformation" but hopefully for everyone of them there are our families, friends, medical staff etc who know better and who will hopefully stand with us. They know the processes, stress and guilt that we go through, we can't just say that because of health reasons we are unable to work we have to have medical records which confirm our conditions as go through an application process which is onerous, on top of that there are so many other reasons why employment opportunities don't just sit there waiting for us. Very few of us are work shy, I know I haven't been. I'm 62 and have worked almost all my life but I can't see me getting back into the workforce at my age, simply because there are virtually no jobs locally which are looking for my skills set and the amount of time I've had in the last year will make an employer look at me and shred my application.

Even the fact that there are more people on benefits cannot be blamed on us! The people like the presented spreading their prejudice, are too blame for the situation that we are in. Sorry if I get political (and I may say the same thing about Labour in future) but the Tories used economic forces for austerity. Other countries create wealth and investment in that period of time and have stronger economies because of it, whereas austerity has pushed the UK into near recession (that and the Truss budget). There are more people with mental health conditions (what do they expect with the financial and employment pressures we are under), employers incentives to employ less abled people have all but disappeared so why would they want to spend money on making a workplace accessible if they don't need to do so. The worst fact is that the people like the Talk host, neglect to say that the benefits pot includes pensions and all the related benefits. Benefits that we have paid into all our lives one way or another, and the newer pensioners are coming from the Baby Boomers, the largest generational group in the UK. People have been living longer so they are more likely to become less able. The lack of affordable health care or social support leaves many elederly people isolated in their own homes (yes I know there is a tranch of "wealthy" pensioners but there is a bigger group or those who are struggling).

As a community, the best we can do is to share or truth and experience with our families, friends and community so that they can join us to say to these bigots that they are wrong!

I agree with some of her comments but don’t tar everyone with the same brush. There’s always been workshy people and they always will be . But how do you sort them out? Some people just have no intentions of ever wanting to work it’s not something new I’m in my late 60s and know people who have never worked in their lives some of them went to school with me . And quite frankly they have ended up better off than me. I worked from 15years old to 68 and got my own house but some of these people don’t pay rent or council tax and end up getting the winter fuel allowance because they qualify for pension credit. It’s the system that’s wrong but how do you sort it out ? There’s a million job vacancies in this country but people don’t want to work in sandwich shops or do cleaning jobs or anything where they might have to get up early on a morning it’s nothing new but how do you weed them out . I’m not saying everybody’s the same I had a year off work with anxiety and depression when I lost my job in coal mining but there was a lot more help and support then than there is now . You could just go to see your doctor without having to make an appointment and they could refer you straight to the appropriate place. Sorry for the rant I’m not getting on to the genuine people who are ill but those who I am talking about know who they are.

omg she is so bloody arrogant and rude. Her voice is grating and she loves the sound of herself. Her comments about young people are deragotry and she should be sacked