Modern youth: a generation of benefits malingerers?
Mostly, but not always, I stay away from politics on Ackadia. Saves offending people who are too stupid or hidebound to think reasonably or intelligently. If you want to see my more outspoken side, I have a Facebook page for that. One asking that we clean up parliament and Drain the Swamp that is our government.
Preamble
We live in a world were it is now “unacceptable” to offend someone (‘How dare you!’) – but one were it’s an activist’s basic human right to be as offensive as they like, as often and as loudspoken as they like, as they have a right to their opinion and it MUST be respected. (Oh, hey, Greta!)
A world were being ‘offended’ on behalf of others is considered the highest signal of your virtue. (Though, if you must know, most of those said others aren’t actuallly offended and wish you’d stop dragging them into your woke, ‘politically correct’ histrionics).
A world were the outraged from circuses like ‘Just Stop Oil’ will drive to a city (from the suburbs, in their gas-guzzling 4×4) and glue themselves to the road (using petroleum-based products) and film their ‘bravery’ using a smartphone made with slave labour from parts, most of which were gathered using child slave labour.
Phones which were shipped around the world in towering, oil-guzzling container ships and must to replaced annually so they can be seen to have the latest model and so companies like Apple and Samsung can (again) announce record profits. But yes, please, Just. Stop. Oil.
The hypocrisy is off the scale.
This is the sort of ‘simply fabulous’ crowd that will fly across the world for a day out to support just stop oil! Or deface a centuries old painting they were ‘offended’ by.
A world where you can now be jailed for years for “far-right” hate crimes (like barking at a police dog), or have police invade your home mob-handed if you ‘offend’ someone with a “hate crime”. Fact checks suggest we are not as bad as Russia – now – but we also ain’t good!
I imagine that a lot of said complainers have blue hair, tattoos, nose rings, left-wing views and leave university with a second or even third in social and gender studies. They are pretty much as stereotypical as goths and black, or punks and spiked hair.
Then there’s the “human rights” issue.
You can’t deport (e.g.) a Pakistani paedophile, a Jamaican drug dealer, an Albanian criminal because of THEIR human rights. (Human rights being as fickle and ludicrous as “my son only like British McNuggets!“)
But what about the human rights of their past – and future – victims?
Oh, right, you are a xenophobe, a racist, or some such, so your rights (and their victims) don’t count!
Fun fact:
I was in an industrial tribunal once, unfair dismissal. One of the judges asked, “Did you advise him of his rights?”, to which HR replied, “He has no rights.”
The three judges on the panel actually stood up and said, “I BEG YOUR PARDON!? ‘He has no rights’?”
Their legal council choked and were near apoplexic and dragged them outside “to explain themselves”.
When pressured, they admitted that their tests put my IQ “off the charts”, but they (a Fortune 100 multi-national) had no positions available for ‘someone like me’ – (who had ‘offended’ the unions). (Blair had just got in and the factory I worked in was deep in the Red Wall…)
Anyway…
More than 500,000 young people have never worked
This was part of the headline of a post by a Facebook page (Politics), based on a post in The Times, yesterday (April 3rd, 2025), which continued, ‘Most of the almost one million people aged between 16 and 24 who are not in education, employment or training are not looking for a job, often blaming ill-health‘.
Rates of sickness and inactivity are highest as people enter their twenties, with 31 per cent of Neets aged 24 citing ill-health as the primary reason. In a sign of how hard it will be to get them back to work, 58 per cent of Neets say they have never had a job and only 24 per cent say they have worked in the last year. In addition, 48 per cent are without work or training a year after they become Neet.
(If you were wondering, ‘Neet’ is the latest buzzword for young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training)
That story was, no surprise, locked behind a paywall. Also usually locked behind ad and paywalls, it was picked up by others in the past, including the BBC (March 2025), the Mail (Feb 2025), Rishi Sunak (April 2024), The Guardian (Dec 2023), and others, going back years, decades even…
The Express (2009): 5m Brits have never worked under Labor
You get the idea: Brits are a bunch of scroungers!
(Unlike the illegal immigrants living in hotels at our expenses, getting free phones, clothes, activities, and the migrants claiming billions in Universal Credit, who give us ‘cultural enrichment’)
My thoughts on the matter
I’ll hold my hands up, I’m on disability. Have been for years.
Not like some vague ill-health that let’s you jump on the bandwagon, but the sort of physical problems that make leaving the house problematic. Needing regular (but now routine) surgery so your organs keep working a bit longer. Blood tests and hospital results that also give you a score on your life expectancy!
Were needing a crash team, being give hours even minutes to live without immediate surgery happens too… “By the way, you are too ill for a general, so bite down on this! We’ll stop if the pain is too much, but if we stop, you know, you can die.”
It is what it is.
But there are also a lot of people claiming and exaggerating illnesses and ailments they don’t have. You know the type. On Monday they get their higher rate pip and mobility car, on Tuesday they are miraculously feeling better, back on the golf course, or caught powerlifting in the local gym…
Then there’s jobs. Or the lack thereof.
When I was a kid, living in a chemical town, whole areas of town were just factories. You could walk out of a job on a Friday and start a new one on Monday, usually for better money. Sure, the rivers were poisoned, the air toxic some days, but there were jobs. Apprenticeships.
(The offside being, even now, years after they closed just about the last factory, you can walk into just about any hospital in the area and find people dying from one or another of them. They didn’t use – or warn you – with big fancy words like “carcinogens” back then. I worked in the sodding labs of some and you’d find buried documents warning that if you breath ‘this’ in… (They filed this in with the ‘official secrets act’ documents we were expected to sign ‘cos we had government MOD contracts. #JustSaying)
They knew all about – but kept silent about – the risks and diseases like aluminosis back in the 50s, if not earlier. (It’s related to asbestosis but caused by aluminium powder)
One plant complex I worked for literally blew up at least three times! People died.
Funny story:
One time I came in to find the fire brigade rolling out hoses to ‘dampen’ a fire.
“What you doing?”, says I”
The fire chief gave me a look like I was stupid.
Me: “You know that’s treated aluminium powder, right? And if it’s burning like that, it’s absorbed about 2% water ‘cos the seals weren’t tight enough. And you’re gonna hose it down with water?”
Guy went pale, choked, said, “They didn’t tell us it was an aluminium fire!” – and ran in the opposite direction.
His crew looked at me, looked at the warehouse full of potential explosives, looked at the hoses they were about to turn on. Dropped them and ran, following their chief out the factory gate.
They broke into the council, stole a bulldozer and several tonne of sand and buried it. Every few days they’d come back to see it still smouldering. We sent 96 tonnes to Russia and and they sent it back saying, “Yes, no, we’re not touching that. Use better drums!”
It was the sort of place you’d see a tanker driver arrive, hook up the ‘highly inflammable’ solvents and lean against a wall smoking, while they waited. You’d hear foreman and plant managers screaming obscenities from 100 yards!
One plant I worked for – I shit you not! – had us paint the grass because important visitors were coming and they needed that contract and they ‘might’ walk past an area of dead grass.
The asbestos factory in town backed onto a high school! After they closed that place they built a housing estate on top! They build ‘luxury houses’ and a shopping center on top of a toxic waste dump. This is a town that allowed developers to build housing estates on swamps, one of which sank and had to be pulled down and rebuilt! 
.
Farmers were like, “we told ’em when we sold the land, but they said it’d be fine if they just drained it a bit and filled in the ditches.”
But you try and get planning permission for a garden shed, eh! )
I’m not going to list all the jobs I had up to retiring due to ill health, but suffice as to say it was over 30, in a variety of industries and even countries. I worked for BNFL, worked for the NHS. Even did day to day labouring, queueing up for ‘anything available’ like something out of the great recession, weeding one day, the next crawling on my belly under a house, digging clay for pipes to be put in. Hard work, dirty work, but honest work!
I did whatever was needed, whatever was available to pay the bills.
I was a cleaner in a trailer park – toilets, showers, bins… (dirty bastards!)
Cleaner in a factory… (dirty bastards here too!)
I worked in a laundrette, in variety of chemical and food labs, as a machinist and as a packer on production lines, in chemical processing in various industries, including rare earth metals. A photo-technician. Any number of roles in IT.
It was a different time!
BUT, see, here’s the thing. Not mentioned by the papers. Not mentioned by MPs or on political panel shows, or by social media ‘influencers’. Not mentioned because they are too young, or too ignorant, or too conveniently forgetful.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the saying goes. Back in the day, so late ’70s, the government came up with a great idea. Unemployment was too high, so they KNEW the answer. Big business had agreed, it was a great idea. A scheme to “get people back to work”. It would solve everything. HUZZAH!
Enter the YOP scheme. Labour’s idea, but Thatcher ran with it too.
Here’s how it worked:
You take young people on the ‘dole’ and force them to work for companies under these training schemes. In return for not stopping their unemployment benefit (very much carrot and stick) they got to work for, I think, £16.50 a week, paid for by the business, not the government.
HUZZAH!
It worked just as you might except:
Businesses took on as many of these youths as they could. And sacked the people already doing the same job, because why pay people a full wage when you have have these scivvies working for a fraction the pay. Pretty much, the number of unemployed stayed the same, just their average age jumped up!
I was working in a lab at the time, for around £45 a week, I got ‘made redundant’, took my money, and got a job on the plant the next day, working for £90 a week (a lot in those days). They’d keep coming out to me, asking, “Can you help in the lab, this kid doesn’t know what he’s doing!”
“Yes, no, I don’t think so. I was redundant to your needs, remember. Just hope he doesn’t cause the factory to burn down!”
My foreman used to back me so there was nothing they could do.
Plot twist: The factory blew up (yet again) and I was moved to the the copper sulphate plant. Then, for another payrise, the ceramics plant. Which also blew up (huge gas canister exploded)!
This YOP was changed (rebranded) to the YTS. Goodness only know what they call it these days!
Now?
They ask for insane qualifications, insane work experience – and yet offer less than I was getting for “unskilled” labour 30 years ago!
(And that’s flat, in the packet wage, not factoring in deflation and relative buying power!)
Employees seem to crave these near worthless toilet paper degrees from kids that can’t spell, can’t do mental arithmetric, and who plagiarised half their work from wikipedia!
Jobs – here and overseas – that were once more than happy with O-level or equivalent suddenly wanted a degree. Then they wanted a Masters (but offering even less money). Then a doctorate!
It’s even worse in America, for a number of job they expect post graduates to start as interns. Used to be that they expected the interns to work for free, for they get an “in” and “free training” (making coffee) and “might” get a position after a year or two. That was dumb as shit, in my opinion, but way better than what replaced it, which is the idea that, “Hey, these kids are getting FREE training! They should be paying us!” And here, from posts I’ve seen, some are wanting the interns to pay them up to around $45,000 a year for the work experience!
That is mind-blowingly insane.
“Yes, I got my doctorate in gender studies and flower arranging. Now, what do you want with your fries? A McFlurry? Sorry, icecream machine is broken, again, and nobody here knows how to fix it.” 
Yes, there is a major problem with people scamming benefits.
Yes, there is also a major problem with attitude and lack of work ethics in the youth of today.
Against that, the rich keep getting richer, tax loop holes for big businesses only ever seem to get opened, never closed.
The government bends over backwards to facilitate near Victorian work practices, reducing workers rights, allowing zero hour contracts, hammering you with tax if you go over a limit so that – more often than not – after factoring in meals and travel you are far worse off working than on benefits. Madness!
Yet – they tell us – it’s because people are work shy, not because it’s a mess they caused. I mean, some are. My dad, certainly was, but my mum worked into her 70s.
When I was at school, in a time before computers, most pupils were assumed to choose an apprenticeship. A life skill.
Now?
The country is broken. But it was planned and executed by governments and big business whose only thought was and is for their profits. Their grandioseness and excesses.
You also can’t fault one person’s comment:
And most of them thinking and being told why the hell should you work when there’s millions of immigrants and illegals and their families that are looked after in luxury that will never ever work thanks too your politicians and civil servants
The other benefit culture!
This one is NEVER discussed by MPs or politicians, rarely by MSM, but is even more pervasive. I refer, of course, to the expenses ‘welfare’ culture of our elected – and unelected – officials.
You may recall how fast they tried to brush the expenses scandal under the table. How fast the ‘cash for honours’ scandal was buried. How even now the likes of Starmer are handing out all area passes in return for a new set of threads or theatre tickets. And all we ever hear is “We did nothing wrong”. How “it was all within the rules”.
Not sure if it’s still true but our local mayor (Labour seat) has / had a chauffer driven Rolls Royce as his ride, expected – and got – red carpet treatment and didn’t bat an eyelid when “expenses” at the town hall included cases of whisky!
It’s a bit rich of the elected ‘elite’ to keep going on about the malingering benefit fraudsters in the (white) community when they are the worst, most shameless freeloaders in the country! When corruption in office is rife in just about if not every council in the country.
I’ll vote for them, but I don’t actually don’t trust Reform – any more than I trust anyone that wants to get into politics!
That said, between an unproven Reform and the utter shower of useless, woke left wing trough feeders in power at present…
Green, Lib Dems, Tory, Labour, SDP, no different.
All in it for themselves and **** their constituents!
They get into office, perhaps meaning well, then the minute they get their bumped up wage. (hook) 🎣
their lavish expenses budget (which allows them to hire relatives to work for them, paid for with tax-payers money). (hook) 🎣
their government credit cards, even! (hook) 🎣
who get to blame others for ‘errors’ (LIES) on the CVs, LinkedIn, promotional literature etc – and nothing more is said. (hook) 🎣
(e.g. “OK, I was a complaints support manager, not an economist, but I still get to be chancellor, OK. I did nothing wrong.”
“OK, I didn’t finish my training and I know it’s an offence to claim to be a solicitor when I’m not, but, I still get to be business secretary, OK. I did nothing wrong”)
(Try falsifying qualifications, legal titles and experience in the private sector and see how far it gets you! #Two-tier)
their shot at paid TV appearances. (hook) 🎣
their links to businesses and ‘allowed’ freebies including clothes, holidays, box seats in stadiums and theatres, gifts, etc (“All declared. It’s allowed. we did nothing wrong”). (hook) 🎣
Vastly subsided food, drinks, meals, booze in the Houses of Parliament bars and restaurants. (hook) 🎣
First class jollies away on “government business” – in some cases adding up to MILLIONS a year! (hook) 🎣
Their expenses covered second home (including free TV license… Funny how they pass a law that makes it a crime not to pay for a TV license, but add a clause saying, “but we can make taxpayers pay for ours”).
More than a few MPs have been caught installing girlfriends in, subletting, or otherwise defrauding the system, only, often, to be let off because they “forget” to declare the change. Just Google something like ‘MP second home scandal’, you’ll get the idea. (hook) 🎣
The option to parachute into a ‘safe seat’ to secure your position in the next general election, your nose in the trough (if you’ve been a good, obediant MP).
Even if that means you have to look on a map to see where the town and county is and have zero intention of residing there for more than a minute longer than necessary in any given month ‘cos your real home is in the metropolitan London bubble, not sullying yourself with filthy northerners). (hook) 🎣
“All we ask if you tow the party line, as mandated by our corporate sponsors. Stick if out for the 5 years and you are in line for a gold-plated pension”. (hook) 🎣
Our government – all governments – are corrupt by design. They make the law and rules that allow the unallowable!
Such unquenchable greed, arrogance, ignorance and hubris fails to inspire me too!
Disability Benefits being cut for disabled people, with the aim to get disabled people “working”…
Yet no mention of cuts to the astounding amount of money spent on illegal immigrants.
No cuts in parliament for MPs lavish lunches & endless luxuries.
ALL PAID BY THE TAXPAYER!…
This makes my blood boil ???
Benefits, politics and sectarian voting
The end is nigh!
What – in equal measures – amuses and horrifies me is that most UK MPs are so focused on the newfound wealth and benefits, so utterly reliant on the ‘Muslim vote’, that they are sleeping-walking into their own annihilation, and they will take us down with them!
Over 70% of Muslims in the UK do not see themselves as British but as Muslims, which is why you see Muslim councillors and MPs shouting, “This is for Gaza” the minute they are elected, MPs wanting Sharia law, MPs demanding that WE pay for an new airport in Pakistan so as to cut 3 hours of THEIR journey! Meanwhile, for some, for their constituents, for the people who voted for them, who trusted them, are living in shitholes!
Why you see a Labour councillor at rally asking his “brothers and sisters” to rise up and slit the throats of “far-right fascists”.
(Said far-right, according to Starmer, seems to be anyone opposed to uncontrolled immigration, to people murdering children, and people that didn’t vote Labour. So at least 67% of the country then.).
People were cruelly jailed for years as political prisoners for far less. But this guy, one of their own, well he was suspended from the party (apparently on full pay!) and still awaits trial, sometime. No rush.
Fact check on whether a former Former Labour minister called for Sharia law: He didn’t, but what he did say (in 2008) was,
“I’m confident as Britain’s first Muslim minister that, inshallah, in the next 30 years or so we’ll see a prime minister in this country who happens to share my faith.”
That takes us up to 2038. So, general elections in roughly 2029, 2034, 2039. One generation. I have predicted, projected, that at the current rate, we’ll be an Islamic or Islamic run country by 2040 if Reform don’t get in AND get a control of – and reverse – immigration.
This isn’t “Islamophobia”, or fearmongering. It’s maths, and analytics. At present we have about 4 million Muslims in the country, but probably more. Uncontrolled immigration is pushing that number up by perhaps as much as a million a year. With births, families joining, ever greater number of illegals, uncontrolled and uncontrollable migration, it is conceivable that by 2040, the Muslim population could rise to well over 10 million, perhaps even 20 million by 2040.
Labour won a super majority of 411 seats with just 9.7 million votes…
There was a planned Muslim political party, the Party of Islam – started just days after the 2023 October atrocities by Hamas. They were rejected by the electoral commission, but another can arise.
Thing is, there are organised, and more than a few of them are open about wanting to make the UK ‘part of the caliphate’. They listen to their imams. They listen to the Muslim Council, who tell them how, when and where to vote!
The first Muslim MP was elected in 1997.
In 2001 it was 2 (so doubled)
In 2005 it was 4 (doubled again)
In 2010, rejoice, it has doubled again to 8
By 2017 it was 19 (more than doubled)
And by 2024 it was 25 (still a large jump).
You see where this is going, right?
By 2025 a cross party group of 20 (mostly Labour) Muslim MPs were making ‘demands’…
This week, I attended a press conference ordained by Mohammed Yasin MP, where 20 cross-party British Parliamentarians requested for an international airport in Mirpur.
There has been a long-standing promise for an international airport in Mirpur, which has yet to be met. This causes significant issues to a number of my constituents, who are having to drive over three hours to get to the nearest airport in Pakistan.
I will continue to push for this cause, and pursue this issue until permission is granted for a new airport.
Tahir Ali, Labour MP for Birmingham Hall Green & Moseley
(This is the same MP making national news of refuse strikes and giant rats ‘the size of cats’, but sure, campaign for our tax to be spent on a new airport in Pakistan!)
Make it make sense?
At this point you may be wondering what this has to do with the topic of malingering and out of work Gen-Zs.
Professor Matt Goodwin would understand straight away.
Firstly, we are seeing near exponential numbers of Muslim MPs elected. Unless and even if Reform win the next general election by a comfortable margin, we will continue to see this trend continue for decades to come.
On the one hand, we have MASSIVE voter apathy as most people feel – rightly and with overwhelming evidence – that no politician can be trusted and they are all, all of them, “just in it for themselves”.
On the other hand, Muslims come from ‘collectivist’ (community / group think) societies and the vast majority will, for want of a better expression, move like a herd. (Compared to Western societies which are individualistic, putting themselves first).
So, if a new, viable Muslim party arises, existing Muslims will quite probably – without a backward glance – cross over. (To Labour’s abject horror! Oh the irony, the betrayal! 😀 )
So, MP’s in large Muslim community areas will automatically get in, partly though sheer numbers, partly though questionable voting practices and helped in no small amount by native voter apathy and “what’s the point”. So, the number elected will continue to grow at near exponential rates.
The point is if – or when – a Muslim party gets a majority, well, they will put their own first because that is their nature, culturally speaking. Law will change to better support Muslim values. Immigration will be changed to support more favourable cultures – cultures that will be more likely to vote for them.
(It’s is hilarious that Labour couldn’t see this coming from 30 years back. It’s literally their own policy: Open the borders to those who will vote for us!)
ANYWAY, what will happen, what IS happening, is you’ll have an increasingly depressed native population, a tanked economy, an utterly destroyed manufacturing base (one I saw coming 40 years ago!), and an increasingly work shy population (as it pays to NOT work!), one more prone to illness due to allostatic load, thus ever more reliant on benefits.
And all of this is even before factoring in the staggering cost to families, businesses and industry of Millibands absolutely insane and idealogically unhinged net zero crusade, and the equally deranged attacks on farmers and the farming communiity!
This is a rather vicious downward spiral. One repeated most often whenever Labour get in! The supposed idea is people on benefits are greatful to them, loyal to them, more likely to vote for them. Which make their attacks on the poorest in society all the more baffling, but that’s the Westminster bubble mindset for you, eh!
So, you have all this shit happening, the country accelerating towards absolute and irrevocable bankruptcy and literally millions of legal and illegal migrants who have been drawn here on the promise of neverending free healthcare, free housing, free benefits, free pensions even.
And then, suddenly, you turn the tap off because the kitty is empty.
Whether it’s Reform getting in, us leaving ECHR and kicking out illegals and undesirables – or a Muslim government arising and finding we are broke and have to stop benefits…
How do you think the estimated 160,000 illegals and millions of migrants will react on that day?
People, often angry, violent people from war-torn countries, the veritable army of young men “of fighting age” people who have crossed half the world to reach ‘El Dorado’, the land of benefits. Who keep coming in ever greater numbers, promised everything. No questions asked. (We wouldn’t want to offend. We are so, so sorry for our white privilege.)
Not just them, of course. We have an entire country pushed towards the desperate need for welfare, for food banks. Charities – worthy charities – crying out for scraps from people have less and less to spare for them.
Tell the Irish, the Scots, the Welsh, the equally angry Brits, “Well, lol, we spent like £20Bn a year on immigrants, gave about another £100Bn to Chagos for no reason other than it felt good to do it, gave away so much money to the rest of the world that, well, it’s funny really, honestly, you’ll laught, really, in hindsight, we forget to leave anything for the poor in the UK. Well, we ringfenced OUR money. MPs are sitting pretty. But you lot, well, sorry, you well and truly ******!”
It’ll make a ‘run on the banks‘ look like a lazy Sunday.
People can – and will riot if they can’t get their eggs, toilet roll, access ATM for a single day. Imagine telling an angry nation of 70 million that you can’t afford their benefits – while telling them you (as an MP on a gold-plated, secure £300,000 a year salary) “understand their frustration”
On that day, it gets really ugly real fast!
If they do not get a grip on immigation and balance tax and welfare, then war is coming!
Feature image of a man begging is on Pixabay and by Sam Waidler
