Economically our nation is up s**t creek and therefore it’s time we stood up to the idle under-25s who have taken advantage of our generosity for too damned long. Simply, we mustn’t swallow their complaints about poor mental health and it’s time to tell them to shape up or ship out.
The breaking point for me came in a report from the prestigious accountancy group PWC saying one in four of young workers are considering quitting work and going on benefits citing their mental health.
I, and a majority of our nation, do not want to fund your lifestyle and frankly don’t believe there is actually anything wrong with you.
These young people can only make that decision if they are living at home where they are paying virtually no rent for food or accommodation.
The fact they can sit around doing bugger all and use the Universal Credit handout as pocket money at then gives them the ability to be idle and self-indulgent.
We must stand up to idle young workers claiming poor mental health – Kelvin MacKenzie
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As parents you should remove that luxury by saying if you don’t go to work they won’t have free bed for the night. Push them out the door. You will be doing them a favour in later life.
I remember having an enormous row with my father and had to sleep the night on the stone floor of a mate’s bedsit in Loampit Vale, Lewisham, SE London (it’s branded on my backside). When I FINALLY went to sleep I was 17, when I woke up I was 37. I was never going down that route again.
But over the decades parents have become more and more indulgent. Always wanting to take the bite out of life for their special ones. Middle class parents are the worst. They work hard themselves but want to make sure there’s an easier path for their children. It’s not possible.
Mum and dad feel sorry for their “baby” Charlene, who find it more and more difficult to get up for work in the morning because she 1) Doesn’t like her boss. 2) Doesn’t like a colleague. 3) Doesn’t like the journey. 4) Doesn’t like the work. 5) Doesn’t like the money. 6) Doesn’t like the fact she can’t chat to her best friend all day.
All this is dressed up as depression. Every day every one of us suffers from getting down in the dumps because the world does not recognise our hard work/genius, magnificent good looks and general ability to be all-conquering heroes.
You simply have to get on with it. That is not the mantra of today’s young.
Many youngsters claiming mental health issues since the pandemic are trying it on.
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They don’t want to take the rough with the smooth. I’ve no idea why they are unhappy. If you want unhappy go to Port Talbot in Wales where they have shut down the steel works putting an entire town out of work.
If you are a 50+ steel worker the chances of a steel worker finding work again are very slim. That’s what unemployment benefit is for, NOT for over-pampered youngsters who feel low about something.
The other problem is that GPs say it is not part of their job to indicate that somebody who claims to be suffering from mental health issues doesn’t need tablets but does need to “pull themselves together.”
So whose job is it? Who will put these youngsters to the test? Somebody has to as the benefits bill for thousands of youngsters throwing long-term sickies is huge and unaffordable.
As you will have seen, even the disabled are coming into the firing line. If we are to continue to stump up for the disabled (and I think they need more testing) then something has to give.
Can anybody explain to me how the amount of mental health issues among the young has more than doubled in a handful of years?
All that happened is that the young have worked out they can try it on and then receive money from the state to stay home and do nothing.
There will be some youngsters with genuine mental health issue but the explosion since the pandemic is a try on and we, the people funding it, need to face them down.