Living in UK right now feels like being completely paralyzed on a back seat of a car crashing in slow motion.

Twelve years ago I would have classified myself as being very slightly right of centre, although probably more of a Liberal than a Conservative. At the time my two stepsons were just about entering secondary education and I was so pleased that they benefitted from a cosmopolitan outlook and where the world was going to be their oyster. And you're quite right, then came along Brexit. The very Conservative party that we still have in power opened a Pandora's box in offering Joe Public a referendum on something that they didn't understand... and in doing so set the seeds for the ruination of our country's finances and prospects. It's hard to believe that the same party is still in power and intent on digging us yet deeper into a hole that has not only made us the laughing stock of the world, but will leave our children in debt for decades to come. Watching the news these days is like rubber-necking at an ever-continuing car-crash. And we've done this to ourselves, there's no one else to blame.

This all comes down to people on the lower ends not being payed enough and therefor not having enough to put back into the local economy .

Welcome to Trussia

The Tories are slowly dragging us back to 1970s and still people will vote for them 🙈

Listening to Chloe Smith DWP Secretary of State doing the TV rounds today trying (and making a fool of herself) to defend the immoral mini budget transported me back to the worst days of Johnson and his propagandists. I truly despair of the politicians we have allowed to do this to us

i live in Spain and i speak perfect Spanish but i see many many Brits living in Spain that only speak English.....and guess what...loads of them were in favour or voted for Brexit...lol...i´m not even kidding

James O'brien is approaching wizard levels with his understanding and predictions on the conservative party. It's unbelievably accurate...

If the pound is nearly on par with the Euro we wont have as many seasonal workers coming over in the first place

What to get 2 million vacancies filled? Fair pay, not the living or minimum wage.... but a wage that can't support a family to not just survive but live. There's usually no more than 6 layers between the lowest paid and board members, either link the two so there's no more than six times the difference in pay or forever be in wonder at why you can not fill employment vacancies. And make zero hour, seven hour and any other diabolical sham of a contract against the law.

I worked for an importing buisness, they had to make me redundant today due to the value of the pound crashing. Nice 'growth' kwasi.

At least people will realise that the Tories have no understanding of even basic economics

The problem the Tories have is that free movement of people is an essential part of free market ideology, hence free movement of goods, services, capital and people in the EU single market. But to get what the Tories see as the 'lower classes' to vote for tax cuts for rich people and free markets, they have to tell them immigrants are the source of their problems, not rich parasites creaming off the wealth of the country. So they end up in a complete twist, pro free market, and against state interference in businesses, but anti-free movement of people and pro government interference in who companies can employ. Which is why they're arguing over immigration. They can't decide if they're in favour of free markets or want to keep bashing immigrants to keep who they regard as the "lower classes" voting Tory.

American here... I don't really understand, how was pulling out of the EU, a union of EUROPEAN countries, supposed to reduce the number of immigrants from the MIDDLE EAST? How is that supposed to work? Am I missing something?

That's not British politics. That's English Tory politics.

British and Italian politics in dilemma, and Russia’s threat to eastern Europe. Anyone else sensing history repeating itself???

This is all about the electorate electing people who tell them the lies they want to hear and one party decided that losing power was worse than lying.

Truss & Kwarteng vs Braverman & Badenoch..... and the Right Honourable Gentleman the Minister for the 1870s cannot decide which team to back......😂😂😂😂 This is like watching a bunch of Spaniels being let loose in a sausage factory - see who can outwit the others and grab the most sausages before security (the electorate) round them all up and herd them out.

Just read about a woman in Labour, who got turned away from her nearest maternity hospital, she's had to go to one over a hours drive away because it was the only one with a bed and enough staff. The grandmother voted Conservative and so did the woman having the baby and they probably will again. WE NEED PR not FPTP.

'Dooms day cult'....funny 😂...scary 😐...true 🤔

The ULTIMATE Den of Thieves - 10 Downing Street. 💩🤡

Spot on with your assessment of lack of skilled workers. I’m a highly skilled welder I’m coming to end of my working life. I keep getting employment agencies contacting me about work. They’re now having to constantly increase pay rates I said to one company looking for naval shipyard welders you can increase the wages infinitum it won’t make blind bit of difference there aren’t enough skilled welders n the U.K. to fill the available jobs. Period!

When a certain politician claimed that we could have our cake and eat it, he failed to tell us what the ingredients were of this cake he was delivering to us were, turns out lies, hate, greed, xenophobia, and lashing of BS doesn't make a very appetizing cake, who'd of thunk it, also he didn't tell us that's all there would be to eat.

Well it's what I've said all along. The conservative party and brexit experiment was always going to be undone by the inherent contradictions.

I'm dying here 😂😂🤦🏼‍♀️ Turkey plucking how about a pheasant plucker I know a tongue twister about that 😂😂

2 million available jobs but in what pay bracket. Me myself through lockdown left the catering sector and now I can't motivate myself to go back. What is the pointwhe I'm poor and can't afford to live either way. The country is on its knees and it'll lead to serious conflict within the UK over the next few years.

Invest in our own young people - more apprenticeships and free university education for degrees in shortage skills areas. The only reason the tories want to import those skills is to keep wages low.

Great guy not scared of telling the truth!👌🏻

As an Irish person, I truly feel sad that millions of my neighbors are being subjected to such a horrible regime, that there are now more food banks than fast food establishments.

I'M Not the pheasant plucker I'M The pheasant pluckers son ,I'M only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes.🐦🐦🐦

I heard about this great idea to help with skills shortages, it was a kind of union arrangement with a large pool of closely located countries. I forget what it was called........

2 million vacancies offering below inflation starvation wages and people wonder why they're not getting filled.

The reason they're both correct while at odds is because they've painted themselves into a corner through idiocy and incompetence.

Most of the jobs are only worth it if you can live 20 to a house

Absolutely love this analysis 😄

During lockdown there were many British people who were looking to get some work on farms picking frut, however because these people came in camper vans and didn't need the lodgings that came with the non , they weren't picked, which ultimately meant that the famer had to actually pay them more, since none was going on accommodation. This sort of thing should have been picked up by Labour in Westminster and they should have called for laws to be introduced to force employers to look within the UK to fill positions first. I would imagine thée are very few roles which cannot be done by a British person, for a "fair days pay.....

I heard a rumour that imported workers must be paid more than British Workers to prevent them becoming reliant on the government to top up their wages to a living level......so it's ok to pay Brits peanuts but not foreign workers. This is a damning indictment of our wages today.

Brexit, never have so many been lied to by so few, mind you at least Truss got one thing right the pound is trickling down..

I'm despising my country more and more by the day. It's like we're living in some messed up alternative reality.

Lol I work in equity research for the commodities industry and we've been saying the exact same things as UBS. The macro trends are looking absurdly abysmal.

i've been calling the tories a bunch of cults for years

As a social worker in England I can vouch for the fact that we are desperate for social workers and every team is depleted. We are now seeking foreign workers from Africa to plug the enormous gap that needs filling. I’m sure all those Brexit voters will be delighted to hear that we are practically begging other countries to send us their workers!!!

I'll bet money that the expression "Doomsday Cult" will be remembered when everybody in this sad arsed government has been forgotten.

James u are my hero

Well done, James. You verbalise our fears and suffer on our behalf. If only Brexit voters would listen in to you!

Divide and Rule has always been a trademark of the British Establishment - India, Palestine, Ireland and Within the Working Class of our own country, in my area Whites, Somalians, Caribbeans, Yemeni's etc all share the same position and common cause

Honestly, the anti-immigration racism in the UK is barely affected by the actual levels of immigration- just the media reporting of it. The areas of the country that are most hostile to immigration include some of the areas with the very lowest levels. You could easily increase the overall levels of immigration without angering them if you can keep the story out of the Mail and the Express.

The whole world is going through dark changes and the people need to make a stand before we hit a point of no return and it feels like we are very close to that atm

Absolutely spot on!

The Conservatives told Joe Bloggs - "If you can't afford the cost of living crisis - get a better job" & that's what people are doing. Most of those unfilled 2 million vacancies are not "cost of living" sustainable.

It’s called Cognitive Dissonance But I actually believe it is far worse than this It looks & feels like a complete Psychotic Break

Always enlightening.

By the end there i was waiting for James to break into a soliloquy. "Two camps both alike in accuracy..." 😁

The British economy has relied on foreign immigration for at least 300 years, maybe more. People are brought in to do the actual work (factories, medical wards, drive trains, pick fruit, whatever....) and to pay taxes to support the rest of us. It's madness to suppose the country can supply all its own needs. We can barely supply any, at all.

3:10 anyone else notice the hand and nose rub?

Well done james 👊🏾🔥 thank you for your honesty and true intelligence

We have to acknowledge also that one of the reasons we have such a shortfall of workers in our country, is because the government reduced education funding.

Re people leaving the workforce, one reason I retired from the public sector is that I could look forward to years of below inflation pay rises if I carried on working, vs inflation linked pension increases if I retired. The government seems to have replicated that situation now, with retirement looking increasingly attractive for people in the last few years of their career. Could well lead to a shortage of critical workers etc. hampering any attempts to improve NHS delivery, social care improvements etc. etc. Have got to be aware of incentives that drive worker behaviour.

Well said!

Top Class Paddy O'Brien. Much Love. Logic.

I used to (until recently) think that living in the UK had become like living embedded in an episode of The Simpson. However, over the last three weeks, The Simpsons has become more akin to a serious documentary programme than life in the UK.

Oh, I just discovered I'm woke 🤣❤️ I didn't realise being human meant woke!

Wonderful!

There's a shortage of HGV drivers that are willing to drive. there's not a shortage of HGV drivers..

But James, Patel and Braverman have got what they actually wanted - planeloads of their family members from India, so what's the problem?

Are we getting it yet?

🇨🇦......great show ...from Toronto Canada .

The end killed me xD

There may be 2 million vacant jobs but there are also 172k vacant conservative members - which is worse?

the trouble is you have to live in 'another' country to make the wages for the unfilled jobs in this country worth having..WE can't live here on the wages...but for them a grotty year or two of living here 20 people in a house and they can probably go back home and buy a house and acre of land and maybe coming back here to work just for the odd season or two.

I do enjoy your thought process...

Those older people who long to be back with in the 1970's will be rejoicing at the current state of affairs, even if it means they live in misery. Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing, especially when it's weaponised against the public.

James O'brien always making sense 👏 on point sharp and ready to help others see sense 👍 can't argue with you even Nick has lost the battle 😳

The Tories are so smart they've manoeuvred themselves between a rock and a hard place. And all by themselves! Well done!

When did economists ever get it right 🙄

Increasing immigration to fill job vacancies isn't the only way to decrease the number of vacant jobs. Instead, you could improve pay and work conditions so that people here can afford to take those jobs.

deja vu thatchers legacy prevails

Tory party split..EXELENT

On that last bit, how many of the dingy people do you really believe will be net contributors to the economy?

James, I am one of those wealthy pensioners you alluded to. I feel that I am wealthier than I ever was during my working life even though I never reached the dizzy hights of a £70k or even £60k salary or a commensurate expense account. I have 6 or so private pensions of which at least 2 are final salary and I do indeed own my own house which has no mortgage. In addition, I have over the last few years lost close relatives that I have benefitted from with inheritance. HOWEVER, I am totally disgusted, disillusioned with the present politics in this country and in no way condone the activities of Truss or her minions even though I may be one of those who benefit most from the chancellor’s “mini” budget. I definitely do NOT feel as though I do. In fact, I feel very sad & annoyed that some of the values & morals that I have held dear all my life have been eroded away making me feel exactly the opposite, a lot poorer. Regardless about what this budget does to the finances in the short term and that is not to dismiss that, in the long term it will affect the finances of the country in that it will severely lessen the standing of our country in the world as well as making our decisions and actions untrustworthy.

Blame the voters. 40% of them.

It would be funny if it wasn't real.

There is another option offer better training and pay and conditions to attract more people into the workforce.

The only thing I feel when I hear people talking a different language is shame that I have not learned another language! I hope to change this 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

this same situ was in the 50 60 and 70s hence import jamacians and other countries to drive buses and such

"Doomsday death cult" Perfect description of the right wing. Lol, im gonna use that to describe the republicans here in the states.

Thank you, James!

The Conservative Party can't even agree on what is best for their party, let alone what is best for the country.

Oh Brexit again. The gift that just keeps on taking away.

try increasing the salary try putting minimum wage to 15 quid,try treating people with respect and see if it improves the way of things

Try pheasant plucking instead of turkeys to avoid linguistic accidents.

has JOB discussed sweden or italy yet or leicester??

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Everyone in some degree can be labelled a resist, even though the speaker had no racism in his or her mind. Some people will want to label anyone if it suits their needs. Only my opinion for what it's worth. Oh! I voted against Brexit.

How about asking 'should we go cap in hand and ask to rejoin the EU?'

I’m sure James has got a brexit tattoo on his back he can’t talk with out mentioning the word brexit

Instructive to watch this unfold from Canada. Temporary Foreign Workers were "undermining" the fabric of our nation, and now we need farmhands, restaurant staff, shop help, nurses, etc. We saw the silver tsunami coming 30 years ago, stopped breeding, poo-poo'd immigration .. how did we get here?

Roll on Scottish independence!!

You did your best to ensure we didn’t get a compassionate Labour government and instead we got this rotten to the core lot after ten years of Tory misrule.

....a doomsday party......James has been saying this for years..and he's never wrong......get into politics James and stop pontificating from the sidelines and start making a difference....