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‘Our economy is reliant on UNPRODUCTIVE labour’ | Jacob Reynolds on UK productivity

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‘We need to stop being so reliant economically on low-skilled labour to drive the economy.’

Jacob Reynolds, from The Academy of Ideas, talks about how the UK can boost productivity, as the economy is ‘reliant on unproductive labour’.

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  1. @rumples2698

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    low skilled workers claim housing and other benefits – what's the plus side ?

  2. @Abraham_Tsfaye

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.

    Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country

  3. @keewng

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Our survey suggests British People accepts Legal Migrants but not illegal channel migrants, based on rough estimate almost 50% of Conservative members were second or third generation of legal migrants, myself also a legal migrant but more than 70% of British People were against illegal channel migrants. Therefore Rishi Sunak should feel assured that British People accepts Legal Migrants of 600K+.

  4. @richjoyal

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    It's laughable that the British elites shortchange the work force but still expect high productivity. Keep cutting teachers' salaries you would not get well educated students!

  5. @alunevans380

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    This man spoke a lot of common sense.

  6. @NorsemanPatriot

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    pay people better wages than they will work the current wage is not liveable on you are working to just stay alive

  7. @carlcollins6659

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    A high proportion of immigrants (especially those in a certain group) work the Black/Grey economy, pay no tax AND claim benefits. So we would be well off without them.

  8. @margaretmcallister5422

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    I used to be very productive in my job as an administrator. Sometimes I had to do the job 3 and 4 times because lousy managers had zero understanding of quality working practices and logical systems analysis! Economists and politicians can't blame workers for being unproductive when workers are hamstrung when trying to get jobs done.

  9. @reeling-in

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Unproductive Labour more like!😂😂😂

  10. @kurtklingklang5918

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    I was involved in technical training for nine years. Training is not valued by management that have to pay for it. The lazy management class want to open a box of ready qualified personnel. They don’t want to develop in-house talent, they think that if they train someone properly they will leave. They will only leave if they are not happy where they are or feel undervalued by their management. Free movement from the EU has made employers lazy and dependent on immigration. Nursing is a prime example. The reason there’s a shortage of nurses is not because of a lack of potential nurses, but on management that want nurses to pay for their training and then work in a poorly managed and understaffed workplace. Hospital managers would rather poach nurses from developing countries than find imaginative solutions to get more home grown staff.

  11. @MSmmzz33

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Rather the word should be brutally exploited.

  12. @markkerr350

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    We need a government that stops pandering to big business , we all need better wages to do each and every job, what they are doing is keeping us poor and having to work more than 1 job to live, the tories and labours answer to higher wages is add on more tax so after a wage rise you end up with the same or less than you did before, shameful bunch of nasties

  13. @stephfoxwell4620

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Simple. Four day week.

  14. @uingaeoc3905

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    This man is deeply confused. UNPRODUCTIVE labour is not Services. Cheap labour is not unproductive.
    Public services jobs are massively unproductive, especially their admin roles.
    The point is do they add to the overall economy? Nope, because they are all on benefits paid by other people who are productive.

  15. @misfit2022

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    I saw one geezer saying he needed more people to block roads and lie down in them to frustrate drivers so maybe that’s the growth industry now.

  16. @Adam-sd2ow

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    These middle class types don't care about the working class or immigrants. They just want others to do the less desirable jobs. Who'll make their soy lattes? Who'll deliver their amazon items, who'll stock the shelves in Waitrose, who'll cut the grass near their houses? Who'll maintain the roads?

  17. @martynblackburn9632

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Time to get the bowling green boomers back into work and contributing.

  18. @ddxyzzz

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    The children yearn for the mines. Also maybe your government should try halving the benefits given to the 10 million scrounging bastards who leach off your countries hard working tax payers.

  19. @csharpe5787

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    So basically, we need a workforce that is educated amd highly skilled. In that case they need to fix the school system 1st.

  20. @oldshiny3012

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    those low skill jobs he is talking about aren't going anywhere anytime soon if ever, no matter how this middle class pen pusher thinks they will be gone

  21. @stevenbowman7766

    December 22, 2023 at 1:53 am

    Slavery by any other name ? Old habits die hard eh ?

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