Forget about success in the euros or this summer's Olympics.
Once again, Britain looks likely to scoop the unwanted award of lazy man of Europe, if not the world. It's been revealed that almost 10 million working-aged Brits are not active in the economy.
The head of the UK's tax and spending watchdog, the OBR, warned of a worrying rise in economic inactivity, driven by growing numbers of people claiming to suffer from long term sickness.
Yet, we spend record amounts on the NHS, so record sickness and record investment make it make sense?
Clearly there are plenty of people potentially watching or listening to tonight's show who are of working age but are not able to work due to a serious mental or physical illness or severe disability.
If that's the case, my heart goes out to you and to support people unable to work is the whole point of the welfare state. But are you seriously telling me that almost 10 million people are unable to get up in the morning and put a shift in, particularly young people for whom the statistics are even more worrying?
Mark Dolan shared his thoughts on unemployment
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The under 25 are driving up worthlessness levels, with almost 3 million youngsters now classed as economically inactive, and a report by the Resolution Foundation found the economic inactivity among young workers has doubled in a decade.
Why? If they're young and fit and not in education, they should be out working. It's what you did. It's what I did. These youngsters are largely blaming mental health. Plot spoiler guys, life is difficult. Crack on now.
Mental health is a serious issue and if you've got a problem, whatever your age, you must seek professional help. But we now live in a society and have an NHS which all too often medicalised as mental health.
The minute you're having a bad day, you're offered pills by your GP and eventually signed off on long-term sick, which is a sick joke for the millions who do get up in the morning and go to work, even though life isn't a bed of roses for them either.
Be clear if we all just stop going to work, the country will fall over. This issue of worthlessness appears increasingly to be more cultural than medical, with people taking the view that it doesn't really pay to work.
He claimed that young people spend too long on social media
PAThey could just as well stay at home, bake banana bread, and watch Netflix. After all, that's what we paid millions of people to do during the pandemic. The furlough scheme, which was basically communism 2.0, saw billions of pounds borrowed to provide people a salary to do precisely nothing.
Post-pandemic they have kept the habit. Our disastrous response to Covid 19 and the lockdowns, which in my view completely failed to stop the virus, have created a double nightmare for Britain.
A mental health crisis with people too depressed to leave the house or hold down a job, and a large percentage of the population who just don't see the point.
The inherent empathy and generosity of our welfare state is clearly being abused by too many people who could work but don't, and their decision to stay at home is being bankrolled by the people that do, millions of whom are on low wages and are struggling, but they still go to work and that's unfair that they have to, whilst others don't. Mental health is the one that I've got to say mystifies me.
Mark Dolan claimed that 'Britain is not working'
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How was the nation's mental health when German bombs rained over our great cities during the Second World War? As a species, we have prevailed over conflict, pestilence, natural disaster and famine.
But now youngsters spend too much time on TikTok and Instagram are too sad to go to work. This doesn't end well, folks. We have plugged the skills gap in our economy for years now with mass migration, which reduces per capita GDP and places unsustainable strain on our creaking infrastructure.
Whether it's housing, the NHS, transport, or education, mass migration is subject to the law of diminishing returns. It is the crack cocaine that no longer produces the desired high. But we're still injecting. Why? Because our people will not work.
Young people in particular should be out there driving themselves forward, starting careers, taking risks, and seeking to take over the world. Instead, the only world they want to take over is the fictional one in Grand Theft Auto or Fortnite, as their hands are glued to the joystick of a gaming console.
If worthlessness carries on like this, Britain will just be on the slippery slope to bankruptcy and grinding poverty. The nation has entered a collective gloom off the back of two and a half years of locking people in. The health is causing a mental health tsunami and making laziness a lifestyle choice.
Britain isn't working quite literally. Will the last person to leave the country please switch the lights off on their way out?
