Rachel Maclean, the safeguarding minister, told Sky News' Kay Burley that those were some of the ways households could"protect themselves" as prices soar.
She said that every minister was looking at the issue as consumers face"short term pressures" such as high energy and food bills - and added that there was"more help coming".
"Of course, it's an individual situation, depending on that particular family's situation but that's why the job centres exist, that's why the work coaches exist, that's why we've put the support into those job centres - to work with individuals on their own individual situation.
I genuinely can't make sense of what she's saying
stop sending billions to ukraine focus on us
I really can’t keep up! … all I wanted to say is that the standard of womens sport is incredible! Womens rugby is awesome. Football is incredible! Just an example… delivery into the box is way better from the ladies!!! …just saying! X
You silly silly woman , take a look around at what’s happening to our country it’s falling apart in front of our eyes and nobody in parliament give a damn
KayBurley Lets rebuild trust in the government: Just say: i understand , then give advice: work more hours, next say: we put more mmm.. and we set up more… mumbles…
KayBurley The system is a shambles! Free childcare/ dinner moneys to those that don’t work, not to those that do? Workers having to do more hrs to pay childcare is insane, why don’t we have a bigger incentive for those that don’t work, to find employment, because at the min there isn’t 1!
Don't worry if you're working 3 jobs and still struggling, support has been put into schools. This woman needs a wheelbarrow. She's shovelling so much crap, she'll need it to clean up.
So those who can't work due to health reasons or family commitments are stuffed then? Also, not everyone is going to be able to get a better job. Ridiculous.
Is this person soft in the head, and is it a man
You couldn't live on an MPs wage though I couldn't afford to even redecorate my flat without some financial help from a donor or two
Tone deaf government
Here's a better idea: If all MP's cut their pay, there would be more money to go around. Simple maths that the conservatives with their private education can't seem to manage as this is something they've avoided suggesting at all even though its a no brainer.
She wont be looking for more hours or a 2nd job , she'll be getting her usual overpaid under worked wage and no doubt big salary increase when its due. Politicians ripping the pish over the tax paying people of the country sick fed up listening to them babble on.
It’s not a personal problem, it’s society’s problem brought about by people like you in government suggesting it’s a budgeting issue. The big lie! Politicians like that are a waste of space
Thank god she’s British I don’t want this witch
So no one works in the lower paid jobs then ? Great logic 🤣
Old git
Do these really care ?
Sounds like it’s time to start protesting very very loudly outside of her home, place of work, and anywhere she goes really. Actually do that for every elected official who says shit like this. Make them terrified of the consequences of being the “let them eat cake” assholes
Cupid Stunt!
Let's get this straight: GOVUK has lumbered this nation with a massive cost of living crisis, one that affects the majority of the people, and it's their fault that most - if not all - of them are struggling to cope financially, is this what she's saying? What a b**ch!
Meanwhile, in the real world……
NevilleSouthall Jesus wept! She’s got some effin neck on her. 🤬
Get f****d
I bet she has never done a days work in her life they do my head in the tories they can't be bothered with the working class just 1 rule for them 1 rule for us
I’m not allowed to get another job, I’m also on a pay freeze, if I leave my profession I can’t just go back. Same for my husband. We are watching the pennies more than ever. What’s better paid than top band PC & Sgt? 👮🏼♀️👮🏼♂️
Hypocrite! She knows the Windfall tax will solve some of the issues to the cost of living crisis.
Vile stance...ToryCostOfLivingCrisis
These members of parliament have not got a clue what it’s like, unpaid carer looking after someone almost 24/7 have to also work to pay bills, unwell but have to keep going, they just don’t care . Shame they don’t change places for a month and see if they can manage 😠
This satirist is not as good as RosieisaHolt !
I don't know what subterrane world she lives in, I may be wrong but it could be Johnson's back pocket. It may have escaped her but most people do work all the hours that God sends, again most people look for jobs paying. What is also a factor is geography. So can I have your Mrs
Let me have your job then you melt
Imagine being told you should work harder and longer just to cover the cost of living by someone who wouldn’t know a hard days work if it slapped her in the face disgrace
A better paid job? So all those essential workers during the pandemic should get better paid jobs then, as they are mostly on low wages. All so the rich can get richer. The system isn't broken at all....
Has a government ever been so out of touch with its people and general reality, as well as being so abhorrent? Get another better paid job as I sit here claiming more in expenses than people make in 10 years
What a dipstick everybody isn't on her salary she's talking utter tripe she doesn't need to move or get more hours 😡😡🤡
Wow just wow
Is this woman living in real world. Dosent she know alot of companies have gone. And alot companies. Are cutting hours. So I think she should think. Before you speak. Because the government put use into lock down
Gobshites need a reality slap
Unbeliable how out of touch with reality these mps are
AHH the Social Contract. It used to be honoured but then the Tory government moved the Goalposts Yet Again.
BrandonLewis talking 22 billion reasons not to vote for the Tory liars oap
KayBurley Just watched you interviewing the school children- bright little girl whose favourite subject is English says she wants to care for old people - shall we show her the interview with that 👆🏽 Minister - we know care workers are among the lowest paid and this gov see no value in it
The absolute state of it. FFS what is wrong with people?
Do she not think that if it was so easy, people would already have changed jobs etc. Completely out of touch.
Wow just wow, they really do just think people are lazy
Not every family is able to work more hours, children need time too. Life is not just about slave labour people have the right to living life … life is a struggle at this present moment. for some people this may look like an easy equation to solve the truth t is not.
I’m too distracted by the fake tan
Could you be more out of touch with real life? Words fail me.
I would like to be an investment banker on £500,000 per year plus. Don’t think they will take me on.
In my early 20’s I had 4 jobs for a while , 1 FT and 3 PT/eves/weekends, w only Sun eves off. Later as a single parent I worked every waking hour 7 days a week for many years. My son suffered + I had a breakdown. Kept going to survive. And I’m luckier than many.
Maybe government ministers should take pay cuts & give it to the less fortunate
Nowt wrong here! It was part of Brexit to provide opportunities and grow demand, that will mean (despite what Remoaners said) better chances to earn more and cut off the import of cheap foreign workers from EU. Opportunities for low paid here, to earn more. EU are screwed🤷♂️
Get with the real world. Wouldn't everyone move to a better paid job if they could!!
What a stupid comment, totally out of touch with reality. I'm starting to believe we're living in the hunger games era, them and us.
So someone who has panic disorder and cannot leave their house and cannot work… how are they supposed to work more hours? More importantly how are they supposed to sustain themselves on their current £5,000 a year benefits that have just been cut in real terms by Sunak?
Normal for a government minister..... not got a clue about real life
What about those that are unable to work or have limited capability to do so. How are you helping them? You as a government are not doing enough to help anybody struggling. As long as you line your pockets, that’s all that matters to you! You NEVER cared about the people!
This is the quality of thought that lives at the heart of govt. It is fkg desperate.
You've closed job centre's. And the ones that are open don't have the jobs on computer screens anymore for people to look at. They really don't have a clue how to help people. Or they don't want to help . Idiot Tories
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Support & Job Centres aren’t two things I’d put in the same sentence, personally….
I work pretty much 7 days a week and 12-14 hours a day and yet my wife and I struggle! I have to deal with people in my situation who can’t afford much so help where I can and still watch everything go up and then watch MPs and energy providers literally laugh at us! Next!!!
Deluded Tory - so far out of touch with reality like the rest of them in that party. Job Centers exist because of them in the 1st place - started with them closing the Pits.
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Utterly vacuous from the “minister”
Here is a great idea to solve the cost of living crisis, lets increase the 24 hour days into 1 week days. Brilliant! That way we only need to sleep once and we can work 30 jobs per day. That will solve the cost of living crisis overnight.
We need protection from Tories.
Yes, job centres are famously supportive environments for helping people into better paid employment.
It's what MPs do. Directorships here and there. Earn a few hundred thousand extra. Now why don't Asda workers do that? Eh? No initiative!
Hope the minster has heard this saying “ if the nation can’t afford bread they should have cake” history is full of examples when power get to the head of leaders they become delusional
God, has RosieisaHolt had work done? She looks very different. Still hilare though, nice one Rosie!
Are the ToriesUnfitToGovern out of touch with tbe public he'll yeh listen to this twaddle
Stupid cow, how the fucf do i improve my poverty, i am seriously disabled , haven’t left my bedroom for 4 years, spinal paralysis, give me more hours!! F’ng Ejit
So I move to a better paid job and some mush takes my old job . Still not everyone is winning
Unfortunately, a lot of people in government just don’t or won’t understand. They’re fortunate that they have never had to understand.
I dont know who is their supplier, but, whatever they are smoking is fcuking up their logic and they cannot stop making asreholes out themselves.
1) She definitely suggested that for one moment…. 2) 🤬
Pay MPs and lords less
And what about those who work and are carers? Can’t do more hours because every other waking hour is looking after someone else who can’t look after themselves. No time to climb ladder, can’t look for another job as you are barely holding on to the one you’ve got due to caring!!
Just another minister enjoying a high salary & expenses telling those on low incomes that it's their own fault they're not a high earner. If MPs were on performance related pay - the cabinet would be on NMW by now.
Tories catapulting the nation towards recession and then telling us to work more hours or get a better job when both are likely to be in short supply just about some up the state of this government.
brucebhoy Outside of Government, it’s a bad joke for those working for employers that will say work more overtime , it’s over the last 20yrs that annual cost of living rises have disappeared
Can’t tell if that’s a bloke or a woman
Why not run a scheme and make earnings from all second, third and beyond jobs tax-free then… since this is such a great idea…really encourage the people 🤷🏽♂️ BorisJohnson over to you.
I already work 72 hours a week £10.16ph - I’m a senior support worker on a traumatic brain injury unit - live in the south of England - rent £1200 - utilities £500 - groceries £100 - petrol £150 - insurance and tax £70 - pension 150 - tell me how many more hours I should work
What planet did she fly in from
I'm struggling to express the depth of my contempt for this individual.
I mean brexit
Utter contempt for those struggling, and it doesn’t even begin to address those people already retired…she backtracked so quickly and ultimately contradicted herself…🤦♂️
Really wen ppl can't find jobs or have left their job, coz of brevity & the pandemic has turned the hospitality industry upside down, I work in a hotel and we are short staffed, we have had to turn customers away coz of staff shortages. I'm the only kitchen assistant we have
She's 100% right - I'll add the old adage 'the Lord helps those who helps themselves'
Exact response from Australian Govt. Exact
That Rosie Holt gets everywhere. It's a parody account and not a real MP. I mean, would a real MP actually say that? Out loud? In the open, for all to hear? 😆 Erm, that's right, Rosie? Has to be you, doesn't it? RosieisaHolt
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Welcome to global Britain. Wtf
Why not get a crap job as an MP where you can claim loads of expenses
literally these people in government are morons !
And they told the EU and the immigrants were the cause of your misery…Do you now see who your real enemy is
Dear god is she human even
Access additional hours. Not a fucking clue.
Horrible dog
Yea cus employers just dish out overtime to everyone whenever they need it 🙄
I work extra hours and don’t get paid a penny more for doing so she can shut the up
jaakehanson this silly bastard wants me to work 20 hours a week 😂
The more you work the more tax you pay and you see very little reward. so there nope point in working extra.!
Hahahah, yeah and then pay more tax and national insurance so no better off anyway, all the meanwhile she gets to claim money back for all sorts of things that she doesn’t deserve too!!
Take on more hours and pay more tax. She’s living in a bubble or only thinking of how to get more money into the government’s pocket. She’s got nothing upstairs to buttress her hallucinations.
She fluffed that last bit🤣🤣🤣 no other measures but telling people to do more work. Childcare holds a lot of people back.
no..
She looks like wily coyote after unwisely going to see why the TNT didn't blow up the road runner when he passed by. That is the most charitable review I can offer, without expletives, for a response that is so lacking in humanity, economic literacy or accountability. For shame.
ElColemanc What about those already working full time or holding down multiple part time jobs? Can the government advise how those people could find extra hours in their week please? Dicks.
Hundreds of Tory MPs now seeking extra jobs (but not longer hours representing their electorate).
That easy eh. 🖕🏽
What help? Absolutely beyond crass - delusional lies. 🤬
Job centres won’t supply you a job being a fucking doctor because people just need a better paid job ffs don’t trust no government scum who are more than happy to take as big of a pay rise as they do! They need to be deducted pay and see how it feels
Spitting on the poor.
Somebody somewhere has to do those lower paid jobs! Increase the minimum wage or increase in-work benefits - to counteract the cost of living increases.
scottyconners should’ve done this one 😂 🤦🏻♂️
Let's all become mps amusing expenses hacks.. loads of money for being pompous twats. How do I apply. I can nap anywhere ..including parliament so I think I'm qualified. I can also mumble and grumble out say and say hear hear at random. In fact I'm over qualified I think
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lukelomas
Victim-blaming their own victims.
I just googled CAR CRASH & it brought me to this page... ?
There will come a Thursday night/Friday morning, when we can sit and savour watching these bastards get voted out.
Jesus fvcking Christ 🤦🏻♂️
You 🐀 cunt
Get a grip there is no well payed jobs unless your mp
Who the hell votes for views like this?
“I’m not suggesting that for one minute.” and then redditchrachel goes on to directly say that people struggling with the ToryCostOfLivingCrisis should work more hours or get a better paid job ToriesDeviodOfShame ToriesUnfitToGovern
Can I move to a better paid job please?
'No of course it's not as straightforward as I confidently just told you it is KayBurley' the government is focusing on getting people who are in absolute poverty into high wage high growth jobs. That's our answer to food bank need thenitinsawhney CarolHu43989992 Haggis_UK
More hours and better pay, why didn’t I think of this!
Sorry? She says she's put help into schools to help people who can't get those extra hours/ better paid jobs. Did I miss something, what does helping schools have to do with that? [God knows schools need more funding but how did that tie in to people needing more hours]
So the answer to the poverty crisis, is simple Just get more money! How incredible the intellect of our ruling classes!
Check out how much she claimed in expenses last year !!!
Job centres ? What job centres ? None where I live
Hmmm wonder if we can just claim extra money on expenses too. Perhaps could research how much these ministers are claiming per year - alright for some.
Lots of jobs don’t pay fir extra hours! Most office workers are on a fixed contract and the only way they can earn more is by taking a second job! What a bizarre country this is
Bit hard to tell the difference between this and spoof Tory MP “Rosie Holt”, who called for the enslavement of old people!
“In not suggesting that for one moment…..er….except when I suggested it one moment ago and do again straight away.” Do these people listen to themselves?
We need to be taking to the streets. This is unforgivable. Who votes for these idiots
This is the MP who suggested 65 year old women, who had been robbed of their pension, should get an apprenticeship. Offensive. The apprenticeship website was discriminating at the time, advertising many for ‘young’ people. 2020comms Waspi
I believe we should cut ministers salaries they earn far too much, also expenses should be mostly scrapped altogether why on earth are we giving so much money to these idiots who think people can work day and night or just walk into a better paid job. StopTheRot
Are the Sky News journalists too stupid to understand what she said or are they lying to generate a story? She clearly said that growing the economy will provide the opportunity for more hours or higher paid work. People complain about zero-hours contracts don't they?
ToryScum
Now we know how johnson really thinks of the working class,they kept this quiet when they elected him,johnson,sunak,gove,hogg, rabb and many more should resign now 🙄
siddyward
Basically, it's your fault.
No breaks - against employment law. 10 hrs unpaid o/t try the public sector if you want to know what a full week is. Go try your hand at something else ‘cos of course the grass is always greener on the other side
These people are so out of touch with the real world it’s laughable! She has no idea whatsoever at what’s happening in everyday life in some households. How people can vote for individuals like her is beyond belief, she only cares about one person - herself!
What a total joke this Government is. Get more hours, move to a better paid job? These people really don't live in the real world do they? If it wasn't such a crisis, it would be something you'd see Harry Enfield doing as a sketch in the 80's
She’s clueless.
So out of touch with the current times we live in 🤬🤬
Baroness Margaret is that you
ToriesTakeThePiss JohnsonOut112
Appalling cometherevolution
A different way of saying, 'let them eat cake'
Wicket_Weir When do they introduce gas chambers for the sick, disabled and poor? Can’t be long now… 🤬😡🤬
Charles83230639 Oh. 😱
Based on her advice think I’ll become an MP
Love the bit where she tried to list all the way that the government is already helping and then can't lost anything. Fucking clueless
Next they'll be re opening work houses!
Abysmal
The answer to not having enough money is to get more money. Obvs innit 🤣
This reminds me of rickygervais bit from Politics 'the CEO of Nike has amassed 5.2 billion dollars and for a female worker in one of his sweatshops, in China, to earn that, she’d have to work 7 days a week, 8 hours a day, for 10,000 years. But they don’t want to! Lazy…'
I've put in the time and now I require the pay. I watched all 100 seconds of that drivelling imbecile who has no understanding of the lived experiences of people she represents or how the support structures she references work.
Oh wow. So out of touch
If this government blob says this twoddle in public just imagine behind closed doors. A government with no answers, just greedy trough gobblers and out of touch.
Get stuffed ya head case
I've lost count of utterly incompetent Tory Ministers.
I thought the Thatcher years were horrific but these guys are dead-eyed ghouls
Who is voting for these people?! I just despair.
Ahh, Tories *finally* see how ROYALLY frizzed they are! They acknowledge they’ve hit us hard. We’re struggling; Business owners can’t afford their employees, and closing up shop. Of course they spin it, *we* brought it on ourselves. “Get Better Jobs!” ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG! GOSH!
I am a Safeguarding Administrator. If we all left for a better paid job, who would process safeguarding concerns, arrange, coordinate and minute safeguarding meetings. Along with all the other tasks we complete for our community
Slightly off topic, but why does she look like she's applied her makeup with a hammer?
So thats every NHS employee quoting their jobs then? 🤔
This is why these people are ministers. They have unique insights into the world of the ordinary person, understand their struggles and have the expertise to come up with solutions to the problems we are all facing.
Maybe time to educate our government Or better: put knowledgeable people into gvt positions for a change? Great article 👇👇👇
As a care worker, this has really made me rage. Most of my colleagues already do plenty of overtime (no enhancement either). Should we all get sales jobs instead? Who needs care workers anyway? toriesdontcare
How many Civil servants are still working from home! sorry NOT working from home taking tax payers money.
If this were stand-up, eggs and tomatoes would fly. Sadly, this is real. I cannot believe how English people enjoy getting pissed on every day. Must be the collective Saville gene acting up. England, because the other three so don't want this sick lot around. Many English do.
Oil oil!!! Binmen. Get better paid jobs. Let the RATS come and eat the rich
I wonder if these ministers are coming out with this crap on purpose so our attention is diverted away from what they’re quietly doing behind the scenes
I have to laugh at the British public for fucking themselves over again and again putting these soulless bastards in power. Was Brexit worth it? You now have the choice between a Labour leader that supports Tory tyranny and criminal Boris. The UK didn't deserve Jeremy Corbyn.
This government is so out of touch its scary
So can you wander into a job centre and look for another if you already are employed I’m not sure. I thought you needed an appointment because you are unemployed to even get over the door of the job centre and see a job coach.
I watched this expecting it to be a out of touch ridiculousness, but it’s not that bad. Usual babble of commentators twisting her words. There’s some people who can’t work harder or change jobs. There’s some who can. But we need to get mad about something today I guess.
redditchrachel tell us how to do that then please
Can’t believe they didn’t think of that themselves.
How long before we hear a minister say 'If you've got kids, stop sponging off the state by sending them to school and get them out to work to support your family. Why aren't parents taking these reasonable steps if they're struggling financially?'
kbaker_x
Minister! My grandson an apprentice in building industry made redundant minutes notice,any ideas minister?
Yet another MP who has never really wanted for anything, never worried about rent / mortgage or putting food on the table, purely by accident of birth. They really need to walk a mile in the shoes of others before pontificating.
So Rachel, are you suggesting international students should break the immigration law and work for more than 20 hours? Hey Priti, see what your colleague is suggesting.
What would we do without such helpful Kleptocrat expense-claiming Ministers to advise us? I'm sure there will be millions of people just brimming over with gratitude & saying to themselves 'why didn't WE think of that?'. Here's to the meritocracy!!
She is the one needing help. Clearly no idea of the effect Tory policies have on real people.
redditchrachel is thick as mince and so out of touch with the daily struggles of ordinary working class families - it should be an embarrassment to this Government for a Minister to come out with crass nonsense like this but with these ToriesDeviodOfShame it won’t be
If people didn't want to be poor they would simply be rich
I have no confidence in Boris Johnson as prime minister or as a MP. RT, then Copy and paste. JohnsonOut111
Don't teach people how to suck f***ing eggs! Honestly, Kay, how do you manage to keep your cool when you get answers like this is beyond me! CostOfLivingCrisis
What about public servants who have suffered a 20% pay cut in r era l terms over the last decade thanks to the policies of your administration
Spoken like someone in a privileged position that does not have money worries. So out of touch with reality it’s frightening. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer it’s a disgrace
My god, they really have no understanding at all of the real world do they?
The way she stutters when listing how the government have helped lmao
I want to move to become a professional footballer. I’m sure they’ll have me at 41 and being shit at it but the moneys better 👍
Why don’t we all become MP’s….that way we can fiddle our expenses, lie about everything, hand out lucrative contracts to friends and family etc….cost of living crisis? What crisis? 🤷♂️🤦🏼♂️
That is an incredibly good idea, well done here, I'm told she also paints fences on windy days.
For a large subset of the population there are no better paid jobs available. Wages relative to national GDP have shrunk in real terms since the 70’s. The living wage is a joke Zero hours contracts are a con Fire and rehire is oppressive You have has 12 years
They have no plan. All resources are devoted to hiving off state assets to their network and to Brexit. They’re not even discussing the cost of living, and they won’t until people such as Rashford and Monroe humiliate them.
Genius idea! I'm sure it hasn't occurred to those having 3 bad paid jobs say cleaning to go and work for a hedge fund! Help with local authorities? Their budget has been cut by 60% since 2012!
What on earth do teachers and social workers think they are doing in socially useful jobs when they could be parasite hedge fund managers and currency trade?
‘If you’re homeless just buy a house’ energy this
It’s not a new concept to take a second job or work overtime, not many years ago people did actually work 60/70 hour weeks. However the benefits system at present leaves that concept pointless, so would have to be overhauled to make working more actually pay like it should
Look at those soulless, dead eyes. These psychopaths are who you want in charge? The majority of people in poverty in the UK are in full time work! They don’t get paid enough, the government royally screwed up the economy and chose to attack the poor to protect the wealthy.
Yeah great work/life balance.
So if the low paid, long hours, essential Keyworkers move to better paid Bullshitjobs doing slide presentations and Zoom calls all day, who is going to who is going to do the essential keyworkers work?
I don’t understand. Why aren’t more people millionaires?
redditchrachel Even you don’t believe this while you are droning on. Shame on you
Unbelievable. ‘Ignorant’ doesn’t really touch the sides of it. Who is she?
Cruel and deluded!
I wonder if she’s ever gone to bed cold and hungry
Clueless
Stupid minister more job more hours is she serious ?
Poor people, please just get richer
tamcohen What if their unpaid carers..on 24. 7.. hrs?
Have you though about earning more money as a solution to your financial problems? This 'poverty' is well easy to solve.
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