Why Britain's on Benefits - Fraser Nelson

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Fraser Nelson is the former Editor of The Spectator, a Columnist for The Times and Sunday Times and in this interview discusses his Channel 4 Dispatches documentary "Britain's Benefits Scandal". Follow Fraser on X: https://x.com/FraserNelson SPONSOR. Augusta Precious Metals: learn more at https://learn.augustapreciousmetals.com/trigger SPONSOR. Manscaped. Get 20% Off PLUS Free Shipping with the code TRIGGER at https://manscaped.com Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Introduction 04:29 How Much Benefit Fraud Is Going On? 10:42 Learned Helplessness 16:44 Augusta Precious Metals Advert 19:40 The Escalation Of Mental Health 25:00 How Much Of This Is Government Bureaucracy Unable To Act 30:40 The Financial Cost 44:20 Manscaped Advert 45:41 Effect On Employers 47:45 Fraser's Immigration Article 55:34 What Is The British Dream? 01:01:44 Immigration And Ethnicity Debate 01:24:01 What's The Thing We're Not Talking About That We Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What we're doing is basically writing them off and discharging ourselves as a society,
0:09.0	any sort of duty towards them beyond sending them a check.
0:13.0	The problem is not those claiming, the problem is the system.
0:16.0	You actually get more money and you'll never get checked upon again,
0:19.0	there's an 80% acceptance ratio.
0:24.4	So is a system being abused? Of course it is.
0:28.1	But the fault lies with a system that's so wide open to abuse.
0:32.0	Our system is robbing work of its economic purpose and denying people the dignity and the ability to improve their lives.
0:36.4	By the way, no other country has got anything like this problem.
0:38.9	Really? Yeah, yeah.
0:39.8	We can't keep doing this, can we?
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1:13.9	Rosen Nelson, welcome to Shignometry.
1:15.6	It's a great owners to be here.
1:16.9	That's great to have you.
1:17.8	We've been keen to speak to you for a long time.
1:19.8	You had a very, very, very busy job when you were editing the spectator and never
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