Britons are 'lazy' and 'addicted to benefits', China claims

Aberdeenangarse

Jin Liqun, chairman of China Investment Corporation (CIC), the nation's sovereign wealth fund, warned that Europeans should "work a bit harder" if they want to pull the eurozone out of recession.

He said people in the West are too reliant on welfare payments and the benefits system, looking for external solutions to the debt crisis rather than tackling the problem from within.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8837768/Britons-are-lazy-and-addicted-to-benefits-China-claims.html

They had a really good interview with him on C4 News last night. He certainly tells it as he sees it!

Wookster

His message that we (as a nation & economic bloc) need to
- work harder
- work longer
- work for less
is certainly correct if we want to regain competitiveness.

Butterfly_Brain

This is coming from a country that has no human rights and miniscule wages filling the world with cheap plastic sh*t

ILW

As opposed to much of the west which pay high wages and produce expensive platic !!!! which nobody wants to buy.

IveSeenTheLight

Aberdeenangarse wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8837768/Britons-are-lazy-and-addicted-to-benefits-China-claims.html

They had a really good interview with him on C4 News last night. He certainly tells it as he sees it!

They are brought up with a work ethic.
In Malaysia, the chinese school children must go to school on a Saturday, if they have had a public holiday off through the week.
There are no "free" days.

It's quite commendable really.

compare that to the UK, who have multiple and lengthy holidays, public holidays, in service days etc

undetterred

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

This is coming from a country that has no human rights and miniscule wages filling the world with cheap plastic sh*t

Don't forget they eat our canine friends also.

MacMickster

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

This is coming from a country that has no human rights and miniscule wages filling the world with cheap plastic sh*t

Unfortunately, while people in the west continue to buy "cheap" products from countries where the workforce have few rights and slave wages then we are faced with a race to the bottom if we want to compete.

When economic times are tough, individuals will automatically look to cut their costs by going for cheaper products. This rewards the BRIC economies and ultimately weakens economies in the west.

We need to introduce massive import tariffs with a promise to reduce these as the BRICs improve the rights of their populations.

We also need to realise that there is only so much wealth in the world, and there is inevitably going to be redistribution of that wealth as these new aggressive economies grow. Our standards of living will inevitably fall as less of the world's wealth will be concentrated in the west.

FTBFun

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

They are brought up with a work ethic.
In Malaysia, the chinese school children must go to school on a Saturday, if they have had a public holiday off through the week.
There are no "free" days.

It's quite commendable really.

compare that to the UK, who have multiple and lengthy holidays, public holidays, in service days etc

How dare people have holidays!

Lazy sods.

Generali

MacMickster wrote: »

Unfortunately, while people in the west continue to buy "cheap" products from countries where the workforce have few rights and slave wages then we are faced with a race to the bottom if we want to compete.

When economic times are tough, individuals will automatically look to cut their costs by going for cheaper products. This rewards the BRIC economies and ultimately weakens economies in the west.

We need to introduce massive import tariffs with a promise to reduce these as the BRICs improve the rights of their populations.

We also need to realise that there is only so much wealth in the world, and there is inevitably going to be redistribution of that wealth as these new aggressive economies grow. Our standards of living will inevitably fall as less of the world's wealth will be concentrated in the west.

Your standard of living will fall a lot faster and harder if the Government introduces protectionist policies and starts a trade war. That would be the dumbest post-war economic policy since Nationalisation. Worse than the various fixed exchange rate schemes!

CLAPTON

MacMickster wrote: »

We also need to realise that there is only so much wealth in the world, and there is inevitably going to be redistribution of that wealth as these new aggressive economies grow. Our standards of living will inevitably fall as less of the world's wealth will be concentrated in the west.

Is that is the same way that our standards of living have fallen since the rise of USA since 1900s?

crazyguy

I would rather live in a Country that as he put is lazy rather than a Country where you cannot have free speech.