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

crazyguy

Greenthumb wrote: »

They are for the most part entirely correct. Most British people are lazy. A large percentage of British people are also fat/obese. Generally active and busy people aren't fat.

As are a lot of other cultures in the world, what a stupid statement to make.

The_White_Horse

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Oh dear can we not spell uneducated

Only because jumped up people like you treat people who work in service industries such as cleaning etc like they are beneath them.
I have worked in some of these so called jobs which are long hours, low pay and being treated like crap.
The only reason that foreign workers get the jobs is that they will put up with it.

clearly it was a typo. but well done. with skills like that, you must have been king of the cleaners.

anyway, that is the reason why foreign workers should eat and brits who don't want to "put up with it" should starve.

alexlyne

jojo1964 wrote: »

Lets go back to social security being a safety net and not a lifestyle choice

It's not a safety net, it's a blimmin hammock!
(probably with a waiter standing by with a cocktail in a pineapple).

I have more opinions, but too lazy to write them.

lvader

Sorry to point out the obvious flaw in this thread. We aren't in the Eurozone! :rotfl:

ruggedtoast

A lot of statements that Chinese officials make is for the benefit of their domestic audiences not for foreign ones.

Chinese people do work hard, there is no doubt about that, but they dont really have a choice in many cases.

There is also a difference between 1) working hard, 2) working smart, and 3) working long so as to appear to be working hard and smart.

I have spent a lot of time in Asia, especially Japan and there is definitely a culture of number 3, but its sometimes to the detriment of #1 and #2.

Someone who knows at 5pm that they are going to be in the office until 11pm whether they have any more work to do or not, and is terrified of losing their job because there isnt an adequate welfare state, is not going to be a productive, creative, happy worker. Which are what we need now, not an army of subservient barely paid drones slaving over tasks that can be fully automated.

Light manufacturing is topping out in China. It is far from clear how well they are going to do with moving to a knowledge based economy centred around entrepreneurs and innovation where citizens are meant to jump on a plane, spend two weeks in business meetings in NYC then fly home and find they cant open the bbc website and then see their yoga teacher has been sent to prison for engaging in dissident activities because they handed out a leaflet.

That said, there is a strata of society in the UK who see working rather than signing on, as a peculiar lifestyle choice taken by other people, and that has to stop.

Butterfly_Brain

The_White_Horse wrote: »

clearly it was a typo. but well done. with skills like that, you must have been king of the cleaners.

anyway, that is the reason why foreign workers should eat and brits who don't want to "put up with it" should starve.

Actually I have a degree in chemistry and that was an extra job to help pay the bills.
I would like to see you go to work at 5am and clean toilets for a pittance

Thrugelmir

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

.......and we buy it.

As we'd prefer to buy it cheap rather than pay more and provide work to someone based in the UK.