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Yesterday on Newsnight:
Victoria Derbyshire challenges Darren Jones over the govt taking PIP away from disabled people. They will lose an average of £4,500 a year
Darren Jones responds: "The really important point is, we're not taking money away from them right now"
Don't worry poors, you've got *years* of sleepless nights to worry about whether you're going to starve 
Oh well thank gods for that. Here's me being so ungrateful that I could die. But at least I've got a couple of years to stress and worry about it first. How kind of them...
@VulpineDruid No chance it's going to plunge people on the edge, or recently recovered from illness, back into desperation, or exacerbate the mental/physical health of those suffering already of course 
Oh of course not, how dare anyone insinuate that! They should be happy, its giving them the change to get off their lazy behinds and get a job. Their quality of life and mental and physical health will improve greatly!
@VulpineDruid @fkamiah17 That would be the same Darren Jones [in Reeves department] that said benefits were ‘pocket Money’, and she used similar terminology.
@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz@HarriettMB @VulpineDruid Yep, I saw she'd "rebuked" him this morning, despite using the exact same analogy herself on LBC yesterday.
@fkamiah17 @VulpineDruid Performative bullshit. We now know exactly what they think of us all, especially those who live on very, very limited budgets. I never expected that I would loathe the #Labour party even more than I loathed the #Tory party. But that’s where we are today.
Forced labour party, it seemed.
Pocket money. I'd spit in her face. They really want to talk about pocket money with all the damn handouts they get?
@VulpineDruid @HarriettMB Honestly, at some periods in my (quite) recent history, the amounts of money I've had left over at the end of the month after paying bills, transport and food wouldn't even rise to the level of pocket money
Also: forced labour party needs a meme. That's excellent.
Considering rent is going up, yet again. My rent has gone up £100 a month in total since I moved in at the very end of 2019.
I'm supposed to be in affordable housing. Soon I'm gonna be paying more than those fuckers for my rent.
I couldn't help myself. Its funny cause its true. 
@VulpineDruid @HarriettMB I'm really lucky to live in social housing - I think mine's gone up about £20 in the six years I've lived here. I get a bus pass now because of the epilepsy too, so I'm (relatively) better off than back then.
Oh yeah. I'm in social housing too. Its crazy how much my rent has gone up.
I need to apply for a bus pass actually. I just keep forgetting to do it. I have a blue badge already, just need the bus pass. Gotta collect them all.
@VulpineDruid @HarriettMB Crikey, that sounds like an enormous rise for social housing! Are you in England?
*Definitely* get a bus pass! And a discount rail card. I'm really glad I had a support worker when I first got diagnosed with epilepsy or I wouldn't have known any of this stuff (or been able to manage my house move without spending significantly more money that I didn't have).
I am indeed in England. Wonder why mine has risen so much compared to others. I'm not in London or the like expensive areas either... Oh right. Poor tax. That's probably why.
@VulpineDruid @HarriettMB The reason I asked is that councils in England are much skinter than those where I am in Wales (and have less redress, through not having a separate mechanism through devolution). It's a guess, but it might explain it. Council services in general here have retained many more services and of a better quality than in England.
Honestly, England sucks. If the drugged up chavs arent trying to kill you, the government are.
@VulpineDruid @HarriettMB Ain't that the truth. Best thing that ever happened to me was being rehoused here from hospital