My neighbours get benefits. The husband is a very unwell man with all sorts of awful conditions that all interact and leave him really quite limited - his wife is his carer. He was given a lifetime grant of DLA, and she was able to claim carer's allowance.
They were then told they had to reapply - and their forms were lost in the post. The first they heard about this was when they were informed that all of their benefits would be removed. They had to go through the whole application process again, including an interview, which sounds absolutely awful - the interviewer was appallingly rude to them. This all started in August - they are only just now sorted out. They've had virtually nothing to live on for all that time. The stress has been awful for them - and has actually made him even sicker.
This guy - he's not going to get any better. These are not curable illnesses that he has. He is going to get worse, if anything - the status quo is the best he can hope for. And it makes me so angry that the JRMs and the rest of them would dismiss them as 'scroungers' because they claim benefits, when both of them would and have worked hard - the wife lost the ends of her fingers at work, FFS! Yet the whole system is weighted against them. And it's shit, it really is.
Sorry, I know that isn't Brexity as such but I saw we were ranting generally, and it makes me so angry that people, real people, get caught up in all these little games that amuse Rees-Mogg and all his friends. I worry about the poor communities that will be losing EU funding - the Welsh seaside town that I visited last year, that had a little plaque on the sea defences to say the EU had paid for them. Who will pay up when they need renewing? It won't be the party of Mogg and Austerity, will it?
Bastards. Bastards!