Yes, prime minister, it’s a scandal so many of us are signed off work. Maybe you Tories should stop making us ill | Zoe Williams

Pushback on this new narrative of cruelty has so far been pathetic: at the most, you might hear a minister challenged on the scarcity of NHS mental health provision.

Waiting times for severe mental illness besides psychosis aren’t recorded and people describe it as endless limbo.

Conservative governments have driven people to despair, and now they want to engage us in a conversation about snowflakes Debt, precarious housing, low wages, punitive benefit sanctions – any one of these factors might reasonably cause a person to fear for their existence.

Successive Conservative governments have driven a large number of people to despair and now they want to engage us in a conversation about snowflakes.

Universal credit, introduced 11 years ago, was never benchmarked to a meaningful assessment of need, with the result that 90% of households claiming it, as of last summer, are unable to afford the essentials.

If there is anything more disgusting than the sight of a half-billionaire rolling up his sleeves for a “benefits crackdown” in the middle of a cost of living crisis, the realities of which he wouldn’t be able to imagine even if it occurred to him to try, I can’t think of it.