Comedian Rosie Jones praised for powerful speech on Question Time: ‘Stop ignoring disabled people’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I was going to say that disabled people are overlooked, but they are not, they are deliberately ignored because disabled people need more care and more money and I don’t feel like as a disabled person, I am getting the care and support I need right now.” Jones also discussed the replacement of the Disability Living Allowance benefit with the Personal Independence Payment, saying that she was one of 650,000 people who had had their benefits reduced in the move. “Luckily I can work harder, I can push myself, but a lot of disabled people are now on the poverty line because they were assessed by a stranger for 10 minutes who would look at them and go, ‘Hmmm, what do you need?’ That just makes my blood boil.” She ended her speech with a closing statement, saying: “Stop ignoring disabled people, we make up 22 per cent of the population. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free “Beyond nauseating to see Matt Hancock ‘nodding’ to Rosie Jones’s blistering denunciation of the immiseration of hundreds of thousands of disabled people by Tory cuts to benefits,” one viewer tweeted. Rosie Jones on @bbcquestiontime – pulling no punches on treatment of people with a disability – didn’t miss @MattHancock,” another tweeted “Rosie Jones on BBC Question Time bringing me to tears, such powerful words,” another commented, while one viewer wrote that Jones was “the best panelist I have seen on QT”.