Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of polyester. And I'm I'm Iione, the founding editor-in-chief of polyester, and this is The Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Before we start, we've just relaunched our membership platform to include loads of new perks, including exclusive podcast-centred ones.

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rate subscribe and review do you have any reviews ione we do this is from apple podcasts five

stars by goodnight cassie laughs and insight these girls give me the best leap over conversation

makes me laugh and also stops the

conservative aunt trying to grow in me down in her tracks. Love their nitpicking of culture and also

how counted their opinions are. Love them even when I have the hardest time understanding

what they say because of the accent, which I love and there is a charm in deciphering and learning

new slang. All the love from Mexico. Thank you. Good night, Cassie. That's really cute. That's gorgeous. So Al-Chair speaks law. Anyway. So, and on Spotify, Molly Wilkinson says, really great episode. This is on last week of The Morning Shed. Thanks for bringing up the environmental aspect. And then Gussie O'Relli says, why do you put this one in? Because it's funny. I'm so embarrassed. Go on, say it. In the next episode, could we please have a type 15 about sleep vaping, just dropping it in there and immediately moving on was too cruel. Well, maybe we'll do it as a. Oh, secret mini episode. Subscribe a mini episode. Why not, eh? A. Because she's doing an ASMR and it's just so you like ripping fat baits. No.

Okay. mini episode yeah why not eh a we should do an asml and it's just so you like ripping fat babes no no no no okay okay okay what we're talking about today or today we are talking about the

absolute fuckery of the british government and why we hate them and the fact that they are cutting disability

benefit for loads of people and they're just being nasty nasty right what what disability benefit

do they cut in well they're changing loads of. So the main one that everyone's talking about is

PIP, which stands for personal independent payment. And what are they cutting about it, G? They're

changing the rules on how you can get it, as well as the way that, how much it is as well. So

currently you can get a split into two factions, so there's mobility and life. So you can get a payment that will help so there's mobility and life so you can get a payment that

will help you be mobile essentially so that can be anything from like get um like a lift to get out of bed

or like a carer to come around to like help you get out of bed and stuff like that or even like having an

accessible car to having even just paying for taxis to cut about town in.

Even just having a car, I think, like, it's been going off on Twitter because, like,

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