I was unemployed for ten years. Basically the whole of my 20s. During that period, as now, unemployed people were relentlessly demonized and scapegoated. Including by (then prominent) Labour MPs. One of the things I liked about Corbyn was his refusal to engage in this rhetoric.

Imagine a society where we had a well funded and effective safety net, which people could access without having their heads stamped on for it? That's what I thought Corbyn's Labour was working towards. A humane rather than punitive welfare state.

The Guardian spent five years trying to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Beyond Owen Jones, George Monbiot and Dawn Foster (and Jones and Monbiot soured on Corbyn for a while) there was almost no positive coverage of him, his policies or his vision at all.

Some of the journalists at the newspaper who played a key role in trashing Corbyn's personal and political reputation are now facing redundancy. You wouldn't wish unemployment on anyone, especially not in this awful country.

But it's a bit rich that some of us who are or who've been long term unemployed, and supported Corbyn precisely because we thought he was on our side, are now being called shits for refusing to fund the organisation that helped to destroy him.

The Guardian barely showed an ounce of solidarity with us, and now they want us to show solidarity with them. Well, maybe we can show solidarity with sacked Guardian workers by continuing to struggle for a more humane and less punitive welfare system.

The Guardian - which once called Iain Duncan-Smith 'the last champion of the poor' - didn't lift a finger to help us in that struggle, actively hindered it, and they won't get a penny from me.