Jack Monroe #136 We lived in a house, it had a roof

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Also, this eight year old Feeding Britain report that she's STILL banging on about?

This is her contribution:

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‘But in order to improve the lives of people living in hardship, the voices of those in the eyes of their own personal storms need to be raised and not talked over by well-meaning people keen to charge to the front of the furore.’ Shut the duck up then, you shark eyed cretin. Nothing to do with you.

The thing is, it wasn’t anything to do with her TEN YEARS AGO. We found out this week that she didn’t even apply for benefits because of her snobby, Tory ways. She went poor for 10 months because she chose to, not because of the benefit system (which I know is tit and does genuinely cause spirals of financial shitdoom).

Since then she’s become a bestselling author (duck knows how but she likes to tell Twitter enemies this before immediately saying she’s too poor to by a £1.29 block of butter and lard will do)... became engaged to a millionaire, then engaged to another wealthy woman, has done numerous appearances, partnerships and written more books. And she has the gall to write in a national newspaper that she is financially unstable?!? What the actual duck.

I will be writing to the Guardian to say, maybe get the opinion of some people who HAVE had experience of Universal Credit bleeping up. Those who have had their child on FSM. Those who have had to handover vouchers to the assistant and explain: “No, I don’t need a clubcard to use that, they’re for poor children on FSM.”
Without 🔺 myself, I ended up in a world of tit last year for pointing out issues with universal credit and it went to a local newspaper. Lost my job, had people saying ‘people like me’ (an ex-teacher doing a masters who happens to have two children) shouldn’t have children, my degree was useless, also, I should jump off a bridge. The most insulting was telling me to get a nose job 🤣 It’s not even big! You stick the words ‘single mum’ and ‘benefits’ in a headline and you are a scumbag. UNLESS you’re Jack Monroe and it leads to a life of Viv Westwood, millionaire girlfriends and Cotswolds coming out of your ears. Can you tell I am fummin’?!
 
From that Guardian article.

“But I can’t help feel that, well-intentioned as it is, writing a letter calling for a review feels like sitting in a house that is well alight and musing over where you should have put the smoke detector.”

Not only shitting on JO, TK & MR’s efforts, but contradicting herself yet again. When #Thunderclap was her bandwagon of the week, she demanded everyone write letters to their MP demanding better pay for the NHS... but now letters are pointless apparently.
 
NP said:
From that Guardian article.

“But I can’t help feel that, well-intentioned as it is, writing a letter calling for a review feels like sitting in a house that is well alight and musing over where you should have put the smoke detector.”

Not only shitting on JO, TK & MR’s efforts, but contradicting herself yet again. When #Thunderclap was her bandwagon of the week, she demanded everyone write letters to their MP demanding better pay for the NHS... but now letters are pointless apparently.
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She’s still very pissed off she wasn’t considered for that letter.
 
NP said:
From that Guardian article.

“But I can’t help feel that, well-intentioned as it is, writing a letter calling for a review feels like sitting in a house that is well alight and musing over where you should have put the smoke detector.”

Not only shitting on JO, TK & MR’s efforts, but contradicting herself yet again. When #Thunderclap was her bandwagon of the week, she demanded everyone write letters to their MP demanding better pay for the NHS... but now letters are pointless apparently.
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She just can't help herself, can she? Your bitterness is showing, Jack.
 
I imagine that the world of top celebrity TV chefs is close knit. Jamie and Tom are most probably friends with old Forearms Tebbut.

Would love to see the whatts app group messages about the challenges of working with Queen of Poverty.... Could that be why she was left off the letter?
 
NP said:
From that Guardian article.

“But I can’t help feel that, well-intentioned as it is, writing a letter calling for a review feels like sitting in a house that is well alight and musing over where you should have put the smoke detector.”

Not only shitting on JO, TK & MR’s efforts, but contradicting herself yet again. When #Thunderclap was her bandwagon of the week, she demanded everyone write letters to their MP demanding better pay for the NHS... but now letters are pointless apparently.
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Wow, such solidarity with the other "key campaigners".
 
The public letter with her name nowhere in site has to be biggest snub that anyone can get. It's like handing around the work birthday card but purposely making sure it passes and it's not even for you.

She's raging and arse licking RM to still have a bit of involvement. They need to do something else now, grab, Emma, Hugh and Tom and Marcus and RM and do like a big joint press release or similar.
 
NP said:
From that Guardian article.

“But I can’t help feel that, well-intentioned as it is, writing a letter calling for a review feels like sitting in a house that is well alight and musing over where you should have put the smoke detector.”

Not only shitting on JO, TK & MR’s efforts, but contradicting herself yet again. When #Thunderclap was her bandwagon of the week, she demanded everyone write letters to their MP demanding better pay for the NHS... but now letters are pointless apparently.
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It's rage inducing - the total lack of self-awareness, the hypocrisy, just the all-round 'it's great if it's my idea but tit if it isn't my idea' attitude. God, it's incessant..
 
Lanie said:
The public letter with her name nowhere in site has to be biggest snub that anyone can get. It's like handing around the work birthday card but purposely making sure it passes and it's not even for you.

She's raging and arse licking RM to still have a bit of involvement. They need to do something else now, grab, Emma, Hugh and Tom and Marcus and RM and do like a big joint press release or similar.
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The roof would surely blow off the crappy bungalow on that day.
 
When she finds out about the Rowntree Foundation her mind is going to be blown!

And yes, as ever, she has missed a trick with the garlic- with uncertain times ahead there could be Some good interest in swapping things out/store cupboard swaps or back ups. Powdered garlic - I have “just in case” and if I want to add it I put it in a bit of oil ahead of time, rather than adding the dry powder to whatever I’m making. I also buy fresh garlic in bulk and chop it and freeze it in blocks.
I guess because she’s such an ardent foodie she just wants fresh....oh wait.
 
LyraBalaqua said:
..... and I wish she’d stop talking about being ‘financially secure’.

Not everyone who rents or had a mortgage has savings in the bank and financial security, there are plenty of us who aren’t financially secure , if we lose jobs we’re all up tit creek , not just Jack, call me poor, Monroe.
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For most, financial security is an illusion anyway. Unless you have huge savings, all of us are months away from poverty. That's why anyone with a brain should campaign for fair wages and a robust welfare system, not whether the price of garlic has increased.

I've come to the conclusion that she's not very bright.
 
Scarletfever said:
Compare and contrast yesterday's vapid trash with this:

https://www.12ft.io/https://www.the...food-superhero-child-hunger-free-school-meals
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Wonderful man, great article. Warms my cynical heart.
A harsh contrast making that ZW/ JM look absolutely ridiculous. It was ridiculous anyway, but this just made it even clearer.

ZW has got a privileged background. She, like many other people can't be 'blamed' for not being able to relate to poverty and her bullshit detector was not switched on with JM. This is me keeping things as neutral as I can be. She is therefore not qualified to write about certain things. Most privileged people are absolutely blind to a variety of life situations. The combination of JM and her doing an article has produced the worst result. I sometimes wonder what Julie Burchill thinks about JM.
 
Scarletfever said:
Also, this eight year old Feeding Britain report that she's STILL banging on about?

This is her contribution:

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I'm pretty much the same age as Jack and I remember a time when foodbanks weren't so predominant. They seemed to swell in number after the 2010 GE. I think it's appalling that we are now in a situation where they are an accepted fact of life. What Jack's said here is pretty much 'I think work houses should stay open because they are a port of call for the destitute.'
 
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