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

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OhhBacon said:
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?
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ooooh, I've got a 'would you rather'

Would you rather see the WhatsApp of

Chefs and people she's worked with
OR
SB's step mum's school mum group?
 
From Potatoes:

I was evicted from my flat with a toddler when my Housing Benefit was suspended because I was deemed to have made myself deliberately unemployed by having a baby within the confines of a job whose flexible working patterns were a paper policy rather than a reality.

From other sources:

* She moved out of the home she shared with a partner in October 2011
* She quit the fire service in November 2011
* She moved out of her executive flat in October 2012. She explicitly says that she chose to do this because, although she could afford the rent, it didn't have a garden, parking etc
* By the end of 2012, she was a self-employed crafter/photographer and had started writing for the Southend Echo

So when were you evicted, Jack?
 
Does anyone remember the way she acted on twitter around the time of MR's first successful campaign? It was the time of "potatoes".

IIRC she was tweeting that the conversation was so triggering to her that she wasn't able to get involved.

So glad she's recovered now that there's money on the table for articles and tv appearances. It's a miracle :rolleyes:
 
colouredlines said:
From Potatoes:

I was evicted from my flat with a toddler when my Housing Benefit was suspended because I was deemed to have made myself deliberately unemployed by having a baby within the confines of a job whose flexible working patterns were a paper policy rather than a reality.

From other sources:

* She moved out of the home she shared with a partner in October 2011
* She quit the fire service in November 2011
* She moved out of her executive flat in October 2012. She explicitly says that she chose to do this because, although she could afford the rent, it didn't have a garden, parking etc
* By the end of 2012, she was a self-employed crafter/photographer and had started writing for the Southend Echo

So when were you evicted, Jack?
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I'd love to see a website with each one of her spurious claims laid out just like this.
 
MooBelle said:
Can you imagine her trying to carry someone out of a burning building?
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You are clearly forgetting she could carry a 15-stone body across her shoulders.

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Screenshot from @OhhBacon, 17th April 2020, thread #4.
 
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colouredlines said:
From Potatoes:

I was evicted from my flat with a toddler when my Housing Benefit was suspended because I was deemed to have made myself deliberately unemployed by having a baby within the confines of a job whose flexible working patterns were a paper policy rather than a reality.

From other sources:

* She moved out of the home she shared with a partner in October 2011
* She quit the fire service in November 2011
* She moved out of her executive flat in October 2012. She explicitly says that she chose to do this because, although she could afford the rent, it didn't have a garden, parking etc
* By the end of 2012, she was a self-employed crafter/photographer and had started writing for the Southend Echo

So when were you evicted, Jack?
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Also she would not have been expected to look for work because she had a young child. Under the system at that time she would have been entitled to Income Support, Child Tax Credit, Child Benefit and Housing and Council Tax Benefit. The intentional unemployment rule would not have applied to to her as it's not part of those benefits so her decision to leave work is irrelevant. If she was evicted at all which I doubt looking at the timeline above it was through her own stupidity.
 
Is she the biggest idiot on earth or what, essentially slagging off The Letter, and therefore further alienating herself from the grown ups in charge. I’m sure the big guns have teams that read over everything relevant to them, to keep up with how their work is received. Someone, somewhere, is going to be telling Jamie, Rashford, Kerridge et al, that the Twitter gobshite Jack Monroe has slagged off their letter in the Guardian. The most hilarious part of her slagging off, is that she offers no practical alternative solution, and contradicts herself.
 
PoorPatrol said:
Is she the biggest idiot on earth or what, essentially slagging off The Letter, and therefore further alienating herself from the grown ups in charge. I’m sure the big guns have teams that read over everything relevant to them, to keep up with how their work is received. Someone, somewhere, is going to be telling Jamie, Rashford, Kerridge et al, that the Twitter gobshite Jack Monroe has slagged off their letter in the Guardian. The most hilarious part of her slagging off, is that she offers no practical alternative solution, and contradicts herself.
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She's hoping the dimmer squigs will kick up a fuss on her behalf and that she'll end up with a role on the campaign to shut them up and avoid any controversy. She's entirely off her onion.
 
HotesTilaire said:
I think we should update the wiki or lime goss (by “we” I mean not me- sos am BUSY)
Update it to reflect a timeline with a snippet of info like @colouredlines did, and a link to the website/receipt next to that
Back to 2011

Edit - clarity
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TBH I can work on a more thorough timeline of contradictions over this week, I'm WFH part-time and unable to leave my municipality or do anything fun due to our covid measures, so apart from throwing myself on the floor, clawing at my face and howling when the doorbell rings I have a fair amount of free time!
 
Ldytnk said:
It's ridiculously hard to evict anyone. Let alone a single unemployed parents. Councils don't want the hassle so landlords end up with masses of bureaucracy. By which time the housing benefits would have been sorted
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Also, it takes ages, would probably been even longer back then.
Probably best part of a year from first missed payment and there would be so many steps along the way. Then the council would have to rehouse her, even if it was emergency housing. Although, someone who had access to their parents 5 bedroom house and an ex partner round the corner who the child could live with wouldn't exactly have put her emergency at the top of the list. I do believe Jack has never been in LA accommodation, it has always been private landlords she talks about.
It is more like the landlord had enough of her, gave her notice to leave and then she had a tantrum.
 
colouredlines said:
From Potatoes:

I was evicted from my flat with a toddler when my Housing Benefit was suspended because I was deemed to have made myself deliberately unemployed by having a baby within the confines of a job whose flexible working patterns were a paper policy rather than a reality.

From other sources:

* She moved out of the home she shared with a partner in October 2011
* She quit the fire service in November 2011
* She moved out of her executive flat in October 2012. She explicitly says that she chose to do this because, although she could afford the rent, it didn't have a garden, parking etc
* By the end of 2012, she was a self-employed crafter/photographer and had started writing for the Southend Echo

So when were you evicted, Jack?
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More bullshit,

As above she'd be entitled to income support at the time, so no obligation to work, look for jobs or sanctions for leaving a job.

Jack moved into a flat with a rent that must have been well above the, publicly available figures, Local Housing Rate, even though she said she could easily find a flat for a much lower rent.
 
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