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

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MooBelle said:
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.
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I'm more familiar with the Scottish system so caveats apply here but in my experience a court would not grant an order for eviction where there it can be shown that there is an outstanding housing benefit claim pending.
 
Does anyone have the receipts for her feeding SB on cheap sandwiches and maize snacks which would have cost significantly less than the FSM boxes?
I've just had a look at the LM insta, they have loads of fantastic looking meals on there which are beautifully presented. I notice they used a side view of the pasta dish, have not put the link in their comments like they said they would and just put a picture of the cheesy top with no display of the LM product at all.

The curry is utter slop which would actively turn people off, nobody would look at it and want to try it, I'll be surprised if it even appears on their feed.

If you want to be a food writer you make an effort to make your food look nice, you can slop your home cooking at home where nobody seest but if you are being paid then people expect better.
 
Her latest Guardian offering has really highlighted how much heavy lifting the words "our" and "we" do in her writing (and even in things written about her by others, like that embarrassing fluff piece from ZW yesterday). It's no wonder squiggles still think she's poor when she's allowed to imply it in every single copy-pasted article and propagate the notion she's still in the same or similar circumstances to the ones from almost a decade ago, in spite of the many, many lucrative opportunities she's enjoyed since then.

Scotty1976 said:
My house is cold but yours is warm because it's on fire.
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"At least you own your burning house, I RENT! I also suffer from SEVERE smoke-sensitive arthritis and Fire Alarm Sensitivity Disorder, so you'll have to get yourself down that ladder. Now duck off."
 
jenny2603 said:
I'm more familiar with the Scottish system so caveats apply here but in my experience a court would not grant an order for eviction where there it can be shown that there is an outstanding housing benefit claim pending.
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I think it is if the arrears are due primarily to outstanding housing benefit, ie you can't not bother to pay your rent for six months, put in a HB claim, then use that as an argument against repossession,
 
FrumpyCat said:
I think it is if the arrears are due primarily to outstanding housing benefit, ie you can't not bother to pay your rent for six months, put in a HB claim, then use that as an argument against repossession,
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Yes it would need to be a valid claim so you'd need to present evidence of that to the court and be able to explain why you claimed late and so on. She is at it.
 
On the Guardian website Opinion section, this piece is above JM's:

https://www.12ft.io/https://www.the...en-we-need-the-will-and-ambition-to-tackle-it

It touches on food poverty, the bigger picture, and isn't a screaming fit of me me me histrionics a la potatoes et al.

I like the juxtaposition of a decent piece with comments turned ON, next to JM with her lip jutting out looking and sounding like Kevin the Teenager.
 
jenny2603 said:
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.
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Yes that's correct, it would have been Job Seekers Allowance that would be affected by someone voluntarily giving up work. She wouldn't have been on that as you point out. She is talking utter tosh there, her decision to remain at home with her young child would have been acceptable and would not have affected any benefits.

Re would you rather - chefs, definitely the chefs! Would love to hear the conversations that go on.
 
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Nice little throwback...
 
MooBelle said:
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.
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This is absolute speculation, I wonder if she was ever a regular payer of any bill not just rent. for someone with a child to move about so frequently isn't very normal. sounds like she still hasn't learned to budget or live within her means. I got into loads of debt a few years ago, it was bailiffs, and daily threatening letters. It was horrific and scary but a hard lesson learned.
 
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