Jack Monroe #144 The man from Strictly, he say No

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My sister works for the NHS as part of the ambualnce service. She's a manager now but she has also driven ambualances and answered the 999 calls as a call handler. She never had to memorise folders but she did have to talk to people who were trying to deliver a baby or had just witnessed a fatal car crash, stuff like that. It feels like Jack has no actual stories to tell, just vague stories about strikes and fire investigation that are clearly passed on from her dad.
 
MancBee said:
Wouldn't the fact that all these MP's who own multiple properties mean they are disproportionately affected by the cladding issue? They will be expected to pay for reclading each and every property they own. (Not that I feel sorry for them or anything, just pointing out the absurdity of her argument)

Is she suggesting that the government should pay for the reclading of these properties? Or is she is expecting the developers to pay? Because they would just dissolve the company. Or is she is expecting the freeholder to pay? They are often overseas owners, so good luck with that. If others do end up paying, these buy to let landlord MP's get let off the hook.

There should be help for owner occupiers without doubt, but many people used their money to buy retal properties as a pension income. It is not as easy as owner occupiers good, landlords bad.

Also it is not only Conservative MP's that are landlords and property developers either.

I was a Building Surveyor, spent many years studying to become qualified, and believe me, she hasn't got a clue. It is a complex issue, both in construction and legally, one that she couldn't ever understand. I could write for hours on the matter, but you'd be bored to tears.
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May be missing something here but isn't this a slightly old issue, insomuch that I can remember it being something of a theme in the summer and before then.. essentially, home owners and tenants are being footed will the bill to replace cladding and as such have seen their property prices plummet. As it stands, if they're still in the planning stage and are a few years away from agreeing financing and eventually actually changing the bloody things, until this work has been carried out then the property owners are in a kind of limbo as they can't sell and they can't remortgage (to pay for their share of new cladding) as the value of their property has hit the floor. What a bleeping nightmare and Monroe's 'lets just fix it all now because I used to work in the call centre' argument doesn't make it less so.
 
Oofadoofa said:
May be missing something here but isn't this a slightly old issue, insomuch that I can remember it being something of a theme in the summer and before then.. essentially, home owners and tenants are being footed will the bill to replace cladding and as such have seen their property prices plummet. As it stands, if they're still in the planning stage and are a few years away from agreeing financing and eventually actually changing the bloody things, until this work has been carried out then the property owners are in a kind of limbo as they can't sell and they can't remortgage (to pay for their share of new cladding) as the value of their property has hit the floor. What a bleeping nightmare and Monroe's 'lets just fix it all now because I used to work in the call centre' argument doesn't make it less so.
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Exactly this, there was a really good Panorama programme about it a few weeks ago. Well worth a watch. It is huge issue, and it’s heartbreaking for those involved.

It is also really complicated and something that can’t be fixed by a Moanroe twitter attack!
 
bleeping earache? I was expecting a meteor strike on the crappy bungalow, amnesia, or bubonic plague. I feel thoroughly let down.

blurstoftimes said:
Not the ones she gave the bottle of warm piss wine to on the Sunday morning of Glastonbury though surely? They must love her
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Every time someone mentions Glasto I do a full-body cringe remembering the mental image of her swaggering out of her tent, clad in her stab vest, and adenoidally calling out "Morning boys" (or whatever it was she said)
 
HarderFaster said:
Great comment underneath it from our favourite viggle:

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I’m sorry for this shameless schadenfreude but I’m really pleased that Jack wasted a whole day that she could have been writing her crappy book to film the Linda Mc horse-testicle-on-mush recipe that they can’t even use because the vegans dislike her so much.

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Jack Munroe, purchaser of cheap meat feels like the Veganuary thread we never had
 
waffle maker said:
My sister works for the NHS as part of the ambualnce service. She's a manager now but she has also driven ambualances and answered the 999 calls as a call handler. She never had to memorise folders but she did have to talk to people who were trying to deliver a baby or had just witnessed a fatal car crash, stuff like that. It feels like Jack has no actual stories to tell, just vague stories about strikes and fire investigation that are clearly passed on from her dad.
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Jack had plenty of stories to tell The Guardian a few years ago, this was from yet another shady attack on David Cameron not being fit to clean her Dad's windows/word salad.
 

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I'm so troubled by her commentary around Grenfell from last night. I have to know a lot about that case because of my job, which is architecture-adjacent, and there's so much work going on both behind the scenes and at the very highest level of government that is making positive change.

It's a scandal that many people are still having to pay for homes they don't feel safe in and can't sell, but Twitter activism and #stayangry rhetoric isn't going to help in this instance - there is a lot of very real trauma attached to the events at Grenfell and it has to has to has to be handled sensitively.
 
SoulRebel said:
Jack had plenty of stories to tell The Guardian a few years ago, this was from yet another shady attack on David Cameron not being fit to clean her Dad's windows/word salad.
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My fireman brother in law has diagnosed PTSD from the stuff he's seen. He worked in the department that dealt with cutting people out of traffic accidents and it sounds so traumatic. I don't doubt Jack heard horrendous stuff as a call operator but the way she uses stuff like this for point scoring makes me feel nauseous.
 
NomDeGuerre said:
I'm so troubled by her commentary around Grenfell last night. I have to know a lot about that case because of my job, which is architecture-adjacent, and there's so much work going on both behind the scenes and at the very highest level of government that are making positive change.

It's a scandal that many people are still having to pay for homes they don't feel safe in and can't sell, but Twitter activism and #stayangry rhetoric isn't going to help in this instance - there is a lot of ver real trauma attached to the events at Grenfell and it has to has to has to be handled sensitively.
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That is one of the things that pisses me off the most about her verbal diarrhoea on Twitter - she often blunders into issues (e.g. Additional needs/non mainstream education) with a load of half arsed ill informed 'opinions' and it never occurs to her that there are a) people on Twitter with millions of years' experience between them and 2) actual EXPERT PRACTITIONERS.

Talk about 'let me interrupt your expertise with my confidence'.
 
Ninch55 said:
We-elll, we‘re in the middle of a will she move/won’t she move chaos atm aren’t we? How will she AFFORDa big enough, cheap enough, doggo friendly Manor House? Soulfully mentioning poor Jazz hasn’t successfully tugged at Daddy’s heartstrings enough for a portfolio of her own, obvs, and unless she gets another 20m deluded Patreons then.....
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She reminds me of a girl I'm unfortunate enough to know. Parents own her house but won't sign it over to her so she rails against landlords on Facebook and hits people up for small change because she needs wine or some tit. There was also a LOT of performative gender and socialist stuff. I sorta feel people like her act like this cos they have nothing else going on. I mean, Jack has her books but she doesn't seem great at it.
 
Veronicaaa said:
Great idea, Jack, rope your dad in to a C4 documentary about landlordism, would definitely watch.

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George Clarke is an architect, not a building control officer, or structural engineer. He is not an expert on fire safety. These people know diddly squat about construction, and just need to keep their noses out. How would they like armchair experts telling them how to do their job?

I can't bear the man (George) met him at a party, surprised his head fitted through the door, talk about love himself. Arrogant doesn't come near to describing him. As an aside, he can't even stick to a budget on a house renovation.
 
SoulRebel said:
Jack had plenty of stories to tell The Guardian a few years ago, this was from yet another shady attack on David Cameron not being fit to clean her Dad's windows/word salad.
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In Essex in the Year Jack worked, there were 9 fatalities attended by the Essex fire service. She would have to be pretty unlucky to be the call handler on duty multiple times.

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Sentient mirror said:
Yes. Also viggle who is not jack likes turbo viggles palma violents.
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Have located turbo viggle but thats as far as I've got ETA - found the post but do not have the dedication to scroll through the likes. I do wonder at what point turbo squiggle is going to move on. With "I am never buying a Linda McCartney product again" I feel she has made her point.
ETA again. I feel like I am in an episode of "Allo, Allo".
 
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