Jack Monroe #281 OH who cares?

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So whilst we await the forensic pontifications of Telly Jack (though I agree with @MancBee on Lorraine) I've been frantically grunking the threads from January on her viral supermarket conspiracy theory and I just want to say that she NEVER had a commissioned piece in the FT. So she lied to JOB about that one. There are three FT articles in total that mention her, all from this year, all positive, but in the softer bit of the paper that no one really reads. There is an editorial piece praising the vimes Boots Index (of which there is nary a sign) and a piece by Helen Thomas (Chris Giles is her boss I think) about food price inflation which mentions JM approvingly at the start but then goes on to give ASDA's rebuttal plenty of space - they have 400 smart price items, less than half are on the website. Yes some of those items have gone up in price but as smartprice always had the slimmest margins (or were outright loss leaders) there is really no scope to avoid passing on input price increases to customers. And wheat and grains have seen the worst price rises because of the Ukraine situation and the volatility in the commodity markets in the months leading up to the invasion. Whereas with posh ready meals you can do all sorts of clever things to keep the price apparently static whilst making the item cheaper to produce.

So...it's not all a conspiracy against YOU, Jack! There are global and geopolitical things that happen that HUGELY affect things without the UN, NATO, the Kremlin or global commodity markets all creeping softly, gently into Southend to humbly consult you! Yeah crazy I know!

I'm very relieved that the FT didn't wholly fall for JM's lies, emotional bullying and gaslighting. That really would have been the last bastion of sanity for me. What a deceitful shitshow that whole viral episode was.
 
moldwarp said:
So whilst we await the forensic pontifications of Telly Jack (though I agree with @MancBee on Lorraine) I've been frantically grunking the threads from January on her viral supermarket conspiracy theory and I just want to say that she NEVER had a commissioned piece in the FT. So she lied to JOB about that one. There are three FT articles in total that mention her, all from this year, all positive, but in the softer bit of the paper that no one really reads. There is an editorial piece praising the vimes Boots Index (of which there is nary a sign) and a piece by Helen Thomas (Chris Giles is her boss I think) about food price inflation which mentions JM approvingly at the start but then goes on to give ASDA's rebuttal plenty of space - they have 400 smart price items, less than half are on the website. Yes some of those items have gone up in price but as smartprice always had the slimmest margins (or were outright loss leaders) there is really no scope to avoid passing on input price increases to customers. And wheat and grains have seen the worst price rises because of the Ukraine situation and the volatility in the commodity markets in the months leading up to the invasion. Whereas with posh ready meals you can do all sorts of clever things to keep the price apparently static whilst making the item cheaper to produce.

So...it's not all a conspiracy against YOU, Jack! There are global and geopolitical things that happen that HUGELY affect things without the UN, NATO, the Kremlin or global commodity markets all creeping softly, gently into Southend to humbly consult you! Yeah crazy I know!

I'm very relieved that the FT didn't wholly fall for JM's lies, emotional bullying and gaslighting. That really would have been the last bastion of sanity for me. What a deceitful shitshow that whole viral episode was.
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Jack has learned a lot from the Tory party - announce lots of stuff you're planning to do, people assume it has happened because there was such a fan fare and you just don't correct the record.
 
The thing that always gets me is she gets attention, gets work for a bit then some how or other she messes it up and we are right back to snarking on Twitter and people proclaiming who is she? I mean seriously ten years into a game in a topic close and reality for many people, yet she still relatively unknown and mostly gets likes from the middle class ranks. I mean it's not good is it?!
 
So it's peach curry (again) day... 😴😴

It's so odd that she never promotes any of her work, despite telling the squigs she'd reveal all about her mystery filming days, I don't think she's even mentioned Lorraine has she? I think the Netflix thing got the most promotion out of her, everything else she goes silent on. Maybe deep down she knows she's a massive fraud that just uses smoke and mirrors to pretend she knows what she's doing.
 
Cucumberthunder said:
Jack has learned a lot from the Tory party - announce lots of stuff you're planning to do, people assume it has happened because there was such a fan fare and you just don't correct the record.
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Yeah and it's just that weird habit of Jackflation that does my head in. She can't just be an ex-call centre worker, she has to be a firefighting expert who was consulted on Grenfell. She can't just be an activist, she has to be the woman with Number 10's ear who invented Sure Start. She can't just be a campaigner on food prices, she has to be an FT leader writer. It speaks to such a deep, crippling level of insecurity in her, that she can't just be an ordinary middling sort of person like the rest of us, she has to be the most outstanding and admirable example of anything you care to mention.
 
moldwarp said:
Yeah and it's just that weird habit of Jackflation that does my head in. She can't just be an ex-call centre worker, she has to be a firefighting expert who was consulted on Grenfell. She can't just be an activist, she has to be the woman with Number 10's ear who invented Sure Start. She can't just be a campaigner on food prices, she has to be an FT leader writer. It speaks to such a deep, crippling level of insecurity in her, that she can't just be an ordinary middling sort of person like the rest of us, she has to be the most outstanding and admirable example of anything you care to mention.
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The grandiosity of narcissism.
 
I see OH has got a few mates in to watch Jack's Saver Squad debut.

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