Jack Monroe #315 The man from the mortgage broker, he say No

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Just to clarify cos I'm skim reading - cos half term.....but are we saying that she campaigned and threw her toys out of the pram cos the ONS didn't take account of the lower range items which she said went up more than other items and now they've done that they've found out they rise in pretty much the same way as other items......??

I mean if we are then thats bloody funny isn't it!
 
Mel Donte said:
Sometimes I can't tell if she's thick or if she thinks all her followers are thick.
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Yeah they are trying to change the story. Jack said prices of lower end food products has raised (was this the 344%) whilst posh products (CB ready meal) hadnt. Now the cult are saying, yeah ok so the lower end products have gone up at the same rate as everything else BUT all rich people will now be buying poor people products which will mean that there’s a spike in demand and the prices will go up 🧐. Much speculative bollocks future data analysis from the Flying Monkeys. Whilst we know supply and demand affect the cost of stuff this IS NOT what Jack claimed. She’s claimed the poor are paying 344% more for everything.
 
Cack Conroe said:
She was known to the papers for quite a few reasons. For a start Big Dave is often a “local resident” spokesperson commenting on various articles. His name is regularly featured in the press. They featured Jack and her friend’s charity handcuffs challenge when Jack was 14. So not only is she known to them, but Jack probably had the know-how of how to get yourself in the papers, because her dad certainly does.

The house sale was only a couple of weeks after Hunger Hurts bullshit, which had made a big impression and led to a lot of media appearances. Her blog had been going since March, 5 months before.

She would attend local council meetings, and would often be the only non-politics person there aside from the local paper’s journalist, another connection. She would often get her letters about politics published on the letters page of the paper. Despite her claims to be all alone, she was well-connected and a Labour Party volunteer, as well as volunteering for a voluntary organisation.

I think her house sale was a well-advertised money-making event rather than the actions of a desperate starving mother.
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This is fascinating. So she's been self-aggrandising for ages (but not admitting it). It's crazy!

Also, Chris Giles, Harry Wallop and Robert Colville - three well respected, smart, balanced economic journalists - all in a very balanced non-emotional way parsing the ONS stats and rebutting Jack's misreading - she's not gonna be able to cope is she? Patriarchy rant incoming in 3...2....1....
 
veronica71 said:
Just to clarify cos I'm skim reading - cos half term.....but are we saying that she campaigned and threw her toys out of the pram cos the ONS didn't take account of the lower range items which she said went up more than other items and now they've done that they've found out they rise in pretty much the same way as other items......??

I mean if we are then thats bloody funny isn't it!
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The ONS 'working with her' to prove everything she was spouting was a load of old crap. Delicious!
 
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Sweet little squig it is you who doth not understand.

The ONS are measuring inflation not how much you have in your bank account before shopping.
 
colouredlines said:
She wasn't famous, I think that person was assuming she would be in the future?

She was clearly desperate to BE famous, though. A couple of examples:

Here she is wanking over getting Star Letter in the local paper: https://web.archive.org/web/2013020...edjack.com/2012/03/22/making-headlines-again/

(shades of my dad having an email read out on the radio and talking about it for weeks)

Here she is opening a blog post with "I am reluctant to use the term living in the public eye" (she had had her blog for 2 months at this point): https://web.archive.org/web/2013020...-whistlestop-tour-of-how-to-fk-up-everything/

Here she is accusing another Southend political type of plagiarism: https://web.archive.org/web/2012072...2/07/20/is-it-me-or-is-there-an-echo-in-here/

From what I can gather, she started out by showing up to every Southend council meeting and befriending all the other hacks involved with local politics. Those people tend to have an exaggerated sense of their own importance, so they probably all considered themselves Southend VIPs? At first she was only focused on local politics, hence the original blog name (Our Southend). This is why so much of the first year of archives is such a slog to get through. There is NOTHING as dull as local politics. Nothing.
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I really want to know what she did with SB while she was at all those council meetings. I’ll admit I’ve never been to a local council meeting but I can’t imagine them being toddler friendly.
 
Joanna D said:
Looks like she's trying to start another pile-on against the woman who got it in the neck last week (the one who challenged the 'literally starving' story). Can't see the original tweet as it's been deleted.
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What, really? So rather than taking ChrisMate head on (because she's fearless and forensic) she's taking out the Rage on a helpless bystander?

She's gone quiet because she's furiously typing a multi-tweet rage-filled rebuttal which, as always when JM is cornered, may or may not involve some of the following:

suicide, acid, rape threats, stalkers, mental breakdowns, arthritis, neurodiversity, exhaustion, falling down stairs, BUSY
 
Merail - mortgages and why I have very few cuticles.
Oh duck off, it’s all so performative isn’t it. biG sCaRy mEeTiNg with Evil Bank Man.

Finances are serious, I get it. I’m in the process of applying for a mortgage with my husband and, while it’s a lot of nail chewing and breath holding, it doesn’t require ceremony (but then I forget, I am a lowly Frau and now the face of the poor).

Her recent ‘falling through’ story pissed me off royally because the sellers of the house we were buying pulled out and ergo the sale did actually fall through, rather than some perfumed language on Twitter because some mansion came off Rightmove I dunno. Now, we have to find an alternative house to buy before our RENTAL contract ends in August (I’ve been renting for over a decade and have two jobs, do I get Pov Points?). Shitting bricks, but we will make it work because there’s no other choice.

Getting a house is a big deal, and sometimes a bloody stressful one, but guess what? People do it every day. People with a history of debt or poor credit score. People knuckle up and do what they need to, rather than pull on the frayed heartstrings of the cult members who have zero critical thinking.

Rhubarb rhubarb.
 
Joanna D said:
Looks like she's trying to start another pile-on against the woman who got it in the neck last week (the one who challenged the 'literally starving' story). Can't see the original tweet as it's been deleted.
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The original tweet just said "fucksake". Nothing more.

(It was in reply to one of Jack's buying-a-house tweets and Jack's reply was before her ONS thread)
 
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