Jack Monroe #41 No one else gaslights or fights for 'likes' like Jack Monroe. Oops.

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MrsOgre said:
I didn't reply to you last time, it gets so busy here! Where im from, there was no food banks years ago, food is extremely expensive and had to be so careful with shopping. I'm now within a stones throw from a lidl and it's a dream come true. Also wouldn't there be some sort of free milk scheme for babies/growing children back then too, like there is now?
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No worries! Lidl is a dream if you can resist the middle aisles 😬
Afaik (correct me if I’m wrong or if it was different back then) the scheme is now Healthy Start vouchers which can be used for vegetables, fruit, milk and infant formula. She’d qualify for £3.10 a week which would buy a good amount of milk but wouldn’t nearly be enough for a tub of formula

To be honest, the more I think about it, the more I think it was a tool to score pity points. It’s quite emotive, seeing baby formula in a sparse cupboard. Unless of course you ask the question of why it’s there when it is expensive and the child is two
 
MooBelle said:
We got one free from an energy provider about 15 years ago in an effort to get us to switch to them.
Didn't switch and shoved in a drawer. Got left there for years and years.
One night it started beeping and I completely shat myself. Started screaming to the children to get outside and Mr Moo and I ran around frantically opening doors and windows.
Rang British Gas who arrived with the Fire Brigade.

Turned out it was just beeping because batteries needed changing.

Firemen were pissing themselves laughing. I've never been so embarrassed.
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That’s exactly something I would do 😂
 
chocolate choux said:
No worries! Lidl is a dream if you can resist the middle aisles 😬
Afaik (correct me if I’m wrong or if it was different back then) the scheme is now Healthy Start vouchers which can be used for vegetables, fruit, milk and infant formula. She’d qualify for £3.10 a week which would buy a good amount of milk but wouldn’t nearly be enough for a tub of formula

To be honest, the more I think about it, the more I think it was a tool to score pity points. It’s quite emotive, seeing baby formula in a sparse cupboard. Unless of course you ask the question of why it’s there when it is expensive and the child is two
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Back in the mid 90s, when I had my eldest I was entitled to free milk and health visitor changed us over to cows milk when baby was 6 months old. Not the greatest idea looking back, but I still don't understand why children over the age of 1 with no allergies need to remain on formula, plus the hassle of having to prepare it. Shes just lucky that bread didn't cost a minimum of £1.50 🤷‍♀️
 
MooBelle said:
Bollocks, bullshit and absolute nonsense.
'Make' her look mad? MAKE her look mad? um, doing a grand enough job of that by yourself love

Contacted by hundreds of schools? Really Jack? bleeping REALLY?!!!

I apologise if my language/terminology is triggering but she is a complete and utter bleeping lunatic
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So many schools aren’t even open atm? And I imagine those that are have enough on their plate with trying to socially distance young students. Jesus every day she is worse
 
ChickenPorridge said:
I often think this. Would make for an interesting read, but she'll never do it because the timeline and facts would all have to be there. She could no longer change it up, add or remove, basically come off with whatever bullshit she pulls out of the air on any given day anymore lol
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She’d probably make it one of those books that jump back and forth in a badly written way to make it too confusing for anyone to real understand the inconsistencies
 
chocolate choux said:
I do agree with this but equally a cartoon character who appears to be white (though highly stylised!) is going to be perceived as white unless implied otherwise. The character looks white, and as far as the text goes there’s nothing to suggest she isn’t white (afaik?). When DW’s publishers claim she’s white, there’s no ‘gotcha’ point

Also this makes her claims all the more sinister in my opinion. @instacharlie posted many photos of the character, and surely even skimming through you’d notice that she isn’t black? She completely pulled the racism claim out of her arse
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Yeh I don’t get how a “hard to pronounce name” mean someone has to be black?! Has she ever met someone with an Irish name , for example? She is so enfuritating
 
FrumpyCat said:
Unless I've misread, she didn't include it in the calculations in the Daily Mirror article, and it would have added considerably to her income.
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I have tax credits (Child as now earn too much for Working) & couldn’t survive without them, I get around £3.5k a year

edit- this has been the case since marriage breakdown about 8 years ago
 
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