Jack Monroe #547 Bung it in a Curry's

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Sideboard Bob said:
I get that and agree.

It’s why I love the Echo story, no “left/right wing” agenda, nothing personal, it’s all about her “work” and the hazards.

What I loved most about it was that they did NOT wait around! Who else was saying they’ve been waiting for somehting like this, it shows!

It’s hilarious that so many local papers (though Reach Media) websites featured that Jack and Curry’s advertorial, THEN they all got deleted, and then, straight away, the Southend Echo pops up with THAT story.
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Now Sidey Bob, I’m No Conspiracy Theorist, but if I WAS a Conspiracy Theorist I’d almost think that due to her WELL READ political blog, a decade later Southend Council was still involved!

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CabalofBolorneaise said:
And she will be, like with Grifty Kitchen and the dangerous tips. I was responding to the thread about her whole story and I just don’t think they’ll touch a full expose with a barge pole.
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Maybe not, but as part of an exposé of how vulnerable and gullible folk are throwing their meagre pennies away when the media platforms people without due diligence, plus an exposé of the way journalism today works... It would be eminently readable.
 
I know people don't agree with me but I think she's sat on a load of money. Even with the spending I have seen how much people get on a beg especially for legal fees to take on the enemy of the moment. It's insane ! Four grand a month is like a dream. I couldn't imagine it and until that income drops substantially she will never be able to claim benefits. She's set up for the foreseeable future surely ?
 
ChiefBeifong said:
'My arthritic hands shake as I take the ancient Nokia phone I once found in a puddle out from its nest of tumble drier fluff. Hunched over it in agony, my shoulders crumbling to dust, I painstakingly, peripatetically type out applications for jobs. All kinds of jobs. Train driving jobs. Air traffic control jobs. Astronaut jobs. Newtonian Professor of Mathematics jobs (I use Pythagoras' theorem every day)'
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Heating engineer (gas radiators a speciality), nuclear physicist (think that was this morning), alien abductee (on my bingo card!), inventor of ingenious dangerous hacks, archivist.... How is she still merely self-employed?!
 
Foxvint said:
If we've got any lady canal members who've ever touched a boobie we're probably up for a Gay Pride of Britain next award sesh ourselves. The bar is so low you hafta limbo under
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Limbo is something I’m in more than something I can do, but I did once step back without looking in the queue in Asda and things got a bit soft and warm around the shoulder, so we’re safe and rewarded, canal. Do we get rosettes, like ponies?

ETA, it was Asda, afterall. I mean.
 
Candytuft said:
I think that the relationship she had with big lin will come back to bite her one day. Relationships are transactional for the likes of both of them but lin is an old master and will drop her like a hot coal when she's not useful. Glorious.
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OR is already holidaying with a younger, cooler they/them who won influencer of the year or some shite at her latest rainbow diversity glittershit awards.
 
Foxvint said:
If we've got any lady canal members who've ever touched a boobie we're probably up for a Gay Pride of Britain next award sesh ourselves. The bar is so low you hafta limbo under it.

She'll have been a weary little busybody they tolerated cos she seemed desperate/a bit of a sad sack.
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I’ve touched both of mine, I’ll be ticking the box for “lesbian” on my next dental registration
 
AlwightDallin said:
Thread title suggestion - (and I hope it’s the headline to her long overdue media takedown as well)

‘MBE’s Daughter Fries Water’

I think it’s got a ring to it. Alternately,

‘Monroe, Incredible? Her food’s inedible!’

If you are reading this, newspaper people, you can have them for free. The Sun can bugger off though.
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This language use reminded me of the kids book Pumpkin soup, and there’s a bit with insects at the back going in to eat soup, where it says on a sign, “they go in thin, they come out fat”. Only Twatroes kitchen would be the reverse 😂
 
MavisBeacon said:
If a slop is slung and nobody reads about it, does it really matter?

I am delighted to see her being cancelled for tit recipes and dangerous advice, as there's no recourse to "EBIL TROLLZ" - it's entirely her own fault for being crap at cooking and too lazy to check her own work, and for the idiots who failed to do their due diligence and hired her.

Speaking of which, here is my correspondence with Oxfam over the past couple of months:

>>>From me

Hello,
I am writing to enquire whether or not Jack Monroe is still an Oxfam Ambassador and what activities this entails? I can find no mention of her on your website, and no affiliated activities that she has participated in for Oxfam since 2014.

However, she is still advertised as an Oxfam Ambassador for speaking engagements such as the attached picture from this week's talk at the Edinburgh Fringe. She is also listed as an ambassador in the present tense on her speaking agent's website: https://www.krugercowne.com/jack-monroe/

Jack has caused controversy by soliciting money for legal action against the MP Lee Anderson which she failed to pursue and has not transparently accounted for, and is also on record as having misused the donations and good will of her supporters: https://www.12ft.io/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/07/jack-monroe-interview

I am concerned that she is using the good name of Oxfam to whitewash her reputation many years after finishing working with you, which reflects poorly on your charity and the genuine good work you do to alleviate poverty and suffering around the world..

I would appreciate a response to this query.
Thank you.

>>>From Oxfam

Thanks for your email and your interest in Oxfam.

I have asked our Ambassador's team what the latest position with Jack Munroe is and I will pass on their response as soon as I have it.

Thanks for your patience while I look into this for you.
Best wishes,

>>>From Oxfam

The response I have had from the Ambassador's team is that Oxfam has worked with Jack Monroe in the past and has a long association of working with high profiles who use their influence to help us raise funds and highlight our work to end the injustice and inequality of poverty.

I hope that is helpful but please let me know if I can help further in any way.

Best wishes,

>>>From me

Thank you for the response.
This answer is not really sufficient as I would like to know if Jack is still an Oxfam ambassador, and if so in what ways has she used he influence to help Oxfam raise funds and highlight your work in the years since her trip to Tanzania in 2014? I can find nothing on the web relating to her work with Oxfam since this time. The impression from her agent's website is that she is currently an ambassador, as it is referred to in the present tense, yet she does not appear to have fulfilled the role as you describe for nearly a decade. Claiming to be an Oxfam ambassador brings with it prestige and an association with the good name and works of the charity, especially when used to advertise her public speaking events, so I would like to know what she has been doing to justify this position.
Thank you,

>>>From Oxfam
Thanks for getting back to me about this.

I have forwarded your response to our Ambassador's team and asked them if they have anything further to add and I will pass on their response as soon as I have it.

Thanks again for your interest in Oxfam.
Best wishes,
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I have heard nothing since that last email on 29th August, and have poked them again. I don't particularly care that it's Guest that I'm asking about - I care that a charity is happy to let someone use their name and give an impression about themselves while doing nothing to justify it for the best part of a decade.
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I expected nothing less from them tbh.
 
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