Jack Monroe #600 If I don’t have a sieve, where am I getting a carabiner from?

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streby said:
I think I said at the time of Grifty Kitchen that if I was given that book free at a food bank (if that even really happened) I would not take it well, since it would seem to be implying I was there from a lack of thriftiness, having decadently spent my entire income on sieves and tin-openers. JM's "solve poverty by eating cheap beans" nonsense has always had an air of poor being too stupid and lazy to help themselves, but calling that book "thrifty" at that time and in that context felt especially cruel and patronising.
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OMG, so much this. It's a load of Tory bullshit. Her confected character of Povvo Jack, the poor but articulate single mum, becoming the darling of the middle classes.

In reality, people who are living hand to mouth are often amazing at cooking, feeding large families or lots of people in their local community for very little. The Guardian aren't interested in them as they often have (gasp) regional accents and/or are from ethnic minorities.

So the media platforms utter fakes like Jack rather than face up to the reality of poverty in the UK, and going to speak to people in places like Oldham or Sunderland.

(Source: me, running secondary schools for 25 years in some of the most deprived towns in England. Jack hasn't been to any of them)
 
People-huv-tae-know said:
Model beautiful.
Natalie Portman.
Eva Green.
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What we are really seeing is massive ego and dubious sobriety.
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So this was a short lived blonde phase, momentarily she looked like 90s kids tv favourite Pat Sharpe. She claimed she found a box of blonde nice n easy under the stairs and chucked it on her hair one night, the usual. I can believe it’s a home job because the classic “at home khaki” tone has been achieved from not prepping the brown hair.

I thinks she did get a professional to fix it, at one point in this phase Jack went on TV looking -now don’t hate me- looking “alright” in my opinon
 

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HotesTilaire said:
So this was a short lived blonde phase, momentarily she looked like 90s kids tv favourite Pat Sharpe. She claimed she found a box of blonde nice n easy under the stairs and chucked it on her hair one night, the usual. I can believe it’s a home job because the classic “at home khaki” tone has been achieved from not prepping the brown hair.

I thinks she did get a professional to fix it, at one point in this phase Jack went on TV looking -now don’t hate me- looking “alright” in my opinon
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We can’t have Blonde Jack without having @Sideboard Bob ❤️favourite: Martin Clunes Jack
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witchofwestbyfleet said:
I remind the canal that in November 2012, at the height of The Poverty, a year after she LEFT her firephone job and three months before she got the Southend Echo gig (remember that next time she wheels out her “I had no fridge or lightbulbs for TWO YEARS!”)

She LEFT another job, in a shop or warehouse, to become self employed as a photographer, writer, and “craft business” (selling vests stapled to bits of curtain) so she can’t have been that financially desperate
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Exactly!

Why oh why has nobody mainstream ever asked her about this? It’s from all her own words that she freely put ‘out there’. It’s only Tattle that’s collated it all and revealed what a complete fake and con artist she is.

Any company/organisation that still platforms her deserves all the pushback they get. The Labour Party in Southend definitely deserves heaps of tit for giving her a profile with them. Ugh.
 
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