The p!stake is that 0.1% of Alex’s content is
actually about any of the topics she says she was there to discuss, the rest is
me me me, I I I, look what I was able to buy because you losers keep watching my TikToks:
• Benefits: She’s never discussed her time on benefits in any great detail, how to make the money stretch, or how to claim or anything usefully informative, she’s just gloated that she now earns so much she doesn’t need them, despite owing DWP about £5k in overpayments.
• Debt: She’s not worked hard at budgeting and cutting back to reduce her debt, she had an algorithm windfall on her content that’s given her an above average pay for minimal effort that has allowed her to pay off her IVA in a lump sum. That’s just not realistic for anyone else.
• Homelessness: She kipped in her dad’s spare room for a couple of months while she told every lie and exaggeration in the book to get “emergency” banding for a council house, and then refused to live in it for 4 months until it was decorated to her standard

. Her dad had not only a spare room, but a dining room, and they have a good enough relationship for him to come and do all her DIY and accompany her to Turkey for a holiday. She was not in any kind of emergency situation, she’s a blagger. She has
no idea.
• Saving: Well, she’s claimed she can afford to save £50k a year (unrealistic for the majority, especially those in social housing) but so far has only shown Plum savings which has put about £40 of spare change aside for her, bravo! Oh, and she’s shared a link to Plum that she benefits financially from if people use it, without declaring that little fact. Meanwhile, she’s spending like a kid given a limitless credit card in a toy shop. Saving, my arse!
• Budgeting: Never have I seen her offer any kind of budgeting advice. She does ask for it a lot though! Only for engagement of course, she never actually wants anyone’s advice and she’s rude to anyone who gives it. She’ll think nothing of blasting £160 on a week’s shopping for herself and a toddler, blowing £200 in TK Maxx because she fancies some more seasonal home tat to store in her garage 10 months of the year, spending £700 on just herself for Christmas, and buying her lad a cupboard full of redundant gifts because he’s too overwhelmed by it all - only to ask what else she should buy him instead. Oh and let’s not forget the appliances like the ice maker and baby dishwasher and velvetiser and multiple air fryers just for the hell if it. Want, want, want; spend, spend, spend. She wouldn’t know what a budget was if it smacked her in the eye! “How much should I pay myself out of the heaps going into my business account to pay for home alternations so that I can pay the least tax possible?” is not everyday nor realistic
budgeting.
This girl is no role model for any of these issues, she just makes controversial content for money and attention that serves her own ego and excessive spending habits. She couldn’t give a flying fuck about helping anyone else!
There are hundreds of content creators (who also post about council housing and actual frugal living) who were more deserving of a platform for their voice in government. Only thing is, Alex has the bigger following because she tactically rage baits for engagement without any care for how moral that is, as long as she’s getting what she wants. She’s not a good person, she is void of empathy for anyone in any of the real situations she’s cosplayed for content, and she’s just completely entitled and self-interested. It’s all about what’s in it for
her.
Shame on Rachel Reeves & co for giving this problematic, big-headed, out-of-touch grifter cause to think she’s in any way inspirational or important. It sends the exact wrong message, and my heart goes out to the other women involved who will now be associated with Alex! Imagine if he tabloid press pick up on this and do the digging on Alex that RR & co evidently didn’t do before they invited her? They will lose all credibility. It’s humiliating, actually.