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Sorry for jumping forward from the past, but I need to get something off my (non 2p covered) chest.

I’ve been honest here about my alcoholism (and I’d like to thank everyone else here who is honest about addiction too. I welled up a bit when Andy said Tattle was right all along but also when I read people’s experiences. It’s so important that everyone sees that what Jack Monroe says about AA/recovery is not the norm) and I’m really hacked off at her pretty much using alcoholism as a ‘get out of jail free card’ for her downright fraudulent and disingenuous behaviour. If worked properly with the guidance of someone who’s walked the path before you, you learn how to accept your part in things and own your behaviour, however bad they are. All I see from her was “soz you didn’t get your Patreon stuff you paid for, I was pished. And I can’t refund you because I’ve spent all of the money when - you guessed it - pished. Lol”

WE ARE MEANT TO BE HONEST IN ALL OUR AFFAIRS!

I am wholly unsurprised to see that she’s snark central on Twitter, biting back at anyone and everyone. If she has done her Steps with the recommended level of rigorous honesty, I’ll eat Andy’s crumpets (that sounds a bit wrong actually). But I’m actually wondering if she is an alcoholic at all, or she’s seen it as something people wouldn’t probe her about and she can say anything at a meeting and be protected by the yellow card. It blows my mind that anyone would lie about alcoholism, it’s a horrible illness that you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. She’s a truly horrid person. The journalist described her as “gorgeous” in the article but I can’t see it - all I see is a shameless, selfish, self-indulgent grifter and there’s nothing gorgeous about that.

Andy's one man slopalong is going about as well as ours did. She really is neither use nor ornament.

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Ouch


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Hello, I'm the one who asked Jack about her mercury consumption. Found this forum after googling "hateful forum" and Jack's name. In short, she sent me here.

She's a horror.

Hello

I've been reading the Jack Monroe threads for a while.

My Jack story is this:

I've known about and tracked Bootstrap Cook since the beginning. My own life was thrown into upheaval around the same time as JM came into public consciousness as I had to leave my job due to a very stressful situation that compromised my health. Since then, I've been on the rollercoaster of living on a very low income just as this coincided with the austerity era.

Over the last 10+ years, I've experienced it all --- going through the invasive benefits assessment processes, being wrongly removed from the system without warning, being migrated onto the (initially bureaucratically disastrous) Universal Credit, losing a long-term, happy, private tenancy & being thrust into the temporary accommodation hellscape. All while trying to obtain ongoing therapeutic mental health support (which doesn't really exist in the NHS) and experiencing both my physical and mental health getting worse and worse.

Currently, I'm in middle age, with no savings left, living in insecure, sh1tty temporary accommodation with no hope of a secure council tenancy in London, and years away from the carefully curated and busy career I once had.

I became interested in Jack because I was having to turn to food banks and looking for ways to live within the constraints of a meagre benefits income. Over the last decade, I've become much more knowledgeable about poverty in Britain, from a systemic standpoint alongside my so-called lived experience. Jack Monroe was an appealing public figure who initially seemed to be successful in getting media attention on the issue, especially as so much of the poverty discourse in this country seems to focus on food security, and food banks were proliferating.

Since then, my understanding has deepened and I've become so much more alert to the shadow side of the -- for want of a better phrase -- "poverty industry", namely the influence peddlers, profiteers, dodgy charities and carpet baggers who are drawn to the sector like moths to the perverbial flame.

I have tried engaging Jack Monroe several times. Occasionally in the early years, she'd put out requests for information or signal a potential collab and I emailed or DMed her about this, out of interest in possibly also writing about what I was seeing and to potentially boost the local, independent food bank I had used and now support. She never once replied, even just with a holding message or an automated acknowledgement. That was the first black mark against her name.

Gradually, I got tired of the constant hystrionics and internet feuding on Twitter, the unrelenting posting of her private life and celeb-type nonsense which seemed at odds with being a serious campaigner. She looked more like a TOWIE schlebb than anyone trying to change the world for good. I hated her Oxfam junket to Tanzania -- I have a long association with international development and I hate the f*cking poverty tourism of those organisations (getting better in recent years but still ....). Second and third black marks.

It was the Covid-era begging, in parallel with obviously lucrative brand collabs, that finally did it for me. I spent 2020 running a local mutual aid group that supported and fed all sorts of people totally cut adrift by the shutting down of local services due to lockdown. I did this from my sofa using just my phone, while recovering from a serious health incident of my own in Feb 20, and I was furious that Monroe did f*ck-all to actually make things better for people in poverty during that period. Her constant complaining just did my head in.

Then Awfully Molly laid everything out and filled in some gaps in my knowledge and I found my way here.... In the meantime, I've tried challenging her on Twitter and been blocked. The black marks have now all melted together in a massive, indelible stain that's just tainted her forever.

I long for the day when there's some public dismantling of the whole Jack Monroe edifice. It's already happening, brick by single brick, I suppose, but I really long for a properly scandalous, tabloid-esque, controlled implosion. Or a lovely big, bureaucratic public enquiry, with forensic, ahem, scrutiny by trained legal eagles (a person can dream).

So.

We ninnies were also surprised this wasn't queried.

I know it’s gonna be wild today but

Thread title nom: Adrian, we’re gonna need a cleanup in aisle 14. There’s been another bin fire.

I know we've already mithered about the picture of the AA and NA chips she posted overnight, but has anyone else googled the "WE'RE HERE AND WE'RE FREE" slogan on this white one?

MavisBeacon said:

Cool. Now do JK Rowling...

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Absolutely. Look, lads (as most of you might guess) I'm as far from GC as it goes on account of being massively queer and ridiculously fabulous.
However, last week JM made it crystal they were non-binary, but was happy for the paid Guardian interview to use the 'she' pronoun (to make it "easier"?)
It's massively offensive to now be appropriating faux rage and disgust in a vain attempt to centre oneself at the centre of a gender based issue.
Yes, women are massively criticised, harassed and abused often because of their gender, this is abhorrent and wrong. But, this arguement surely has to include all women, not just the ones you personally align yourself to.
I don't care what you are, I just respect who you are.

However Jack, as a lesbian who has spent the last year bouncing off various penises to try and prove a point, I doubt you'll understand why your LGBTQ+ umbrella will never keep you dry. (and if I see you at PRIDE I'm gonna kick you right in the conscience).

(Is it just me or has the word 'sideboard' lost all meaning now?)

Swisspea said:

Oh no fraus. I just put my iPad down on the bed after having a really detailed call to my mortgage broker and when i returned it had accidentally contributed to this thread.

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Mate, I don't even know what Tattle is. I just keep sitting on my mobile by mistake and the next thing you know, I'm some sort of VIP member.

Go squig!

Yikes. There's even a neckbeard squig offering to reimburse people scammed by Jack, at the same time as getting ratty with them for being upset at being scammed. It really is a cult! Everyone but Jack is to blame for Jack's actions. These men are the type that go to lap dancing clubs and think the dancers fancy them.

Ooft, squig. Timing. WARNED!

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