Nouveau Croix for New Cross was the best one of those I heard at the time!Yep! Decades ago, when people were priced out of Chelsea and moving south of the river, they did the same to Battersea (Bat-tease-ee-ahh) and Streatham (Saint Reetham). Dear heart Nige was having a laugh and has created a storm in a portmeirion tea cup.
Does exaggerate mean lie?Doesn't that fluctuate? Sometimes she says 11 weeks, sometimes 18 months? She doesn't exaggerate does she??
this is so perfectly said. As is often reiterated on here, mental health doesn’t discriminate and so often the victims are described as seeming like they had a great life/lots to live for/seemed fine after the event. There are situations that definitely exacerbate mental health issues and certainly situations that arise because of them, but having money/a full fridge/lightbulbs doesn’t make someone immune from despair.Christ what an absolute liability Jack is.
By inserting it into a debate about benefits it gives the impression if we only had a fairer benefits system it would never have happened. People attempt suicide because they are very seriously mentally ill not directly because of a tragic or difficult life event. If Jack were remotely interested in the well being of other people I'd suggest she spend some time reading the Samaritans Media Guidelines on Suicide.
I thought it was pry marneyOh, honestly! Anyone who thought Nigella was being serious needs to do some deep thinking. It’s a bit like people who try and be funny/silly by calling Primark pree-marsh-ay, a sort of French slant, as if making it posher. Might not be side-splittingly hilarious, but hardly marks someone as a posh freak!
I lived in battersea before the gentrification, it was referred to as south Chelsea and Clapham was clarmYep! Decades ago, when people were priced out of Chelsea and moving south of the river, they did the same to Battersea (Bat-tease-ee-ahh) and Streatham (Saint Reetham). Dear heart Nige was having a laugh and has created a storm in a portmeirion tea cup.
The 11 weeks she refers to is a delay in her Housing Benefit rather than the length of her claim, which in fairness I could believe. It was a common issue when I was doing welfare rights. Of course Jack does her usual dramatics of hiding from the landlord and being terrified. Instead of telling people that they should go to CAB or a similar money advice service where they will assist them to establish what the issue is with housing benefit and negotiate with the landlord. In my experience social housing are easiest to deal with in that situation but we did have a lot of success dealing with private landlords who would usually ease off a bit once they had assurances that the benefit issue was being dealt with and that they would be paid.Doesn't that fluctuate? Sometimes she says 11 weeks, sometimes 18 months? She doesn't exaggerate does she??
Hmmm maybe let's not link to rightwing populist publications? We can critique her without resorting to barely concealed hate speech - even if the article does have a point.I just found this article online, dating from 2014 (just after the C5 row). It could have been written in 2020. We're going to be on Tattle forever, in some sort of dystopian Groundhog Day. Brace yourselves, frau and frauen!
Jack Monroe: pleb-lite for Guardianistas
'Recessionista' Jack Monroe is a hero of the thrift-obsessed middle classes, not the poor.www.spiked-online.com
Also 77 days of "poverty"! WTF! That's not much longer than the school summer holidays.
I wouldn't describe the piece as 'hate speech', but I agree that it is confrontational and divisive. So in the interests of civility I will certainly remove the linkHmmm maybe let's not link to rightwing populist publications? We can critique her without resorting to barely concealed hate speech - even if the article does have a point.
Sorry I didn't mean the article was hate speech (although the contempt for so-called 'champagne socialists' is obvious, and one I sometimes shareI wouldn't describe the piece as 'hate speech', but I agree that it is confrontational and divisive. So in the interests of civility I will certainly remove the linkTBH - I only found it as I was curious about the DEAD grandfather's obit.
I was more taken aback at how the criticisms being made of JM (and certain groups of her followers) have been made ad naseum and still she continues!
All of Jack's writing - "journalism", blogs, cookery books - just has SUCH an Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3/4 vibe to it that I always have a tiny percentage of my brain whispering to me "it has to be performance art, right?"Jack's letter to Edwina gives such a strong cringe. It's the angry letter a teen writes to their parents as a manifesto over why they should be allowed to go to Glastonbury.
It's so bizarre to me now that she was ever taken remotely seriously as a political columnist?All of Jack's writing - "journalism", blogs, cookery books - just has SUCH an Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3/4 vibe to it that I always have a tiny percentage of my brain whispering to me "it has to be performance art, right?"
I suspect Jack took a lot of patronising "look at this scruffy little urchin, isn't she just delightful?" reactions to her writing a bit more seriously than she should have and now thinks she's absolutely brilliant at it.It's so bizarre to me now that she was ever taken remotely seriously as a political columnist?
Haha yes - his awful cookery programme where he was terrible (only difference being he knew he was terrible) and his accompanying book 'Offally Good' (written by his mum in the end because he kept finding excuses to put it offAll of Jack's writing - "journalism", blogs, cookery books - just has SUCH an Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3/4 vibe to it that I always have a tiny percentage of my brain whispering to me "it has to be performance art, right?"
I don't believe she ever really tried to access any of the support available. No taking SB to any of the Sure Starts that were still around in those days, no mentions of any training courses that are offered, free nursery hours, CAB, nothing. Just the food bank (although she must have been referred by someone at some point?)The 11 weeks she refers to is a delay in her Housing Benefit rather than the length of her claim, which in fairness I could believe. It was a common issue when I was doing welfare rights. Of course Jack does her usual dramatics of hiding from the landlord and being terrified. Instead of telling people that they should go to CAB or a similar money advice service where they will assist them to establish what the issue is with housing benefit and negotiate with the landlord. In my experience social housing are easiest to deal with in that situation but we did have a lot of success dealing with private landlords who would usually ease off a bit once they had assurances that the benefit issue was being dealt with and that they would be paid.
I appreciate for Jack playing at benefits was a good way to passively aggressively attack her parents as part of whatever the fuck is going on in that bizarre family but for most people it's a way to keep a roof over their head and it would be helpful if Jack would stop telling people that they have no hope and no rights in that situation. I appreciate it's very much in the interests of someone due to inherit a property empire to promote the idea that tenants have no rights but it really isn't the case and help to enforce those rights is available.
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