Jack's letter to Edwina is appalling. She was clearly rattled and knew that Edwina had got the better of her, hence the ranting and suicide baiting.
I hate the way how she uses it as a trump card. "I'll show you!! See? That was REAL. I attempted suicide!! How dare you even mention my rich family, you heartless Tory!". It's also completely irresponsible to pretend that she survived an attempt by puking up the pills. People can die several days after an overdose, even if they have no symptoms for a while, as sometimes the liver damage takes time to appear. Even if you vomit up pills, you absolutely MIUST go to A&E. I think Jack is lying though, as per usual.
She goes on about how Edwina never stopped to think how Jack's family would feel regarding merely mentioning her (rich) grandfather. It's funny how Jack never stops to think for a split second how her family feel when she lies about about overdosing in the bathroom, while totally alone, with no one to pretend to.
I hate the way how she uses it as a trump card. "I'll show you!! See? That was REAL. I attempted suicide!! How dare you even mention my rich family, you heartless Tory!". It's also completely irresponsible to pretend that she survived an attempt by puking up the pills. People can die several days after an overdose, even if they have no symptoms for a while, as sometimes the liver damage takes time to appear. Even if you vomit up pills, you absolutely MIUST go to A&E. I think Jack is lying though, as per usual.
She goes on about how Edwina never stopped to think how Jack's family would feel regarding merely mentioning her (rich) grandfather. It's funny how Jack never stops to think for a split second how her family feel when she lies about about overdosing in the bathroom, while totally alone, with no one to pretend to.
Jack's mother has confirmed that help was offered, and Jack declined, wanting to stand on her own two feet. I think that's why Jack makes such a fuss of how she hid her "poverty" from everyone due to "shame". I think that's part of the narrative she feeds her family, when they inevitably ask why didn't she just call them.
Back to the letter, it shows how snobby she is. Saying "drinking Aldi lemonade in my grandfather's guesthouse" is hilarious. Only Hyacinth Bucket would give a tit about the brand of lemonade. As though the cheap brand of lemonade makes her a real pov, and negates the fact that her grandfather had a guesthouse that she was swanning about in. (Jack scholars, is there any evidence that he actually had multiple guesthouses by the way?)
Also when she said crying with her baby, wondering how it had all come to this. "This" being on benefits - the way that many working class people have lived all their lives. She obviously thinks that that was a terrible, terrible fate for someone of her standing to fall to.
She came tremendously close to admitting that her family where middle class when she said, they weren't poor but they weren't rich.
I think she's been insecure about being middle class her whole life, and her life's ambition was to be poor and working class.
A final aside, if what she claimed in thread 31 about being diagnosed with autism, aged 11, by an educational psychologist who came to her house is true (it's not - educational psychologists are not qualified to assess autism), then how comes she wasn't already on Disablity Living Allowance? It's not/wasn't means tested, so even when she was earning $27000 a year thanks to Daddy, she should have already been on it. Even if she had never felt the need to go on DLA, when the poverty came, a diagnosis should have made it a lot easier to get a larger amount of benefits. But obviously, none of it is true anyway.
Edit: just to be clear I'm not saying that getting benefits is ever easy, or that a disability is a benefits passport. But this was 8/9 years ago when things where different, it was quite a bit easier before PIP, and not being means tested, DLA is quite a stable benefit to have for a life-long condition. A confirmed disability would have given her access to ESA etc and combined with DLA, that's a decent amount.
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Although that won't be Jack's doing...
