Jack Monroe #128 Just eat the custard

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In all fairness to her, I think the thunderclap for carers thing isn't a bad idea and certainly not the worst use of her Twitter following. Maybe that was what the agent suggested?
 
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she's slagging off Stacy Solomon again? What's she got against her?!

I don't have anything to add to everyone's brilliant anger and humour about the ridiculous last 24 hours in Jackworld but I will return to the 'excluded UK' thing just for a minute as I am still so confused about the Caroline situation. Why can't she WFH? If furloughed, why is Jack paying for that? If freelance, why is she paying her a salary at all? I am still so baffled by this. There's obviously a lie of omission somewhere but it's one that Jack keeps returning to so I'm intrigued
 
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I mean encouraging people to contact their representatives is pretty solidly a good thing and just on the face of it a lot better than telling her fairly uniformly not poor followers how to use up their extra artichoke hearts and quinoa or whatever
 
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Not quite. A book advance is an advance on royalties, so if the book sells 20k copies and her royalty is 50p a book, she gets nothing for the first 14k copies sold, those 50ps go to her publisher to repay the advance. She would only get another £3k from the last 6k copies to be sold and then it could be anything up to 6 months after the sales are made, because royalties are usually paid twice a year in arrears, plus any unsold copies returned from bookshops will probably be minused off it, depending on her contract. In other words, it's £10k in total, not £7k plus another £10k.

EDIT: This may be what you meant and I've misread it, apologies if so x
Maybe I’m being a brat but I wouldn’t write a book for £7k or even £10k. Not worth the time 🤷🏻‍♀️ If it was going to take around 9 months I think I’d want at least double (more like treble) otherwise I may as well get a job I can leave behind at the end of the day.
 
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she's slagging off Stacy Solomon again? What's she got against her?!

I don't have anything to add to everyone's brilliant anger and humour about the ridiculous last 24 hours in Jackworld but I will return to the 'excluded UK' thing just for a minute as I am still so confused about the Caroline situation. Why can't she WFH? If furloughed, why is Jack paying for that? If freelance, why is she paying her a salary at all? I am still so baffled by this. There's obviously a lie of omission somewhere but it's one that Jack keeps returning to so I'm intrigued
She was slagging off Stacey Dooley before. Must just have something against Staceys.
 
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she's slagging off Stacy Solomon again? What's she got against her?!

I don't have anything to add to everyone's brilliant anger and humour about the ridiculous last 24 hours in Jackworld but I will return to the 'excluded UK' thing just for a minute as I am still so confused about the Caroline situation. Why can't she WFH? If furloughed, why is Jack paying for that? If freelance, why is she paying her a salary at all? I am still so baffled by this. There's obviously a lie of omission somewhere but it's one that Jack keeps returning to so I'm intrigued
Just speculation on my part but I think Caroline QUIT in March and Jack is lying about her employment status
 
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she's slagging off Stacy Solomon again? What's she got against her?!

I don't have anything to add to everyone's brilliant anger and humour about the ridiculous last 24 hours in Jackworld but I will return to the 'excluded UK' thing just for a minute as I am still so confused about the Caroline situation. Why can't she WFH? If furloughed, why is Jack paying for that? If freelance, why is she paying her a salary at all? I am still so baffled by this. There's obviously a lie of omission somewhere but it's one that Jack keeps returning to so I'm intrigued
She's jealous of Stacey Solomon for being successful.

The Caroline furlough thing is just bizarre. I can only assume Caroline has obtained footage of Jack preparing edible tasty food and is threatening to destroy her slopgibbon image by releasing it, so Jack is buying her silence.
 
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So slightly lost but whose idea was the thunderclap for carers? I’m reading her Twitter thread on it and she seems to be claiming it as hers?
I can't recall and can't seem to find the tweets now but someone was definitely tweeting about it yesterday and it was gaining quite a bit of traction. Now Jack, in time-honoured tradition, has elbowed her way into the conversation and seems to be claiming the idea as her own (or, at the very least, basking in the praise without putting people straight about someone else coming up with the idea - also classic Jack).

ETA - I don't think the original poster was using the thunderclap hashtag, so *technically* she hasn't appropriated it, just the exact same idea...
 
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Maybe I’m being a brat but I wouldn’t write a book for £7k or even £10k. Not worth the time 🤷🏻‍♀️ If it was going to take around 9 months I think I’d want at least double (more like treble) otherwise I may as well get a job I can leave behind at the end of the day.
She should simply write better books to earn more money.
 
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I mean encouraging people to contact their representatives is pretty solidly a good thing and just on the face of it a lot better than telling her fairly uniformly not poor followers how to use up their extra artichoke hearts and quinoa or whatever
Yes but she has said she has mates in politics, why doesn't she get her mates to bring this up more, give her mates the information she has gathered and get into parliament that way. It would probably work faster and better than people shaking their fists at rishi or whoever, even if he did take heed he needs to take it to parliament. She could do the leg work and hurry it up.
 
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Stacey Solomon seems like a genuinely sweet person. Maybe that's what Jackie has against her....😳
Eee!!! Slopbot is wearing a fabulous mystic meg syrup!
 
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Yes but she has said she has mates in politics, why doesn't she get her mates to bring this up more, give her mates the information she has gathered and get into parliament that way. It would probably work faster and better than people shaking their fists at rishi or whoever, even if he did take heed he needs to take it to parliament. She could do the leg work and hurry it up.

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