Jack Monroe #133 Neither a celebrity or a chef

[GothPrincess]

The Southend echo prints any old shite. I should know. Shot off a letter to them as I was enraged at someone on the letters page. They printed my letter. With my address.

 

[colouredlines]

Poppyright.

One thing I've noticed this year, is a distinct lack of red paper poppies pinned to the lapels of the general public. I'm sitting in a coffee shop at the moment, with a quick head count of 27 other...

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Coming from a family where my father was a Gunner in the Falklands, and a brother currently serving in the RAF on several tours of Afghanistan, those servicemen are my family. Had things been a little different, I would have been standing shoulder to shoulder with my brother in the Royal Air Force, but Small Boy put paid to that, so instead I buy my poppy every year and visit the Cenotaph to pray for him when he is at war.

"Then I had you, darling, and you dashed all my career plans!" FFS

 

[EverythingsBetterInPJs]

If I had a quid for every time I type out a comment only to then only delete them, I could probably pay Jackies rent! You all manage to put what I want to say so much more eloquently!

I grunk these pages daily... my preference is to read Twitter first, then think about what the responses on here are gonna be and I’m never far off! It’s honestly the most exciting part of my day and the closest to adult conversation I get, despite not really being brave enough to converse with you until now. (Nagging Hang up that I’m just gonn

What annoys me the most is the deleted stuff on Twitter, (that you manage to screenshot before they’re obliterated ) they’re normally her most hurtful, showing & narcissistic comments. It’s as though she confesses her sins, to get them of her chest only to continue guilt free the next day as most of the squiggles won’t have seen them! That goes for the mass deletes too...

But it’s fair to say, until the squiggles stop creeping up that woman’s ass, and the drama continues... Jack Monroe will continue to have far too much space in my head, rent free (as the saying goes) #NotThatSheSeemsToPayRentAnyhow

 

[Tabitha D]

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She’s about 50% Alan Partridge, 30% David Brent and 20% Rik the Student. Except these were all comedy creations and she is an actual person with no sense of humour and a grandiosity complex. It’s quite a combo.

 

[xoxo]

Come along now Grifty McGrifterson, it’s time for bed, you sleepy little sausage. Stop shouting at people about your rent and get some sleep.


Also, AS IF Louisa hasn’t contributed to the rent at all. What rubbish.

 

[HarderFaster]

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“actively tackling racism”*

*except when I let the mask slip and appropriate Black linguistic patterns to speak to a young Black man, or when I don’t credit a member of the Traveller community for her photograph to get my own face on loads of TV news shows whilst appropriating an issue she faces and I do not.

 

[Brian Butterfield]

She’s tagged the wrong Boris again



Brace yourself for some more arse clenchingly painful #content. Her desperation to centre herself in this is truly breathtaking.

 

[jenny2603]

I've only been here before to read the juicy thread where Jack stopped by, but had to pop back after reading their tweet this morning.

Is Jack actually claiming to have led the troops on this meal voucher U-turn? It very much sounds like it.

Michael Heseltine described Boris Johnson as "a man who waits to see which way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says ‘follow me". With a couple of tweaks that quote would pretty accurately sum Jack up too. For anyone new to Jack watching you can spot instantly that Jack has not led this campaign because it's been successful in it's short term aim.

 

[Flumps]

300 Patreons who thought they were sponsoring a Dickensian urchin child out of the east end slums horrified to learn she’s a boomer

I am *exceptionally* fond of you lovely @heretoreaditall2019, but I was born in the hallowed year of 1978 and feel forced to point out that I am a GenX-er par excellence and I'll thank you to take back your '1978=boomer' allegations or I'll be forced to tell you stories of raves and how much better the drugs were in the 90s. You've been warned.

EXCUSE ME! 1978 would make her a Gen X'r if you don't mind.

Hah. Snap.

 

[HarderFaster]

She’ll get loads and loads of centrist sympathy from the terminally unobservant following on from this, but I’m feeling pretty jubilant nonetheless. I’ve seen more dissent about her, and her drama, and her politics, and her lack of tangible action today than ever before, and not just from shitty alt-right trolls. More people than we thought have latched onto the grift and the chaos.

I think, at the end of the day, most folk are not particularly political, not very online (a la Laura Waddell) and not very interested in activism due to direct action being stifled for decades (cheers, Maggie T). She might get a few slop cookery book sales out of this, and a few more talking head slots with her terrifying death mask of foundation, but it’s clear from today that serious commentators have no time for her whatsoever, which is just more proof to me that there is no market at all for her poverty porn book.

Tommy Corbyn has really treated Jack with a magnanimity that she doesn’t deserve, and which she would not afford to others. She’s very lucky that the people she chooses to pile on mostly choose to ignore her, tbh.

 

[NomDeGuerre]

If you're working beyond full time but your rent has been bouncing for the past half a year, maybe it's time for a new house?

 

[colouredlines]

September 2012 - 10 months into The Poverty.

Those Abel and Cole vegetables must have an epic shelf life.

 

[Silver Linings]

 

[Pixieboots]

Thanks to whoever shared the webarchive link, because this is making me grimace https://web.archive.org/web/2013011...oes-dating-echo-gazette-column-15th-jan-2013/

One of the recent former Mr Jacks was a city boy, and I didn’t quite fit into the Made In Chelsea circle of women that flitted about like glamorous bluebottles. I’ll always remember one particular occasion, when a woman asked me what I did for a living. ‘I’m currently unemployed’, I said, to a now-silent table. All the listing of my previous employment didn’t save me; in the little black dress and champagne cocktail set, I was scummy single mummy, feeling as though I was only there for the novelty value. “Ooh, it’s a real live benefit claimant!” I imagined the ripple of fascination shooting around the table, and definitely caught a few looks and raised eyebrows, as conversation suddenly turned to the fact that ‘only people who pay tax should actually be allowed to vote.’

Probably the original iteration of the Dinner Party of Shame anecdote.

 

[Silver Linings]

It’s so good to see that the age of the influencer could be coming to an end. Jack will be teflon for a while longer but it can’t last forever. Outside of here and twitter nobody really knows who she is. Hillary Baldwin is now referrred to as Hillary ‘Hilaria’ Baldwin in the press and everything she says is prefaced with her scandal. One day we’ll see the same of Jack Monroe.

ETA - narcissism is honestly fascinating.

 

[Silver Linings]

 

[Alansbigplate]

Never mind Michael. We need CLIFF! The go-to Brit Christian. Praise beans!

He might set up some community singing to accompany the thunderclap

 

[BlendedSlop]

 

[Begborrowsteal]

Lol her rent. Id love to tweet her and @ del monte, the express, hellmans and anyone else she has done work with and ask why they arent paying her properly.

What a prick

 

[Bugger13]

Roadside mum has liked this Bit of a dig at our maverick I’d say-let’s hope she does write something & blows Jack out of the water.