Jack Monroe #151 A morally destitute and blatantly mendacious fraud?
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Brentwood is closed now, but duck knows!
I think that you'd have to change trains at Shenfield.
I think in the dark times, all you can do is ‘be’. Laughter is such a powerful thing; keep on being and laughing and I really hope you feel more like yourself soon mate x
Can happen tho, my parents forgot to collect youngest from school one day (they were buying a Xmas treeSorry am I reading that right, people forgot to pick the baby up from nursery......
priorities!!) I got call from school so had to go pick her up, luckily work was not 30miles away. & nobody was traumatised for life!!! Agree with everyone juggling work/childcare etc is hard & not just logistical issues. Daughter was vv prem & I had to go back when she was 7months cos we needed the full pay. But she is 19 now & this is not something I even think about now, life goes on.
I took a Tattle break for a few months , daily reading about the greedy, grifting liars brought me down a little and I’ve always considered myself to have ongoing robust good mental health.
Sometimes a little time away is good , take care of yourself.
I think Earnest Jack is quite sweet.
Hair, possibly done cheap at a local college, or by a friend who didn't notice her two sweaters or her collarbone jutting. Skirt, probably gifted.
No. Not convincing myself.
I think it's less credulousness, and more that it suits the agenda of those papers to present a white, middle class, PRIVILEGED woman who slipped into poverty through no fault of her own
. It makes it easier to overlook the causes (and effects) of *actual* poverty, and means the journos don't have to interact with people they're probably uncomfortable around.ETA that podcast also makes me think about the poster who said she had powerful backers - wouldn't it be embarrassing for the papers who initially punted her having to admit that she's a total fraud?
I think we're related cause everything you said is my childhood.
Dad on dole in the 80s, no money at all. Single glazed windows, threadbare carpets, coats on the bed to keep warm but still shivering trying to sleep.
My best friends dad worked down t'pit and they had a car, semi detached and they went to Lanzarote for week in the summer. They were wealthy to me.
My parents headed straight from the maternity home to their fave boozer when I was born - popped shiny new baby Stampolina under the beer garden table out of the heat of the June sunshine.... 4 pints later they left without me! Thankfully my god-parents noticed and handed me over before the taxi drove away! Now, I wouldn't say I am scarred for life, however I never ever ever let them forget it!Can happen tho, my parents forgot to collect youngest from school one day (they were buying a Xmas tree
My mum was really late to collect me from primary school, and I remember standing outside crying waiting for her (holding my violin lol). She turned up eventually and i remember feeling silly for being upset. I am a soft shite though.
This! @TheDragonWithAFlagon 's post shows just how dirty, shameful and grinding poverty and abuse are. Not something to gleefully shout about.I think it's less credulousness, and more that it suits the agenda of those papers to present a white, middle class, PRIVILEGED woman who slipped into poverty through no fault of her own
ETA that podcast also makes me think about the poster who said she had powerful backers - wouldn't it be embarrassing for the papers who initially punted her having to admit that she's a total fraud?
No selling Omega watches, lightbulbs (lamps?) and tit stories then magically getting columns in national papers and being the acceptable 'face of poverty' for nearly a decade on the back of it.
It really does seem that this Telegraph article is a direct response to here because......what occasioned it? Why has it popped up again now?
All it has done is given Jack an opportunity to tell her story again and add new details to silence the critics (us) as she always does. Nobody here said she chose to go on benefits. We said she chose not to ask her middle class family for help and questioned exactly how 'destitute' she was (as well as the ever changing timeline).
I stand by everything we said here and this article changes nothing.
All it has done is given Jack an opportunity to tell her story again and add new details to silence the critics (us) as she always does. Nobody here said she chose to go on benefits. We said she chose not to ask her middle class family for help and questioned exactly how 'destitute' she was (as well as the ever changing timeline).
I stand by everything we said here and this article changes nothing.
All I can think is that pretty much everything that she whines about shows how just how privileged she is. She’s an attention seeking liability and surely soon nobody will touch her. Our Graeme knows
I wonder if her latest post about rescinding her resignation is the start of her telling the *actual* truth? Maybe in an effort to gently, softly rebuild her smashed to smithereens credibility?
The staff in her local A&E must dread seeing her come through the doors. She's clearly one of the regulars.
Obviously everyone knows that when you only let the people you follow and who follows you do the replying, you'll get an accurate and fair balance of view points..
Oh no wait.. actually, you're just making an echo chamber where everyone pats you on the bemulleted head and says what a good girl you are..
It’s interesting how we have different definitions of wealth depending on our personal experiences. I think that mine and Jack’s are similar though, which kind of proves the point that she’s never truly known poverty and is just a middle class girl cosplaying.
That's why she reminds me so much of the Pulp song.
If she called her dad, he could stop it all.
She just chose not too.
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