Jack Monroe #152 Gorgonzola semi freddo with dessicated olive and grape

[Scarletfever]

I’m a day behind so this might already have been commented on - she claims to have been involved in prostitution and stealing food to survive in 2013, isn’t that at odds with the more recent timeline?

Guardian article July 2013

Jack Monroe: the face of modern poverty | Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler: A mother's blog about feeding herself and her son for £10 a week has led to her becoming a sought-after campaigner

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Observer piece July 2013

How blogging about my £10 a week food shop helped me cope with life

When Jack Monroe lost her job she learnt how poverty isn't just having no heating, fridge or lighting, it's feeding your son one Weetabix with water. Then she started writing about it

www.theguardian.com

She's been exaggerating since the start.

 

[Hollaaa]

Channel 4 really do love THAT MAN don’t they?

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Oooft.

Friday night confession time. I actually really like THAT MAN, as well as HFW (genuine champion of fishos and alleged night-time hair enthusiast).

 

[hollowhusk]

Lol seriously, she took lightbulbs out and now shes saying she lived without them for 2yrs. Without a fridge lol. Food bank for only 6 months of that tho.

All whilst not asking for help when she knew she could have. You should have been the one reported to social services for neglect, luv.

The poverty has now been upgraded to the destitution and the stories get more and more extreme.

Benefits are hardly generous but in 2012/13 if you were claiming them properly then you would have been able to have a safe roof over your head (even if it is social housing which she turns her nose up at) and electricity.

Was she an alcoholic at the time?

Was SBs dad not stepping in to do something rather than let his child live in squalor?

 

[FrumpyCat]

Doesn't fit the timeline. This article was Nov 2013, exactly two years after leaving the fire service, and in this she is apparently off benefits and earning money from freelancing -

Austerity’s poster girl Jack Monroe, and a storm over her very

Jack Monroe began blogging on cooking meals for pennies when her weekly food budget was under a tenner. Here she tells Richard Godwin about turning her life around with dirt-cheap chilli

www.standard.co.uk

But in her blog thing she said she put her benefits in to a spreadsheet. Anyway, didn't Southend have libraries and community centres where she could use free computers?

 

[hollowhusk]

Soft block is when you block a follow and then unblock immediately. It removes them as a follower but means that you can still see each other’s tweets.

It seems like a bizarre thing to do. If you dislike someone and don't want to interact with them then surely just blocking makes sense.

 

[bowiethesdmn]

Thread title suggestion: The Poverty has now been upgraded to The Destitution

Courtesy of hollowhusk

 

[Cactusflower]

A Prostitute with no lightbulbs for 2 years . Absolute tosh. Never happened.

 

[Blurp]

Smol Bot Man has had some success (busy grunking here).

 

[DinosaurSenior]

I bought some disposable cardboard shewee things...but . I don't get it. You still have to .....pull your pants n jeans down, or hoik your skirt up. I'd rather crouch n hide. Sorry....too much pipi information

 

[Readingismyhobby]

Imagine if someone were to put together an actual timeline of events from all the different snippets of info she's put out constantly over the years. It'd be Jack's book 7 crazy-wall times a thousand.

Imagine if the time line was written on long strips of special wallpaper around one of her many rooms

 

[FunnyFuneral]

I always do a reaction out of respect for our feathered friends, but it was so hard not to press
Sorry majestic one🦩xoxo

I saw a noble raven (big black woolly glove) flattened on the road today & laughed as I drove past. Mind you I am actually a vicious tosser (not bored though just BUSY)

 

[Sideboard Bob]

Oh god I hope this link works! A #jackshacks for any quarantining frau...

The fact that Sinéad O'Connor is playing in the background makes this even funnier. That song always reminds me of when Jack was going to share a custard cake recipe “soon”. Seven hours passed.... no recipe.
@Alansbigplate posted a faceswap with the caption, “it’s been seven hours since custard cake”
A whole baby was birthed before she finally posted that recipe! (Love to Ladderedtights who I’m not tagging because I imagine she genuinely is busy!)

 

[colouredlines]

I’m a day behind so this might already have been commented on - she claims to have been involved in prostitution and stealing food to survive in 2013, isn’t that at odds with the more recent timeline?

Complete bullshit, good find from you! In autumn 2012 she moved from her executive flat to a two-bed (going from 725£ to 675 in rent). She was financially secure enough at this point to take on two cats.

She then started a home craft business, had some photos locally exhibited, and got a job at the Southend Echo. AFAIK that job was as a trainee reporter. The only way her story makes sense is if she was, indeed, hired as the paper's official prostitute, which would be quite the scandal.

She signed her first book deal in May 2013.

ETA: in the anonymous Buzzfeed piece about domestic violence in same sex relationships, she specifically claimed to have worked as a prostitute prior to her pregnancy. Admittedly details could have been changed to preserve anonymity etc, but a key part of that story was that the abusive girlfriend was abusive while Jack was pregnant and bullied her for having worked as a prostitute.

 

[Cactusflower]

Complete bullshit, good find from you! In autumn 2012 she moved from her executive flat to a two-bed (going from 725£ to 675 in rent). She was financially secure enough at this point to take on two cats.

She then started a home craft business, had some photos locally exhibited, and got a job at the Southend Echo. AFAIK that job was as a trainee reporter. The only way her story makes sense is if she was, indeed, hired as the paper's official prostitute, which would be quite the scandal.

She signed her first book deal in May 2013.

ETA: in the anonymous Buzzfeed piece about domestic violence in same sex relationships, she specifically claimed to have worked as a prostitute prior to her pregnancy. Admittedly details could have been changed to preserve anonymity etc, but a key part of that story was that the abusive girlfriend was abusive while Jack was pregnant and bullied her for having worked as a prostitute.

The papers official prostitute

 

[traumatised sideboard]

That Threader page is the gift that keeps on giving. I am currently hooting at her Smart Price Miss Marple act after claiming her phone number was stolen and the last six months' earnings (around five grand) had been cleared out of her account. She swears that as she is 'an autistic, methodical, ruthless investigator' she will pull a Liam Neeson and track them down. I don't think we ever heard anything more about it. As a matter of interest, this was 11th October 2019, three days before her book deadline.

 

[bladiesla]

Smol Bot Man has had some success (busy grunking here).

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Ah, good for him (though not something for me).

I don't resent JM for being a published author, or making a living. I resent that she's a lying grifter who can't stop her nonsense/lies/tip jar rattling while being able to buy expensive tit.

 

[fauxpoor]

Who is in her house that she is so irritated by?

Herself!

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

Maybe Pringles?

 

[colouredlines]

That Threader page is the gift that keeps on giving. I am currently hooting at her Smart Price Miss Marple act after claiming her phone number was stolen and the last six months' earnings (around five grand) had been cleared out of her account. She swears that as she is 'an autistic, methodical, ruthless investigator' she will pull a Liam Neeson and track them down. I don't think we ever heard anything more about it. As a matter of interest, this was 11th October 2019, three days before her book deadline.

This made it into several newspapers...October 2019 must have been a pretty dull month in the UK I guess!

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

Doesn't fit the timeline. This article was Nov 2013, exactly two years after leaving the fire service, and in this she is apparently off benefits and earning money from freelancing -

Austerity’s poster girl Jack Monroe, and a storm over her very

Jack Monroe began blogging on cooking meals for pennies when her weekly food budget was under a tenner. Here she tells Richard Godwin about turning her life around with dirt-cheap chilli

www.standard.co.uk

Am I the only one who has reached the stage where I’m more surprised when she says something and it does fit the timeline