Wow, it's amazing how well thought out and prepared the cosplay was, and how well honed it has become (to the gullible) - and volunteer PA, well I never..It’s in the wiki, have a look at what was listed for sale
'Unemployed Mum Sells Off Belongings - Essex Enquirer
'An unemployed Southend mum who has applied for more than 300 jobs has sold the contents of her home in order to get on top of her spiralling rent arrears. Jobless Jack Monroe, 24, held the open ho...web.archive.org
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Jack Monroe #173 I take one day off and now she’s Polish?!
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This is true. She had SB in a Sure Start nursery too I think. At that time Sure Start were brilliant and well resourced and would definitely have been able to signpost her in a crisis. I used to take my kids to all sorts of things when they were babies because I was lonely and clueless, they did parenting classes and toddler groups and baby massage, stuff like that. As a vulnerable young single mum she would have been right in their target group (but they let everyone in, even boring married older mums- I asked if it was ok, because I felt bad for taking up resources, but they encouraged a mix of people so the more experienced and settled mums could help the others).
Take it with a piece of salt, but, in the mumsnet thread, another user says her child is in the same nursery as SB, they quoted about 1300 a month (iirc) for the fees. If taken as truth it's another lie from Jack.
ETA; I might have got things muddled, this is the thread https://tattle.life/threads/19920/
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Are you in need of a spare hard disk? I'd be more than delighted to post one to you. 
@Flash123 I am running out of space on my main hard drive so I was moving program files about which fucked the performance of my DAW. That means no tunes until I get a chance to do a clean install. Potentially will have to upgrade both my PC and the software as my version is a mere 14 years (
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@Flash123 I am running out of space on my main hard drive so I was moving program files about which fucked the performance of my DAW. That means no tunes until I get a chance to do a clean install. Potentially will have to upgrade both my PC and the software as my version is a mere 14 years (
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I think in another story she offered everything for sale - stuck prices on it all (unlikely) so she clearly offered up lightbulbs and Special Dino.
Yes people do buy and sell toys, for a quid or less, I’m sure there are many people who would buy small toys “to help out” I once sold some junk at a car boot to raise funds for a charity.
I was saying I hadn’t raised much when an old lady overheard and reappeared a while later with more senior ladies and announced loudly that it was all for charity X and they all started making a big deal of how great everything was and what good stuff and CHARITY!
reader we raised a good amount thanks to those ladies, I’m not sure who had the last laugh but some people will buy your old tit to be kind and help you out. Especially if you OFFER it, Jack you offered his fave toy for sale for pennies.
Yes people do buy and sell toys, for a quid or less, I’m sure there are many people who would buy small toys “to help out” I once sold some junk at a car boot to raise funds for a charity.
I was saying I hadn’t raised much when an old lady overheard and reappeared a while later with more senior ladies and announced loudly that it was all for charity X and they all started making a big deal of how great everything was and what good stuff and CHARITY!
reader we raised a good amount thanks to those ladies, I’m not sure who had the last laugh but some people will buy your old tit to be kind and help you out. Especially if you OFFER it, Jack you offered his fave toy for sale for pennies.
I think sure start was mentioned on the very early blog, but I agree a lot of half truths are told. Surprised more people that know Jack irl don’t turn up here either to defend her or join in.
Call the onion police NOW! Chop chop!
Seeing as lightbulbs were 29p in Sainsbury's at the time (19p if you could make do with 40W), it's all clearly
I don't know much about the twelve steps, but I thought that part of it was that you gave up being special.
She would like to close her Tattle thread down but she can't without publicizing it. Unless it can be part of a more general vanguard of 'people in the public eye with haters'. The more people in the same boat as her the less (possible) attention the particulars of her own situation gets.
This person’s a blue tick but still squiggled because anyone even entertaining this idea should be ashamed.
"Ms Jack Monroe with a little help from the Essex Enquirer"
Can you imagine the poor Junior/intern having to edit and rewrite a passable story out of Jack's marauding, peripatetic, howling account!
Like everyone else I couldn't care less where she goes or who with.
I have issues with how she thinks she is better than everyone and talks everyone else down by thinking she is superior when in actual fact it is 90% vegan the opposite.
I have issues with how she thinks she is better than everyone and talks everyone else down by thinking she is superior when in actual fact it is 90%
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this group of pillars won't happen. Jack can barely do the work she's being paid for.
I'd sell a kidney to be a BrundleFly on the wall if it did go ahead.
I'd sell a kidney to be a BrundleFly on the wall if it did go ahead.
Was she stateside at the time of the 'yard sale'?
She must be so
She chose not to go to her family or her son's father and family for help, she chose to sell that poor child's toys rather than do so.
The only way in the world I would make that choice is if there were child protection issues.
Every other vile/pathetic thing she does pales into comparison with that.
She has literally made a living out of choosing to subject a small child to living in poverty.
Why? I would love someone to ask her that.
Why did you think it was preferable not to ask the amazing, your words, man you co parent with, or your parents who have fostered for years,to help your son, than to sell his toys to buy food?
To be fair putting a child through any of it was an unnecessary action.
She chose not to go to her family or her son's father and family for help, she chose to sell that poor child's toys rather than do so.
The only way in the world I would make that choice is if there were child protection issues.
Every other vile/pathetic thing she does pales into comparison with that.
She has literally made a living out of choosing to subject a small child to living in poverty.
Why? I would love someone to ask her that.
Why did you think it was preferable not to ask the amazing, your words, man you co parent with, or your parents who have fostered for years,to help your son, than to sell his toys to buy food?
I absolutely believe she would do that, or threaten to do it to SB. Not even for the money necessarily, but just so she can tell people she was forced to sell his toys, for shock value.Wow! Poor little dudes.
I imagined the toys she claimed to be selling would be the kind played with every day. I think SB was said to be around two or three at the time? Blocks and cars, maybe a GI Joe.
So many of the stories she puts out there (checking her breathing, biscuit with a bite out) depict her in an incredibly bad light as a parent and SB as a very selfless kid who often has to give things up to please her
ETA sorry to post something so depressing, I hope it's the usual exaggerations & lies and none of the stories re SB ever happened
T31 still playing on my mind. All that opportunity to put us right, and she did none of it.
Completed it, mate.
Somebody was foolhardy enough to entrust me with the task of writing the Introduction to one workplace's performances of Oliver! I asked if I should add some historical context and got told 'Whatever'.
They got a carefully crafted short essay in drawing direct parallels between the Poor Laws/Victorian society and current political discourse regarding poverty as a lifestyle choice/due to a deficit in moral character/private profit motive becoming involved whilst fitting onto one page of A5 and still being readable on the surface as an ostensibly essential introduction to a jolly little show full of singing cherubs.
The opening night saw the local Tory boys in the front row alongside the Head. The fuckers read it and spent some time with their faces looking like Cooper's Arse.
I went on to have some fun with the Christmas Service booklet as well. Unmarried mothers, refugees fleeing persecution and migrants? Being forced to give birth in substandard accommodation with no help? What else was I supposed to do?
In other unrelated news, on the day the local Tory boys decided to use our premises for some campaigning (at the invitation of the Head), I was suddenly told at the end of the preceding day that I'd been given a day off in lieu/reognition of how hard I'd been working for the first time.
I have to play nicely with Tories at my current place as well. I'm very good at it. Especially when they read something they can't reasonably take offence to but absolutely contradicts their outlook. The Bible is fantastic for that; add a bit of God into the mix and the fuckers can't say a single word.
I wonder how Jack would respond if someone asked her directly why she sold her small son's favourite toy? (Whether it actually happened or not). I suspect she would now deny it happened and blame it on Tattle lies. What at the time was a story full of pathos, now looks just downright wierd and deeply unkind. And - from what she now says about her supportive family and SB's father - completely unnecessary.
And agree with other posters that she might set up her support group, will soon get bored and will abandon it leaving vulnerable contributors quite bewildered as to wtf just happened.
And agree with other posters that she might set up her support group, will soon get bored and will abandon it leaving vulnerable contributors quite bewildered as to wtf just happened.
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