Jack Monroe #280 Poverty pimp

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The constant dead pets.
The endless earnest discussions which surely burden him with adult worries.
The inverse parenting.
The comedowns from narc publicity highs. The hypomanic behaviour whenever she gets social media validation.

We called them moodsetters and it wasn't a compliment.
 
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Here's an interview she did about it. Conveniently SB doesn't remember the incident at all. Oh and the school just told her it was her fault for plastering her private life over the papers. Totally plausible.

 
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"To help avoid monosyllabic answers as Jonny nears his teenage years, Monroe has introduced a new game at meal times; they use a pack of cards to ask each other interesting questions to promote discussion, including thinking of words that a friend might use to describe them, or explaining what they are grateful for on that day."

poor little fucker. Children have the right to be monosyllabic. It's called 'processing'.
 
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I’ve just resigned myself to the fact that broccoli and pasta are cheaper than cinnamon and granola so…

ETA- pistachios are extortionate and a brownlee brother is flogging them so whoever is waiting for that can basically forget it.
Pistachios now heavily discounted in tesco for Ramadam.
 
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Imagine coming home from school knackered, sitting down to a tea that defies belief and then having your mum brandishing cards and being all "pay attention to meeeeeeeeeeeee". Poor lad.
 
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Also, she could use this as an opportunity to highlight services people could access but she has to bring it back to herself, she's so useless on so many levels.
The service she’s accessing is Patreon though!
 
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Spot on. If a person had a) no friends and b) a propensity for collecting harrowing stories from other people and was looking for c) a place where they could hold forth in front of a welcoming, supportive group, well...
 
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You can bet they're rolling their eyes behind her back though. It won't take long before they see through her.
 
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The idea that the Tories want to starve people so that the can't riot or at least they don't care if they starve to death because then they can't riot.

But without context it's just vaguely threatening...like if you riot we'll kill you...
She, and some 'left wingers' are trying to push the narrative that there will be mass starvations in the UK as a result of Tory policies.
While some people will certainly find things very difficult, and more people will have to turn to food banks and charities, it's extremely unlikely that people will starve in large numbers. The biggest health issue in the UK is obesity , ie excess calories, not starvation. Personally I don't think this will change much over the next few years, but we will see.
Also personally, I see this as an insult to people in places that suffer genuine hunger and starvation, eg N Korea and Ukraine at the moment.
 
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Why can’t she ever just respond with ‘yes, I was really lucky‘ ffs?
Because she's utterly incapable of acknowledging the massive privilege she has. The vast majority of people who share her claimed experience (be it poverty, addiction, etc) aren't given access to expensive dayhab, book deals, relationships with millionaires, media connections, brand partnerships with household names, five figure sums for a few days' shoddy work, TV appearances, a guaranteed income above the average wage from well-meaning strangers, a middle-class family with a property empire to pass on, the list just goes on and on. And yet she continues to act like she's never had a helping hand and is only just managing to hang in there against all odds.
 
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