Jack Monroe #310 Stay pressed, fools!

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trueblue222

HotesTilaire said:
ETA it seems she always got housing benefit though.
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WTC would have qualified her for that So she’s basically admitted that she could have sat at home on IS and child tax credit and been better off than running her small business. So essentially she fed her son weetabix and water because she wanted to prove that ‘mummy works’.

Photos of him sitting wrapped up in jackets with a red face because he was freezing.
Personally. I wouldn’t have cared if she had spent a decade on benefits. There were plenty of people back in the day who did this and there was a benefit trap back then. Some people couldn’t afford childcare and basically were better off not working. You basically do what is best for your child in that circumstance

Also. I’ve never worked in a pub but bar work can’t be that hard to get. There will be high turnover because it’s not for everyone. She was working in a bar when she was working in the fire brigade as a second job but couldn’t get a pub job when she was unemployed?
 
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LennyBriscoe

jenny2603 said:
Can anyone come up with any examples of kindness, generosity, humour and resilience? I mean there was that time she sent random folk Lion bars which was quite nice, I suppose but mostly she's just mean spirited, grasping and spiteful.
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The only way I can think Jack is connected to any of those qualities is what she sparks off on here. I’ve encountered the most sympathetic, empathetic and caring people here and I can’t think of a single occasion where Jack has been any of the above.
 
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Ostapbender

I see Jack's GONE again. gone to ground, regular as clockwork

imagine this labelled with JACK and CANAL
 
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WTFDidIJustSee

Fucking grim. Sorry not sorry I claimed benefits in order to feed and clothe my kids, which was quite the income drop as my ExH was on 50K but I’d been poor before I met him so it didn’t take too long to adjust. Sorry not sorry that I claimed benefits instead of immediately shoving my 2YO and 4MO in day care, because I prioritised the 2YOs sense of stability over my pride.

It would have been Income Support not JSA as she was a lone parent to an Under 5. It would have been very simple and straightforward.
 
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I think we ought to have a special achievement award called “The Shirley” as it sounds like she was years ahead of the rest of us in copping on to the inaccuracies. We could nominate squigs for a Shirley if particularly incisive
 
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Cantthinkofausername

I got overdrawn when my benefits suddenly stopped. I phoned the bank up and explained my situation, and they froze my account so that the charges didn't increase.
 
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Amanda Lin

Thanks for sharing these links. Some thoughts;

Why does she act as if everything in life is such hard work? I definitely don’t enjoy filling in forms and complicated bureaucracy - who does? But we get on with it, life is tough after all and I think that she hasn’t grasped that ,is the issue.

Also many mentions of her “famous temper” Which is very evident in her Twitter tirades.

Also the whole bit about not knowing why been sacked as she was so amazing and good with people… she could have just called for feedback… imagine how useful that may have been in a formative life stage?
 
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Cucumberthunder

It's all very much cutting off her nose to spite her face. It's like she's been in a decade long temper tantrum against the world.

Yes the system doesn't work, yes we should expend whatever influence we are given to improve it. But that won't happen overnight, so full out the damn form and claim your benefits if that's going to stop your child from starving.
 
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trueblue222

I’ve said this before but being on income support wouldn’t have caused her trauma. There’s no requirement to job search or there wouldn’t have been at that point in time. The issue seems to have been her housing benefits stopping and starting

She’s had zero trauma from being on benefits. Ever. Any trauma she has had have been from her own bad decisions.

That sounds exceptionally harsh but it’s the truth. She’s not someone who has had their PIP or DLA cut. She’s never been sanctioned.

She seems to be comparing herself to people who have gone through hardship thanks to bad DWP decisions. She’s just mining other peoples trauma to use as her own.
 
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Amanda Lin

Yes exactly this!!!

Also she was acting as if she had done the Nursery and various call centres a huge favour by not losing “her famous temper”. Those are traditional working class jobs, they didn’t make the rules!?? Rage against the system not the people doing the work.

Can you imagine having to interact with her in real life? Like if she got on your bus or in your Uber? Or rocked up to your hair salon?? Those are people deserving a PayPal tip jar.
 
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TillyMiffin

Cantthinkofausername said:
I got overdrawn when my benefits suddenly stopped. I phoned the bank up and explained my situation, and they froze my account so that the charges didn't increase.
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It’s actually against the code of conduct for banks to place charges if you’re only income is benefits. During my brief period on benefits a nice lady at the bank told me this and I got a refund of about 300 quid.
 
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HotesTilaire

Herissue with the fire service was the night shifts, to be fair bar work would be a lesser issue but still a challenge regarding night times. In any case I think everyone back then was fine with single parents not working and claiming benefits - there’s a reason why you were allowed to not look for work until the child starts school.
I think the crafting business was an early grift template (albeit unconsciously, I don’t think she foresaw patreon and PayPal) the same kind of thing, that and the yard sale - look at me I’m on the bones of my arse but I’m trying please shower me with extra cashes from the goodness of your heart
 
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traumatised sideboard

Ironically it does always make me lol when someone says Jack is humorous. Her complete absence of a sense of humour is a congenital defect passed down from the Mediterranean Marxist half of the Monroe bloodline. Source: Big Dave laughing to the point of spontaneous pneumothorax at gold trifles.
 
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hellosailor⚓

If she had no issue with claiming housing benefit why was income support beneath her? I wouldn't be surprised if she was claiming all she was entitled to but pretended not to be in order to position herself as morally superior to other non-working single mothers, Tory that she is. The drop in income was no doubt a shock to the system and enough for I'm-alright-Jack to convince herself (and others) that she was "literally starving". She capitalised on her situation instantly and I don't believe a word she says about anything!
 
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NellieBoo

Ooooh. She's ever so quiet today. I'm scared . We've had to claim benefits for short periods over the years due to my partner being made redundant a few times. Not pleasant but not difficult and people were very helpful . Actually getting the benefits stopped once he was back in work was the worst bit because we didn't always know what payment/part of a payment was ours or a possible over payment due to system 'catch up'.
 
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