Jack Monroe #316 Bizarrely, Jack seems to have misread the research

[Orphan_Black]

Jack, hi, you forgot to mention the podcast you did for The Telegraph too. Manifest that mortgage, pal!

Jack Monroe on breakdowns and being a single mum on a budget

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The pressures of being a working single mum left Jack Monroe in hospital, suffering from a breakdown. But her ability to feed her son on a shoestring budget also saw her shoot to prominence as a food writer. She tells Claire Newell why she wishes she'd...

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[Nonah]

Eta
There have been no burglaries in the past 12 months in her street

If the garage isn’t attached the house then it would be classed as a non dwelling burglary if that changes things.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

Maybe Jack didn’t know they didn’t have another CCJ? Would that be possible?

I don't have experience with CCJs, but surely she would be keeping an eye on her credit score/report? It doesn't cost to do this nowadays, and given her claimed trauma over finances, and 'forensic' budgeting (plus desire to get a mortgage!), you'd think she'd be signed up to a site?

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

From Twitter:

(the i paper)

 

[veronica71]

Low or high fives? Any dates?
That’s a lot of money to owe for something.
You’d think it can’t be rent or she’d be out. Hotel payments? Feels like tax.

Tax don’t sell their debts to debt collectors

 

[encore]

I don't have experience with CCJs, but surely she would be keeping an eye on her credit score/report? It doesn't cost to do this nowadays, and given her claimed trauma over finances, and 'forensic' budgeting (plus desire to get a mortgage!), you'd think she'd be signed up to a site?

She literally did a video with one of the big companies about how to improve your credit score

 

[HotesTilaire]

The lack of “global pandemic/economic woes/Ukrainian war” being put to Jack is because when she’s on the telly it’s as “domestic news/lifestyle/in the papers” slot. She’s human content filler.

of course Jack is too dim/basic/selfish/obsessed with blaming Tories for everything bad etc to mention it herself. Whelksplat.

 

[Orphan_Black]

Tax don’t sell their debts to debt collectors

It's probably a phone contract debt. She had that whole anti-smartphone thing a few years back. Probably that!

 

[moldwarp]

Spoiler: Talk of religion and AA

Does anyone feel a Religious Jack incoming? Not sure if she’s done it before. Lots of “blessed” and the like in her tweets. Might be an AA thing so forgive my ignorance but I’m picturing a full-on spiritual awakening. (If it helps her with sobriety then I guess it’s a good thing!)

Shes already Completed It Mate. She was a Sunday school teacher in her late teens and possibly early 20s I believe. It’s a part of the Jack timeline I always forget about when trying to sequence things in my forensic little brain.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

From Twitter:

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But... It hasn't risen by 50%? Not anywhere? Fucks sake

 

[Lkmc]

Maybe Jack didn’t know they didn’t have another CCJ? Would that be possible?

i reckon so. i think she went into that mortgage interview without checking her credit report & they did it in front of her & then it all came tumbling down.

 

[SweetTransvestite]

If it's Religious Jack, I really want her to go the whole hog. Revival tent, speaking in tongues, headscarves (again). Nothing half-arsed or just keeping the easy bits.

No judgement on keeping the bits of religion that work and binning the rest; I'm a fairly lapsed Catholic but St Anthony (patron saint of lost things) and St Jude (lost causes) do a lot of heavy lifting in my life but Jack going full religious nut would be hilarious.

I'm also assuming you wouldn't need a stab vest whilst monitising said spirituality at Greenbelt festival so that would save space in terms of packing. Plenty more room for fancy coffee accoutrements and other assorted camping essentials, pig skin hats...I dunno?
My wife doesn't share my faith but on the regular will go full Olive from On The Buses lose her glasses and then screech "ANTHONY!"

 

[Smeghead]

From Twitter:

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(the i paper)

Another paper pussyfooting around saying she was wrong

 

[Cucumberthunder]

I don't have experience with CCJs, but surely she would be keeping an eye on her credit score/report? It doesn't cost to do this nowadays, and given her claimed trauma over finances, and 'forensic' budgeting (plus desire to get a mortgage!), you'd think she'd be signed up to a site?

I think she takes a head in the sand approach to her finances which she can afford to do but means she probably has blind spots about her actual financial health. And she might feel like she's poor because at the end of the Patreon month she hasn't got much left, but given she supposedly does things like buy goat legs without considering the cost, there's probably things she could easily change

 

[bimppy]

i forgot to make a payment on account and was hassled by HMRC via debt collection agency. Paid up straight away obviously!

Tax don’t sell their debts to debt collectors

 

[Captainmouse]

Traumatised by bailiffs, laughing at the idea of inflicting them on others (an entity rather than an individual, albeit)

Yeah oh I made sure Katy Hopkins children were ok, yet she was cackling about taking the MP's house

 

[Smeghead]

Tax don’t sell their debts to debt collectors

I’m afraid they do! I forgot to pay a tax bill and debt agency took it on. I had moved house and wasn’t forwarded a load of letters. I crapped myself when I realised what I’d done, was total brain fart

 

[colouredlines]

I think she takes a head in the sand approach to her finances which she can afford to do but means she probably has blind spots about her actual financial health. And she might feel like she's poor because at the end of the Patreon month she hasn't got much left, but given she supposedly does things like buy goat legs without considering the cost, there's probably things she could easily change

An easy way to save money would be to order three McPlants instead of four. More top tips coming soon, please consider sending a Paypal donation, I do this for free you know...

 

[Whaa?]

An easy way to save money would be to order three McPlants instead of four. More top tips coming soon, please consider sending a Paypal donation, I do this for free you know...

Have you considered pitching to Superdrug?

 

[Cucumberthunder]

Just had a look at .gov they can take a variety of action (there are alternatives such as payment plans etc for those who engage with them)