Jack Monroe #321 It's just that Jack wasn't especially cool or well liked

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They probably thought you'd nicked them, what with you having the police out so much these days.
 
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Had a very quick conversation with my mum there about Jack

Told her Jack gets a fortune from Patreon - disgusting

She thinks she's the only person who knows anything about poverty was her other comment

My mum is no one's fool and unlike Jack she is a dyed in the wool socialist

And she has one of her cookbooks and cooked one recipe and had to change the recipe as it didn't work. Enough said

BTW my mum grew up in the 1950s and was from a family where money was tight but she went to school with some very poor kids. Kids who had nothing and she's never forgotten that
So Jack can duck right off
This is very similiar to a conversation I've had with Mother Jombly about Jack. Some of us Frauen do have very sensible Mutters!

My mum also grew up in the 50s and one of her neighbours fostered children, some of whom weren't white (which in the 1950s was quite the cause for pearl clutching amongst some other local folk). Jack's thinly veiled contempt for the "feral" 😔 foster children touches a specific nerve for Mother Jombly, who saw first hand some of the abuse that this foster family were subjected to for daring to bring "people like that" in to the local community.

Jack has tried to use the "I was verbally abused for going for a walk with 2 children of different heritage" anecdote for clout before but she, as usual, showed very little regard for the people who are more deeply affected by this issue than she is. Maybe this specific incident happened, we'll never know, but either way Jack had the opportunity to use a one off experience to highlight a systemic issue that others have faced for decades but she chose not to. She always has to centre herself.
 
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Stop saying food is medicine you ghoul. No amount of fish, grains or veg will cure crippling mental health conditions.

Paging Dr Wolrich. Oh no, he’s been sucked in too.
 
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Stop saying food is medicine you ghoul. No amount of fish, grains or veg will cure crippling mental health conditions.
Oooh I'm all for her claiming that food is medicine. That's the magic phrase you say three times to summon Dr Josh Woolrich, and I would like to reserve a front row seat for that showdown!
 
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Jack is totally the nurk who goes to chat to the police at a protest. "Let me shake your hand, officer, you're doing a bang-up job, this reminds me of when they had to control the crowd at my book signing..."
Ah, this is it! She’s now modelling herself on Hanoi Jane. Dry humping some heavy artillery, always at the protests.
 
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The article and the campaign it mentions is for Sainsburys to pay real living wage rather than the minimum “living” wage - and to get accredited as a living wage employer - meaning they have to extend paying real living wage to their contractors as well. Which is possible to do, Sainsburys can ask the third party to pay contracted staff more - and no doubt the third party will pass the cost on to Sainsburys.

Overall the campaign is a good idea, but what’s grinding my radiator mushrooms is that now she’s going to take all the credit for getting Sainsburys to pay more, when in reality there are campaigners who have been working to get supermarkets to pay the real living wage for years who have had far more of an impact! Also if she wants to actually have a chat with someone who pays their staff crap wages, Jack could maybe have a word with her mate at Iceland, who do just pay the bare minimum wage…
Jack doesn’t even know what the flying duck she’s campaigning for.

The National Living Wage is £9.50 per hour, and applies to all people 23 and over. If you’re under 23 you can by your employer be paid minimum wage, which is less, but most employers have the good grace to pay the £9.50 per hour. And it changed this year to make it mandatory for over 23’s to be paid it!

So is she saying Sainsburys Contractors pay under 23’s less and she’s campaigning for them to be paid the living wage like all over 23’s? She doesn’t have a bleeping clue what she’s on about.
 
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Stop saying food is medicine you ghoul. No amount of fish, grains or veg will cure crippling mental health conditions.

Paging Dr Wolrich. Oh no, he’s been sucked in too.
It's another Tory trope isn't it. Eat yourself better. It's down to you.
 
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Oooh I'm all for her claiming that food is medicine. That's the magic phrase you say three times to summon Dr Josh Woolrich, and I would like to reserve a front row seat for that showdown!
He likes her posts. 🥺. That one bit the dust months ago.
 
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