Jack Monroe #353 Jack Monroe campaigns for Jack Monroe not to be in poverty

[Orphan_Black]

Don't blame poverty for obesity - but do have a long hard look at the ready meal industry.

Reblogged - as what was supposed to be a frustration at the ready meal industry didn't seem to come across that way to all of my readers - and I apologise if anyone was offended. I woke up on Frida...

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But it isn't the original.
" Reblogged – as what was supposed to be a frustration at the ready meal industry didn’t seem to come across that way to all of my readers – and I apologise if anyone was offended. "

I might be simple

Typo of the year!

 

[Lumpyspaceprincess]

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so every single patreon gives £1 and no more. Why was she sending postcards etc out then? Of all the lies that’s the most tit one I’ve heard

 

[Soapy Dolphin]

I see the damage limitation reinforcement is going well.
The sock accounts, frantically searching for arguments, tagging people who have blocked YOU? Which PR agent advised that this special social media operation was the one to deploy?
Sack 'em!

 

[Orphan_Black]

But until we bring home economics back into schools, or somehow commit to teaching people basic cooking skills, people will go on entrusting their health and nutrition to multinational conglomerate organisations that couldn’t give a flying fig about anything other than their profit margins. And people will pick up those 77p lasagne meals, convinced that they have a bargain.

Lee was right up her niche, no wonder she got angry!

 

[sleepingsatellite]

I’m thinking that sharing this ID is okay? The parody account I’ve been waiting for…

 

[Penelope_Ghent]

I reckon it's a hell of a lot more than we imagine! I'm thinking past 5k a month.

Given Olia’s patreon I think Jacks could be higher.

 

[Cucumberthunder]

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If Jack is blocked, how could she see this, unless via a sock? (Coming from the past so sorry if this has already been picked up!!)

Lovely people who support jack, innit

 

[DisgruntledGoat]

Don't blame poverty for obesity - but do have a long hard look at the ready meal industry.

Reblogged - as what was supposed to be a frustration at the ready meal industry didn't seem to come across that way to all of my readers - and I apologise if anyone was offended. I woke up on Frida...

web.archive.org

But it isn't the original.
" Reblogged – as what was supposed to be a frustration at the ready meal industry didn’t seem to come across that way to all of my readers – and I apologise if anyone was offended. "

So all the tories who’ve said that it’s the fault of poor people that they’re fat and broke and they just need cooking lessons are awful people, but when Jack says it it’s cool. Riiiiiight.

 

[jenny2603]

"They use them as places to harbour all of the trimmings and ugly things that you absolutely wouldn’t buy from a supermarket shelf in their natural state (testicles, eyeballs, horse, chicken pumped with water and bread full of chemicals, and sweeteners that are used as a chemical weapon in some quantities) "

A bit like the sausages you feed your son, you grifting stinkapple.

 

[FlirtyThirty]

How rediscovering my faith is helping me cope with a chaotic world

The Catholicism of my childhood was overshadowed by books and politics in my 20s. But speaking to survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire encouraged me to find solace and support at church

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This is Dawn Foster's piece on the impact Grenfell had on her - I read it for the first time yesterday and can't stop thinking about it. Her original piece on the fire for Jacobin is also utterly brilliant, Jack Monroe has had many despicable lows but that piece on Grenfell has to be one of the lowest.

A Very Political Tragedy

Today’s horrific fire in London's Grenfell Tower is a symbol of a deeply unequal United Kingdom.

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Dawn Foster forever (& whenever I see Rhianna Pratchett vapidlybeing kind to Jack Monroe on Twitter, I find saying "if I've heard of yer da, I don't need to hear from you” makes me feel better)

Dawn was a friend of a friend of mine Funnily enough I also know the bloke who owned/sold the house Rihanna P presumably lives in now. Let’s just say she lives very well on her dads money…!

 

[Ostapbender]

Spending a beautiful summer evening on a thread monitoring a cook as she role-plays a fan of herself? Sure, why not

 

[GrannyOgg]

Mummy really does work

Mummy had a tidy up.

Wheres her family, this chaos is all over SM. If she was my daughter, she’d be bundled into the car and home never mind what she’d did. If she wouldn’t come, I’d be there with her whether she wanted me or not.
She needs professional help and they need to help her get it.
Is this how middle class families behave? I honestly don’t know. I do know this isn’t how my family behaves.

 

[domeafavour]

From a post on that old 2013 thread
"I'm just genuinely confused as to how she can be smugly telling everyone about how well she eats on £10 per week, yet is quoted elsewhere as saying how she relied on food banks because it wasn't enough."

I guess not much has changed in almost 10 years, except now it's £20

 

[alphaspagbol]

This one made me laugh

 

[Cucumberthunder]

From MN:


"She's edited this particular post by removing the

"Your kids aren't fat because you're poor. I could make your kids thinner and you financially better off, but you have to be willing to make the effort to learn?'

and thrown in a fairly defensive comment to boot. Not sure what's caused this, but clearly she is rethinking her position on this."

from a time when Jack was still able to learn.

Is that quote in any of the archived versions?

Maybe that's her THAT MAN origin story, he got up in her niche!

 

[Ostapbender]

I still haven't processed Jack being busted tbh. Her departure/the Pumble thread/the Venice reveal feels like yesterday!

 

[Brian Butterfield]

Jack Monroe's sock, liking Jack Monroe's Tweet

 

[Falkor]

Surprised we haven't had Jack's hot take on the interest rate rise and forecasters saying inflation is going to reach 13% in the autumn yet. That would be a nice distraction technique for her.

 

[TillyMiffin]

I’ve seen a lot of bleeping fires, I remarked as I turned the corner, but never… I trail off

How many fires does one get to see as a telephone operator?

Thats what I thought!

 

[SmillieKylie]

Blimey that thread has posted The Patreon income for John Sweeney ( who I think is brilliant, was recently in Ukraine reporting, bloke put his life on the line, deserves the support in my book ) as he has full transparency on his Patreon, Know he has double Jacks’ subscribers but I think she may well get higher subs per person than him. Reckon we may have underestimated her monthly subs, like someone else said earlier, I wouldn’t be surprised if Jack was rinsing £5k plus….where it’s going, no idea….spoons ? but I think her income is substantial with the tip jar etc as well. Jack is never revealing these numbers, honestly I think we’d be gobsmacked.