Jack Monroe #380 Hunger Hurts 2: Solar Lantern Boogaloo

[jenny2603]

Well, a lot of people have been watching Jack on Twitter since Molly’s thread. Including her beloved blue ticks. And she’s really shown them who she is - which is thick as mince, greedy, argumentative, unpleasant, self important, ill-informed, self-obsessed, grandiose, vicious, vindictive and a bully. Lovely! Well played Jack.
And still the lies keep coming.
Her father hitch-hiked 30 miles in his fireman uniform? No he did not. That’s ludicrous. He will have changed into his uniform at work, like everyone else. And was he hitch-hiking from Southend to Southend?
Then she says she’s had a housemate for a year. When just the other day she was whining about being lumbered with a fixed-term lease by her departed partner. So which is it? She’s paying all the rent herself - or she has a lodger who is also contributing?
As for the night of grotty sex with some random hookup who bought her a Big Mac then left at 3 a.m. (quite possibly wiping his cock on the curtains on the way out). It’s hardly love’s young dream, is it. How things have changed since the heady days of the millionaire girlfriend and living it up at the Groucho. And still, she thought this delightful story was worth sharing with her 500,000+ followers, for her son and her family to see.
She’s really fucked it up this time. There’s no going back.

God there are just so many lies but the hitch hiking one is just fucking off the scale bonkers. I didn't grow up poor, we started out working class and by the time I hit my teens were lower middle class, neither of my parents earned as much as Jack's parents and we even had a temporary unemployment POVERTY drama at a couple of points. However at no time was anyone hitch hiking to work- once when the car got nicked my dad had to get the bus for a bit and I was upset because the person who nicked the car set fire to it which I just thought was really mean spirited. We either walked to school or got lifts with neighbours or sometimes my dad if he was working nearby, there was no great drama in any of this and as far as I can tell it was how everyone else was getting about. Neither of my parents are financial geniuses and were both working in pretty modest retail jobs, one part time (mum) and full time (dad) yet they could get to work and get their children to school. I just cannot fathom how a decently paid public sector worker was habitually struggling to get to work and was apparently wearing some sort of humiliating trousers during this odd episode. I really wish Big Dave would come on here and do an AMA because there's just so much I want to know about all of this. I can't be arsed making a trifle but I would be prepared to spray a ready made trifle gold and send a picture of it to Big Dave as an incentive to clear this up for us.

 

[Lurky McLurkFace]

The whole ‘he clicked really quickly’ is a nonsense. She attacked him at 4:30pm, he was attempting to explain himself at 6pm, 6:30pm and 8pm and responded to someone asking if he was ok at 10:20 and her apology didn’t materialise until 11:54.
That’s a long time in the world of someone with LD (my field)

 

[Griftymcgriftface]

There’s still a flying monkey attacking Karl….. suggesting he is using his disability as an excuse. Wondering if it is a

blue squigg is Karl

 

[Tin Can Crook]

Good morning!

I am utterly shocked that Jack's "apology" occurred behind the scenes and it is everybody else's fault.

Glad to see Jack Monroe / bootstrapcook deleted the tweet where she targeted an individual with a learning disability who was trying to defend her with verbal abuse. As stated before, I archived the tweet for future reference, should she feel the need to reinvent history.

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Thankfully, Karl was more than capable of holding his own.

Unfortunately, her apology doesn't address the fact that nobody should receive this abuse from her. She does this on a regular basis and there are individuals who do not include any vulnerabilities in their profiles. She should most certainly shouldn't be arranging for pile ons on anybody with a smaller platform than herself.

Matei, the MSE journalist and the lecturer who specialises in journalistic representations of poverty all also deserve apologies for her behaviour. And that's just from this week alone.

It is not abusive to ask a question or query contradictions. This gaslighting and appalling behaviour is unacceptable.

 

[Valiofthedolls]

I’ve been taking a bit of a break because I’m EXHAUSTED with Jack, but I’m just popping in to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a squig

Spoiler: Making THIS

TW for @colouredlines who might just want to skip on past

 

[DisgruntledGoat]

If at any point in my life I tweet a “fantasy cabinet”, particularly one that includes fucking HUGH GRANT, I’d want a loved one to put a bullet in my head.

These people are fucking pathetic. “Oooh Martin Lewis for chancellor please!”. These are the exact same people who’ll tweet “why is Rishi treating the economy like a household budget?!” but then see no irony in saying that a personal finance expert could do the job

Honestly, Jack has really found her tribe with these idiots.

 

[Badgermushroom]

New Frau here still learning the ropes. I have read many of the threads and noticed that a lie has not been noted. Probably because there are so many lies to note. She wrote on Twitter that she didn’t tell anyone except two close friends about her cancer scare. However a 2017 article in the indy100 shows that she went straight to the papers.

Why every woman needs to check her breasts, a gif guide from Jack Monroe

www.indy100.com

 

[Lucy Aeroplane]

Really glad you agree with my instincts! I think that working class academic, Rachel, would definitely contribute. It ties in so well to contemporary stories about fakes and double identities - The Tinder Swindler, Inventing Anna, the BBC drama Chloe (about an influencer with a completely false online persona).

Basically it needs a story, not just a set of facts.

I know I keep banging on about this but as a native Southender, any long-form piece on Jack would really benefit from the author visiting Southend, spending time in the good bit where Jack grew up, the fancy bit where she lives now; then visiting the estates, the run-down buy-to-let areas, the actual shithole bits. When you know the town like we do, the contrast between how Jack portrayed/portrays her life and the reality of life as a real poor person in Southend is so stark. That HAS to be part of any story exposing her.

 

[Veronicaaa]

I’ve just seen Jack’s old Insta account, from the time of The Poverty™️. There are photos of cakes she has baked, SB eating toast in a cafe, a photography exhibition of her own work and her trying on dresses in preparation for attending a friend’s wedding.

That 'first do no harm' tattoo always annoys me, because practically everything she does and says causes harm.

 

[OhhBacon]

Some light relief from a couple of squigs. These made me laugh!

 

[BlendedSlop]

Another line from Celebrity Skin is "She's full of poison // she obliterated everything she kissed."

Really makes you think.

 

[Veronicaaa]

He clocked what happened quite quickly? wtf is that meant to mean? Dickhead.

 

[Griftymcgriftface]

Whoever called the sock is bang on. Working class hero lol

 

[bladiesla]

I like how unmodest she is in her apology with here 'rare' lack of diligence.

"I failed to do that here and can only hope that the person on the other end of my (rare!) lack of diligence was not distressed or hurt by it."

Please, bitch, you thought the Georgia Church Suppers book was Eastern European. That's your level of diligence. Constantly shooting from the hip on Twitter with responses that range from embarrasing to irrresponsible, and going "weh weh, I am exhausted" when you fuck up and get called out.

 

[Just Lou]

Grunking right now but just want to say no one in AA says they "take" a meeting. You might chair it, or do a main share, you don't "take" it. And even if you do chair or do the main share, you usually just say you went to a meeting, is all about humility.

 

[Observ@h]

"He had a lot of support in the replies thank god"

This is such a devious response. I'm not sure why it's raising my hackles so much. Maybe because it feels like an abdication of responsbility for what she said by shucking it off to other people? Even though she encourages her FMs to shit on people?

I don't know but that response makes me feel quite ill and quite angry. There's something nasty and disingenuous about it.

You can tell she’s never worked anywhere for any length of time. It’s possibly the first law of the workplace.
If you insult/upset/offend someone at work, you apologise in front of the same community. If you talk over someone on a call, you apologise on that call or on the next one with the same people. If you get the tone of an email wrong on a distribution list, the apology goes to that dist list.

Telling him to go fuck himself to 500k people, but giving a secret private apology, are the actions of a wanker. And I don’t believe the apology happened either.

I’m actually getting quite annoyed now! Send calmdownos. Send some to Jack too.

 

[Pimpinella]

Not much to add. She was nasty yet again, she conveniently was at an AA meeting...which I don't believe as I've looked at the Essex meetings calendar plus she was on SM when any meeting is on.., her FM had their usual rabid pile on and now she's trying to be all sweetness and light. Bottom line somebody has told her to apologise and written it for her. She's vile.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

In an unfortunate cross post, squig defending Jack catches her out in yet another pointless lie

 

[moldwarp]

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A keen amateur actress?

Oh Fvck. This is my aneurysm. Keep Hole's name OUT OF YOU MOUTH Jack.

Also, you are aware they did two albums before Celebrity Skin, right? Pretty On The Inside and Live Through This. Both much better than CS.

Courtney would see thru you in 4 seconds flat Jack. And write a less than flattering song about you too.

ETA if it tuns out she was into Babes in Toyland and L7 as well then I might end up doing something drastic with a pumble.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Worth bearing reiterating in 'her' apology she said she usually does her due diligence in checking people's bios before unleashing her foul rants and inviting her followers unhinged venom on them.
So she knows it is unacceptable And also targeted.
Nice.