Jack Monroe #394 Stickler for facts and fair reporting

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If she’s talking about him renting it out as temporary housing, he will be making a killing. A friend is trapped in a 2 bed terrace (with 5 kids, 1 in a wheelchair and 2 others who are disabled) that the council have rented from a kindly landlord for the sum of £600 per week. Same house would go for around £500 per month as a private rent.
 
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Yes to all of this!

It's the bit that gets me every time. If one of my adult sons rang me today and said "hey, I'm behind on rent, I've got myself in a bit of a money pickle" I'd immediately offer to pay the rent, get them in the black etc. if I could. If I couldn't, I'd talk them through the process of speaking to the landlord, a debt charity etc. etc. and I'd absolutely do a food shop for them. It doesn't matter that they've left home. It matters that they're my children and there's nothing I wouldn't do for them.

Not everyone has great family, or family with enough money to help them out of debt. But everything we've heard about Big Dave and Mama H says that they're good, kind people (even if Big Dave is a bit pompous) who are clearly very involved in their local community and who really care about others.

My money is on her asking for help, and getting it, but then spaffing away the money they gave her so she ended up right back where she started.
 
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It's a distinction worth making. Excellent point.
 
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I TRY TO DO MY JOB FOR ONE MORNING AND MISS ALL THIS MARXIST ROYALIST CHAOS?! I'm going to have to hand in my notice and start supporting myself with an empty Patreon instead of a job aren't I?

I'm shocked that even Jack "what's a personal boundary?" Monroe would share so many details about her dad's tenants. Vile, vile behaviour. The only comfort here is that she's probably made all those details up.

The squig who said that Jack wants to please all sides has it spot on. One of the reasons she claims to be so many things is because she wants everyone to like her- she can't be a royalist or an abolitionist because it would ostracise the opposing side so she has to tie herself in knots of nonsense be "complex and nuanced".

What a glorious day.
 
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Coming from the past and I know someone will have already said it *altogether now*
Let’s hope Jack isn’t doing the food! It’s https://giphy.com/K9Ed1Of1V6kR6WpQWe
 
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It's a distinction worth making. Excellent point.
And I wonder if he sits on the council housing committee? A lot of these ‘rent direct to council’ private landlords do but it probably depends how many properties he has. If they rely on him to house single people and ‘problem’ tenants then he’ll be raking it in and influencing policy to boot.
 
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Why she filtered to look like Kryten?
Why she write like Enid Blyton?
Why she make inedible grub?
Why she make a comments club?
Why she post mad stuff on Twitter?
Why she just a great big SH1TTER?

Now fuck off
 
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Hardly peppercorn rates. JEEZ DO YOU NEVER TAKE A DAY OFF?
 
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It appears he’s not a councillor, nor are the other two directors of the CIC. That would surely be a (different) conflict of interest, as community interest doesn’t always align with council interest.

 
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Yip, one local landlord is running about in a Bentley.
 
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I know the chaos has subsided but I'm still reading through and every now and then hooting like a fool at some of the replies.



As you were.
 
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I am now on the bus I planned to take at 9:30am. This is all Jack's fault.
 
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Jack’s fall back seems to think that because her parents are supposedly upstanding citizens that it makes her one too! My dad is ex-military and my mum is a retired nurse so therefore I am allowed to grift!
Should they let murderers off if their parents weren’t criminals?!
 
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