Jack Monroe #402 Which police squad will be tasked to investigate Jack being signed up to a mailing list?

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VeniVidiVicki

What campaigning work has she done this year?
  • Fibbed about getting the ONS to change prices
  • Fibbed about the ASDA smartprice range
  • Got dumped by Superdrug
  • Went on holiday a few times
  • Got a dog
  • Forgot to take her son on holiday
  • Told a load of fibs at a talk in Edinburgh (and possibly in Bristol)
  • Cosied up to random unnamed people at a google event
Where’s the campaigning?
 
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Five hundred dogs

BurgerLaBill said:
Who does she know at Pink News then? *Sigh*

A fucking award?! What for? Co-opting every identity going and profiting off the backs of folk in genuine need?
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These threads have really opened my eyes into how publications like The Guardian, Diva and Pink News are nothing but their own version of the old boys network. Same old names and faces constantly recycled with more regard given to keeping things within the network than actual quality of output.
 
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bladiesla

waffle maker said:
BRB just going to do a FOI request to Jay Rayner to clarify exactly what was enticing about the recipes in the book.
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I feel like I've seen the Nigela quote before. Like quite some years ago. So who knows when Rayner and others have said something positive about jack's work. Could even be from the Allegra days.

I am not a publishing Frau, but I always feel they can be quite creative with using quotes and blurbs.

(As for the front, I hope it's a placeholder for something better)
 
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Hunsgraveyard

Contrepreneur's Eye. Look at any of the exposed online scammers and they all have that same cold, dead eye thing going on, even if smiling.
 
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Whaa?

You have seen it before, it on Amazon at the moment as part of the blurb promoting Good Food for Bad Days
 
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sleepingsatellite

Careful, this sounds very much like a pitch for ‘Paypal me £20 and I’ll pass a copy on for you…’
 
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PeepholePringle

Thanks for the tip on Nancy Birtwhistle, she's amazing! Her "cheats almond tarts" video has Common People as the soundtrack, I wonder if she's a Frau?
 
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Tin Can Crook

There's a Facebook page called Take a Shite which shares really shitty tips from magazines

 
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sleepingsatellite

Yes, but to try that with followers who work in tech is going to get iffy. If you’re saying you’ve got strong passwords, a password manager and 2 factor authentication and still getting compromised, there’s a lot of people who are going to get cynical. Of course you can probably expect a back pedal once Jack reads this.
 
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WaffleKent

ANEURYSM KLAXON
She has done fuck all for LGBT rights.

I'm going to vote for Jayne Ozanne. I'm not a christian but she works really hard to try and end conversion therapy and get the church to change its stance.
 
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FrumpyCat

My husband, who has very little idea of who Jack is, bought a tin of spaghetti hoops and threatened to rinse them and add a tin of tomatoes to make spaghetti in sauce.

They were from Aldi, so I don't know if it counts.
 
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Lazarus

I would like more detail on what specific campaigning she thinks she’s involved in.
is it the energy crisis?
increase to minimum and living wage?
less DWP sanctions?
more money for DWP claimants?
more funds for the NHS?
greater availability of social housing?
removal of zero hour contracts or greater security for those on them?


It’s very easy to say something grand like “I’m a poverty campaigner” but if all you’re doing is making shit food with a can of sardines or putting shampoo in the washing machine, it doesn’t seem to correlate, does it?
All good and well if she is using her platform to signpost - but she doesn’t even do that.
 
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SarcasticEllis

Maybe setting the price for the book just now at £20 means that closer to the launch date Amazon can drop it to £7-£8 and class it as a ‘bargain’ to help generate sales.

Much as I’m morbidly fascinated by what delights this book will contain, there’s no way I’m lining jacks pockets.
 
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DinosaurSenior

Remember when one of Jack's mates wrote a cookbook and she said "want me to write some blurb for the cover? '

Without having seen or read the book.

They must all do that
 
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Whaa?

One of Jack's books was priced this way in the supermarket. Reader I bought it. Come the time for Veganish to be published, I checked in several supermarkets, they did not carry it. I finally found it in Waterstones (one copy in stock) and had a gander there.
 
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Emmapism

Like even if you buy the ONS lie about Jack changing how they measure inflation, how does that help anyone experiencing poverty?

What tangible difference does that make to the life of anyone who doesn't have much?
 
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Lazarus

She’s one of the most borrowed authors across all libraries so get in there quick and see if you can reserve a copy in advance.
go well, pal x
 
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