Jack Monroe #41 No one else gaslights or fights for 'likes' like Jack Monroe. Oops.

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She got working tax credit. She mentioned it in the articles at the time. It’s not a lot of cash though to be fair.
Unless I've misread, she didn't include it in the calculations in the Daily Mirror article, and it would have added considerably to her income.
 
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No worries! Lidl is a dream if you can resist the middle aisles
Afaik (correct me if I’m wrong or if it was different back then) the scheme is now Healthy Start vouchers which can be used for vegetables, fruit, milk and infant formula. She’d qualify for £3.10 a week which would buy a good amount of milk but wouldn’t nearly be enough for a tub of formula

To be honest, the more I think about it, the more I think it was a tool to score pity points. It’s quite emotive, seeing baby formula in a sparse cupboard. Unless of course you ask the question of why it’s there when it is expensive and the child is two
 
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That’s exactly something I would do
 
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Back in the mid 90s, when I had my eldest I was entitled to free milk and health visitor changed us over to cows milk when baby was 6 months old. Not the greatest idea looking back, but I still don't understand why children over the age of 1 with no allergies need to remain on formula, plus the hassle of having to prepare it. Shes just lucky that bread didn't cost a minimum of £1.50
 
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So many schools aren’t even open atm? And I imagine those that are have enough on their plate with trying to socially distance young students. Jesus every day she is worse
 
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My own SB has a box set of HH purchased fairly reasonably from the works, brilliant for KS2 to aid topics such as Romans, Egyptians, Stone Age ect. They have really helped my son with his enthusiasm for learning.
Edit - he also enjoyed the fairly recent film too, worth a watch whilst homeschooling.
 
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She’d probably make it one of those books that jump back and forth in a badly written way to make it too confusing for anyone to real understand the inconsistencies
 
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Am sure she spoke about WTC in the Sunday people article. Not sure of the figure. Maybe 50 quid a week or so.
 
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Yeh I don’t get how a “hard to pronounce name” mean someone has to be black?! Has she ever met someone with an Irish name , for example? She is so enfuritating
 
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Unless I've misread, she didn't include it in the calculations in the Daily Mirror article, and it would have added considerably to her income.
I have tax credits (Child as now earn too much for Working) & couldn’t survive without them, I get around £3.5k a year

edit- this has been the case since marriage breakdown about 8 years ago
 
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When she was on Big Brother, she did a really convincing lie (as a task) which really endeared her to me. She was in a bath IIRC and she played up the mad cat woman thing to the max. Can't find a clip but it was really good.
YES! I remember now, It’s all BB’s fault. I need to try and find this clip.
 
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