Jack Monroe #413 The flying monkeys are more like limping chimpanzees these days

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Oh no. And the person who drew it paints with her mouth. I feel rotten now. Sorry.
I've not caught up yet, but don't feel bad. and you can only take my word for this because I have no proof but I actually know this person quite well, at the height of the mouth painting phase as well, and she's perfectly capable of drawing and painting with her hands. She's a bit of a munchie.

I can prove to mods if needed but only if there's an option to do so privately.
 
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I meant her claiming money is going to a disbanded charity, it is dishonest at the very least, if not outright fraud. It must be within the remit of ‘somebody'?
Action Fraud. You don't have to be the victim to report, I just the same way as if you saw suspicious activity in the street, you'd call the police:


Surely by bringing it up again, it will stir up questions about the money? Which she doesn’t want
The only thing I can think is a Jack Stan retweeted it, and then a few others have blindly followed suit?
 
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Inadvertently or not, JM has ticked a lot of the boxes for oppressed identities
Oh it’s definitely advertent. If that’s a word. Strip away the cosplay and she’s a plain old white bread bog standard middle class girl. Ie a hugely lucky privileged person. And shes Embarrassed by that. Which is the epitome of privilege
 
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For someone who claims her tattoos were PRE POV, OK? WELL PAID JOB YADDA YADDA her right arm in that photo looks remarkably bare.
I tried working out a timeline of tattoos while I was scrolling through her insta. But obviously it doesn't go back to the pov era.

The photo posted by colouredlines is, according to Jack, from 2011.
By November 2013 at the latest the skull tattoo has been covered (badly) with the floral piece. Looks like some other stuff has been added on as well?



She posted a picture of this one in September 2012, it's unclear when she got it.



Two stills also from Dec 2013



When I say that the flower cover-up was bad, I mean it was dire.





Not sure how many she started with but by June 2015 she's up to 28 tatts.




She went "on tour" to the USA in August/September 2015 and got this monstrosity. I'd ask her to cover it in professional contexts too.







By April 2016 the skull/rose is covered up again and we are somehow at 40-odd tattoos!



This utter nonsense was made permanent in late 2016.



And then in 2017 she's broke and begging for money again. Makes you think.

I wonder where this poor woman is now, and if she's still a fan.


So fucking professional, Jack


And last but not least

Jack and potatoes is never not going to bring a smile to my face.
 

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I meant her claiming money is going to a disbanded charity, it is dishonest at the very least, if not outright fraud. It must be within the remit of ‘somebody'?
Not the Charity Commission, as they only regulate charities. The Fundraising Regulator might be somewhere to start or Action Fraud. But The Fundraising Regulator ask that you contact the organisation or fundraiser first.

If you know her quite well, can you point out that she's fundraising for a defunct charity and should update her shop?
 
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Going back to the Faux Laura Kuenssberg on Twitter, is anyone still looking at the replies for the suing Lee Anderson guff? Because, dear Canal, with the exception of about two posts, the rest are overwhelmingly positive. Lots asking how they can donate She’s the best of us and all the other boohockey we’ve come to know and hate. Has Jack gone around Twitter with a damn Men in Black mind wiping pen or what? It’s really sickening.

Of course the real question is why has it been posted in the first place? Jack kicked that off in May (was it then, I can’t remember) and then it was confirmed that she’d done shit about it and had pocketed the loot that had already been sent. Are people that dense (rhetorical) that they don’t realise it’s old news and nothing has come of it or, and this seems the most obvious, Jack is somehow changing the narrative and trying to lure more people into her failing grift.

Soz for the long rambly post, it’s like there’s some imaginary word count I’m trying to reach.
 
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Not the Charity Commission, as they only regulate charities. The Fundraising Regulator might be somewhere to start or Action Fraud. But The Fundraising Regulator ask that you contact the organisation or fundraiser first.
Action Fraud is likely a good catch all due to the number of different layers - of course not forgetting fraudulent misrepresentation:

 
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Whilst I agree. There is a charity shop in leigh ran by very cute old ladies and I got my kids brand new items from gap for 20p a piece I said to them are you sure but they didn't care. Everything in that shop was always ridiculously underpriced. Rare I know but perhaps its true...
OK it probably isn't who am I kidding
 
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Assuming that she really intended to become a teacher (hahahahahaha) - what qualifications would she need? In my area (overseas frau here) people who want to be teachers do an undergraduate degree and then do a one- or two-year program after that to get a B.Ed. And in their undergraduate degree they have to major in one or two "teachable subjects" - basically any subject where there's a course or series of courses in primary or secondary school, depending what grade they want to teach. How would doing a degree in Social Policy and Crim qualify someone for a teaching job?

(Noting too that the B.Ed. route is for state-funded schools - for schools outside that system, the qualifications might also include being an alumnus, knowing someone on the school's board of directors, being connected to a wealthy donor, etc. etc. )
 
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Having worked for the British legion, I will say 'my eyes were opened'
 
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If you know her quite well, can you point out that she's fundraising for a defunct charity and should update her shop?
Not without myself unfortunately.

Can offer the following information though:
1. The shop was promoted as a shared venture between the two or them
2. It is still advertised in her Facebook profile (although I doubt anyone has bought anything for a long time). It's not been promoted for years
3. They were totally besties for like 5 minutes and there's several photos or selfies together which I won't share.

Munchie friend is very privileged but generally well meaning. I do not believe for a second she is in on the grift. We are not currently in contact however.
 
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Wtf was the arthritic, asthmatic, crumbly shouldered, mathematically challenged smol pixie expecting?
Don’t forget the lack of driving, these RAF bases are huge, and they have roundabouts!

You could also mention tinned potatoes better/cheaper than fresh. Nobody believes that surely?
 
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Tender one, there was also a 50p Nicole Farhi jacket x

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I genuinely can’t work out if I live somewhere really posh (it doesn’t feel it!) but as. Charity Shop Frau (certainly not posh enough to be calling things thrift shops) no adult jackets would be 50p. Kids clothes or books maybe but even the M&S suit jacket I bought for job interviews was £1.25.

I know it’s all nonsense but I think I’m affronted her thrift shops and muddy puddles are SO unbelievable.
 
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Wasn't one of the go fund mes for books? If so the Trussell Trust would be obliged to buy Jack's books with the donation money as that was what the fundraising was for- phrasing it like that it shows how much of a 'you scratch my back I'll scratch yours' Jack has with the Trussell Trust
 
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I agree with you and feel very sorry for her parents.
 
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The books fundraiser - money went to Jack, Jack bought her own books, Jack sent the books to the Trussell Trust.
 
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I keep meaning to sit my mum (same vintage, same rebuttals when I talk to her about Jack) down to watch Shattered Glass. Free on Amazon Prime UK at the moment for fans of vintage grifters getting their comeuppance.
I am seeing the quote 'even Woodward and Bernstein went out for a burger now and then' in a different light
 
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Jack's tattoos are just woeful. I have about 33% of my smol body tattooed so of course I have some badly placed and badly drawn work on me but in my defence I started in 1985, not 2010 when there was an absolutely vibrant and talented tattoo scene already happening.
Like every bandwagon Jack jumps on she's done it half-arsed and it looks dire.
 
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