I imagine she is an Oxfam ambassador in the same way that she is one for the CPAG. In that she told them that she was and they never bothered to check that she isn’t listed anywhere as one.
Jack Monroe #523 Everything she does is pointless busywork that solves nothing
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You forgot to ask about Iqbal!
Threads and threads back (but this year) a frau contacted an organisation to ask if guest was still their ambassador and they were both lax and cagey with their answer. Something about 'yes she is, it matters not that she isn't mentioned on our website anymore', or something. This is a fairly useless post as I can't remember the org or which frau but hopefully someone else will. It all speaks to the complete lack of due diligence from the places that book her, and also the places that championed her. Neither seem to give two people that she is poison, they won't check, they don't care, it's a sign of the tit-times vis a vis activism on social media and it's so wrong and annoying :/
Pretty much all the stuff she's "known" for, like winning awards and being an actual campaigner and charity ambassador, is now at least five years in the past (Big Linda's pinkwashing prizes don't count). It's like putting your grade 5 piano or swimming certificate that you got at middle school on your CV in your mid-20s. At some point surely people will notice she has done nothing of note for years.
Perhaps it is like the US presidency and you get to be called Ambassador for life.
But everyone knows she's popular because of all the good she does!!!
oh lolol!!! It wouldn't have been me on the Sabbath, Cissy Missy! No caffeine on the Lord's day. Also I don't work that day. But isn't he adorable? Just...buying his coffee like a normal dude, even though he is a Sir. Imagine if guest was there...looking around to see if she was being recognised. Loudly saying her name when they ask it for the coffee cup: "It's Monroe. Jack Monroe. Accidental Conqueror of my Own Fears. Vegan. Disabled. ADHD"....etc etc
Coffee Vendor: "We're gonna need a bigger cup"
I asked Positive News as CPAG ignored me
ETA: she wasn’t listed on their website then or now.
Yes! That's it, that's them and it was you
Just complete tit :/
In case anyone skipped the last thread, the best bit was when Sara Cox raved on twitter about guest's "black bean daal" and got minor squig blowback. I hope she got some irl blowback after consuming the slop as well! 
I’m not sure she would need to say all that: surely she would just say “Boo, I guess” after having been recognised, thanked for everything she does, and given the coffee for free in gratitude.
Rankin is wonderful: I met him years ago as he donates towards a bursary at Edinburgh University. He was unassuming, kind, and discussed the rehabilitation of well known criminals.
Morning Ninnies! So I haven’t been on for a couple of weeks, lots going on with the kids etc, but last night I bloody dreamt about Guest! I was at a pub with her, how I knew her is hazy but I was with her and a couple of friends, she was really chatty and I kept buying her drinks but she didn’t buy me one back! My other friends were moaning she wouldn’t buy a round, then she took us to a pub where she said we could have an afters but to get in we had to climb in through that PE equipment they have attached to the wall in schools! She nipped through but my friends and me kept getting stuck because we were too large! So we left, slagging her off and then we were at a fair and I can’t remember anymore!! What does it mean???!!!
Too much cheese before bed
Hasn't Jack referred to a book token she won for writing a story while still in primary school as some sort of evidence for something
It doesn't have anything like 120 recipes, whether new or not - a brave frau counted them in January, and there are only 80-something recipes.. You only get the advertised number if you include each of the home hacks individually. To be fair, the subtitle on the cover is "Over 120 delicious, money saving recipes and home hacks" - which is a great example of guest's tricksy wording.
The fringe programme says "contains over 120 brand-new, delicious, low-cost recipes, plus money-saving household tricks", which is much less ambiguous and is a clear lie.
Yep, award winning writer back when any div could be awarded a prize for merely entering a comp.
Or too much Tattle!Too much cheese before bed
That Postiive News response is the laziest I've ever seen. You asked for evidence of her work with CPAG, not if it said on their website that she was an ambassador. Surely they did more research than that?
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When I was about 11 I entered a poem into a competition and was delighted to receive a letter saying it would be published - in a book which would cost just £40 per copy, and my entry cost me only £10 (or somesuch amount). "Between a Laugh and a Tear" was the title. Ha! I've just found it on Amazon.
I think they published every single poem they received. It took me a long time to figure that out, though. I was convinced I was a Published Author.
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She was added as one of three CPAG "first ever" ambassadors in 2013.
By 2014 an extra fourth ambassador was added. She was removed by 2016.
Typically being a patron/ambassador/honorific type role, you get invited to charity events and occasionally get asked to put your name to a quote or other activity. Unless you ask to be removed specifically you would fall out of such a role if you didn't do anything for the charity for an extended period.
ETA: You would also be softly, gently sidelined if you repeatedly posted crazy tit on Twitter.
By 2014 an extra fourth ambassador was added. She was removed by 2016.
Typically being a patron/ambassador/honorific type role, you get invited to charity events and occasionally get asked to put your name to a quote or other activity. Unless you ask to be removed specifically you would fall out of such a role if you didn't do anything for the charity for an extended period.
ETA: You would also be softly, gently sidelined if you repeatedly posted crazy tit on Twitter.
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I have a poem published in a book, which I still have a copy of. I wrote it when I was 9. I showed it to my children recently when I was cleaning out the garage and they thought it was brilliant and that I’m really talented (preens).
I can see now that they published every poem they were sent
. My whole class from school at the time is in there so we must have done it as a full class activity. I also once won a £5 voucher in a writing competition. Am I guest?? No I can’t be, as until now I have never mentioned it since it happened.
I was thinking along similar lines - that swapping "salt" for "pepper", or "penne" for "spaghetti" etc probably counts as an entirely "new" recipe in her (literal) book.It’s a good theorybut I think you’re probably giving her too much credit ninny.
I’m still convinced that she’s very fast and loose with her definition of a recipe.
I couldn’t sleep much so was grunking old threads and on one she suggested something particularly funny to a poor squigthey wanted to know what to do with tinned chicken in white sauce as they were just having it with rice for tea, but wanted to ‘jazz it up’.
Her suggestion was curry powder and mango chutney (firstly duck off, guessing she was going for a coronation chicken vibe but swing and miss as per) but if they didn’t have the chutney then…..
Marmalade
Anyway back on point, to Jack that’s two separate recipes! Another job well done. (And I highly doubt either were tested)
And really - if all herbs are interchangeable, and all oils are interchangeable etc, surely all recipes are interchangeable, so who needs more than one?
I personally have about 40 cookery books
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Can someone enlighten me about Iqbal?
I checked the wiki and still couldn't find anything (but I am Very Old and my eyes don't work as well as they did 50 years ago when I had the figure of a sylph and all around here was green fields.
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