Jack Monroe #523 Everything she does is pointless busywork that solves nothing

[CrushedIcePlease]

Oh my goodness, I've been listening to the Greenbelt thing again (god knows why, I just like to punish myself I guess???) and I've got to the bit (23 mins in) where the man in Budapest sidles up to Jack in the swimming pool to tell her how great she is. But .... Jack can't swim!!!! What was she doing in the swimming pool?????

I picture her like this at the side of the pool waiting for someone to sidle over…

 

[WarnedHoops]

Membership has been closed for a few months and only opened up yesterday or the day before. If people have been reading here during the time they couldn't join, they'll have picked up canal lore and in-jokes during that time.

This is exactly what's happened. As I result of reading here, I now shout "WARNED" at everyone in real life, many times a day. I've also told a few people "I'm scarlet for you, hun". I'm beside myself to be here! A real Frau/ninny....... (pinches self)

 

[Landslide]

Monroe Backstory

I read her HH2 then read HH1 and realised HH2 was a copy/pasta of HH1, few words/sentences changed interchangeable and thought "you lazy mare, you couldn't write a new blog post" so googled her and found myself here. That HH2 post made the scales fall from my eyes. Scammer

I think that having never ever been in poverty in the first place and so successfully and profitably getting away with making it all up the first time round, she didn’t understand that having been in the public eye for a decade as a (likely highly) paid and (apologies) well known ‘author’ and (huge apologies) ‘campaigner’ people might’ve had *questions*. She thought she could boil up her soap and unscrew her lightbulbs and give the Patreon a good old rattle and the world would respond, once again, with ‘poor jack, here’s some cash’ because it was never true in the first place

 

[TrolleyParton]

Grunking but I seem to recall someone else giving her credit for this - (was it get cape wear cape fly they've interacted before but I can't find the tweet I'm thinking of?)
The tweet said something like "I remember how you're responsible for them putting cameras in the council chambers"

I wondered at the time about the origin, but if it was literally her musing over something in her paper column, that's ridiculous. I'm guessing she heard someone talking about it who was actually campaigning to make it happen...wrote about it, then it happened.

Found it!

Factoid (noun): an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.

So in that sense, he's not wrong.

 

[Landslide]

She doesn't actually genuinely enjoy anything, does she? It's all manufactured balls to prop up her curated identity or to prove a point.

She has no sense of her own identity at all. Hence all the endless co-opting

 

[Tabitha D]

I've mithered in the past about her lack of shame, because it's fascinating to me. But that was ages ago, when she still had a a decent fanbase / carefully curated army of flying monkeys. Now it's even more glaring - like, how can she consider getting up on stage knowing that people KNOW everything that comes out of her mouth is a lie? I'd rather diiiiieeeee (not literally, Jack ) than face an audience of people who know about my grift, never mind dealing with the organisers and their unspoken opinions. What can she even talk about? Not the poverty, not the VBI, not even her latest book. Even the thought of her getting up on that stage and chatting rit is giving me second hand anxiety, because at this point she really is the emperor with no clothes - at Greenbelt, and everywhere else, she is properly naked. It's the stuff of nightmares.

She’ll just talk about TROLLZ and STALKERS and BAD MENTALS and how ICKLE AND CUTE SHE IS and HOW NOTHING IS EVER HER FAULT and HOW SHE DOES SO MUCH BEHIND THE SCENES .. complete fiction, in other words. It’ll be the same pity party she rolled out for the last couple of festival appearances, all designed to evade responsibility. And the gullible idiots let her get away with it!
Can you imagine if, say, Lee Anderson pulled a Patreon or fundraising stunt like she has done. Would anyone let him get away with it, I wonder?

 

[Florid Language]

"I remember how you're responsible for them putting cameras in the council chambers"
They probably installed them so they could keep an eye on people's wallets, watches and Burberry scarves if she was in the chambers

 

[Cucumberthunder]

I think Jack probably feels quite a home somewhere like greenbelt - that's her crowd, middle class, churchy, maybe home makers, see themselves as a little bit hippy/alternative/progressive (but not too much!) but she longs to be cool, edgy etc.

It's quite sad really. It's far braver to be who you are than who you think is cool.

 

[RandomFishOils]

In today’s good news… She’s once again haemorrhaging followers and is now back to pre-Gengar chaos levels on the Hellsite. And Greenbelt have lost the narrative as, surprise surprise, they are unable to control quote Tweets.

 

[Shimmering]

Her last Greenbelt talk is still up, if anyone can stomach it https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/talks/i-was-hungry-and-thirsty-were-you-there/

If not, here's Greenbelt's description of it -

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Gosh that intro is so illustrative of Greenbelt's ingrained snobbery and classism.

"Jack Monroe is a Tory cabinet’s nightmare – a coherent single mother"

Why would that be something unusual and worthy of note unless Greenbelt's view is that single mothers are generally incoherent?

She must make an absolute killing from Greenbelt attendees donating to the tip jar.

At this point they deserve each other.

 

[L3moning]

Grunking but I seem to recall someone else giving her credit for this - (was it get cape wear cape fly they've interacted before but I can't find the tweet I'm thinking of?)
The tweet said something like "I remember how you're responsible for them putting cameras in the council chambers"

I wondered at the time about the origin, but if it was literally her musing over something in her paper column, that's ridiculous. I'm guessing she heard someone talking about it who was actually campaigning to make it happen...wrote about it, then it happened.

Found it!

Incidentally, the reason why council meetings have to be public anyway is Margaret Thatcher (via a law she introduced before she became PM).

 

[Sensible Susan]

I'm new. I am not guest LOL. I speak your lingo as I learned it over this last six months when at home poorly reading this thread daily.

I'm only here for this thread and a couple other people I loathe, otherwise I'm way too old to know who 95% of the grifters / influencers / bloggers mentioned here are, not a clue. I used to be an active member of DS many years ago and had a little following at one time (because outrageous, but sadly they changed) so I do enjoy participating in forums where one can express self freely and am glad this one opened up.

I have a couple of gaps in my knowledge - why is it called 'grunking'? Why are you the 'canal' (does it mean cabal?)? and why you call one another fraus and herren?

I know what you mean. I have no idea who Alice or Vonny are and cba to ask

 

[Cookiecookie]

They called her a prophet.
Not shitting you, they genuinely called her a prophet.

Yes! That's the word that was escaping me @MooBelle I knew it was something utterly ridiculous

 

[rage naan]

this just reads like Jack herself wrote it

Imagine handing copy over for her to approve.
It'd come back with all normal verbs crossed out and instructions like 'good but pls replace "walked" with "scurried" & "ran" with "scampered" and "walked upstairs" with "clambered". Also needs moar adverbs pls &thkyou'

 

[Tabitha D]

That's an important element, for sure - the blithe "lol what can I say? I'm a chaos! Tee-hee! Just a wee smol adorable chaos! You wouldn't be so cruel as to hold me accountable, would you?" act. It's an extension of the "not my fault because bad mentals/ADHD/etc, my actions are not only beyond my control but also completely excused" thing with an added gloss of "look at me" twee.

I've come round to the view that Simon thingy absolutely stitched her up in a brilliantly subtle way.

Love the profile pic!

 

[Veronicaaa]

Imagine handing copy over for her to approve.
It'd come back with all normal verbs crossed out and instructions like 'good but pls replace "walked" with "scurried" & "ran" with "scampered" and "walked upstairs" with "clambered". Also needs moar adverbs pls &thkyou'

"Marauding" round the supermarket.

 

[Bugger13]

Yes! That's the word that was escaping me @MooBelle I knew it was something utterly ridiculous

Perhaps she once cooked for one of them & correctly predicted they’d have chronic diarrhoea for the next 24h?
Or maybe it’s her uncanny ability to predict where gift giving puddles & charity shops selling le cruset bakeware for 10p can be found?

 

[Nurseali]

Coherent single mother has enraged me.

Are we all supposed to be stupid because we had children in relationships that didn't last? Swear and try and sell our kids for a Westlife CD. Claim benefits and speak slowly using simple words.
That they think that honking nasally twit is coherent is more proof that they are not fit for purpose.

 

[Landslide]

I’m not sure it’s quite rivalry but I do think it all stems from the fostering. From her parents descriptions in various articles singing their praises it sounds like it was a particularly chaotic house as they (or certainly big D at least) prided themselves on taking “challenging” children - there are descriptions of being on their third front door and a sink pulled off the wall amongst other things.

From everything Jack has said and given away about herself, this sounds like an environment that genuinely would have been absolute hell for her and it is hard for the bio children in that situation to speak out sometimes because all they tend to get is “But you’re so lucky compared to X, don’t you know what Y has been through, you should have compassion!” which I believe she got and is the cause of the resentment that absolutely shines through whenever she talks about fostering.

Her parents fostering is obviously admirable… but everything they and Jack have said makes me believe it was awful for Jack. None of this justifies what she does now obviously, but I reckon it’s where it’s all rooted.

ETA: and I also believe that apart from the behaviour she did struggle with attachment, even if her description of sharing a bedroom isn’t accurate - look how fast she goes from 0-Marriage with everyone who she shags, clear attachment issues there, I can see her getting attached to certain foster children and then being genuinely heartbroken over and over when they were then moved.

Spot on. I sometimes feel very very sorry for her. I have to remind myself that, whatever happened to her, she’s now a lying thieving narcissist grifter that would take Oliver Twist’s last pumble.

 

[HootieMcBoob]

Membership has been closed for a few months and only opened up yesterday or the day before. If people have been reading here during the time they couldn't join, they'll have picked up canal lore and in-jokes during that time.

This is exactly it, I’ve been reading here daily since before last Christmas and picked up a lot of the jokes and chat and history that way, not to mention the wiki (there’s literally a section on in-jokes!). I get why there’d be suspicion on newbies who seem knowledgeable quickly, especially given the subject of these threads, though. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve felt like part of this community for months without being able to interact and now I can it’s fun to just jump right into it. Apologies if it’s a bit much.