Jack Monroe #54 Thank you so Matt much, Matt

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busylass

NorthernSoul said:
Yeah right you’ll be off SM for a few weeks Of course we’ll stop interrupting you (erm you have to be on Twitter to see people not ‘behaving themselves’)
Fuck off with the patronising tone
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What on earth does she think she has achieved by this latest rant? All she has done is talk about herself. She's retweeted old articles and rehashed others together. She's not even told us anything new or how she's going to contribute to the cause.
 
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colouredlines

3.116 words in that blog entry. FFS. Learn to edit. Nobody, but nobody, asked for the 3.116-word version of Jack's origin story (a gritty reboot?). A lot directly aimed at Tattle, with the defensiveness over her shitty bungalow etc.

More generally, her moment has passed. Jack only ever had one thing to say - "I WAS POOR, IT WAS SHIT." Her schtick was always a (supposed) exposé of what poverty felt like.

Now the conversation is more nuanced. The discussion taking place isn't just about whether or not poverty is shit, but a more complex look into why poverty and obesity often go hand in hand, and what can be done about it. There's a lot to unpack there. For one thing, people often lack knowledge. I always see the same comments - "we all know what a healthy diet looks like" - but it's fundamentally not true (source: every Mumsnet thread on weight loss ever).

In fact, that's one thing that came up in Henry Dimbleby's report (HD to his friends). He criticised companies like Innocent Smoothies for presenting their products as healthy, when they're not. Funnily enough, it's something that THAT MAN has always done well - although he misses the mark sometimes, because weight management is simple in theory but difficult in practice.

This is where the conversation is in 2020. That's what people are talking about. Jack has never had anything worthwhile to say on the subject of nutrition or obesity, so of course she pops her head up with 3.116 words of regurgitated nonsense about her boots having a hole in them. Nothing about health. Nothing about nutrition.

The world has moved on, Jack...and the fact that you are writing for your shitty blog, and not for a commission, needs to sink in.
 
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Saint_clemmie

Attempting to read her blog post but can’t promise I’ll make it to the end. Funny that in the subject of schooling she didn’t fancy dropping in her own grammar school education which she fucked up.
 
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NP

I thought her next book was going to be written for her by black writers? (But with Jack’s name on the front of course) She’s forgotten that bandwagon already.
 
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MooBelle

ugh. Read the first few paragraphs and felt my anger rising. Not a good way to start the morning!!
Anyway, it's off to work I go, please don't go crazy on here today otherwise I will have to spend my entire lunchbreak Grunkaling!
 
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instacharlie

I'm still not in my dream house, not sure we ever will be. At least I know how lucky we are with a roof over our heads and we're comfortable.....less so since covid hit, but still we're alright. The difference being we're still in a decent area yet the average house price here is less than half of where Jack chooses to live. That is what she hasn't come to terms with yet.......the life she wants and the life she has are two very different things.
 
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emmer_moans

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I thought her next book was going to be written for her by black writers? (But with Jack’s name on the front of course) She’s forgotten that bandwagon already.
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Didn't she delete the tweets? She' ll say it never happened.
 
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Emmapism

Her next book is going to be a collection of 'essays' on all of the random men who have sidled up to her and whispered 'I love your work'.

The time line will be blurry but the bullshit will be consistent.
 
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blurstoftimes

The captioned pics on that article are killing me!! I eat toast with butter and a glass of water often, guess I can claim to be a whimpering poor dickensian street urchin now too?

And why would she think anyone cares that it's her landlord who decided on the tiles for her kitchen??? She even explains why she is called Jackie in that famous article, this entire thing was directed at right?!
 

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Lanie

Doesn't she realise that some of the titles in aristocracy are actually just that titles and the people in question are somewhat penniless. My brother in law has an Italian baron a few generations back yet he had very little "money" it was just title.
 
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Brian Butterfield

I flatly refuse to read this guff. Not giving it the ad click revenue or my energy.

The sooner someone exposes this woman for what she really is the better.

We're waiting.
 
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busylass

Same here. It's about compromise isn't it and working out what you want versus what you can afford. They don't always match up and that's why I have a Hotpoint fridge and a Billy bookcase.
 
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NP

Imagine being up at 4am thinking at this very moment in time what the internet really wants to read is a 3000 word essay about yourself.
 
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Begborrowsteal

Im still catching up but FUCK OFF YOU LYING LITTLE RUNT. I feel like I need to go through and highlight, and expand on, every lie and inconsistency. She is a fucking disgrace.
 
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acca00

She says she's been trolled and hounded for 7 years for "telling the truth about poverty". She knows NOTHING about poverty. She was NEVER poor, EVER.

She's a spoiled privileged brat.
 
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Emmapism

The whole 'I've experienced more poverty than you have' schtick adds nothing to the conversation. Who cares?

We know you have more experience of it than she does, regardless of if your Dad could have gotten you out of it or not. That should be the starting point of the conversation. I don't need to read that rehashed a thousand times because you've got nothing else of value to offer.
 
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