Jack you voluntarily share so much identifying info yourself! In the last week youāve mentioned living near tennis courts and shown a(n interioir) pic of your front door!
Comrade Jack as ever putting someone in a notoriously low paying & declining industry through needless additional work. Same with breaking a sign thatāll get some poor estate agent bollocked over.
YES to all of this. I've also lived in rented places my entire life and it's never crossed my mind that I somehow deserve or am entitled to own my own home? It's not some sort of purgatory FFS, where you have to do X number of years in a rental before you've earned your right to live in an owned house. I live in London because it's where my job is and because I love the city. No way I can afford to buy here, but someday further down the line I'll pack up my bags and move somewhere I can afford to buy, and adjust my life accordingly. I've no idea where Jack lives but if she wants to buy, then looking at properties 37x her salary is just plain stupidView attachment 245139
This (amongst so much else) fucks me off to no end. I've lived in rented houses my entire life - 29 years. I've never had a bedroom I could paint, I've never been able to hang up shelves, wallpaper or redecorate in any form. Currently cannot have any pets (even though not having a cat is a definite factor in my depression at times - I miss my old cat so much!)
I worked my arse of at my comprehensive school, and came out with way more than 4.5 GCSEs. I've put myself through uni, and again worked hard to ensure I never live in the poverty I was brought up in.
Yet, even with all of that, and having an alright paying job now - I'm still at least 5+ years away from being able to buy even just a literally crappy tiny flat.
Does that annoy me to no bleeping end? YES.
Do I think I am entitled to having the things I do not have? NO.
Instead, I still keeping working away at my alright paying job which I am hating more and more each day, because no one else in my life (or random Twitter people) will pay for the things I need, and certainly not the things I want.
It's funny, because anyone who actually grew up poor, or just-getting-by, will know and understand that moving house when the rent gets increased too much, or the landlord decides to sell, or wants someone not on benefits in their extra home - they will know that this existence is just what you have to deal with. Only someone who grew up in the absolute comfort and certainty of their parents wealth and ability to provide would even begin to think in this manner and level of entitlement.
no you canāt crowdfund it Jack, not because youād get flack for it, but because it is wrong!
Grasper at sawsJack Monroe, grasper of straws
Thread #55 was named 'Are you aware of my work, Barbara'.Liking because I reeeeeally want this as a thread titlenot because of the other party
Damn I didnāt grunk hard enough
Yeah well if you commute for work you cant sit at home all morning pressing redial, then not getting an appointment and arriving at work at lunchtime day after day.
See this is something her lib dem followers can smell a rat on. Sure they won't have gone through the poverty she claims to have or been working class. But unless you're #gifted a large amount of money by a parent, are on a 6 figure salary, save and graft for years for a small flat and crawl up the property ladder at a cost of holidays and all other things that make life nice, or live at home rent free for your 20s, its nigh on inpossible to buy a 3 bed house in an afluent area in your early 30s in the south east of England.
It was ever thus.
haha I didn't even notice this but yeah jack actually said "just did the maths" and she'd have to sell over a million books at full RRP to get an averagely priced house.
JFC why is it not a proper home? Does she realise itās not just her, the absolute trap that renting is now in this country? Itās just normal life you bleeping dafty
I dunno why Right Jan has tickled me so much. Like a British version of the gif āalright Janet FGSā
