I messaged the Henry Dimbleby food action thingy on their contact page....no response yet, I am afraid.
Jack Monroe #94 It’s okay Jack, others have taken up the baton
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Is that it? One sentence?
Amazing stuff! Every bit as brilliant and insightful as you would expect from Jack.
This was retweeted by a writer Jack & I both follow. I’m not sure if it is a compliment or not...
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If he’s Googled her do you think he’s seen the Cabal?
This is my favourite gif (for goon value), but its so disturbing with her face
FlashBoof! Yes! Thanks for the update.
Sorry for forgetting your name.
Imagine trying to Facetune yourself hot and ending up with 2 noses.
And, if anyone else caught her documentary a little while back on her anxiety, Nadiya was suffering behind the scenes without letting it show (also thinking of that Jack shitshow when she failed to finish cooking and cried all over her agent or whoever). The fact that the family moved from near her in-laws in Yorkshire to Milton Keynes near London and her family to help her TV career made even more sense when you realised that she was terrified of travelling on a train. Yet none of that was public until the documentary.
That’s exactly it: she has absolutely nothing of value to offer except for promoting the cause (which she is evidently tit at). That’s why celebrities/influencers would be involved. The people doing the hard graft are educated ‘nobodies’ and while Jack may like to imply she is collecting information or analysing data or whatever - she’s clearly not. She does not have the education, experience or drive to do such a job and it’s crappy of her to attempt to take credit, however vague her claims may be
There is a need for lived experiences to be taken into account; of course those affected should be asked to provide input. However, Jack’s personal experience was almost a decade ago. It was under a different government; a different welfare system; NOT during a pandemic; NOT with Brexit looming. An incredibly different era which is now irrelevant. Her experience is not much use at all in the current context and it’d be better to ask, I don’t know, any of the countless people who’ve suffered poverty in the years since/NOW. I really don’t understand how she can’t see this
She’s obviously not doing anything to eradicate poverty. MR has stolen her thunder (in her view) but she had done duck all to deserve that thunder in the first place
I went through a phase of filtering my photos because I fell into the trap of wishing I looked like pretty much every influencer/model type out there with the exaggerated pout, big eyes, big white teeth and flawless skin. All it did was make me feel even worse about what I really looked like and I realised that most of those people don't look like that either and I stopped. It's the one thing I do feel bad about for Jack, because she's attractive enough as she is, but clearly doesn't feel that she is, and that's sad for anyone.
I just love her. She is so so likeable! Her documentary made me love her even more
I literally will never get over the people who think she’s “doing so much already” while in reality she just dicks about all day. The evidence is right in front of you, you bloody stupid squiggles!
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Babes same
Thanks for the good wishes. We have all had a lovely day, and a socially distanced reception afterwards. Very full of lovely food and drink now and tired, so I may have to go and have a good sleep!
That's exactly it, her experience is irrelevant now.
I was a poor kid in the 80s & 90s, a briefly solvent adult and now I've been varying shades of poor as a single, working mama for 10 years (triangulate me witch)
ALL of these experiences are hugely different, the help available is different, the thresholds for which level of help you might be allowed vary. The fact Aldi has come to my ridiculously chocolate-box pretty shire has made the biggest difference lately, I can afford fruit and veg again.
She is irrelevant, out of touch and wedded to the idea that poor people don't deserve fresh, healthy food.
I was a poor kid in the 80s & 90s, a briefly solvent adult and now I've been varying shades of poor as a single, working mama for 10 years (triangulate me witch)
ALL of these experiences are hugely different, the help available is different, the thresholds for which level of help you might be allowed vary. The fact Aldi has come to my ridiculously chocolate-box pretty shire has made the biggest difference lately, I can afford fruit and veg again.
She is irrelevant, out of touch and wedded to the idea that poor people don't deserve fresh, healthy food.
What an absolute bleeping loser, she can’t even lie convincingly with the help of an app.
One sentence about her benefits and then a few sentences about what a food bank is.
Truly ground breaking stuff.
Someone - sorry I don't remember who - said something very insightful on a recent thread about the false feeling of fame afforded by social media. There is a DEGRE
E of meritocracy or at least EFFORTOCRACY in things like writing books and tv presenting- obviously some people get in more easily and get handheld more, but if you're really crap and/or horrible to work with you'll fade. In an earlier era Jack would have faded; maybe drummed up a tabloid story now and again, but lost any sense of prominence. Social media means she still thinks herself a celebrity even though there's no real demand for what she does. So she feels constantly bitter about not being seen as famous, because the existence of followers tells her she's still significant. It's like if Norma Desmond had a Twitter account.
Ooh the picture went in the middle of everything. WELL THAT'S WHERE SHE BELONGS
Ooh the picture went in the middle of everything. WELL THAT'S WHERE SHE BELONGS
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