Jack monroe challenged on twitter

[KarlWrenbury]

Maybe by a sock puppet account Etc but yes- how are they still not making ends meet after all this time ?

The thing that I don't understand is when questioned about anything she goes absolutely in for the jugular/blocks and threatens legal action. Why not give a civil reasonable response of what's been questioned. Why refuse people the right to question especially when you post your whole business on sm anyway. Why accuse people of much worse than they are questioning you about. Why is it all her way of thinking or no way.

It's all a bit.... the lady does protest too much

The thing that I don't understand is when questioned about anything she goes absolutely in for the jugular/blocks and threatens legal action. Why not give a civil reasonable response of what's been questioned. Why refuse people the right to question especially when you post your whole business on sm anyway. Why accuse people of much worse than they are questioning you about. Why is it all her way of thinking or no way.
Absolutely this. She gives out endlessly but her reaction to any pushback is to block and say she's being maligned. It's all the fault of tories, terfs and Brexiteers despite the fact that there are actual screenshots of her own words saying precisely what is alleged. What is her explanation for that (apart from incomprehensibly saying it's all untrue).

Also the threats made to her via dms etc has anyone actually seen them or just took her word as verbatim.

The thing that I don't understand is when questioned about anything she goes absolutely in for the jugular/blocks and threatens legal action

It's an easy option to get lawyers to fight your battles when you have a load of money. Like Jack does.

She never actually sues though. She won the Katie Hopkins thing by a thread, but because everyone hated Hopkins, Jack was held up to be some kind of saintly hero by the left. All her stans now think that Jack can and will sue anyone who remotely criticises her, whether it's true or not. Just look at all the fucking idiots calling Awful Mollys tweet thread libellous, when it's screenshots of Jack's actual tweets or interviews with respected newspapers.

Jack did actually ask for and received, donations to her PayPal account to start legal proceedings against Lee Anderson and Laurence Fox...which was quietly dropped, never to be mentioned again, although there was no word of her reimbursing anyone who'd already donated. How anyone can defend her or her behaviour is beyond me.

I also can’t believe that having the relatively stable influences of family and 2 sensible LTR would have meant JM pissed the lot up the wall

About 5 YO she posted a photo of a cupboard filled with designer handbags, at least 20-30. She said she hoarded designer goods as an insurance against poverty. I can believe she doesn't manage money well.

Faux concern. Also bullying

I am sure she found being on the dole difficult after such an unusually privileged upbringing and I can see that would feel traumatic.

I don't accept that she has had a difficult life compared to actual working class people. I don't think that (over a decade after her brush with poverty) she should be implying disadvantage to solicit donations.

If that's bullying then apparently I am a bully.

She won the Katie Hopkins thing by a thread, but because everyone hated Hopkins, Jack was held up to be some kind of saintly hero by the left.

She won because Hopkins genuinely libelled her. She's not sued the others she threatend to because all they did was claim she was dishonest about her income.

I think there's something of a 'cult of personality' that built up around her. People are complicated. Jack Monroe is definitely complicated and probably quite troubled. I read something somewhere about how it's not useful to whitewash people's flaws just because those people do some good stuff sometimes. I think that applies in spades with Jack Monroe.

She is another one like Part Time Working Mummy, selling their kids online for likes and scamming people on PayPal/and now Patreon

Utter scumbags I am afraid

I think she has mental health problems and also probably isn't that well off.

When you've actually lived in poverty, it's terrifying even the thought of or a sign that you might have to go back there again. It's triggering. Up until that point, you thought there was a functioning 'safety net' and it would be there for you if you needed it. When you actually try to live on benefits, the realisation that really the safety net is full of holes you can fall through, and that those in power actually design it that way - you feel like you are in some dystopian game with you as the pawn. Well if you already have poor mental health that fear can sometimes not leave you.

I think she's annoying personally, but I do have empathy for her.

I too have empathy. But then JM has said she will not apply for benefits because of the trauma associated with having to do in the past. Which either implies she doesn't qualify or that she doesn't need it, because I don't think anyone makes a choice to use trauma as an excuse for not applying - most have zero choice whatsoever.

Exactly. If you are apparently at the point where you have to unscrew lightbulbs in your home because they are too expensive to run and tweet that you can't afford shampoo and conditioner, can you really afford not to apply for benefits (if you qualify)?

There's evidence from an old Insta account of hers that she was NEVER "in poverty". Sure, she might have had a period of being a bit skint as many of us are sometimes, but no genuinely falling between the cracks. Her parents' comfortable circumstances are well-documented and they appear to have always been supportive, as is her child's father. It's total bullshit.

I will never forget when she was ranting and raving on Twitter all night long one night saying she was so unsupported, that she was raising her child by herself with absolutely zero help (this was during the start of the first lockdown), and that she was really struggling being a single parent. No more than TWO DAYS LATER she appeared on This Morning in a cooking segment and Ruth (of Ruth and Eamon fame) asked her about her little boy's father and she started gushing about how supportive he was being and how they were sharing childcare throughout lockdown. She is a liar who can't keep up with her own lies.

Also there's nothing wrong with having money while advising those who don't - it's OK to make a living. Martin Lewis doesn't pretend to be personally poor, for example and no one minds that

Dunno, he gets right on my tit ends like.

Has their expensive coke habit been mentioned yet? Cba to read through 10 pages

That's a new one on me but can't say I'm suprised.
Lovely of her to take money from actual people in poverty to fund that habit.

There's quite a few people getting on my tits lately in the news, with dubious origin stories, name changes, timeline changes, grifting tendencies and various combinations of the above tackily glued together with other inconsistencies.

Journalists used to challenge this bollocks and now they're all over these liars with sickly sweet tea and sympathy, sycophantic interviews and stupid questions.

Oh really. So someone only becomes autistic upon diagnosis?

Oh really. So someone only becomes autistic upon diagnosis?

@Branleuse No, that’s not what i said. I said if you don’t have a genuine official diagnosis of a medical condition, you have no right to claim that you have said condition. “Self diagnosis” of ANY medical condition is offensive bullshit.

Someone in her position really should back it up.
She has the funds for a private diagnosis.
She's an influencer, she might actually do some good.

Does it genuinely not bother you, that somebody with a high profile and lots of supporters - many of whom are vulnerable and not very financially well off themselves - is telling very public - and demonstrable - contradictory lies about their financial situation and background in order to extract donations from those supporters who can ill afford to make them? And then spending that money on designer clothing, pedigree puppies and expensive furniture? Do you think being - allegedly - autistic excuses that?

@BunnyChowLover are you trying to get the thread deleted? 👀

There are only two words needed here and they are:

Unnecessary suffering