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To never want anyone to champion Jack Monroe again?

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SuperScrimper · 24/11/2014 07:05

After what she has tweeted about David Cameron. here

Like him or loathe him to describe the way he talks about his deceased son as 'misty eyed' and used for political gain is disgusting.

The greatest loss any of us can imagine is the loss of a child. Shock horror, even politician have real feeling. It's just awful that she would say that about another parent.

I don't care what she can do with a bloody lentil. Something's are just too low.

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McFox · 25/11/2014 13:41

Lovely Chopin, just lovely. The Fail will be knocking in your door with a gig anytime now.

limitedperiodonly · 25/11/2014 13:42

Can't stand her ever since I tried one of her recipes. It was absolutely disgusting

BrendaBlackhead I find your contempt for her completely justified on this basis alone.

But did you know that she's a lezzer too?

Discusting.

limitedperiodonly · 25/11/2014 13:47

She will lose Sainsbury's and I don't blame them and will continue to patronise them, because they are my nearest supermarket and if I wanted to make a stand against tie-ins with people I disliked I'd have boycotted Sainsbury's when they signed up Jamie Oliver.

Maybe she thought about it, I suspect she didn't.

Oh well.

Icimoi · 25/11/2014 13:57

Chopinbabe, can you by any chance see any inconsistency between complaining about JM's use of the term "misty-eyed" and your own use of the term "whining" in relation to her factual description of the difficulties of feeding your child adequately in conditions of serious poverty?

Clarabumps · 25/11/2014 13:58

Chopin you sound delightful! Name calling too, that's quite an achievement!

A twunt? She says something you disagree with and you want her sacked? I'd love if that happened in parliament.

I don't like you DC, you talk shite.

The only ones who seem to be held accountable for what they say are regular people and not politicians. Should that not change? Should we not be able to question the PM's motives?

Ivegotthree · 25/11/2014 13:58

I thought it was appalling of her.

I am definitely not a Cameron fan. Can't stand him. BUT if you have a disabled child, as he did and I do, you do spend a massive amount of time dealing with the NHS.

And for all its faults, you feel hugely, hugely, hugely grateful to the many wonderful people you meet who work for it.

I didn't have views on JM before but now I do and I think she is vile.

Nancy66 · 25/11/2014 14:04

Politicians lose their jobs all the time for doing or saying the wrong thing.

So it's not accurate to say it's only 'regular' people who are accountable.

Emily Thornbury for example. And that was over a tweet

WetAugust · 25/11/2014 14:17

Criticisng someone for talking about his family's terrible personal tragedy just shows you don't have a shred of human decency.

Thanks for the google links about her tats. Perhpas if she had been half as clever as some of you think she is she may have forseen a time when she didn't have money to waste. Funny how people always manage to get their for free or, cheap, or at mates rates. Makes you wonder how tattoo artists ever earn a living.

chopinbabe · 25/11/2014 14:20

Bizarre, how so many are happy to agree with her frankly disgusting and hard hearted comments and leap to her defence.

calling her a "twunt" is well deserved, as would losing her job.

She is, frankly, a self serving and disgusting publicist who sees nothing off limits in her rush to publicise herself.

Luckily, away from MN, it does rather seem that she has shot herself in the foot!

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Clarabumps · 25/11/2014 14:30

What IS hard hearted is that people with disabilities are suffering under DC's welfare reform act but he doesn't want to talk about it because he's been there so he knows. His policies are making an awful situation (which he does know how hard it is) even harder. Then when anyone shows any signs of criticism then it's fingers-in-ears time.

Clarabumps · 25/11/2014 14:33

Oh and can anyone explain to me...how does a lesbian get pregnant?

Chunderella I heard that she once had a contract phone too. Shock

TheFairyCaravan · 25/11/2014 14:35

Taking away the benefits and services you used from the very families who need them, and don't have access to millions of pounds and private nannies, shows you don't have a shred of decency!

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JohnFarleysRuskin · 25/11/2014 14:36

I think Jack Monroe is great, really bright, intelligent and resourceful, however, I think the tweet is misjudged.

DC brings his own experience to the debate. If you disagree you say, 'well...blah di blah di blah.' and then if your argument is better - you win the argument. I would be surprised if Ed could win his argument though. What could he say? 'Yes, Labour were in power for 13 years and we virtually bankrupted the country: our children's children will have no NHS at all because of our mismanagement but ho hum.'

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Clarabumps · 25/11/2014 14:41

WTF???? Without a soul?

David Cameron shows real empathy by taxing the life out of people.

You say "space for dialysis machine", I say spare bedroom!! TAX 'EM!

Great guy!

TheFairyCaravan · 25/11/2014 14:41

He closed down the debate in the Lord Freud argument WetAugust. There are the exact links up thread.

TheFairyCaravan · 25/11/2014 14:44

I actually feel pity for someone like her who us evidently without a soul and appears to be undergoing some personality crisis by insisting on being called Jack, like some immature teenager.

Shock Hmm. Did you actually mean to be so rude?

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limitedperiodonly · 25/11/2014 14:49

I agree that Emily Thornberry had to go. Though she didn't actually say anything in her tweet, it was open to misinterpretation

I suspect she was making a judgement about white van men who drape their houses in the Cross of St George.

And do you know what? So would I and I'm white and was brung up on a council estate too.

I know what it means and seeing as he has embraced The Sun's campaign against her with alacrity, I think she was dead right in her assessment.

And while we're at it, I don't want people to hang out flags of whatever nation next door to me.

It's tacky, especially if they've been hanging there in tattered ruins since June and the person CBA to take them down. That's not pride. To let your national flag become dirty and tattered and not even display it in a proper way?

It's as anti-social as having a settee and random white goods in the front garden.

But still I despair of her view. I see it on MN all the time. It's an open goal.

Ooh, look at the Lefties whinging. God Save Our Gracious Queen...

Nancy66 · 25/11/2014 14:49

There's always been this nasty, underlying vibe on MN that David and Samantha Cameron were not that affected by the death of their child because they are wealthy and privileged. I've seen it hinted at many times.

they're posh, they've got money, her mum was Lady so and so etc etc so what do they know about suffering?

I don't see anything other than two completely broken parents in this picture taken the morning after Ivan's death.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-and-wife-samantha-grieve-379265

MaliceInWonderland78 · 25/11/2014 14:54

I must admit, I don't like the woman (I didn't before this). I wouldn't shed a tear if she fell from the face of public consciousness. Sadly though, I don't think this will be the last we hear of her.

I've read some of her stuff over the last couple of years - and I must admit to wondering the extent to which she was the author of her own misfortune. She has always seemed a little bit too keen to blame others (the government for the most part) for the situation she found herself in.

OnlyLovers · 25/11/2014 14:58

Nancy, I really don't think that's fair or true. I think the MN 'vibe' on this issue is very much that yes, they have gone through unimaginable and almost unbearable suffering over their son, and that is respected in a goes-without-saying way.

Saying that the Camerons do not know ALL there is to know about living with a disabled child, and that while their experience with Ivan was heart-breaking and terrible, people with less money and support may well have different or additional experiences, and that people who need support should jolly well get it from the NHS and/or other benefits, is not AT ALL the same as hinting or saying that their own wealth and privilege mean they were 'not that affected'.

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