To never want anyone to champion Jack Monroe again?

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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.

so sick of the hysterical comments about us losing the NHS.
Alarmist Bollocks.

Jack Munroe uses her child to sell her books - lucky her, her child is alive. If she had been what DC has been through, she could express an opinion on how he has handled it. She hasn't.

She should be grateful she has not had to walk a mile in his shoes. I don't like DC's politics and will attack them. I will not attack a bereaved father for how he has handled his loss. Can she really not see the difference?

Agree with her 100%

Ironically her ignorant comments will just garner support for DC from both ends of the political spectrum.

"a bereaved father"

I believe that he is more relevantly the Prime Minister.

I love her, and her recipes. DC is happy to see people starve. So yeah, that is a person who will stoop to anything.

Totally agree with her but think she is bonkers for opening herself up to such vitriol.

I don't actually know who she is either.

so sick of the hysterical comments about us losing the NHS.

Yeah, it's not like the Tories have ever sold anything off. Bloody hysterics.

Oh, hang on a minute...

Oh don't feed the beast, FBR!

Hmm, there was a thread making similar comment about DC and him using his son's situation to shut down debate not that long ago - it was heavily moderated, iirc. Expect this one to become a swiss cheese too if MNHQ get their eyes on it.

The rhetoric of people on the left is always nastier and more vitriolic than you'd get from any Tory.

Frankly, having just paid £3,500 from my very low taxed income for my daughter's tonsillectomy I hate to break it to you all, but the NHS just isn't working any more. We would have to have waited eight months for the operation on the NHS, resulting in further illness, further time off school, further courses of ABs and compromised GCSEs.

Privatise the NHS, make it free for those on low incomes, design insurance schemes for everyone else and get on with it.

This 'misty-eyed' romanticism about a model that was designed for a society decades ago does us no good.

Divide and conquer. Punch & Judy politics. I don't vote nationally, base my vote at the time on who I think is best placed to deal with the local issues and, as a result, have voted for more than one party over the years. But it's always worth remembering that this is the same Jack Monroe who featured in a Labour promo as a "member of the public" and that, actually, part-privatisation of the NHS began long before the current Govt and actually started under Labour (look up the "operating franchise" for Huntingdon district hospital).

The two main parties are as good and as bad as each other and too many people happily blinker themselves to the fact.

Abra : are you for real? it's people sniping continually re nhs that undermines it, and thus we mythologicaly get The Big Excuse for privatising it

Hmm, I'm extremely meh about Jack Monroe.

As for the rest of it, I agree completely with NorthernLurker.

Well OP I'm glad you've pointed this out as now I come to think of it Jack Monroe is completely right in her views which she is strong enough to give despite knowing there would be a backlash.

Which of course there always is when it comes to politics.

I don't have a link to the speech as I watched it on tv. I think it was in the week preceding the independence referendum.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11085489/Scottish-independence-Gordon-Brown-close-to-tears-in-emotional-defence-of-UK-wide-NHS.html

Quite right lem, he's doing exactly the same.

op this morning

"You really think DC would stoop to those levels?"

thanks for that op, its cold and grey here and I could do with a laugh

I'd rather vitriolic rhetoric and vile policies in action. Royal Mail, sold off cheap to cronies, who quickly doubled, and more, their money, now a mess.

Don't get me started on how this government's policies have effected the disabled.

agree OP

two wrongs dont make a right, and to write so callously about the death of a much loved child on fucking TWITTER

she should apologise

You really think DC would stoop to those levels?

Me too pictish. I trust that man about as far as I could throw a bull elephant. He'll say anything he thinks his audience wants to hear.

Good point Chunderella, I can't recall Brown every mentioning it.

*ever