Lee Anderson, Ashfield MP insists Jack Monroe has made a fortune on the backs of the poor.

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AIBU to hope for a libel trial as entertaining as Vardy v Rooney and an outcome that rivals the Katy Hopkins debacle?

Who said there was anything wrong with selling books.

you said her recipes were free in her website. In response to a comment about her raising money for a food bank, when that money was used for buying her books.

I pointed that she also sells books. Not just free recipes on her website. Nowhere did I state she was wrong for selling books

Cant imagine anyone is slightly bothered about KH in anyway, tbh.

She gave many copies free to foodbanks, got Asda to return Smart Price food to their stores, and spent many many hours doing the Vimes Boots Index as the RPI included champagne and £10 ready meals ffs! She gives much of her stuff away for free online, and sells books to people who WANT to buy them, enabling her to continue her philanthropy. What is your problem with that

I bet a lot of people got annoyed when they realised that their measure of inflation is lower than it is for other people.

@Blinky21

Could you explain why you think her libel attempt will succeed? I can't see what he said that isn't subjective opinion.

Glad someone's mentioned the Vimes Boot Index! Can someone point me to towards where she's published it?

Then why mention it?

She sells books of cheap recipes. She has recipes on her website. Food banks have copies of her book which they can photocopy for free.

Do you have any problem with that?

She made people look at inflation and how it's measured.

Do you have any problem with that?

Who said Lee amAnderson was a hero?

Are you drunk?

Again, someone mentioned that she raised money for a food bank. But that money went on buying her book for the food bank users. So a portion of the money raised was simply to line her own pocket.

You then claimed her recipes are free and on her websites. I pointed out that was incorrect and she sells books. How, exactly, is that saying the fact that she sells books a problem? or that she has a website is a problem?

I mentioned it because you made a statement that was incorrect.

If the only way you can try and make out she is some sort of defender of the poor is to talk round in circles, there’s clearly an issue.

Who exactly did she make sure looked at inflation?

Her back story is a lie. She still lies now to get people to donate money to her. She knows her target audience is primarily those in poverty, that ma who she intended her target audience to be. Yet claims poverty while earning quite a lot of money.

But non of that means she can’t sell a book if she wants to.

Word is that he was a surface worker, so "down the pit" is stretching it a bit.

Hilarious how much she's conned people into believing her bullshit. The Vimes Boot Index doesn't exist, she didn't make Asda return the Smart Price brand to their stores because it never went away and a 'philanthropist' wouldn't con people who were worse off themselves into donating money to their personal PayPal account to pay for a court case that isn't going to come off.

They'd probably pay their taxes as well come to think of it.

Who exactly did she make sure looked at inflation

The ONS

www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/26/cost-of-living-crisis-ons-inflation-jack-monroe

Mike Hardie, the head of inflation statistics at the ONS, said in a blog the published annual inflation rate – currently 5.4% – was an average for all households. “But everyone has their own personal inflation rate. Some people may spend a larger proportion of their income on gas and electricity, or petrol if you commute via car daily.”
The move was welcomed by the food writer and activist Jack Monroe, who has exposed how prices for cheaper food products have soared as availability fell, contributing to rising hunger and poverty.

Yep, she's truly awful, and that's putting it mildly.

As I said before, you might want to read the thread.

I read some of her blogs really early on, when money was tight for me. I remember being really frustrated as she gradually edited out inconvenient truths from her original life story.

The actual story might have shades of grey and poor decisions ... But at least it was genuine.

It's a shame because her campaigning on food poverty is good. But she's alienated a lot of support by being fairly creative with the truth.

She gave many copies free to foodbanks
Wrong, there was a crowdfund to buy the books which she then profttied from on each sale.

Got Asda to return Smart Price food to their stores
WRONG Asda had a supy chain issue in her local stores there was plenty of smart.proce.produce in other stores.

and spent many many hours doing the Vimes Boots Index as the RPI included champagne and £10 ready meals ffs!
Wrong. She may have pointed it out, but it was already being worked on before she did.

She gives much of her stuff away for free online, and sells books to people who WANT to buy them, enabling her to continue her philanthropy.
Philanthropy would be better shown with her time than her asking for donations to her personal PayPal...

Lee Anderson (who claimed £220k of expenses in a year
220k on expenses.. breaks down to:

Office Costs
£33,144.30
Staff Travel
£174.00
Staffing
£165,215.27

This is money going to pay people that work in his constituency office.. and it's checked and verified before payment.

@Joeblack066 -happily. Monroe has made a career out of supposedly helping the poor. But there is zero evidence that anything she does actually benefits the people she purports to help. It's all a middle class back slapping exercise.

The ONS were already looking to change how they calculated inflation. Nothing to do with Jack, but good of her to take credit. She also wasn't comparing like for like. I believe the price of Smart Price rice hasn't changed, but it happened to be out of stock on the day that she visited her local Asda. I will of course retract my statement when the Vimes Boot Index is published and I'm proven to be wrong but I won't hold my breath on that one.

Wrong, there was a crowdfund to buy the books which she then profttied from on each sale

How do you know she profitted?

[[https://www.thebookseller.com/news/monroe-sends-over-6000-copies-new-book-food-banks-after-crowdfunder-1013181[[

£30,000 - 6000 books. Doesn't seem like much of a profit to me.
Considering they have to get out to a lot of food banks

Unless there are other crowdfunders?

Newham Books is also helping to supply the books to the food banks for less than their RRP, while Heinz has donated 10,000 cans.
Monroe said: “Fundraising for these books and tin cans to foodbanks is about giving people hope, dignity, and decent meals in the most dire of situations. To give people choices, and agency, and good food, and resources.
“The response and generosity to this initiative has been overwhelming and I want to thank the hundreds of people who have supported me in delivering this to the people who need it most. Working with The Trussell Trust ensures that these books will make a real difference and we really hope that this activity once again highlights an issue we all need to be paying attention to.”

Everything I have read about her and her actions seem to me to be someone who is trying to help people.

I judge people by their actions.

You think a publisher would sell 6000 books at a loss?... Really?..

I mean there's doing something good and there's risking bankruptcy.

Or do you think Jack herself knocks up the books on a 1996 Bubblejet printer in her spare room whilst she's slow cooking a gammon joint she rescued from a puddle in a slow cooker she found in a Skip?

It's litigious and daft for her too claim it's defamation. I think Gwneth Paltrow is conning gullible/vulnerable people with Goop. That's just my opinion, I'm not defaming her or accusing her of a crime or anything.

Gawd, that "books to food banks" number is exactly the same as a woman I used to work with who was an "agent" for usborne or scholastic or something. She was always trying to flog the books in the staff room and once a year she held a "sponsored read" which involved people sponsoring her nephew to read a book with all the sponsorship money going to buying books - from her, of course - to "give" to a nearby school. Grift grift grifty McGrift.

@cakeorwine

Yes there were other funding projects.
Like this one:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/780456006/cooking-on-a-bootstrap-by-jack-monroe/comments

£68k raised from people's.
Please do read the comments and enjoy them. Then Google it a little.

Then google some more.
Unless you're really blind or just.dont want to see it, you'll discover that stuff just doesn't add up in the world of the Hardest grafting , most working class, hero Chef Of The People...

This thread has been enlightening. Always knew that this horrible woman was a self serving publicist. But her antics explained on this thread have well and truly exposed her. Shameful.

She’s done some great work with raising awareness of food poverty. She’s also someone who constantly lies. They’re both as bad as each other.