AIBU to hope for a libel trial as entertaining as Vardy v Rooney and an outcome that rivals the Katy Hopkins debacle?
AIBU?
Lee Anderson, Ashfield MP insists Jack Monroe has made a fortune on the backs of the poor.
newnamethanks · 15/05/2022 16:47
Am I being unreasonable?
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StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind1 · 15/05/2022 17:59
Exactly this and it makes me so cross.
She has no idea what it's like to choose between heating or eating when you have a young child.
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MillicentFaucet · 15/05/2022 17:27
She was let go from a Sainsbury's promo a few years ago because of this awful tweet about the death of David Cameron's son
bellac11 · 15/05/2022 17:13
What does this mean?
Georgeskitchen · 15/05/2022 17:11
The type of person who makes unpleasant comments about the death of a disabled child should probably crawl back into the hole she, sorry, THEY came out of
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LakieLady · 15/05/2022 16:57
I hope she sues him and I hope she wins.
Smileyaxolotl1 · 15/05/2022 16:59
Can anyone explain why it is fine and innovative for Monroe to suggest people buy from value ranges and batch cook but disgusting and insensitive when Tories say it.
Clymene · 15/05/2022 17:56
Anyone who can't live comfortably on the money she is making is really not in a position to advise other people on how to budget.
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CapMarvel · 15/05/2022 18:14
Fairly obviously because the tories are the reason why so many people are - in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, let's not forget - in food poverty.
People dislike Jack Monroe for the same reason people dislike Jamie Oliver, for some reason you shouldn't try to champion causes if you have dared to be successful. Oh no, Jamie is trying to help kids, how dare he grumble grumble.
Smileyaxolotl1 · 15/05/2022 16:59
Can anyone explain why it is fine and innovative for Monroe to suggest people buy from value ranges and batch cook but disgusting and insensitive when Tories say it.
QuillBill · 15/05/2022 18:14
I think there is an incredibly large difference between someone who presents actual recipes and ingredients that can be used to cheaply feed people nutritiously, having been tried and tested by someone who has been in that position, and someone who has never even been close to imagining what it must be like to be that poor and make those hard choices,
One of them grew up in a working class area in a working class home in an area of severe deprivation.
The other went to a grammar school and her father has an MBE.
Borgonzola · 15/05/2022 18:06
I think there is an incredibly large difference between someone who presents actual recipes and ingredients that can be used to cheaply feed people nutritiously, having been tried and tested by someone who has been in that position, and someone who has never even been close to imagining what it must be like to be that poor and make those hard choices, spouting ignorant rubbish about how it's very easy to feed people for 30p a day, without suggesting what to cook or how, or where to buy it.
Monroe saw an issue - food being too expensive - and lobbied a supermarket to bring back a value range so the poorest could still have a choice in some cases. I haven't seen a Tory do that.
There was an article in today's Guardian about how the poorest are disproportionately put on expensive ore-paid meters and in some cases are shutting themselves off from having the ability to heat, or safely store food. They're requesting food from banks be the kind you can eat without heating.
I don't like Monroe's manner particularly but she has proven that her experience and interests lie with the poor again and agains, and I find the snooty whataboutery on this thread nauseating. Yes, she has a book deal now. What of it? Presumably the poor should stay poor and be grateful?
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