Jack Monroe again

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Has anyone seen the recent tweet about her pawning/selling three diamond engagement rings? Aibu to think if you are pleading poverty and asking the general public to donate money one week and then showing off pictures of three massive diamonds you own the next, it's never going to go down well? Especially when you are already being challenged on lying and grifting?

For a long time I thought JM was nothing but a force of a good but I can't understand how she can be so tone deaf. It can't be deliberate but equally how can she not realise how it looks to produce three huge rings just a week after claiming she's so skint she needs handouts.

Apologies if there's already a thread on this.

There might be enough motivated peoplE for a group court action that may expose the financials.

No chance. There is no law against giving money to beggars. Caveat Emptor.

It's very hard not to like some of Molly's tweets but no way would I risk my name...

What is the risk?

Enough people reported being messaged and doxxed I think it's quite not ok risk

The only good thing that might come from Molly is the press will stop using her as the face of the poors. She doesn’t even give good advice/good recipes. She only goes on TV to get followers and then she can sell them the sob stories.
It’s well orchestrated. I’d be pleased if the BBC stopped using her for starters. I’m not paying a license fee for them to be employing phoney poors.

It's certainly not happening yet - she's all over the media re Tory / poverty issues in the past week; she's promoting various guest appearances she's making at upcoming events & festivals.

She's got an amazing talent for getting people to believe her & endorse her credentials, regardless of facts.

To be fair The festival has been booked for months now

That autocorrect amused me 😁

I saw a clip where he was very angry about his name being fraudulently used to make people believe he endorsed various schemes. I didn't blame him in the slightest for being angry. His reputation was being damaged by fraudsters. 😡

That's probably the same clip I saw.

Not sure it's ever been a secret. I mean, I know about it so it can't be! We've had Jamie Oliver too.

I don’t find it hard to believe she’s in financial dire straits. She’s a freelancer who is clearly quite chaotic and unstable. Bad combo.

And has a taste for designer things and millionaire gfs. Poverty is all relative hey?

Yeah, I think her version of financial dire straits is more "I should be able to afford a million pound house, but I can only afford a half million pound house."

She reminds me of people I know who use ‘poor’ as meaning ‘not wealthy.’ BIL is kind of person who would spend thousands in a short period of time and then run to mummy about how poor he was and he couldn’t feed the children. I think it’s quite common entitled behaviour.

Oh yes of course. Sad that she is unlucky In love too.

I'm humming that classic 90s song right now ..... I wanna live like common people ....

Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah

So the piece on Medium.com is live. A 21-minute read apparently!

Jack Monroe: Saint or Scammer

medium.com/@tdjournalism/jack-monroe-saint-or-scammer-80ec92f37bb6

My goodness that is a well researched article. How anyone could read that and think that JM is anything other than an outrageous liar stealing money from the gullible is beyond me.

Excellent piece. I hope Medium isn't pressured into removing it. Every single point is backed up with screenshots of JM's own words.

That article points out with her own words, that she has been fraudulent when collecting donations. Hopefully the powers that be can look into it. So many naive people hang off her every word and hand over money to her. And having people buy a 2nd book to be donated ( no follow up as to where it went) but tweeting many times that she, herself, donated those books.

Asking for donations with a cupboard full of lipsticks. The time stamps are jarring. Wow.

What "powers that be" though? Police? Hardly. She'll say that money was a donation to her which it was.

The harsh truth is that some people are more than happy to be scammed. You see it on threads here all the time when someone says they've given a tenner to someone who's "lost their purse". All the comments about "i'd rather take the risk of being scammed than see someone desperate unable to get help".

You simply cannot protect all gullible fools from themselves.

Can the Medium piece be archived? They have previous in taking things down due to complaints.

Hopefully the powers that be can look into it.

I'd bet that's very unlikely. There isn't some organisation that looks into everything dodgy in the world.

I doubt it rises to obtaining money by deception because she never makes firm promises.

The breaches of fundraising rules could certainly invite fines if someone had access to enough information to prove enough detail, which I think unlikely.

She doesn't put it through a limited company but if her taxes are done properly, she'll be OK with HMRC.

Is suspect the charity commission or the trussel trust could persuade the police to investigate for fraud if they feel enough money has been diverted from charitable fundraising but they won't.