Mouthy moron and all-round maniac Jack Monroe has sponsorship deals left, right and bloody centre. This person of confused identity makes a packet from such, yet takes it upon ‘itself’ to claim to be the voice of those living on the breadline.
Trending on Twitter this morning after quite rightly being called out for disgustingly suggesting those on a budget “tip [canned] spaghetti hoops into a sieve and gently rinse them to get rid of the tomato sauce” and then microwave and “enjoy immediately” with “a pinch of pepper,” here is a patronising cretin who previously got herself into a spat with an equal twerp, Tory MP Lee Anderson – a moron who believes a family of four can be fed on a daily budget of 30p.
This time unsurprisingly labelled someone who has “done nothing to help me” by a single mother who has “lived in poverty” and slammed as a “grifter” and “public scrounger,” Monroe, it seems, has deservedly finally been exposed for what she actually genuinely is – an utter hypocrite and a bombastic bloody bully and bore.
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Pictured top – Jack Monroe: A person of very confusing identity – who has variously been “non-binary” and going by “they/them” and “she/her pronouns,” “gay,” “genderqueer,” “lezzer” and “cisgender lesbian” according to Wikipedia – likes to fight utterly anyone. In 2018, she got into a spat with Bath Conservatives after they quite rightly called out parents who “don’t know how to feed their children” as “indolent.”
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Great article! At the very heart of the Twitter storm though, is the outrage that Jack has a dormant Patreon account, with nearly 800
Subscribers. That’s right – she takes in thousands of pounds a
month from it, yet hasn’t posted a single word, or sent out one solitary postcard for TWO YEARS.
Is this utter drivel supposed to be satire? The delicious irony of a Conservative with an economics degree calling a working class, disabled, autistic lesbian a ‘grifter’ in an article with multiple links to his Patron… it’s apex comedy.
Like the hordes on Twitter, you are playing the man rather than the ball. Once people make up their minds about something, they stop bothering to do things like thinking critically or examining evidence.
You’d rather discredit the accuser than address their claims, classic ad hominem attack.
I was a fan of Monroe’s, but no more I’m afraid. The tales don’t make sense and the numbers don’t add up. This is a person who has created a narrative about themself, and is so surrounded by fawning acolytes and enablers who affirm that narrative that perhaps they’ve come to believe it also.
But it’s undeniable that the histrionic blog posts are transparent grifts for money, and it’s heartbreaking seeing the number of people who clearly have little themselves making a contribution to Monroe’s personal coffers. Monroe responds to criticism with self-pity and aggression, then retreats to let the cult-members create a dogpile.
Really good people do stuff quietly and without seeking affirmation. Like George Michael, whose acts of charity only came out after his death.
There is what I would call a ‘Savile effect’ with Monroe, although of course the personal offences are not in any way in the same league.
What I’m talking about is the scenario where you have a self-publicist, who talks constantly and noisily about their own good deeds and creates a personal unassailability and following. High profile and powerful supporters aid this credibility, which means that scrutiny and criticism are considered churlish, or even heretical. They gain the status of a ‘national treasure’, red flags are ignored, they have a kind of impunity.
Look into it with a critical eye, don’t just ‘shoot the messenger’.
I am not a Conservative. Your assumption is ludicrous.
Apart from the abuse leveled here I really don’t get your point or any explanation of why anyone should agree with this vulgar opinion piece. For people to say “I am poor and she did nothing to help me” is just crazy ramblings. This is not journalism.
Claiming to be on the side of poor and living the same life as them whilst having garned sponsorship deals from profiteering supermarkets that make a fortune by selling junk to the aforementioned at excessive prices is hardly to be commended. Next.
The Con Artist is a special sort of ego maniac. They create stupidity as they create themselves. .
Monroe is a relentless grifter and shamelessly playing on all her (alleged) oppression points. She’s awful, and I especially think this having been genuinely, crushingly impoverished for years. I actually had to go steal sanitary products, toilet paper, went through skips for food and clothing bins. That’s rough when your peers are wearing nice clothes and eating decent dinners, never worrying about leaving lights on.
I left home without a coat and only got one when someone gave me an old spare.
Anyway, I’ve just got caught up on this. Along with the cat she mysteriously took on while a tiny kitten, far too small to be away from its mother, and kept in a terrible state, against the advice of multiple vets, she’s just full of endless rubbish. Looks like she was suggesting she had cancer (photo of her lying with curtains pulled on a sunny day, wearing a head covering and asking if she’s followed by any oncologists) and pretending anti-immigrant sentiment is among the reasons she’s disliked. One grandparent was Greek. Jeeze.
She’s bluffed, blagged and begged and all that shows to me is someone who came from a fair bit of wealth and support and feels entitled to be forever buffeted by it.
Actual working class people tend to realise that won’t work, by the time they’re at upper school.
I feel for her kid