🇷🇺🇺🇦Our artillery is dismantling the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts of Artemovsk. The Ukrainian side continues to receive reports of heavy losses from overwhelming artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/MMuXUwvQWc
⚡️The Pentagon will provide the American firm Raytheon Technologies with a $1.2 billion contract for six advanced NASAMS air defense missile systems that will be delivered to Ukraine.
I highly recommend that you invest 1 hour to understand where the US proxy war in Ukraine is heading. Prof. John Mearsheimer explains what the likely outcome is: Escalation upon escalation until nuclear war. The west is playing Russian roulette in Ukraine. https://t.co/rDgf7qFPzC
That must be right. The USA is supplying the Jewish-Zionist Kiev regime with missiles, the UK is supplying tanks and other advanced armour. Training too. At what point does Russia, or the leadership of Russia, say “****-it!” and start to press buttons?
Ursula von der Leyen: "Russia and its oligarchs have to compensate Ukraine for the damage and cover the costs for rebuilding the country."
Who's covering the costs of rebuilding Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc?https://t.co/nF7T8oAse4
Why you got a Ukraine flag up there next to your name? You think sending billions of taxpayer dollars to keep a proxy war alive isn’t somehow supporting weapons and killing? Get your priorities straight and come back and see us.
Albanians make up the largest foreign national group in UK jails, with more than 1,500 behind bars in England and Wales making up around 10 per cent of total inmates from overseas.https://t.co/EjayKyejpS
— Tony #VoteAnyoneButLibLabConGreen (@Tony40335450) November 29, 2022
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Jack Monroe's Thrifty Kitchen. Available free at all good food banks.
I'm thinking we need to retire the word "grifter" and just go straight to synonymous word "scammer". There's something about grifter that doesn't sit right, a bit of "charming, harmless, victimless rogue nudge nudge". Whereas scammer hits the spot. E.g. "Jack Monroe is a scammer"
No. Don’t do this. This is exactly how they get away with it. Pretending that they were just ‘trying to be edgy’. As if they didn’t really know what the symbolism meant. These people aren’t simply interested in the concept of dystopia, they’re building it and taking us all there. https://t.co/UQzpc0AnXy
I wrote this about the closure of the Wellcome exhibit and the extraordinary power of small groups of intolerant people with unpopular views to make things worse for everyone elsehttps://t.co/7grK6Z9MHW
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future. My article in today’s Daily Mail about the incessant correction of museums:, pic.twitter.com/RVlbDYznfT
Is the ground shifting at last? Is the battle to free Julian Assange becoming respectable? Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges US government to end pursuit of Julian Assange https://t.co/A0crFQSvXt
Peter Hitchens, 2008'de #NATO tarafından şiddetlenen Rusya'nın karıştığı savaşla ilgili sağlam bir tahminle.
Eğer o bunun böyle olduğunu açıkça gördüyse, o zaman diğer tüm dünya liderleri de görebilirdi; hiçbir şey yapmadılar. Bu, bunun olmasını istediklerini gösteriyor. pic.twitter.com/QeV8FE70Eb
Think about that if you shiver in an unheated home, or if your lights go out, this winter (and whether because the supply has been cut off or because you cannot afford the bills).
Jeremy Vine is a typical UK msm (in his case, both BBC and other) drone. There are hundreds of them. They get paid very large amounts for really not very much, and are part of a whole corpus whose tendency is to run down anything white, European and positive in the UK and the wider world.
And yet the fat piss stained drunkard who greatly helped acheive that is called "The Greatest Briton"…even though his slapper of a mother was American
“Biden’s non-binary nuclear waste guru who stole a woman’s suitcase from a baggage carousel was pictured the same weekend in Minnesota attending an LGBTQ student activism conference.
Sam Brinton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, was photographed wearing a black evening gown with two of the event’s coordinators.”
[Daily Mail]
The USA is even more mad than the UK.
Oh, wait a minute…next up, Eddie Izzard as an MP (?)…
The continuing storm around “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”
Very hard-hitting tweets, but maybe required reading for some sadly misled people in public services, charities etc, who are still apparently unaware of the storm around “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, which gained strength in July/August 2022 and has scarcely abated.
I think that some people in executive positions at charities etc, mentally bought into the whole “Bootstrap Cook” thing many years ago, and do not want to see how it has now become a very tarnished “story”.
Having now seen more material over the past two months, I think that that assessment was more than fair. Perhaps I was too lenient.
This is not a matter which concerns only “Jack Monroe” and the many people who are alleged to have been cheated by her. This is a matter of considerable public interest and concern.
People have to have reasonable confidence that, when they donate money to a cause, or transfer the same, in order —or partly in order— to receive goods and/or services, that they are not being lied to, bamboozled, treated as “mugs”, and cheated out of money.
One of those allegedly cheated by “Jack Monroe” is a lady (not known to me other than via her tweets) called (I believe) Heather Booth (“@frugally_minded” on Twitter), who says that she donated monies on the Patreon website to “Jack Monroe”, but received neither the goods promised nor the refund(s) later demanded.
That lady, who with her disabled husband is now in a terrible financial situation, has not only not been refunded by “Jack Monroe” but also has had to contend with online trolls since the behaviour of “Jack Monroe” has become known online. Whether “Jack Monroe” herself was involved in that, I have no idea.
As to the overall “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” situation, it seems to me that the responsible regulatory officers (eg for fundraising and/or trading standards) should investigate it. There may well be a need also for the police to investigate whether any offences around alleged fraud have been committed.
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Love the new Elon feature where accounts that repeatedly report others, give themselves a shadowban & deboost.
Looks as though some Jew Twitter-trolls from North London may be about to experience the beginning of the end…
Fritz Baumgarten (1883-1966 German artist) How lovely, the goings on and the happiness in these vignettes from this illustrator. Advent Calendars pic.twitter.com/hB91DL5Q0w
The FGM-148 Javelins that are being provided to Ukraine and then sold to our enemies in South America can shoot down commercial airlines. https://t.co/pSIwCboNvG
Now the idiots in the Westminster monkeyhouse are also sending more arms, hundreds of millions of pounds-worth more, to the Kiev regime. Both evil and stupid.
I’m unsure if this is a good or a bad thing for each religion just an interesting observation
Please refer to previous comment, mutatis mutandis.
Just saw a video of a woman in China giving birth while stuck outside a hospital that wouldn't let her in bc she didn't have a Covid test, in Guilin. Baby looked healthy. Crazy
Indicates, as much as any poll can, 18-24 months before a general election, that it may be that the Conservative Party will lose badly but not catastrophically.
It was only weeks ago that the Con Party was on 20%; now 30%. Labour Party has slipped back slightly, and LibDems have slightly improved, to 10%.
Of course, under a proportional representation system, that might give the LibDems 65 MPs, whereas of course, under FPTP voting, 10% gives between 0-20, maybe more MPs, depending on how many votes are concentrated wherever. UKIP got 12% of the vote in 2015 and only 1 MP (a previously-elected Con Party MP) instead of the 78 that might have been expected under a pure PR system.
Despite much noise from Farage, it is clear that, so far, Reform UK is not breaking through. That may be partly because Farage himself is a busted flush, having stabbed his own Brexit Party supporters and candidates in the back during the 2019 General Election. Also, in my view, because the new-ish “Reform UK” is playing the same sort of pseudo-“libertarian” and Brexit tune as did Brexit Party and UKIP before.
The national mood has moved. People want public services that work, not the right to try to become low-tax “entrepreneurs”. What most white British (especially English) people want, but unconsciously, is a form of social-nationalism suited to UK conditions. There is, however, no party even approximating to that.
Looking at that opinion poll, it may be that people are now seriously starting to assess Labour, which is aping most “Conservative” policies and, as someone once parodied Starmer, “we approve of workhouses but they must be run in a fairer way, and more efficiently.”
Rachel Reeves has, over the years, repeatedly said that she would be even harder on the unemployed, sick, and disabled than have been the Con Party governments. She is also a member of Labour Friends of Israel, like Starmer and all his Shadow Cabinet.
On immigration, Labour would allow in even more blacks and browns.
On free speech, Labour would be even more restrictive (hardly surprising, bearing in mind the powerfully poisonous influence of the Jewish lobby on Labour now).
All that, however, does not let Sunak and Con Party off the hook. Many previously Con voters are likely to see the present government as a shambolic mess, and therefore to abstain, or to vote LibDem. That may not result in many (or any) new LibDem MPs, but may have an effect in some Con constituencies.
Likewise, the Reform UK candidates are probably not going to become MPs but may well take votes away from Con Party in marginal constituencies.
It is clear to many that the Government is rubbish, but that the Opposition is also rubbish.
The Conservative Party has never scored as low as 30% in any general election. The closest was in 1997 (30.7%), which resulted in 165 Con MPs (in a slightly larger Commons— 659).
A few percentage points makes a big difference at this level. In 2001, the Con vote was 31.7%, and MPs elected numbered 166, just one more than in 1997, but in 2005 the 32.4% vote-share resulted in 198 Con MPs (in a 646-member House of Commons).
In 2010, David Cameron-Levita’s Con Party achieved only 36.1%, but had elected 306 MPs (out of 650).
The oddity of British elections is shown by the fact that, in 2017, Theresa May’s Con Party achieved 42.3%, yet only had elected 317 Con MPs (out of 650). The devil is very much in the detail.
In 2019, Boris Johnson’s Con Party received a 43.6% vote, not much more than in 2017, but the number of Con MPs jumped to 365.
All the same, once the percentage vote goes below about 35%, the number of MPs elected starts to plummet; below 30% would probably mean fewer than 150 Conservative Party MPs, below 25% a near wipeout.
At 30%, then, the Conservative Party is still just about in the game.
True, but of course there are large areas where there are few or relatively few non-whites. The direction of travel, though, is the most important factor. It would be acceptable for the population to be reduced to a twentieth of its present level, if the remaining portion were English/British.
The white British population of the UK has DECREASED by 700,000 in the last 10 years.
The foreign born population has INCREASED by 2,000,000 in the same period. https://t.co/lXAZgahZle
That woman is another treacherous mass media half-caste determined to destroy our race, history, and culture.
Apart from which, the idea of hitting non-State schools on tax is wrongheaded. They are not businesses, but charitable institutions which do not make profits but surpluses, ploughed back into the purposes of the schools.
We live in a world where a company like APPLE will threaten to deplatform another company like Twitter for seeking free speech, but stay silent on & not act on a company like Balenciaga. A world where Twitter gets more headlines in the media than the company that sexualises kids.
Electric green scooters that have reached end of battery life.
Due to the batteries being so expensive to replace, electric scooters are abandoned because disposing of them any other way is dangerous and expensive. pic.twitter.com/9O4qD4QzYE
Jack Monroe untrustworthy therefore everyone in her web of deceit is suspect look into the Trussell Trust 👎 Lee Anderson is stroppy but he was right numerous people are living off the backs of the poor. It is Catholic Church and Black Babies style bambozzling Give locally only x
I'm the same, except I really massively avoid anything indoors. I haven't eaten in a restaurant for about 18 months. I went to @BootstrapCook's talk which was indoors but I wore a mask & only removed it for a quick drink afterwards. Felt VERY nervous doing it, but was lucky.
Complete loonies, who want to be told what to believe. Sick organisms within our society. Also, note their support for “Ukraine” (not the real Ukraine, but the fantasy totem) and for the egregious “Bootstrap Cook” (another fantasy totem)…
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I personally don’t have sympathy for people that scrape money from people via Patreon using sob stories, then complain on Twitter!
The one where I advised Jack Monroe to delete her Twitter after she was moaning for the nth time about people being mean to her? She’s blocked me so I can’t reread the original tweet. There’s lots of people complaining that they aren’t getting what they paid her for on patreon
More unreality, this time from someone who thinks that he is “anti-Tory” and so (?) supports the allegedly “grifting” and lying “Bootstrap Cook” whom he obviously thinks opposes the Conservative Party (doubtful); at the same time, said “anti-Tory” is apparently making money (or pretending as much) by, of all things, parasitic currency trading!
No wonder Britain is having a “mental health crisis” (or so we are told)— people now love unreality, from believing that “holocaust” “gas chambers” are real history, to Russia supposedly posing a threat to the UK, to Ukraine being a fine upstanding “democracy” (and not a corrupt, shambolic Jew-ruled dictatorship), to “Black Lives Matter”, “Covid”, and Albanian gangsters and parasites being “refugees” etc.
When Jack Monroe’s idea of a ‘good meal’ is to wash the tomato sauce off of spaghetti hoops and cover them with butter 😬
— DroffoJ #IStandWithIsrael #JusticeForMalkiRoth (@DroffoJ) November 29, 2022
'The restrictions we have, tend to be selectively imposed. They're more geared to what you might view as left-wing conversation.'
Sam Ashworth-Hayes joins Patrick Christys to discuss the Online Safety Bill, as measures to remove 'legal but harmful' content has been axed. pic.twitter.com/5XuiQGl5QL
.@mikecosgrove. The millennials are the most *schooled* generation, for sure, but ' the most educated'? I do not not think so. Not the same thing at all. https://t.co/MJn08SF7aP
Exactly. The tweeter “@mikecosgrove” has mistaken the label on the jar for the contents.
.@cpmasterson I didn't realise I was. I blame western governments for the harm they demonstrably do, as in Iraq, Libya, Syria etc, and for their intolerable hypocritical moralising, while they prop up so many ghastly regimes. One or the other. Not both https://t.co/xWGdawP7di
Compare Russian culture (whether in music, painting, literature, whatever) to Ukrainian. There is just no comparison.
I have still seen not one investigation or report, nor even any question posed by the UK/US mainstream media, as to where the prisoners of the Kiev regime are being held, or under what conditions.
For the record, if you think Enoch Powell was right then you are a racist. 👍
Well, another victory this week over political journalist John Rentoul: I scored 8/10, beating his 6/10. I admit that a couple were lucky guesses, notably the answer to question 6.
I did not know the answers to questions 8 and 9, the latter particularly galling because my blog post about the following by-election has proven very popular with readers. I could picture the errant MP, knew which constituency he represented, and almost got the name, but not quite.
So you believe the actual grifter JM over this account who has collated her tweets to prove she’s a liar? One of my close friends knows JM, JM has never lived in poverty in her life… she started off slightly bending the truth to just complete outright lies
The last tweet is close to my opinion, having observed, but not closely, the “Bootstrap Cook” phenomenon over the past decade. I think —obviously my own opinion— that “Jack Monroe” was at least basically sincere before she realized that there was real money to be made “in them thar hills“. Since then, her claims have become less plausible, and in some cases extraordinary. To what extent her admitted heavy drinking (she now claims to have become a non-drinker) and alleged drug-taking played a part must be a subject for conjecture.
@bookshop_org_UK @TrussellTrust This is misleading – what you mean is you’ve teamed up to sell a book at £8.99 more than it’s priced on Amazon so that “The Public” can donate a copy to foodbanks.
Jack Monroe will retain her royalties and sell twice as many copies. https://t.co/xKiwtf0QoO
There are still many people around who continue to take “Jack Monroe” at face value. As of today, there are still 667 mugs paying money to her for absolutely nothing in return (it is alleged), via the Patreon website. Between £3.50 and £44 a month, every month. Do the maths, as people say.
Its actually quite astonishing that Jack Monroe pled poverty by saying she gave her work away for 7 years when she sells books. The whole narrative is completely Alice in Wonderland stuff. She says something and the absolute opposite is true.
German universities offered over 1,800 courses entirely in English this year.
For foreign students, Germany is an attractive place to study due to low or no tuition fees and average monthly living costs of under €900. pic.twitter.com/hiTala4CHe
OK, but one has to ask what Germany gets out of this. Not even cultural influence, if the courses are being taught in English, though that is, I concede, arguable.
Also, if the students are black or brown, i.e. from less-developed parts of the world, they may eventually decide to find some way to stay on, such as marrying German women and so further diluting the gene-pool. Ah…maybe that is why the System in Germany is promoting this— it must be part of the working out of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
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Love it when real life people confirm everything about what's been uncovered about Jack Monroe & her bullshit backstory 👍👍 https://t.co/D7MNwQ1PD4
It seems to me that, probably, the “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” career as a mass media sort-of “celebrity” is at or near its finish, though this country is now so screwed that one can never be sure.
Having said that, the 667 mugs on Patreon show no sign of ceasing to subsidize her lifestyle, so she is still getting between £2,334.50 and £29,348 each and every month from that source alone, in cash, and possibly/probably taxfree.
I find it quite likely that “Bootstrap Cook” will carry on at a lower-profile level, in the pseudo-socialist, affluent semi-“celebrity” niche, along with numerous others, such as Owen Jones, Billy Bragg, and the like.
Nearly £29m was transferred to Keristal Trust, whose beneficiaries were Mone and her children. More than £700,000 was also transferred to the account of Mone’s eldest daughter Rebecca and £3m to an account Mone had with @CouttsandCo.https://t.co/7GLd0FJyRm
I have no idea whether any of the “pedo” aspect is true, but I have just noticed that “@DaveAFAF”, a pseudonymous Twitter account which has been pointlessly trolling me for almost a decade (under that name and also under its former name of “@slatfascists”), seems to have suddenly disappeared. If gone for good, good riddance. That tweeter is mentally-unstable, and particularly so when it forgets to take its prescribed medication (as it once admitted on Twitter).
Several of those mentioned in the 2019 blog post above are now suffering more seriously, and from not only mental but also physical ailments; some are even living out their last days. When will they learn?
I have already blogged to the effect that many of the recipes of “Jack Monroe”, as photographed and then published on Twitter, make me feel unwell just looking at them.
Jack Monroe is now in a position where she can't promote thrifty kitchen on her own twitter due to the backlash she would get and she's caused all of this herself.
Fucking hell. This is the worst cooking show ever. Why did Jack Monroe humiliate herself by going on live TV pretending to be a chef? https://t.co/AJJVQbuuxI
I have just watched that clip, which was broadcast about two years ago. Not something I would normally waste time watching. Strange idea of a show about cuisine, though— a presenter chef (?) who is cooking strips of fish coated in crushed cornflakes, another (I presume genuine) chef but who had apparently lost his sense(s) of taste and smell; then, as a final bad joke, “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook”, who seems to be unable to contribute anything at all (from the brief clip shown, about 10 mins in all) to the discussion.
I wonder how much that kind of nonsense pays? I mean to the guests. At a guess, maybe £500 or so. Maybe even £1,000. If so, “a nice little earner” to add to the rest.
Having said that, I have seen people online claiming that most guests on Saturday Kitchen and similar shows do not get paid at all but do it for the publicity, which makes sense. After all, if the TV people were offering even £500 for a short appearance, presumably they could get better, more interesting, guests. From the point of view of the guests, too, it makes sense, if some viewers thereby are persuaded that you are a person worth reading online and/or donating money to…
She is apparently talking about the Government. She does not want to “hand over the details of 1000s of vulnerable people, explicit info about their benefit claims...[etc]” to the Government which…has all that information anyway (on DWP and/or HMRC computer —and other— files). In other words, she is once again talking nonsense.
I have come to the conclusion that “Jack Monroe” is not a very nice person…(except that she may or may not be an animal-lover; if she is, then good, as far as that goes).
By the way, though I am not a dentist, I am told by someone who saw the Saturday Kitchen clip that “Jack Monroe” has at least 6 “very expensive” dental implants. Maybe £15,000. Why she has them (assuming that the opinion I heard is accurate), I have no idea. Eating mineral and/or vitamin-deficient food? Or is there, er, another explanation?
I should be blogging about larger issues, but I could not ignore what seems to have been sheer brazen “taking-advantage” of people, including very vulnerable people.
For me, the point is not so much that “Jack Monroe” has constructed what Soviet Intelligence used to call a “legend”, i.e. an embellished or untrue “backstory”, or whether she ever was really “poor”, but the fact that she is taking somewhere between £2,300 a month and as much as, at max, £30,000 a month from people via Patreon, has plainly not supplied the goods and services offered (at least to most donors) and, equally plainly (even after 4 months of public criticism), has no intention whatever of refunding those donors, many of whom seem to have been genuinely poor (unlike “Jack Monroe”, who might have been described, arguably, as “poor” for a few months, maybe a year, years ago).
I might add that I myself have seen, over the past two months, when I have been looking, not even one tweet saying that that tweeter had donated to “Jack Monroe” via Patreon and then received whatever was promised for that level of financial support, and/or was happy with it.
I and 800 other people signed up to Jack Monroe's Patreon, got none of the promised rewards then were blocked and abused on Twitter for asking for refunds. I'l send an email.
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) November 25, 2022
“Happy Holidays” was invented by Jewish retailers in New York City, who did not want to have to recognize Christmas. They justified “Happy Holidays” by lumping Christmas in with the Jewish festival of Hanukkah [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah], which is a Jewish-supermacist festival, totally different in ethos to Christmas (read the Wikipedia article above), and then adding to that the ludicrous and contrived “African-American” festival of “Kwanza” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa] invented in 1966 by a half-caste criminal who now calls himself “Maulana Karenga” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga].
There it is. An ethnic and political revolt, leading to a military victory. Totally different, in fact arguably the polar opposite, to Christmas, with the latter’s message of peace on Earth.
The above tweet is from a lady whose husband developed an awful and painful condition, as a result of which he and she both lost their jobs and were plunged into poverty. She paid out monies to “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, then (apparently because the items to be provided in return were never supplied) asked for a refund, but was fobbed off. A circumstance common to many who have sent monies to “Jack Monroe”, it seems (reading tweets about it all).
Is awful – only 1000 to those who actually need it – if indeed they do & even want it in the first place. Give money & food & give recipes for free ffs don’t make money off the back of those in need, awful
After everything recently exposed, thick Labour frontbencher Angela Rayner is following “Jack Monroe” on Twitter? Very misguided, in view of the continuing controversy.
Jack Monroe is legally obliged to be transparent about her fundraising. She falls short if the required transparency threshold as well as several other metrics from the fundraising regulator, hence multiple formal complaints being made about her so an investigation is initiated.
That “@AntheaRogers” Twitter account has been accused of being a “Jack Monroe” “sock-account”. Maybe.
There is obviously a need for an investigation by competent agencies or orgnaizations into the whole “Jack Monroe” thing, especially the money and/or fundraising aspects.
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Anybody else remember the £37 Billion @MattHancock and @BorisJohnson et al blew on the Covid track and trace app that had to be binned? Never forget, never forgive.
It is only when you consider what else the UK government could get for £37 BILLION that you comprehend the sheer scale of the wastage. For example, completed cost of about 12 new aircraft carriers like these two:
Worked in NHS for about a year. Now plays on the “doctor” thing to make money as supposed “activist”; was selling facemasks etc online.
This is an excellent illustration of the harm Jack Monroe does. Due to her scams, refusal to be transparent, aggressive attacks on dissenting voices & more, the public turn away from & distrust organisations with links to her. #bootstrapcook#bootstrapcrook#jackmonroehttps://t.co/N74nvid3pa
Organizations need to be more cautious before allying themselves with people who may not be quite what they seem, as in the notorious Jimmy Saville case.
I am one of your patients and I really would strongly suggest not sending people in Jack’s direction. Not only because a lot of the recipes are nutritionally poor, costed incorrectly and too low in calories for a healthy adult, there’s fraudulent accusations hanging over her.
This is hilarious. Poverty scammer Jack Monroe bootstrapcook getting roasted (like her mum's potatoes) in the comments in her local paper 🤣 Archive link so you can see them in case she tries to get them deleted: https://t.co/l5SykrNmSt
100% this. I'm expecting lots more fake mea culpa bullshit from Jack Monroe to try and roll over as many subscribers into the next billing period as possible. Scum.
Jack Monroe 95% of people who use FB''s know how to cook how to keep their kids fed and warm and their homes clean They are short of coin NOT life skills. You + your ilk are keeping poor people poor by pov shaming them. They need jobs that cover their rent not cosplaying MC drips
According to Viktor Suvorov [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Suvorov], the Soviet-era Spetsnaz used to joke that “when the real Revolution comes, we shall not kill the rich, and we shall not kill those who spout about ‘social justice’, but only kill the rich who spout about ‘social justice’.“
Makes you think…
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[German 16th Century, Three Couples in a Circle Dance, c. 1515, pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection]
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I always like to see the best in people, but some of that makes it hard. 🙁
I and 800 other people signed up to Jack Monroe's Patreon, got none of the promised rewards then were blocked and abused on Twitter for asking for refunds. I'l send an email.
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) November 25, 2022
This is definitely worth watching. A straightforward yet devastating breakdown of the climate con. Brilliantly presented by @LozzaFox, expertly produced by @alexmaccaroon. https://t.co/0BCcuJdqlv
I feel like I’m totally hooked on this because I genuinely can’t believe it (I do but you know what I mean) and just feel so shocked to the core. I really liked her and thought she did a lot of good. @AwfullyMolly has set it all out very clearly! 🙁
The “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” storm shows no sign of abating, with more and more stories coming out about vulnerable and actually poor people (i.e. unlike “Jack Monroe”) being, in effect, fleeced.
How is it a vindictive vendetta? Molly has never tweeted her own opinion on her blog. She has shown Jack’s constant lies and narrative changing, as well as the scams. People need to see this, it’s public interest.
I'm guessing people like Dermot Macintyre, Louis Theroux, hell even Stacy Dooley must be awful figures of spite too, for daring to do long tail investigations into bad things then broadcast them? 🤣🤣🤣
Once again, yet another media appearance for a so-called "poverty campaigner" where the entire article is talking about Jack Monroe.https://t.co/CxAHcfQo7l
Same thing happened with the threat(s) by “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” to sue (in defamation) MP Lee Anderson and political commentator Martin Daubney. It appears that (so far— she has about 5 months or so left in which to launch an action, in principle), not only has no legal process been launched, but there has been no pre-action correspondence as mandated by the Pre-Action Protocols of the Civil Procedure Rules. Chances are that “Bootstrap Cook” never will sue those two, or anyone else.
The Katie Hopkins case was different. Ms. Hopkins had no arguable defence and was a sitting duck. “Jack Monroe” got £24,000 damages, while the claimant’s lawyers got, in effect, Ms. Hopkin’s house, that had to be sold in order to satisfy the costs order made. About £300,000.
If you're a friend of hers maybe you could send her some shower gel to stop her boiling soap?
Ha ha. Of all the products from the “Jack Monroe” fantasy factory, the “I was so poor that I had to boil down soap to make shower gel” (and/or “shampoo“) claim must be among the top few in the utterly-ludicrous stakes. It actually makes me wonder whether she makes up ever-more-fantastical stories just to see where the gullibility of her supporters stops; meaning at what point do they wake up to such lies, and/or stop donating to her (lifestyle)?
I suppose that it is just possible that she actually did boil down soap to make shower gel, mad and implausible though that would be; in my opinion, she never did.
I myself like Waitrose Sea Moss shower gel. It costs 90p for a bottle that lasts maybe 3 weeks (with me, at least; used once daily). No-one is going to tell me that buying soap, boiling it somehow, despite energy cost, and then somehow making shower gel out of it (is that even possible?) is cheaper than spending about 30p a week on proper shower gel. Also, Sea Moss from Waitrose is not even the cheapest; no doubt Aldi, Lidl, Tesco have even cheaper alternatives.
Or one could just shower with soap, as did previous generations.
Same goes, mutatis mutandis, for shampoo, except that soap would not be so good in that role.
What I find incredible is how long she has been able to keep this going. It says a lot about how poor the UK msm is that no journalist has thought to investigate her claims or to find out which (if any) are actually true. And where are the “consumer watchdog” journalists and TV talking heads? Hundreds if not thousands of people appear to have been duped or bamboozled into sending money— tens, and maybe hundreds, of thousands of pounds.
Meanwhile, millions of people are in real poverty and get nothing, or very little.
Advice from what seems to me to be a rotten cook (not that I can cook much either, admittedly) about how to make curry by opening a tin of sardines and a can of peaches, mixing the two together with curry powder and heating the mixture in a microwave, is not very helpful, in my opinion. Frankly, it sounds terrible. I would rather open the sardines, put them on a piece of toast, then eat the peaches separately later. In fact, I should prefer a plain baked potato to that mixture.
Hey @guardianlive@guardian, you may want to get a researcher onto Jack Monroe (Tattle, @AwfullyMolly) before Jan. Her recipes and ‘advice’ are much like everything else she says – lies.
Ha. In fact the “award” mentioned was an “Observer Food” award a few months ago, voted for by Observer readers, few of whom are “poor” or “struggling”. In fact, the voters are exactly the same sort of people (and quite likely the very same people) who support “Jack Monroe” vocally on Twitter. The Guardian is of course the sister paper to the Observer.
Britain must become a white northern European ethnostate (again).
It is not, fundamentally, a question of “hate” but based on the concept that only the European peoples can provide the basis for the next advance in human evolution.
Its scary. We have two hotels with them staying . They walk round in gangs or sit out side making it really uncomfortable to even walk past them. Its intimidating and dangerous and we should be being protected from these unwanted men.
At Manston there are a large number of people living in a nice new estate, terrified of going out of their homes. Swarms of migrants roam around , looking into windows and following residence down the road. They live in fear in their own country.
Will you be discussing the 700+ patreon members who haven't received anything in 2 years, but Jack Monroe has taken £3.50 – £44 pcm from each member without refunds? Missing charity money? All of the lies about her backstory? Donations to legal funds that were not refunded ?
667 “mugs” and/or dupes, as of today; thousands of pounds month after month, in cash (minus Patreon fees).
I think you need to have a look at @AwfullyMolly investigation into Jack Monroe, and maybe ask Jack about missing charity money, false claims of poverty, 2 years of unfulfilled patreon pledges and the thousands of pounds taken without refunds, and her general Walter Mitty life.
My housing association issued a safety warning to manage energy prices, which had to include explanation of what happens if you just stop paying your bills as per @bootstrapcook's advice. We have to stop validating these narcisssists. Thats a housing association having to respond
“Jack Monroe” is not a lawyer, and not a consumer law expert or anything similar. Her only known job (as far as I know anyway) was answering the telephone at a fire station or call centre, and that ended about 11 years ago. Her “Bootstrap Cook” thing is far more lucrative, it seems.
People in financial trouble need accurate advice, from trusted sources.
As of today, 667 “patrons” (mugs and/or those who are unaware of the storm now enveloping the “Bootstrap Cook”); I believe that there were over 800 earlier in the year.
As blogged earlier, only in a country where real journalism is all but dead would someone be able to do all that without facing serious questions after a while.
Still, look at “Boris”-idiot, who was able to fool much of the UK that he was a highly-intelligent, cultured, and serious, statesman, when none of those three are true (four things, if you include “statesman“). All it took was the fact that he had attended Eton and Oxford, and the expression of a few rote-learned Greek and Latin phrases. He also was “enabled” by a corrupt and stupid msm.
It will look like a deliberate plea to retain subscribers thus ensuring Patreon receipts end of October and November. We are 3 weeks post the promise to sort it out.
All the Patreon subs I am in contact with have not received anything as yet.
In terms of remedy, it's not clear how Monroe could ever be held to account. Class action is not really an option. I spoke to my lawyer – woohoo yes I have a lawyer cos I'm a big cheese 😜 and although this is clearly terrible, it's not a big enough issue to warrant class action.
In the alternative, it could be taken up by @actionfrauduk
Their websites says: "There are many words used to describe fraud: Scam, con, swindle, extortion, sham, double-cross, hoax, cheat, ploy, ruse, hoodwink, confidence trick" (Insert "Jack Monroe")
I am writing to Action Fraud for advice on "next steps" and to establish what information they need to take the matter seriously and conduct an investigation. Let's see.
(2nd) the cocky shout outs by Jack Monroe on twitter where she continues to threaten legal action in a "just you wait pal" manner. This conduct will be frowned upon if she ever gets in front of a Judge.
Incidentally, I thought that the monthly maximum that “Jack Monroe” was extracting from each of her “patrons” (mugs) on Patreon had been reduced to £10, but it turns out that £44 is still the max. Her monthly take-home pay from that source alone, for doing absolutely nothing, is therefore between £2,334.50 and £29,348, minus the Patreon fees, if any. In cash. Every month.
Also, my mother's a fierce benevolent woman in her late 70's who thought Jack Monroe was amazing. £12pm may be buttons to JM but for her it was a significant amount to spend. Just wish my Mam wasn't (self admittedly) a shit cook. Everything she made from JM's books was inedible😂
I personally cannot judge as to whether, or to what extent, “Jack Monroe” is “sad, bad, or mad“, in the well-known phrase. Maybe a bit mad and a bit bad…but that is just my opinion, based on what I have read, and 66 years of life-experience.
The more I read about “Jack Monroe”, the more I think “bad” rather than “mad”, in fact.
Yeah I know. It was the perfect storm 😂 If my Mother had better taste we'd both be non the wiser about Jack Monroe and her decade long dupe. My Mam is just the tip of a very large iceberg unfortunately.
As I have blogged previously, some of the photos seen on Twitter of the food made from the recipes of the “Bootstrap Cook” seem to be a “dog’s dinner” at best; some have made me feel actually unwell. I don’t mean when made and eaten (I would not make stuff like that anyway, still less ingest it) but just the mere sight of her “food” on Twitter.
I concede that I am not very domesticated and, until I married for the first time (in 1990), had mainly eaten cold food when dining at home (in my twenties and early thirties). In fact, I am still not much of a cook, though I can offer to my readers the following idea, which is relatively cheap, rather tasty, fairly healthy (though admittedly rather high-fat) and, best of all, can be made from start to finish in about 45 mins:
That “zucchini bake” can be added to; you can add whatever vegetables are around— mushrooms, broccoli (inc. stalks, if grated or sliced), carrots etc. The only essentials are eggs, butter, zucchini/courgettes, salt, pepper, and cheese (any kind, but cheddar works well, maybe with some parmesan). Some basil helps.
I do not think I shall make a regular thing out of suggesting recipes. I would probably run out of the things that I myself have actually made in my whole life after a week or two. Still, I hope that the above is useful for someone.
About £5 to serve 4 people, or one person four times. Basic, yes, but I think that it stacks up pretty well against the offerings of “Jack Monroe”…
I'd been a fan since not long after Hunger Hurts – I own Monroe's first book – until I read Awfully Molly.
My brother seemed to think she was dodgy but I just couldn't see it.
Guess by the time she contradicted a previous tweet or part of her back story I'd forgotten it.
Oh Monroe's recent blog post emulating Hunger Hurts & claiming to be too poor to buy soap was a bit of final straw too.
Watched Monroe host a BBC TV show during the first lockdown – she tweeted she was paid a lot & was saving most of it at the time – where did all that money go?
I looked at a few tweets by that stupid “Susan Macpark” woman. A Scottish pseudo-“nationalist” who, however, supports migration-invasion by backward non-whites. Crazy. She often flings vituperation at others, either tweeting that their parents must despise them, or simply insulting their intelligence (despite the unthinking tweets that she herself puts out).
I suggest Susan that you read the “just giving” page of .@frugally_minded and then understand it’s her money that Jack Monroe took, never donated to charity, and refused to refund even though this lady is in desperate need. Maybe donate a little yourself.
That Macpark bitch will not give a penny. Guaranteed.
As to “Jack Monroe”, I have no idea whether she will return to Twitter (more likely than not, because she can then plough on, publicizing her stuff to those who are unwilling to question; she will simply try to ignore the gathering storm), or whether she will just think “well, I have £2,000-£7,000 a month coming in from 600-700 mugs on Patreon, plus maybe another few thousand from other sources, so why bother with Twitter?“
If only the blacks, browns, Chinese, and especially the Jews in our country would understand this.
Taking the knee, for something that happened 2 years ago, in another country. This is how ridiculous we are led by a hostile media. https://t.co/x8cxnpjyt6
The fact that they immediately caved because (God forbid) Harry Kane might get a yellow card, underscores yet again how all the sanctimonious virtue signaling is empty nonsense.
How about just abandon it entirely and concentrate on the actual football instead? pic.twitter.com/tEKgjxQvNl
There should be a cultural purge in the UK, starting (arguably) with the absurdly overpaid, smug, mass media football pleb-fest talking heads. Lineker etc.
As far as that specific building is concerned, I do not entirely agree. Architecture should be about both form and function. The form, in this case is (in my opinion) not so different in both cases, and I expect (though I have never been inside) that the function is better (for today’s purposes) in the replacement building. Admittedly, it is rather ugly, but so was, in my view, the building that it replaced.
Famous missionary explorer David Livingstone was a bit like that.
Only person I know who died with it was an elderly man (83) went into hospital as he was having trouble walking, appeared to be on the mend after a few days then tested ‘positive’ in hospital and was dead 4-5 days later. At no point was anyone allowed to visit him. Very strange.
Absolutely this. Imagine the difference that could have been made for this couple if even a fraction of the Patreon/tip jar/spite donation/'legal fees' that Monroe has pocketed could have gone to them.
Isn’t it brilliant that the only verifiable decent outcome that has arisen from Jack being on Twitter was completely by accident, and as a result of her own vanity, and the spite she throws at the people who are much poorer than she is who she has been ripping off for years.
“...and I can’t understand why she does it“? Really? how about “because she is getting £2,000-£7,000 a month for free, from (as of today) 667 mugs, for doing absolutely nothing but proclaiming that she is (in some unspecified way) ‘campaigning’ etc)”…
She's been caught scamming astronomical amounts of money from people, using provable lies & manipulation to make them donate. Luckily, she's more or less cancelled now. https://t.co/5hWJLdCMUI
Yet the 667 mugs (as of today) are still paying out £3.50-£10 —or more— each month to her, incredibly.
Besides Jack Monroe being a two-faced, narcissistic, dishonest, duplicitous, abusive, lying and grifting grief-thief for the last decade all whilst duping well-meaning people out of cash they can ill afford??
“Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive” [Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field].
2) Jack pretending to be poor while the pictures of her own house that she has shared on social media show that it is full of seriously expensive stuff – tens of thousands of pounds of high-end furniture, electronics, appliances and clothes?
3) The endless lies that she herself posts, including this absolute banger from yesterday which was clearly a confected story that she could use to explain why she’s about to have really expensive Farrow & Ball paint and wallpaper in her new home: pic.twitter.com/hJiMkauTVq
Ha ha! Incredible, yet at the same time almost inevitable. The “Bootstrap Cook” wanders lonely as a cloud through Southend or nearby, only to meet someone, by Fate or chance, who will no doubt (in this fairy-tale) “gift” “Jack Monroe” everything she needs or wants for the decoration of her new home.
Well, I am myself rather susceptible to tales of wonder and magic —and sometimes incredible “co-incidences” do happen— but, having now read a number of conflicting fantasies from the tweets etc of “Jack Monroe” (tweeted or said to interviewers over the past decade), I think it only fair and sensible to doubt this one (too).
It's really rubbing it in, isn't it? She'll literally talk shit about anything for hours but completely fail to address the important stuff.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) November 21, 2022
“I was never able to paint colour on the walls in my rentals” is my new favourite Monroe lie, replacing Georgia Church Suppers.
So long as 667 mugs continue to shell out up to £10 monthly for absolutely nothing but to be part of the “Jack Monroe support echelon” or virtue-signal club, she will be laughing all the way to the bank (or the paint and wallpaper shop), even if (as no doubt will now happen) the msm “Bootstrap Cook” career on TV, radio, and in the Press ends, with the producers, journalists, and publishers running for cover (as I expect they already are).
As someone with an autism diagnosis who is a carer for someone else who is autistic, I don't believe that Jack is actually autistic. Her diagnosis stories are many and varied and her takes on autism are frankly, bullshit. She's certainly no advocate for autistic people.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) November 21, 2022
The whole “Jack Monroe” supporters’ clan/defensiveness thing on Twitter reminds me of those who even now insist on wearing a useless facemask.
I absolutely agree. This generation though seem to have taken a leaf out of her book on Oppression Olympics.
— Stella Maris, Trans Trans Woman Extraordinaire 👠 (@N0v3mberSmith) November 21, 2022
I live in 🇨🇦 and I have been following your blog because Jack’s behaviour reads like a classic narcissist. You have clearly shown her lies, backpedaling and when she gets caught, she says her mental health has been affected. You are not a troll, don’t let the 🛩🐒 get to you.
Molly, the suicide post was purposely evasive yet pointed as to incite reaction from her diehard fans. It was a cheap disgusting manipulation. A transparent attempt to silence and intimidate valid factual criticism.
“Amelia” is very typical of many in the UK today: wants to tick the “right” boxes, and believes any old crap if the “right” (pseudo-socialist) noises are made. She favours Owen Jones! (‘Nuff said…). See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/04/a-brief-word-about-owen-jones/.
Let me make it easier for you (even though you’ve buggered orf) my real name is Pablo Garcia but I go as Paul. Spanish dad, English mum.
DM for any other detail you need for your lawyer.
I’m quite well off so should be good for you. Maybe better than Hopkins 😘
The allegation now is that “Jack Monroe” is using dozens of “sock accounts” to interact on Twitter while pretending to have left (having deleted, for the (?) time being her main “@BootstrapCook” account).
Seems plausible to me, looking at the myriad of Twitter accounts with zero or few “followers” that have popped up in the past days and weeks, all attacking critics of “Monroe”.
Thank u4 yr posts. I am autistic, & am horrified at much of jack monroe’s behaviour & her “I’m autistic so I can’t lie” claims. Shes clearly exploiting the poor &needs to be held2 account4 her https://t.co/DoGSi7AJ1V’ve done a great job of showing the evidence of her narcissism
Saw an extract, about a minute long, of a TV comedy/drama called The Larkins, a remake or re-adaptation of the well-known 1980s series The Darling Buds of May. Except that the husband or boyfriend of one of the characters is now black! The series was set, originally at least, I believe, in the late 1940s!
Typical ludicrous rubbish.
We hear much about “cultural appropriation“, but our own culture and indeed history is being taken over, basically stolen from us. Behind all of this nonsense, really, is the (((you-know-who)))…
In case readers missed my late comment yesterday re. the “missile hits Poland” report:
Either this incident was accidental, or the explosions are a false flag by the Zelensky regime, created to drag NATO into war with Russia. Either way, it was plainly not a deliberate attack on Poland, and thus should not trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty.
In any case, now that states such as Poland, the Baltic states etc belong to NATO (which should never have happened), Article 5 should be abrogated. It is now nothing less than a dangerous trigger mechanism which may put all of Europe (and quite possible both the USA and Russia as well) to sword and flame.
This situation has been caused, at root, by the reckless NATO support for the Kiev regime. This is not our fight, and never has been.
Latest news:
“Reuters is reporting that a Nato source has informed the new agency that US president Joe Biden has informed the alliance that the missile that fell into Poland, killing two people, was a Ukrainian air defence missile.”
The Russian defence ministry is issuing a robust statement denying involvement in the explosion in Poland.
Reuters has snapped the following key lines:
Russia says it carried out a massive attack on military targets and energy infrastructure in Ukraine on Tuesday.
The strike achieved its goals.
High-precision strikes were carried out only on Ukrainian territory and no closer than 35km (22 miles) from the Ukrainian-Polish border.
Allegations of Russian missiles falling in the Polish village are a deliberate provocation to escalate the situation.
Photos of the wreckage found in Poland are identified as elements of the Ukrainian S-300“
[Guardian]
As I commented late yesterday, quite likely a “false flag” operation by the Kiev regime of the Jew Zelensky. The Kiev regime is desperate to get NATO directly into the war on the Kiev side, or to get Russia attacked by NATO.
It's really weird cuz we (in Poland) have air defence, radars etc and no information about that. But most people think that was Ukrainian missile where one photo shows piece of missile S-300 that is used by Russia and Ukraine. But Russia is too far away to hit with this in PL
And the Russians, Poles & Ukrainians were fighting each other with arms & money supplied by the British, French, Germans & Americans. Plus ça change…
— Anthony Holland 🇧🇷 🏴 ☦️ ✝️ (@AnthonyCHollan1) November 16, 2022
More accurately, by secret and hidden cabals embedded in the West.
We know what has to be done, across the Western world; we just cannot publish what has to be done, eg in the UK, because of repressive restrictions on free speech. The evil has to be rooted out.
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Seriously misguided myth that Bootstrapcook Jack Monroe had anything to do with or any influence on ONS stats. She had one meeting and they didn’t even take notes it was so insignificant.
The @ONS has made it clear it was not ‘prompted’ (or otherwise) by Jack Monroe: ‘The strategy to transform our headline measures of inflation using scanner and other admin data sources is longstanding and has not been developed in response to recent stakeholder demand.’
Your bio says you bust myths and expose etc. Please have a look into Jack Monroes lies, stealing, scamming and misappropriation of charity funds. Or are you yet another “journalist” who won’t touch the story for fear of repercussions?
That Bernal idiot, who (incredibly) lectures in law in East Anglia, is also one of the unthinking “you can have free speech but not freedom from the consequences” brigade, which mantra would effectively designate Stalin’s Soviet Union or Mao’s China as places where free speech existed.
Very little, if anything, written by Bernal on Twitter can be taken seriously, in my opinion.
I have taken a lot of heat for calling out the US proxy war in Ukraine and for educating you about the real reasons for this conflict, from day 1. It was worth it because now you can see what’s really going on. Our biggest enemies are the propaganda media and corrupt politicians.
More Jewish fraud. When will people wake up? Having said that, look at infamous Lastminute.com. One of the “entrepreneurs” involved was not Jewish (Martha Lane Fox) and she made millions out of naive small investors. Not only not punished, but made a member of the House of Lords, and appointed to numerous public bodies. She is presently also Chancellor of the Open University.
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Jack Monroe only helps Jack Monroe. She's a scammer who publishes nutritionally deficient 'recipes' and guilts people into giving her £££. @AwfullyMolly is doing a great service exposing the lies & cutting off opportunities to find people off. Hope that helps 👍
As of today, 666 (ha ha) “patrons” (regular donors or, as I prefer, “mugs”) supplying “Jack Monroe” with up to £10 each and every month via the Patreon website. Up to £6,660 per month (minus any Patreon fees), and probably taxfree. In cash. Every month. Plus book royalties, appearance fees, off-the-cuff donations, other sources of income (eg Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit etc).
I have yet to see a tweet from even one genuinely “poor” person who thinks that Jack Monroe —“Bootstrap Cook”— has helped his or her existence. All tweets supporting her come from fairly affluent journalists, msm people, some lesbians and/or persons of the LBGTQXYZ brigade, fake “doctors” operating psychotherapy scams, retired people living in rural or semi-rural comfort, and/or readers of the Observer and Guardian. I suspect that some supportive tweets are in fact from “Bootstrap Cook” herself, using aliases, though I cannot prove as much.
Strange. I happened to see the chambers bio of someone who was at the “Bar school” (the Inns of Court School of Law) at the same time as me (1987-88), and in the same little practice group of about half a dozen or so people; all our surnames began with “M”.
I was told at the time (and in confidence) that this particular person was a great deal older than he looked, was (if memory serves) about 45, and had been a commended officer of the Flying Squad, who had arrested a shotgun-carrying robber in a bank branch. He looked to me somewhere between 28 and mid-thirties, no older.
I was told that said person (whose name it is unnecessary to mention) did not want it to be generally known that he had been in the police, because there was at the time rather a prejudice at the Bar against policemen becoming barristers. Perhaps. That is what I was told, anyway.
I noticed that the said student was good at listening rather than talking, for example when in a pub after our “practical exercises” (in those days, Bar students used the courtrooms of the Royal Courts of Justice after hours in order to playact being “Counsel”, supervised by a real barrister acting as “judge”).
The person in question blended in easily. I would never have thought that he had been in the police, had I not been told.
As mentioned, I was told that the said person was about 45 (I think that it was either 45 or 46). Now this was in 1987, maybe 1988. I see now that, after what I understand to have been a pretty successful career at the criminal Bar (though he has not taken silk), he is still practising and, as far as I can judge from his (presumably not too old) photograph, looks no more than 50, if that!
Various idle thoughts intrude: does he have a ghastly portrait of himself hidden away somewhere, as in The Picture of Dorian Gray? Has he found the fountain of youth, or the elixir of youth? If what I was told back in 1987-88 was true, he must be 80-81 years old!
I can only conclude that I may have been told a load of rubbish, yet even if one knocks off a decade from the age as related to me in 1987 or 1988, he must be ~70. Puzzling.
Incidentally, I do not think that I am breaking the confidence entrusted to me about 35 years ago. Apart from the time that has elapsed, I have kept the “secret” since 1988 and even now have not identified the barrister concerned. In any case, whatever the sensibilities of the Bar re. police becoming barristers may have been, 35 years ago, the pre-legal career of that individual must surely be taken to have been creditable, if anything.
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Colleagues of mine in Kyiv described Putins barrage of missile attacks today as the largest ever against civilians since Putin launched his invasion. I wish this massive terrorist attack would get more attention in the Western press.
The missiles seem mainly to be targeting critical infrastructure such as electrical power plants. If this offensive is “terroristic”, then what were the massive American bombing and missile attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc, not to mention, further back, Vietnam, North Korea, Germany etc?
The false dichotomy presented by the Western press was that you had to be either Pro-Putin or Pro-Zelensky.
I support neither.
At least Putin doesn’t pretend to be a good person.
Zelensky does, while robbing the American people and attempting to start WW3.
“People are being radicalised online into believing mad ideas like it’s wrong for your government to murder people on purpose to stop a cold spreading.”
What’s so wrong about statements like this is the fact that people have shown incredible restraint and decorum in the face of pure, unadulterated tyranny.
Lives have been ruined and lost without any justification yet all the perpetrators remain unharmed.
@doorhamer60. You are confusing two issues. The Human rights convention is a weak *protection* against state power. But is a strong *weapon* in the hands of political judges.. https://t.co/OfcaJR9FY9
But @algerninsidney, that’s just the point. Christianity *was* a virtually universal belief, in large parts of the world. ‘Human rights’ is not and will never be. Like replacing a palace with a shed. https://t.co/7uWbVKCVef
'There comes a stage in a man’s life when he puts aside childish beliefs and comes to realise that Peter Hitchens was right all along — the Conservative Party needs to die.' Ed West gets it. @edwesthttps://t.co/GT8i9UOjuX
The idea that it is US policy to deliberately replace white people through immigration and demographically transform the country is a racist conspiracy theory
Schumer: we are going to demographically replace white people through immigration as a matter of policy https://t.co/0MB2OF0987
Just imagine that. Millions of idiots, including politicians, journalists etc, were quite ready to endorse the incineration of Europe, North America, and much of Russia, all because a couple of stray Poles (unfortunate or unlucky, so be it) were killed by a missile that now turns out not to have been Russian at all, but from the Kiev regime.
Zelensky is one of the most dangerous psychopaths on the planet right now. He is determined to start another world war.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
It makes one shudder to think what those who fought in either of the great European wars would think of society now, though not all changes have been negative, by any means; however, the destruction (presently ongoing) of European race and culture, plotted and executed by those in political power, and who should be defending Europe, overshadows all else.
Tweets and comment about “Jack Monroe”, aka the “Bootstrap Cook”
About 6 weeks ago, I blogged about the storm around “Jack Monroe”, aka “the Bootstrap Cook”, which storm had been raging on Twitter, Facebook, Tattle and elsewhere since sometime in August of this year. It continues unabated.
There now seem to be two clear groups: the supporters of “Bootstrap Cook”, most of whom seem to be politically-correct, wilfully-blind, Guardian/Observer readers, few if any of whom are in any way “poor” or “struggling”; on the other hand, there are those (many of whom are former supporters) who are critical of “Jack Monroe, accusing her of “grifting”, near-fraud if not actual fraud, as well as lying constantly about her life, her background, her history, her financial position etc. They also make the point that many of her recipes (if they are even that, as in her “soup” made from pulverized frozen beefburgers and some stock, or her “boil an egg and spread it on buttered bread”) are either not recipes at all or, equally-often, heavily-carbohydrate offerings, short on vitamins, minerals, and even calories.
Which of those two groups am I in? I started off, several years ago, vaguely noticing the “Bootstrap Cook” as something or someone more positive than not, “helping” the struggling and those penalized by the evil machinations of Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, George Osborne etc.
Over time, I have become more and more critical, as guided by the facts that have emerged. Now, I should say that I think “Jack Monroe” is someone with many personal or mental problems but who has certainly also been taking the pathetic journalists of the UK, and many others, for a ride, and making a pretty good and not very honest living from it all.
I am not a psychiatrist, so cannot fully explain why no less than 664 very silly and/or misled people (as of today) are paying Jack Monroe/Bootstrap Cook between £3.50 and £10 per month via the Patreon website; i.e. up to £6,640 a month in cash (minus Patreon fees etc), which might even be taxfree as “gifts” (not sure about that; it is a long long time since I was involved in any tax law).
In addition, some other (?) exceptionally silly people also send other, one-off donations to the alleged “grifter”/”fraudster” (who, inter alia, claims that a family of 4 can feed itself well for £20 a week by using her recipes).
In addition, Jack Monroe has 7 books in print, and is thus receiving royalties (£90,000+ in the past several years), and makes money in a number of other ways.
She has crowdfunded for an action in defamation against the —admittedly not very pleasant— MP, Lee Anderson [Con, Ashfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Anderson_(British_politician)], and politico/journalist Martin Daubney [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Daubney], but since the announcement of that in the msm and on Twitter in May 2022, it seems that no writ has been issued nor any pre-action correspondence received (info per Lee Anderson). It has been alleged that Jack Monroe has simply taken the money donated for the threatened libel action, and spent it. Whether that is so, I have no idea, but tend to believe it, in the absence of any proof that there is going to be an action launched (and time is shortening— only 5-6 months left, at maximum).
Tweets continue to be posted:
I don’t know all the ins + outs. I did think initially you seem a bit obsessed 😉but as she hasn’t refuted substance am inclined to believe you. I think as women we’re more likely to trust people, so when we discover we’ve been lied to (esp. by another woman?) it feels 💩
How can @BootstrapCook refute any of it? It’s her own words! The only shocking aspect is that @actionfrauduk haven’t followed it up, despite having concerns highlighted amidst a lack of transparency that raises questions as to whether charitable donations have been embezzled!
Wait, so @BootstrapCook , an autistic single mom worked herself out of poverty as an entrepreneur, writing books etc, earning up to 2000 pounds/mo before taxes and at the whim of her followers, and that is despiccable because… what? Because she still remembers being poor?
Maybe I do. I was summarizing the facts I read in the article. And I failed to see how those facts make her a bad person. If you are basically unemployable (recovering single mom autistic) but manage to earn money by selling your work online — sounds cool to me. What's missing?
I think in this country the Police is who you go to with fraud matters, not twitter. I believe its an excuse used to attack Jack, if you think there is fraud, report it, otherwise you just look like trolls and bullies.
I have no idea why you would want an excuse to attack Jack? You troll and bully under an alias, who knows what your motives are? Why not be clear who you are? Then maybe your motives wouldn't be suspect?
No, she posts the evidence then draws conclusions on the evidence. Feel free to counter that, but you can't dismiss it as "bullying" even if it is an opinion!
Your job now is to counter the evidence and show that Jack Monroe hasn't lied as @AwfullyMolly has claimed.
Exactly. Many of the “well-meaning” or bien-pensant pro-Jack Monroe tweeters (mostly though not all women) have invested emotional capital in “Bootstrap Cook”, and are therefore immune to logic or fact. They cannot admit that they have been and are being duped, and prefer to carry on paying £3.50 or £10 a month rather than face reality.
Armistice Day: 11am on Tuesday 11th November 1919, vast crowds in London observe the very first 2 minute silence for those killed in the Great War. The men have removed their hats out of respect for the fallen. (I originally colourised this photo for the Evening Standard in 2019) pic.twitter.com/jmuRwYv2DZ
Ukrainian troops have reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements abandoned by Russian forces in southern Ukraine, officials said, the day after Moscow announced its withdrawal from the strategic capital city of Kherson province https://t.co/FGvzB25m5spic.twitter.com/7hv4k2lDxg
Note the poor literacy in that tweet from AFP, one of the largest international news agencies. Sign of the times.
“'A Ukrainian drone first flew over us, and after that their artillery started to pound us for hours and hours, nonstop…most of our unit is gone, destroyed. It was hell,' he said, adding that his unit’s commanders abandoned them” @PjotrSauerhttps://t.co/wxdKb9GK64pic.twitter.com/RLKiT54ehy
If Putin cannot pull a rabbit out of the hat pretty soon, Russia will have some kind of “revolution” at some point not far down the line. Lost wars have had that result in Russia before. The only solution is not to lose the war…
Rate footage of Russian Su-25 attack aircraft launching rockets downwards at Ukrainian positions west of Donetsk without firing them into the air. https://t.co/dTRs2qUzqspic.twitter.com/Qrs55n5kuy
It has been revealed that former Chancellor #KwasiKwarteng's mini-Budget cost UK pensions a massive £75bn.
This is the most damage ever done to the UK economy by a Chancellor in the history of the nation. – Why has he not resigned as an MP? – Why has he not been arrested?
— Brexit is a terrible mistake (@Brexit_Mistake) November 8, 2022
(…or just [REDACTED] out of hand the woolly-headed idiot).
Yet just two days after the disastrous mini-budget Kwarteng spooked the markets further by saying “there is more to come…” https://t.co/yXd6uBHOOa
A sign of things to come if the UK continues to slide down the slope into multikulti chaos?
All you need to know about this interview is that, despite being asked three times by @tnewtondunn if he wanted to apologise for the increased mortgage rates caused by his mini-budget, Kwasi Kwarteng refused. https://t.co/4Tgp8Ej5cc
Meanwhile, the pseudo-green “activists” think that punishing the British public is the way to go. I saw a clip from, I think, Sky News this morning. One Indigo Brumelow, a plainly very thick and “silver-spoon” young woman, completely hysterical.
She strikes me as mentally-afflicted in some way. I am no medic, but maybe autistic?
Potentially dangerous, like so many of the pseudo-green “activists”. Potentially terroristic. It is a question of degree only.
Actually, all the examples given by Indigo Rumbelow (floods in South Asia, hot weather in Europe etc) have occurred not only in recent decades but a hundred years and more ago.
I bet she will be pro-immigration as well. While living in the parents’ country house, or affluent suburbia (when not in a London flatshare), well away from the results of her pathetic yet damaging “activism”.
Indigo Brumelow thinks that women were “not allowed to own anything” until the Suffragettes agitated. Completely wrong, historically. She’s an ignoramus.
Will Indigo Brumelow end up in a mental hospital? She looks like a fanatical loony, and one who seems capable of any crime.
“Indigo was first arrested at Cannes Lions Advertising Festival in 2019 for gate-crashing a Facebook conference and has been held by police on at least six occasions since then.
In 2020 she began digging up the lawn in front of the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government and was arrested again in Parliament Square later that year when she blocked the road.“
[Daily Mail]
The newspaper also says that she is based on the Gower Peninsula, in South Wales, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. No doubt the family home. She is 28. No mention of any profession, job, or even study. In other words, as guessed, a silver-spoon trustafarian, like so many of the Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion idiots. Rote-learned repetitive ranting. No real thought at all.
Actually, she came over to me as mentally closer to 15 than 28. She evidently has some form of emotional/mental problem.
Were I Putin, I would arrange dictatorial powers for myself, then a. shoot most of the generals of the Russian Army; b. shoot many of the higher-ups in the GRU; c. bring up and train younger officers; d. find out where Zelensky is based and then fire a nuclear missile at his location.
Russia needs a gamechanger. What is now happening, and most of what has been happening from February onwards, has been a complete and embarrassing “shitshow”, causing huge property and infrastructure damage, huge harm to Ukrainian civilians and others, and to companion animals, and also resulting in 100,000 deaths and injuries to Russian officers and soldiers, let alone the devastating damage to Russia’s reputation in all ways.
Not that I opposed, or even now oppose, the invasion, but it was delayed pointlessly, for weeks, then carried out in a shockingly half-hearted, desultory, and almost detached manner. Shocking. As blogged before, this is not the army, or the equivalent of the (Soviet) army, that could and did take whole countries in days, among them Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan.
Putin seriously needs to get a grip, or give way to someone who can take firm control and achieve victory.
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NEW: UK economy shrinks by 0.2% in three months to September, in what is expected to be start of long recession. https://t.co/inFYFkkFgR
Just so I'm clear, the Boy George currently taking the high moral ground in the jungle is the same Boy George who got 15 months for handcuffing a male escort to a wall, and beating him with a metal chain.
I might be tempted to say that all the participants in that “jungle” show should be shot out of hand, but actually I do not know who or what any of them are, or why they are “celebrities”, except Boy George, Mike Tindall, and Matt Hancock (and, thinking about it, there is no reason to have Tindall shot anyway, as far as I know).
I do not think that I shall be watching I’m A Celebrity, in any case.
Interesting in several details, such as that 41% of Americans have never flown on a plane! I am also surprised to see that a third of Americanadults do not own a car.
Most telling, perhaps, is that only 62% of Americans have a household income over USD $25,000, meaning that 38% of households are struggling by on less than $25,000 a year.
When I married my first wife, a United States Federal Government employee, her own relatively modest income in 1990 was about $36,000, so an income of $25,000 in 2022, 32 years later, and for a household (that might contain two or more workers), is really what the American magazines call “hardscrabble”.
The educational levels are, as expected low, with the respondents apparently thinking that 30% of their fellow-Americans live in New York City (it’s 3%), 30% in Texas (it’s 9%) and 32% in California (it’s 12%).
An uninformed and/or ignorant population cannot support a democracy worth anything, hence the American political mess that we see unfolding, as Adlai Stevenson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II] implied pretty clearly when his campaign train was in a small town during a Presidential campaign of the 1950s. A woman ran up to him, crying out, “Mr. Stevenson, you must win! Every thinking American will vote for you!“, to which Stevenson drily and prophetically replied, “Not enough, Madam; I need a majority“…
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What is the point of the Tories? They’ve lost control of our borders; lost control of law and order; can’t run the NHS and are taxing us to high heaven. We routinely have no trains, tubes or ambulances. They deserve political oblivion.
I rather dread the sort of elected dictatorship that Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer might head, containing such as would-be dictator Yvette Cooper (expenses cheat, fraud, and another Labour Friends of Israel member), but Isabel Oakeshott is right— what is the point of the Conservative Party now? And look at the Cabinet! A real collection of deadheads.
The only thing that the Con Party can now say is “we are not Labour“. That might save their bacon to a (very) limited extent, but only to such a small extent.
As to that “elected dictatorship” of Labour, we shall just have to face it down any way we can.
More than a dozen police stand around aimlessly as a single Just Stop Oil idiot dangling from a gantry closes the M25. I’m confused. The Tories have lost all claim to be the party of law and order.
Next boss Lord Wolfson wants more immigration to fill vacancies in his stores. The company is advertising jobs for £6.89 an hour. Maybe try paying more than the minimum wage?
They say this is how Putin moves around Moscow: blocked streets,huge speed and over a dozen of armored cars with flashing lights. pic.twitter.com/nC5dAOHmvC
True, but that was also true of the old Soviet leadership.
Alexander Dugin directly blamed Putin for the retreat from Kherson. He stated that the power in Russia is almost autocratic, but if the tsar cannot save the people, then he will face the "king of the rains fate" (a man whose stomach was ritually torn open by his fellow tribesmen) pic.twitter.com/7Nsy2cvmCM
EXCL: Senior civil servants at Ministry of Justice were offered “respite or a route out” of department when Dominic Raab was reappointed last month amid concerns over his behaviour. https://t.co/ju6IBcBnfQ
The Jew-Zionist pack generally shouldbe cleared out of Twitter. They are the ones who, more than all others put together, have almost destroyed free speech on that platform and others, and generally.
Stephen Fry, who has homes in London and LA, owns a 150k Bentley and sometimes drives a Black Cab to avoid the congestion charge, has declared his support for Extinction Rebellion.
Do you think he's had a bet with Darkie Lineker, to see who can look the biggest dick?.
It is almost incredible, when you look at it, how the Jewish element in a society is usually the most disruptive, and in the strangest way: having great privilege and money, in some cases fame and fortune (as with Stephen Fry), yet so often with the ingrained wish somewhere inside them to bring down into decay and degradation the same society that has nurtured them.
One side-aspect of that is how many Jews and part-Jews turn, when students, to the most Jewish form, Trotskyism, of an already-Jewish movement or tendency, Marxism. David Cameron-Levita, Peter Hitchens, many others.
In later life, such individuals often go in other directions (look at David Cameron-Levita). A friend of mine met Stephen Fry at a wedding about 30 years ago, and was surprised at how (in his words) very “left-wing” Fry was (I myself never use the “right”/”left” terminology). My friend was a member of the Labour Party at the time.
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Stephen Fry deactivates Twitter as he becomes latest in string of leftie, luvvy celebrities to quit social media platform in wake of Elon Musk's takeover. He's left several times before but always slinks back. pic.twitter.com/0DMMKQEAwt
Reminds me of how the Jewish actress, Maureen Lipman, has often “threatened” (if such be the bon mot) to leave the UK (which has given her everything) because of supposed “anti-Semitism”, and to go to Israel or California. Somehow, unfortunately, she never quite makes it.
The last time I had any interest in Stephen Fry was when he was in Jeeves and Wooster.. Certainly won't bother me if he leaves twitter.
Fry was good in Jeeves and Wooster. In other roles, he disappoints, at least judging from those films etc—admittedly not many— that I have seen. His ham acting as the police inspector in Gosford Park rather spoiled that film for me. Fry overdid the comedy in the “comedy-drama”, in my opinion.
Kharkiv has removed a bust of Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, saying its fate will be decided after Ukraine’s victory. The bust was put up in 1904 & some activists are calling for it to become an exhibit in a museum of the independence movement that called for its removal in 1917 pic.twitter.com/4qVM44kQwg
Cultural vandalism. Ukraine is small in geographic size compared to Russia, and has less than a third of the population, but is still a very large country, almost the same geographic size as France. Putting it as kindly as possible, you cannot compare the contribution of Ukraine to world culture, as against that of Russia.
Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Glazunov, Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovitch, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Borodin, Scriabin, to name but a few of the most famous; and that is only in the realm of music. Ukraine’s list is very small by comparison.
I notice that Jews often refer to themselves on Twitter as “J-Twitter“. Maybe the, er, solution here is for them to break away into a kind of Twitter-ghetto (and stay there), leaving non-Jews on the main Twitter able to speak and debate freely without what we might perhaps term “J-interference”…
Jack Monroe refund daily update: Day 10, no refund. Remember, this is for payments made in February & March, and SHE approached ME to sort out the refund / clean up her rep before promoting her new £20 book for 'the povs'. pic.twitter.com/6mhGrlaMMp
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) November 10, 2022
If it were a dodgy builder taking money up front for work which never got carried out it would be considered a public service to publicise that. Publicising the Monroe Patreon for the equivalent is "trolling" though.
More info here on the class action against faux poverty grifter Jack Monroe bootstrapcook 👍if you've donated/supported in any way, whether that's PayPal, Patreon, Kickstarter or anything else, get in touch with @suebootstrap to discuss. #classaction#jackmonroe#scammerhttps://t.co/giZCeUKJp8
I was one of those who bought a book (can't remember which one) & gave £100 for 10 copies to be donated to foodbanks. Never heard more but assumed that JM had done it – now I'm wondering & feeling stirrings of several emotions!
“...bought a book” but cannot remember which one…because the —no doubt well-meaning, so be it— buyer probably never used the recipes once she realized that the “Jack Monroe” recipes are often “dogs’ dinners” that probably compare badly with prison food…
Eventually, whether it be in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, the real British people are going to have to support a government that re-establishes law and order, even if it means machinegunning in the street the denizens of the jungle…
Delighted to help open the Holy Brook Nook: community food growing, an amazing mural celebrating the Kennet and the Holy Brook and space for forest school. A partnership between the council, charities and the community.#Rdguk#sustainability#communityfoodpic.twitter.com/FSsm0XYRkV
Well, that Mayor of Reading looks very different from the slightly grumpy (Labour Party) Mayor of Reading whom I “interviewed” in the rather grand (as I then thought) Mayor’s Parlour with a school friend for a home-made school-holidays “newspaper” when I was about 14, I think in 1971.
The Mayor received us in the Mayor’s offices, which were then by the Museum and St. Laurence’s Church, right in the centre of the town. I see that the local council is now based in a more contemporary building elsewhere.
That mayor was about 60 (I think), with glasses (I think), and was a chemist with a pharmacy in the town somewhere. Not overly friendly (impatient?) once pressed on policy, but it was good of him to agree to see two schoolboys taking up his time, really.
Seeing that tweet by the blondinka who is now the Mayor inspired me to look at the Reading town centre on Google Earth. Very different to what I recall from 1956-1966 childhood, 1970s schooldays (mainly at Reading Blue Coat School, Sonning, near Reading), and a couple of visits in the 1980s.
I see that large areas are now pedestrianized, and that the area near the railway station is also even uglier than it was in the past.
On my last visit to the town, about 15 years ago, I did not need to go into the centre, and was staying on the outskirts, in what I think was a Holiday Inn or similar. In the dark of a winter early evening, and a little tired, I drove into an awkwardly-designed intersection the wrong way (down a no-entry bit), and then compounded my sin by going through a red light and driving off when I saw that the only vehicle around was a police van (wouldn’t you know?!). They chased after me, blue light flashing and siren wailing. I decided that I had to stop, after a short while.
The denouement? I told the officers, one young man, and a girl so young-looking that she might have been a schoolgirl, my story (that I was unfamiliar with the layout etc) and, after a telling-off from the “schoolgirl”, was let off, and allowed to go on my way without even having to go through the boring stuff such as having my licence etc checked (I was fully-compliant with the relevant laws anyway— licence, insurance, MOT etc).
“I show my card in Scotland Yard” (etc)…
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Today the French government passed legislation requiring any parking lot with more than 80 spaces to have a roof covered in solar panels. This is expected to generate around 12 Gigawatts which is equivalent to France building 10 new nuclear power stations.
London gone? Might by then be a good thing, the way things are going…What really matters is what the population is like. Who knows? The South West might by then be an advanced ethnostate…
Ha ha! Wait until I decide to return to Twitter (purely to publicize the blog), and get a blue tick. “They” (((they))) will be wailing so much that they will have to create a new wall.
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