Jack Monroe
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Anti-poverty campaigner, budget cookery author, bylines everywhere, occasionally on your tellybox, sober #ODAAT . #YNWA .
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Woke up this morning to the radio talking about the cost of living rising a further 5%. It infuriates me the index that they use for this calculation, which grossly underestimates the real cost of inflation as it happens to people with the least. Allow me to briefly explain.
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Do me a favour and like this tweet if you see it? Or leave an emoji or something? I’ve got a hunch about something and want to see if I’m right. Will delete it shortly so it doesn’t really mean anything outside of my hunchy head, I just want to measure something! Cheers!
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NATIONAL FREE SCHOOL MEAL VOUCHER SCHEME IS COMING BACK NEXT WEEK! We did it!!! THANKYOU!!!!
I’m crying into the cat 🐈 Christ I need some sleep
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Your regular reminder that if you see someone stealing baby formula, nappies, bread, milk, pasta, ready meals, you didn’t see a fucking thing mind your own business and thank god you’re not so desperate for your own or your babies survival that you’d risk a criminal charge for it
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Just slightly lost my rag and called the Prime Minister a liar on BBC News. Interview wrapped fairly swiftly after that 😂 but I’m so tired of it all.
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Delighted to be able to tell you that the
@ONS
have just announced that they are going to be changing the way they collect and report on the cost of food prices and inflation to take into consideration a wider range of income levels and household circumstances 👊
#VimesBootsIndex
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Gloves off. Lawyer instructed. 732,000 views and climbing. Daubney, Anderson, Fox and co are playing a very expensive game of chicken with someone who has a proven track record of crossing this particular road without fear nor favour. Good luck, boys.
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All the white wingers saying cooking on a budget is easy, let’s see it. I want your shopping list & 7 day meal plans, to include all 3 meals drink & snacks. Has to meet 5 a day fruit & veg, daily vitamin RDAs, protein targets & fibre. Off you pop, I could do with the competition.
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Woke up this morning and realised I couldn’t procrastinate my food shop for a day longer, and decided it was time - three and a half weeks on from my accidentally viral tweet about the prices of basic foods at the supermarket - to brave it, and see what, if anything, had changed.
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🚨 ONE 🎉 YEAR ✨ SOBER 🥳 And it hasn’t been easy, but it’s been worth it. That wreck on the left didn’t even want to be alive any more and was gradually ensuring that was the case. The one on the right? Has a life beyond my wildest dreams.
#ODAAT
#WeDoRecover
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Jesus would have flipped a table and driven you out of the temple FYI x
“They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.” - Titus 1:16.
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As I live and breathe I will never, EVER stop reminding them of this.
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Wanting everyone to have sufficient income that they can live with joy and dignity should not be a radical proposition, pass it on
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When you tell hotel reception before you arrive that you’re an alcoholic in recovery and ask them to empty the mini bar fridge. And you open it to this 🥲🥲🥲
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Hi all. I’ve been sent LOTS of photos of the food parcels that have replaced the £30 vouchers and asked what I would do with them. I’m replying with advice privately because to do so publicly would look like justifying these ill thought through, offensively meagre scraps /1.
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I want to write about this but honestly I am just staring at my screen screaming inside. Billions, literally billions, doled out to unqualified connected friends of friends of people in power, while those with no connections or perceived value are literally left to starve. 😡
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Tory MPs, columnists, journalists and commentators absolutely lining up to try to discredit me - almost like they’re frightened of engaging with the actual issues and would rather try to take down the person highlighting them. Interesting how that happens. Keep trying, sunshines.
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@KEdge23
Hi Kevin, THE literal expert on budget cooking here who has spent the last decade on the front line of food poverty in this country.
500g bag of budget pasta, 29p. That’s 5 meals of 100g plain pasta, no butter, no salt, no sauce, no nutrition, and a whole 155 calories a meal!
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I’m being asked a lot by journalists: ‘What if supermarkets hold their low prices or bring back their value range goods? Won’t you be embarrassed to be proven wrong?’
Me: Er no that’s literally the goal, people will be able to afford to eat, I’ve never wanted to be more wrong
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Being todays Dead Cat on Twitter is HORRIBLE. If at any point in the last 10 years I, my work, activism, campaigning, books, writing etc had any kind of positive impact on you or someone you love, can you ping me a tweet & let me know? This relentless, intolerable abuse can’t win
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Fifteen million people have read that thread now and almost every media outlet has now challenged the inflation figure.
I just can’t even begin to get my head around that. Thanks all of you for your support in getting this heard. A bit overwhelmed so going to bed to hug my boy. X
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Normalise not assuming everyone drinks alcohol. Normalise taking no for an answer first time round. Normalise having gorgeous grownup alternatives that aren’t J2O or warm cola. Normalise letting people go home when they want to. Normalise being supportive friends. Happy new year!
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Me. I happened. You’re welcome.
Whatever happened to Katie Hopkins? We don't seem to hear her filty racist and Brexity rhetoric anymore. Thank God.
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TEN MILLION PEOPLE HAVE READ THAT THREAD. I cannot even begin to tell you how this feels after ~ten long years~ of campaigning on this, that so many people have collectively sat up and taken notice. Thankyou, each and every one of you. I’m having a very busy day!
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If you’ve never nibbled a stock cube to try to ease hunger pains, or drunk the formula milk that the foodbank gave your baby, you really have no business trying to tell people who have experienced real poverty that we ‘just don’t understand economics’. Oh, we really fucking do.
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Being a Tory is not a protected characteristic. It is a choice, unlike race, sex, gender, disability, etc. if you don’t want to be considered detestable, you can identify right out of Conservatism and stop backing detestable people, policies and ideas.
#IStandWithNicolaSturgeon
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My mental health is absolutely shot at the moment - so I might be a bit quiet. I’m in good (refreshingly ordinary) hands, just taking some time away from being Twitters Main Character the umpteenth day running. Reading hate and lies about myself incessantly does have an impact.😑
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I don’t shout about this and I’m uncomfortable tweeting about it, but I feel compelled to point out (in the face of a hostile disinformation campaign) that my fees from the Sunday People and Guardian articles will be donated to the Trussell Trust, as standard.
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📢 1. The Pratchett estate have authorised the use of the title for the Vimes Boots Index.
📢 2. The ONS chiefs want a meeting. With me.
📢3. I’m on This Morning tomorrow with a VERY special cooking demonstration that you might not want to miss.
📢 4. I am 95% coffee now.
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Day 356 sober. Heartbroken, bewildered, bereft, but absolutely motherfucking SOBER. 😎
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Making noise WORKS. Schools seem to be able to opt out of the boxes and I’ve heard from quite a few this morning already who are GOING BACK TO THE VOUCHERS. Sometimes this hellsite can be used for good, so please keep exposing the corruption of the Free School Meals ‘hampers’.
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And finally it's incredible how the very people who just a few months ago were crowing about what they could make for a quid are conspicuously absent from this whole discussion. Annunziata, where's your recipe for half a pepper, a warm Frube and a fifth of a can of tuna hun?
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I was alerted to a conversation today where the people behind the accounts were speculating on how far and how exactly they would need to push me and my mental fragility before I killed myself. I’m a mother to a 12 year old boy, and a human being. Please for the love of god stop.
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I have to say, people starting their abusive or disdainful tweets assuming I’m a bloke are really showing how little attention they’re paying. If you can somehow miss my cracking great 34E rack wobbling with indignation, you’re unlikely to be grasping the nuances of food poverty.
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Walking into Parliament tonight; the armed Police officer asked me for a pass at the visitors entrance. I didn’t have one, so he asked my name. I nervously told him. He stared at me, grinned, and said ‘you’re an absolute legend, thanks for all your work’ and waved me through 😳
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I wish that the TV commissioners who send celebrity chefs into foodbanks to teach poor people how to cook, concurrently put the exact same energy into sending poor people in to the Treasury to teach Rishi Sunak how to budget.
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For years I’ve been joking that my incredibly rubbish autistic superpower is the ability to recall the cost and weight of any supermarket basic food product over the last decade. Shine bright, weird kids with incredibly niche passions, our time sometimes comes in the end. ✨
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Somehow still miraculously sober at the end of this godawful day in what has been an exceptionally testing week. Goodnight, friends, and thankyou for all the support. 🥰
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I hear there may be a job vacancy coming up, might throw my hat in x
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How to actually tackle poverty:
- Nationalise the energy market
- Universal Basic/Decent/Living Income
- £15/hour minimum wage
- Get the Tories out
- Re-open all of the closed SureStart children’s Centres
- Re-fund the NHS
- End cronyism contracts
- Re-fund social care support
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GET IN THE FUCKING BIN. I’m too angry about this to even be polite about it. Hunger is not a virtue, it’s a distress signal of extreme deprivation.
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Fam, meet Laurie. I’ve waited ten years for this little one, and she’s in my heart and my home not a day too soon. ♥️🐾
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Please stop DMing me to tell me I looked thin on TV this morning. I had my heart smashed to bits, have worked 100ish hour weeks since January, am in a slogging pit of depression right now. I dress myself every morning, I know what my body looks like. I’m on the mend, I promise. X
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So Tory MSP Rachael Hamilton claims that people using food banks are ‘less well educated’ about food and cookery. Rachael, I wrote my first bestselling cookery book AS A FOOD BANK USER and have gone on to write six more. How many has she written, can anyone check?
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I’m being contacted by media outlets about the energy companies record profits and my stance on this is very clear. As with supermarkets, while a single one of their customers is forced into poverty by their racketeering prices, not a penny should be paid in shareholder bonuses.
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Exhausted. 3 hours sleep, 15 hour solid day (not over yet), but been trying to galvanise the nation to unite about the shoddy treatment of people on the breadline in Britain for 8 years now so took every opportunity offered today to highlight it. Thanks for caring. Keep it going!
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Tired of being described as ‘attacking’ Conservative MPs by media who contact me asking me to respond to their comments. I’m not ‘attacking’ the rich privileged white men by pointing out the untruths in their uninvited statements, I’m DEFENDING the people that THEY are attacking.
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You start chatting absolute pony about how easy budget cooking is on Twitter and you bet your ass i’m gonna turn up summoned like the Candyman.
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Until not one single person in this country is having to wear a coat indoors, use a foodbank for half a weeks dinners, or dead as a result of Conservative austerity ideology, not voting or spoiling your ballot paper is a privilege that millions can’t afford you to exercise. VOTE!
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Le grand sigh.
1. A large number of people in receipt of Universal Credit work.
2. Additional work payments are then deducted from UC payments, so ‘washing a car for £20’ doesn’t actually improve your income in any way whatsoever.
3. All TVs are flatscreen in the year 2021.
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I find it very revealing how different news outlets frame this:
BBC: ‘Jack Monroe row’
Telegraph: ‘Jack Monroe’s demands’
ITV: ‘Jack Monroe pressure’
FT: ‘Why supermarkets should listen to Jack Monroe’
Mirror, People, Guardian: ‘Jack Monroe’s campaign’
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And in the same vein, people telling me I’m getting chubby. I know, it’s GREAT! I came into the public eye LITERALLY STARVING. If I haven’t gained some weight from [checks notes] eight or so years of NO LONGER LITERALLY STARVING I’m fucking doing it wrong. Stay pressed, fools. 🥰
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@Effiedeans
Go eat plain boiled rice for your next 20 meals Effie + report back as to how that goes. Physically, mentally, lethargically, emotionally, exhaustion, monotony, boredom, energy spikes/crashes, brain fog, + ask yourself why you think that’s acceptable for anyone to have to endure.
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I’m getting DMs asking why I restrict comments on tweets. I’ve been open about my mental health, unfortunately for some people admitting vulnerability is an invitation to exploit it. I try to follow as many good people as I can, but am trying to stay focused on what’s important.
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My 11 year old took this photo of me yesterday and I may be biased but I think he’s got quite a talent for it.
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In what world is it down to me, a poverty + trauma survivor, to go on national TV and tell a desperate nation ‘I’m sorry there’s not much else you can possibly do.’ Why is it me + Martin Lewis, not Boris + Rishi, left to answer the awful calls from frightened starving citizens?🤬
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Age 11 I made a cheese and tomato pasta bake in Home Ec and didn’t have the ingredients so 2 of my classmates gave me Babybels from their lunchboxes. I put them in without taking the wax off the outside. I’m now a bestselling cookery writer. Don’t let your mistakes define you. X
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Your regular reminder that yes while I write ultra cheap recipes in order to try to help people survive under the callous indifference of 3 consecutive Conservative Governments, I will also never shut up about the gross injustice that anyone should need them in the first place.
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Somehow, miraculously, even with all the sustained shit and disgusting relentless smear campaign going on at the moment, I’ve made it to 421 days sober. One day at a time.
#ODAAT
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In all of the news coverage about Jacob Rees-Moggs incorrect statements about the morning-after pill, I’m yet to see a single journalist add the line ‘Jacob Rees-Mogg, who himself profits financially from the sale of abortion pills.’ It should be in EVERY SINGLE article on this.
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History tells me that I have a 100% track record at surviving my worst days, and so do you. This too shall pass. 🙏🏼
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I mean of all the things, the Prime Minister claiming that he’s cutting the cost of living while the price of basic food products shoot up by THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR PERCENT is the one I’m properly angry enough to riot over.
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When I was a teenager I was stalked very seriously by a man who ended up assaulting me. He drove me out of two retail jobs by turning up and sitting there watching me all day. He ran his car into a male friends who was picking me up and taking me to work because I was so afraid.
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And that certain people may dismiss those of us who care about social justice and vulnerable people as ‘snowflakes’, but when enough snowflakes come together and move in the same direction, we’re a motherfucking avalanche.
Have a lovely Saturday, everyone.
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Channelled the last few days into starting the Vimes Boots Index and writing this piece for tomorrow’s Observer. Do enjoy the visceral seething rage in the opening paragraph. And every other paragraph.
Jack Monroe | The Guardian
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And to the guy desperately urging me to kill myself over the weekend with a flurry of tweets with pictures of nooses and handfuls of pills, I am alive and kicking on this glorious Monday morning SPECIFICALLY to spite you. Have a wonderfully performatively outraged day!
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Those ‘back in my day’ Twitter accounts sneering that they had ‘ice in the windows and we’re fine’? My generation DREAM of the opportunities you had. You sort the house prices back to mere four figure sums again, and we’ll gladly get the big jumpers out and piss in the garden.
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To return to the luxury ready meal example, if the price of that had risen at the same rate as the cheapest rice in the supermarket, that £7.50 lasagne would now cost £25.80.
Dine In For £10 would be £34.40.
We’re either all in this together, or we aren’t.
(Spoiler: we aren’t)
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Your regular reminder that I’m not a brand or an organisation and I don’t have bodyguards or a PR machine. I’m a human being, who struggles severely at times with my physical and mental health, trying my best to improve the bits of this ghastly world I can have a small impact on.
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Asda have been in touch requesting a meeting. (I said yes, of course.)
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Just about to go for the most important and terrifying meeting of my entire lifetime, and the outcome may be completely life-altering in the best possible way. Please take a moment to pray to whoever you hand this stuff over to, for the Universe to smile upon me and SB today. 💕
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Frothing right wingers so desperate to falsely prove that I’m a hypocritical millionaire that they’re willing to libel me extensively in order to try to make it happen. Beautiful.
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@KEdge23
That’s only 456 calories a day, but hey, it’s not like nursing is physically demanding, on your feet all day, shift work, is it? Operating at a deficit of 1,544calories a day is perfectly sustainable in your head, right? I sure hope so, because I’ve got a challenge for you pal!
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Went to two different meetings to pick up my one year sobriety chip, because I wanted a spare one to give to my son. Gave it to him (quite nervously, but v casually) and when I just went to check on him tonight he’s sleeping with it next to his head. 🥲 378 days
#ODAAT
. 🥰
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And those who describe me as ‘rich’ - I may not be wealthy but I don’t want for love, support, moral fibre, heartfelt thanks, friends, family, life itself, sober days, and the kindness of strangers. And with that alone I have far more than cold loveless money could ever offer.
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Just had a random knock on the door… steeled myself, opened it, and my 15 year old brother is standing there with a plate in his hand covered in kitchen foil. ‘Apparently you look too thin, Mum sent you this’. Still hot and everything!! 😭😭😭
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As I said on the phone to the ST yesterday, yes a supermarket may still have their 29p pasta in stock in a random store in Newcastle, but it’ll take me ten and a half hours and cost £163 to get there to pick it up. It’s either universally available, or it’s as good as useless.
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It appears I’m not the only freelance writer waiting literal years to be paid by the
@Telegraph
. If they also owe you money, drop the month and year of the article you wrote for them and let’s see if a public collective callout achieves more than dozens of polite invoices did.
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One of my best tips for keeping the food shop down to £20 a week is to do a full stocktake every now and then of what’s in the cupboard, fridge and freezer. Let me explain how it works.
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By some miracle, or several hundred, tonight I’m putting my head on the pillow sober for the 353rd night running. One day at a time.
#ODAAT
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People asking how to help. I don’t have a crowdfunder - if I need to I’ll let you know, but not today. So in the meantime the real crucial battle is where it’s always been for the last 12 years: Text TRUSSELL 5 to 70085 to donate £5 to those who really need it right now. Ta. X
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Four and a half GCSEs.
Expelled from school.
Working class single mum.
Ex foodbank client.
Told I’d never amount to anything.
Holding my 7th book in my hands.
[feelings]
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Going to ground for a bit, I’m exhausted. This is all ~a lot~ to be dealing with.
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Took this earlier. Thought it was quite lovely. Hope you’re all okay.
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Rishi Sunak in a hoody in summer 2020 was the new Nigel Farages Pint Glass and my god didn’t so many of you all fall for it. Twice! These privately educated investment bankers turned politicians are NOT YOUR FRIENDS, and they have no desire to be.
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Day 475 continuously sober, one day at a time. You can try to take down my reputation, career, colleagues, opportunities, partnerships, and my sanity, but you will NEVER steal my sobriety, serenity, fellowships, truth, honesty, friendships and progress. Keep coming back.
#ODAAT
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@KEdge23
helping people like Rebecca day after day, while people like you sit in your comfy lives telling us all how you’d be so much better at being poor than we are. SO DO IT THEN. Show us all how it’s done and I look FORWARD to your bestselling cookbook on the subject. Best of luck! 😌
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Holy moly what a day. Ummm I won the Sheila McKechnie Foundation Campaigner Of The Year Award - and met dozens of outstanding people who are doing incredible work all over the UK - feel truly humbled and overwhelmed to have been amongst so many brilliant people this evening. 🥰
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Brilliant start to the day, crying on Radio 4. I’m so done in with how desperate this all is for so many people, and how much worse it’s going to be, and the absolute failure of our Government to do ANYTHING to even ACKNOWLEDGE let alone actually tangibly help.
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