Jack Monroe - Bootstrapcook

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Absolutely loving this jumper!

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: (@marksandspencer childrenswear not even remotely embarrassed, although the glitter and sparkles are a bit of a deviation from the Peaky Blinders wardrobe but I’m going with it…)

 

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R to @jdpoc: Sobriety glow-up (and excellent lighting in the bathroom, and a veritable department stores worth of makeup… )

 

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R to @NamelessSnow: I hope you’re well my friend

 

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R to @downwithcheese: They go up to age 16… I’m generally a 12 in adult sizes and this is age 11 (I should have got the next size up really because the arms are a bit short for my gangly limbs… for a 5’1” shrimp I do seem to be disproportionately made of arms and legs )

 

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R to @downwithcheese: Etsy is a great place for positive slogan T-shirts and jumpers, look up ‘affirmation T-shirts’ or ‘positive vibes’ - I daren’t venture over there too often because I want them ALL

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: This one, for example, is whispering to me…

 

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R to @Mrsvickyfoz: I’ve had a bit of a break for my wee head. It’s been good for me, but I’ve missed you all

 

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R to @downwithcheese: Might have to because now I’ve tweeted it to half a million people, I’ll be right cheesed off if it sells out

 

[@NewStatesman]

RT by @BootstrapCook: Cost of Living: Join Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) and @kitdewaal as they discuss living on the breadline and campaigning for change with NS special projects editor @paperdispatch at @camlitfest on 22 April.

Tickets here: Jack Monroe & Kit de Waal | Cost of Living - Cambridge Literary Festival

 

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I’m scheduled to do a talk in Cambridge on the 22nd of April. The organisers have received multiple threats against me after advertising the event, and have asked if I want to cancel it.

Absolutely fing not. Tickets from £8 here. See you there.

https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/jack-monroe-kit-de-waal-cost-of-living/

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: I write budget recipes and petition the Government for fair wages and decent benefits. If you think I’m the baddie in this scenario, after a decade of fairly consistent work in these fields, there’s not much I can say or do to change your mind at this point. Be well.

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: I’ve survived multiple violent assaults, rapes, CSA, poverty, starvation, addiction, alcoholism, DV, my own catastrophic fups, a kidnapping, two concussions, several suicide attempts, anaphylaxis, and a car accident.

Y’all really think you’re gonna end me with an EMAIL?

 

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R to @IrvineWelsh: Found most of them. They are exactly what - and who - you would expect!

 

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R to @NESzapp: They’re not brushing anything under the carpet, but nor are they obligated to share private correspondence to satisfy an anonymous - and I suspect not entirely good faith - inquiry on Twitter.

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: They’ve taken the necessary, and proportional, action, and all affected parties are in the loop about how to proceed.

 

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If the 47,000 doctors, consultants etc on strike, received a pay rise of £20k each per annum, that would total around £940m a year.

Or £18,027,397 a week.

Which still leaves £331,972,603 a week for the NHS from the big red bus promise post-Brexit.

Shouldn’t be a problem then.

 

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R to @BootstrapCook: (Obviously as a union member I’m aware that those striking do so to secure improved conditions for ALL their colleagues, not just those on the picket lines, I’m simply making a point!! Looks like there’s plenty in the Big Red Bus Budget for everyone anyway!)

 

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R to @SimonWatson2018: [47000 staff x 20000 payrise]/365 days then x7 for weekly cost

350m bus budget - weekly cost = bus budget surplus

Out of interest, using that calculation, what do you make it?

 

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R to @DefendourNHS: Oh I know. I’ve got a book that was written in the 1940s or 50s (it’s in storage so can’t check!) called The NHS: Your Money Or Your Life that pretty much, and rather depressingly, predicted this decades ago…