Jack Monroe - Bootstrapcook

[@616Popey]

R to @LegalGengar: That seems like a completely insane thing to do, to the point where “malicious intent” seems like the most logical explanation.
It’s a fing tenner, stop wasting the courts time.

 

[@LegalGengar]

Hello new people. You've probably seen a number of my Tweets about how I'm facing Jack Monroe, aka @BootstrapCook in court soon. Here's the full story:

I subscribed to her Patreon. She failed to fulfil the contract and didn't send out any rewards. I asked for my money back. She ignored and blocked me. For a £10 refund!

I took her to small claims court and won. She didn't bother responding to the claim papers, and had no defence—so I won by default. The amount she owed me is now £45: £10 plus the £35 court filing fee.

I was awarded a CCJ for the amount. She still ignored it. She regularly claims to be so poor that she's boiling down soap to make shampoo, unscrewing lightbulbs to save money, and only has 85p in her bank account, or something like that.

I asked the court for an order to summon her to answer questions about her finances, to work out how best to get my £45 back. This is an N39, and I paid £59 for the order plus £150 for a professional to serve it on her (i.e. for them go to her house and personally give her the order). This raised the amount owed to £104.

She was served the order, and must now attend court on Wednesday 14th June or risk being imprisoned for contempt of court.

At the hearing, I intend to get to the bottom of her finances—she must produce records of her PayPal and Patreon accounts for the last 2 years, confirm her income/expenditure, etc. so I can determine whether she CAN afford to pay me and merely CHOOSES not to, or whether she really is as poor as she claims and can't afford to pay anything.

This is all perfectly legal and legitimate—it's covered in Civil Procedure Rule 71.2 as an option open to judgment creditors (people who have a CCJ and are owed money).

You may have seen figures of £400+ being bandied about. These are my additional costs that are not yet included on the CCJ because I need to ask a judge to award me a costs order, basically saying "Yes, Jack Monroe owes his costs".

I expect she will pay in full at the end of the hearing to settle the matter. That's fine–on this matter, I just want my money back.

You may find this claim somewhat fantastical or improbable. It is all backed up by evidence and, if necessary, I will release suitably redacted copies of the paperwork once the matter is fully settled.

Further litigation from me regarding her various scams can be expected in the future. This isn't the end of pursuing justice.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @onetakegray: …which has been focusing on helping people in poverty in the UK in recent years, so please do point out where I’m ‘steaming in all completely fing wrong’ with a mild comment about the helpfulness of making products cheaper instead of making them charitable…

 

[@onetakegray]

R to @BootstrapCook: I know it’s very unlike Monroe to go steaming-in all completely fing wrong, but this EXISTING range “Inspired To Cook” is having 50p per item donated to Comic Relief.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @onetakegray: I’m sure you know far more than I do about supermarket pricing and PR, so I’ll leave it there.

 

[@onetakegray]

R to @DearClaraBelle: But this is it. This range wasn’t created to fill that niche. If costed from bottom up as a “budget” range, then it wouldn’t exist. This “hey, try this” range is donating to charity, while the company - by not selling everything at 2p per rinsed baked bean - employs thousands.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @DearClaraBelle: We spoke on the phone* a while ago and I apologised.

* (he called me, having paid for a tracing service to get my home address and phone number)

 

[@DearClaraBelle]

R to @BootstrapCook: @bootstrapcook, the person you doxxed is now suffering the inevitable consequences of your actions. You must own this, apologise and call off your *flying monkeys*.
You MUST do everything in your power to set this right.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @DearClaraBelle: With all due respect, I don’t need to do anything that you demand. He extensively doxxed me, writing to my HOME ADDRESS, calling my PERSONAL PHONE. I tweeted his name in a moment of anger, deleted it, and apologised. The rest is between us, not the clown court of social media.

 

[@DearClaraBelle]

R to @BootstrapCook: You need to make a public statement apologising and telling the more deranged of your fans to *stand down*. You doxxed him publicly and must apologise publicly. It’s the very, very least you can do to set this right.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @tamso1970: You know these trolls have been sharing my home address online for years? So I have to sit back and take it but not occasionally, mistakenly, humanly, snap back? Just so I know what the rules are here.

 

[@tamso1970]

R to @theblackcatsays: Publishing private info with malicious intent. E.g. someone's address online so folk go and harass.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @theblackcatsays: It’s scary as for me as well, the person who this has been happening to for 10 years now. Trolls writing to my home address, getting my mobile number no matter how much I change it, maps pinpointing where I & my child live… What I did wasn’t right, but I’m broken by all of this.

 

[@theblackcatsays]

R to @tamso1970: I don't get why you'd do that. That's gotta be scary as for that person

 

[@_Embo]

hey @BootstrapCook thought you might want a copy of the tweet you deleted doxxing someone, you know, for when you want to tell lies about it. I’ve redacted the persons details you doxxed because you caused enough damage already.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @AnaGreenBanana: Oh well just because you haven’t seen it, it can’t have happened then. Silly me.

 

[@AnaGreenBanana]

R to @BootstrapCook: I have literally never seen that, and you’re a proven liar. Half a million of your followers just saw your tweet naming someone and making (what he claims to be) false accusations against him. I hope he takes you to the cleaners.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @DesperadoMUFC: They do to my kid, and he’s frankly the only person who I’m ever bothered about impressing.

 

[@BootstrapCook]

R to @DesperadoMUFC: Why bother replying? Just…have a lovely evening not bickering on the internet. It’s a fairly joyless waste of time tbh, I’m sure there are other things you could be doing!

 

[@DesperadoMUFC]

R to @BootstrapCook: Why bother tweeting it then Jack?