Jack Monroe the author of ‘Thrifty Kitchen’ and who styles herself as an anti-poverty campaigner has come in for an awful lot of stick over the last few years. Mostly this has come from those who have examined her ‘thrifty tricks’ and found them either highly dangerous, such as her suggestion that you open food tins with a hammer if you can’t afford a tin opener or silly as was her advice to make sunglasses holders out of ring pulls.

Now she’s coming under attack again for a spat she got in with the Conservative MP Lee Anderson. Jack Monroe took exception to something that Mr Anderson said and threatened to sue him for libel. Ms Monroe then embarked on a fundraising campaign for her legal case against Mr Anderson which was contributed to not just by the middle class Left, who love Ms Monroe’s work, but also attracted money from people who were really on their uppers as they see Ms Monroe as ‘on their side’.

But there have been a number of questions asked about where this money for the legal campaign has gone? One Twitter user, RedSister has pointed out that the time limit for her to initiate legal proceedings has just passed and that raises questions about how much money has been raised and what has happened to it.

It’s well worth reading the thread (via the unroll link below) to get the latest instalment of the ‘Grifty Kitchen’ saga.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1657482923908505600.html

So far there’s been no legal case (the time limit allegedly expired yesterday) and very little credible explanation as to what the money has been spent on or if, in the event of this case not materialising, whether the donations will be returned to the donors. I can’t help but wonder what has happened here but I’m not sure that I altogether trust that Ms Monroe can resolve this matter to my and others satisfaction.

ADDENDUM:

The Guido Fawkes site has also commented on this story.  See HERE.