Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

tartanterra

The diary article where she states the following, speaks volumes about the person she is:

"breathing a sigh of relief all winter that I was snowed in so that no nasty officials or local craftsmen who all seem to charge London prices could pay me a visit"

Is she so stupid and selfish that she really can't see that those self same "local craftsmen" have to pay themselves a wage, pay employees, pay national insurance, pay income tax, pay VAT, buy tooling, buy and maintain vehicles, pay insurance, pay trade body membership, pay wholesalers, pay subcontractors, etc....

I'm sure the last thing they need during a downturn, is some halfwit commissioning work that they clearly cannot afford to pay for. If she goes bankrupt, they won't get payed at all. Despicable.

What a selfish, self centred nasty piece of work she really is.:(

PasturesNew

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

It is outrageous the horror being inflicted on our Liz.

This week she had to stay in a Premier Inn.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/article-1266877/LIZ-JONES-In-I-discover-poverty--foyer-Premier-Inn.html





No one to park her car, how does the poor lamb endure such misery.

She makes me very angry. Doesn't she have an income of about £100k ...? She's started whittering on about how hard it is to be poor, and how expensive it is to be single .... and she's not !!!!!!!' poor. I'm poor, Premier Inns are out of my budget range. I've got a sleeping bag for the back of my car if I were to go away anywhere.... not that you DO go away anywhere when you're poor. *rolls eyes*

She really needs a slap. Liz ... reading? Send me your address love, you need a wake up call on what being poor and single really means.

wigglebeena

I don't hate her. She's rich - or on that income, she bloody well should be, I would be - no health problems, friends, in a free, rich, (kind of), democratic Western country. And she lives in a miserable self-induced hell. If I was a nicer person I wouldn't find it funny.

(That's assuming she isn't laying it all on with a humungous trowel for the Mail, her HMRC problems aren't an invention of her tiny mind and she isn't sitting back cackling like Cruella de Ville, counting her huge paycheques. In which case I do hate her.)

Spartacus_Mills

PasturesNew wrote: »

She makes me very angry. Doesn't she have an income of about £100k ...? She's started whittering on about how hard it is to be poor, and how expensive it is to be single .... and she's not !!!!!!!' poor. I'm poor, Premier Inns are out of my budget range. I've got a sleeping bag for the back of my car if I were to go away anywhere.... not that you DO go away anywhere when you're poor. *rolls eyes*

She really needs a slap. Liz ... reading? Send me your address love, you need a wake up call on what being poor and single really means.

I read in Private Eye a year or so back (or see Eyes Passim as they say) she is on around £400K PA.

I would be tempted to believe her column is a massive wind up. A great spoof. But having seen her on the TV plugging various books and columns I am not so sure and she is probably genuine.

PasturesNew

If I knew anything about her, I bet she's from that brigade that really p155 me off, the "I worked hard for what I have..." brigade, where they are doing a mediocre job, having landed it through people they know/associated with along the way.

Or did she marry well, then use his contacts?

I'm sure we could all write as well as (better than?) Ms Jones .... I know I could. So how DO you get a cushty job like that?

wigglebeena

Didn't she get to this point more via editing rather than freelance writing? I have no inside knowledge but conceive of a senior editor's job as more stressed and deadline driven than a freelance writer's life. (Print deadlines, long hours, responsibility, stroppy advertisers, dealing with owners/board of directors etc.)

I can easily believe a big dollop of luck/good contacts/ shagging the right person can get you into that sort of job, but I doubt it's a cakewalk once you're there.

I'm not making excuses for her BTW. On that kind of money and with no other circs to drag her down she has no excuse. (I don't count the perpetual whine about not having a man. !!!!!! with a massive salary and total freedom, if you can't enjoy your life without one you need a smack round the head. I do have a real problem with folks who feel entitled to a perfect life: not just good, but perfect in every respect. These are peeps who haven't had enough real trouble in their lives and so are incapable of appreciating the blessings they do have.)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Or did she marry well, then use his contacts?

no, not from what it says in her column!


I think it must be an easy trap to fall in to, writing about oneself, to create a monster, hghlighting all the worst aspects of onesef and perhaps then starting to live up to the preconception of yourself. Its altogether not that healthy to spend so much time concentrating on oneself. I could have told her she wouldn't have liked the life she thought she wanted, I can assure you shell hate the smaller house lifestyle....but she has written herself into crazy o anything for the cats/critters person when really thr shampoos and smart cars are equally a part of her.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

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I'm sure we could all write as well as (better than?) Ms Jones .... I know I could. So how DO you get a cushty job like that?

You know, the more I think about it the more I'd love it, but as in post above, despite carolt's prompting its hard to write about stuff without writing yourself into being a caricature of oneself.

I have started keeping a loose diary, with carolt's suggestions in mind. But it is very hard not to appear like a loony. Or terribly, teribly self interested...

The_White_Horse

i should have my own column in the daily mail - it would be fantastically popular.

I would also do the same column for the Guardian - although to be fair I probably get more readers on here.

JanCee

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I knew anything about her, I bet she's from that brigade that really p155 me off, the "I worked hard for what I have..." brigade, where they are doing a mediocre job, having landed it through people they know/associated with along the way.

Or did she marry well, then use his contacts?

I'm sure we could all write as well as (better than?) Ms Jones .... I know I could. So how DO you get a cushty job like that?

You clearly have never followed her columns :rotfl:Her husband was an aspiring writer who never paid for anything during their marriage(according to her anyway).

She is so broke that today she mentions a hairdresser she used for a straightening treatment - a snip at £200.