Profligacio!
‘Ms Rowling said she was motivated by Labour’s record on child poverty’.
It’s an ambiguous statement, isn’t it? Is she praising them (she is a fiction writer after all) and so rewarding them? Or is she motivated by the hope that New Labour might finally get off their arses and do something substantial about child poverty if they’re given a chance to cling on a little longer?
I just want to say, if JK Rowling really wanted to pointlessly squitter a million quid on a shiftless, directionless loser who hasn’t got a clue what he might be doing this time next week, she should have given it to me instead of Gordon Brown. She’d have saved herself all the shitty publicity that’s coming her way. Buying me beer is a much more ethical use of her cash.
Hmmm: Ms Rowling speaks…
‘I believe that poor and vulnerable families will fare much better under the Labour party than they would under a [David] Cameron-led Conservative party.’
I can’t help but note the use of the future tense. Hope springs eternal.
Posted on September 20th, 2008 at 10:39am under New Labour
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* insert “of course if she wanted to donate to a genuinely progressive political party…” comment here *
I believe that poor and vulnerable families will fare much better under the Labour party than they would under a [David] Cameron-led Conservative party.
Trouble is, she’s probably right. And how depressing is that!?
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