The Guardian: JK Rowling mocks 'Saint Jeremy'Archived Message
Posted by margo on December 24, 2018, 9:10 am
JK Rowling mocks 'Saint Jeremy' Corbyn's Brexit stance
Harry Potter author uses 16-post ‘festive thread’ on Twitter to criticise Labour leader. Rowling’s seasonal thread received more than 27,000 likes within 36 hours of being posted.
Guardian -- JK Rowling, a longtime critic of Jeremy Corbyn, has mocked the Labour leader’s position on Brexit in sixteen biblical-style tweets.
In a series of tweets entitled “The visitation of the Corbynites: a festive thread”, the Harry Potter author claimed the possibility of “Saint Jeremy” bringing a jobs-first Brexit was “bollocks” and described Corbyn as “in third place after Pontus May”.
Rowling wrote: “And she did answer, ‘How shall the poor fare under Brexit, which thy saint hath always in his secret heart desired, yet he hath not admitted what was in his heart, lest fewer attend his next sermon on the Glastonbury B stage.’
“And they did answer, ‘Saint Jeremy will achieve a miracle, and he shall bring forth a jobs-first Brexit and all the land shall rejoice.’ And she did answer, ‘Bollocks.’”