JK Rowling attacks the Tories

[Balthazar]

I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major’s Government, was there to break the fall.

The Times

[DC]

I would just like to point out the irony of this. JK Rowling never hit rock bottom. She deliberately chose not to work and lived off the welfare state. In fact, she got a nice arts grant while she writing her first book, which was unheard of for unknown writers. It is actually people like JK Rowling that we should make work.

[Balthazar]