I get the feeling J K Rowling doesn't like the Tories

If all single mothers were liberal middle class guardian readers like JK, the welfare state would actually work. She was lucky, when she got a book deal she became rich and married a doctor. For most single parents, getting a job and marrying (usually not a doctor) means that you lose all your tax credits and housing allowance and thanks to the willful encouragement of the housing bubble which has put prices at 10x average salary, you will probably end up putting your child in some sub-standard daycare so you can work like a slave to pay most of your salary to either an amateur landlord or a mortgage lender just so you can live in some dingy slum. I wouldn't bother! jude

I don't discuss them as much as I used to! After all, no-one listens so I sorted my own circumstances out and I am sure I will live happily ever after. jude

Why would JKR like the Tories, anyway? What's to like? Thatcher was a philistine where the Arts were concerned. Norma Major was an opera queen, which is good. The Blairs courted Oasis, which we can probably forgive them for. I've forgotten who gave Melvyn his peerage, but writers have been neglected by most governments (Wilson was an honourable exception. And who do we have to thank for letting Tesco and Asda drive the independent bookshops to the brink of extinction by scrapping the Net Book Agreement? A plague on ALL their houses! Check out my blog at www.TheGeneralErection.blogspot.com (that's not a misprint, by the way!

'the world would be a better place if the parents had to eat the sprouts' The Tories are a bunch of ignorant arrogant fuckers who's sole purpose in life is to lick as many arses as it takes for them to get access to the influential and grab a pubic's hair worth of power. They are the entrails of a corpse long since relieved of fluids. I'd eat my own scrotum and suck the sweat from the mankiest bastard on this earth rather than vote those priviliged backward fuckwits into power. Cameron and his little helper Osborne have never worked a day in ther fucking lives nor broke sweat or gathered blisters what the fuck do they know about working classes? and this is me in a serene mood X

It would be lovely to see someone in the spotlight sticking to their beliefs and opinions, maybe she will be a good example to the rest. Phillipa Connelly

I agree with ftse100, it dont make any difference who gets in power, cause in the end they all go the same way. That's why despite people having fought and died in the name of democracy so my unworthy little arse can have a vote, i still don't want one. I want Peter Kropotkins Anarchy, or maybe Ghandi's enlightened anarchy. These political centralised parties have no idea about the individual all they want to do is create a society in which all are part of the collective state ideal, each one microchipped and credited. If your working class your credit will be just enough, if you choose to be a criminal your credit will be nill, and if you are one of the priviliged minority you probably own the credit system so are above its rules and they probably won't microchip the privilaged anyway.

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, of course, had it right.

'If you don't like my principles I have others' Groucho Marx My vote goes to the Eunuch Party They couldn't give a fuck either