The Labour Party. Great Britain´s Gryffindors. Hahahahaha!

My first impression of hearing this news was of major dissapointment. I actually vote labour, solely because its a family tradiotion! But I was dissapointed that my favourite author has donated so much money towards a political party rather than a charity. But then reading on further, I understood Rowlings action. Her passion was always for children’s welfare and one parent families, etc. Her life experience indicated to her that Labour helped her more in the causes she cared about than the Conservatives did. So I understand her train of thought now. I dont necessarily agree with her action but boy do I have so much respect and love for this wonderful woman. She has a heart of gold.

JK Rowling proves her intelligence – and compassion – yet again!

For my American Leaky friend’s information, the Labour party is at a their lowest point in the opinion polls, and the Prime Minister is facing leadership challenges which does not bode well for their election prospects. This is the worst time in more than a decade for Labour, so this is probably why Rowling is donating at this time as she is probably very anxious. Also, she appears to be friends of the Prime minister and family! So who knows, our Prime minister may have gone on his knees and pleaded for a few Sickles and Knuts! I’m curious as to how she became friends of them apart from the fact that Gordon Brown is Scottish!

I agree with Tauron. I also agree with Professor Potter. It is a very visual step, and one that will bring an important issue, to light. Sometimes I wish, here in America, we had celebrities that were as concerned. Perhaps they are, but I also don’t think this should turn into a “political hot button” for HP fans…..I applaud Ms Rowling, for her efforts. She HAS brought to light, some very important points….that takes a lot of fortitude, on her part. It deserves respect. In a “round about” way, she HAS “donated to a charity”, if you think about it. Well done, Jo, well done.

If she genuinely wants to help the kiddies she should have donated to a charity. Giving money to a failing government is not the way to do it. Her money will be frittered away on ‘pet projects’ or it’ll find it’s way into the huge black hole of the public finances. It might even be used to fund an election campaign, cos if Brown is booted out by the Labour Party, they’ll have to hold a general election and there’s no way in Hell that Labour can win one of those.

Good on her! Speaking up for the silent majority! Well done Jo!

I was flabbergasted when I saw this on sky news this morning – especially in the current economic environment and the feeling towards governments everywhere not just in the UK. This news seems to be getting a lot of airing in the UK media that i can see from over here in Ireland on the english channels and thus it could help the Labour party and inparticularly their policies on lone parents and child poverty. I know that she does a lot for charities (that is both known and unknown) but i feel that this money would still have been better given directly to charities for lone parents or children because I really can’t see Labour (more so Brown) staying top for much longer if that was her agenda.

Why not donating the money to charities directly?

I totally disagree with JKR for what is probably the first time ever. I am a married woman in my forties, I have been to school and been to work under both Labour and Conservative governments and I can honestly say that I have never been so bad off and struggling for money as I am now. We have absolutely no money left until my husband gets paid next weekend, we have no savings to dip into,having spent all that on overdue bills, we never go on holiday, we just can`t afford it, and we have no petrol left in the car so if we want to go anywhere this week we`re walking. Celebrities should not get involved in politics, .....Jo, I know you meant well but your money would have been much better spent going to charities, not your best friend`s ailing political party, it`s compassion like yours that they need, not your money.

Battling against AIDS, cancer research, girls’ education, saving the rain forests, fighting against child prostitution, helping single-parents, advocating women’s rights in developing countries, supporting clean water programs in Africa, helping disadvantaged/depressed young people….

.... I could come up with hundreds of different kinds of charities to give a million pounds. A political party?! Million pounds is obviously pocket money for her but why not give it to different kinds of charities? If she has that much money to just throw in like that then she probably has at least 100 million spare cash to give to some actually important.

A million pounds. Think about how many people would get proper HIV medication with that money.

This is the first time I’ve ever disagreed with her.

I was really disappointed to read this news this morning. She just should have donated to charity, and not got involved in politics. It’s a surefire way to make at least half the country dislike her. All the money will get wasted in beurocracy anyways.

While her supporting the Labour Party is perfectly fine, the insulting and disrespectful statement she released, as well as Leaky’s headline, are disappointing.

To suggest that the Conservative party, and its leader David Cameron, do not care about children is highly inaccurate and disrespectful.

The Labour Party has proved very damaging to the UK. The financial and economic challenges faced the USA are small nuisance compared the situation in the UK. The government has mismanaged the economy and government finances to a staggering degree. People are loosing their jobs and taxes are higher than before. How does that help single parents with children?

This is also the same government who, in the name of political correctness, has placed such obstacles in front of the police that they have a hard time investigating crime, including those committed against children.

Everything Jo does, she does for a reason. She’s always got everything thought through. So when she goes through the Labour Party, it’s to make a statement. And I think Professor Potter explained it exactly right…

To those questioning why Jo donated this money to a political party rather than a charity, I say this: First, it’s her money and she’s entitled do donate it to whoever she chooses. Second, she has raised many millions of pounds for charities, and personally donated more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes. Third, prevention is better than cure. Governments have the power to effect more change than any charity ever will. Jo obviously feels that it is better to try and stop child poverty occurring in the first place, rather than having children become victims of poverty who then need to be helped.

That said, while I respect Jo’s motivation and applaud the sentiment, I totally disagree with her politics. I cannot speak to the Child Poverty issue, because I will never be a single mother, but as far as I’m concerned the Labour party are totally out of touch. Their answer to almost any problem is to either regulate it, tax it, or both. Since they came to power we have paid more and more tax, yet there is nothing left in the Government coffers to help the struggling economy. Americans complains that they are paying far too much for petrol (gas), but I just paid $10.46 per gallon when filling up my car, and aprox 76% of that is tax! Yet this Labour Government were not prepared to help struggling business as the UK was almost crippled when the price of oil went up to $140/ barrel.

Not only that, but they are slowly and steadily taking away our freedoms. Almost every piece of legislation they bring in STOPS us from being able to do something. And if Labour get their way, the citizens of the Country that wrote the Magna Carta will be FORCED to pay for, and carry, an National Identity Card that will contain biometric data about us all. We have one of the oldest democracies in the world, but some times it feels like we’re living in a police state.