The night Joanne Rowling is included in the new years honours list the champagne socialism will flow. Isn’t it fitting that the country’s best selling author found her audience whist Great Britain was run by a party of children?

Gordon Brown clinched a £1m donation from Rowling by propagating the myth that he has introduced measures that will save as many children as possible from a life lacking in opportunity or choice.

The Hogwart and the Hogwash

Out of all of the Prime Ministers lies this is by far the most infuriating. It is one thing to fudge statistics about the electorate who should comprehend why misery exists in their lives – it is something very different to affect children with plain untruth.

Rowling, motivated by a fabricated child poverty record from the most cynical political organisation in British history said: “The Labour government has reversed the long-term trend in child poverty, and is one of the leading EU countries in combating child poverty.” The woman not only writes about fantasyland she clearly lives in one.

Lets leave fantasyland for just a moment and get back to the real world. Hilary Fisher a Director of End Child Poverty tells us: “This is the second consecutive year without movement towards the child poverty targets. This reflects both the size of the challenge, but also that the Government still needs to make further financial commitments to achieve its goal.”

Condemned to the Deathly Hallows

The implications of Gordon Browns tax policy mean the life chances of children born in the UK today are no better than they were forty years ago. In the United Kingdom more than 3 million children live in poverty and that number increases daily. Kids born to the parents on the lowest incomes now have no social mobility.

The fantasist from Gloucestershire is a personal friend of the Prime Minister and his wife so the ‘authors’£1m donation will ensure a Christmas card but realistically nothing else. Giving money to a party with debts to the tune debt £18m isn’t financial wizardry. Only after a couple of decades of quiet introspection in the wilderness will ‘New’ Labour conclude that running a country is made that bit harder when you don’t have the skills or personnel to manage your own party.

Responding to the donation Gordon Brown said he was delighted to have the backing of “one of the world’s greatest ever authors”. As Tolstoy, Kipling, Shakespeare, WB Yeats, Goethe and Dostoyevsky all turn gently in their grave it does give them an opportunity to ponder the depths to which The British have plunged.

This descent is due in part to the absence of a rigours truthful critique from the media but the electorate is equally guilty. A common feature during every boom or mania is that the people take their eye off the ball. This is no different.

Chamber of Secrets – it’s structural not political…

Regardless of political leaning no UK government can change that situation due to HM Treasury’s tax policy.

Arguing it in terms of Red / Blue, Left / Right, Labour / Tory is childish – the system is broken and will continue to breakdown until we, the nation, agree to stop living in the world of make believe.

With ever-increasing fuel prices finally we might have found the perfect use for Ms Rowling’s books so yes she is doing her bit. But think of how many children could have benefited had she sat down and done some rigorous assessment – not – chip on the shoulder simplistic thinking that boils down to Salt of the Earth vs. The Toffs.

Taking responsibility and funding organisations that work directly with the poorest kids would be far more beneficial than paying off the interest on hubris loans accrued (mostly during 2005) by the most cynical political organisation in British history.

Unfortunately the pop of that socialist champagne proved all too alluring for the ‘great author’ so the land of fantasy marches on. Arise, Dame Rowling arise, but do so with your head hung in shame.

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