JK Rowling criticises ‘Saint Jeremy’ in biblical Twitter thread

JK Rowling leads criticism of Jeremy Corbyn after Labour leader says he WOULD go ahead with Brexit if he became prime minister following a snap election

  • Harry Potter author criticised ‘Saint Jeremy’ in a biblical-style series of Tweets 
  • JK Rowling disavowed Labour after Mr Corbyn reaffirmed he would seek Brexit 
  • Remainers who support a second EU referendum hit out at the Labour leader  

JK Rowling struck out at Jeremy Corbyn in a biblical-style series of tweets

JK Rowling struck out at Jeremy Corbyn in a biblical-style series of tweets after the Labour leader said he would pursue Brexit if his party won a snap election.  

Remain supporters heaped criticism on Mr Corbyn after he said he would recommend his party ‘go back and renegotiate’ a Brexit deal in time for Britain to leave the EU.

Speaking to the Guardian, the Leader of the Opposition failed to commit his party to backing Remain if a second referendum was called – and hit out at EU laws on state aid which he said blocked investment.

But his remarks were attacked by the Harry Potter author in a 16-part Twitter thread she titled ‘The Visitation of The Corbynites’.

After criticising ‘Saint Jeremy’ in her opening tweets, Ms Rowling continued: ‘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, “b*******.” 

‘But she bethought her of the season of goodwill, and repenting of her ire she did speak further. “I have, for all my life, voted Labour, yet now I cannot.”‘

Ms Rowling, an outspoken Remainer and critic of Mr Corbyn, also referenced the party’s antisemitism row in the series of tweets. 

The Harry Potter author criticised Mr Corbyn in a 16-part Twitter thread titled ‘The Visitation of The Corbynites’

Mr Corbyn said he would recommend his party ‘go back and renegotiate’ a Brexit deal in time for Britain to leave the EU


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The biblical-style Twitter thread hit out at Labour leader ‘Saint Jeremy’ and his supporters

The author was one voice in a chorus of criticism as Labour MPs who believe their party should back a second referendum hit out at Mr Corbyn.

Former shadow business minister Chuka Umunna said the Labour leader’s interview was ‘deeply depressing and disappointing’.

Writing on Facebook he said: ‘Brexit is essentially a project of the hard right of British politics who want to turn Britain into a lightly regulated, offshore tax haven for the super rich, devoid of proper protections for workers, and one which seeks to dump the blame for the UK’s problems on immigrants.

‘Labour should stop pretending there is “good” Brexit deal and we should certainly not be sponsoring this project because Brexit is the problem – it solves nothing.’

Mr Corbyn told the Guardian that if there was a general election in the new year sparked by the parliamentary deadlock over Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement, he would ‘go back and negotiate (with the EU) and see what the timetable would be’.

Ms Rowling, an outspoken Remainer and critic of Mr Corbyn, also referenced the party’s antisemitism row in the series of tweets

The author was one voice in a chorus of criticism as Labour MPs who believe their party should back a second referendum hit out at Mr Corbyn

Asked about a second referendum, which is favoured by many of his MPs and Labour supporters, he added: ‘It would be a matter for the party to decide what the policy would be; but my proposal at this moment is that we go forward, trying to get a customs union with the EU in which we would be able to be proper trading partners.’

Labour passed a motion at its party conference in Liverpool in September that it would seek a general election as its first choice, but left open the option of supporting a second referendum.  

Mr Corbyn and other opposition frontbenchers have claimed that were Labour to replace Mrs May’s Government by some means, they would be able to go back to Brussels to renegotiate her deal.

But Ilford North Labour MP Wes Streeting, a critic of Mr Corbyn, attacked his remarks, saying: ‘Why peddle this myth that Labour would be able to renegotiate a Brexit deal at this 11th hour?

Former shadow business minister Chuka Umunna said the Labour leader’s interview was ‘deeply depressing and disappointing’

Remain supporters criticised Jeremy Corbyn after he said Labour would go ahead with Brexit if it won a snap election in the new year (PA)

‘How would Labour’s Brexit be any better than remaining in the EU?

‘Our members and voters are overwhelmingly pro-European. This lets them, and our country, down.’

The SNP also attacked Mr Corbyn, with Westminster leader Ian Blackford calling him ‘the midwife to the delivery of the Tory’s Brexit plans’.

Mr Blackford said: ‘Jeremy Corbyn has finally come off the fence he’s been sat on for the past two years.

‘But unfathomably he’s come down on the same side as Theresa May.

‘The Labour party is incapable of providing opposition to the worst UK government that most people can remember.’

Lib Dem leader Vince Cable added that Mr Corbyn ‘refuses once again to take the blinkers off’.

He added: ‘He is ignoring the concerns of his own supporters and the economic damage experts warn Brexit will do to the UK economy.

‘On Brexit, you simply cannot put a cigarette paper between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.’

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