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J.K. Rowling Authors Gordon Brown Article for Time Magazine

J.K. Rowling wrote an article for Time magazine on Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In it, she spoke of how she had wanted Brown in charge since the 1990s. Back in the mid-1990s, when he was new labour's brooding, intellectual heavyweight, I was a lone parent struggling to get by. He said he was not interested in stigmatizing the poor but in finding solutions for their predicament. I was tired of hearing government ministers lambaste the likes of me as irresponsible scroungers. I wanted Gordon Brown in charge. She went on to expound the many things he has done, like driving up the minimum wage. He went on to become one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer that Britain has ever seen. While our economy grew strongly, he could have stood back and done nothing; on the contrary, he brought in and continually drove up the minimum wage, and 600,000 children and a million pensioners were raised out of poverty. Brown believed the wealthy would always be able to look after themselves; it was people at the other end of the economic scale that government ought to be helping. You can read the entire article here. Source: Potterish

30 Apr 09| by Dijares | Category JKR | Views 1241 | Comments 0 | Submit News Print | RSS | Return Home |

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