The thing is, J.K. Rowling never actually said WHY she hated Corbyn-and worse than that, she encouraged and abetted the despicable false accusations of AS against Corbyn’s supporters-and presumably, wants Labour to agree with the Likudnik canard that any criticism of what the Israeli government does to Palestinians is antisemitism.

It appears that, while she claims to support the welfare state, she was opposed to reversing the brutal Tory cuts in benefits-cuts so savage that the welfare state now, for all practical purposes, no longer exists-and that she wanted to make sure that Labour did not undo the “benefits sanctions” policies that have led to a barbaric situation in which bureaucrats with no medical training, instead of the physicians who actually know whether the people they treat are physically capable of working, get to rule those people “fit for work”, end their benefits, and leave these people with no means of survival.

Rowling doesn’t support the welfare state-if she did, she would want all the Tory cuts from 1979 on undone and she would agree that the state should never be in the business of judging and blaming the poorest of the poor. She would be in actual solidarity with the poor, which Rowling has never displayed since she achieved massive wealth through the cosmic fluke of her books being published.

And for that matter, none of the Labour leadership candidates who stood to Keir Starmer’s right, whether the clearly right-of-centre and antiworker Lisa Nandy nor the hateful and viciously antisocialist Jess Phillips ever defended the welfare state.