13 brutal takedowns of Arron Banks after he mocked JK Rowling for having a writing room
You may already know that JK Rowling is a staunch critic of Brexit and one of many people backing the idea of a People’s Vote on the deal to leave the European Union.
#Brexit has collided with reality and now the cowardly bastards who plotted its course scramble for the lifeboats squealing ‘it’s all her fault! We could have magicked the icebergs away!’
This is a crisis. The country has the right to speak again. We need a #PeoplesVote.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 15, 2018
And one of her recent rants on the subject prompted a response from Nigel Farage’s buddy Arron Banks, the co-founder of Leave.EU who is facing a criminal investigation over his unofficial Brexit campaign.
May's suggestion that a #PeoplesVote would 'overturn the will of the British people' makes literally no sense. Who does she think would be voting? The Chinese?
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 28, 2018
I swear to God I’m trying not to bang on about #Brexit but for FUCK’S SAKE, every time I come out of my writing room and look at the news some more dumbassery has been committed. THE WHOLE POINT OF DEMOCRACY IS THE FREEDOM TO CHANGE YOUR OPINION WHEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 28, 2018
And this is what Banks had to say.
Writing room ! Could you be any more pretentious .. https://t.co/mBO4gYLDqv
— Arron Banks (@Arron_banks) November 28, 2018
Mocking a writer for having a writing room, you might imagine, was simply asking for trouble. And you’d be exactly right.
Here are 13 of our favourite takedowns, ending with JK Rowling herself.
1.
You think an author who’s sold >200,000,000 books writes at the kitchen table?
— Michael Burns (@MichaelSBurns) November 29, 2018
2.
Like J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman, I have a writing room. Actually, it's a one-room studio. There's even a couch. And if you think that's pretentious, go fuck yourself.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 1, 2018
3.
I know a really pretentious mechanic who has a GARAGE .
— DavidGArnold (@DavidGArnold) November 30, 2018
4.
I've had a "writer's room" since 1985, and the first house we were renting, when I was still a journalist. It's the room you do the work in. The idea that you don't get a room to work in is the same as the idea that writing isn't work. https://t.co/4e7EBnLj0Y
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) December 1, 2018
5.
What do you call the room where you do your job, Arron?
— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) November 28, 2018
6.
Toilet.
— Andrew Robertson (@arobertsonphoto) November 29, 2018
7.
Perhaps you meant portentous? It means marvelous and amazing. https://t.co/rVpiDF1tNw
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) December 2, 2018
