Named Potter
Scottish Government officials were urged to recruit JK Rowling in an attempt to popularise their controversial Named Person proposals, papers have revealed. According to a Scottish Government document, the idea that a bit of Harry Potter magic could make the unpopular scheme more palatable was mentioned at a meeting last year.
Harry’s Named Person – courtesy of the Scottish government – a Mr Voldemort.
bramley I thought he was an EU negotiator.
ayrshire escapee
Harry Potter and the Named Person – the missing Harry Potter book. Beyond parody.
Alexi Slamondski
Dear God. They have finally run out of not just ideas – that happened about 11 years ago – but all sense of dignity. Please can you send a thunderbolt to save us from the SNP?
Mike Allan
I’m sure JK Rowling would have a choice word or two for the SNP administration.
Luckie Mucklebackit
This will go down well with the kids. They’ll be badgering their parents so that they can have a unicorn for their Named Person. Which will help all of us, as unicorn fertiliser is what makes the magic money tree grow.
Disc Less
I’m not a great JK Rowling fan but she commands a huge following on Twitter and donates huge amounts to children’s charities. If she endorsed the Named Person concept in any way, it would most definitely counteract the negative press it got thanks to a bunch of religious nutcases. It was a perfectly reasonable suggestion.
Dunnomuch
It gets negative press because it is totalitarian state intervention in parenting at massive incremental cost and inconvenience to families, led by people who are either completely inexperienced in the area or else barely capable of running a whelk stall.
Giraffe The Named Person scheme is, of course, only unpopular among Unionist politicians as it is an SNP initiative that enhances the safety of minors. won’t listen... everyone who disagrees can be dismissed as “Unionist”. That is the state of political discourse in Scotland today thanks, in the main, to you separatists.
tc Mhairi Black, Alex Salmond, Ian Blackford and Joanna Cherry could be called upon to act as the SNP official dementors. They have sucked the happiness out of Scotland long enough to show they are more than worthy to float around Holyrood.
old clothes and porridge