Without the EU, there would be no Gruffalo.
The Gruffalo would not exist if Britain was not in the European Union, according to Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of the bestselling children’s books.
In a blog post for his publisher Nosy Crow, Mr Scheffler said he would never have drawn The Gruffalo if he had not left his native Germany to come to the UK.
He drew a picture of a mouse holding the EU flag to accompany the blog post, entitled “Without the EU, there would be no Gruffalo”.
I’m lost for words, really I am. Another German thinking to tell us what to do.
If this is the standard of argument we can expect, no wonder Brexit is ahead in the polls. So far this week we have been subjected to self-righteous whining and scare stories that are akin to all our hair falling out and a pox upon the land. Not one rational, reasoned case has been put forward to remaining in the EU. And, frankly, unless someone can convince me why we should allow this unelected, unaccountable (and expensive) oligarchy to continue pissing rules upon our heads without being able to sack them, my determination to vote to leave is strengthened not weakened.
We have weeks of this utter juvenile shite to wade through yet, too.
And life without the Gruffalo? My give-a-shit-o-meter isn’t even twitching…
er…. but the Gruffalo doesn’t exist
Another example of bad grammar. But then I’m a pedantic sod!
Isn’t this the same argument as ‘without the NHS Britain wouldn’t have any healthcare? The other day, on Radio 4, house building was being discussed. The alleged problem of a lack of construction workers was going to hit crisis point because apparently it is impossible for the UK to licence foreign workers to work here if Nanny Europe doesn’t do it for us.
“Another German thinking to tell us what to do.”
We are discussing it, so maybe ‘zey do haff vays of making us talk’.
OK, there’s no excuse. I’ll get my coat.
Who do you think you’re kidding Mr Scheffler? If it had not been for the previous EU, aka Third Reich, lots of Jews would not have left Germany and come to Britain and done all the good things they have done, considerably more important than writing a children’s book… we’ve got plenty of home-grown children’s book writers… even Fergie forsooth.
No Bill Bryson books without the EU. Er hang on a sec, he’s American and lived here for decades. But did he get EU permission I wonder?
Astonishing!
Clearly trains like the Venice-Simplon Orient Express and its many, many relatives were figments of documentary-makers’ imaginations, seeing as they *all* predated the EU.
Those ocean liners linking Portsmouth with France, Italy, and beyond must have been entirely fictitious too.
As were the many well-documented emigrant flows from the poorer regions of Italy and her neighbours towards countries like the UK, France and the USA well over a hundred years ago.
Jesus Horatio Fogharty Christ: is this *really* the best the pro-EU camp can come up with? I’m beginning to wonder if they’re deliberately trying to lose.