Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Puff, The Extinguished Dragon…
A leading children’s author was told to drop a fire-breathing dragon shown in a new book – because the publishers feared they could be sued under health and safety regulations.
It is just one of the politically correct cuts Lindsey Gardiner says she has been told to make in case youngsters act out the stories.
As well as the scene showing her dragon toasting marshmallows with his breath, illustrations of an electric cooker with one element glowing red and of a boy on a ladder have had to go.
Ms Gardiner, 36, who has written and illustrated 15 internationally successful children’s books, featuring her popular characters Lola, Poppy and Max, says such editing decisions are now common.
Via Kathy Shaidle, who offers advice.
Gotta be careful about those Fairy Tales! I understand that in Great Britain you aren’t allowed to defend yourself against a home invasion, and police spies will stand and watch an elderly man get mugged, still the minds of the children will remain untraumatised by scary stories and dangerous fantasy figures.
Good work,lads, just a bit more tweaking, and you will have created Utopia!
How many times I gotta tell ya…it;s now “Gord Brown’s Britain” as Tony was forced to pass the torch to an even more degenerate big brother micro managing socialist technocrat.
Gord is a master control freak to whom any population control initiative seems reasonable.
And how many times do I have to tell you that I know that and don’t care? Tony started the ball rolling.
Np more St George and the Dragon what next DRAGON TALES? just what has happened to england? Its become too liberalized i mean now swords will be on the no no list becuase of liberals dumb ideas NOW THEY WILL GO TO THE LAKE AND FORCE THE LADY TO SURRENDER EXCALABER and no more SWORD IN THE STONE. WHO EVER SO CAN PULLITH THIS EGG NODDLE FROM THIS MOSS PILE WITH FOREVER BE DECLARED WUSSIETARD OF AL ENGLAND
As an astute and witty commentor at the article posed, why not ban kiddie books altogether so the kids aren’t at risk for paper cuts.
The lady needs to get a new publisher, maybe call the publisher of the best selling hit “The Dangerous Book for Boys”. It’s got chapters on things like how to make a treehouse, slingshot, build a camp fire, all the good things Nanny State weenie leftist girlie boys and the women that neutered them want eradicated from male fun and skill sets.
Kathy Shaidle, immigration out of Britain is soaring.
Last year, 207,000 British citizens – one every three minutes – left the country while 510,000 foreigners arrived to stay for a year or more.
Since Labour came to power in 1997, 1.8m British people have left but only 979,000 have returned, Over the same period, 3.9m foreign nationals have come to Britain while 1.6m have left.
“And how many times do I have to tell you that I know that and don’t care? Tony started the ball rolling.”
Sorry I didn’t put a smiley face after that tongue and cheek comment…don’t go takin’ offence m’am ;-)…I was certain you knew that.
However, UK nanny state micro managing intervention and politically motivated Bowdlerism started long before Tony. He just added the technocratic flair and nationalist urgency to uncivil statism.
So Jill can’t fall down the hill anymore? Or did Jack actually commit woman beating and throw her down the hill?
Two very good friends of mine came over this summer from “Jolly Dead New England” for 6 weeks. He is all ready back here,getting a visa from his new employer,and bringing family after Xmas.They couldn’t believe how bad they where socialized until they had been here(1st trip outside the EU).
Brittania died about 30 years ago.
And people wonder why the Irish fought to keep the Limeys out,and Scotland wants to separate???
Curious; don’t Harry Potter et al. fly now and then?
Wilson, Heath, Wilson , Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair and now Brown!
Socialist, Red Tory, Communist, Competent Leader, Red Tory Fool, Socialist Tool, Socialist Fool.
Thatcher – a free market and free enterprise leader with some vision for Britain that transcended the squalor of socialism and statist management. Yet was unable to prevail long enough to root out the deep rot in British society.
It may be Brown’s Britain now…. it was Tony Blair’s for too long … but the seeds of the decline were sown in Wilson’s time.
All this matters little though since Britain has gone too far in it’s degenerate decline.
As this article demonstrates the complete flight of reason from society.
This is what happens when socialists are given free reign.
What next? Purging of any activities related to burning of fuels? No more Tommy Tugboat because he spews toxic co2.
Good call, Woodporter. Ban Thomas the Tank Engine as well. Obviously, it must be done. Not only is Thomas a nassssty coal fired Imperialist death machine on rails, some kid might derail a train just so he could hear the conductor say “There’s trouble up the line!”
Ban Thomas NOW! And Percy too, the little green b@st@rd!
Quite right. Before you know it children will copy the behavior of that politically incorrect dragon and increase global warming.
The Phantom: That is riotously funny, so much so that you even have Kathy Shaidle re-considering her no-comments set up.
Kathy likes that, eh? ~:D Kewl!
All the educated and skilled Brits are immigrating to OZ, we still get the dregs. They have actually set up a fast track for skilled workers from Britain. My God is that Country digging itself a hole.
Which Country will we be sending aid to first, Britain or Venezuela?
All this from a country that makes you license your telly. friend who emmigrated from there told me they actually have mobile vans, errr lorries with antennae, errr aerials to track down those thieves of the airways. coming next to Canada you say? Pity.
I was kidding about the comments! 🙂
There is no way I’m having them on my blog. But a few of the comments here today made me envious.
The Socialist Islamic Republik of Poofters. What a bunch of losers.
Gordon Brown managed to sell all of Britians gold at the absolute bottom of the market. This has cost the British tax payers over 3 billion pounds. His punishment for such a horendous mistake. They make him prime minister.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/23724/Brown-s-gold-sale-cost-3bn
The British have completly lost their minds.
Western Canadian, you are correct and it reflects poorly on us in Canada. I know of a few cases of highly skilled young Brits who hoped to immigrate to Canada but were turned down. Yet we open the doors to the unskilled Islamists and other scum and even support them when here. Go figure.
I am sure the NDP is writing notes on these things, getting a list of things to ban if they get in power or ever prop up the Liberals.
Vijay Sappani wanted to secure the Liberal nomination for the Scarborough area, but Dion appointed/annointed a woman.
Not letting that deter him from plugging the The Liberal Party, he has resurected his blog:
http://www.vijaysappani.com/myblog/2007/11/16/is-it-time-to-review-bilingualism-in-canada/#comments
What he has to say in the comments will open a lot of eyes, in reply to a poster:
“Madeleine :
Date: November 16, 2007 @ 11:45 am
This country was build by French and English. If you wanted to immigrate to an Anglo unilingual country, you should have gone to the USA. Here, we’re different. That’s Canada: love it or leave it.
Vijay :
Date: November 16, 2007 @ 12:55 pm
Madeline, F*** it, I am tired of this bull shit argument. you can leave if you want. Go to where your family came from. Iam more Canadian than you are. Aboriginals have more rights than your invader fore fathers. we are coming in hordes, flight after flight and one day every top position in this country including the PM will be immigrants. Go tell all Canadians I said this and what you can do. In any case what are you a high school drop out on minimum wage ranting against post graduate immigrants who keep Canadian economy moving. Try this crap with some one else, not me, loser.We will change Canada and if you dont like, I will be happy to sponsor a ticket for you to go where you want, iam sure you can find more losers like you every where else.I give a damn to ignorant idiots like you and beware one day people like me will rule this country. hahaha how does that feel, imagine Canada ruled by a person of colour! run Madeline run!”
what next?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=494876&in_page_id=1773
And FAWKES THE PHOENIX is going to be caged becuase his birth from flame and ashes is too much for those liberals and like puff the HUMAN TOARCEi(JOHNNY STORM) of the FANTASIC FOUR will have his flames extenguished