Colour-coded politicians

Colour-coded politicians

"Nick Clegg wore a red tic last week.
It was a thrilling departure from the
giant omelette's worth of egg-yolk
yellow we'd been subjected CO since
the beginning of the campaign, to say
nothing of the reams of red and blue
from the other two. Why do poli-
ticians hold fast Co the idea that we
are so fantastically stupid and/or
forgetful that we understand where
they're coming from only if they
colour-code themselves? Do they
think our poor brains would implode
if they opted for a pattern - that, say,
red and blue checks would cause us to
weep with confusion and yellow dots
on a blue background would simply
short-circuit our pathways?"
India Knight, The Sunday Times