Political Ties
I have long suspected that politicians are trying to get something through to us subliminally through their ties after noticing that many politicians seem to have favorite tie colours which they utilize on an exceedingly regular basis, too often to be coincidence. The two highest offenders of this cheap and cunning trick are I think our dear prime minister Tony Blair (I use the word 'dear' because he's been around for ten years, and I will miss a bit 'tis true) and our dear leader of the opposition David Cameron (here I use the word 'dear' because he often strikes me as a little chubby cheeked boy blundering head long into a situation that he doesn't quite understand, thus inspiring small bursts of maternal instinct within me). I give you a minute to guess which colour goes with which dear politician.
Guessed? Well, it's nothing official but strike me dead if Tony isn't continually wearing red ties and Dave doesn't rave about green ones. I just did a quick google image search and the results seem to confirm my suspicious, here I present you with the irrefutable evidence:
Ties of Tony
Tremendously Teal Ties of a Teetering Tory Toddler (sorry, couldn't help it)
Now Dave, Tony, before you both start angrily e-mailing me telling me that I unfairly gathered all the pictures there are of you wearing red and green ties and grouped them to make it look like the greatest tie conspiracy of the 21st Century, I would like to say in my defense that every picture came from the first page of google images, I didn't have to look any further, the evidence is overwhelming.
To me their motives for obvious discrimination against all other colour of ties is obvious, Cameron is trying to subliminally hammer home the message that he is an environmentally aware MP and Blair (having more experience) has realized that actually before you start sending subliminal messages to the public about your priorities, you need to make sure they know what party you're in, hence the red for Labor.
A Skip through the pictures of Ming Campbell reveals that he is less concerned with the colour of his attire than his counterparts but flick through a few pages of google images and a slight lean towards the colour yellow is apparent (yellow being colour for the Lib Dems which he is the leader of if thou be not British). Gordon Brown seems to be following in his soon-to-be predecessor's footsteps (tie loops?) with a wardrobe highly weighted in favour of the colour red.
So what does this mean for the country? Are we being brainwashed into believing that Cameron cares at all about he environment and that Tony is Labor through and through even though steals bits off the Tories and Lib Dems? Who knows?! One thing is certain, something fishy's going on...
*applause* Bravo, bravo! Well done indeed. I too have suspected the rumours
of a Neckwear Conspiracy amongst the British politicians to be true... At
least we can be thankful that they are always seen in public with most of
their habiliments ;)
Or maybe they want to avoid mickey mouse tie-type fashion disasters...
personally I think red ties are a deep symbol of suicidal feelings - ie
"ooh! there's a bull! Come run with your pointy horns at my neck!" sort of
thing =P maybe we should let a herd of cattle loose in the house of
commons... fun mental image =D
Did you know that bulls can only see in black and white? It's actually the
movement, not the colour, that provokes them to attack. But yes, I expect
Tony Blair is more than suicidal at the moment.
Yes, I know that =) But the mental image still amuses me.