Andrew Gray wrote:
There isn't anything particularly contentious about this, and I can see why it got chosen - it's the generally accepted linkage, socialism and related leftish philosophies of all stripes, light and heavy, are almost invariably seen as "red".
Indeed. I don't think that most of us worry about this kind of rule-of-thumb distinction.
Indeed, it's one of only two political positions to *have* a generally, internationally, accepted "colour scheme" - the other, of course, being the Greens. (There's a nice summary in our article on the colour red, incidentally)
Have the Tories abandoned their true blue image? In relation to the Greens we often hear of blue-green and red-green arrangements.
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