Oh, Labour party what have you done?

This is supposed to be funny, but as a member of the UK and knowing that this is our most likely alternative, I am actually depressed! They are so out of touch

Still, you've gotta laugh or you'll cry!

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Least YOUR MPs don't go around hiking up their thongs before question period.

I read too much Dan Savage. I kept thinking that "pet the pony" was a euphemism for something that I might enjoy, but don't want to be harangued into.

The explanation I heard was thus:
They didn't want to go with red, the tradtional Labour colour, because they wanted to make a statement that they were trying to reach out to women and break from the norm. So they went with pink, which is close to red but not red (symbolic of a change or break from the mainstream), is not affliliated with any of the other major parties, and is a bright, warm colour. Clearly they are still guilty of being so out of touch they couldn't see how it might be perceived, but I can sort of believe that the thinking wasn't purely " girls like pink, lets make a pink bus".

This all came to pass because of polls showing that voter turnout for women is abysmal (frankly I can't blame them...) so here is Labour making a clumsy stab to try and engage with half of the voting public.

I think it is silly to deny that men and women care more about different things. Is it patronising to focus on education, or childcare, or care for the elderly (all things women ranked higher than men) in order to try and score votes, or is perhaps the greater sin to simply ignore any difference and continue the existing dialogue which seems to be turning women away from politics in droves?

Don't buy it at all. Their reason sounds ridiculous to me. More likely they had no clue and are grasping at straws (after the fact), cos anything is better then being soooo out of touch. I do believe they were trying to reach out to women , and they thought pink would do it (cos pink speaks to GIRLS). Clueless, out of touch with women and shot yourself in the foot. So much fail. Don't they pay people just so these type things don't happen?

I however am from the states and may be missing something, but its hard to imagine what it could be.

It makes the whole effort to reach out to women thing seem phony when they can't face up to their mistake (perceived or real) and just say 'That was stupid to pick that color' and get the paint changed. I don't see how doubling down on your stupidity ever works.