To be wearing red?

[BrittaPie]

I just think it is a good way of pecefully showing objection. Big red pashmina here :-)

Did anyone else spot, at the end of the service, as the coffin was being driven away, it was right a prominent sign for a Cafe Rouge?

Weegiemum I'm struggling to understand what bit of sectarianism in Glasgow LessMissAbs is talking about. Blue and green, totally! But what's the significance of red that I've missed (only lived here 8 years!)

Its the fact that the strongly socialist Glasgow City Council has made no secret of its political opinions, including showing allegiance to communist regimes such as Cuba and in the recent past to various communist worker's parties in Russia, as well as the fact that they have painted the entire ground covering George Square in the centre of Glasgow red. As well as George Square recently being the site of protests against Margaret Thatcher on her death.

Weegiemum, the red hand of Ulster is often interpreted as having sectarian connotations and Rangers fans have been known to display it on their banners.

Would never generally associate the colour red with it tho.

My 4yo insisted on wearing red today!

*never generally associate the colour red with the Rangers/Celtic bigotry I meant.

I was going to wear red until I opened my drawer and realised there was nothing red in there!? Wtf??

DSs are wearing their liverpool shirts.

I think you can't say a colour can't stand for one thing because it also stands for another. That's crazy.

Anyway, I would have thought that everyone knows that red is the colour of the left everywhere (apart from apparently in America) and covers everything from Fabianism to Revolutionary Communism. Hence all the red flags at any kind of march.

See also: Les Mis :-D

Anyhow, I added to my red pashmina by singing "The Red Flag" under my breath all day and calling 3yo DD2 "Comrade" :-D

She actually does do quite a good job of singing the chorus, tbh. 6yo DD1 went off to school determined to work hard so she can be the next woman prime minister "but on the red team, because it is sad that we have only had one and she was a blue meanie"

...we may be slightly political in this house...

(although I do hope we don't need to wait till DD1 is old enough, and also Labour should be bloody ashamed of ourselves - we expect inequality from the Tories, it is thier "thing", but how can we have government for the many when we can't even get it together to have a woman in charge at some point?)

The kids do actually have their own little red flags in their dressing up boxes, but I thought it was maybe a bit much to take them out and about on a normal street with them. I'll happily take them to an actual leftie event with them though.

Where did I say I couldn't stand the colour red? I actually like red (and pink) because it suits my skin tone. But I have no desire to wear it as a political statement.

I'm also a little bemused that it was a red pashmina you were wearing. In the Scottish strongholds of the Labour party you hold so dear, you would be laughed out of town for being a southern middle class Tory for wearing one! Aren't they kind of associated with the loadsamoney/Sloane culture that thrived under Thatcher?

Cape, cloak, pashmina, whatever

I do get rather a lot of funny looks for it anyway, it is knitted, and forms an almost full length, bright red cape. It is ace and cost £10 from the market about 8 years ago. I'm not sure it even is a pashmina tbh, but that is the nearest I can describe it. It's not exactly sloaney...

I never got laughed out of my old house that was literally under the shadow of a closed pit head in the north east, in an area that has never, ever, had anything but a huge Labour majority since the party started...

Well, no more than I did for having ridiculous pink hair and stompy boots

Nobody round here seemed to "get" my red attire, which is sad (I've moved to Lancashire) but a few of the bus drivers did give me a bit of a look.

Suppose that is one of the only things I miss about my old town - the extreme leftwingery of it all. Three coaches go from the little row of shops to the miners gala every year, they have a statue of a miner in front of the shops and bits of mine are everywhere. I don't know why they bother with elections

Now I live in a town that does have a statue dedicated to "the workers", but it all feels more distant and longer ago. Our mills shut long before the mines so it has kind of left our collective identity.

Who said that you said you can't stand the colour, btw?

It did amuse me the pictures sent via twitter that about 50% of the soldiers were wearing red.