Funnily enough, in Aussie politics the Blue party is the Liberals (our version of your onservatives) and the red party is the Labour Party (friend to all unions and the would be social conscience of the nation).
The reds being the leftists in OZ it becomes all to appropriate to voice the old epithet "I'd rather be dead than red"
. That means you states people have your colours all mixed up when you associate the right side of politics with the colour red.
I came out as a sort of light pink
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