Was there ever a less convincing scandal than the revelation that a landlord who rents houses to G4S for housing asylum-seekers in Middlesbrough chooses to paint all their doors bright red? This, apparently, is ‘apartheid’, according to a hyperbolic Times headline yesterday morning. As if that were not enough, Ian Swales, former Lib Dem MP for Redcar, said the firm’s decoration policy reminded him of Nazi Germany.
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Presumably, tomorrow’s paper will divulge the devastating finding that the Duke of Devonshire paints all the doors at Edensor, the village on the Chatsworth Estate, a rather fetching shade of dark blue. Or on Friday the explosive revelation that Jesus College, Cambridge, paints the doors of its student houses green.
There is a very good, and mundane, reason why all these landlords like to use one colour of paint for all their properties: it saves a lot of money.
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