Yellow Peril

Proof, if it were needed of how public servants are in a world of there own can be found in the the story of a well meaning lady in Kent.

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A press officer was forced to issue a grovelling statement to the Press Association when Kent Council was forced to apologise for banning a woman from taking daffodils into her local council offices because they were not politically correct during the election.

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Valerie Jewess was stunned when told that the bright yellow flowers had to go as they were the same colour associated with Liberal Democrats. She had offered the daffodils as a gift to staff at a council archive centre in Kent. The spokesman said the rules had been taken too ''literally''.

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Perhaps I should take a red rose to the Sedgfield Council offices as a symbolic gesture ! Ed.