John Oliver normally sticks to American politics to lampoon on Last Week Tonight, but he must have been feeling homesick because this Sunday he took us to the UK, where the Labour party is prepping for an election by trying to win the support of women voters. Rather than talking about issues women care about, however, they decided to go with a tried and true way to round up as many female individuals at possible-wave something pink in front of them-in this case, a bright pink van. When the leaders were called out on the fact that they’re using similar tactics to the makers of the Barbie Bus, the politicians pretended to have sudden onset (and very specific) color blindness. And John Oliver and company have kindly provided them with a way to be even more patronizing.
