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Louis Staples
Mar 11, 2020
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You’ve heard of “the dress”. You’ve heard of “Yanny vs Laurel”.
But now we give you: Rishi Sunak’s magic folder.
Confused? Let us explain…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has had a little over a month to prepare for his first budget, which isn’t ideal at the best of times, but now the coronavirus crisis is threatening to upend Britain’s already quite shaky economy.
So just days after being embroiled in an internet controversy about drinking Yorkshire Tea (which spawned days of truly horrific discourse) the Chancellor has found himself in yet another controversy.
This time, people can’t work out why his briefcase has changed colour from red to green.
Seriously, watch for yourself:
As #Budget2020 is upon us, is it strange that I’m extremely preoccupied with the Chancellors Rishi Sunak magically… https://t.co/SHtqQCq5Bs— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@Dr. Jennifer Cassidy) 1583914259
Walking out of Downing Street and past a car, Sunak’s folder appears to change colour from the classic minister rouge to bright green in a matter of seconds on the Sky News broadcast.
Here's the shots to compare:
The internet is, to put it mildly, completely perplexed.
Unless someone can convincingly explain why his folder suddenly changes colour, none of us will ever truly be at pe… https://t.co/RWVXpUB6rS— Owen Jones 🌹 (@Owen Jones 🌹) 1583923485
There’s been numerous theories for how this can have happened.
You can see it’s still red through the car window. My guess is that some mischievous imp has had fun in a video edi… https://t.co/Wbxx5O7qQG— Dr Mike Galsworthy (@Dr Mike Galsworthy) 1583918217
@OxfordDiplomat So Downing St is really a green-screen set and the CGI of the Chancellor's folder briefly failed. W… https://t.co/4mbNM4SMho— Phil Uttley (@Phil Uttley) 1583916262
@OwenJones84 It could be a mood folder, changing colour depending on how safe your job in the cabinet is.— Jo Short 💙🏳️🌈 😷 (@Jo Short 💙🏳️🌈 😷) 1583923583
But thankfully Sky News staff cleared this one up, saying that the colour was edited to fit with their script, which talked about the possibility of the budget being "green".
@OwenJones84 Hi. It was a device used by our climate change correspondent and her video editor who was posing the q… https://t.co/eKUHMN0zaI— Jonathan Samuels (@Jonathan Samuels) 1583923798
Mystery solved.... This clip crucially cuts out the rest of the script line which explains the visual effect: "but… https://t.co/tkuHSTlzuD— Tom Rayner (@Tom Rayner) 1583924040
Mystery solved... For now.
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