Hansard gems: The purple cows are coming!

Sometimes Parliament turns its mind to predicting the bovine future, as happened in March 1973:

I have never seen a purple cow, but we may yet see it.

Thank you, Norman Buchan, Scottish Labour MP.

These days, of course, all he need do is visit a bookshop with a big marketing section.

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