The Medway Handyman coughed up some electrons that declared:
Nobody asked me :-(
These colours don't seem 'natural' to me. With the old colours red was
the
obvious live - red for danger, black the obvious neutral.
With the new colours they seem the wrong way around; electricity is 'blue'
to me, brown is a drab nuetral colour.
I agree completely. I really don't know what demon of stupidity made them
think switching a perfectly good established system was a good idea