In a picture postcard, Radical politicial Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) is pictured wearing a coat of many colours. Each segment reflects the different stages in his political career: socialist, extreme radical, Gladstonian, Liberal Unionist, Conservative and protectionist and food taxer. Inconsistent was one of the more favourable epithets used of Chamberlain. To the Liberals he was a traitor, to the Conservatives a dangerous radical, and to the people of Birmingham a hero, despite the fact that by birth he was a Londoner. Up his sleeve is his idea for Old Age Pensions, which he proposed to fund through tariff reform, taxing imports into the British Empire (the colours of which adorn his coat).