Brexit

PostRe: Brexit by **Hypes** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:22 pm

I've still got over 10 years left on my current passport. It'll be ages before I'm free of the burgundy repression

PostRe: Brexit by **Squinty** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:25 pm

You want to know something funny? We could have had blue passports all along. The UK decided to change the colour of their passports to the burgundy one. There was no EU mandate for us to do that.

PostRe: Brexit by **Return_of_the_STAR** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:34 pm

Squinty wrote:You want to know something funny? We could have had blue passports all along. The UK decided to change the colour of their passports to the burgundy one. There was no EU mandate for us to do that.

Is this actually true. I remember when we changed to burgundy and as you say we spent years in the EU with the old ones. Was it just a collective decision by all EU members to go for burgundy and no one objected? Because I think all members have burgundy ones.

PostRe: Brexit by **Lagamorph** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:41 pm

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:
Squinty wrote:You want to know something funny? We could have had blue passports all along. The UK decided to change the colour of their passports to the burgundy one. There was no EU mandate for us to do that.

Is this actually true. I remember when we changed to burgundy and as you say we spent years in the EU with the old ones. Was it just a collective decision by all EU members to go for burgundy and no one objected? Because I think all members have burgundy ones.

There was an EU convention about changing the colour, but it was non-binding. Every EU nation except Croatia just rolled with it, but every member nation was free to have any colour passport at any time.

PostRe: Brexit by **Rex Kramer** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:41 pm

Croatia has a blue passport, I think the burgundy one is a suggested default but the only stipulations on passports are sizes etc so they can be read by the machines.

PostRe: Brexit by KK » Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:53 pm

I’m sure someone with entrepreneurial spirit has already commissioned burgundy covers for the new blue passports.

PostRe: Brexit by **DML** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:03 pm

Our country is an absolute embarrassment.

I literally cannot wait to overturn this government and Brexit however long it takes (probably 40 years). Absolute nonsense warping and addling the minds of the many.

PostRe: Brexit by **Tineash** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:22 pm

I can't wait til I'm a bright-red angry 60yr old thumb person and my generation can vote to blow up the whole country just for some tiny petty nostalgic nonsense like... ooh, I don't know, bringing back the old pound coin. WHEN FINGS WERE BETTER!

PostRe: Brexit by **Garth** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:25 pm

twitter.com/NicolaSturgeon/status/944198906442932224

PostRe: Brexit by **Harry Ola** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:15 pm

Sorry if done before, but there is a strong correlation between voting to leave EU and not having a passport!

PostRe: Brexit by **Squinty** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:11 pm

Tineash wrote:I can't wait til I'm a bright-red angry 60yr old thumb person and my generation can vote to blow up the whole country just for some tiny petty nostalgic nonsense like... ooh, I don't know, bringing back the old pound coin. WHEN FINGS WERE BETTER!

I remember when healthcare was free. strawberry floating EU caused this!!!!!!

PostRe: Brexit by KK » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:35 pm

What a few members of the general public think on the street...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-4245342 ... ter-brexit

PostRe: Brexit by **Return_of_the_STAR** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:53 pm

Harry Ola wrote:Sorry if done before, but there is a strong correlation between voting to leave EU and not having a passport!

That's only because they were burgundy, the colour of oppression. Watch the take up rate rocket when the snazzy blue ones come out.

PostRe: Brexit by **Meep** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 6:39 pm

I know I should not give a gooseberry fool but this is such pathetic pandering it makes me irritated. The UK could have changed it's passport colour any time it liked, the change of colour being because of the EU was "bendy banana" type guff made up by morons in the press.

What else is the British government going to do to make dottering older voters feel more comfortable? Get rid of the metric system and decimal currency? Maybe get rid of digital broadcasts because granny can't figure her set top box.

Look forward to receiving my renewed Irish passport next year. It is burgundy too, sadly, not the proud patriotic green that it should be. Outrage.

PostRe: Brexit by **TigaSefi** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:38 pm

The £500 million contract fee just shows how easily remoaners are duped as well.

PostRe: Brexit by **Moggy** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:41 pm

KK wrote:What a few members of the general public think on the street...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-4245342 ... ter-brexit

Her kids are thrilled. :lol:

PostRe: Brexit by **Moggy** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:53 pm

twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/944199254926643200

PostRe: Brexit by **Return_of_the_STAR** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:55 pm

Just realised that all Cameron had to do was change the colour of the passports and we could have avoided the referendum all together :fp:

PostRe: Brexit by **Dual** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:57 pm

I'll be covering my blue passport with a burgundy holder the minute I receive it.

PostRe: Brexit by **Benzin** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 8:24 pm

Might be time to get the old Irish citizenship application form out, then I can have BOTH!

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