It's all worth it for a blue passport

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Can't help suspecting that the more likely you are to care about the colour of your passport as a 'symbol of your national identity', the less likely you are to be the kind of person who does very much travelling outside the uk.

YABU for starting thread about this. When the one in AIBU is active this morning.

Seems it could have been blue all along....there's no reason why it couldn't have been blue.

Or black.

But the words 'European Union' get to be removed.

Apparently people who voted Remain are more likely to actually have a passport.

But TBF - that's probaby a reflection of economic circumstances and economic situation rather than no desire to actually travel abroad.

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I always thought it was black.

The people who care are f arage and the selective interviewees on the TV. Most will not have had this on the list of reasons to want change in the EU.

If people's sense of national identity is tied up in the colour of a travel document they need to get a grip.
It didn't need to be burgundy, all EU member countries can choose the colour of their passports (Croatia's is blue). The UK government chose to go with burgundy.
And I just dug out an old passport and it's definitely black - not even navy blue.

Yes, old passports were definitely black. Having recently adopted my married name after nearly two decades, I think I will change my passport as close as I can to deadline and thus buy myself another decade of avoiding bollocking blue shite passport.
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I knew they were black! Mine have always been burgundy but I remember seeing my mum and dads and they were Both very much black, not blue.

I like my burgundy passport because it enables me to travel to about 173 countries visa free. And I can also move to any other EU country to study or look for work.

I fear that the blue passport will be inferior by a long way.

I am a Leaver and don't give a fuck about the colour of my passport.

Well, my brexit loving friend is VERY happy about this!

As I put mine in a lovely turquoise cover I could not give a shit what colour the thing is!