to think old passports were black, not blue

[chomalungma]

I have my old passport from the late 80s.

It is definitely black.

Yet the Government keeps talking about the old blue passports

What colour do you think old passports were?

I much prefer the red, so much more practical to find in a bag.

Colourblind people can see them as black. Such as myself. Please don’t be so dismissive.

That's ridiculous. If you're colourblind then you're probably not the oracle on this particular subject, and just because a colourblind person might see it as black does not mean it is black. It's pretty obvious that the comment you were referring to implied reference to normal colour vision, not those with a handicap that means they can't see colour. Then again, you'd probably know that anyway, so have fun getting professionally outraged.

Cheeserton

They were very very very very very very very dark blue. In the manner of Father Ted!

I have mine and to me it is definitely black. In any light it looks black. Maybe it is a very very dark blue but it would have to be such a dark blue that actually...it's black.

Best way to check is to put it next to something that is pitch black - there will be a slight difference that illustrates it is an extremely dark blue.

I need to get out more if all I can do on a Saturday morning is argue on Mumsnet about the colour of a fucking passport.

the only issue is that they are the same size as the eU ones, the old ones were too big and didn't fit in pockets.

the focus on this is as bad as the main post-EU advice being on phone roaming (so what? you are on holiday, put the brick down!) pet travel (leave the bloody thing at home) and the need to buy travel insurance (unchanged, you always did). The extremists on each side are as stupid as each other.

Agree that they were very dark blue!

I need to get out more if all I can do on a Saturday morning is argue on Mumsnet about the colour of a fucking passport

I spent a morning discussing flights in the storm a few weeks ago

the only issue is that they are the same size as the eU ones, the old ones were too big and didn't fit in pockets.

I would assume the size will now be dictated by having to fit in the electronic readers, so they will stay the same size as currently.

I do not care what colour it is, as long as it means I am allowed through security gates at airports and so on.

I remember my grandparents had navy blue hardback jobs,

Mine is hardback and black. I can’t see any blue in the shade of black.

Here’s mine with a pitch black and a different black.

Mine was hardback and a very, very dark blue.

I understood that when we had the old ones that hadn’t really decided on an exact colour.
They were very dark blue to black depending on how much ink was added that day.

I think they were the same blue as police uniforms - so blue they, um, appear black.

I remember mine as black, not very dark blue, def black. I do remember wondering if the one I had as a kid was in a black protective case or something because it wasnt blue to my memory!

I still have mine, it only expired in 2000. And it's pretty much black. And I am not colour blind. It's significantly darker than the new one (at least how it appears in the newspaper photos).

My burgundy passport is valid until 2029 and I am very happy about that too. However, it might be nice to get some stamps in it again - one upside of leaving the EU/EEA I guess!

Why such boring solid colours... could have missed a trick & made them Union Jack pattern.

Who cares, as long as it keeps the Sun readers happy.

Yes!!!! I have my Dad’s from late 70’s (I used to play with it when he got a new one when I was wee and took it when I moved out for sentimental reasons) I dug it out last year - its definitely black!!

I also thought the old passports were black. My very old one had a hard cover with a cut out for the number on the front, in all lights it still looks black. If it's really dark blue, I've never seen such a black-blue....!

My Dad's from 1969 is black. I thought all the talk of of blue passports was weird.

My parents had Blue ones that me and my brother were on-we didn’t need our own as children then. My Mum still has it somewhere-definitely a dark blue.

I've still got mine and have only seen it as black. I'll do some comparisons with my many black clothing.

My old one with the cut outs in the cover was black.