to be mildly amused by people complaining about the colour of the new passport

[chomalungma]

Apparently it's not blue. Or at least, not the blue they remember.

www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1296738/passport-uk-renewal-passports-brexit-blue-twitter-outrage

It never was really obviously blue, Just very very dark blue, almost black really.

And it's highly amusing that it's in the Daily Express. I am surprised this isn't the headline.

Not all British passports are United Kingdom passports. Eg Jersey, Guernsey, IOM. They all say something different where the UK one says United...

My point being that those need to say British on there somewhere for all the people globally who've never heard of Jersey etc. Having had one for a while years ago I can attest to the occasional run in with immigration officers who thought it was fake.

@SeasonallySnowyPeasant

They’re really boring inside too. DD’s came up for renewal and I was looking for Great British Landmarks or something, but no. It looks like the passports from 20 years ago.

Mine is from a few months ago, burgundy obviously, there was some nice artwork inside about inventions, buildings, progress - I wonder why they changed that?

I'm sure that's the colour they were originally a really dark ink blue almost black. I remember my grandparents original ones from many a year ago.

I remember my first one was a blue, almost cardboard, thank you for making me feel old.

I liked the burgundy one, so there.

Better than maroon -

Oh dear. It’s almost like there are no benefits to leaving. Let’s hope the straight bananas are shiny.

It's the UK that forced the banana bend rule, the EU can now have straight bananas.

Ah bless. What a shame.... Now there’s something else to blame on continental Europe and something else to be jealous about.

I am excited to get my new passport and see what it is like!

I think it'll be like... a passport, really. Like the last one, only less universally applicable as it excludes 27 other countries you could have been a citizen of. And a duller colour. Was it really for this?

I got a new one for Ds1 a few weeks ago and it was still that dark red/ Maroon colour!

@Oblomov20

I got a new one for Ds1 a few weeks ago and it was still that dark red/ Maroon colour!

Oh how strange, I thought they'd depleted their stocks of the old burgundy ones.

I renewed mine slightly early so I'd have the old style one for as long as possible.

Petty? Hell yes.

Ridiculous. In any case we’re the Typhoid Marys of Europe (and the world, look at the shit those British women caused in New Zealand this week) so wont be allowed anywhere and Brexit will probably mean the people living in the most heavily leave voting areas won’t be able to afford to go abroad anyway.

When people lamented the loss of the blue passports all those years ago, it was never really about the colour, more about the Burgundy ones being rather flimsy.

To all of the Scots on this thread whinging about having "British" in the front of your passport, "British" is exactly what you are. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/British
You had the opportunity to change your nationality to "Scottish" in 2014 but chose not to. You can no more "self-identify" your nationality than you can grow a pair of testicles for the weekend.

always puzzles me how people thought this was a major issue for lots of people.
It was a "thing" pushed by the remainer journalists to try to show how thick leavers were.
I think it also showed a lack of intellectual respect for remainers that they thought people would fall for it....

And I got Ds2's about 2 months ago and it too was burgundy.

Have I been shortchanged here?

Good grief! I’ll keep on using my European one anyway so it’ll be a while before I need to worry about the colour

To all of the Scots on this thread whinging about having "British" in the front of your passport, "British" is exactly what you are. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/British. You had the opportunity to change your nationality to "Scottish" in 2014 but chose not to. You can no more "self-identify" your nationality than you can grow a pair of testicles for the weekend.
To all of the Scots on this thread whinging about having "British" in the front of your passport, "British" is exactly what you are. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/British. You had the opportunity to change your nationality to "Scottish" in 2014 but chose not to. You can no more "self-identify" your nationality than you can grow a pair of testicles for the weekend

“All of the Scots” - was two people
“Whinging” - hardly

We also don’t need to change our nationality via a referendum. We are Scottish. That’s never changed.

Has someone shat in your cornflakes this morning?

I renewed mine slightly early so I'd have the old style one for as long as possible.

Petty? Hell yes.
I'd have done that too of mine had been anywhere needing renewal. I'll have a proper moment of sadness in 2 years when I do renew mine and it isn't nthe burgundy colour.

The blue one is going to embarrass me every time I hand it over in a EU country.

@DdraigGoch it might be what we are, but I would never identify as being British. As a country we are wildly different to rUK, and maybe if we didn’t have such a shit media, siding with the UK Government, we wouldn’t have had such ridiculously bad headlines in the run up to the Indy Ref in 2014, and would have secured independence.

I hope they're all very very disappointed with the colour of their fucking passports.

@DdraigGoch you sont seem to understand the difference between a nation and a state.

You had the opportunity to change your nationality to "Scottish" in 2014 but chose not to

You do know Scotland is a country, right? And that we are genuinely Scottish? The fact that we are also part of Britain does not detect from that. Just like people from England are English. And Wales Welsh.

You sound really bitter about Scottish being a thing, and I can't quite fathom why.

The Northern Ireland issue is much more interesting than the Scottish one though.

At least Scotland is part of Great Britain. Northern Ireland is not.