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Does anyone actually care about blue passports?

190 replies

DeepanKrispanEven · 22/12/2017 11:24

Especially given that we were always perfectly free to opt for blue if people if people were that desperate?

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woman11017 · 22/12/2017 22:30

It doesn't say people don't 'like' the passports
It's not the patriotic passport fest that teresa was expecting though is it. In fact it's been pretty useful to show people some of the freedoms and rights they are losing through this malarkey.
Very useful, in fact.

Abra1d · 22/12/2017 22:33

Which Brits do you mean? The 48% of us who, like me and my family, voted remain and weren’t as dim as you seemingly enjoy claiming us to be? That is, nearly half the population, who realised that there would be problems like this?

woman11017 · 22/12/2017 22:36

Petition to EU parliament to keep our EU passports.
ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2016-000005/public/#/

badbadhusky · 22/12/2017 22:37

They were blue?? I have all my old ones and would have staked my life on the fact that they were black

I’m glad you said this. I remember black passports too.

badbadhusky · 22/12/2017 22:47

I don't care what colour it is, I'm utterly furious about having my rights to travel freely through EU countries stripped away from me against my will. I'm never going to forgive that.

^ This. With bells on.

SmashyCup · 22/12/2017 23:37

Exactly. The travel rights are what matters and the idiotic Brexiteers are stripping them from millions of other UK citizens without their consent. They will never be forgiven for this.

Incidentally, the EU does not require member states to issue burgundy passports. It was an optional scheme that the UK willingly signed up to but retained the right to opt out of at any point in time. Croatia, for example, is an EU member but chose to opt out of this so still has blue passports as it did before joining the EU. This whole thing is yet more pandering to ignorant nationalist fanatics.

StripeyMonkey1 · 23/12/2017 00:03

Thanks woman. Signed.

LemonysSnicket · 23/12/2017 01:06

I’ve only ever had the burgundy one, what with being born 7 years after the blues went out of circulation.

If I had to choose I’d prefer the burgundy, because I like burgundy and my new boots are burgundy.

Topseyt · 23/12/2017 01:18

I couldn't give a shit what colour my passport is. It could be bright pink with yellow spots and still be just a travel document, but hey, perhaps the blue passport is one of the gimmicks that some (not all) brexiteers thought was so important when they voted for "sovereignty" and "taking back control" in the referendum.

I am 51 and I do remember the old blue passports. My first two were those. They were nothing special. Names and many other details in them were often hand written by the Passport Office. I think they would have been relatively easily forged.

The new blue passports will of course still be biometric.

I still find the shitshow of Brexit very hard to watch. That this is still pretty much all that we have to show for it 18 months after the referendum just reinforces me that remain was definitely the informed way to vote.

lonelyplanetmum · 23/12/2017 10:43

Guy Verhofstadt on Twitter, honest, reliable, fair, accurate....

There is no EU legislation dictating passport colour. The UK could have had any passport colour it wanted and stay… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

May's announcement on passports is so embarrassing. Could it be an attempt at an absurd sop to soften those who wanted to relinquish membership for less popular measures to come? Why not re introduce capital punishment as that was another statistical priority for those who wanted blue passports?

Obviously all the ridiculous comments about becoming a subsidiary ( vassal) of the EU are absurd, but now I actually wish that was a possibility. I'd take politicians like Guy over our shower any day. I think I'm being radicalised....

QuinionsRainbow · 23/12/2017 12:35

I don't care what colour my passport is as long as it still lets me travel to the 173 countries that I can currently visit without needing a visa. Anyway, I'll still have my burgundy Irish one!

RhiannonOHara · 25/12/2017 14:57

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PrincessoftheSea · 25/12/2017 15:03

Embarrassing. The whole Brexit is an embarrassment to the UK

RhiannonOHara · 25/12/2017 23:06

Oh, I got deleted Grin

TheElementsSong · 26/12/2017 07:09

twitter.com/hendopolis/status/945412094236725249

We’re all in big trouble now.

The Fail is warning us to STOP SNEERING AT BLUE PASSPORTS.

PinkietheElf · 26/12/2017 07:19

They aren’t burgundy - that is a wine. , they are maroon which is a crap colour- roll on the dark blue.

brizzledrizzle · 26/12/2017 07:24

I used to like my blue passport but quite frankly I couldn't give a damn what colour it is. People are homeless and starving, it's just another money wasting publicity stunt to please the racist who support British colonialism and superiority imo. The readers of the fail will love it.

Believeitornot · 26/12/2017 07:31

Just laughing at that daily mail headline and the notorious “Elite”.

Who exactly are the “elite”? I would strongly suggest that they would be the rich and powerful, many of whom are Tories and are in power. And therefore are behind this ridiculous nonsense about passport colour. Look at Theresa May, and David Cameron before her. You couldn’t get more elite a government.

sashh · 26/12/2017 07:52

The new ones will also be dark navy blue. They will need to conform to the current international standards (for machine readbility) so won't look like the old ones

Having had an old blue one (1983 issue) I'm glad. Your name was handwritten in sharpie and the photo was literally the one you set in glued in place.

Does anyone else remember the 'British visitor's passport'? You could rock up at a post office with a photo and birth certificate and they would issue you with a cardboard passport you could use in some countries. It was only valid for a year but I think it was really cheap.

QueenOfThorns · 26/12/2017 08:07

Reading this story on Friday made me bizarrely angry for some reason. However, I’m somewhat appeased by the fact that my current passport runs out in May 2019, so I can get my new one just before we Brexit and it’ll still say ‘European Union’ on it for 10 years Grin

Although it’ll be meaningless, obviously Angry

Oblomov17 · 26/12/2017 08:15

Nope.

Flomper · 26/12/2017 09:37

I've got my dad's old passport handy from the 70s and it was black, not blue? Wjhy are they banging on about "return to a blue passport"? We never had royal blue or even dark blue passports. At best they were very, very dark navy. My father's is definitely black now.

Ifailed · 26/12/2017 09:40

They were black, but don't you dare say that or you'll have some leaver calling you a traitor and demanding your head on a spike outside the tower of London.

Flomper · 26/12/2017 09:42

Grin bring it on. I've got a thing or two to say to leavers and enjoy making them try and defend what they now know but can't admit was a mistaken position based on ingrained and possibly subconscious rasicm.

JaffaCakes4TeaNow · 26/12/2017 09:48

Nobody cares. It’s embarrassing that the Govt has made a big thing out of it. The old navy blue British passport was symbolic of the fact that Britain was back then rich and powerful and important. We just aren’t rich or powerful or important now and pretending we are by changing the colour of the passport back fools nobody.

This is making us look foolish.