Westminstenders: Blue Passports

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Yay for the blue passports.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all

May next year bring us £350 million for the NHS, cake, unicorns, financial passporting, access to the single market, Irish love and of course control to the people.

(Apologies been up to my eyeballs. Normal service will resume after Christmas).

DD1 suggested we should have complete freedom of choice over passport colour, since the EU doesn't actually dictate the colour and has told me she wants one in pink and green leopard print.

And thanks for the new thread, RTB.

Woman you peaked my curiosity. Apparently England's ye olde passe port started off written in Latin and English.

www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/a-short-history-of-passports

Still not convinced by Macron's assertion that French is about to enjoy a renaissance as the language of commerce.

RTB

Proposed award thirded, fourthed and fifthed! These threads have become essential to my sanity and general survival, so thanks for making this such a source of comfort and (however faint still) hope.

Sorry to be pedantic howabout but it's 'piqued' French/Norman again.

passport
late 15th century (denoting authorization to depart from a port): from French passeport, from passer ‘to pass’ + port ‘seaport’.

It's easy to look for the etymological roots of this immigrant language:
Science: greek
Law and church: norman
Administrative: latin
Geordie: Viking
Anglo Saxon: sweary.

The French have long fought US cultural imperialism through maintaining the quality of their language and culture.

Hence their cinema and literature.

Hence ours.

Hence brexit.

Of course the concept of 'Greek' is frequently misunderstood in terms of historical appropriations.

'Greek' is not a concept.

Thanks Red for the new thread (and an extremely overdue to "Hear, hear" to thecatfromjapan's post on grooming).

Legal action to see whether UK could unilaterally stop Brexit gets go-ahead

uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1EG1MB?__twitter_impression=true

Apparently Cornish tartan only dates from the 1960s.

Thanks for the new thread red. Hope you feel better soon.

It's great that a ruling is finally being pursued and by a cross-party selection of MPs. Well done, Scottish representatives .

There's also a legal challenge to the legality of Article 50, filed today.

Brexit: Government facing High Court challenge to cancel Article 50. If judicial review is successful, legal mechanism could be nullified and negotiations halted.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-article-50-high-court-challenge-government-a8123626.html?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Update975onArticle50ChallengeDecember222017&utm_medium=email

All Greek to me woman. Fungibility of language covers a multitude of sins.

Fungibility I just learnt a new word cheers howabout
Hester @50 challenge is in express too now.
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/895523/Brexit-news-Article-50-challenge-parliament-decision-leave-EU

To capture the true meaning of modern Britain, shurely either Burberry check or Orange. With a sash.

Your government are a utter embarrassment. This blue passport bollocks is the final straw for me - nothing to do with me, I don't get a vote, it's not my country any more.

It's a real lowest common denominator moment. This is explicitly designed to appeal to stupid, old, racist people and the people who write newspapers for them.

You can't have orange passports. That's Holland's national colour and as soon as Geert Wilders gets his act together, takes over, gets Holland to Hexit (Nexit?) we will be having orange passports. So hands off, you lot.

pointythings It's Nexit, because Holland isn't a country (it's a region of The Netherlands).

I do know that, Monger. Given that I am Dutch myself. But Holland is kind of shorthand for The Netherlands, because it's an unwieldy mouthful. When people ask me where I am from, I tend to say 'Holland' - and not just because I was born in the province of Zuid-Holland.

But let's face it, Nexit and Hexit sound equally crap.

If we really must opt for blue , can I suggest a nice F&B shade , like stiffkey in estate emulsion

Thanks for the new thread RTB

(a theme from prev thread) British Military Procurement Lies, Incompetence, Corruption and Corporate Manslaughter

http://thequietmancunian.com/afghanistan/procurement-corruption.html

Angry ex-squaddies reveal that the Foxhound army patrol vehicle , which was specifically designed for British Army service in Iraq and other ME countries ...
has an engine that doesn't work in hot weather !

Like the systems on the Navy Type 45 frigates that don't work in hot weather

Who designs & builds such useless crap ?

Why do UK govt keeping buying (expensive) military kit that won't work in the main countries where the UK has been waging war ?

Place mat

Mistigris : I was talking to dh about both Catfromjapan's "grooming" post and the whole "Blue passport" irrelevance plans and he was trying to articulate what is happening with British English politics: it is no longer even the "cult of mediocrity" which dh used to complain about It's gone well beyond that: not even the "lowest common denominator", because it's not even "common". It's a attempted dragging down of societal "norms" to the basest of instincts

I knew this would come in handy.

The Scum campaigned for these things, it's polling very badly and they're not putting it on their front page. Everyone understands this one, and it is not going down well.
Naturally they fibbed about EU and passports.