Brexit: Now What? Part IV

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15 May 2016: Boris Johnson compares EU to Hitler's Third Reich.
17 March 2018: Boris Johnson seeks EU support for tough line on Russia.
 
Turn up for the books, I can see we have plenty of our redlines....... crossed out!

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I've just applied for a passport renewal - hope I get one of the last of the "pink" ones....

Regarding the production of blue passports, from Greebo's link:

The UK's De La Rue has confirmed that it has lost the contract to produce the new post-Brexit blue British passports from 2019. Chief executive Martin Sutherland said the firm had worked with the government to produce passports for the last 10 years, "without a single hiccup".

Now, however, "we are being undercut by a French competitor," he said.

.Mr Sutherland pointed out that his firm was not allowed to bid for the right to produce French passports and questioned whether the decision was "sensible for the British taxpayer".

He said he would like to invite Home Secretary Amber Rudd to come to his factory in Gateshead where British passports were currently made and explain the decision to "offshore the manufacture of a British icon".
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You really can't tell them apart from a Yes Minister script.

Heard one of them saying we'd have more freedom once we leave the EU to tender, the interviewer did mention that France prints their own passports as a matter of national security. Once again showing that blaming EU rules for our government's decisions is baloney.

What are they going to do once we leave and they can't blame the EU for government decisions?

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Darat said:
You really can't tell them apart from a Yes Minister script.

Heard one of them saying we'd have more freedom once we leave the EU to tender, the interviewer did mention that France prints their own passports as a matter of national security. Once again showing that blaming EU rules for our government's decisions is baloney.

What are they going to do once we leave and they can't blame the EU for government decisions?

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I'm fairly confident that they'll find a way to still blame the EU. It's the one thing they have lots of experience with.

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Darat said:
You really can't tell them apart from a Yes Minister script.

Heard one of them saying we'd have more freedom once we leave the EU to tender, the interviewer did mention that France prints their own passports as a matter of national security. Once again showing that blaming EU rules for our government's decisions is baloney.

What are they going to do once we leave and they can't blame the EU for government decisions?
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They will blame the EU for letting them Brexit, of course.
 
The Don said:
I've just applied for a passport renewal - hope I get one of the last of the "pink" ones....
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We recently got Miss Analyst jnr's first passport. HM Passport Office managed to send her birth certificate to some random bloke in Scotland - along with his son's birth certificate - who returned it to us direct. When we took this up with HMPO, they - unbelievably - suggested it was our fault because we didn't cough up extra for Special Delivery return, rather than regular 2nd class mail. They seemed incapable of understanding that paying for SD return is to avoid something going astray in 2nd class mail, not to avoid someone at HMPO stuffing two birth certificates in one envelope.

Personally I'd be happy if the entire thing was run by foreigners, as long as they were less incompetent than the UK lot.
 
Darat said:
Heard one of them saying we'd have more freedom once we leave the EU to tender, the interviewer did mention that France prints their own passports as a matter of national security. Once again showing that blaming EU rules for our government's decisions is baloney.
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Presumably the difference is that France retains passport printing as a government function, whilst the UK has insisted on opening it to commercial tender, and thus has to accept cheaper non-UK bids?
 
I have done jobs in the De La rue print works when I worked for a support company about ten years ago. they print passports and bank notes.
the security in the place is insane. When you are booked in your tool kit is searched and your phone locked away at the gatehouse. You are escorted to a sectioned off workshop where you fix the thing you came to repair and then you are escorted out and searched again before having your phone handed back.
Tighter than doing a prison job.
 
So Brexit is reduced to Blue Passports from France and throwing dead fish in to the Thames on behalf of millionaire fleet owners?
 
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Personally I'd be happy if the entire thing was run by foreigners, as long as they were less incompetent than the UK lot.
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When we got number 2 Tolls' passport we did the Check and Send thing at the PO, where they make sure you filled everything in correctly so it doesn't get rejected and delay the issuing. When we got the passport back they'd spelled his middle name wrong.

They really are useless.
 
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