01-08-2023, 20:54
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Architect of Ideas
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Blue enough.
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Just like your blood, Seph. 
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01-08-2023, 20:56
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#5387
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The blue passport. But I approved of that!
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I have to be honest here. Whenever I am in trouble, I am British and nothing else. When my team was stuck in no man's land on the bridge between Hong Kong and China, the British embassy send staff within an hour. I had a French and a Cypriot in my team, their embassies did not care. UK was in the EU at the time, they took care of the EU nationals.
So the "navy" black passport has its value.
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01-08-2023, 20:56
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
+2. Just have mine in front of me for an upcoming trip to Bilbao. Black as a turned-off TV screen. I think it's the French-owned manufacturers trolling us.  |
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Blue enough.
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Black and blue, pretty much sums up the battered and bruised state of the country under this shower we've got laughingly in power.
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01-08-2023, 21:52
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Blue enough.
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Navy blue. And very powerful, if you need protection abroad.
From a family with a suitcase of EU ID cards.
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01-08-2023, 22:11
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Blue enough.
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If course it could have been that colour within the EU so it's not really relevant.
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01-08-2023, 22:22
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1701-e
If course it could have been that colour within the EU so it's not really relevant.
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It's relevant in that it answered the question about Johnson's Brexit vanity projects. But absolutely correct that we could have done so without Brexit.
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01-08-2023, 22:33
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It's relevant in that it answered the question about Johnson's Brexit vanity projects. But absolutely correct that we could have done so without Brexit.
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The Remainer PMs of the time would never have countenanced the blue passport.
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01-08-2023, 22:47
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The Remainer PMs of the time would never have countenanced the blue passport.
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Doubt it would have been much of a worry. Blue would be closer to the EU colours.
That red colour was just the global recommended one to go through passport machines at the time.
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01-08-2023, 23:01
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Re: Britain outside the EU
No passport machines in 1992.
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01-08-2023, 23:14
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
No passport machines in 1992.
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"In 1986, the United States announced the US Visa Waiver Program. The UK was the first country to join the scheme in 1988; however, a requirement was that the traveller hold a machine-readable passport. On 15 August 1988, the Glasgow passport office became the first to issue burgundy-coloured machine-readable passports."
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02-08-2023, 10:20
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
"In 1986, the United States announced the US Visa Waiver Program. The UK was the first country to join the scheme in 1988; however, a requirement was that the traveller hold a machine-readable passport. On 15 August 1988, the Glasgow passport office became the first to issue burgundy-coloured machine-readable passports."
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I think you won that one
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02-08-2023, 23:28
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Re: Britain outside the EU
Government has realised that implementing Brexit fully will further hit consumers in the pocket. So once again, the government has postponed border controls.
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Ministers announced as recently as April that a new “border target operating model” would start to be rolled out from October 31 with a full regime in place by October 2024.
But government insiders have told the Financial Times that while final details of the border plan would be published “very soon”, its implementation on the ground would be pushed back.
“The driving force behind this is the need to bear down on inflation, that’s why there will be a delay,” said one government insider briefed on the plan. “There will be additional costs at the border.”..
Nick von Westenholz, director of trade at the National Farmers Union, acknowledged that the government needed to protect consumers from price rises, but said that yet another delay would exasperate many farmers, who face barriers for their exports which are not being reciprocated on imports from the EU.
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https://www.ft.com/content/d0673acb-...f-009be5ab14c3
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I think you won that one |
Hands down! Sorry Seph.
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03-08-2023, 06:48
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Re: Britain outside the EU
I am pleased to have made Ian’s day.
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03-08-2023, 11:17
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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I am pleased to have made Ian’s day.
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It's the little things that mean so much
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03-08-2023, 14:36
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The Dark Satanic Mills
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Doubt it would have been much of a worry. Blue would be closer to the EU colours.
That red colour was just the global recommended one to go through passport machines at the time.
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I’m currently in Turkey, when I went through passport control they couldn’t care less what colour our passports were, we have a mix.
Same for Mexico last year.
The EU is but one destination, in a very big world.
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