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  1. Published on: 22/12/2017 08:06 AMReported by: roving-eye
    The cover of the UK passport will be returning to blue after the UK leaves the European Union, the Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis has announced.



    After Brexit, the UK travel document will no longer be required to conform to EU standards. So in a move to symbolise our national identity, the cover will be changing from the standard EU burgundy colour to a blue and gold design.

    The new, unique blue passport will be one of the most secure travel documents in the world, with a raft of new and updated security features and technologies to protect against fraud and forgery. For example, the current paper-based picture page will be replaced with a new, super-strength plastic polycarbonate material that will be more difficult to alter.

    Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis said:

    Leaving the EU gives us a unique opportunity to restore our national identity and forge a new path for ourselves in the world.

    That is why I am delighted to announce that the British passport will be returning to the iconic blue and gold design after we have left the European Union in 2019.

    It will also be one of the most secure travel documents in the world, with a raft of new security measures to protect against fraud and forgery.

    To save the taxpayer money, the newly designed passports will be introduced in a phased approach.

    After the UK leaves the EU, burgundy passports will continue to be issued but with no reference to the European Union.

    New blue and gold passports will be issued from October 2019, when the new passport contract begins, to those renewing or applying for a new passport.

    There is no need for British passport holders to do anything ahead of their current passport renewal date.

    The blue cover is a return to the original appearance of the British passport, with the colour first used in 1921. It remained the colour of choice until the UK joined the EU and the burgundy common format colour was agreed and adopted.

    More details about the new passport will be announced when a supplier is appointed in spring next year.

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  3. birdbath says:22/12/2017 08:54 AM
    What about a return to £ s d, coal fires and rickets?

  4. Lamparilla says:22/12/2017 09:01 AM
    Not forgetting sending kids up chimneys

  5. cotton man says:22/12/2017 09:33 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by birdbath View Post
    What about a return to £ s d, coal fires and rickets?
    No we do not wa a return to coal fires and £ s d but sadly we do still have rickets.

  6. Toodles McGinty says:22/12/2017 10:09 AM
    That is well worth destroying our economy for. Brexiteers wet dream.

  7. r4dent says:22/12/2017 10:16 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by birdbath View Post
    What about a return to £ s d, coal fires and rickets?

    I think we should bring back the groat and the bushel.

    But with petrol at 3000 groats a bushel we would all need larger wallets.

  8. gerrard24 says:22/12/2017 12:26 PM
    I see the Remoners are still going on about the EUSSR. We are out of the EUSSR. we won you lost get over it you snowflakes. I burn coal and remember when a House cost 3 years wages for the average person. No Food Banks, Police on the streets, Full employment, no tuition fees, cheap rail travel. We use to have a trade surplus. This was all before the EUSSR. Not European never was and never will be. Get ride of that s@&t flag and what it stands for.

  9. Toodles McGinty says:22/12/2017 12:39 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by gerrard24 View Post
    I burn coal and remember when a House cost 3 years wages for the average person. No Food Banks, Police on the streets, Full employment, no tuition fees, cheap rail travel. We use to have a trade surplus.
    Ooh, how long after Brexit can we get all of that back?

    Will it be instant or will we have to hang on for a few weeks?

    Yay, melt those snowflakes with your burning coal.

    I can't wait!

  10. gerrard24 says:22/12/2017 12:57 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Toodles McGinty View Post
    Ooh, how long after Brexit can we get all of that back?

    Will it be instant or will we have to hang on for a few weeks?

    Yay, melt those snowflakes with your burning coal.

    I can't wait!
    If I was the PM I would just leave and start trading with the big world. China, India, south and North America. I would not give penny to the EUSSR. After all we paid for it.

  11. cotton man says:22/12/2017 01:10 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by gerrard24 View Post
    If I was the PM I would just leave and start trading with the big world. China, India, south and North America. I would not give penny to the EUSSR. After all we paid for it.
    Totally agree, time we took control so let’s get on with it.

  12. silver fox says:22/12/2017 01:20 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by gerrard24 View Post
    I see the Remoners are still going on about the EUSSR. We are out of the EUSSR. we won you lost get over it you snowflakes. I burn coal and remember when a House cost 3 years wages for the average person. No Food Banks, Police on the streets, Full employment, no tuition fees, cheap rail travel. We use to have a trade surplus. This was all before the EUSSR. Not European never was and never will be. Get ride of that s@&t flag and what it stands for.
    Jog your memory a little more, we were signed up to the then Common Market by Ted Heath with no public vote of any description, the reason was dead simple, Britain was "the sick man of Europe" at the time, we had a failing economy, high inflation, high unemployment, union conflict was endemic not just due to the unions, whereas the Common Market countries were flourishing thanks to free trade.

    There were clearly pros and cons to membership, just as there are today, but don't run away with the idea that we were in a good position when we joined, the truth is France particularly didn't want Britain as a member for fear that we would drag the Common Market down..

    OK so we are scheduled to leave the EU and already we are seeing higher inflation, weaker growth than most of Europe and we haven't even left yet, the changes you describe were all without fail down to our own government rather than the EU, sure there are parts of the EU which we don't particularly like, but on balance I feel leaving in the way we are doing is a bad mistake.

    Before you get all uptight, this is not a moan, simply my opinion, which I believe is still legal to voice.

  13. silver fox says:22/12/2017 01:28 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by cotton man View Post
    Totally agree, time we took control so let’s get on with it.
    Depends how you describe control? with Tories already eyeing up scrubbing working time directives, getting rid of "red tape" in health and safety in the workplace, personally I dread the thought of exiting Europe to the "tender mercies" of the rabid Tory Brexiteers.

    If control means changing the colour of our passports, whoopee, well worth the disruption, or not as the case may be.

  14. silver fox says:22/12/2017 01:43 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by gerrard24 View Post
    If I was the PM I would just leave and start trading with the big world. China, India, south and North America. I would not give penny to the EUSSR. After all we paid for it.
    Many of these counties want to sell to us or supply services, not so sure they want to buy from us,
    we did not pay tor the EU, we contribute sure, but we aren't the biggest contributor by a long way, is truth and reality an alien concept to Brexiteers?

    Whether you like it or not the then Common Market was well established before we joined the club, whether we will be better served out of the EU is very much a moot point.

  15. birdbath says:22/12/2017 03:23 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by silver fox View Post
    ... the truth is France particularly didn't want Britain as a member for fear that we would drag the Common Market down..
    I remember very well De Gaulle saying "Non!" to Wilson in the sixties. He mentioned our Trans-Atlantic relations with the US and that we would be unlikely be comfortable with European integration. Seems as though he was taking careful note during his exile here in the war years.

  16. Ceam says:22/12/2017 03:42 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by gerrard24 View Post
    I see the Remoners are still going on about the EUSSR. We are out of the EUSSR. we won you lost get over it you snowflakes. I burn coal and remember when a House cost 3 years wages for the average person. No Food Banks, Police on the streets, Full employment, no tuition fees, cheap rail travel. We use to have a trade surplus. This was all before the EUSSR. Not European never was and never will be. Get ride of that s@&t flag and what it stands for.


    Wow, can't wait it's going to be awesome.
    you forgot to mention they also sold rose tinted glasses.


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