Blue Passports for the UK next month

[canopus1969]

The new blue Passports will be issued from next month BUT made in Poland !!

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/uk-post-brexit-blue-passports-made-in-polish-factory-gh5jthw9h

[OneMoreFarang]

11 minutes ago, canopus1969 said:

The new blue Passports will be issued from next month BUT made in Poland !!

I guess soon we will have many pages discussing if this is good or bad news.

I guess it's the beginning of the bright future of Great Britain. 555

[ianezy0]

They used to be blue years ago. I think it was late 80’s when they changed to red.

[Denim]

5 minutes ago, ianezy0 said:

They used to be blue years ago. I think it was late 80’s when they changed to red.

My first was black.

[pontious]

They start next month but will still issue burgundy and blue passports until mid 2020. You cannot choose which colour you want. From mid 2020 they will be blue.

Edited February 22, 2020 by pontious

[vogie]

Boris has got his, and if its good enough for Boris it should be good enough for all of us.????

 

 

[ianezy0]

3 hours ago, Denim said:

My first was black.

Really, interesting....I would have thought it would also be blue with a name like Denim ????

[topt]

23 hours ago, Denim said:

My first was black.

First and subsequent - don't remember them being blue

[Daffy D]

The original stiff passports were a very dark blue which might perhaps be remembered as black now

 

[Rookiescot]

23 hours ago, Denim said:

My first was black.

We still talking about passports aye?

[Rookiescot]

21 hours ago, vogie said:

Boris has got his, and if its good enough for Boris it should be good enough for all of us.????

 

 

 

[jollyhangmon]

 

... congrats, as I hear manufactured in ... wait 4 it ... France ... 

[soalbundy]

On 2/22/2020 at 12:20 PM, ianezy0 said:

They used to be blue years ago. I think it was late 80’s when they changed to red.

I always considered them to be black, when I get one I will put a burgundy cover over it so I don't stand in line like an outcast.

[Salerno]

30 minutes ago, jollyhangmon said:

... congrats, as I hear manufactured in ... wait 4 it ... France ... 

 

On 2/22/2020 at 2:35 PM, canopus1969 said:

The new blue Passports will be issued from next month BUT made in Poland !!

[pixelaoffy]

8 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

I always considered them to be black, when I get one I will put a burgundy cover over it so I don't stand in line like an outcast.

Just apply to be a citizen in another country!  "Outcast"? You don't know the meaning 

[transam]

2 minutes ago, pixelaoffy said:

Just apply to be a citizen in another country!  "Outcast"? You don't know the meaning 

He is a Brit that became a German.....????............????

[vogie]

If people prefer the EU pretty in pink passports instead of the British Alpha Male manly blue ones, who are we to question their choice.

[KhaoNiaw]

1 hour ago, Daffy D said:

The original stiff passports were a very dark blue which might perhaps be remembered as black now

 

Still got my old one. It's black and looks great.

The UK chose to go to the burgundy passports under Thatcher I believe. There are other countries still in the EU that have blue passports. It would have been a much greater statement about taking back control to do something completely different like going back to a black passport. 

Edited February 23, 2020 by KhaoNiaw

[transam]

5 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

Still got my old one. It's black and looks great.

The UK chose to go to the burgundy passports under Thatcher I believe. There are other countries still in the EU that have blue passports. It would have been a much greater statement about taking back control to do something completely different like going back to a black passport. 

UK passports have never been black....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/03/black-or-blue-confusion-grows-over-traditional-british-passport-colour

 

[DannyCarlton]

21 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

Still got my old one. It's black and looks great.

The UK chose to go to the burgundy passports under Thatcher I believe. There are other countries still in the EU that have blue passports. It would have been a much greater statement about taking back control to do something completely different like going back to a black passport. 

I have my grandfathers old passport dated 1928. It's blue.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/03/black-or-blue-confusion-grows-over-traditional-british-passport-colour

 

"The statement goes on to say: “Since its introduction in 1921, there have been a few variants of that navy blue colour but it has never been black, as some commentators have suggested.”

 

 

Edited February 23, 2020 by DannyCarlton

[jollyhangmon]

21 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

 

... indeed, keeps gettin' better, 555 ...

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1245892/brexit-news-blue-passport-poland-theresa-may-boris-johnson-priti-patel-spt

 

"UK's blue passports made in Poland by Franko-Dutch company ..." 

 

Classic!

 

[KhaoNiaw]

37 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

I have my grandfathers old passport dated 1928. It's blue.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/03/black-or-blue-confusion-grows-over-traditional-british-passport-colour

 

"The statement goes on to say: “Since its introduction in 1921, there have been a few variants of that navy blue colour but it has never been black, as some commentators have suggested.”

 

 

They can call it what they like. My old one's black. ???? 
And if you read the article you've linked to you'll see they also have a link to a UK government website that says this: "You can also apply if your last UK passport was an old handwritten blue or black one."

https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport

 

[Denim]

2 hours ago, Daffy D said:

The original stiff passports were a very dark blue which might perhaps be remembered as black now

 

 

Prior to that this is what you got.

 

Edited February 23, 2020 by Denim

[GinBoy2]

As an American, my passport is blue.

 

Would I care if it was red, blue or green? So long as I could travel with it I don't think I would care.

 

Maybe someone could explain why this color of your passport thing is so emotive, because I don't get it

[Jip99]

1 minute ago, GinBoy2 said:

As an American, my passport is blue.

 

Would I care if it was red, blue or green? So long as I could travel with it I don't think I would care.

 

Maybe someone could explain why this color of your passport thing is so emotive, because I don't get it

 

 

 

You don't get it...............................

 

 

The colour is not important.......................... historically, the British passport happened to be blue, and therefore more identifiable as a British passport than the red "EU" versions.

[sanemax]

1 minute ago, GinBoy2 said:

As an American, my passport is blue.

 

Would I care if it was red, blue or green? So long as I could travel with it I don't think I would care.

 

Maybe someone could explain why this color of your passport thing is so emotive, because I don't get it

We used to have Blue passports and then we joined the E.U and were made to used red passports and then when we went abroad, everyone thought that we were foreigners and not British because we didint have proper British blue passports  

[vogie]

13 minutes ago, GinBoy2 said:

As an American, my passport is blue.

 

Would I care if it was red, blue or green? So long as I could travel with it I don't think I would care.

 

Maybe someone could explain why this color of your passport thing is so emotive, because I don't get it.

The remainers, some Eumainers and the occassional antipodean have lost the argument over Brexit, so now they revert to sneer tactics, it falls into the same bracket as bendy bananas etc, like children in the school playground they will name call when they lose an argument. 

 

To the leavers the new passport signifies liberty, our total sovereignty and democracy, so blue is the colour we used before we were shackled to the EU, so it makes sense to use blue again.????

 

[Rookiescot]

Yup blue/black passports.

The ONLY tangible benefit of Brexit so far.

Just ignore the fact that the UK could have made the passport any colour it wanted prior to Brexit.

Still it gives the Brexiteers something to be proud of. Just the same as Big Ben being played on a tape recorder.

Bless. 

[CharlieH]

Off topic and responses to it removed.

[Daffy D]

Blue Passports are British 

 

A little bit of nostalgia for ex-pats, like red phone boxes, buses, red pillar boxes and black London cabs.