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Who cares what colour their passport is?

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suzied Mon 03-Apr-17 12:28:32

I've just heard someone on the radio getting all excited about changing the passport colour "back"to dark blue and who said he felt "humiliated" using a "pink" one. Most people under 40 will not have had a blue passport. I quite like the burgundy one ( its not pink) but to be honest, I couldn't care less as long as I can find it and I can get through passport checks quickly. I can understand that the passport needs to be redesigned every so often for security reasons and because of Brexit but I can't understand why its costing £500 million to design a new one and I couldn't care less what colour is it.Is anyone getting excited about this?

Ginny42 Tue 04-Apr-17 10:06:45

Look, for goodness sake... it's a travel pass. Blue, pink, sky blue with yellow dots on - it's only a document to allow us to travel beyond our shores. There are so many really important issues to be dealt with, if this is of serious concern when there is so much uncertainty about people's livelihoods, financial security and status, I have miscalculated our generation's collective intellect.

trisher Tue 04-Apr-17 10:13:01

I'd quite like a pink passport and so would my GD. The dark blue and the burgundy are both a bit boring. They cost enough so I think you ought to get a colour option with them. GD also thinks rainbow ones would be nice.

grammargran Tue 04-Apr-17 10:16:30

'Humiliated by the burgundy passport'? Not me - and how dare that deluded Tory MP speak in my name! I don't care what colour it is so long as it does the job.

Yorkshiregel Tue 04-Apr-17 10:16:35

No need to design a new one at all. Just give us our own BRITISH dark blue one back. Spend the money on the NHS!

SillyNanny321 Tue 04-Apr-17 10:18:29

Never had a pasport as never had enough spare cash when DS was growing up & now on my own & bit disabled do not have the urge to go travelling alone so colour does not matter.
Wouldnt have one in my favourite colour, yellow, anyway ?

petra Tue 04-Apr-17 10:34:14

trisher buy a pink cover for your passport smile

MaizieD Tue 04-Apr-17 10:37:41

Ginny42 at 10.06

Exactly!

I wish we had a clapping hands smiley.

All right minded people have to applaud your post! (wink)

suzied Tue 04-Apr-17 10:52:35

Even if it is blue again it won't be the larger stiff cover that oldies remember. It will be the bendy plastic cover like the current ones.

trisher Tue 04-Apr-17 11:00:42

It wouldn't be the same petra you have to take them off sometimes. Anyway it's the principle of the thing If I'm paying I should have some choice.
Ginny42 sometimes it's good to joke about something. It doesn't mean you don't take things seriously just that you need a bit of light relief.

GracesGranMK2 Tue 04-Apr-17 11:05:58

I cannot even believe we are talking about this. What a waste of time, energy and money. If we want to change the colour over time find but we really, really have many more important things to worry about at the moment.

Old people wanting their youth back as Ilovecheese suggested is about the only reason for even getting in to this at the moment.

M0nica Tue 04-Apr-17 11:09:07

Couldn't care less. Anyway I am applying for an Irish passport, not just so that I can stay a citizen of the EU, but also because of my deep shame at the way the British government has treated Iraqi and Afghani military interpreters.

While every other country, including the USA has given them and their families automatic political asylum, those who were unfortunate enough to work for the British have had to fight for asylum, some have been sent back to their countries of origin or have been unable to move out and several have been killed and their families have suffered.

sarahellenwhitney Tue 04-Apr-17 11:09:48

Got rid of my EU car reg plates months ago. I am british not a citizen of the EU. My present passport has expired. No rush to get a new one so it can have every colour of the rainbow .Frankly my dears' I don't give a d-mn.

paddyann Tue 04-Apr-17 11:11:50

*quizqueen" if thats the biggest issue in your life then you are a lucky woman ! Look north ,we in SCOTLAND have been "ruled" and literally ruled 100% by another country for over 300 years !Independence for us IN the EU would mean that instead of us having devolved power over 17% of our country's (WE'VE HAD SINCE 1997) rules and laws,with the rest split between WM and Brussels we'd have 93% power with the 7% ish that brussels currently has over all the UK .

henbane Tue 04-Apr-17 11:34:22

I couldn't give a flying what colour my passport is - or non-flying if the Ryanair boss is right! (I think in this case he's talking up a scare to encourage people to book flights in the ryanair sale).

I agree with Ginny42 - we all have more important things to worry about.

Welshwife Tue 04-Apr-17 11:39:04

Dot unless it has all changed - with a child's passport you fill in a different for. After 5 years and send another photo and the fee is small and it is then extended for the remaining five years. Once they reach 16 they get a ten year one.

Welshwife Tue 04-Apr-17 11:40:32

NFK lots of airline offices in all sorts of countries already - here we are talking HEAD offices.

GracesGranMK2 Tue 04-Apr-17 11:55:55

"I'm amazed at the number of grans on here who seem to be happy that their country has been 'ruled' by another for over 40 years."

How sad that you believe that to be true. I don't and I presume that others who don't want, what I imagine you have voted for, do either.

... and you great big way of showing you feel we have been under the heel of people other than those we have given authority to make decisions on our behalf - to get excited about the colour of your passport. So that alright then.

GillT57 Tue 04-Apr-17 12:38:09

Lots of nonsense being talked about speculative and rabble rousing speeches about blue passports, FFS there are far more important things to worry about, and whoever said on here that we should give the money to the NHS.....I am thunderstruck that anyone, even the most feverent Brexiteer really, really believes that ANY money is going to the NHS, or did you read it on a bus? Yes, I am being rude, and frankly I am angry too. Load of bloody irrelevant nonsense. Please try to concentrate on what matters.The colour or shape of your passport is of no relevance, it is where you are allowed to go with it that matters. MOnica I agree with you, sometimes having a British passport, whatever blinking colour it is, is not something to be proud of.

allule Tue 04-Apr-17 12:42:29

If people want a blue passport, they're welcome to it, but I do object to contributing anything towards the cost in my taxes. The total costs of redesigning and production should be included in the price of a replacement, and people could choose whether to put their money where their mouth is!

margrete Tue 04-Apr-17 12:45:17

I've only recently changed my passport - it was due to expire this year. Unfortunately this is probably the last time I'll need to renew it - can't see me doing much travelling in 10 years time, in my 10th decade by then.

It cost £78 so wasn't cheap, but for the pleasure of getting a passport which doesn't say 'European Union' at the top, I may lash out and renew it again if that becomes possible.

I never voted to join a European Union, never voted to become an European citizen. What we thought we were voting for in 1975 was to join the European Common Market.

If the passport is a symbol of what we are to become post-Brexit then bring it on.

margrete Tue 04-Apr-17 12:48:46

Yes, I'm glad our car hasn't got the blue flag and circle of stars on it. Never had, never will! We went for a longish drive yesterday - is it my imagination or are there fewer of those registration plates with the blue flag? Seemed like it to me.

SusieB50 Tue 04-Apr-17 12:57:32

We have just had to renew both ours at the cost of £72 each( all done on line now) so I hope it will not be changed again in a hurry as we are sure to be charged again . I too would like to have "remainer" stamped on mine ! Can't begin to imagine what the queues at immigration are going to be like ?

suzied Tue 04-Apr-17 12:59:32

I'm keeping my blue flag on my Italian car and I will have my burgundy passport till 2015 hurray! ( I may have got my green Irish one by then). Perhaps the passport should be red, white and blue, oh no just red and white as the Scots will want their own blue one.

annifrance Tue 04-Apr-17 13:02:00

I was mildly disappointed to loose my dark blue passport. Now I would give anything too keep my EU passport. Yet another hidden but vast expense to be incurred by Britain coming out.

Being an optimist still hoping and praying that sense somehow will prevail and we can still stay in

. Aaron Banks should scare the powers that be to do a Uturn.

BonnieBlooming Tue 04-Apr-17 13:15:07

I'm thinking of getting an Irish passport as well as a British ( I live in Northern Ireland) then I can have a choice of colours depending on what I fancy!