Who cares what colour their passport is?

Cherrytree59 the exercising seemed to cause a lot of hot air - not good for climate change!

Old style not old stye!

Well, I never had an 'old-stye' passport, so I'm certainly not harking back to my long-lost youth!

Firstly Switzerland can join the eu queue at passport control and they are not in the eu . Secondly I kept our leather covers with the old cover emblazoned on the front. They are quite large and mine is dark red,DH's is navy blue. It really helps to distinguish his/ hers and to find them in the heap of stuff in the travel drawer. They also have pockets for various travel cards. I'm also using a cover for my passport to protect it from the threat of handheld card readers which I gather are a growing problem .

ilovecheese - you are spot on....all this 'I want my country back' was a romantic vision of lost youth. The 1970s were pretty grim for many, 3 day weeks, power cuts and mass unemployment. Thankfully I was too young to realise what a tough time my parents were going through turning a deaf ear to father moaning on about shop stewards and strikes and my Mum apologising for the food she put infront of us . I was a glib teenager only worried about whether I could get away with a mini skirt and then breathing a sigh of relief for The maxi-skirts!
Being part of the EU never made me feel less British, I've even been known to call myself English. It was all about adding to my experiences and embracing other customs and cultures whilst loving the fact that I was a true British Citizen.

I couldn't care less what colour it is but will be very sad if it no longer says European Union at the top.

The guy who found the red one humiliating is a very sad person.

A comedian we saw had a rant about this......quite rightly stating that no amount of fancy colouration of any new passport will get us into the EU citizen line......we'ed have to go in the much bigger 'all the rest line' from now on!

When people talk about wanting something "back" I sometimes think it is not the thing itself that they want back, but their youth. So when say, they want a blue passport back, they really mean they would like to be the age they were when they had a blue passport. (I'm in my sixties and can't remember ever having a blue passport, when did they change?)

The aspect that struck me was, how is the passport office going to cope with the replacement of tens of millions of passports. Some of them urgent?
Applications from both the UK and abroad?

It was always a British passport

I dont care about the colour but i am glad to be getting a British passport back

Well I would quite my passport to be purple

No other reason than it's my favourite colour
SueDonim Exercise I'd a good thing. No?

Don't care what colour it is. Just hope it won't cause long queues going through the ' non EU'. Channels.

I've seen people getting much exercised by this issue over the last day or two but I've struggled to have an opinion either way! I really don't care what colour it is as long as it does the job.

Nope, really couldn't give a fig what colour my passport is!

I doubt that anyone at all is 'getting excited' by it though.

I would like a larger version tbh as we often seem to displace ours( being small and flimsy they get themselves hidden in all sorts of papers.) Not worried at all about the colour but I think the original navy blue ( with gold lettering?) was fine, or green come to that.

I really don't care what colour it is. I hope they aren't planning on making it larger as the old one used to be, the current (burgundy not pink!) ones fit nicely in the pocket.

The color of my passport could not matter less.