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MaizieD Fri 22-Dec-17 13:50:52

£490 million wasted spent on changing the colour of our passports. Which we could have done at any time in the last 30 years. Burgundy wasn't obligatory; not every EU country has a burgundy passport.

How many more £millions is this futile Brexit exercise going to cost the UK?


www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-passports-go-back-iconic-11736353

Somewhat ironic that the new blue is very similar to the colour of the EU flag...

durhamjen Sat 23-Dec-17 14:15:59

I don't need to travel to broaden my mind.
From 2003 I had a guest house and a disabled husband to look after.
I have a Danish and a Spanish daughter in law, so know quite a bit about how foreigners see us.

Travel hasn't broadened the minds of Brexiteers; it's made them more narrowminded and parochial.

petra Sat 23-Dec-17 14:22:26

60million? According to UN figures it's now 66,371,313 million. Migration Watch estimate that there are at least another 2 million.

petra Sat 23-Dec-17 14:33:16

durhamjen
Since 2003 I have lived in 2 countries other than the uk.
Also in that time I have visited every country in Europe.
In the late 90s we spent a year taking our boat though Europe to the Mediterranean.
I have visited countries as far apart from China To Patagonia. I don't think parochial and narrow minded applies to me.

durhamjen Sat 23-Dec-17 14:37:39

Petra, I don't care.

ninny Sat 23-Dec-17 16:17:47

Well Durhamjen I've travelled and Googled.

Jalima1108 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:33:09

Petra, I don't care.
Some of us are interested though durhamjen, just as some of us may be interested in all the things you tell us about your life in the UK.

I'm surprised you are bothered about this thread, Baggs. Why not just leave it to the Remainers?

If you don't have a passport why come on this thread I wonder?

Skeggy anyone? what is Skeggy granjura?

Baggs Sat 23-Dec-17 16:36:44

It's a wrongly titled thread. Should be More Remainer Lunacy.

suzied Sat 23-Dec-17 16:40:11

68 million, just shows how small a % the leave vote was. Not all of the population are migrants btw.

suzied Sat 23-Dec-17 16:41:29

It wasn’t t remainers making a fuss about passport colours.

Tegan2 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:42:41

....or wanting the death penalty brought back....

Jalima1108 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:42:56

Well, I don't really care as long as they send mine back in good time - temember the fiasco a few years ago?

Jalima1108 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:43:12

remember

jura2 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:46:08

We've already got 4 blue passports in the family anyhow, so there :

www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204293522094821&set=gm.1808961329137126&type=3

jura2 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:47:53

Jalima - where do you live? Skeggy is where we Lesta people go on our jollies (supposedly- in Ye Good Old Days of blue passports and all).

Jalima1108 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:51:35

just googled
Skegness.
We used to go west rather than east.

jura2 Sat 23-Dec-17 16:58:21

The train line that took people to Skeggy used to pass right down the road from me- sadly closed by Beeching.

Blue was the colour though - because the water was so cold ;)

Going West to Devon or Cornwall would have been dead posh.

Jalima1108 Sat 23-Dec-17 17:06:50

tchgrin
We went to Wales a lot (Rhyl wasn't that posh) and my aunt lived in Cornwall anyway, we used to go on the train.

Jalima1108 Sat 23-Dec-17 17:07:34

sorry to any Gransnetters who live in Rhyl [oops]

jura2 Sat 23-Dec-17 17:39:51

LOL. And to any in Skeggy ;)

He says it well about the daftness of it all:

www.facebook.com/AnthonyGrayling/photos/a.752283748287246.1073741828.675216759327279/828764857305801/?type=3

lemongrove Sat 23-Dec-17 17:44:32

‘Come to Skegness, it’s so bracing’ as the old railway ads used to say.
I just bet it is too! Bracing yourself against a gale blowing along the beach.grin

petra Sat 23-Dec-17 18:09:05

jura2
A quote from the Independent in to AC Grayling.
^For the sake of honesty and decency- someone should debunk this man in true 'Emperors New clothes' fashion.
It is after all how this man has existed for his entire opinionated life- and made undeserved money from it

NfkDumpling Sat 23-Dec-17 18:29:17

If, as is highly likely, Labour get in at the next election will the colour be changed to bright red? I don't really care what colour it is, but I do like the blue and I'm looking forward to getting more stamps inside. We're off to Estonia this winter and I shan't have a stamp to add to the collection.

Tegan2 Sat 23-Dec-17 18:33:44

Couldn't get the link to open, jura; was it this?

durhamjen Sat 23-Dec-17 18:39:39

Another good quote from Grayling.
How come the government lost its majority asking for a mandate for brexit, yet is still trying to do brexit?

durhamjen Sat 23-Dec-17 18:44:16

If you can get onto that Grayling link, there are 46 others from him, all good.

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