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Daily Mail petition to have passports made in UK

(133 Posts)
ninny Sat 24-Mar-18 11:06:21

Please support British workers and sign Daily Mail online petition.
dailymail.co.uk/passports

MaizieD Sun 25-Mar-18 12:57:58

which I do - DM, Guardian, Times and I amongst others

Another Gnet Superwoman self identifies! Along with the 'completely uninfluenced by any other views at all' brigade we have the multiple newspaper readers...

Where on earth do you find the time to read 4+ newspapers every day?

Oldwoman70 Sun 25-Mar-18 13:03:53

Maizie I make time - I don't read them cover to cover, I choose which news items I am interested in and then try to get to the truth by reading the views of different newspapers - it's easy really.

gillybob Sun 25-Mar-18 13:13:24

I had to look up the word “ jingoistic” as I’ve never come across it before . grin

MaizieD Sun 25-Mar-18 13:22:41

'jingoism'

Displayed in all its glory on this thread grin

gillybob Sun 25-Mar-18 13:24:30

These fancy clever words are wasted on me .

Craicon Sun 25-Mar-18 13:36:50

Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Anything remotely ‘clever’ is wasted on Daily Mail readers.

gillybob Sun 25-Mar-18 13:43:20

I figured someone would say that ! grin

It was only matter of time .

petra Sun 25-Mar-18 14:25:13

gillybob
Your not alone. Kier Starmer has come out and said the passports should be printed in the uk grin

gillybob Sun 25-Mar-18 14:30:30

Just as long as he didn’t give an interview for the Daily Mail Petra his comments should be allowed by the self appointed GN press authority .

petra Sun 25-Mar-18 14:40:45

gillybob
It could have been worse, he could have given an interview with the Express shock

Ilovecheese Sun 25-Mar-18 14:41:47

I was just listening to yesterday's Any Questions and Vince Cable said that the new passports would be printed in England, even though the company is not British owned. They just wouldn't be printed in Gateshead. Did any one else hear this? Is he correct?

ninny Sun 25-Mar-18 15:39:26

petra I wonder if Keir Starmer signed the Daily Mail petition ? ? ?

ninny Sun 25-Mar-18 15:45:20

What I have observed on GN is that a lot of posters who claim they do not read the Daily Mail seem very bitter, its only a newspaper for heavens sake.

gillybob Sun 25-Mar-18 16:05:43

And so knowledgeable of its contents too ninny hmm

gillybob Sun 25-Mar-18 16:14:57

It doesn’t sound right to me Ilovecheese I definitely haven’t hear anything like that .

petra Sun 25-Mar-18 16:29:20

ninny
It's because they believe we had no view other than the Daily Mails view on how to vote (any vote)
I can assure them that if there were no such thing as the internet/ newspapers/ tv/ radio my vote would have been the same.
I didn't even want the tunnel to be built grin

Cherrytree59 Sun 25-Mar-18 16:56:12

Nor me re the tunnel * Petra*
I preferred the idea of a bridge across from Northern Ireland.
Apparently only 12 Miles between Scotland and Ireland at one point. It seems to work ok for Denmark and Sweden.

Just waiting to read how wrong I am.smile

ninny Mon 26-Mar-18 14:15:46

Nearly 137,000 and counting smile

Blencathra Mon 26-Mar-18 21:29:31

I can't remember where I read it maryeliza54 but it is a huge firm- however if they did win the contract because of a petition, which I think highly unlikely, I don't think they would dare not use British workers!

Blencathra Mon 26-Mar-18 21:37:26

Not many ninny - the petition calling for a second referendum got well over 4million, got debated in Parliament and rejected.

Gerispringer Tue 27-Mar-18 04:03:55

20% British passports already printed abroad. Is there a petition about that? The plastic cover and the pages will be made by Gemalto, the secure data will be added in the U.K. not sure if this is worth all the nationalistic DM inspired fury. Plenty of other issues to get cross about.

ninny Tue 03-Apr-18 07:28:40

Nearly 270,000 now and counting. Home Office has extended appeal for another 2 weeks.

GracesGranMK2 Tue 03-Apr-18 08:18:24

In so many ways, you really have to be joking.

sodapop Tue 03-Apr-18 08:31:55

Did I read somewhere that De la Rue had a problem with their pension fund and could be trying to rectify that with the high price quoted for blue passports

MawBroon Tue 03-Apr-18 08:46:26

which I do - DM, Guardian, Times and I amongst others

Another Gnet Superwoman self identifies! Along with the 'completely uninfluenced by any other views at all' brigade we have the multiple newspaper readers

Where on earth do you find the time to read 4+ newspapers every day?

Isn’t that (more than) a bit intrusive and frankly NOYB?
Getting a balanced view of current affairs from a range of media seems entirely sensible. How anybody spends their time is entirely their business and judging by the number of posts on GN by some people, many have time to spend on whatever they want.